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Christian wrote:#3: Marriage bug in Harvest Moon to PSX. Apparantly all European versions had this to a point. Once you get married, you go to bed, and your wife kills you in your sleep. Pretty cool when you've put down 90+ gaming hours and you're still only half-way through the fucking game.
Christian wrote:#9: Battletoads
Amalgam characters: Not to be confused with the above, but often equally horrible in terms of developer laziness, and often horribly annoying on principle. Characters whose styles consist...of nothing other than moves from the other characters in the game. This is sometimes justified in-story, and that can alleviate some of the annoyance. It's when it's insisted on for apparently no reason other than outright laziness that the character in question becomes very, very obnoxious, design-wise. It's a sign of sheer and absolute laziness, really, and all the more annoying for being so.
BrainWalker wrote:Excepting some of his long-range flamey explosive business, I don't necessarily have a problem with Necrid as a character. I'm not a big fan of the concept of "stole yer moves!" kind of characters, but that's not necessarily a deal-breaker. My intense dislike for Necrid is concentrated heavily in the design department. Dude looks like some bored idiot pulled out a handful of crap from the "stupid comic book villain accessories" bin and glued it to an unimpressive orc figurine. Plus his name is "Necrid." Maybe if Soul Calibur were a series about cheesy comic book excess, Necrid would fight right in. But no, it's a series about cheesy historical fiction excess. As such, he's equally as retarded as Star Wars characters in SCIV. Well, maybe not equally, since demons do figure into the series' mythos, and since he's not as mechanically broken as Yoda or Starkiller. But asethetically... no thank you. At least his name isn't "Starkiller."
Also, Seth from SFIV fits into the "an amalgam of other characters' moves" category. Not a big fan of him, either, even though his voice is pretty sweet.
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