What do you NOT want to see in an RPG

[Hexadecimal Dude!]

What i'd do with the shop thing is to have a door behind the counter. If you want an inexpensive item, u could just go to the shelves, but for valuable stuff, u could have the shopkeeper take down a list of what u want, then have a nice little animation where they bring it 2 u.
as 4 the many disks thing, if you want a player to think a battle is the last 1, but you're only on disk 2, save a bit of each disk on all disks.
eg, a game with 16 events, 16 being the final battle:
Disk 1: events 1,2,3,16
D2: 4,5,6,7
D3: 8,9,10,11
D4: 12,13,14,15
thus the player would be on disk 4 and come up against some ultimate enemy, they would believe that the game was over, but after the battle the game could continue, and prompt the user to put disk 1 in again!!!!!
it would be even better than a 1 disk rpg, as the player would feel even more strongly that it was the end of the game.
Finally the stupid women's outfits. I think the simple answer (allthough it could take quite a bit of effort) is to supply characters with 2 outfits. 1 for scenes when they need to look sexy, 1 for when they have to walk great distances or fight. If i was really cruel and i had the time, i'd create a game where the player chose which outfits the players wore, but having the more impractical ones lessen stats without warning!!!!!!
(eg some fool may have a lead female character in a tight skirt & high heals all the time and be left wondering why she couldn't perform physical attacks without falling over. muhahahahaha!!!!!!)

[sub]

i hate missing buttons or swithces in an rpg.. (ie: to open a door etc)

often i have consulted a walkthrough on the web and the solution has been a simple click on a lever or some other object that seems to be merged and indistinguishable from the background..

my solution (and i am trying to implement this in my game) is to have a 'notice' skill.. the character will remark on any interesting items ir things that can be clicked / interacted with in some way.. (also a small graphical box or something to highlight the object briefly)

[Xenith]

mainly i'm tired of seeing anime rpgs about being a chosen one where you have to save a princess, i've been working on a story and i'm hoping to someday use it and blah blah blah

also i think i'm tired of turn based rpgs not much I can do about it, it's just not what i'm into anymore,

ki'm tired of games that have statistic that don't make sense, in real life a man can only be stronger than another man by a small percentage, but in rpgs near the end of the game you fight enemies that were 1000 times stronger than the ones in the begining

and i also hate it when you fight a super powerful badguy and when you get him to join your team he becomes weak.

[IsmAvatar]

I agree with you sub. In ZOOT, Navi serves that purpose, which is totally awesome. They still miss some things tho, like it took me a week to figure out you get rid of spiderwebs with fire.

[DFortun81]

In all of my RPGs, there is an Auto-Save everytime a piece of data is changed.

It's better that way because if the game freezes, you have everything you did already saved!

Auto-Save Method I use:
1) When game is first started, (via New Game), it writes the initial data to the savefile.
2) When you change a variable, area, etc., it writes only to that variable's position in the file.

-DF81