Things you hate in fangames

Aww. I really suck at starting topics. I hope you get the idea.

So. Here you can post things you hate (or at least, dislike) in fangames. Write one thing for one message.

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Well, I really hate when people use the SMB 1-1 or 1-2 levels in their games. These levels have been played 4252562 or even more times.

When people try really hard to overhype their games.

LACK OF ORIGINALITY. Enough said.

Yeah, yeah!

This, this!

• Cheesy / badly executed dialogue
• Stupid glitches that shouldn't exist and really aren't very hard to fix
• Strange / overly powerful abilities
• Level design focused on long difficult jumps
• Blindsighting

- Alerts to show dialogues
- Glitchy engines that require you to restart the game
- TGF engines that start repeating sound effects due to a glitch by TGF
- Games that come as an installer
- Games that come in a RAR
- Bad camera in GM games, that requires you to go 10 pixels to the border before the camera moves, thus making it impossible to see what's ahead of you
- etc.

Bad level design and lack of originality.

Use of TGF's default movement engines.

Installers.
Banzai Bills.
Amps.
TGF platform movement.
GM split tiles glitch.
Edits of GM platform tutorial.
Trisoft edits.
Laggy games.
UME edits.
Hello Engine edits.

When a really cool game is announced, only to never be heard from again, without even note that it's canned or even a hint that it was put on hold for something else. Ever since Kaepora all but disappeared and stuff, I've tried to avoid doing that, as well as the whole hype thing, though the 'blog' may go under that, sorry Cutty.

when its only an "engine test" and has no actuall game play

This and..


-sprite clashing
-using the same music I hear in every other fangame
-bad level design
-lack of music fitting the area

This post has been edited by Zae Vorgavis on Jul 10 2007, 01:54 PM

"Funny" dialogue. Being someone who always likes to put a lot of humor in my games, it's drives me nuts when someone tries to emulate the style of humor from a game, and fails. That's and the fact that so many fangames are exactly like all the other fangames.

EDIT: Woo, I'm having a bad typing day today.

This post has been edited by Super Paper Toodles on Jul 10 2007, 02:23 PM

-SMW Main level MIDI
-UM edits
-Built-in engines
-Wall-climbing
-When you can't see where ye are moving (hborder=/view length)
-Rip offs from the originals
-Unoriginal
-When they try to be funny, and it isn't
-Cliche (overly)
-Clashing sprites
-Sucky sprite edits
-Sucky engine edits
-Redundancy
-Redundancy
-Grey backgrounds
-Loud and annoying music
-Pre-loaded MP3s (they take forever to load)
-RAR'd files
-Installers

-Glitches that get you stuck in a place and you can't get unstuck
-Games where if you lose they set you WAAAAY back (like, losing all your lives=back to the title screen etc)
-Bland design

edit:

Dude I love this, I'm actually glad so many people have it. I wish I could add it but my games glitchy enough as it is

This post has been edited by Press Start on Jul 10 2007, 02:27 PM

It sucks when trying to jump up on a block... but you get stuck in the side. Eh, I guess that's more of a "stuck in wall" thing than "wall climbing".

I once made a whole level that made use of the wall-climbing glitch.

- premade engines that are 100% the same as the version on the site (ie no changes/bugfixes/additions/removals/etc)
- glitchy engines ESPECIALLY with jumping

ohhh yea, that kind sucks.

That annoys me too.

-Engine edits
-Severe sprite clashing
-Un-originality
-Boring level design
-Slopes that don't work
-Awful engines
-Lack of story when there should be one
-Difficulty that a 6 year old can overcome
-Forced screen resolution change
-Bosses that are too easy and don't defend themselves


I guess thats it.

I hate my own games.

This post has been edited by Debug_Mode on Jul 10 2007, 02:39 PM