Games or developers you hate on principle

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Know anybody with an Xbox 360 connected to a TV? Bring it there, play it, see if your hatred is founded or not.

Yes, Valve biggest fanboy's are over zealous about Valve game, and are willing to put down other title just because it has a space marine in power armor in it (ignoring the fact that Gordon Freeman kind of invented that concept) but so are Halo fans, Sonic fans (oh god the Sonic fans) fans of ANY game will put you down for not liking their games (you do not want to start me on what I heard in defence of Sonic '06). Just remember this, the most vocal group of anything is the group that lives and dies by it.

Know that, and your travels through the internet will suddenly become much easier and much funnier if you read all the complainers in chimpmuck voices.

I might do that if HL2 has a co-op mode (seems selfish and pointless to go round my friend's house with a 360 only to play a singleplayer by myself).

I also think I've figured out how the hell I've managed to avoid the rabid Halo fans that are definitely out there somewhere on the Internet - I only visit three forums, including this one. One of the others is a teeny tiny fan forum for an internet author where nobody seems to care about FPS games in general (though there are lots of big Mass Effect threads); the other is a not-quite-so-small and very civil forum - which, at its core, is a Relic fan forum, packed full of old-timers who love Homeworld. You do get threads about pretty much all the big releases, but anybody trying to troll them gets quickly punished...

And finally... I think I would actually like to hear what you heard in defence of Sonic 06 .

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Know anybody with an Xbox 360 connected to a TV? Bring it there, play it, see if your hatred is founded or not.

Yes, Valve biggest fanboy's are over zealous about Valve game, and are willing to put down other title just because it has a space marine in power armor in it (ignoring the fact that Gordon Freeman kind of invented that concept) but so are Halo fans, Sonic fans (oh god the Sonic fans) fans of ANY game will put you down for not liking their games (you do not want to start me on what I heard in defence of Sonic '06). Just remember this, the most vocal group of anything is the group that lives and dies by it.

Know that, and your travels through the internet will suddenly become much easier and much funnier if you read all the complainers in chimpmuck voices.

I might do that if HL2 has a co-op mode (seems selfish and pointless to go round my friend's house with a 360 only to play a singleplayer by myself).

I also think I've figured out how the hell I've managed to avoid the rabid Halo fans that are definitely out there somewhere on the Internet - I only visit three forums, including this one. One of the others is a teeny tiny fan forum for an internet author where nobody seems to care about FPS games in general (though there are lots of big Mass Effect threads); the other is a not-quite-so-small and very civil forum - which, at its core, is a Relic fan forum, packed full of old-timers who love Homeworld. You do get threads about pretty much all the big releases, but anybody trying to troll them gets quickly punished...

And finally... I think I would actually like to hear what you heard in defence of Sonic 06 .

Everything from, "You have to forgive all the flaws because they were forced to rush it" to "you have to play it for the story to keep the continuity straight."

Yes, they thought I had to play through "Shadow and Silver's time traveling adventure: with some appearances from Sonic" where the at the end the entire story deletes it self from existance and causes 12 different kinds of plot holes by including Blaze the Cat in the story period.

Edit: Sorry, no Co-op

But, you can always play manual "when one of us dies we switch who is playing" co-op that people who played Portal often used.

 

[HonorableChairman]

I really don't understand this concept.

I will admit, I am one to succumb to hype aversion (Although this is only in like Halo-tier cases, anything less than that and I feel like it's just silly). But that applies to games, not whole companies. I don't understand how you can discount any game that a dev has made or will ever make for a (usually trivial) arbitrary reason. If anything, devs only enter into the equation when it's a dev I like, and thus makes me want to get the game more. Devs I don't like end up just not registering on my radar, so I just treat whatever game they're making like any other game.

 

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Everything from, "You have to forgive all the flaws because they were forced to rush it" to "you have to play it for the story to keep the continuity straight."

Yes, they thought I had to play through "Shadow and Silver's time traveling adventure: with some appearances from Sonic" where the at the end the entire story deletes it self from existance and causes 12 different kinds of plot holes by including Blaze the Cat in the story period.

Edit: Sorry, no Co-op

But, you can always play manual "when one of us dies we switch who is playing" co-op that people who played Portal often used.

Hmm. "They were forced to rush it" sounds like a good reason to forgive the company for letting the flaws through, but not for forgetting they're there. That's just silly. As for Blaze the Cat, who is that? I don't know my Sonic.

Manual co-op could work, I guess, but it sounds imperfect - perhaps a certain time limit before each swap would be better. I could try it.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Everything from, "You have to forgive all the flaws because they were forced to rush it" to "you have to play it for the story to keep the continuity straight."

Yes, they thought I had to play through "Shadow and Silver's time traveling adventure: with some appearances from Sonic" where the at the end the entire story deletes it self from existance and causes 12 different kinds of plot holes by including Blaze the Cat in the story period.

Edit: Sorry, no Co-op

But, you can always play manual "when one of us dies we switch who is playing" co-op that people who played Portal often used.

Hmm. "They were forced to rush it" sounds like a good reason to forgive the company for letting the flaws through, but not for forgetting they're there. That's just silly. As for Blaze the Cat, who is that? I don't know my Sonic.

Manual co-op could work, I guess, but it sounds imperfect - perhaps a certain time limit before each swap would be better. I could try it.

No, they were expecting forgiveness for that.

As for Blaze, she is a cat that first appeared in the handheld Sonic Rush games that were actually pretty good (2D games), but she was thrown in with 06 after all the fans fell in love with her (I don't know why). It is a confusing problem since in the Rush games she was a princess gaurdian thing from another demension, while 06 she was a cat from the future (a future that ceased to exist).

Try wrapping your head around that one for a moment.

 

[Blackpapa]

0. If there's ever a developer I was seriously tempted to mail a horse's head to, it was Bethesda, for Failout 3.

1. Ubisoft, for letting them know they think of players as thieves. You know, the corporate equivalent of a shopkeeper staring at your hands with a stern look.

2. Square Enix, for everything. They release Final Fantasy games, which I never was very fond of, in the way I'm not very fond of malaria. A horrible combat system, a main character that's about as an angsty emo as it can get and a flimsy, insultingly stupid plot that despite it's disfigurment and helpless stagerring still takes itself seriously.

They screwed over Supcom 2, kind of defeating the whole point of the franchise. They screwed up DXHR with no-less-than-retarded dialogues and screwed the setting overall.

Also, for releasing a movie called Advent Children. I downloaded this film for a friend of mine and decided that as long as I have it, I might as well watch it. In all honesty, the first 15 minutes I thought the film to be some sort of super-surreal absurd animated comedy. And I laughed. Then I realized it's supposed to be srs, and the idea of a spikey-haired angsty teenager superman-ripoff and his no less hilariously hyperbolic supporting characters are made to make me shiver in excitement.

3. Anything Sony has had dealings with, this means all PS titles. I will NEVER trust a company that puts a rootkit on it's audio CDs or buy it's hardware.