Game clichés

Post by **Plan B** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:19 pm

A spinning donut in a spinning donut in a spinning donut :icon26:

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:06 pm

whats that game. weird looking thing health meter.

Post by **Captain** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:07 pm

Prey. The red character is your health and the blue is your meter for spirit walk.

Post by **Plan B** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:11 pm

Yeah, Prey.

Doing poorly on ammo, there.

However, health isn't such an issue with this game, because you can restore it in the Indian afterlife by shooting red valkyres.

It all makes perfect sense.

Post by **menkent** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:12 pm

the "find a key to open the door" level. i think every fps EVER has had at least one of these levels (actually, i think almost every level in Q1 was like this... silver, gold, advance, silver, gold, advance, ad infinitum). some variations are finding a keycard, finding a pda, or (my favorite) when you have the key and have to find the secret door.

blatant filler to make a game seem longer without any sort of creative effort by the developers.

similar themes are "block puzzles" and combination locks that you have to figure out (aka guess).

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:18 pm

Captain Mazda wrote:Prey. The red character is your health and the blue is your meter for spirit walk.

why does it look bum-ish

Post by **Plan B** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:19 pm

menkent wrote:the "find a key to open the door" level. i think every fps EVER has had at least one of these levels (actually, i think almost every level in Q1 was like this... silver, gold, advance, silver, gold, advance, ad infinitum). some variations are finding a keycard, finding a pda, or (my favorite) when you have the key and have to find the secret door...

Yup.
I think Doom started it.

Of course, *every* game uses such methods to allow you to advance, and open up a gateway to the next level, but usually it's disguised by doing other chores than finding a key.

Post by **Plan B** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:23 pm

Chupacabra wrote:
Captain Mazda wrote:Prey. The red character is your health and the blue is your meter for spirit walk.
why does it look bum-ish

Bum-ish?

Don't exactly know what that means but it might have something to do with my scaling it down from a 1024x768 tga => 800x600 jpg for forum readability purposes.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:39 pm

CRATES.

Post by **Tsakali_** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:48 pm

Nightshade wrote:CRATES.

winner! close thread

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:44 pm

i might have to pirate prey, that looks rather nice

Post by **Fjoggs** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:46 pm

someone link up that RPG cliche thingy. Good read.

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:57 pm

Nightshade wrote:CRATES.

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:58 pm

also -

EXPLODING BARRELS

even CoD2 has these

such a cliche they even included one in the Doom movie

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:01 pm

Plan B wrote:
Chupacabra wrote:
Captain Mazda wrote:Prey. The red character is your health and the blue is your meter for spirit walk.
why does it look bum-ish
Bum-ish?

Don't exactly know what that means but it might have something to do with my scaling it down from a 1024x768 tga => 800x600 jpg for forum readability purposes.

no, i think he means the outline of the character in the health meter looks like a fucking homeless faggot.

Post by **Captain** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:07 pm

Because Tommy is kind of a lowlife bum.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:08 pm

Or it could just mean he looks like hes getting his spirit love from planet Anus.

Post by **Captain** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:12 pm

o'dium wrote:Or it could just mean he looks like hes getting his spirit love from planet Anus.

None of your gay fantasies please.

Want cliches? How about the classic "Doctor/Mad Scientist who always wants to take over the world and must be foiled"-cliche? Too many games to name with storylines like this and these big bosses always end up with a doctor's degree. I want to stop a gynecologist or lawyer from taking over the world for once damn it.

Post by **Kaz** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:55 pm

Pipes are the new crate.

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:12 am

another nice FPS / actionadventure cliche is the "restore power to x before you can continue". sighs

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:27 am

Kaz wrote:Pipes are the new crate.

Fucking truth there.. :-|

Post by **ALLiED** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:35 am

Fire Extinguishers

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:39 am

ALLiED wrote:Fire Extinguishers

Ohh good ones..

Noticed for a while Bathrooms were a hot ticket too..

Post by **Captain** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:57 pm

MKJ wrote:another nice FPS / actionadventure cliche is the "restore power to x before you can continue". sighs

Or the "find a way to get in the place you must blow up to win".

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:47 pm

the entire plot line of "science experiment goes wrong and heroboy must save the world" is pretty cliche.