I could dabble into the specifics but generally my biggest problem with games is that they are all just too fucking easy. I wish the developers would remember people like me when they make difficulty settings rather than having a scale of no challenge-barely a challenge and pretending it's easy-hard. It's not ever going to reach anything approaching hard so stop pretending like it is. 10/10 to squaresoft for rarely doing this and 0/10 to pretty much everyone else.
Another hate related to difficulty is games that don't allow you to play the hardest setting first playthrough. The only time a game is actually hard is on the first playthrough so it makes no sense to have a harder setting to unlock that ends up taking half the time of the original. 8-16 hours on hard seems fair enough, 6-8 hours on the hardest 'reward' difficulty seems insulting and ultimately pointless.
Some games try to hide how short they are by having unskipable cut-scenes to flesh the game length out (points the finger directly at Max Payne 3) and others let you skip everything and take less than 6 hours (points the finger at prince of persia).
If it wasn't for achievements i would barely get a days gameplay out of the majority of titles i have played and that is disgraceful when games costs as much as they do. Maybe that is one of the reasons i only rent games nowadays rather than rushing out to buy them...
Another hate related to difficulty is games that don't allow you to play the hardest setting first playthrough. The only time a game is actually hard is on the first playthrough so it makes no sense to have a harder setting to unlock that ends up taking half the time of the original. 8-16 hours on hard seems fair enough, 6-8 hours on the hardest 'reward' difficulty seems insulting and ultimately pointless.
Some games try to hide how short they are by having unskipable cut-scenes to flesh the game length out (points the finger directly at Max Payne 3) and others let you skip everything and take less than 6 hours (points the finger at prince of persia).
If it wasn't for achievements i would barely get a days gameplay out of the majority of titles i have played and that is disgraceful when games costs as much as they do. Maybe that is one of the reasons i only rent games nowadays rather than rushing out to buy them...