Trails is lib as hell with a focus on Good Monarchs, just like most JRPGs. There are also a bunch of anime tropes, although I think this has been exaggerated and people play Persona and Xenoblade, both of which have just as many if not more tropes. Barely anyone dies in the story even though there are multiple wars and one plot point muddles the anti-imperialist themes. Missable quests suck and the soundtracks used to be amazing, but are now mostly farmed to one composed who is mostly just okay.

Ys is usually either way too hard or way too easy with little middle ground. The same complaints I already had about the Trails soundtracks also apply.

Yakuza has too many nonsensical plot points, even though some of them have become memes because of how dumb they are.

The turn-based gameplay sucks because it makes every fight against a level 1 enemy a slog that lasts forever because you can't skip or speed up the animations. There's also nothing as satisfying as doing a heat action in that whole gameplay loop.

CrossCode's pacing is a little strange, especially towards the start of the game which feels long and slow, and has a billion side quests available for doing much less interesting tasks compared to the later game side quests.

Trespasser doesn't run on Steam Deck no other criticism

I hate how in Darkest Dungeon there's moves than lower the enemy's dodge, but if their dodge is high enough they'll just dodge the debuff attempt. They also could have used a few more Healbot items. Up until the Crimson Court DLC, the Vestal was one of the only reliable healers. And I say this as someone who ran a lot of teams that were just 3 tanks and Arbalest.

Cassette Beasts maybe needed a couple more quests to hide the grind, but they did a good job at hiding the grindy elements otherwise.

The price model in Victoria 3 is shit. They should have used labour theory of value instead.

Xenoblade Chronicles: 1 and 2 are very hard to play after all the QOL in 3/FR (auto pick up items, for instance). I hope they make X DE have all the QOL stuff from 3.

Monhun: archdemon mode being weaker than demon mode made no sense

FFXIV has too little content being released once you actually get through everything they made in the last decade.

Reforger doesn't seem to have very strong moderation, it's all too easy to run into random racists. Squad on the other hand does a surprisingly good job with this, but it doesn't have that same level of realism.

Tf2: remove sniper. Game should have been updated to source 2 for better mod support and mod accessibility. Removing quick play was bad. There should be a way do see other people's sprays. Let people be exposed to horrible sprays, could not be worse than all the bots. Removing speech from f2p is bad. I am not paying for that shit.

Dyson Sphere Program is ChInEsE!!!!!!

My only real gripe actually might be that I think terraforming shouldn't cost dirt. In the game, you can only plot down tiles if you have dirt that is used as currency, essentially. It's such a boring mechanic that I use a mod to make it free.

Not a favorite game, I do still like it though, but in Stardew Valley since I'm doing a modded run currently, I think the days should be 0.5 times longer and businesses should open at 8 instead of 9. Also the tractor should be an actual in-game item. Tweak it a bit of course because it's pretty game breaking since you get to get way more done in a day.

I might add more games if I think of a few.

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This was a sting op to figure out if hexbear is full of gamers and we failed

in Steambot Chronicles, it sucks that your character can't wear the fancy dress.

ETA: one criticism for two games, i love both project zomboid and terraria, but both of them suck to try to get working with a controller.