It's the small things....

It happens to all gamers, you sit down to a title you hope to enjoy and something relatively insignificant drives you nuts. It may not kill the game for you but it may tarnish a otherwise decent effort even if only a bit. A few of mine:

Pinobee GBA- after extended dashing or getting hit by a enemy, Pinobee's head balloons to massive porportions...I can only assume for some Looney Tunes style comic relief. Except it is ANNOYING.

Battle Garrega Sat- I find shooters benefit from highly visible projectiles and more than a few times the shrapnel and bullets in this game blend.

Cotton Turbo Duo- Cotton's baby gurgle when she gets hit, hyper squeaky shiver up my spine.

List away...

*-neo

Those battle voices in Skies of Arcadia, the bird's voice was so bad it was almost funny :p

Those mission clear screens in Devil May Cry, those where ok for Metal Slug but for Devil May Cry?! Hopefully they got rid of them in DMC 2.

Star Ocean 2's translation and English voices.

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Cotton Turbo Duo- Cotton's baby gurgle when she gets hit, hyper squeaky shiver up my spine.

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Are you talking about the US or Japanese version?

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Originally posted by NGEFreek


Are you talking about the US or Japanese version?

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Never played the Japanese version but the US version uses Japanese voice samples. *-neo

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Originally posted by neoalphazero
Battle Garrega Sat- I find shooters benefit from highly visible projectiles and more than a few times the shrapnel and bullets in this game blend.

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I feel you. It certainly seems like a good enough shooter, but I can't stand the bullets. Blah.

First, bad voice acting...

-Virtua Fighter 4: They're almost all bad, with Lion being the worst offender- "Why am I SO great!"
-Grandia II: Not necessarily bad, per se, until that little blonde dude- "Expect an early Winter, with LOTS of snow!"

Some technical flaws..

-Vagrant Story: The super-slow saving, and the fact that you had to save everytime you modified a storage chest, ruined the chances of a replay for me. The best part of the replay would be finding and making stuff, and the technology just couldn't handle it gracefully.
-Devil May Cry: This is a pure action game, full of violence and titilation. Given that, Trish fails miserably as the game's "babe quotient", having probably the worst case of crack-face seen in a game yet.
-WarCraft 3: Battle.net, and those who play on it. Sucky players, and they're sucky play, mysteriously still seem able to beat me. There must be a design flaw there somewhere, 'cause *I* obviously don't suck :)

Even with the bullets turned to "red" in Battle Garegga, I couldn't bring myself to play it. I about threw my controller through the window after the 37th "Death from Mosquitoes".

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Originally posted by Apokryphos
-Virtua Fighter 4: They're almost all bad, with Lion being the worst offender- "Why am I SO great!"

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See I sorta have to disagree with you here, because I find it so bad it's hysterical. In fact, if VF4 lost the goofy voices I wouldn't care at all about the win quotes whereas I adore them now.

"I can handcuff lightning!" Jacky's such a tool...
"It's a matter of course, I'm gonna win!"
"I don't make allowance for old men!" :lol: However, nothing, but nothing, beats Lion.

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Originally posted by MechDeus
See I sorta have to disagree with you here, because I find it so bad it's hysterical. In fact, if VF4 lost the goofy voices I wouldn't care at all about the win quotes whereas I adore them now.

"I can handcuff lightning!" Jacky's such a tool...
"It's a matter of course, I'm gonna win!"
"I don't make allowance for old men!" :lol: However, nothing, but nothing, beats Lion.

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Well, maybe. I still like the game of course, it's just that one facet that seems oddly mis-produced. The voices aren't *bad*, necessarily, just overtly lame. For such a serious fighting game, the corniness seems out of place. I'm sure I'll get a beating from the flamestick for this, but I think Namco has done a much better job matching voices to their characters in T4, and especially SC2. As 3D fighters have begun to develope more personality, it becomes increasingly clear how much more badass Kazuya is, to say, Jacky.

...but all that said, I could live with all the voices if they'd just change that damn *SHWOOSH!* noise that any spinning move in VF4 makes...it stupid, and it makes certain fights (like Pai vs Jacky) sound ridiculous.

Also, the fact that "down" does not = crouch in Tekken 4 has got to be one of the most bizarre design choices ever, and my sole complaint against the game (with me being a stalwart tekken fan and all). Hopes you like them diagonals!