Games or developers you hate on principle
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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.
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.
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:
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:
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.JordanJefferson said:
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
No, you should be getting a medal.OhJohnNo said:
If I made a thread like this it'd be a string of profanity and insults.
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.Darkness62 said:
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.
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.Glademaster said:
I (and most people) play games for fun I don't need the hastle just so that i can claim i'm hard core.
Kaez said: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.JordanJefferson said: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
I stopped there. Seriously, you're going to hate a game/developer on principle because their IP is loved by fans and critics alike? I don't really follow - just seems like you're trying to rebel against something that doesn't really deserve it.OhJohnNo said:
I don't think there are any developers that I'd stick my nose up at, on principle. I lavish support when support is due, and when it's not, in my opinion, I simply won't buy their game.
There's a whole shitload of people who really need to read what I wrote, rather than just skimming it and jumping to their own conclusions.Marowit said:
I hate Half Life 2 (irrationally, I'll admit) because of its capacity to apparently magically transmogrify an unfortunate proportion of its fans (at least on this site) into total douchebags. And before you say anything about the Halo games and their fans, i've never seen it happen with them. Perhaps I just visit the
You are speaking out of your arse, tbh. I bought my computer for £500 (roughly 600 euros), including monitor, keyboard, mouse etc about 5 years ago. I've had to spend £20 on a new PCU because my old one broke uring a power surge (I assume) and £30 on a new graphics card (after the old ones fan broke off and the card overheated), that is all. Still easily runs everything I can throw at it, sure for heavy stuff I need to turn graphical settings down, but it still works fine, usually on medium/high and, to be honest I don't see that much difference between the graphics on my computer and on my 360 and PS3. Would need to go on a case by case basis if I had to say which was slightly better. Even less difference when I'm actually playing since as long as I can see what's what I don't really care about graphics. On top of that it can do countless more tasks than a console can, and it's very easy and cheap to upgrade it, when the time comes that you do need to do so. You are heavily exaggerating the cost of computers.Ampersand said:
Edit: OT: Can't think of maybe. Few devs and game series that I will be wary of before buying, but nothing I can say I hate. Other than possibly MW2. Find it much easier to say what games and developers I love.