Classic Video Game cliche that you love or hate

[Lacan]

Hate: Birds that seem to always be placed near a bunch of endless pits of doom.

Love: How enemies explode when attacked even if its buy a punch, a sword, a laser gun, etc.

Edited August 7, 2006 by Lacan

[blastermaster]

Hate: All sorts of cool things to interact with around the level...but its impossible to tocuh them..

 

Love: for some reason...jumping makes a sound?

[shadow460]

Hate: Blinky NES

Love: Working NES

 

Hate: Lack of analog control

Love: Namco twist pads

[Atari-Jess]

its a cliche, not a fad.

[pocketmego]

I hate that barrels ALWAYS explode when shot. They don't do that in real life at all.

 

-Ray

[Student Driver]

Love: You can fall dozens of feet and not get injured.

Hate: A dip in a pool will kill you.

Love: Bodies disappear after a few seconds-- no evidence, no conviction!

Hate: You can't fire your gun until your current salvo hits something and/or disappears.

[Dusk2600]

Doom:

 

Love: killing the creatures

Hate: the grunting when u try to open something, sounds like he is trying to **** the wall

[Tempest]

Love: How enemies always seem to leave useful powerups when they die (not just a pile of guts or circuits)

 

Hate: How you can take 30 bullets to the body and still be just fine, but touching water, a slightly sharpened spike, or even a thorn from a plant will kill you instantly.

 

Tempest

[Sonic]

hate: how in some games you can't jump

love: You kill a bird enemy and its carrying 15 gold and a sword

Edited August 7, 2006 by Sonic

[pitfallaimee]

Love: Finding heath and useful items in random slashable objects. (I wish I found coins from cutting weeds, I'd be more inclined to mow)

Hate: Dying at the mere TOUCH of a boss character. (It was apparently too much for me!)

[sega saturn x]

Love:neon bullets

Hate:seas of tiny platforms

[Atari-Jess]

I hate that barrels ALWAYS explode when shot. They don't do that in real life at all.

 

-Ray

 

Ever shot a powder keg?

[joeybastard]

Not a cliche but...

 

LOVE: In old games there is often little to no explanation for what happens in the game. Midgets in pink suits just attack you, there's no 5 minute non-skippable cinematic about the midgets emotional reasons for attacking you.

 

LOVE: How often cherries appear in various games.

 

HATE: Being able to run superfast, jump 3 times my height but I can't swim.

[Jess Ragan]

LOVE: Exploding barrels. Sorry folks, but there's nothing I love more than piercing an oil barrel with a bullet, then watching a nearby crowd of soldiers get violently thrown into the air from the fiery blast. Mmm, now THAT'S flavor country!

 

HATE: Guilt trip gaming. I kind of resent Nintendo's recent trend toward obligaming. You know what I mean... all those games like Brain Age, Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, etc. which demand that you play them each and every day. I want to play video games because I enjoy them, not because I have to do it!

 

JR

Edited August 10, 2006 by Jess Ragan

[Pixelboy]

LOVE: Unlimited ammo.

HATE: Taking damage from just barely touching an enemy. Having your plane or spaceship take damage from a collision, or bumping into a porkupine as you run, that's all fine, but what's so damaging about touching a turtle?

[keilbaca]

LOVE: Unlimited ammo.

HATE: Taking damage from just barely touching an enemy. Having your plane or spaceship take damage from a collision, or bumping into a porkupine as you run, that's all fine, but what's so damaging about touching a turtle?

 

He bites your nuts off.

 

 

Love: Able to save the world but die from water.

Hate: The need to level up just to get farther in a game.

[Pixelboy]

HATE: Taking damage from just barely touching an enemy. Having your plane or spaceship take damage from a collision, or bumping into a porkupine as you run, that's all fine, but what's so damaging about touching a turtle?

He bites your nuts off.

 

So Princess Peach has nothing to worry about, hey?

[figgler]

Love: No load times, just a title screen and Press Start

Hate: Getting hit mid jump, then dying because you got bumped into a pit (see; Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden)

 

Love: Walking off screen, then back to make enemies dissappear

Hate: Walking off screen, then back to find enemies you killed have reappeared

[DanBoris]

Love: Getting more fuel by shooting a fuel tank (e.g. Scramble/Super Cobra)

 

Dan

[pitfallaimee]

This one is shared with StanJr, and applies to some modern games, too:

 

Hate: An RPG is set in Middle Ages... but the big reveal is, the society was once very advanced, but fell because of X (usually involves magic). I can deal with this story line every once in a while (might even be cool), but it seems like its used over and over. Usually as an excuse to have a big laser gun be the ultimate weapon.

[Ghost Soldier]

Love: Fighting against a enemy (Double Dragon)

Hate: Another enemy comes up from behind and kicks my ass cause I cannot react due to being engaged with another enemy.

[shadow460]

Love: Having the maximum number of lives, and losing one right before I score enough to earn another one.

 

Hate: Losing a life just after I score that many points and having to keep playing without that life.

 

Love: Massive amounts of lasers

Hate: Accidentally picking up the wrong weapon icon and having those massive lasers change into a wimpy cannon.

[Video]

Love: Getting more fuel by shooting a fuel tank (e.g. Scramble/Super Cobra)

 

Dan

 

Don't forget Conquest of Mars Homebrew for 2600. Took me a while to figure that out the fist time.

 

Love - Cutsy sound effects for stupid crap (Boing on Mario for jumping, etc) Short tunes for doing stuff, like jumping creatures on DK.

 

Hate - The fact that enemies useually are as fast, or faster than you. Enemies that hurt you just buy being in contact (lots of old 8 bit games would have a monster run upt to you, and just walk left and right behind your characture, causeing you to hemorage points while being able to do nothing about it because you have to hit them befor they get that close and you can't outrun them) Bullets and explosions that won't hurt enemies, and sometimes pass right through them but hurt you. Games that mock you for sucking (isn't it bad enought when it says "You Loose"?) Games that are only hard due to incompetant programming (most shooters have you reload rediculously long, where even an inexperianced person in real life can at least double that speed....Halo....)

Edited August 10, 2006 by Video

[JohnnyBlaze]

HATE: Having a ten-year old kick my ass in Mortal Kombat or any other fighting game because he knows ALL OF THE FUCKING COMBINATIONS!

 

LOVE: The Power Glove....it's so bad!

 

HATE: How in so many video games, you can eat food off of the ground and regain health, yet when you eat food off the ground in real life, you get really,really sick.

 

LOVE: IDDQD(If you don't understand this code, you are NOT a gamer)

 

HATE: When during an intense game of whatever, you jerk the controller toward you and there goes your console falling to the floor and breaking.

 

LOVE: First Person Shooters: Perfect for relieving work or school related stress("You want your report, HERE'S YOUR FUCKING REPORT! BLAM BLAM! MUH-HAAAAAA!)

 

HATE: The Adventures of Bayou Billy or "Gramma Got This Shit On Clearance"

 

LOVE: Classic Compilations. Now you can downgrade your $300 console to play games you loved from your shitty $5 thrift console.

 

HATE: Classic Compilations. All of a sudden the games you used to play as a kid are called "Classics". Makes you feel old doesn't it?

 

LOVE: Rumble feature. Something to finally keep your wife/girlfriend/mistress/etc's mouth shut while you play Halo for hours on end. *WINK* *WINK*

 

HATE: You can get hit by 40 bullets and not die(ala Tony Montana at the end of Scarface) but yet if you touch a turtle, you die! WTF?!

 

LOVE: Having a game where you can live out your wildest crime fantasies while being a law-abiding citizen.

 

HATE: The congressional hearings on such games. You would think that our congress would have more important things to do than bitch about the newest Doom or GTA like uh....BRINGING OUR TROOPS BACK HOME AND CREATING JOBS FOR AMERICANS!

 

I have more, but I need to think harder.

Edited August 11, 2006 by JohnnyBlaze

[pocketmego]

I hate that barrels ALWAYS explode when shot. They don't do that in real life at all.

 

-Ray

 

Ever shot a powder keg?

 

 

Admittedly no, but in videogames you can shoot garbage cans and they explode.

 

-Ray