Owl cat has this real issue with their games where there's always something to fuck you over if you play blind. WoR has some shitty issues too. I'm just through the first part already and the early game difficulty has been rollercoaster. Not to mention an encounter that would endlessly spawn enemies unless you took" Don't let them burn down the tavern" to mean "John Arson is the only enemy out there who actually matters".
Trading/coop is only required to obtain Mythril weapons to learn the combo skills for each race. You can get the items needed for certain side quests via other side quests, but their drop rate isn't 100%. Coop is just a secondary means of obtaining them.
Those are perfect for this thread. The controls for the rocket are sluggish and I'm almost positive there's nobody who can get through them on the first try, there's just not enough time to adjust your trajectory when you need to dodge something. You're just expected to memorize it.
Hell, most rpgs where you have more than the double allowed in combat party members tend to suffer from this.
I pre-ordered Doom Eternal because I was so excited and I loved the first game.
You set yourself up to fail right away
This is exactly how I felt. By the end of it I was practically begging for the game to just be over because of just how annoying the combat is, and literally every encounter is the exact same because of it. I hate modern games and their 'arena' design. Don't mention this to any modern 'doom' fan though, because they will absolutely have a shitfit and tell you that you are playing the game wrong and that you are wrong and Eternal is the greatest game ever made.
One of my biggest video game regrets is pre-ordering Paper Mario: The Origami King. Not just because it's trash but because I knew it would be and I supported it. Hope is a helluva drug.
The Wii is guilty of this shit too, but with motion controls. Madworld is the perfect example of this forced gimmick bullshit utterly ruining a game for me. I looooooove Anarchy Reigns and I was expecting to have fun with Madworld, but an hour of flailing around like an autistic retard with barely functional controls later, I put that shit back in it's case and never touched it again. There is absolutely zero reason I shouldn't of been able to just use a "retro" or "pro" (whatever they were called) controller. Forced touch screen controls utterly killed Kid Icarus: Uprising for me as well. The Circle Pad Pro exists for a fucking reason, but in KI:U, it just changes what "handedness" you're playing with.
I was still a drunken idiot around the time Eternal came out and words cannot describe how much these cunts gaslit me into thinking I was just not getting something about the game because I wasn't thinking straight to begin with. Once I sobered up I came to realize my gut feelings were correct and the people defending it like fanatics we're the same type of people who haven't honestly played the original games. It's a good enough game in it's own right, even if I don't find it fun, but it sure as shit isn't Doom to me other than the skin it's wearing. I don't really consider Doom 3 much of a Doom game either, if it was marketed as some kind of spin-off instead of a "main series" title, it wouldn't feel so out of place to me.
My autism in RPGs and need to steal as much as possible really made Chrono Cross a pain for me; since there's only 3 characters who can steal, two are annoying (the female Orcha girl, and Fargo) and one is rarely with you (Kid) due to plot reasons. But if you want cool stuff like armor that absorbs elemental damage and shit, you need at least one of the thieves in the party. The caveat to this is, even if you fail to steal, you can escape, re-enter battle, and try again; which is pretty since since skills are a one-time use per battle. So it's nice there's a way to retry again quickly, but still stupid.
I reeeeeally wanted to play mad world on the dolphin emulator. Control scheme probably makes it impossible, at least I can play my ds titles on my gpd win max 2 since that has good touchscreen.
That, and the fucking bizarre decision to not have anything to indicate where you are when you pull up the map.
This is probably similar to having 24fps film and lens flare because "people expect it."
