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Scrappy Mechanic

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Scrappy Mechanic	comment	A gameplay mechanic in an otherwise fun/enjoyable game that generates a sizable hatedom. The reasons could be the following: It's out of character for the game. The quality of its execution is lower than the rest of the game or the execution directly contradicts with its intentions. It really exposes the problems in the game. It comes into conflict with another game mechanic. Gameplay tactics do not count unless it's the exploitation of glitches and hacks. Otherwise, that's just abuse of an otherwise fair and good mechanic that causes the game to be played in a way that it's not supposed to. That One Boss is only related to this if a boss villain's status under that trope is solely because of a gameplay mechanic. So why do these mechanics make it into games? Maybe the idea was fine, but executed poorly. Maybe Executive Meddling forced the developers to shoehorn in a mechanic the game didn't really benefit from. And sometimes the mechanic does have upsides that make the developers choose to put it in and keep it around. Compare to Disappointing Last Level, Gameplay Roulette, and Unexpected Gameplay Change. Despite appearances, this is not to be confused with a machinery technician who picks a lot of fights, nor is it about Slippy Toad, who is merely a Scrappy who happens to be a mechanic. Also nothing to do with a similarly named video game. Can also cross with Oddball in the Series where that one game that differentiates itself from the others in the series may stand out due to the Scrappy Mechanics it uses. For a sometimes overlapping Sister Trope, see That One Rule, which is about mechanics/rules that are complicated or confusing. Contrast Anti-Frustration Features, which are intentionally included to avoid this kind of feeling, and Underused Game Mechanic, for good game mechanics that don't get used as much as players hope. See also Salvaged Gameplay Mechanic, the equivalent to Rescued from the Scrappy Heap. Please keep in mind that this is based on opinions. What one player may consider something to be a Scrappy Mechanic, another may see it as an acceptable gameplay element, and vice versa. Don't take it personally if you see a mechanic you like here. Not to be confused with a mechanic who is The Scrappy. Or a mechanic who actually is Scrappy.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_1081aa34	comment	WipEout: Eliminator mode in the various games is almost universally imbalanced, requiring mostly luck to get the right weapons and not so much player skill. The weapons were balanced for regular racing, so many didn't even do damage or very little, and some were grossly overpowered in a game mode where you didn't have to bother with speed. Wip3out was the worst offender since almost nothing did any noticable damage except for Energy Drain and Plasma Bolt, both a one-hit kill. It got better in later titles, but then participating in this mode became required to beat the game. Shooting a competing ship in the first Wipeout game would cause it to stall and you to crash into it. This was changed in the sequel so that shooting a ship would flip it up, enabling you to pass underneath. The frustration factor was cranked up again in the degraded sequel Wip3out which reduced the flip duration so you would probably collide with the target anyway unless you fired at point blank range. And on a killing blow the disintegrating ship would stay at ground level and grind to a halt, bringing you to a very frustrating stop if you were unable to move out of the way quickly. And there was the Force Wall weapon which covered half of the track ahead of you and bounced opponents backwards... in your face, catapulting you back at high speed. Add to this the chance to blow yourself up if the target deployed a last second Reflector and it becomes clear that using weapons on opponents you don't particularly care about (ie. everyone but the opponent in first place) was more likely to hurt you than to help you.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_11795605	comment	The boss battles of Clock Tower 3 relied on an auto-aim feature that works like this: When you charge an attack you abruptly lock onto the boss's current position but don't track them, while the odds of said boss still being in line with your shot by the time you fire is slim to none in a classic case of an Annoying Video Game Helper. Notably the battle with Scissorwoman Jemima disables this feature, making her battle the most genuinely satisfying moment in the game.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_12f3c9b	comment	Puyo Puyo Fever introduces Fever mode, which triggers when you fill a gauge by offsetting garbage Puyos and gives you preset arrangements of Puyos waiting to be popped to unleash a big attack on your opponent, also serving as a Comeback Mechanic in the process. What makes Fever mode hated by some is that it can cause long, drawn-out stalemates until RNG makes a player lose. The mode has its effectiveness nerfed in 20th Anniversary.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_15ad2c2c	comment	Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair, like many other visual novels, has more than a few dialogue choices, from inconsequential (telling Rie what you think of her costume) to dramatically changing the story (choosing the culprit). The Scrappy Mechanic in question is how once you come to one of those points, you can't save the game, review your evidence or reread the dialogue. By removing the ability to look at your information, making an informed decision becomes harder, and the inability to save in case you make the wrong choice forces players to save often.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_16fa566c	comment	Legends of Runeterra's first expansion saw the addition of the pirate-themed Bilgewater region to the game, with their new mechanic Plunder and signature trick, pilfering (drawing cards from your opponent's deck instead of your own). While initially seen as fun, it rapidly became obvious that it was only fun for the Bilgewater player, as the pilfer cards were massively over-efficient, the requirement to trigger Plunder to get most of them to work properly ended up being absolutely trivial, and drawing your opponent's cards actually wasn't worse than drawing your own- it was usually better (even without deck synergy, nobody plays with bad cards, and you're depriving your opponent of resources they might desperately need). It regularly reached ridiculous levels in Bilgewater Mirror Matches where one player would start pilfering their opponent's cards, only to steal all their pilfer cards and end up drawing half their deck (particularly as the Black Market Merchant not only pilfered a card, but reduced the cost of all stolen cards by 1 for each Merchant, which combined with the absurdly low cost of pilfer cards allowed them to go on doing it for free).
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony's version hides all the letters, with a wave of light randomly revealing them. You can also light up the center of the screen to reveal the letters there, but 1: this only lights up a small area that grows slowly, 2: this consumes your focus meter, which regenerates very slowly, so you can't rely on it, and 3: you can't use the cursor while using this light.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_17ec5027	comment	Silent Hill: Downpour has several moments where you nearly fall to your death and lose all your items. All your items. Yes, this includes the guns you got from the green lockers and from doing That One Sidequest, your ammo, and even your flashlight. You even lose the first-aid kits you were saving for that upcoming Void chase.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_1912328c	comment	One of the biggest downgrades of Daytona Championship USA from past arcade versions is changing the series-traditional 4-position shifter to a simplified up/down shifter. Given that many powersliding techniques rely on shifting down two or three gears at once (and in fact many console ports allow the player to assign buttons for each gear), this is basically a screw-you to well-versed Daytona USA players.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_20398295	comment	Unlike predecessor games, writers stop attacking in damage stages unless a double attack or awakening is achieved. The problem is these events are triggered randomly.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_2819aebd	comment	The Megaman Anniversary Collection on Gamecube inexplicably mapped A to shoot and B to jump, completely muddling up the people who grew up with these games and would effectively be their Target Demographic. As if those games weren't hard enough without Interface Screw. Adding insult to injury is that this version of the game was a port from the Playstation 2... which did have such an option meaning someone made the decision to remove that feature for whatever reason.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_2d49c8f1	comment	Candy Crush Saga: Spending your real money on powerups and life refills. If you don't have any lives, you have to wait 30 minutes to get another life, or 2 and-a-half hours to get all of your five lives back. You can't increase your max lives either.note It used to be possible by buying the Charm of Lives... for $17 in real money. It only increased your max lives from five to eight, and regaining a single life still took 30 minutes. Unlocking later levels costs money too. 30 cents isn't too bad, though. The Conveyor Belts, introduced in Sticky Savannah, are annoying and tricky, and the levels that usually feature them are littered with bombs that are hard enough to get rid of. And what's worse? The Bombs will explode before the Conveyor Belt moves—meaning that if the Bombs were to possibly be taken out by luck of the Conveyor Belt, it wouldn't happen. Not as hated as the Toffee Tornado, but still an annoying obstacle. The moon scale in the Dreamworld levels. It forces you to get two different candy colours in equal quantities, or else you'll fail the level. It's entirely possible for a single unrelated combo to rapidly make several chains of one of them, resulting in Odus falling off and you losing the level due to pure dumb luck. The unpopularity of this mechanic may have contributed to the Dreamworld being discontinued in May 2015 and removed altogether two years later. Despite only appearing in 27 levels in Reality and 18 in Dreamworld, Toffee Tornadoes were one of the most hated blockers in the game. In their original form, they couldn't be matched with anything, couldn't be removed — not even temporarily — in any way, moved to another random tile and destroyed the candy on it after each move, and left its original tile cracked (thus useless) for a move. They essentially only existed to screw you over by randomly denying you the chance to make certain matches, and made certain levels almost impossible unless you got very lucky. It didn't help that the candies they destroyed affected the moon scale in the web version of the game. Even three nerfs to make them more tolerable couldn't rescue them from the scrappy heap, and they were eventually removed entirely from the standard game with no one mourning them.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_2f3ca0cc	comment	The Rollcage Leader Missile would sometimes lock on to buildings (instead of opponents) and bring them down on your own head.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_37786524	comment	One of the main reasons the sequel to Fuzion Frenzy failed was because it tried to implement a card system that could significantly alter the point rewards of a round significantly (using multiplier cards, multiplier steal cards, and others). This system was widely criticized by players as making winning a round far too luck-based, as even people who consistently did poorly in minigames could win a planet if they played their cards right.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_3e4aa5ce	comment	While Friday the 13th: The Game is fairly decent for a licensed game, a few mechanics make it hard to enjoy for reasons: Jason's ability to grab counselors is considered "unfair" and "overpowered" for a few reasons by players playing as Counselors: The "break free" mechanic for the Counselor is considered to be virtually pointless by many, as a player controlling Jason is only required to press a single button to initiate an uninterruptible instant kill animation. Unless the Jason player is incompetent or Cherry Tapping by dragging the Counselor to an environmental kill location, the Counselor will never get a chance to break free. Jason's ability to "Shift" allows him to disappear and quickly close in the gap between him and a fleeing counselor before reappearing. If Jason is close enough, the Jason player can cancel the "Shift" ability and immediately grab the Counselor from within range, which is almost guaranteed to work if the Jason player is skilled enough to abuse this technique. Shift would be a complete Game-Breaker if not for the fact that it requires a lot of practice to execute, and even then the most experienced gamer can get stuck on obstacles. Jason can successfully grab a Counselor in the middle of their melee attacking animation regardless of their health, which already makes combat a bigger risk than usual, considering how slow on the draw counselors are when they swing their melee weapons. Most controversially, the range of Jason's grab doesn't match his animation, as his range seems to allow him to grab any counselor, even if they're around five feet away from him and should logically be far away enough to avoid his grab. Jason's Morph ability allows you to teleport across the map, but it often only puts you in the general vicinity of where you want to be, not the precise area. Nothing's more annoying than chasing down fleeing Counselors in their car, and you morph after them into woodland, a short distance away from the road. Jason's ability to Block is also controversial, as it virtually makes Jason immune against nearly every attack in the game. A skilled Jason player can use the ability to walk over Counselors' bear traps and set them off without actually getting trapped in them, walk over firecrackers and avoid getting stunned by them, and most annoyingly, guard against all melee/flare gun attacks regardless of which direction Jason faces. The only weapon that bypasses Jason's Block ability is the shotgun, which is guaranteed to knock Jason to the ground. Jason's ability to stack his own bear traps on top of each other is also poorly received, as it means that it is virtually impossible for a Counselor to fix a phone box or repair a car without risking the trap being set off and alerting the Jason player. Considering how uncommon pocket knives are, and since it's the only guaranteed method to break out of Jason's grab command, it makes disarming Jason's traps not worth the risk to sacrifice a get-out-of-jail-free card to disarm one trap sitting next to, or on top of another. Counselors cannot carry vehicle parts and weapons at the same time. This leaves whoever decides to work on vehicles extremely vulnerable.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_40b716af	comment	The Information Gathering missions from Assassin's Creed, so much that the first order of business for Assassin's Creed II was taking them out and replacing them with a more natural mission system.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_44245363	comment	Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has the piano segments. When playing as Ruka, the player must sometimes play some notes on a piano by pointing the WiiMote at the correct, lit-up key and press said key, while also not being too fast or slow. The annoyance comes from the fact that it must be done as part of the Final Boss Battle and the keys are pretty narrow, with the WiiMote not being all that happy to comply with your trying to play the keys. And if you fail three times, you must fight Sakuya's ghost again and try the piano another time.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_4442a9c4	comment	Ghost Recon Breakpoint came with a few, in part due to its attempts to change the series into a Looter Shooter with RPG Elements similar to sister series The Division. Despite their intent, the gear system feels tacked on, not really providing any sort of meaningful progression except as an excuse to lock you out of certain quests or entice you to buy gear and XP boosters. Also, despite the intent of the gear score system making it much more dangerous to take on enemies above your level, since enemies above your level have a gradually-increased chance of instantly killing you, it still feels pointless in practice since the player can just as easily return the favor on any human enemies by just aiming for the head. This was notably the focus of one of the biggest changes made to the game with the "Ghost Experience" update, which added the option of an "Immersive" mode: no gear score, outfit pieces are cosmetic, weapons can only be swapped out with what enemies drop or at safe zones if you have the blueprint, and with other toggle options for things like reducing or eliminating the HUD outright or losing every bullet in the magazine with a reload. The lack of AI teammates until an update in July 2020 meant solo players are often at a distinct disadvantage with no backup and making the world feel even more empty and lifeless. Even when playing in co-op, the respawning system has its issues, usually spawning players several hundred meters away from each other without regard for the terrain between them, such as placing a player on the other side of a cliff that cannot be traversed except by going half a kilometer around it. Drones in general. Aerial ones are hard to hit - Azraels can be taken out with one or two sniper rifle bullets but fly high enough that that's basically all you can reach them with, Murmurs and Sky Cherubim flit around at high speeds as soon as there's so much as a hint that there's an intruder - and the ground-based ones are all damage sponges even if you can hit their weak point.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising is generally considered a solid multi-player game, but some features are considered these to different parts of the player base, while others are fine with it due to the fact that it simply makes the game different from other shooting games. An example would be the fact that unlike other shooters, the shots you fire aren't instant and actually travel through the air, and home in on the opponent. Some weapons have more homing than others, and you can use powers to make the shots invisible and pass through walls. Others hate the weapon value system, forcing people to spend hours fusing weapons to do exactly what they want and nothing more, lest their weapon becomes more valuable and makes them a greater burden to their team when they lose. Others feel that the game is based much more on skill so a person with a higher value weapon is fine as long as they have the skill to match. The game just isn't designed for left-handed players. You can map the four face buttons to movement, but this causes problems as the game differentiates between "flick" directional movements and slower tilt movements. You can use a Circle Pad Pro or a New Nintendo 3DS so that you have a Circle Pad on the right, but the former is an additional $20 investment and the latter's right pad isn't as precise as the left pad.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_53684a3f	comment	In Thief: Deadly Shadows: The faction system. The game is coded to allow the player to ally with either the Hammerites or Pagans (factions who were previously hostile to Garrett in the prior two games) by doing a series of tasks for them. Aside from the rationale for this allying being very tenuous (the Pagans in particular call a functional truce with Garrett because it's what Viktoria would have wanted), the way to get into their good graces involves... shooting a couple of blocks with moss arrows and shooting a couple of scarab-like creatures throughout the city. Not only that, but the rewards you're given for completing 100% of these sidequests (bonus items in Garrett's apartment) come so late in the game, at a point where you're more than likely maxed out on supplies, to be functionally useless beyond a Cosmetic Award. There have been accusations by players that both sidequests were added in at the last minute of development, as they don't really factor into any part of the story (beyond maybe distracting the final boss for a bit longer in the final areas). The beloved rope arrow was removed in favor of the "Climbing Gloves", a piece of equipment that is mission-critical at one point in the game (you need it to climb up a pipe into the Hammerite Clocktower)... but nigh-useless otherwise. Not only did it have limited utility in missions beyond nabbing a couple pieces of optimal loot, but it was extremely finicky and required constant adjustments to ensure the player didn't accidentally fall off a high roof and kill themselves instead of trying to maneuver into position to climb back down a wall. The console-focused development meant that maps (unlike The Dark Project and The Metal Age) were drastically chopped up with loading zones, even in areas where it didn't seem like it would warrant such a thing (the tutorial mission is a big offender). It took several years, and development of the Sneaky Upgrade mod, for players to finally have a chance to deal with unimpeded maps — and the level design makes it clear that the maps were designed with these loading areas in mind, as they feature long, unimpressive hallways with no scenery whatsoever. At the beginning of each "hub world" day, the player starts back in their apartment, and in several cases, has to traverse the same hub areas (and City Watch guards) all over again, even if they knocked out or killed the Watch members in previous missions. Not only did this have a deleterious effect on the game (players are even advised to rush through them if they don't have anything pressing to take care of), but it can actively harm the player if they need specific items which are only available in Black Alley or a far-away store.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_554058cf	comment	Mario Kart 8 started giving players Coins in their item pickups, which was neat on paper as a returning feature from Super Mario Kart. In execution, there's more than enough Coins on the tracks to hit the cap of 10 for maximum speed benefits, and having a Coin in the lead at the cap means you've got a complete and utter waste of an item while the other racers are going to get various items to ram up your now-defenseless tailpipe — which would make you lose the Coin item if you took a hit while holding it anyway. And for extra insult to injury, Coins seem to appear more than any other item while in the lead; perhaps it's just blamable placebo, but it stops making first place a proper challenge to maintain and instead promotes letting some unlucky other player eat all the heat so you can swoop in more safely towards the end of the race.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_5bf7a0b1	comment	The 12th season of Masterchef Australia introduced a "Twist Week" where the judges throw in curveballs in the middle of a challenge to make things extra hard for the contestants. These "twists" include: forcing the teams to switch kitchens (and, by extension, their menu and preparations) during a Service Challenge, taking away the recipes in the final hour of a Pressure Test and forcing the contestants to finish the rest of the dish from instincts and memory, or throwing in extra ingredients that contestants must use halfway through a mystery box challenge (causing several to have to redo their dishes from scratch). It's meant to be an extra hurdle for the aspiring chefs to push them beyond their limits and test their creativity and tenacity in working in the kitchen, but for most viewers, these curveballs come off as overly mean-spirited as they cause unnecessary stress, drama and meltdowns to the chefs, who struggle to adjust to these "twists".
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6185255a	comment	Alone in the Dark: The inventory system in the reboot. Trying to find the right items while being attacked? Have fun trying to navigate the unintuitive and difficult to use inventory system that will end with you never picking what you need. Driving was flaky, hard to control, and added a lot of Fake Difficulty to the game. The New Nightmare has Respawning Enemies that refill every room any time you leave and come back. This being a Survival Horror game, health and ammunition pickups never self replenish. Infinite bad guys, finite supplies; you do the math.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_654ab3ee	comment	Den Defense from Assassin's Creed: Revelations is an Unexpected Gameplay Change complete with a poor interface and zig-zagging difficulty. One of the first things confirmed for Assassin's Creed III was that Den Defense would be cut.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6bf3fa88	comment	In Hidden City, whenever you complete a collection item from either the Upper/Lower City category, the game will forcibly transport you to the "appropriate" region. This is especially annoying since traveling between the two maps requires a not insignificant loading time. And since the player is most likely in the middle of doing a quest at the other location, this forces them to travel back to where they were before, thus wasting even more time with the completly unnecessary back-and-forth.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6cbc542e	comment	Silent Hill: Shattered Memories took the "dark and disorienting" aspect that Silent Hill is famous for to such intensities that the creature chases became a classic case of this. Even knowing that running toward sources of light is how to escape (Which the game does not tell you at all), and even with a walkthrough, it's very difficult and counter-intuitive to figure out where to go while running desperately from the Rawshock Creatures (and you will die if you attempt to check your map).
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6d9ef838	comment	The item system in Parasite Eve 2. Parasite Eve 2 made it where only items attached to your armor is what you can access during a battle. So if you attached 4 healing items, used them all up in a fight and need to get more, you're out of luck. Attaching items to your armor didn't free up any space in your main inventory. Compounding this is two problems. One, you're going to stumble across a lot of healing items, which take some stress off of your magic, but space is again limited; and Two, if you find the rare Medical Wheel item (or any of the four special items for that matter), they'll take up slots on your armor as well, significantly reducing how much you're going to carry unless you really don't mind running back and forth to item boxes repeatedly.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6eceba8d	comment	Towards the latter half of Fatal Frame III, a door is opened that releases miasma into the rest of the house. In order to dispel it (and be able to see things more clearly), you must light purifying candles. So now, you not only have to worry about random ghost encounters while you're running around this mansion of horrors and trying to progress the storyline, but you've also got to keep an eye on your candle level, because once that candle runs out, the entire setting will change to a grainy black-and-white and Reika Kuze will show up to relentlessly chase you down until you find another candle and top up your light. Those candles are: a) rare (there are only three or four of them in the game, though they respawn during each new Night), b) spread out from each other, and c) finish very quickly. Oh, and that house you're wandering around in? It's enormous (easily the largest of any single one of the Fatal Frame houses) and very easy to get lost in.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_6ff9f104	comment	Besides the play mentioned above, Madden NFL has had a few: Virtually every front office mechanic. Users cannot design their own contracts, and Madden assumes you want all deals to be backloaded. In some iterations, teams can only sign their players to extensions during the last year of their contract, and not every player is even available to speak to until just before free agency (where you have one shot to sign them or they get dumped in the FA pool). There are no collective scouting events such as college "pro days" or the NFL combine, forcing users to scout every attribute of every player they are interested in drafting. Users cannot create a draft board, forcing them to find the player they want to draft and compare him to other players on the fly while under the 2 minute clock. And so on and so on. Madden 06 had the infamous "QB cone". Basically, your quarterback had a vision cone extending outwards from their bodies, and they could only throw accurately to receivers in that cone. The size of the cone was determined by the QB's awareness stat: top-tier quarterbacks like Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, and Tom Brady had huge cones, whereas backups had tiny slivers. It was frustrating to use and in some ways counterproductive, since a smaller vision cone could be used to fake defenders off of a receiver you actually wanted to pass to. The feature was gone by Madden 08. The QB cone made the game damn near unplayable on the PC version. Previous installments had the player aim with the mouse and throw by left clicking while using standard WSAD keys (and those directly around them) for moving the QB. However, once the vision cone was implemented, you still aimed with the mouse but needed to press a separate key on the keyboard in order to actually throw the pass to that receiver. Trying to do that while moving your QB away from pressure seemingly required a 3rd hand. It's little wonder that the PC version of the game stopped being made shortly thereafter...(The PC version would make a comeback for Madden 19, long after the QB cone mechanic had been retired.) The mobile version of Madden 12 has a mechanic that makes an open receiver on a go route virtually impossible to tackle if you're playing man coverage. It can be especially annoying if your opponent keeps throwing 80 touchdown passes.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_710c399b	comment	Defense Grid: The Awakening: Fliers are so annoying, any cores they stole from the housing cannot be recovered if you shoot them down, making them lost forever) that they were removed from the sequel entirely- and absolutely nobody missed them! On a similar note, while usually not as disliked as flyers, stealth units aren't very popular either, for much the same reasons- they require the use of specific detector towers, upgrades or abilities to deal with which you would otherwise have no real reason to use and can feel like a waste of resources, unless they also have a secondary function.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_72e68fc6	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice The fingerprinting in this game has gotten in some people's nerves. For starters, the player is required to examine a pretty large 3D object with white powder, but there's a limited amount and the action area is tiny compared to the object's surface. Not only that, but the player has to bear with a camera that's very zoomed in, requiring a lot of scrolling and rotating of the object. The blowing doesn't work sometimes, and to top it all off, the location of fingerprints is sometimes counterintuitive. Worse, you can't save during the fingerprinting sequence, thereby forcing you to finish if you want to put the game down without potentially losing progress.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_777f9c25	comment	The main problem with Touken Ranbu's Underground Treasure Chest event is that it's incredibly boring, with its mechanics boiled down to clearing sets of identical dungeons over and over and lacking in gimmicks that make other events worth playing. Not only that, the point of this event â€“ collecting coins â€“ isn't terribly useful, since the coins are only used to buy backdrops and costumes.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_7cf1b706	comment	Escape from Monkey Island is possibly the worst offender in this regard thanks to the late-game introduction of "MONKEY KOMBAT". The idea is that, by chanting a certain combination of four different monkey sounds, the player adopts one of five different fighting stances, all of which have a 50/50 chance of either winning or losing, like an overly complicated game of Rock Paper Scissors. The Monkey Island series has had its fair share of game-halting "insult swordfighting" sections, but Monkey Kombat takes the cake for worst combat system in a Lucasarts game by virtue of it being entirely unclear which stances beat which, on top of it being a grind to even figure out the stances.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_82b10e40	comment	The third game in the Echo Night series allowed you to explore outside the moon base. Unfortunately, not only is moving outside tediously slow, but your jumping is locked to a single arc, making all platforming sections laborious.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_86616890	comment	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: It can be a real irritant trying to gain Intel from an Uruk who is encountered in a large group, due to the way they can unintentionally be killed in melee. Even worse is watching the intel-bearing orc flee from you, into the jaws of a random caragor, which eats him before he can be interrogated. It would have been nice if the designers had followed Batman: Arkham Origins' lead and made it impossible to kill your informant. At least there are other ways to get Intel (finding it in the world or freeing slaves). At least on the PS4, the same button (triangle) is used in stealth mode for "Attract" and "Brutalize". This can be a real pain, especially during stealth missions, when you're trying to lead an orc away for a discreet stealth kill using Attract, only for the button's function to suddenly switch to Brutalize, which makes for an intentionally loud and indiscreet kill. Similarly, the same button (circle) is used for dropping to hang off of ledges and Stealth Drain. You may simply be trying to better position yourself along a ledge for a Stealth Kill/Brutalize only for the function to change, leading to you attacking with a non-lethal Drain. Branded Captains lose their immunity to instant death when being thrown over a ledge. This is extremely problematic and annoying for two major reasons: One, they have a tendency to run in and attempt to assist when you're fighting near them. If you happen to be near a ledge (which is often given the geology and structures of Mordor), it's entirely possible to knock your branded Captain off accidentally. Two, the act of branding them requires grabbing onto them. After branding them, Talion has a habit of releasing them by tossing them backward, which can be right off a ledge. It's quite frustrating to track a Captain down, kill all of his followers, get his health down enough so that he can be grabbed, and then actually brand him only to have him uncontrollably thrown off a ledge immediately after. Your only recourse is to try and grab/brand him away from any ledges, but this is hard to manage when you're in the heat of combat with Uruk reinforcements close by (as getting hit by one interrupts the brand attempt).
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_8818f28f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine multiplayer disables the text chat when one is dead and waiting for respawn. This despite the game being one of fast-paced action, when those moments are the only ones when you have, you know, time to type anything.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_8d98042f	comment	Game Grumps: The nature of Scrappy Mechanics is discussed by Arin during their playthroughs of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword where he explains why he feels arbitrary Sprint Meters are this when implemented like Epona's stamina in Ocarina of Time or the Stamina Gauge of Skyward Sword as they don't actually accomplish anything other than annoying the player. Since all they do is force you to stop running every so often to catch your breath, they don't actually limit your ability to explore or provide an obstactle to overcome, but merely force you to wait a little longer to get to your destination or spend a little longer exploring. He then points out how any area where running is required they have placed Stamina Fruit to keep your gauge topped up, and asks why the developers even included it at all if they clearly understood that all it did was arbitrarily hold the player back. He feels that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and games like Monster Hunter are much better utilizations of a Stamina Meter as it's tied to mechanics like climbing and fighting, and thus it does add a strategic layer to its usage and limits your ability to explore until it's increased: Similarly, he and Dan didn't like the "barfy zombies" from Dead Rising 2 as they don't find them any harder to fight, but simply more annoying since they have increased attack range and can send Chuck into a coughing fit that, in effect, is like taking your controller away for 5 seconds so a zombie can score a cheap shot. Arin explains how the entire appeal of the game is that zombies are easy to kill but attack in swarms, thus they constantly remain a threat even though you can tear through them like tissue paper, the game already had a better "harder zombies" mechanic in that zombies get stronger at night, and that the game also already had enemies that were dangerous as individuals in the form of looters, mercenaries and psychopaths, and thus asks what exactly was the point of adding the new zombies? He feels it's a pointless mechanic as the gas zombies are more annoying to fight than the regular zombies but aren't as hard to fight as looters or mercenaries, thus they simply make the game more irritating to play without adding to the difficulty in any way. When they start over again on a New Game Plus after beating the game on a stream, they actually spent a solid hour just running around fighting regular zombies noting just how much funner the game is without the gas zombies running around getting in their way.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_8df51723	comment	Despite being a point-and-clicker, Harvester has a real-time combat system. It is extremely clunky, hard to aim at a target, and it makes the main character walk in a goofy fashion while wielding a weapon.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa has the "Hangman's Gambit" mini game and its variations. It's basically picking up letters that appear randomly on the screen and piecing them together as the answer to a question, but all games execute this idea poorly: In general, one of the main flaws of this minigame is that even if you know the next letter, you have to wait until it appears, and you have a time limit to worry about, so you may fail without ever getting the chance to input the answer you knew. And on the highest difficulty level, you only get one or two letters as hints, so you're out of luck if you didn't already figure the answer out yourself. In the first game, the letters move so fast they are hard to get, they require multiple clicks before being registered (and you can accidentally click the wrong letter if you click too fast), and if you don't already know the answer, you are not given time to think about it and have to just click random letters in hope for a tip. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair changes the game a bit: instead of just shooting letters that appear and disappear, letters move across the screen in pairs, and you can pick one up and drop it elsewhere. If two different letters collide, you lose life. If two of the same letters collide, they fuse together, stop moving, and you can either destroy them or check if they're the next letter in the word. Once again, you need to wait a lot until the correct letter appears (if you even know what it is), and you can accidentally destroy it if you're not careful. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony's version hides all the letters, with a wave of light randomly revealing them. You can also light up the center of the screen to reveal the letters there, but 1: this only lights up a small area that grows slowly, 2: this consumes your focus meter, which regenerates very slowly, so you can't rely on it, and 3: you can't use the cursor while using this light.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_91e45f5	comment	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney: The various "scientific investigation" segments were widely regarded as being boring and slowing down the game's story. As a result, the two Investigations games and Dual Destinies dialed it back to only having fingerprinting and luminol testing segments.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_93faba95	comment	NCAA Football has a despised system for making phone calls to recruits which basically spins a roulette wheel of topics, allowing you the option of pitching your school's merits on that topic or discrediting your rivals on that topic. It's obnoxious enough that you, the head coach, can't choose to pitch whatever you want. This can lead to the bizarre result that the coach of Stanford might never get to sell his school's academics or the coach of Miami can never sell the school's gorgeous campus. However, the roulette wheel sometimes stops on topics that you know the player doesn't care about leaving you forced to try and pitch him anyway. This has been removed for NCAA 13.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_94081029	comment	R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 gives you new cars during GP Mode, the cars you get depending on your performance in the last few races. If you place first in every race, you'll get the best cars for your team/sponsor combo, but winning every race in 1st only unlocks a fraction of the cars. To unlock the rest, you have to Do Well, But Not Perfect and place 2nd or 3rd to unlock the lower-tier cars, which is annoying because it means sandbagging races as well as getting some pretty disparaging remarks from your team for not finishing in first. And you have to unlock all of these cars to unlock the final car and BGM track.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored, some of which were eventually addressed by third-party mods: Unbelievably for a stealth action title that relies heavily on statistics for the player to know if they've voided a non-lethal run, collected all the gold or other information, there is no stats menu in the pause screen. As such, the player could miss a brief cue to know that they've broken stealth or killed someone without realizing it. A mod added the ability to check stats mid-mission, while the sequel would integrate a proper stat system. There's no way to replay the missions with all of your bought powers; there's no New Game Plus (barring fanmade save games that hack in all of the powers and start you in the first mission proper), and the mission replay limits you to the powers you had when you first played it. While replaying the game to do things differently is kind of the point, not having the option to add Catharsis Factor to a mission you struggled in is kind of disappointing. The Chaos system. Now, the Karma Meter in general tends to be a spotty thing in videogames, but the Chaos system is particularly grating for two reasons. Firstly, as the game boasts, the Chaos system directly affects the game-world... by making it become a Crapsack World. Even in the medium Chaos path, the game tries to hit the player with a serious You Bastard! effect. The darkness of the high Chaos path is so much that several of the loading screen tips actively warn players against pursuing that route. This would be bad enough, but then there's reason number two: the game's most interesting and innovative features are all combat based. And combat is how Chaos is raised, due to the player leaving dead opponents behind and their bodies getting eaten by plague rats. So, a player who doesn't want to get high Chaos has to forfeit playing around with all of the cool tricks that the game advertises, such as intricate sword duels, using traps, summoning rat swarms, etc. Add in some rather counter-intuitive aspects to Chaos (for example, killing the Weepers raises Chaos, despite that this is arguably a mercy and protects those who haven't been infected) and how strict it is (if the total of surviving humans drop below 80% at any point, your Chaos rises to medium level). The sequel itself mitigates this by having much more varied options in dealing with enemies nonlethally.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_9868ee76	comment	Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King: Unlike most games with RPG elements, NPCs in The Sleeping King don't have unique dialogue bound to them unless they're important to the story or want you to run an errand for them. Inconsequential NPCs, on the other hand, spout quotes randomly selected from a text bank assigned to that town. This can be irritating if you talk to everybody: multiple NPCs might say the exact same thing, or the player can simply cycle through all the possible dialogue by speaking to the same NPC repeatedly. Yet this tends to be little more than irritating, as the townsfolk that this applies to generally don't have anything particularly important or helpful to say. The World Map is only useful for indicating the general area of your next objective, and your position relative to it. The map itself is so low-resolution and lacking in detail (even zoomed in!) that it's mostly useless for planning an actual path, or pinpointing the exact location of, well, almost anything.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_9c174cb1	comment	Hello Neighbor has platforming mechanics. In several sections the player is forced to do platforming sections and even stack boxes that are subject to in-game physics. The jumping physics coupled with the level design make it easy to miss jumps, plus the stacked boxes tend to topple very easily. As the development of the game progressed, the stealth mechanics took a backseat as platforming was more emphasized.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_a3eee065	comment	Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing allows the race leader to get Missiles, which act like the Red Shell in the Mario Kart Series (homing attack against the racer ahead). However, not only are the missiles far more precise, when the leader gets one, he can shoot it backwards and it will lock on the second racer! That means if you are trying to reach the leader, you'll have to focus on the hazards of the track, avoid the mines dropped by the leader and pray that, if he gets a missile, the next item box gives you a shield, a KO Glove, or another missile. Oh, the leader will also get Speed Shoes every now and then.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_a44c2a41	comment	Star Fox Command's online multiplayer would terminate matches if a single player disconnected. Not just for the quitter, but everyone else in the match. As such, ragequitters became the collective target of murderous hatred for everyone who just wanted to have a complete match.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_a5fec434	comment	Twisted Metal: Starting with Twisted Metal 2 and running until the fourth game, the games had Energy Attacks which could be used by tapping a button combination. While they were fairly useful to you (particularly the Game Breaking Freeze Missile), your enemies can use them too and have unlimited energy: expect to regularly get Stun Locked by the computer spamming Freeze Missiles and just draining most, if not all, of your health. Enjoy the Game Over you literally can not defend against! To add to the scrappiness, the button commands to unleash them change between games: Damn You, Muscle Memory! is in full effect and anyone familiar with one game will find themselves mashing in the wrong commands in the heat of the moment and taking a lot of damage that would have otherwise been dodged. Earlier games giving the computer unlimited specials. Granted the computer technically has unlimited everythings, but that's hard to notice and the AI doesn't abuse it too much. It's particularly glaring with specials though as their whole purpose is to be overpowered and unique, which makes them outright overwhelming when unlimited, especially with Club Kid's (creates an inescapable vortex that sucks you in and explodes), and Axel's (sends out a shockwave that hurls you into the air) who will, without fail, hit you with two or three of them if you ever dare to come within range.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_a8c6fdb	comment	The Witness: The self-disabling panels. Many panels in the game are connected via wires that indicate the power flowing from one to another. A lot of these panels disable themselves when a wrong solution is entered, forcing you to return to the previous panel and reenter the correct solution. Theoretically, this serves to discourage the player from brute forcing puzzles, but there are two problems with this. The first is that this feature appears in more complex puzzles that have many possible solutions and are therefore unlikely to be brute forced; the self-disablement here just serves to unnecessarily punish players for making a mistake. The second is that with some of these puzzles, the previous panel still shows the right solution, making it easy to reenter; the self-disablement here doesn't discourage brute force so much as slightly prolong it. The desert puzzles revolve around reflection of light on the panels to reveal the correct paths drawn on them. The basement of the desert temple contains puzzles based on water reflection — the principle is the same, but this time you have to arrange the water level of a pool below the panels to reflect at the right angles to see the solutions. While this puzzle is hard enough since the water reflects the solutions upside-down, the really annoying thing is that the water cannot be paused between its highest and lowest points; if you don't get the solution, you'll have to wait for the pool level to rise or lower completely before you can try again. This is especially bad because the speed at which the water level changes is super slow.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_aaeed53d	comment	The vegetable picking in Putt-Putt Enters the Race. First off, it's a puzzle designed like a gigantic maze. What makes it annoying is that some foods take ages just to get to, and once you make it to them, you have to retrace your steps, so that needlessly doubles the amount of time it takes. Even worse, you have to be right next to the vegetable in order to get it or get ready to be told you can't pick it over and over again. It doesn't help at all that the movements cannot be skipped at all, unlike the rest of the game.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_b24648fc	comment	FAITH: The Unholy Trinity: The fact that you can't move while holding the cross is something that gets very annoying as the chapters go on, especially when you have to use it against multiple enemies or enemies that can damage sponge through it. The instant deaths most enemies and bosses give where even them spawning next to John can lead to an unexpected MORTIS. Combine this and the games having a bit of a Checkpoint Starvation problem, and it can be very frustrating. Ironically, the two times this doesn't apply are the Final Boss in Chapter 3.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_b323ef4	comment	Hitman: Absolution: The Instinct mechanic. It allows you to see people through walls and identify usable objects. Problem is, unlike past games where disguises were effective as long as you don't get too close, Instinct is required to blend in now. While this might work if there were just a few cops in an area, here there are a few areas filled with nothing but cops. It is also limited, meaning once you run out, you're screwed. The only way to get more is to subdue or kill enemies. All in all, this mechanic makes wearing your regular suit less suspicious. Thankfully, in the World of Assassination Trilogy, this system was massively rebalanced, as it now allows you to just identify objects and people while allowing infinite use.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_b3309b69	comment	Puyo Puyo has had a number of these throughout the years. For a couple that appear in the Puyo battle portions... Puyo Puyo Fever introduces Fever mode, which triggers when you fill a gauge by offsetting garbage Puyos and gives you preset arrangements of Puyos waiting to be popped to unleash a big attack on your opponent, also serving as a Comeback Mechanic in the process. What makes Fever mode hated by some is that it can cause long, drawn-out stalemates until RNG makes a player lose. The mode has its effectiveness nerfed in 20th Anniversary. Puyo Puyo 7 introduces a battle mode called Transformation that's similar to Fever mode, but more extreme; you fill the gauge, and you enter either a Mini transformation that throws Fever presets with smaller Puyos at you, or a Mega transformation that has you playing with giant Puyos to slowly build up a chain. Not only is it overpowered even compared to Fever, but the timer for this mode caps at 99 seconds instead of Fever's 30 seconds, giving you way too much time to annihilate your opponent. On the bright side, people do like how this mode features canonical depictions of the characters as children (Mini) and adults (Mega).
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_b361711d	comment	Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes has plenty thanks to its RNG-based nature: Super Block Meter. This mechanic charges by a variable amount and then blocks an attack, nullifying its damage. The main thing is that this mechanic is very well an RNG mechanic, and it does indeed does its job in screwing you over and favoring your opponent. It can charge your block meter by 1 consecutively until you lose without even getting a chance to block, or your opponent can keep rolling 3 and eventually use all of their blocks on your powerful units. Untrickable is a trait that nullifies allies from the effects of traits. This trait incredibly screws you over thanks to the fact tricks does no effects to them and usually they are covered by another source that gives the allies Untrickable. Yes, the notorious "There is a problem with your game" and "Please check internet connection and try again" disconnect error messages during a ranked match. Not only do these cost a loss, but you get absolutely no chance to recover your internet or reconnect to the server should this happen. It's meant to discourage people from Rage Quitting, but the game can't tell if someone intentionally disconnected or just suffered a bad connection. It's also likely that EA didn't provide a server fallback mechanic and forces a loss of a star if you happen to disconnect. What's worse is that it has been repeatedly reported that this occurs even with strong Wi-Fi and cellular data and EA will refuse to provide any help for these losses and will completely blame it on your internet, strong or not. And to add on the insult, you still lose a star if this happens on the mulligan before the battle can even start!
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	The follower system in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations has gotten a fair share of flack for making gameplay too easy.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_ba6c1a82	comment	NHL Hockey has the goaltender controls which tend to not allow the free range of motion necessary to replicate real life goalie positioning. The worst offender being the hug post command which can frequently make you hug the wrong post and get stuck to it until you release the trigger, which will give the opposing player plenty of time to score on a wide-open net.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair changes the game a bit: instead of just shooting letters that appear and disappear, letters move across the screen in pairs, and you can pick one up and drop it elsewhere. If two different letters collide, you lose life. If two of the same letters collide, they fuse together, stop moving, and you can either destroy them or check if they're the next letter in the word. Once again, you need to wait a lot until the correct letter appears (if you even know what it is), and you can accidentally destroy it if you're not careful.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_c4df4e18	comment	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: A lot of critics and fans find the combo system to be insane. The first game rewarded you well for making one move in the air. When the later editions came, making 50-trick combos was practically a breeze, even required, and one mistake would spoil the entire combo. Tony Hawk's Underground allows you to drive cars. These vehicles had all the handling of a pinball in a table made of ice. Aside from the goals, use of them is redundant, as they reset back where they started in a level when you're done, meaning you can't even create a new combo line with them. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 then gave us more vehicles—not cars, vehicles you can do tricks with, such as a motorized skateboard, a tricycle, a go-kart, and a bucking bull on wheels. They all had about four tricks, and most of them were so very anti-intuitive to use due to not being able to stop. The last three examples were implemented so poorly they were removed from the sequels. While the on-foot mechanics is a divisive feature among fans and critics, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland added Parkour to it, which is universally disliked. In theory, a good idea; in practice, a bailproof way to add another 500 points and at least another three numbers to your multiplier. Tony Hawk's Project 8 then gave us Nail the Trick, where the analogue sticks control your feet. It was an entirely alien control scheme that stuck around into Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, where it's only useful for the specific goals, and is otherwise unusable in a regular combo. Grinding in the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was incredibly difficult due to the hypersensitive controls that required you to mash left and right on the d-pad to balance yourself. To top it off, there was no balance meter, so you have to look at how your skater is leaning to keep him upright. It was quite a feat to be able to grind for more than a couple of seconds without falling on your ass. Lip tricks are by far the worst type of tricks on the first era of Tony Hawk's game (and the HD remake). They give little points, only works when you're straight as an arrow, and can ruin combos when they're accidentally performed. Until THPS3, it also had no way to balance it out and the skater would always bail if you kept holding for more than 4 seconds. It's less terrible in the modern games, but there's still some problems. For example, there's a goal on American Wasteland when you have to lip trick through an entire rotation of Santa Monica's Giant Wheel (thankfully only on Sick difficulty). The only saving grace of the lip trick was that leaning too far towards the ramp would cause you to land safely and end your combo without breaking it (unless, since 3, you linked a revert into it to keep going), but even that's a crapshoot if you're not doing it intentionally. The Slam mechanic in THPS5, which allows you to immediately slam onto the ground if you're in the air. This was designed to be a combo ender, but for whatever reason the mechanic was assigned to the same button as grinding. If you are the type to hold the grind button before landing on a rail, youâ€™ll slam down and land too soon, ruining your combo.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_ca713b1c	comment	Fatal Frame: Towards the latter half of Fatal Frame III, a door is opened that releases miasma into the rest of the house. In order to dispel it (and be able to see things more clearly), you must light purifying candles. So now, you not only have to worry about random ghost encounters while you're running around this mansion of horrors and trying to progress the storyline, but you've also got to keep an eye on your candle level, because once that candle runs out, the entire setting will change to a grainy black-and-white and Reika Kuze will show up to relentlessly chase you down until you find another candle and top up your light. Those candles are: a) rare (there are only three or four of them in the game, though they respawn during each new Night), b) spread out from each other, and c) finish very quickly. Oh, and that house you're wandering around in? It's enormous (easily the largest of any single one of the Fatal Frame houses) and very easy to get lost in. Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has the piano segments. When playing as Ruka, the player must sometimes play some notes on a piano by pointing the WiiMote at the correct, lit-up key and press said key, while also not being too fast or slow. The annoyance comes from the fact that it must be done as part of the Final Boss Battle and the keys are pretty narrow, with the WiiMote not being all that happy to comply with your trying to play the keys. And if you fail three times, you must fight Sakuya's ghost again and try the piano another time. Fatal Frame II: Deep Crimson Butterfly and Fatal Frame IV have the player hold the A button, in order to pick up items. In itself not bad, but it includes a long, slow zoom-in on Mio picking the item up. And the same mechanic was added for investigating under things, inside cabinets or peeking into locations. A good hour or two of the game is spent watching this zoom-in, instead of simply letting the player pick up the item with a short press of the A button. And then you also have the ghost hands that have a random chance of attempting to grab Mio's wrist while trying to pick up an item. Overall, they don't do any damage (except for one fast, darker hand with slash marks on it, but can be easily shaken off) and it's actually minor. But put in conjunction with the entire mechanic and having to re-zoom after avoiding the ghost hand...
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_ce1bcbbd	comment	Unpacking: The stuffed toy hen and her increasing number of chicks can be difficult to place as there are certain areas they can't go, a chick is added to the collection almost every single level, and not everyone wants them crowding up the bed. They're lucky that they're adorable. Some of the items might be unfamiliar to players and therefore they don't know where to place them, such as the hanging hand from 2013 that looks like a hand-shaped body scrubber, but is actually a wall decoration. Sometimes it's also hard to see what some items actually are due to the simplistic graphics. There are times when an item would be perfectly acceptable in a certain place but the game just doesn't accept it, such as leaving certain appliances on the kitchen counter or having various items in drawers.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d0a5a846	comment	Konami's 50th anniversary compilation ports initially did not have a region toggle for the games included, forcing you to play in whatever region that you bought the compilation in. This wasn't a big deal for, say, Gradius II, where the only major changes are retitling the game to Vulcan Venture and adding a continues option, but this was outright unacceptable (especially in 2019) when it comes to games with signficiant differences between regions, such as Thunder Crossnote the special weapon system is replaced with a more generic "Lil Baby" bomb in the overseas versions and Castlevania III: Dracula's Cursenote in non-Japanese versions, the audio quality is nerfed and enemies do damage based on current stage rather than being fixed for each enemy type. Even more glaringly, some of these compilations were done by M2, a company known for Polished Ports that, among other things, include region toggles (particularly in their 3D Classics and SEGA Ages lineups of ports). This was soon fixed in patches that include the Japanese versions.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d0fd0447	comment	Bungo to Alchemist: Unlike predecessor games, writers stop attacking in damage stages unless a double attack or awakening is achieved. The problem is these events are triggered randomly. That many maps require to bring a specific writer or a certain number of writers in a certain class to advance to the boss. These maps are often at high difficulties and raising a writer to meet these levels is incredibly time-consuming, so if they call for writers you're not focused on raising or just plain don't have, you're stuck. Not only that, these requirements can sometimes get downright cruel, like a map filled with crit-only enemies and you're not allowed to bring any bows. Any event with a card-flipping mechanic. It is a total Luck-Based Mission â€“ your writers' strength and level are completely irrelevant, what matters is whether or not you don't end up flipping an enemy card. Doing so will fail the battle, wipe whatever streak bonus you have, and more often than not deplete your writers' HP to the point of damage. To top it off, entering this map and thus getting any event points at all requires a consumable pass, which randomly drops on normal maps. It's very telling that only two events have ever had this mechanic. Post-Jul 28, 2021: Costume leveling; it greatly affects a writer's performance, even if the writer has high real level or blossoming. Not only that, leveling up and limit breaking a costume requires resources, which are prone to running out.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d2bae484	comment	There are three pre-determined (for legal reasons) non-elimination legs a season on The Amazing Race. For the first 4 seasons, there was no penalty for the spared team but the penalty from 5-9 is the most reviled aspect of the showâ€™s almost two decades on the air. The last place team had to surrender all of their money and werenâ€™t given any money for the next leg. This put teams in the awkward position of having to beg for things. Sometimes it wasnâ€™t so bad because they were in rich countries like Australia and Japan (9) but sometimes it was painfully bad optics to have Americans competing in a show with a million-dollar grand prize having to beg in poor countries like Egypt and The Philippines (5). In 6, there was one in Senegal and the spared team felt so bad about having to beg the locals that they just asked the other teams to help them without even trying. Even in a season with quite a few nasty teams, they all chipped in to help so they didnâ€™t have to beg on the street. This mechanic was gone by 10 and another one has been used ever since 12. The only good thing to come of it is the double leg which came from them having planned an NEL in a country where begging is illegal (Hungary) in 6 without realizing it. 7-9 also featured an even harsher rule: in addition to their money, the last place team must also surrender all of their possessions, except for their passports and the clothes they were wearing, for the remainder of the season. Also 7: the team may not beg for money prior to the start of each leg.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d4dfe8a4	comment	Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak has three minigames in Fun Land. In-universe for DigDig It where you and your AI-controlled teammate match symbols to win a prize. You meet a hamster who wants to play but can't because the rules state only couples can play. He says the game can work just as fine with one player. In Tic Tack-Q, you have a hamster on either side of you and all the balloons are in play for them too. They will sometimes beat you into popping the balloons you're waiting for or change the direction and speed of the balloons, throwing you off. The same hamster from the above example makes note of this. Stickie Note has Hamtaro using the Stickie ham chat to catch falling pieces of paper. The chat animation only stops if Hamtaro catches one which means it will play through if he doesn't get any. Since you can't stop it yourself, you have to wait a few seconds to try it again.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d5f03f8d	comment	The entirely random terrain generation and explosive death-causing trap placements (and sometimes player positions) in any Worms game can screw players both skilled and unskilled. But mostly just the skilled players. Adding to the frustration of the terrain, if your worm stands too close to a wall and you try to jump towards that wall, or even jump while standing on an arguably steep hill, your worm may instead jump in the opposite direction, with absolutely no warning that it will happen. If your worm takes any damage during their turn, their turn ends immediately. This includes instances where they fall far enough that they plant into the ground. Compounding this issue is that you don't have an explicit way of gauging what will get you a safe landing and what will become a strategic blunder. In Worms Armageddon, if you want to get to the real missions, you have to complete the training missions first.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_d98a1281	comment	The Turing Test: One common complaint is that the audio logs are muffled and are difficult to understand, with the additional hindrance that they have no subtitles. The developers have stated that it was an artistic decision, with the idea being that you are eavesdropping on conversations, so it is a deliberate challenge to hear them. Unfortunately, with the only available language being English, it locks out that content for non-English speakers as well as people with hearing or auditory-processing impairments.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_df491a0c	comment	Angry Birds: Hal the Toucan's boomerang mechanic, which is very difficult to predict and control. They even acknowledged its unpopularity in one Seasons cutscene. The Marmosets' ability to regain their balance in Rio, even after severe force is used on them. The "wait to replay or pay money" system in Angry Birds 2, and the even more unpleasant "wait six hours to play a Wall of Pigs level or pay money" mechanic in Stella.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_e19d973b	comment	Initial D Arcade Stage 4 sets arbitrary "speed limits" on turns. If you go over this speed limit, depending on whether you're playing version 1.2 or 1.5, then either your steering will lock up, causing you to crash into the outer wall unless you execute a "brake cancel" technique, or you will oversteer like hell. And if you hit a wall or suffer said understeer, your acceleration is permanently gimped and can only be fixed with brake cancelling. Which is done on a straightaway. But that's not where the problems end. To get to the tuning shop, you have to eject your card three times. Not continue three times, you have to pick "NO" at the continue screen for it to count. This means that if you're playing several rounds in a row, then you'll be wasting chances to tune up your car if you continue each time—you have to spend about 2-3 minutes between sessions ejecting your card, putting it back in, and going through all the menus. These sorts of mechanics are contributing to the downfall of the IDAS scene.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_e59bb04e	comment	Vanish: The glow sticks. They're limited in number, last for only fifteen seconds, and only illuminate things in a three-foot radius around you.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_e5b0b176	comment	Arkanoid. Golden bricks. In a game that's all about destroying every last brick, the game suddenly throws indestructible ones at you... usually in the most inconvenient place possible. Almost every level which has them consists of walls of the things caging in all of the breakable bricks, making it so that you have to get the ball into a tiny little opening and hope it doesn't just bounce back out. Sure is fun bouncing the ball around for five whole minutes accomplishing nothing. Playing 2-player? Watch your friend fall asleep from boredom.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: In cross-examinations, the player has the ability to "press" witnesses on certain bits of their testimony, which gives more information and may sometimes be necessary to advance the case. Unfortunately, in some cases, the player may be assigned penalties of varying severity, up to and including instantly losing the case, for pressing a wrong statement. This mechanic is one reason why "Turnabout Big Top" is considered the worst case in the series; if you press Moe while he's smiling, he'll make a bad joke and the judge will penalize Phoenix, and in Moe's last testimony, pressing the wrong statement will cause you to lose. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney: The various "scientific investigation" segments were widely regarded as being boring and slowing down the game's story. As a result, the two Investigations games and Dual Destinies dialed it back to only having fingerprinting and luminol testing segments. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice The fingerprinting in this game has gotten in some people's nerves. For starters, the player is required to examine a pretty large 3D object with white powder, but there's a limited amount and the action area is tiny compared to the object's surface. Not only that, but the player has to bear with a camera that's very zoomed in, requiring a lot of scrolling and rotating of the object. The blowing doesn't work sometimes, and to top it all off, the location of fingerprints is sometimes counterintuitive. Worse, you can't save during the fingerprinting sequence, thereby forcing you to finish if you want to put the game down without potentially losing progress.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War has had a few in each game, typically remedied in the following title. The first had general Artificial Stupidity on the part of AI squadmates, the inability to move while downed (meaning that your teammates had to rush into whatever location was dangerous enough for you to be downed in the first place), and the fact that going down while playing solo meant instant death. Thankfully remedied in the sequel, which improved the AI pathing and gave them the ability to revive other squadmates, including you. However, it had its own set of problems, not the least of which being... ...Shotgun charges, which became an epidemic in multiplayer due to the weapon's absurd reach. A "stopping power" mechanic was added that meant the game would resist the attempt to run straight into enemy fire, but it did little to weaken the sheer destructiveness of the Gnasher. Gears of War 3, thankfully, buffed the standard rifles so they did more damage. In both games, co-op campaign had several portions where Dom and Marcus separated, meaning that if either dropped, there was no one to revive him and it was a game over. This was fixed in the third installment by the introduction of Arcade Mode, where dead players respawn after 25 seconds as long as at least one human player is alive. Infamously, unlocking the Aftermath campaign in Judgement. A DLC-length bonus campaign that follows what Baird was up to during his absence for part of Gears of War 3, it lacks the arcade elements of the main game and plays much more like a traditional Gears of War campaign, and is considered by most fans to be the best thing about Judgement. The way you unlock it however is to complete the main Judgement campaign, which is fair, but also while earning at least 40 stars from challenges, which is something you can miss if you aren't bothered about completing them. And when you do unlock Aftermath, it is with a generic unlock popup that you are probably used to just skipping through. It isn't massively surprising that a lot of players ended up not even realising that Aftermath exists.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_ebc95282	comment	Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- doesn't inherit the crafting mechanic of predecessor games for getting new characters, instead using a standard gem gacha which inspires much frustration over how much harder it is to get summoning material among non-paying players.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_f1255ede	comment	The MafiaScum.net wiki (which deals with Werewolf (1997) and its variants) considers several roles, modifiers and mechanics "bastard" or potentially bastard, as they tend to be more annoying than fun: The Death Miller is pro-Town, but its alignment is shown as "Mafia" upon death. This is seen as an arguably overpowered form of misinformation and an unwelcome source of distrust in the moderator. The Doomed Townie passively dies on Night 1 no matter what, which is very unfun and makes the player's participation borderline pointless unless they have a nice power to balance it out. False roles amount to "your role PM is a lie", which is very annoying and might get you accused of lying about your role in a game where the Town eliminating people for lying is common. The Hated modifier decreases the number of votes needed to eliminate a player, which is generally not fun to play as. Additionally, if the Hated player is a Townie, it hastens the situation where the Town has to make a correct elimination to avoid losing. The Jester wins if eliminated, which is disliked because it's too easy to win with (even someone playing like an idiot can win on Day 1), and because it punishes the Town for eliminating someone who isn't of their alignment. The Percentage modifier makes the player's role only work a certain percentage of the time. This is hated for adding a major, uncontrollable element of luck that might end up negating the player's skill. The Usurper wins if it outlives its allied Mafia Godfather, which is a problem because it undermines the team aspect of the Mafia — the Usurper has to work towards the Mafia's win condition while also getting its Godfather eliminated at some point. Alignment-changing roles share the issue of damaging the game integrity because of how they affect players' strategies to win. Two examples are Judas and Saulus: Judas is originally pro-Town, but pulls a Faceâ€“Heel Turn the first time it would die. This often leads to ugly situations. Saulus is the opposite: originally scum, but pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn the first time it would die. The problem is that if this happens, Saulus can simply tell everyone who their former scum allies were unless said allies are either hidden from Saulus or forcibly replaced after Saulus's conversion. The Cult is a notorious mechanic for multiple reasons: It relies on alignment changing, with all the game integrity issues that leads to: if a Townie gets recruited, it renders their previous pro-Town actions useless, and if the Cult gets out of control, players will try to get recruited to win with the cult rather than fight it. It has balance and swing issues. The Cult Leader can often recruit new Cultists as fast as the Town can eliminate them, which means that the Cult can win even if Cultists are eliminated constantly. Additionally, the Cult can get an advantage by recruiting the Town's power roles.note Cultists typically lose their other abilities upon conversion, but it still deprives the Town of its power roles. On the other hand, if the Cult Leader dies early, the cult becomes a non-issue because the small remainder of the Cult can't recruit more players and has to awkwardly survive to the end with no special abilities. Attempts to avoid this problem include killing all the Cultists if the leader dies (which can be frustrating for players who die early), allowing Cultists to recruit more players if the leader dies (which makes the Cult almost impossible to wipe out) or giving the Cultists a factional kill (which is also near-impossible to balance). It interacts awkwardly with the Mafia, as a recruited Mafioso can simply tell the other Cultists who the other scum are. The most common method of avoiding this is to kill the Cult Leader if it tries to recruit a Mafioso, but this is frequently seen as annoying if it happens early. Making the Cult the only anti-Town faction isn't great either, as it makes the early game boring: hunting for scum is difficult to impossible because there are so few of them, and trying to identify pro-Town players is pointless because anyone can suddenly become scum. The Mentor is a weaker Cult (it can only have one Mentee at a time, but they do have a factional kill), and is disliked for similar reasons: it's an alignment-changing role, and it's swingy because it depends on whether the Mentor survives (the Mentee dies if the Mentor dies).
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_f30eed3c	comment	Fatal Frame II: Deep Crimson Butterfly and Fatal Frame IV have the player hold the A button, in order to pick up items. In itself not bad, but it includes a long, slow zoom-in on Mio picking the item up. And the same mechanic was added for investigating under things, inside cabinets or peeking into locations. A good hour or two of the game is spent watching this zoom-in, instead of simply letting the player pick up the item with a short press of the A button. And then you also have the ghost hands that have a random chance of attempting to grab Mio's wrist while trying to pick up an item. Overall, they don't do any damage (except for one fast, darker hand with slash marks on it, but can be easily shaken off) and it's actually minor. But put in conjunction with the entire mechanic and having to re-zoom after avoiding the ghost hand...
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_f57932e5	comment	Artifact: The original incarnation of "Cheating Death" was considered one of the worst-designed cards not only in the game, but in any card game ever made, as it basically turned the combat phase into a coin flip for both players. If an allied green hero was present in the lane where this improvement was built, all allied units would have a 50% chance to survive lethal damage with 1 HP. This effect could be triggered several times in a row for the same unit. Not only was it a huge Game-Breaker, but it was also very unfun: it was frustrating for the attacker when their opponent's units survived damage that should by all logic invoke the Chunky Salsa Rule, and frustrating for the defender when their strongest fighter failed to proc the effect, meaning that no matter what, frustration was guaranteed. This card's reception, among others, led to Valve changing their policy on balance patches and completely reworking the card, instead giving it the ability to grant a Death Shield to one unit per turn.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed: The Information Gathering missions from Assassin's Creed, so much that the first order of business for Assassin's Creed II was taking them out and replacing them with a more natural mission system. The follower system in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations has gotten a fair share of flack for making gameplay too easy. Den Defense from Assassin's Creed: Revelations is an Unexpected Gameplay Change complete with a poor interface and zig-zagging difficulty. One of the first things confirmed for Assassin's Creed III was that Den Defense would be cut.
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_fa575b33	comment	Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune: The hidden "maintenance zone" barricades in later parts of the Story Mode in Maximum Tune 2 is what caused its difficulty spike (possibly to mitigate the difficulty of the considerably-easier predecessor), and became a source of contention amongst some players, as unwary players could crash on them and lose the races rather easily. Maximum Tune 3 removed this to alleviate the difficulty. The randomized ramp selection system since 3DX. It is a Luck-Based Mission and some players used to manual ramp selection in 3 are irritated with this because they can't help them select their desired starting ramps. Unlucky players can get wrong starting ramps because of this. Maximum Tune 4's card transfer service let you transfer cards from Maximum Tune 3DX+. Two problems: It ended in October 2013, and North America never got MT4, skipping straight to Maximum Tune 5; American and Canadian players have to start all over again. Having to play 60, 80, or 100 credits of Story Mode for a full tune is reviled by players of all experience levels. Newbies don't like it because it's a case of Earn Your Fun mixed in with a dash of Crack is Cheaper, since the player has to insert a credit to continue after completing a Story Mode stage. Veterans don't like it because they have to repeat the entire process every time they make a new car, unless they use the "discard" system to get a car that has the first 20 stages completed, and even then it's still at least 40 credits of grinding to do. A minor example for North American players of Maximum Tune 5: The North America superregion only has one region available: United States, unlike the Japan version (which uses the prefectures of Japan) or the Asia version (which uses countries, of which multiple are listed). This makes all region-based indicators and features (such as the "Select by region" option in Ghost Battle mode) rather redundant. Also, even if you play in Canada, your region is still listed as "USA".
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Scrappy Mechanic / int_fd5d7b47	comment	L.A. Rush: The cars cannot be customized by the player's choice like in Need for Speed. They're automatically modified by West Coast Customs. While some of them like Chevrolet Impala 1964, Chevrolet Camaro SS 1969 Mk.1 or Chevelle SS 1970 look cool, JDM cars like Sentra SE-R (B12) Nissan 240SX S13 or Skyline GT-R R34 look ricer. And there's no any way to change colors of the cars (not even a trainer or a third party program) even through rivals can be seen in different colors.
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