Your biggest gaming Nightmares

[Vault101]

eather real or Hypothetical, Ill start

1. no PC gaming what so ever

2. ERROR could not install/this game wont work because fuck you, thats why

3. wandering around in a Vault from Fallout 3/NV COMPLETLEY and totally lost and my compass fucking with me

4. PC gaming being ONLY MMO's or casual games

5. single player? whats that?

6. the new standard is all games are 4 hours long

7. no internet? no gaming for you!

8. all PC gaming goes over to apple

9. FPS on a gamepad....yeah

10. Activision buys up EVERYTHING

 

[lacktheknack]

Ooh! I'm suffering Nightmare #2 right now! Stupid Sims 3...

OT: Games not installing for no adequate reason. I'm facing my own worst nightmare.

 

[Seieko Pherdo]

Well 6 and 7 sound bad to me. I have no grudge with activision so that's not that scary to me. However I do fear that 3rd party's become unable to make games due to sheer costs for systems like PS3 and every game becomes a bland FPS. And I fear Final Fantasy's continued existence.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Quicksaving right before dieing, and my last regular save was like a week ago.

 

[Swyftstar]

Living it right now. Console with a bunch of games I am currently playing, netflix, party chat that I use to keep in touch with friends and socialize with since I live alone and all around center of my entertainment universe just up and dies out of warranty. Seriously, how is this not a punishable crime?! You almost have to buy another, it's extortion.

 

[Monquart]

Waking up and the only games left are the motion control type

Oh and all your ten as well

 

[War Penguin]

PC gamer, are we?

OT: I've always feared the death of Nintendo. Say what you want, but you know that there's going to be a sort of emptiness when you know your never going to hear of that famous, iconic, red-clothed plumber ever again.

Plus, no more Zelda! D:
NOOOOoooo[sub]oooo...[/sub]

 

[efeat]

PC gamer, are we?

I thought the same thing.

Anyway, there's only one scenario that I'd consider a gaming nightmare: Game developers/publishers force everyone into a single model for game distribution and consumption.

I play consoles from time to time, but I'm a PC gamer at heart. With that said, it doesn't bother me what goes on in Xbox or PS3 land. I don't care that they have X game or Y peripheral or Z service. If the players on those systems enjoy what they have, great, I'm happy for them. If players are content to play FPS titles with a gamepad (something I couldn't stand) then I'm glad they found something they like. None of that stuff affects me, so none of it bothers me.

What does bother me is that I'm started to get shafted because I don't game on a console. Because of this, I have to put up with numerous games not even making it to my preferred platform in the first place. For the ones that do, they are often shoddily put together and vastly inferior to their console counterparts. All of this because I'm not part of the industry's preferred model.
Right now, there is still a healthy choice of PC games, but if it ever reaches the point where I am forced to either move to a console or never get a new [and decent] game release...well...

That'd be an absolute nightmare for me.

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Forcing everyone to PC gaming would also be a nightmare. Not for me directly, but I'd be able to empathize with the myriad of displaced gamers.

 

[Pearwood]

Getting kicked from the Mages Guild in Oblivion, knowing I haven't saved for ages except autosaves and seeing that "Saving" button that dooms me to that boring alchemy quest.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Installing game...
99%...
File X is corrupted
Installation has been terminated

Install Game
Enter Verification Code
"I've lost the code."
No Game For You

Install Game
Open Game
Game Crashes
Open Game
Game Crashes
Check online for fixes
Nothing works

Oh, the joys of playing games on the PC


Another:
Sony drops out of the console race and Apple takes its place

 

[Twilight_guy]

Computer explodes in a fireball and then Both Sony and Microsoft go bankrupt. Then Nintendo builds a giant robot and flies off into space never to be seen again. Hey, what's a dream without at least one giant robot?

 

[Mr. Omega]

I think the OP's a PC gamer...

Anyway:
1: Nintendo goes out of business. People ***** and moan about Nintendo all the time, but them going out of business would benefit nobody.

2: Someone with a position of power here in the US starts thinking "You know what? The Australians have a pretty good way of dealing with those pesky video games, and my approval ratings are a little low, and an election is coming up..."

3: Facebook becomes needed for video games. Want to get all the content in a game? Like this level on Facebook to unlock it!

4: Steam starts ripping people off. Considering how Steam damn near has a Gamestop-like monopoly on digital distribution by now, the second Valve decide to start screwing over customers could be one of the biggest setbacks cloud gaming could face.

5: Games like "The Graveyard" start winning awards and are held as a good example of an art game. Oh wait...

6: Pretentious, snobby "art" games become so popular that a game can't be considered good any more unless they have some "deep meaning" or have an "artistic contribution to the medium as a whole", and fun stops being a justificaiton.

 

[Klopy]

5. and 6. I miss my old games that took a lot of time to complete. Maybe I was just a bad gamer back then so I took more time, but now, I whiz through games kinda fast. It makes me feel terrible. Portal 2 single player could have taken me one day, but I paced myself. When I actually stop a game because I feel I'm going too fast, that's when things kinda get bad.

Games with a definite goal that keep my attention for a long time are goooooood. Open ended games are fun... but if there's some sort of lax in quests then I'd drop it right there. I made a cool castle in minecraft, then I didn't know what to do, so I lost interest. Oblivion was really fun but I finished up a lot of my side quests and I didn't wanna do the main quest so I took a break... which never ended.

Grr. I miss the good old games like Brave Fencer Musashi, Einhander, Crash Bandicoot, etc. Lots of secrets, challenges, good story if you wanted to find it, and other stuff.

Gaming nowadays seems to have sank a little. I think the gaming companies know that games are a huge deal now so they take it for granted. Back then, they fought to make it a big deal, and it paid off with great memories.

 

[blankedboy]

"You can't sleep in someone else's bed!"
"You have been expelled from Great House Telvanni"
"You have been expelled from the Mages Guild"
"You have been expelled from the Thieves Guild"

>last save was a week ago. FUCK THAT.

 

[Tilted_Logic]

1. Lack of save spots or an inability to quick save. I have no problem with not being able to save under certain circumstances, i.e. being in combat, fighting a 'boss' etc. But games that prevent you from saving at all (I'm looking at you Crysis 2) drive me batty. If I'm playing on the hardest difficulty it'd be nice to know the last half hour I spent wading my way through enemies wasn't for naught when I happened to glitch into a wall.
2. Lack of single player! I generally suck in a group environment when I first start a game, and more-often-than-not use single player as a way to teach myself the ropes.
3. Not enough sci-fi epics!

Alright, aside from my last point the others are rather standard, I can't think of much at the moment but I sure would be happy to see more alien focused games on the horizon.

Ooh! I'm suffering Nightmare #2 right now! Stupid Sims 3...

Definitely not alone mate, I must have spent hours upon hours trying fixes/editing files to get my copy to work... when I'd get it to start, something else would go wrong... Oh what a fun week that was...

 

[gbemery]

Getting a new computer and wanting to load an old game on it only to find out you lost your old games CD key.

 

[Jurian]

the jack-in-the-box boss from donkey kong 64

 

[Vault101]

5. and 6. I miss my old games that took a lot of time to complete. Maybe I was just a bad gamer back then so I took more time, but now, I whiz through games kinda fast. It makes me feel terrible. Portal 2 single player could have taken me one day, but I paced myself. When I actually stop a game because I feel I'm going too fast, that's when things kinda get bad.

Games with a definite goal that keep my attention for a long time are goooooood. Open ended games are fun... but if there's some sort of lax in quests then I'd drop it right there. I made a cool castle in minecraft, then I didn't know what to do, so I lost interest. Oblivion was really fun but I finished up a lot of my side quests and I didn't wanna do the main quest so I took a break... which never ended.

Grr. I miss the good old games like Brave Fencer Musashi, Einhander, Crash Bandicoot, etc. Lots of secrets, challenges, good story if you wanted to find it, and other stuff.

Gaming nowadays seems to have sank a little. I think the gaming companies know that games are a huge deal now so they take it for granted. Back then, they fought to make it a big deal, and it paid off with great memories.

interestingly the number one thing I was worried about was that portal 2 was going to be short, but god even if it wasnt that long it FELT long and I LOVED it, so yeah I guess it depends on the induvidual somtimes, if it felt as short as the first one I wouldnt have been satisdfied

but yeah I hate it when , just liek you said, I stop because I feel like Im going too fast

 

[zombiestrangler]

Fallout stops being made
Saints 3 turns into GTA4
All games now made entirely of gray, brown, and grit. Forever.