What are the worst tropes in video games?
It's the reason why I welcome diversity in games. You can make whatever you want in games but the AAA industry choses not to because they love being boring.
When it comes to Western games. A gruff buff white guy with short brown hair. Has past military experience and a tragic backstory involving a dead wife.
Haven't played those games. But the fetch quests I've done were always like, "collect 100 (items)" and its always hard to find for some reason xD
That's basically it in Destiny, it's always in order to get a high end gun too. Instead of just giving it to you they make you chase after the parts and materials. In Fallout 76 it's literally what nearly all the daily missions are, that or hunt so many enemies of this type and then when you're done for the day there's nothing to do. Even repeatedly beating the main boss is easy now as we're literally all walking war machines.
Or am I mixing you up with someone else? Probably am.
I love the game. It's just everything wrong with video games in the early 2000's.
How do you know it is not a moment of passion?
Pretty much every jrpg or visual novel. Visual novels are a bit different since that's the point of the game, but it still bothers me that the character designer makes these really nice looking female designs, and then the main character just gets the usual brown hair and unremarkable face. It's like, really? Just a small pet peeve of mine.
Wokeness in the military:
In general, being woke in a game is just bad, but what annoys me to no end is when women are inserted into special forces roles and the game tries to take somewhat seriously. Sorry, but Theres a reason behind that.
In the same exact vein,I find it really annoying when foreigners, mainly British, people are included in American special forces units. Seriously, In Crysis, I’m pretty sure the team was US Navy SEALs in experimental combat equipment. why the hell was there a british guy on the team?
For context, RE Operation Raccoon City went full retard with the backgrounds for the US special forces characters. If i recall, one dude was a biker who chose the military to avoid prison, one dude was a west african national, one was a woman in SFOD-D (not too offensive tbh) one was a british chick, and one was a computer hacker who got caught blackmailing a US senator.
Resident Evil? Oh man, you should have expected that; Two words, Rebecca Chambers.
A cop. A combat medic (?!). A helicopter mechanic.
But the series is so dang silly, really, I overlooked it, especially once Chris started punching boulders
Here are some more i thought of:
The Illuminati: ive only seen this done well in Deus Ex, but in general, the one guy who is able to undermine the system that apparently runs the entire US or the whole world single handedly is retarded and needs to stop. One of the worst offenders is RE6 Splinter Cell Conviction, and MGS.
“The Joy of battle.”: mainly just poor writing, maybe something that can be worded differently, but the motivation that someone loves war or specifically “battle”, because what’s more satisfying than having your life ended by a split second and random outcome, am I right?
Oh my god, how could I forget this one.
Anagrams: even if they are somewhat relevant to the story, its almost never done well. Either its too dumb to be realistic or I don’t care enough to figure it out.
In MGS4, the “good guy team” Rat Patrol 1 was leet speak for Patriot, the bad guy. And in Dishonored, the ship’s name was an anagram for Farewell Daud, but i guarantee nobody gave the hint of a fuck about it.