What do you hate the most about gaming?

[muskrat_love]

I suppose I have a few things.

1) People bitching about 3D and motion controls. You don't ever NEED 3D to play a game, and motion controls can be super fun with the right games.

2) People obsessed with story. Now don't get me wrong on this, story is nice, but it's never NEEDED. I mean hell, tons of people still say that Ocarina of Time is their favorite game, but seriously? The story can be summed up in a sentence or two.

3) Realisim. It has places it should be, and that is not games. I am thanking God that Black Box doesn't make me pay my medical bills every time I fly off a cliff in Skate 2.

4) Super long stories. Like I said earlier, a good story is welcomed, but don't make it too long. If someone gets too bored, they won't finish the game. Instead give a metric ton of side content.

 

[iron codpiece]

Mostly I hate other people with headsets. That and the constant need to buy more hardware. I don't care at this point the graphics are as good as they need to be i just want to enjoy the game.

The moment you say "I don't care" is the moment people should stop caring about your opinion.

It's not all about graphics, genius, the problem is way bigger than that. The scale, the dynamics of environment, the complexity of the AI have all got a long way to go before people should stop caring about their advancement.

I think you're giving far too much credit to the people that run the industry. That's definitly not how they advertise each generation when they're trying to sell them. They pretty much talk about graphics and size.

Oh, when you sarcastically insult people your opinion becomes invalid. Frowned upon here.

edit: I dislike the poor sportsmanship that comes with playing any competative game.

 

[Alphakirby]

As Yatzhee said about Portal fans I will say about CoD,Halo,etc.
"Well,it's got the worst fucking FANS in the world!"

So yeah,the little swearing children piss me off like crazy.

 

[hooblabla6262]

The wait between games.

 

[ace_of_something]

Mostly I hate other people with headsets. That and the constant need to buy more hardware. I don't care at this point the graphics are as good as they need to be i just want to enjoy the game.

The moment you say "I don't care" is the moment people should stop caring about your opinion.

It's not all about graphics, genius, the problem is way bigger than that. The scale, the dynamics of environment, the complexity of the AI have all got a long way to go before people should stop caring about their advancement.

Edit: Oh oh, also, my gripe - everything Blizzard is doing. Apart from DLC, they're the epitome of everything wrong with the industry today, and the things that are going to be wrong tomorrow.

Well that wasn't very nice.

Anyway care to elaborate on that blizzard comment? I think their 'it's finished when it's done' mentality works very well and some people who release overly buggy games could learn from it.

Another thing is the lack of 'couch co-op' even in games where it would be very easy to do. It used to be one of the big advantages of console games was that you could play the game with your friend right there in the room. Though I guess it's more profitable if everyone buys a copy of the game.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

The price :/

 

[Jakub324]

Other gamers.

No seriously. Call me anti-social or what have you, but 90% or even more of people I meet online are selfish, ignorant, racial-insult spewing, douchebags that only care about winning and being "t3h 1337zorz" or whatever it's called now. MLG pro? Whatever.

It's why I refuse to play online unless it's with friends or people in a close vicinity to where I am so I can smack them 'roundside the head for being a douchebag.

I empathise in every possible way. Online, people can be relied upon to be wankers.

 

[Sud0_x]

^Take that down, brush up on the rules

Er... If you say so.

I have read the rules though, and I'm not entirely sure how it's not legitimate. I'm about to specifically go back through the rules to check again. But in all seriousness, losing an activation code is an awfully simple thing to do, and I've had to use keygens for some of the programs I've legitimately purchased.

Edit: I can't see anything in the rules that would prohibit what I posted, but I will err on the side of caution given how draconian the rules/mods here are compared to the other places I post.

You've done well. I didn't mean to be quite so blunt in pointing it out but I was genuinely looking out for you.

While I understand the OP stated that he/she owned the game this is not the place for that kind of request.
Any link to a torrent tracking website will most certainly get you a ticket out of here, fast. I'm quite surprised you didn't receive any mod warnings, I am glad, I'd much rather give someone a heads up than report a new-ish user who probably isn't aware of the legitimacy of their actions.
I generally reserve that treatment for the jerks that bandy about with needless insults.

A CD-Key generator absolutely fits the definition of piracy, I'm actually rather bemused that you don't seem to be aware of that fact...

A Cd Key is a unique license, they're not just silly letters and numbers to be thrown about to the highest non-bidder.

 

[-Dragmire-]

The thing I probably 'hate' most about the industry is the industry's DRM PR policy.

If the game sells well, they say "See! People don't mind our DRM! This has been a very successful strategy and we will implement it for all our future releases!"

If the game does not sell well, they say "We lost a vast majority of our profits from pirates, we need to introduce even more intrusive DRM systems to counteract this loss." (whether anyone pirated their game is irrelevant, bad sales{to them} means everyone pirated the game)

This makes it extremely hard to "vote with your wallet" when they don't consider it to be people protesting their policies as much as "proof" people pirate their game on mass(again, their view and reality don't really see eye to eye).

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people who don't buy a game in protest will pirate it, but I am saying the game industry's PR will spin it that way.

P.S. Before I go buy another Expansion disk...

Does anyone have a spare D2 Expansion Key Lying Around?

Sorry, I'm reinstalling it to play through again. It's been a while and I want to refresh my memory of the Diablo franchise before deciding if I should buy D3.

 

[Alcookie]

I hate how the industry is becoming more and more monotonous. I remember the PS2 era where the majority of games would jump out of the shelves at me, nowadays I look and its just bland shooter after bland shooter.

The last game I played which restored a little amount of faith in me was Double Fine's Stacking. Such a simple idea but a good few hours of solid fun.

 

[AnarchistFish]

The frustratingly difficult bits that seem out of propotion in terms of difficulty with the rest of game

And casual gamers who rave on about CoD and act like FPSes are the only games in existance

 

[queek]

THE STORY OF A GREAT GAME ENDING TO SOON OR WEIRD

 

[Zarmi]

People who think they know how stuff is supposed to be done.
Casual gamers (Really no offense to anyone, and no need for us to get unfriendly, I just personally can't handle some casual Wii gamer deciding to try something more challenging, and fucks it up good for everyone in that game (example: A Counter Strike match.)
Eh.. half-assed singleplayer experience.
The constant downgrading of games. (Looking at you "info on Diablo 3" and DA2.)
Call of Duty.
Streamlining.
The half-assed current development cycles that go: "Content? Nah, shit just needs to get us TEH MONEYZ."
The big increase in console gaming. (Personal preferrence. Consoles: Racing and fighting games. PC: Everything else.)
Expensive DLC.
League of Legends. (Lol, casualized version of DotA.)
And the increasing amount of "Story > Gameplay" and "Graphics > Gameplay".

 

[Domehammer]

People who hate casual gamers when they can't understand what a casual gamer really is. I also hate people who put winning above having fun in a game. Mainly comes from experience with dota in WC that was horrifying as 1st person to die would be kicked.

 

[DanielBrown]

The prices.
New releases in Sweden costs around 120$/60£ and if the game sells well they never lower the price. This has gotten me to start buying games from UK instead from a site where they charge around 24-36£ for a new release with free shipping. I still don't buy new releases, but if I did at least it wouldn't hurt so much in my wallet.

Multiplayer taking over
A lot of games these days come with multiplayer in spite of it seeming to be extremly useless. I understand that a lot of people love multiplayer, but I am sick of it after all my years with CS and TF2.
What bothers me about it is that it makes becomes impossible for me to get a majority of the trophies/achivements for the game and that the development time is extended. Was for example really looking forward to the Splinter Cell trilogy HD re-release for PS3, but now it's pushed back for multiplayer.
As far as I've heard the multiplayer for most games fails anyway since people only play for the achievements and then move on.

Singleplayer suffering
This has a lot to with multiplayer becoming the main focus for developers. Seen quite a few games recently that's short as hell, but try to make up for it by including multiplayer. If a game is short and frickin' awesome(Uncharted! <3) it doesn't matter to me, but from what I've heard the Call of Duty games has a four hour long campain. We've also got the Kayne & Lynch 2 game which was both awful and short and also the latest Harry Potter game(don't judge me, it was only 10$ so I had to!!!). It baffles me how they get away with this.

I'll let Angry Joe speak for me.

 

[Keava]

Community. There. I said it. The most horrid, moaning, never satisfied bunch with the self-entitlement attitude, always crying how games should be tailor to suit their and only their needs. Plus all the fanboism of either certain genres, studios or even specific games, raging when someone dares to call out on flaws, mindless bashing of everything that they do not like themselves, whining that publishers expect them to buy games NEW ... Yeah that's the vocal minority of the internets, i understand that, but that's the image those so called "gamers" give these days.

Much preferred the times where it was just a hobby of socially-awkward nerds sitting in their basements.