Times when you've wanted to slap a developer/publisher across the face?

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Well, here I am, just sitting around playing Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 2, when I hear news about the third game being about a Bad Company-esque black ops team. So I'm thinking, hey, that sounds like a cool direction for the series, considering it's abilty to take WW2 and anime it in a way that isn't retarded. I look it up, and see if there's a release date for the West.

They say it's due to the lack of sales, and say they're not going to release it in the West. [http://hcoregamer00photography.blogspot.com/2011/06/valkyria-chronicles-3-will-not-see-usa.html] Normally, I wouldn't care, but this is another company shooting themselves in the foot for a dumb reason. [http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/21/capcom-europe-mega-man-legends-3-canceled-due-to-lack-of-devroo/]

So, I feel like taking that part of SEGA, and slapping them making a fuck up like this considering all the other good games they're releasing.

TLDR: Which company do you want to slap across the face and why?

Another company is Bioware, because I'm only 2 hours away from their headquarters. But I don't want to stop at a slap. I want to buy 500 boxes of Hamburger Helper, and catapult them at their writing department.

Feel free to rant, call me a weeaboo, etc.

inb4 Capcom

 

[OpticalJunction]

You're only 2 hours away from Bioware? Neat. maybe you could get some photos of their headquarters or something, for research purposes, y'know. Not so I can stalk them and murder them while they sleep or anything.. *whistles* My slapping hand's ready to go at them for the mess of DA2 though. Really, that game could have been legendary.

Obsidian is another I'd bitchslap, for the horrible controls on DS3.

 

[gabe12301]

If a publisher needs to get slapped then EA needs to get hit with a wooden plank, stabbed then thrown off a cliff

 

[Fenra]

Although not technically a company, Peter Molyneux, for... well being Peter Molyneux, darn you and your broken promises!

of course then I look at him and see how unshakebly happy and optimistic he is in the face of everything and I just cant bring myself to do it, darn you Peter, you strangely charming man

 

[emeraldrafael]

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Awesome pic.

OT: not really a gaming company, but sticking with the Persona theme, I want to just break every finger on the people behind trinity soul. How dare you make such filth based on one of Atlus' greatest games.

Developer wise, mmm... I'm mad at Namco for what theyre doing to Soul Calibur. Someone needs a clear wake up slap.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Square-enix, Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, They recognise that people didn't like it (see the Escapist news) and say they are improving it...so they make a sequel to the game that they know hardly anyone finished becuase it was terrible.

That just makes no sense.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Another company is Bioware, because I'm only 2 hours away from their headquarters. But I don't want to stop at a slap. I want to buy 500 boxes of Hamburger Helper, and catapult them at their writing department.

I agree, although I don't think flinging Hamburger Helper at them is going to help any.
My main concern is the Mass Effect series. What I think they should've done, considering they were planning the thing to be a trilogy from the beginning (or so they said) was develop the complete story that would span all 3 games during pre-production of the FIRST game and divide it up accordingly. Then if and when the first one is successful and it comes time to make the second you already have the story done and don't have to scramble to figure out how to continue it. Because I get the distinct impression that that's exactly what they did (the latter, I mean). I believe it's for this reason that certain parts of Mass Effect 2 were in contradiction to what was established in the first Mass Effect. And no I'm not talking about the heat sink ammo thing or whatever, those are gameplay elements and another issue entirely; I'm talking about where Sovereign says that the Reaper's purpose is beyond our understanding (by "our" meaning biological life-forms), but then in ME2 they whip out the Human Reaper. So the Reaper's purpose is reproduction? How is that beyond our comprehension? Reproduction is a basic need for all living biological organisms, so if that's their purpose surly we biological life-forms can understand that.

 

[Sixcess]

Eidos Interactive (before the were taken over by Square-Enix) for cancelling Fear Effect 3. Not only did it kill my favourite series of the late 90s, but it killed any interest I'd ever have in going from the PS1 to the PS2.

Actually, Square-Enix itself probably deserves a slap as well, for not giving the series a next gen revival while cheerfully signing off on yet another reboot of Tomb Raider.

 

[LookingGlass]

I hadn't heard that news. They saddened me enough by putting Valykria Chronicles 2 out of my reach by making it PSP exclusive (and then they complain about sales?). It's like they don't want my money.

The two examples I can think of are:

1. Bethesda for the ridiculous level-scaling enemies decision made in Oblivion. It's bad enough that one thing like that changes the entire game, but what's worse is that they had a perfectly good system in Morrowind that they changed to get to the wrong answer. Now, I don't want to slap them too hard... they did make Morrowind after all. But they needed to know that they made a mistake and should not do it again.

2. Bioware for making Mass Effect 2 a minigameathon. I would have been fine with a 12-14 hour game without all that crap. It's annoying the first time you play it, and tedious as shit every time after that.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I really want to get hold of Gearbox, and slap them for the upcoming Brothers in Arms game. I hate that they've marketed Furious 4 as a Brothers in Arms game. It has about as much sense as making Half life Episode 3 about a pacifistic gardener whose main gameplay is taking photographs of the Combine and headcrabs, and selling them to the G-man for seeds to plant.

I don't hate the game, it looks like some mindless fun, a shameless rip-off of Inglorious Basterds, and it may well be a good game, but it's not a Brothers In Arms game, it has nothing to do with the franchise, with the feel of the other games. It completely destroys and spits on everything it's prequels worked so hard to achieve.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Another company is Bioware, because I'm only 2 hours away from their headquarters. But I don't want to stop at a slap. I want to buy 500 boxes of Hamburger Helper, and catapult them at their writing department.

I agree, although I don't think flinging Hamburger Helper at them is going to help any.
My main concern is the Mass Effect series. What I think they should've done, considering they were planning the thing to be a trilogy from the beginning (or so they said) was develop the complete story that would span all 3 games during pre-production of the FIRST game and divide it up accordingly. Then if and when the first one is successful and it comes time to make the second you already have the story done and don't have to scramble to figure out how to continue it. Because I get the distinct impression that that's exactly what they did (the latter, I mean).

I believe it's for this reason that certain parts of Mass Effect 2 were in contradiction to what was established in the first Mass Effect. And no I'm not talking about the heat sink ammo thing or whatever, those are gameplay elements and another issue entirely; I'm talking about where Sovereign says that the Reaper's purpose is beyond our understanding (by "our" meaning biological life-forms), but then in ME2 they whip out the Human Reaper. So the Reaper's purpose is reproduction? How is that beyond our comprehension? Reproduction is a basic need for all living biological organisms, so if that's their purpose surly we biological life-forms can understand that.

Well lemme point out 2 things:
1: I'm assuming you don't know who the new senior writer for Bioware is:

Her name is Jennifer Hepler, and she's the main reason DA 2 was practically a JRPG, and the reason I want to fling 500 boxes of Hamburger Hepler at the Bioware writing department.

2: Probably due to Hepler and the rest of the writing staff, they're probably making it up as they go, rather than planning it out.

 

[TheIronRuler]

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2: Probably due to Hepler and the rest of the writing staff, they're probably making it up as they go, rather than planning it out.

Unless you work there you can't say it without doubt.
Yes, the writing was shit, but perhaps they PLANNED it to be shit from the beginning and...
I see your point.

 

[philip1228]

Activison, every time they shun the PC community with Call of Duty games, because it's not like the series STARTED as a PC/Mac exclusive or anything...

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

-snip-

2: Probably due to Hepler and the rest of the writing staff, they're probably making it up as they go, rather than planning it out.

Unless you work there you can't say it without doubt.
Yes, the writing was shit, but perhaps they PLANNED it to be shit from the beginning and...
I see your point.

So are you agreeing with me? The fact that I's reading instead of hearing this took the intention out of it.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

I really want to get hold of Gearbox, and slap them for the upcoming Brothers in Arms game. I hate that they've marketed Furious 4 as a Brothers in Arms game. It has about as much sense as making Half life Episode 3 about a pacifistic gardener whose main gameplay is taking photographs of the Combine and headcrabs, and selling them to the G-man for seeds to plant.

I don't hate the game, it looks like some mindless fun, a shameless rip-off of Inglorious Basterds, and it may well be a good game, but it's not a Brothers In Arms game, it has nothing to do with the franchise, with the feel of the other games. It completely destroys and spits on everything it's prequels worked so hard to achieve.

I know, no Matt Baker=No buy. I love that series.

 

[dex-dex]

The only one is EA and because of the marketing of Dead space 2.
Marketing a m rated game to children is just totally out of order!

 

[Tentickles]

I wanted to murder the developers of DCUO for releasing such an unfinished game full of bugs, exploits and hacks.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

So that's what happened...

I google'd that name. Guess what the second result was? [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6661321/1]

Now that I know this, I'd like to slap Bioware in the face for being a game company who hired a person who doesn't like to play games, even if it is for the writing position.

I'd also like to slap Capcom. I probably don't even need to say why, but it has something to do with a third installment of the third series starring a certain kid in blue armor...

Then... let's see... all those damn developers that put black bars on the split screens. Why? To make it more even? Let me tell you something, I have zero problem with screen stretch when it comes to split screen. I know we all have widescreens now and it looks kinda funny to make everyone fat, but when playing splitscreen I'm not exactly going for the optimal effect, now, am I? Fucking split the screens right, or don't split them at all.

Well, I also got mad at Capcom, especially after this whole Ultimate Super Dumb Overdone Marvel Vs Capcom 3: FES thing right after Little Boy Blue the Man on the Moon getting canceled. Especially when they started saying it was due to the fans not participating in the whole devroom thing.