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What are some things that just get under your skin about games?

For me, it's games that do not allow controller rebinding. I have neuropathy and my fingers don't all work. If I can't rebind buttons so that I have necessary moves (for example: parry) be on buttons I can reliably press the entire game becomes unplayable.

And on console, where I can't refund a game after I downloaded it (fuck you Sony) then it really screws me over wasting what limited funds I have on games I just can't play.

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[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 9 points 2 days ago
  • No quick restart options for arcade-style games like shmups
  • Games that end up being too easy once you unlock of figure out one mechanic or technique like dash-dodge or iframe rolling and now the entire game is just the same loop
  • Unskippable or long intros or cutscenes (I sold Guilty Gear Strive because of that eagle thing...)
  • The spam garbage ripoffs on the Nintendo eShop that shouldn't be there
  • Code in a box
  • When DLC characters are visible on character select even if you didn't buy them (looking at those 10 greyed-out characters on SF6 are so annoying)

Gawwdan preventing rebinding is so annoying! Or it's monkey paw wish cousin, letting you rebinding but the on-screen prompts are hard coded to display the default key.

In a simmiliar accessibility vein, I'm hard of hearing so when a game has no option for subtitles then at best I catch 1/3rd of the story.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wresting control away every time I take ten steps for some stupid exposition. Just leave me the fuck alone. Damn. I want to explore and discover stuff by, you know, playing the game.

This is why Final Fantasy is my favorite game in the series.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Games with bird sounds. This wouldn't be too bad if i could turn them down or off but because of this I can't play some games or spend time in specific areas of some games because it make my birds go crazy because they think there's another bird in the house.

I wish we could individually turn up or down all of the different elements if sounds not just music/sfx/voice etc

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

'Puzzles' that are just fetch quests for numbers or pieces of something.

It's so boring and such a waste of my time.

Let me circle these four pillars to find the numbers on them and plug them into the whatever keypad. Wowie. What a head scratcher. I sure feel like I solved a thing, boy howdy.

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