Game issues you're sick of hearing about

[The Hero Killer]

This hatred with quick time events, and the constant lumping them in with regular button prompts. The knife fight in RE4 a quick time event. Pressing one button continuously to open a door a button prompt. Kratos finished off the titan Chronos in a quick time event. Pressing A to do Chris' neck breaker is a button prompt. Games do not currently allow us the freedom of movement to do the things exactly as stylishly as done in quick time events (Yahtzee), at least you have the pleasure of failing them and watching your character die a gruesome death, other wise you would be watching a cut scene entirely.

Main game that people keep hating on because of "constant quick time events" was RE6 which had even less than the 2 games that came before it. Sure it had button promps for melee moves but thats no different than having a dedicated melee button besides it being context sensitive. It doesnt hurt the game in any way to alternate LT and RT to climb as opposed to holding up on the analogue stick except alternating buttons might make you feel some of the actual exertion the character is doing.

 

[Ghostface2206]

I've had it up to here with people saying that Nintendo should quit the console race and become a 3rd party developer. Anyone who says that is extremely mis-informed and clearly doesn't know the future line-up for Wii U and 3DS, if Nintendo quit now, they would leave millions of 3DS and Wii U owners stranded on their own with no games for systems that aren't even that far into their lifecycles yet. Nintendo simply cannot quit now, they just need to improve.

 

[SuperScrub]

and finally, to be a bit meta here....

.... complaints about complaints about Mass Effect's ending. About 90% of the time I see the ME3 ending brought up, it's by people saying that they're tired of hearing about it. If you're tired of hearing about it, for the love of God, don't bring it up, and don't respond if provoked. I was as pissed as the next guy, but it's something that I dropped about 2 or so months after the game came out. It seems the only people talking about it are the people who complain about hearing about it. So shut up about it, you're the ones keeping us from moving on.

Can you say "glass houses"?

OT Well I think that all issues in gaming trivial or not are worth discussing so I can't really think of anything I'm really sick of hearing.

 

[JemothSkarii]

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To be fair, I dislike CoD because I just don't find it fun. It's technologically functional and I can see the appeal. I just find it....unfun.

OT: The sexism debates as they bring in more acid and poison into the forums than a night's camp in Barney Gumble's stomach. The 'PC is teh best' thing always grinds my gears too. Yes, I have a decent gaming PC, I can see the appeal in shinier graphics and the mouse can be great to use. But I haven't had one game that I haven't had issues with, even when the system specs are great for it. I still can't play Alan Wake because of the in game screen suddenly going black and fading back in in game. No, it's not a part of the gameplay either. No, my Graphics card isn't overclocked. Not to mention texture stretching and such.

...Sorry, my PC has been bugging me something horrible lately

 

[Nadia Castle]

"Sonic Adventure 2 doesn't hold up all that well, either. At least Sonic Adventure had the good graces to let you go through all of one character's stages in a straight pattern, rather than mixing them all together into one massive horribly-paced clusterfuck..."

"But... but... My nostalgia tells me I loved that game and thought the Hubworld was cool... Honestly, its weird to play it again later and see Sanic -a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog- run up to people and talk like it ain't no thing"

My main gripe with the whole 'Sonic is broken' crying is the call to make it more like Sonic Adventure again. There is absolutely nothing in Shadow the Hedgehog that wasn't already broken in Sonic Adventure. Sloppy controls? check! Poor Camera? Check! Awful characters? Check! Nonsensical storyline? Check! Failed attempt at being hip and cool? check check check!

Sonic Adventure 2 has indeed dated badly as well, but at least it had the courtesy to remove the most confusing hubworld ever (seriously, you are only allowed to enter the next area, but to find the next area you have to wander pointlessly around until you work out 'oh you had to board a train to go to the jungle, then wander around said jungle until you stumble onto this, then you can actually begin the stage. Massive waste of time!) and death to designer who decided that a series about speed, graphics and control needed a mandatory fishing stage!!

I also hope that Shenmue never, ever gets a re release. I don't need one of my favorite games being ripped apart for its awful controls, broken character models and appalling pacing.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

One thing I'm already sick of are the "the new Yoshi's Island looks like ass!!!!11!1!" threads popping up all over.

I wholeheartedly agree that the original's art style is iconic and awesome, and that the new version looks a little inferior. Even so, I wish people would just settle down and accept it already.

The new style is not that bad. It looks like Braid a little, with a bright watercolorish style instead of the crayon style.

Not that different. I actually own a set of crayons that become watercolor paint when you use a wet brush on the drawings, they rock ijs.

From all the hate on the internets this week you'd think Nintendo was trying to pass off a badly rendered DKC mod circa 1996. Some say it looks like New SMB, which I agree would be a bad thing if it were true.

I'm a 2D sprite fan for life, and personally I'm more worried that its going to be a mediocre sequel like YI DS and Yoshi's Story than I am the new art style.

I mean there are only so many games with Baby Mario saving the day that will be plausible. The kid has to grow up eventually.

 

[blackrave]

There are few things, but if I must pick one it would be "Death of PC gaming"
It isn't dead or dying, it simply never was that huge to begin with (MMOs aside)
And I can't blame anyone since PC gaming isn't the most hospitable place
Yes, the hardware possibilities are superior to consoles, but you must know a thing or two about tech to get the best of PC gaming
Otherwise you will stuck with overpriced pre-built machine that will become obsolete in a few years
And developers who throw shitty console ports aren't making things easier (control, GUI and optimization wise)

Hopefully PS4 and NexBox will be so full of shit that plenty of console gamers will migrate to PC domain (and God help them)
Maybe then PC will get attention it deserves
If not, then there is always Minecraft with its mods

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

I'm sick of people complaining about how shitty their experience was with their latest Day One/pre-release purchase. What were you expecting? Use your fucking heads and stop buying games on release day.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Yeah, definitely the EA hate train. No one is saying they're a company that makes great consumer oriented decisions.. but we know this already. Don't play their games if you dislike the company to that degree. That's the only way they are going to get the message (no, buying used or pirating won't work).

My other one is complaints about game difficulty, particularly in the case of something like, yes, Dark Souls. The game is difficult, but probably not as difficult as you may have heard if you just listened to what others say and don't actually try yourself. It also includes various already existing organic ways to make the game easier (or harder) if that's what you want. Put simply, though, it's a game for a specific audience with design decisions made for that audience according to the developers desires. If you don't like the game being as difficult as it is, that's cool, don't play it. Not every game has to be made for everyone.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Mass Effect 3's ending. Get over it. I don't care what your opinion of the series was. I was disappointed, but I wasn't about to hold a grudge over it.

Yeah pretty much this. I just wish I could have a nice easy conversation about that game without it getting buried by bitterness and hate due to that damn ending. I love that game and just wish I could actually talk about it without having a stone pitched at my head for loving it.

Hell you can be on youtube listening to a piece of music from it and you will see that ending come up.

 

[DoctorObviously]

"Company X has been hacked! Change your passwords guys!"

"Every single Call of Duty game sucks! Except for CoD4 and the original." Bullshit! There are plenty of other CoD games that are quite fantastic. World at War had a great campaign! So did the original Black Ops!!

"Games are too easy."

"Quick Saves are for the weak."

"I can't wait for this DLC!" Dude, there used to be a thing called expansions packs.

"Nine out of ten? It obviously should've gotten nine and a half." There is no end to my hate for this.

"<Dante's Inferno> is way too much like therefore it must suck."

While I'm a PC gamer at heart, any douche with way too much spare income who posts their specs in their signature, like it means something.

Women circa. 2000: "Jee-zus Cuh-rist guys, look at this neeeerd and his eh... (What do you call them? Video... what?) Vidya Gaaaaames! Heey, you'll never have a girlfriend if you go on like this!"
Women circa. 2013: "This game is sexist.", "Why are there no options for me?"

This has been said before, but every single goddamn Dark Souls fanboy calling it the best game in the universe and all others who have a different opinion obviously do not understand how it is our virtual Jesus Christ.

This probably hasn't been said before, but every single goddamn Bioshock Infinite fanboy calling it the best game in the universe and all others who have a different opinion obviously do not understand how it is our virtual Jesus Christ.

 

[MysticSlayer]

People saying that Call of Duty is ruining gaming. No, it's a game that has mastered what a very large group of people want. It's the other companies that continue trying to appeal to CoD's crowd and to their own while simultaneously trying to operate on a budget beyond what CoD does and hoping for as greater a return that's doing more damage.

Antagonism to DLC and microtransactions. I can understand if the DLC was on the disk at launch, or if you need to partake in microtransactions in order to beat the game or give yourself an unfair advantage in online play, but if they are completely optional and really only benefit those who may want the extra content and/or give themselves an easier time in singleplayer for whatever reason, then I'd say it really isn't hurting anyone. It's an interesting way to make a little extra money from those who find the content to be worth it, and it pleases those who may want it while not taking money from those who don't.

Saying games are too easy. I've had no trouble finding challenging games and sinking enough hours into them to last me until I find the next challenging game, which doesn't have to take a long time. Many games are also reasonably tough at harder difficulties. Also, in our age of digital downloads, the challenging classics are only a quick download away if we don't have access to them anymore otherwise.

"Games don't have any color!" Again, I generally have no problem finding games with color. Besides, the brown/gray color scheme genuinely works for some games.

 

[Uhura]

Women circa. 2000: "Jee-zus Cuh-rist guys, look at this neeeerd and his eh... (What do you call them? Video... what?) Vidya Gaaaaames! Heey, you'll never have a girlfriend if you go on like this!"
Women circa. 2013: "This game is sexist.", "Why are there no options for me?"

Jesus, are you serious?

 

[DoctorObviously]

Women circa. 2000: "Jee-zus Cuh-rist guys, look at this neeeerd and his eh... (What do you call them? Video... what?) Vidya Gaaaaames! Heey, you'll never have a girlfriend if you go on like this!"
Women circa. 2013: "This game is sexist.", "Why are there no options for me?"

Jesus, are you serious?

Okay, while the 'circa. 2000'-part is overdone, it served to make a point. This is actually still true today. For me, there are only two kinds of women who approach gaming: the ones who think gamers are losers for very vague reasons, or the kind of entitled kooky children who suddenly want everything done in their favor because... *GASP* gaming has become mainstream and douchebags now play video games too!

I am not against the concept of women playing video games, but I think my opinion on them has been maimed a bit due to being alienated by 99% of the people of my age until gaming got mainstream. And I still got scolded for playing games because they were violent. "My god, we gotta watch DoctorObviously in the newspapers in five years or so, he's going to be the next guy who's going to shoot up his classmates." I swear to you this happened. And it's pissing me off.

Captcha: Good morning.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Oh god, more than anything else I'm sick to death of people whining that games are too short (especially when they try to claim that this game or that is "only five hours long" when in most cases it's at least a few hours longer than that). More specifically, I'm sick of people assigning hard dollar values to each hour a game lasts in order to determine "value".

While I agree that having an arbitrary formula to denote dollar to hour seems silly, I don't think this is without merit. Its becoming a lot worse as far as I've noticed with developers increased focus on multiplayer over single player. As someone who doesn't play multiplayer this essentially means my content in the game is being vastly reduced. Then again, I don't replay games, I never have re-read books or re-watched movies either.

If I buy a DVD for £15 and I moan that the film isn't over 3 hours long without mentioning anything else to do with the film am i being a prat? Yes. If I buy a DVD for £15 and the film is 10 minutes long, I don;t care how good the cinematography and acting were for those ten minuites. BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY TEN FREAKIN MINUTES!

Stop doing that. I just said that annoys me. You think you're going to change my mind? You think you aren't making the same exact argument everyone else does?

Why are you talking about DVDs? We're talking about video games, not movies. Different experiences. Variable lengths. And they don't sell ten minute movies for £15. So knock off the hyperbole. It never works. Especially when I specifically complained about the people who whine about "all the five hour games out there." Which is like...almost none of the games.

If you don't play multiplayer games or replay games ever, then you simply shouldn't be buying certain games. Don't blow your money and then complain about it after the fact. None of these developers lied to you.

In any case, I'm not having this argument here. That's not what this topic is about.

 

[sagitel]

graphics>gameplay. oh god i just hate this line more than anything else. hearing it just makes me see the guy as someone who knows nothing of games. if the game handles like ass and plays like ass who give a fuck if it has better than reality graphics? the only form of graphics acceptable to me is the form that makes the atmosphere. other than that i dont give a shit of how other things look.

sexism. seriously move on guys!

 

[shrimpcel]

People complaining about game endings. I don't know if that trend started with Mass Effect 3, but it's really annoying and bizarre. Every other game that gets released seems to stir up the ending-hating crowd, as if the writers in the industry were suffering an epidemic of badendingitis since 2012. Heck, Yahtzee even wrote an entire article about Bioshock Infinite's ending now (not that I've read it - I'm avoiding spoilers for that game religiously).

 

[Gameguy20100]

The EA hate: if you don't like them don't buy their shit I don't like Capcom or Valve so I don't buy their games(except the new DMC)

Mass effect 3 ending: get the fuck over it

Pc vs consoles: as someone who plays on both It is soooooooo pointless to me.

Dante's new look: new game new look get over it