Gamers who are too elitist to let anyone else into their hallowed club of people playing video games.
What do you hate the most about gaming?
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Uuh... yeah. That's a bit like asking why a VHS tape won't play in your DVD player. Just because its new doesn't mean its compatible. Although most old games will run on Vista/7 with some simple tweaking.SkyKitty said:
OT: Other gamers. Too nerdy. Too mysoginistic. Too racist. Too childish. Too nerdy.
And shit PC versions. You're obviously planning to make money from the platform or else you wouldn't be releasing your game on it, so put some fucking effort in. Its gotten to the point where I'm using the arrow keys to navigate menus because they haven't even bothered to program the mouse cursor in the menus properly.
And people who defend bad games because "they're just meant to be fun". Because that makes sense.
I actually asked a guy from Sony why the PS3 wasn't backwards compatible. He said that it was because just about anyone who owned a PS3 would also own a PS2, so it wasn't worth the money.
Achievements that require either pure luck or cooperation from other players. I'm OK with the
"Complete campaign co-op" as long as I have a friend who has the game, but achievements like "Professor Portal" in Portal 2 where you have to go through the first course online with someone who hasn't played co-op before. THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT THIS. Most people get the game on release day and all of my friends who have the game have already completed the co-op. I can't get that achievement until another one of my friends gets Portal 2.
The Vidmaster achievements in Halo are similarly annoying. I have done "Annual" on a guest account before I got my X-box, and now Halo:Reach is out no one is on Halo 3 and most probably most won't hep me. "Deja View" and "Endure" are the same though my friends don't have them yet, they are too hard, annoying and because they require others if the internet dies or a player has to leave I lose the achievement.
These kind of achievements. Oh yeah also achievements for multiplayer, for games with terrible multiplayer(I'm looking at you Brutal Legend and your stupid RTS online).
I like my achievements in single player, or at least online and possible with practice. The first game I got all the achievements on was Batman Arkham Asylum. Totally single player. That tells you something.
"Complete campaign co-op" as long as I have a friend who has the game, but achievements like "Professor Portal" in Portal 2 where you have to go through the first course online with someone who hasn't played co-op before. THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT THIS. Most people get the game on release day and all of my friends who have the game have already completed the co-op. I can't get that achievement until another one of my friends gets Portal 2.
The Vidmaster achievements in Halo are similarly annoying. I have done "Annual" on a guest account before I got my X-box, and now Halo:Reach is out no one is on Halo 3 and most probably most won't hep me. "Deja View" and "Endure" are the same though my friends don't have them yet, they are too hard, annoying and because they require others if the internet dies or a player has to leave I lose the achievement.
These kind of achievements. Oh yeah also achievements for multiplayer, for games with terrible multiplayer(I'm looking at you Brutal Legend and your stupid RTS online).
I like my achievements in single player, or at least online and possible with practice. The first game I got all the achievements on was Batman Arkham Asylum. Totally single player. That tells you something.
This is quite a vague question, is it for the production side of gaming, the distribution, the thoughts of video games or moments when you play video games that just aggravate you?
Any way I will just give answers for most of them.
The aspects of gaming I hate are that developers no longer put much thought into the story of a video and most shooters attempt to be like a Call of Duty title in order to reach the Call of Duty audience, its unimaginative.
I also hate the controversy that surrounds gaming and how parents worry how a video game will affect their child, how some people are so worried about the children that they are trying to ban violent video games and spoil the fun for the rest of us. If a major event happens in the news the media seems as if it tries to find ways to place some blame upon the games industry. Its quite sad.
Oh and one last thing, the constant war over which console or format is better. People seem to think that choosing a different format changes the person, I have seen some serious arguments over Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3 and Consoles vs. PC.
tl;dr Storytelling, controvery, format wars.
Any way I will just give answers for most of them.
The aspects of gaming I hate are that developers no longer put much thought into the story of a video and most shooters attempt to be like a Call of Duty title in order to reach the Call of Duty audience, its unimaginative.
I also hate the controversy that surrounds gaming and how parents worry how a video game will affect their child, how some people are so worried about the children that they are trying to ban violent video games and spoil the fun for the rest of us. If a major event happens in the news the media seems as if it tries to find ways to place some blame upon the games industry. Its quite sad.
Oh and one last thing, the constant war over which console or format is better. People seem to think that choosing a different format changes the person, I have seen some serious arguments over Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3 and Consoles vs. PC.
tl;dr Storytelling, controvery, format wars.
I completely agree. Especially because it required you to BEAT the multiplayer before playing with someone who has never played. I just created a dummy account to do it. The same with the hugging achievement.Magicmad5511 said:
I like how you brought up the annoyance with multiplayer achievements, but I want to also add that the online achievements are not only annoying when the lobbies are empty, but even more so when the game is popular. I can't tell you how often I have entered a game where people are just getting together to achievement hunt. It actually ruins the multiplayer as well.
This is what I did love about COD: Modern Warfare. The online had no achievements so people were playing just to play. More games should try that.
I hate pointless console/platform wars, obnoxious people on fps multiplayer games (hence one reason I don't play them), fanboyism, over priced DLC, people bitching about the smallest things; stuff like that.
I hate how shorter games are getting, or trying to "lengthen" a game with either multiplayer, or by making certain areas hard as fuck to beat. It's worse when I'm actually enjoying the games and then all of a sudden, game over! It's only been 10 hrs game! I beat this in a week and spent, well most of the time nothing because I'm G like that but still, there WERE people who spent money on this game and you skived us! Yes you have multiplayer but no, I won't give you my, or others shouldn't give you their hard earned money to play online and nothing else!
If I wanted to buy half a game I'd wait until it was 10 bucks and on sale, if I wanted a full game I'd play an older title since they usually got it right. Fuck, playing the original Sly Cooper games lasts longer than most AAA title nowadays.
Why can't studios give us longer games, or cut the prices of the games. If you want lots of shorter titles, cut the prices or give me a full game
If I wanted to buy half a game I'd wait until it was 10 bucks and on sale, if I wanted a full game I'd play an older title since they usually got it right. Fuck, playing the original Sly Cooper games lasts longer than most AAA title nowadays.
Why can't studios give us longer games, or cut the prices of the games. If you want lots of shorter titles, cut the prices or give me a full game
Honestly, I hate DLC. Why should I have to fork out more to play a chapter/quest in a game that could have easily been included in the original content and really only benefits you with a unique weapon or something equally useless that I will most likely forget about.
I Just checked the exchange rate and was blown away that it's just about 1:1 and you're paying twice the money. I always took the argument with a pinch of salt but that is just extortion. I pity you.aaronobst said:
OT: Expensive unnecessary hardware demands, horrific gamers, self-entitled gamers, the console-pc schism etc.
What's worse than all of that however, is the mistreatment of developers. Whether it's a boss that makes them work dangerous crunch time hours or a publisher that cuts key mechanics because they might not sell well, developers aren't getting enough say in what happens to their game. It's especially worrying because it's the area I want to go into too.
It's becoming more and more like the auto industry.Esotera said:
I hate the industry mostly for the way it treats the consumer. I see so many predatory practices, I?m surprised that there so many legitimate consumers left. Gamers seem to put up with a lot more than any other consumer group. This generation of gaming has seen hardware and software so broken it should?ve been recalled but ended up actually selling really well. At those standards, things are just going to get worse.
Between the way employees and the consumers are treated, I find it really hard to feel sorry for publishers who ***** and moan about used game sales and pirating: I know that even if they did get that extra little bit of cash, it wouldn't go to rewarding the people who do all the work or into making more solid products for the consumer. They would still cut all the same corners (as many as the consumers will allow them to get away with) and the money would just make the board members' pockets fatter.
Annoying fans who make a good game completely unappealing to play. Also, fans who automatically dismiss someone as a troll or hipster if they have a "controversial" opinion. I mean seriously Mario 64 fans, some people who have been playing games since the NES just honestly don't like that game.