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 Post subject: Pet Peeves
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Cutscenes that can't be skipped.

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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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Bats. When have bats in games ever been fun to fight? Never.

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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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Thanks for making me flashback to the clock tower levels in the Castlevania series. Ugh, those bastards. Between the bats and the Gorgon heads floating up and down...I'm surprised the NES lived.


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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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Bats. When have bats in games ever been fun to fight? Never.

*thud*

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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Bats. When have bats in games ever been fun to fight? Never.

*thud*

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Played this on my buddy's Colecovision on the regular.


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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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tragabigzanda wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Bats. When have bats in games ever been fun to fight? Never.

*thud*

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Played this on my buddy's Colecovision on the regular.

I had this one. Hilariously bad. That tune was hammered into my skull.

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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour :(


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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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I generally hate games that employ some kind of double jump or super jump.


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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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I laughed way too hard at that video

Ditto. Just laughed so hard.

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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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 Post subject: Re: Pet Peeves
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run2death wrote:
I generally hate games that employ some kind of double jump or super jump.


What if it is done in a Metroidvania game? I love it then.


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