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Showing posts with label Terrible Gaming Mechanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrible Gaming Mechanics. Show all posts

Ranting about our Personal "What We Consider Terrible Game Mechanics" Part 3 - Gaming Thoughts


We have had a couple of the team members give their take on game mechanics that probably seemed like a good idea to someone at the time - but in execution they just sucked. There are a lot of them out there, and like everything video game related, these are subjective. We won't all agree that these were a bad idea - but I suspect a lot of players will.

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Ranting about our Personal "What We Consider Terrible Game Mechanics" Part 2 - Gaming Thoughts

What are your least favorite mechanics in a video game? We all have certain things that just rub us the wrong way - grind our gears so to speak (heck, for some people - grinding of levels in JRPGs is maddening). Yesterday PY shared his thoughts on the matter, and today we have Hamza's top five most grating game elements.

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Ranting about our Personal "What We Consider Terrible Game Mechanics" Part 1 - Gaming Thoughts



Hamza and I (editor's note: and Nick chimed in as well) are at it again. Talking one day about what we hate or dislike, to not be overly negative about it, we thought of putting together a list of things that we really don’t like in video games. Not all games get everything right - in fact none really do. No matter how much we love a game, every one of them seems to miss the mark on something. Often we can live with those flaws, but some mechanics are just so egregious that they bring down what should have been an otherwise awesome experience.

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