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What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The other thread about favorite mechanics is great, so let's also do the opposite: what are some of your most hated mechanics?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

            
              Excessive grinding or padding in a game just for the sake of it or for microtransaction reasons.
Microtransaction and pay-to-win models in full price $70 games...
Overuse of Quick time events Press E to dodge etc etc
Escort missions when developers want to pad their game out
Terrible stealth mechanics when an enemey spots me when im standing still in a bush from the other side of the map

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the older I get, the more "I don't have time for 10h grinding a day" I get. Just let me play a complete game in peace please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I decided a few years ago that I play games to have fun and if a game isn't fun, I don't play it. I don't have much time these days to dedicate gaming, so I want to enjoy the time I do.

I've had a few I've really enjoyed until I hit some really terrible game mechanic or even a boss encounter I can't get past. I'll usually give it a few days/tries, but I'll flat out just bail and uninstall a game if it is causing me too much stress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same here, life is too short to struggle ingame :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll never forget playing my first Assassins Creed game, killed someone and ran to hide from the soldiers. I ran up a ladder, jumped 3 rooftops away and hit in a bail of hay.

A soldier climbs straight up nearby stairs, walked right up the bail of hay, and stabbed me with the bayonet. In the hay