Your favorite game clichés

[Linus Hyper]

Mirrors are always broken, or mirrors can't reflect the player.

[Hank Hell]

The bad guys always choose cover that is right next to explosive barrels

[Lusus Symphonia]

The player is somehow safe for the first one hour in a horror game.

[Zubenelgenubi]

How you can always tell a boss fight is in the next room when you find ammo everywhere.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

I GOT A BUNCH!

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"Items in stores in RPGs based on level"

Really kills immersion.

Seriously? I have the money for the level 60 crossbow and hunting hat/outfit, but because I'm level 30 the store owner doesn't want to sell me it? Ooookay...

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"Open world games where cops don't care about traffic laws or endangerment."

I just drove by on the sidewalk on the wrong side of the road at 100MPH, destroyed the trafficlights and lightposts, made people jump into the street and get hit by other cars, all while a cop car was sitting waiting for the now destroyed light to change that just fell on said cop car, and they do nothing.

Sheesh, at least have them give me a ticket.

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"Overly aggressive police AI in open world games"

I "tapped" a single pedestrian with my car, cops murder 10,000 people and destroy half a city trying to catch me by driving like nutjobs and shooting all over the place in seemingly random directions with no regard for civilian safety, sometimes even calling in tanks and helicopters with miniguns.

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Inept guards.

Playing "stealth" games... Kill a guard around another guard, they may raise an alarm or go into high alret for about a minute, then suddenly its like nothing ever happened and they just go back to doing their thing with their dead guard buddy still there.

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Locked doors in shooter games.

I have a freaking grenade launcher and chainsaw, but most wooden doors are apparently invincible.

Why'd they even put it there?

For that matter, anything that should be easily damaged/breakable but ISN'T.

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Saving some big-boobed stupid helpless woman/princess type.

My gawd, this is already done to death in movies, can we do something different in games for a change?

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Women have giant boobs but men in tight pants have no "bulge" what-so-ever.

I guess all the musclebound guys in games do steroids so much that they have major "shrinkage" down there when they squeeze into their tight pants/bodysuits.

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Continuing the above:

"Multi-sex outfits in games being super impractical and sexual on women but super prudish and practical on men."

If you are going to make armor realistic/practical for men then at least do the same for women.

I'm pretty sure "Joan of Arc" didn't go into battle in a chainmail bikini.

And if you are going to make armor sexy and impractical, at least make it sexy for the guys too.

If a woman is going into battle in a chainmail thong, give the guys the option of going into battle in a chainmail speedo... If anything it'd be for the luls and eyecandy.

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"Needless exposition and lore journals/diaries/computer entries left around everywhere that have no impact on anything in the game."

Wow, they made a 20 page journal on some dumb lore thing nobody will ever read, when they could have spent that time making a better/bigger game!

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"Achievements"... In general.

Like the "Congratulations! You opened a door on the first tutorial level, in a linear corridor that wouldn't allow you to progress without opening said door!" achievement.

Seriously, until achievements actually "DO SOMETHING" they are nothing more than footnotes pointing out how little of a real life the player has.

[Woody]

Enemies have infinite ammo but you can only pick up like 14 bullets from them.

[Karru]

Players cannot swim

[※Tapu Lele※]

Random secret society chases you and tries to murder you in cold blood

[Zubenelgenubi]

Guy who has been helping you the entire game turns on you in the final act to steal the treasure or whatever for himself.

[Lusus Symphonia]

You kill or stun someone that clearly makes a noise but no one hears or seems bothered that a soldier is missing from his post in a stealth game.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

"Silenced Guns"

No such thing, save for a few tiny caliber "spyguns" usually in the subsonic under .22LR size.

Putting a suppressor on a gun makes it anything but silent, all a suppressor does is slightly muffle or reduce hearing damage from firing a gun so you don't need to wear ear protection and it "muffles" the report of a firearm from long distances.

For that matter...

"Shooter games where the main character isn't stone deaf from firing guns unsuppressed without hearing protection"

There should be a lot more "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!?" and "I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE RINGING IN MY EARS!" and "WHO?!? WHAT?!?!"

[[FFK3] Trovaa]

you can't see your feet

[Karru]

Breathe heavy to heal bullet wounds

[stoneinfocus]

Characters turning their whole bodies to look in a different direction.

[Vincent]

In RPG games, the protagonists are always the hero.
When can we play as the villain?!

[Vincent]

Also, the first girl you meet in the game is bound to be your girlfriend/wife.
If you try this in real life, first thing coming is your severed head.