Overused Features That Should Die

June 02, 2008 | By: Chris Buffa

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Once loved, these features quickly turned old, unloved and unwanted.

Nonsensical save points

Back in the day, it was more acceptable to finish an entire game without saving or recording your progress after beating a level. Yet for some ridiculous reason, developers still force us to search for save points or complete a level. With more casual and non-gamers buying consoles and all this talk about making games more user friendly, companies need to realize that we have lives outside of saving princesses and whipping monsters. Rockstar, in particular, could benefit from throwing checkpoints in Grand Theft Auto IV's missions, instead of restarting us from the hospital or police station. That's why we stopped playing.

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gabegregory614 at 3:03 pm on April 8th 2009

basically a list of gamedaily *****ing because they cant beat something or want it spoon fed to them - idk why i keep reading these things because only 10% of what i read here is humorous or actually good

estalocodude at 2:12 pm on July 10th 2008

games with instraments rock !!!! and i love exploding barrels !!!! i hate the mandatory totourials.

telekenetic6213 at 6:45 am on June 9th 2008

are you high? exploding barrels are the best!

telekenetic6213 at 6:45 am on June 9th 2008

are you high? exploding barrels is the best!

jefferson8090 at 10:35 pm on June 8th 2008

I personaly like Quick time events. especialy Resident evil 4's

chargersrt809 at 6:51 pm on June 8th 2008

hey crave156 i totally agree with you!!

crave156 at 3:20 pm on June 8th 2008

i dont think game daily even know what they are talking about anymore.

believebrians at 1:37 pm on June 8th 2008

I honestly dont think Chris Buffa plays video games at all. He complains about every little thing, and because of that, it doesnt seem that he started playing untill the casual gamer boom. Oh, and about the GTA 4 saving thing; Its not for casual gamers, thus why no Mid level save. Christ, most missions are only 15 minutes on top of that too.