Well America's getting the 3DS tomorrow and so the 8th generation in gaming begins ..... it's this time to put our PS3, XBOX360 and Wii in the box again??? Of course not, but I think it's a good time to check your opinion about what gameplay mechanics or elements you don't want in the next generation, things that some developers think they're cool but ended up being annoying.
Unskippable cutscenes: Well yes sir, some developers are so pround about their cutscenes that force yu to watch the entire thing in order to understand the complex storyline and catch every detail about the game, but if you play the game 2, 3 or more times it's really annoying; plus most of the videogames storylines are just bad,
Quick Time Events: Thank you Yu Suzuki for the gift of tapping random buttoms in order to continue with the game. Now we have dozens of game with broken mechanics and annoying results, but honestly few games get the concept right, while others ended up messing the whole thing and are extremly tedious. (like Dante's Inferno and its QTE door..... why do we need a QTE to open a frickin door???)
Trop/Ach that consists in repeat the same action: Trophies and Achievements are the greatest award for any gamers, but sometimes I guess it's just the reflection of some developer trying to use the player as its little puppet; so in order to get that precious little picture you need to repeat the same action over and over, even if the action in question is stupid or pointless like kicking 50 dogs, jumping hundreds of times over the same spot or using every single piece of cloth in a mall infested with zombies.
Useless AI partner: Co-op play is big this generation; so what happen when you're playing the campaign or the game alone? well some games ahndle you a nice partner to help you .... or messing the all thing. The point is that very few AI partners are useful, most of them just stand over the same spot, waste items or are just plain stupid, so no matter how hot your partner is, you're going to hate it at the end.
Super small text on screen: Dear developers. We know that you work long hours in front of a computer screen to create the games that we love. But did you know that most people play your games in a tv?? That's right and even if tvs these days are quite big we still watch them from a considerable distance, so please use a big font or at least give us a option to change the size of it. Thanks a lot.
