Games or developers you hate on principle

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I hate PC gaming, because the people that do it are always so condescending and elitist. They just anger me.

Yet you are kinda being a little elitist by saying that and a lot of console gamers have this kinda cross on their shoulders by being thinking that every PC gamer is elitist and consider all PC gamers elitist thus being elitist themselves. So the elitism goes both ways.

I don't hate PC gamers. I'd be one if i had the money. I just think it's unacceptable when they act all snobby and superiour about it. (And we all know someone who's like that.)
Games are supposed to be played for fun.

PCs are cheaper than consoles I've already said this before in the last 2 days. There are a lot more costs to the consoles through TVs and peripherals and games cost 10-20euro more on consoles than PCs. That means that if you buy ten games a year over the course of 5 years(roughly what a gaming pc would last from high to recommended min specs) that is between 500-1,000 euro less on games not including Steam sales and other things like that. You also have to take out the costs of playing online for if you are comparing to xbox. So overall PCs are cheaper or atleast equal to the price of consoles.

Also On Topic on principle the only game I hate is MW2. I hate it because what IW did to the PC version with cutting back of content, overpriced mod content(Overpriced DLC), uping the price of game. Also Bobby Kotick being a money grubbing whore well at least he is kinda acting like one at the moment.

 

[Autofaux]

I suppose I have a rocky relationship with the Halo franchise. Halo 3 marked the beginning of my dim view of where the franchise was going. I love the good times you get from multiplayer but then I question why there is a single player campaign at all if its only gonna be a half baked story. Reach also made that abundantly clear that things were unlikely to change.

Call of Duty MW2. It's everything that's wrong with sequels. It doesn't live up to the hype, its broken, its unbalanced, the story is all over the place. Completely off the rails it went, and it wasn't even a Treyarch game. Speaking of which, every single Treyarch game ever made because they all reek of mediocrity. Hopefully, Black Ops breaks that chain.

Mario and Zelda titles. Remakes galore, nothing to show for it but fan service and nostalgia.

Final Fantasy XIII. Pacing is non existent. Gameplay is broken up into uneven story blocks, and is somehow even more linear than previous titles.

 

[TelHybrid]

Activision/Infinity ward for Call of Duty Modern warfare 2.

They absolutely gimped the PC version compared to its predecessors. They took away aspects that PC games have had for years, just to make it as gimped down as the console versions. No mod support? WTF?

Oh and Peer to peer networking, which yes can work when coded correctly (e.g. Halo), but ooooh no, it's set to a random host selection, and usually ends up using the console with the worst connection as the host.

There's also the RRP of £55. The overpriced DLC that rehashes CoD4 maps.

Yes I'm one of those people who STILL likes to ***** about the negatives of ModWaf2. (Oh and I despise the fanbase!)

Oh I hate Square ever since they merged with Enix. They haven't been the same since.

I hate Vivendi for not letting Naughty Dog continue with the Crash Bandicoot series.

I don't hate SEGA, I just think it's rather upsetting how the whole development team seemed to get brain damage.

I hate Nintendo for being sellouts, and catering to a bubblegum market of morons who think paying £45 for a game you can find on newgrounds for free is a good idea.

I hate Valve for taking so damn long with Episode 3.

 

[JordanJefferson]

And I'M sick of all of the hoops that I have to jump through just to play Empire: Total War, smarmy and oblique offers that I don't want, game prices potentially EXCEEDING the retail price, and having to sign up with a mumbo-jumbo shareware site just to play a game that I got when installing the thing takes up so much time as is!

 

[JordanJefferson]

Valve thanks to Steam, no need to elaborate.

Yeah; I'm totally sick of all the 70% off sales, the constant updates they feed to you automatically and the huge community.

[small]You really do need to elaborate.[/small]

I refer you to my previous post.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Team Ninja: I hate their games, I try to give credit where it's due but it's never due with them. Every game they've ever made has been awful.

This of course leads me to

TECMO: See above and then add the fact that they sued some kid a few years back for generating his own content for one of their games.

Rockstar Games: I have to clarify that this is for games developed by Rockstar, not games they published.
I have used, and probably will use in the future, the excuse that a good story can forgive bad game design. That has never and probably will never be the case with rockstar games. Their actual game mechanics are awful and matters are only made worse by their paper thin plots and terrible storytelling.

That's it I think.

 

[Steppin Razor]

Valve I sort of hate because of Steam. It has some pretty good things going for it, such as allowing me to keep in contact with mates while I'm gaming and it caters to my lazy nature by auto-updating my games for me, but at the end of the day it's still just a cleverly disguised form of DRM. What I really hate, though, is when I buy a game in a store and go to install it, only to discover that my supposedly "DRM-free" game requires Steam. Yeah, fuck off game companies, you're not fooling me with your bullshit claims about the game having no DRM.

Also, Steam has resulted in publishers shafting us Aussies even more ridiculously. Before digital distribution they could at least attempt to claim that the costs of importing the games and taxes and such raised the price. How the fuck do they justify a price difference like this when there are no costs outside of keeping a server up and running:

Spoiler

 

[Yureina]

I'm going to be uncreative and say Activision. I won't buy their games anymore, with the exception of stuff made by Blizzard. I never really cared for what Activision made anyway.

 

[sylekage]

Anyone who makes a new sports game (I'm looking at you EA.) I understand, it's a new season, new players, new stuff. But for the love of GOD stop making them. Just for a little while. Or, if making a "new" Madden, make it cheaper. 50 or so bucks for the same game every year? Nah. Not cool.

OP:We may be irritating about Half-Life 2, but until you play it, you don't really know what you're in for. It is a great game, yes. People here talking about it here gets annoying, Yes. But hating on it for just that? Kinda harsh huh?

 

[Last Bullet]

I think in the back of my head I hate Microsoft for buying Rare and ruining the Banjo-Kazooie series. And then I don't like Games for Windows Live. RROD... Yeah, I ain't too fond of Microsoft.

I also hate console fanboys who randomly generalize PC gamers with hypocritical statements. But that's neither here nor there (actually, it is here). But it is a bit off topic.

 

[Wutaiflea]

I try not to get involved in this sort of thing. It seems strange to find yourself unwilling to try a company's games on principle when each game could be made by a virtually completely separate team of people.
I could probably be considered a Square fangirl, as I'm a massive FF fan, but I judge all of their games separately and don't automatically assume they'll be awesome just because Square made them. I always think this should go both ways.

That said, my problem was Bioware. As someone who has primarily been a console gamer for most of their life, I hadn't really come into contact with Bioware until I met my husband.

When I actually started trying to play their PC games, I found that although the stories and characters were good, the actual gameplay was atrocious. I found it really hard to believe that people could sit there and talk about Bioware as though they were the gaming equivalent of Jesus when their games were sometimes practically unplayable and very buggy.

Since Dragon Age though, Bioware and I have kissed and made up. Although I wouldn't touch the fucking PC version with a ten foot clown pole, the console version delivered all the awesome people praise them for, with very few of the flaws.

Personally, I believe that Bioware should be banned from working on PC games- I don't think they can be trusted with a medium that has so many buttons to be assigned to stupid things.

 

[Funkysandwich]

FPSs is the only genre PC gamers are REALLY good at.

RTS would like a word with you.

 

[Voodoomancer]

Fans are fine.
Fanboys who consider anything that isn't their favorite game to be utter crap are just stupid, whether a game is good or not is relative to ones interests.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Fans are fine.
Fanboys who consider anything that isn't their favorite game to be utter crap are just stupid, whether a game is good or not is relative to ones interests.

You must've been to Nintendolife recently lol

 

[Kaez]

Valve thanks to Steam, no need to elaborate. But I especially hate Blizzard on account of StarCraft II. I just think that either you bring out the whole game, or you don't bring it out at all.

They made this perfectly clear that it was a narrative problem, not a greed problem. I'm not sure why people haven't realized that yet. have they split any other game up into 3 sections to tell a story? I haven't seen it besides SC2. I think most people are bumsore because not everyone can play a campaign as their favorite faction. And there is no where that says they have to own WoL to play HotS or LotV, as far as I remember, they are all standalone games.

And I mean you got what 28-30 missions out of the gate, with each game adding roughly the same amount of missions AND new units for each race. And lets not even get started with the "lack of innovation". Had they changed too much and everyone would be bitching "This isn't Starcraft anymore!" and when they changed too little people complained "They didn't innovate!"

Well you can't have it both ways folks, sorry to say.

Edit: And while I'm a fan of Blizzard from playing the Diablo franchise, I don't endorse WoW, and I think providing a larger narrative to their fans that have been waiting at least 10 long years for a sequel really shouldn't complain, except they still will because they have to shell out money anyway.... which they still would have done for some other game, so really only makes you have to choose (unless you are in a good financial standing and can afford any game at anytime)

Edit 2: Oh and developers that I hate.... it's a short list, I think Bungie, but I wasn't a fan of Halo... gave it an honest try though

 

[AnAngryMoose]

OP, thank you for making this thread. I've been meaning to make one myself, but couldn't without getting banned.

Suddenly I'm worried. This doesn't mean I'm gonna get banned, does it?

No, you should be getting a medal.

If I made a thread like this it'd be a string of profanity and insults.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Bungie/Micro$uck Games ~ For pinching off a stinking loaf of a mediocre FPS and claiming it is the best thing that ever happened to the FPS genre, granted it was probably the best thing to happen to XBox FPS gaming but that is a fairly easy feat given the crap that comes out on consoles. Halo fanboys I will lump into the same category, as they share the same limited hive mind, probably some sort of hive mind with severe brain damage. Sure Halo maybe the greatest thing to ever grace your FAILbox drive, but once again, that is as far as it's influence extends. To others it is as generic as a game can be, in fact the poster child for generic, consolised FPS.

Bitter/Jealous Console Fanboys ~ Consoles are the easy choice, not the best choice, I know you will never understand that. Or the fact that everyone uses a PC, even you, or that the TV if you want the best from a console game also factors into the price. There is nothing wrong with liking gaming to be easy. I too enjoy just popping a PS3 game in and playing it. Just sit on the couch and play on a 52 " screen is fun, I can do the exact same on a PC but that isn't the point, but easy is rarely the best. Long ago I decided I wanted the best from my gaming experience, and to be blunt, that simply cannot happen on a console. The hardware is well beyond it's expiry date, and visually they cannot keep up. The debacle with Mafia II console versions proves this. So, if you choose console only there is nothing wrong with it, but to believe it is anything but the easy choice is ridiculous. I myself will likely always be multi-platform, but PC will always be the highest priority. If there is even a hint at a PC version, I won't bother with the more expensive, less featured console version if if the PC version is a year behind.

Half-Life 2 is great, but there are a lot of great PC FPS games, try games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Cryostasis, Amnesia: The Dark Decent or Necrovision.

No offense dude, I can see where your coming from, but this proves the point someone made about PC Gamer elitism, particularly the last one.

Having said that, I do agree that some games work really well on a PC. I haven't had too much PC Gaming experience as my computer is over 7 years old, but I've found any sort of strategy game is awkward as fuck on a console (see R.U.S.E). Recently, though, I've become addicted to Evil Genius and prior to that I had great fun with Battlefield 2142, but other PC Games I've played, such as Battlefield Heroes have been sub-par in my opinion.

 

[Ampersand]

I hate PC gaming, because the people that do it are always so condescending and elitist. They just anger me.

Yet you are kinda being a little elitist by saying that and a lot of console gamers have this kinda cross on their shoulders by being thinking that every PC gamer is elitist and consider all PC gamers elitist thus being elitist themselves. So the elitism goes both ways.

I don't hate PC gamers. I'd be one if i had the money. I just think it's unacceptable when they act all snobby and superiour about it. (And we all know someone who's like that.)
Games are supposed to be played for fun.

PCs are cheaper than consoles I've already said this before in the last 2 days. There are a lot more costs to the consoles through TVs and peripherals and games cost 10-20euro more on consoles than PCs. That means that if you buy ten games a year over the course of 5 years(roughly what a gaming pc would last from high to recommended min specs) that is between 500-1,000 euro less on games not including Steam sales and other things like that. You also have to take out the costs of playing online for if you are comparing to xbox. So overall PCs are cheaper or atleast equal to the price of consoles.

Also On Topic on principle the only game I hate is MW2. I hate it because what IW did to the PC version with cutting back of content, overpriced mod content(Overpriced DLC), uping the price of game. Also Bobby Kotick being a money grubbing whore well at least he is kinda acting like one at the moment.

My console cost me just shy of 300 euro, a pc that could play the same quality of games would cost well over a grand................i think i can pay for several years of live subscriptions from the difference there. Also a console doesn't need to be constantly updated. Since the last console generation began most people will have gone through two PCs.
I (and most people) play games for fun I don't need the hastle just so that i can claim i'm hard core.

 

[JordanJefferson]

They made this perfectly clear that it was a narrative problem, not a greed problem. I'm not sure why people haven't realized that yet. have they split any other game up into 3 sections to tell a story? I haven't seen it besides SC2. I think most people are bumsore because not everyone can play a campaign as their favorite faction. And there is no where that says they have to own WoL to play HotS or LotV, as far as I remember, they are all standalone games.

And I mean you got what 28-30 missions out of the gate, with each game adding roughly the same amount of missions AND new units for each race. And lets not even get started with the "lack of innovation". Had they changed too much and everyone would be bitching "This isn't Starcraft anymore!" and when they changed too little people complained "They didn't innovate!"

Well you can't have it both ways folks, sorry to say.

Edit: And while I'm a fan of Blizzard from playing the Diablo franchise, I don't endorse WoW, and I think providing a larger narrative to their fans that have been waiting at least 10 long years for a sequel really shouldn't complain, except they still will because they have to shell out money anyway.... which they still would have done for some other game, so really only makes you have to choose (unless you are in a good financial standing and can afford any game at anytime)

Edit 2: Oh and developers that I hate.... it's a short list, I think Bungie, but I wasn't a fan of Halo... gave it an honest try though

Actually, I personally just resent them because I just don't care for the idea of bringing out a game in parts. Either release the whole thing or don't release anything.