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

[RandallJohn]

Man, I'm bummed that Capcom isn't localizing Layton v. Wright, but at least I've still got Megaman Legends 3 to look forward to!

...What? You're... shutting down production? And you're... selling what should clearly be MvC3 DLC as a full game?

(Note: I'm honestly surprised it took this long for that .gif to show up in this thread.)

 

[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:

Spoiler: *image snip*

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.

1. Ok no I was not aware of that. However I still don't see how flinging Hamburger Helper at Bioware is going to help any. It'd be really funny considering Ms. Helper, but not particularly productive.

2. Which, like I already said, was and is a bad idea. They should have planned the whole story out from the beginning and not made it up as they went along.

Well, not much we can do regarding the writing and the writers, they're both past the point of no return.

 

[Wuggy]

Who ever thought it was a good idea to make Anders a whiney Emo kid. And whoever thought it was a good idea for Isabella to not wear pants.

I can agree with you on the first one, but how is Isabella being pantsless not a good idea?

I'd like to slap Ubisoft for delaying From Dust PC version till August one day before release, effectively making it compete with Deus Ex. Yeah, 'cause that's a good idea right?

Then I'd like to slap EA. You can take your Origin and you can shove it up your bum.

And finally I'd like to slap Activision. You know, for fun.

 

[ChupathingyX]

EA for closing down Pandemic Studios.

 

[Shirokurou]

This...

Nobody fucks up DMC that much...

 

[Sir Shockwave]

I has four glorious moments where I've wanted to do this.

* Square Enix. Mostly for making Front Mission Evolved (which rightly ranks as one of the worst games I've ever played). I could not think of a worse entry point for the Front Mission franchise for a newb than Evolved. Awkward Controls (even tuning the sensitivity on my mouse as low as it will go doesn't create a natural aiming feel), painfully cliche and predictable story that basically made me thought someone on the Dev Team had played too much Armoured Core 4 Answer...and the Wanzers. Seriously. Do I need to cite all the jokes Unskippable made about them?

* Electronic Arts. Various points, but most infamously Red Alert 3. I have never seen the point so sharply missed by anything else in existence. Essentially, what had some sense and was genuinely funny at points (and didn't overplay the humor) got replaced with a mix of Racism and Crack. For the record, I didn't think Tiberian Twilight was that bad (the crawlers had potential, but it was a poorly executed concept), but the Single Player Campaign makes me beat my head on the hitting end of my Thunder Hammer.

* 1C Company. They're like the Russian/Eastern European version of EA. They have very high quality ideas and concepts, and some interesting gameplay mechanics...on paper. When it comes to the game, they're executed very, very badly. And don't get me started on sequels for their games (case and point: Perimeter).

* Activision. They seem to have a real stigma against PC Gamers from what I've seen. Specifically, their Downloadable Content policy. Looking around on Steam, CoD: WaW had NO Map Packs released, while it's console cousins had somewhere around 3 or 4. But it's not just CoD I've noticed - none of the DLC for Transformers: War for Cybertron (which Activision published) has made it's way to PC either. So if you want some cool new maps for Escalation, or to play as Shockwave or Jazz, you better have a Console sat around somewhere...

 

[Tiswas]

Capcom for the handling of Okamiden (releasing to no hype between pokemon and the 3DS. stores denyied the game existed on release date.), Ace Attorney Investigations (not promoting the first game at all.) and (something I'm VERY surprised hasn't been brought up here yet.) MegaMan Legends 3.

Because it was all the fan's fault that Capcom didn't even try to promote the former games so fans didn't know they had been released (first time I saw Ace Attorney Investigations was in a bargain bin in a Supermarket of all places.)

Activision and EA for re-releasing the same games every single year (albeit with new skins and maps)

Nintendo for the 3DS launch.

Square for not promoting any of their JRPGs that doesn't have the words 'FINAL FANTASY' in it. (Dragon Quest IX only got it cus Nintendo did it. But DQ VI or Nier were just thrown out and left to die moreorless. Despite both being better than the FF range since X was released.)

 

[Evil Top Hat]

When Microsoft forced me to install Games for windows live just so that I could save my damn game... god I hate microsoft.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Eidos Montreal, for announcing Thief 4 and going completely silent about it for two years afterwards. Those taffers.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Spoiler: *snip*

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:

Spoiler: *image snip*

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.

1. Ok no I was not aware of that. However I still don't see how flinging Hamburger Helper at Bioware is going to help any. It'd be really funny considering Ms. Helper, but not particularly productive.

2. Which, like I already said, was and is a bad idea. They should have planned the whole story out from the beginning and not made it up as they went along.

Well, not much we can do regarding the writing and the writers, they're both past the point of no return.

Well I don't know about 'point of no return', but there's definitely not much we can do about stuff they've already finished.

 

[stebsy]

When I heard about that thing in Hitman Absolution that lets you map out guard patterns I wanted to slap someone.

This! Its like they don't get hitman at all!

 

[Bajinga]

Companies I hate?

Nothing new.

EA - I hate their way of doing things. I hate the damn codes that you have to type in to play online. I hate the way they try to portey themselves as the underdogs. See here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.303399-EA-Blames-Dragon-Age-2-Disappearance-on-Valve]

Square Enix - The Jimquisistion has gone into how awful they are at releasing titles of games to come. I also hate most of their games and will never buy one (I'll have to borrow Deus Ex)

I liked Kingdom Hearts II back in the day, and they've finally said that it will be made! How long, Squeenix? Two? Three? Five million years?.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Bioware-Unclear moral choices in Mass Effect 1. It's happened twice now. (NOTE: These do contain some tiny spoilers for Mass Effect 1, but honestly, how have you not played that game yet? Get on that.)

Spoiler: The First Time

Due to a side quest, I had been lead to a detective in C-Sec. He asked me to go buy some illegal mods for him, so I could get them off the streets. He also warned me not to tip off the dealer, otherwise it would blow his investigation. So I go see the dealer. The "Paragon" option (upper right) in the dialog circle is to arrest the guy. I think it's odd, considering I was told NOT to do just that, but I also think that arresting a weapons dealer could easily be a paragon option, so I go for it. The dealer doesn't. We have a firefight and I kill him. At the time, I get 2 Paragon points.

So I go back to the detective. He's pissed off, and tells me to leave. I get 9 Renegade points. What the hell, Bioware? Why did the Paragon option lead to a Renegade action? If you're going to have this system, at least make it clear which action is good and which is evil!

Spoiler: The Second Time

The second time was on Noveria (ice planet) where the Internal Affairs agent wants you to convince this Turian guy to testify against a corrupt businessman. You are in possession of some evidence of said businessman's said corruption. You can give it to the IA agent, or the Turian. Either option gets you what you need to move on in the mission, but the Turian can offer credits, and the agent can't. So I decided to talk to the Turian first. Thanks to a Paragon option, I was able to convince him to testify. Then, in a separate conversation, I gave him the evidence for credits. I approached the IA agent with the good news, but she just told me to fuck off. Apparently, nobody is testifying, despite the fact that I CONVINCED HIM TO TESTIFY. And if he's on board for a trial, then any evidence he has can obviously be used! So what the fuck? I was looking forward to seeing that asshole(the businessman) getting dragged off! The situation was obviously meant to foster only 2 choices: Give the evidence to the Turian and let the businessman go free but make more money, or put him in jail and end up with less money. But I broke it and did both EASILY. So I ended up with this totally nonsensical "bad" ending of the scenario that completely negated my actions. The FUCK, Bioware?

 

[psicat]

Valve, because they are a mediocre developer at best with a crappy online store with really crappy DRM and a crappy subscription service that can be taken away at their whim. Yet, thanks to their fanboys they think they are gods gift to gaming.

 

[Jerubbaal]

Valve, because they are a mediocre developer at best with a crappy online store with really crappy DRM and a crappy subscription service that can be taken away at their whim. Yet, thanks to their fanboys they think they are gods gift to gaming.

Uh, Steam doesn't have DRM (unless it's the same DRM you would get buying a hard copy of the game). And Steam doesn't require a subscription. And I have a feeling you've never used Steam for more than 5 minutes.