What do you hate the most about gaming?

[MajWound]

I hate the Sims 3 bullshit of withholding awesome game content until you pay extra for it.

I hate 3D and motion control.

I hate when people log onto forums and ***** about petty little shit when they have perfectly decent games they could be playing.

Oh, wait...

I just pulled out my Diablo II battle chest after... maybe 2 years of not playing it, loaded it up on my old p.c. cause I wanted to play it without reinstalling, and the game files were corrupt...

So I figured "No problem, I'll just reinstall it..."

So i start pulling out my CD's one by one... And realized the CD key for the expansion is missing...

Of course.... So i check Battle.net's Support... They want me to send 10 $ as well as the game manual all the way to the us... Just to get a new CD key? -sigh-

Seriously, After postage, and shipping insurance from Canada... it would be cheaper just to buy the expansion again.

Anyways, that's my rant. What do you hate about gaming?

P.S. Before I go buy another Expansion disk...

Does anyone have a spare D2 Expansion Key Lying Around?

Go to a used game store, preferably one with racks of jewel cases. Write down the key on one of the copies they have in there. Use that. I've had to do that twice because I keep losing them.

 

[ExiledPaladin13]

Activation of games, i dont like the fact that i need either the disk inside my laptop's hole everytime i want to play it, but i also hate the fact that i need an internet connection (without proxies) to activate the game. My boarding house doesnt allow game features to be used with the internet so i have to use phone teathering (which is annoying nonetheless.

 

[Fidelias]

This divide between PC and console gamers. FOOLS! Don?t turn this into an ?us vs. them?
issue!

PC gamers are just as guilty as console gamers of this, I feel.

Speaking as someone who made the switch from obsessive console-gamer to obsessive pc-gamer, I agree completely.

I love both systems, why does liking one make you inferior, while liking the other makes you superior?

Also, I hate that the new term for "dumbing down" is "consolize". Seriously people, consoles aren't causing this. It's the people in the community that complain that games are too long and complex. It's the developers who listen to these people because they are greedy bastards. Place the blame where it truly lies.

 

[Mallefunction]

Most of the things I hate have been covered already, but I think the whole mentality of, "if you don't win/survive the entire game with the BEST SCORE EVA!!!11! you're a LOSER and should not be allowed to play games, let alone call yourself a gamer", bugs me the most.

I suck at games, even ones I've owned and played several times over. But every time people watch me play I get asked if I'm a new player. When I tell them I'm not, they ask me why I bother playing then since I suck so much.

Apparently you cannot ENJOY a game if you suck at said game. Ugh.

 

[Galaxy Roll]

The two ends of the spectrum of gamers:

The people who love a game unconditionally to the point of being blind to the faults. They could probably play a sequel that is literal shit and think it's the greatest work in the history of the universe. Don't get me wrong, this isn't always a bad thing, but 99% of the people in this category don't like you for not thinking the same thing and will try to "fix" you with an inundation of gushing.

"But wait, Galaxy! I love x series unconditionally! I'm pretty sure plenty of people do that don't shove it down your throat!" That's why I said "to the point of being blind to the faults." People who acknowledge that their favorite games aren't perfect and never will be are much more personable and are actually my favorite type of gamer and also me.

And

The people who unconditionally hate games despite knowing nothing of it past the title, because the cool kids hate it.

 

[Smurf McSmurfington]

Where to begin...
Mainly the whole "streamlining" or "simplifying" bollocks, the general shift of focus towards multiplayer, rather than an interesting character-driven narrative, lack of depth gameplay-wise aswell as story-wise (seriously, game developers, RPG game developers in particular, look at older games like the BG series aswell as Planescape: Torment, you WILL learn LOADS from just playing through them once again, and I'm not saying all games should be like them, I'm saying theres a LOT to be learned from them... and I do mean a LOT)... basically the devolving of games in general.
Seriously, having played the BG series aswell as Planescape: Torment just a few years ago, rather than a decade ago as is the case for most of the fans of those games, I still consider them great games, games vastly superior to any modern RPG I've played, including the ME series(which I also love), The Witcher and The Witcher 2 being closer than most games get, but not quite there yet.
I do understand why modern games have less freedom, simply because they're more expensive to make, and if you want to make a huge world(that looks great, and doesn't seem randomly generated) that players could easily miss half of, you'll have to pay LOADS of money, while it was relatively cheap back when BG was still new, largely because the levels themselves were simpler, graphically and functionally. Torment simply didn't have as many different maps, as the BG games had.
Funny thing, though, the isometric view D&D games are aesthetically far more pleasing than say... DA2. They have their own distinct visual style, which DA2 lacks(and I'm not hating on DA2, I could bring up a different game for an example, but DA2 is the most well-known and obvious example, so I went with that).
Still, I applaud Bioware for atleast understanding that great writing is INTEGRAL to an RPG game, even if some other bits come out a bit iffy.
Oh and speaking of DA2, another thing that annoys me is publishers pushing developers to rush out a game that's only half-made. Most of the bad parts of DA2 can be directly blamed on time constraints... the game had huge potential, but nowhere near enough time to actually follow through on all their ideas and make a good(by Bioware standards, which is basically excellent by any other standards) game out of it as well.

/rant

 

[Gaiseric]

Fanboys and hypocrites, their feedback is ruining the industry.

I hate the prices of a new controller. Seriously $60-70??? That could buy me 1 or 2 games. Also I hate motion controls.

Bingo. You guys took the words out of my mouth through the internet(witches?!)

 

[PonceyMcTosserFaic]

I will have to go with the online community in games like Black Ops as well.

A perfect example just happened today. I went 38 and 11 in team deathmatch. I said nothing at all during the game yet I receive hateful comments about how I'm a "lucky pos" because I killed some whiny 14 year old a lot from behind. Instead of a simple "good game", people always have to make excuses for themselves. Sportsmanship simply does not exist.

i know. it's like if they kill you they are like "im mlg you noob loser" BUT if YOU kill THEM it's like "OMG YOU F------ HACKER!!!"

whatever happened to fair play and honor? whatever happened to may the best man win instead
of may the cheapest and cowardly man win?

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

The fact that due to development costing way way more on these more complex platforms, longer games and varied gameplay is sacrificed. For example, me and a friend are going through the Jak and Daxter trilogy for PS2 at the moment, and the length and the variety of those games blows 90% of the PS3 games I've played out of the water, which is a shame.

 

[aei_haruko]

I just pulled out my Diablo II battle chest after... maybe 2 years of not playing it, loaded it up on my old p.c. cause I wanted to play it without reinstalling, and the game files were corrupt...

So I figured "No problem, I'll just reinstall it..."

So i start pulling out my CD's one by one... And realized the CD key for the expansion is missing...

Of course.... So i check Battle.net's Support... They want me to send 10 $ as well as the game manual all the way to the us... Just to get a new CD key? -sigh-

Seriously, After postage, and shipping insurance from Canada... it would be cheaper just to buy the expansion again.

Anyways, that's my rant. What do you hate about gaming?

P.S. Before I go buy another Expansion disk...

Does anyone have a spare D2 Expansion Key Lying Around?

hmm,
I'd have to say people playing video games, insulting my dreams of being a scientist, and then calling me stupid: for not playing CoD

 

[krazykidd]

The fact that due to development costing way way more on these more complex platforms, longer games and varied gameplay is sacrificed. For example, me and a friend are going through the Jak and Daxter trilogy for PS2 at the moment, and the length and the variety of those games blows 90% of the PS3 games I've played out of the water, which is a shame.

inorite? if only it was possible to boycott the entire video game industry as an whole, but its not , so the industry won't learn until it's too late.

OT: online gamers, so many douchebags , so little time, i usually mute everyone when i play on XBL. If i play a MMO , i usually enable the chat function with anyone outside guild.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

How single player is constantly half-assed for multiplayer... oh, and the same with PC versions for the 360...

 

[FalloutJack]

I think the last time I saw a thread like this, I said "Unpleasable Fanbase" or "The Fans". This answer is still viable.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I'm sick of dark games.

Give me some goddamn color up in this *****!

Skyrim is doing it, why can't you!?

 

[sneakypenguin]

The entitlement of the entire video game community.

I'm looking at all of you

Amen hamsterman.


Also this is the only hobby i've engaged in where there is such fragmentation in the community, and vehement fragmentation at that.

 

[Centrophy]

Games aren't made with me in mind. By that I mean that I feel like games like Morrowind, Terranigma, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Skies of Arcadia, and even Overlord just aren't made anymore. Now everything is all big choices and cinematics. I loved Mass Effect 2, but it needed to be streamlined more in the conversations. You ask a question and if you ask them in the wrong order it just sounds like an awkward disjointed conversation. Also Renegade points for no reasons. Grrr! More games are like this now and they can piss off. DA:O style conversation systems can also piss off. I don't want a conversation to end if I ask a question to get more info. Piss off.

Oh and as others have said, multiplayer in my singleplayer game. Some things go well together like chocolate and peanut butter but mp and sp do not. Not everything has to have online functionality! I've noticed that the games I listed as examples above are brighter while not being cheesy, bring back some "fun" and light atmospheres. As it is, I may quit gaming in the next few years if this continues.

 

[Tanakh]

Lack of time to play.

So many good games waiting for me.

 

[Vault101]

Your all pissed about the inside of it, im worried of the OUTSIDE.

Bodies becoming unfit, not spending much time with loved ones before that times runs out is what i worry about.

thats got nothing to do with gaming...thats got everything to do with YOU

in other words what you mentioned can be caused by ANYTHING, the only reason gamin itself gets a bad rep is because of societys veiws

 

[Singularly Datarific]

How the industry seems to hate the customers. Project $10 does not bode well for any theoretical opinions they hold of us. They aren't above us, they rely on us to stay alive, not the other way around.
I also hate how we don't seem to care about this, how we just sit here and take it while these companies install draconian DRM coding and try their hardest to make sure we don't break their contracts.

 

[coolkirb]

The diseperance of players choice games, why is it last gen I could get a whole slew of great games for $20 while this gen players choice games (what few their are) cost $30 and have a poor selection. Nintendo espicially as they had a lot of great players choice games for the Gamecube while for the Wii their are only 4 so far.