Day 19 – Least favorite gameplay mechanic
The simple answer is Stealth. I am not a very patient person and have always preferred to come out guns a blazing – blaze of glory and all that.
So sitting around, hiding from guards and waiting until they path to the appropriate place so I can either sneak around them or cut their throat is about the most agonizing game play experience I can think of.
Check that, there is one thing that could make it worse, a time limit. Timed stealth encounters, two of my least favorite mechanisms at the same time. I’m getting antsy just thinking about it.
Needless to say Metal Gear Solid and I never got along well.
Tags: 30 days of video games, fail, fps, hate, ps3, real-time, scifi, stealth
August 19th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Collectible card based magic… for the same reason.
August 19th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I have a bit of a love / hate thing going with stealth. It depends on the situation.
August 19th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
I have to say I have a deep love of TCGs due to M:TG. =)
And stealth has only ever been frustrating, though I have tried over and over and over, thinking maybe this next time I will have suddenly developed the patience for waiting indefinitely.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:15 am
I went with mini-games here. Which is a bit too broad perhaps, and there are some that I have loved, but one stands out incredibly and that was blitzball in FFX. The introduction to it was terrible. Your first game is a hopeless match unless you got the Jecht Shot, and you were already familiar with the game (ie, playing it again.) I would have just rather have had the cutscene and got on with it.
But there are a lot of annoying mini-games. Lockpicking in Skyrim also comes to mind.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:30 am
OMG the water volley ball game was TERRIBLE!!!! Thankfully it was mostly avoidable. I’m split on mini games. Sometimes they are really fun, like hacking in ME2, I actually really liked those. The probing on the other hand I didn’t like.
August 20th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
I hadn’t thought much about mini-games. There are some that have been really annoying, but others that I loved. Add me to the list of blitzball haters. :)