What do you hate the most about gaming?

[-Dragmire-]

The thing I probably 'hate' most about the industry is the industry's DRM PR policy.

If the game sells well, they say "See! People don't mind our DRM! This has been a very successful strategy and we will implement it for all our future releases!"

If the game does not sell well, they say "We lost a vast majority of our profits from pirates, we need to introduce even more intrusive DRM systems to counteract this loss." (whether anyone pirated their game is irrelevant, bad sales{to them} means everyone pirated the game)

This makes it extremely hard to "vote with your wallet" when they don't consider it to be people protesting their policies as much as "proof" people pirate their game on mass(again, their view and reality don't really see eye to eye).

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people who don't buy a game in protest will pirate it, but I am saying the game industry's PR will spin it that way.

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

Does anyone have a spare D2 Expansion Key Lying Around?

Sorry, I'm reinstalling it to play through again. It's been a while and I want to refresh my memory of the Diablo franchise before deciding if I should buy D3.

 

[Alcookie]

I hate how the industry is becoming more and more monotonous. I remember the PS2 era where the majority of games would jump out of the shelves at me, nowadays I look and its just bland shooter after bland shooter.

The last game I played which restored a little amount of faith in me was Double Fine's Stacking. Such a simple idea but a good few hours of solid fun.

 

[AnarchistFish]

The frustratingly difficult bits that seem out of propotion in terms of difficulty with the rest of game

And casual gamers who rave on about CoD and act like FPSes are the only games in existance

 

[queek]

THE STORY OF A GREAT GAME ENDING TO SOON OR WEIRD

 

[Zarmi]

People who think they know how stuff is supposed to be done.
Casual gamers (Really no offense to anyone, and no need for us to get unfriendly, I just personally can't handle some casual Wii gamer deciding to try something more challenging, and fucks it up good for everyone in that game (example: A Counter Strike match.)
Eh.. half-assed singleplayer experience.
The constant downgrading of games. (Looking at you "info on Diablo 3" and DA2.)
Call of Duty.
Streamlining.
The half-assed current development cycles that go: "Content? Nah, shit just needs to get us TEH MONEYZ."
The big increase in console gaming. (Personal preferrence. Consoles: Racing and fighting games. PC: Everything else.)
Expensive DLC.
League of Legends. (Lol, casualized version of DotA.)
And the increasing amount of "Story > Gameplay" and "Graphics > Gameplay".

 

[Domehammer]

People who hate casual gamers when they can't understand what a casual gamer really is. I also hate people who put winning above having fun in a game. Mainly comes from experience with dota in WC that was horrifying as 1st person to die would be kicked.

 

[DanielBrown]

The prices.
New releases in Sweden costs around 120$/60£ and if the game sells well they never lower the price. This has gotten me to start buying games from UK instead from a site where they charge around 24-36£ for a new release with free shipping. I still don't buy new releases, but if I did at least it wouldn't hurt so much in my wallet.

Multiplayer taking over
A lot of games these days come with multiplayer in spite of it seeming to be extremly useless. I understand that a lot of people love multiplayer, but I am sick of it after all my years with CS and TF2.
What bothers me about it is that it makes becomes impossible for me to get a majority of the trophies/achivements for the game and that the development time is extended. Was for example really looking forward to the Splinter Cell trilogy HD re-release for PS3, but now it's pushed back for multiplayer.
As far as I've heard the multiplayer for most games fails anyway since people only play for the achievements and then move on.

Singleplayer suffering
This has a lot to with multiplayer becoming the main focus for developers. Seen quite a few games recently that's short as hell, but try to make up for it by including multiplayer. If a game is short and frickin' awesome(Uncharted! <3) it doesn't matter to me, but from what I've heard the Call of Duty games has a four hour long campain. We've also got the Kayne & Lynch 2 game which was both awful and short and also the latest Harry Potter game(don't judge me, it was only 10$ so I had to!!!). It baffles me how they get away with this.

I'll let Angry Joe speak for me.

 

[Keava]

Community. There. I said it. The most horrid, moaning, never satisfied bunch with the self-entitlement attitude, always crying how games should be tailor to suit their and only their needs. Plus all the fanboism of either certain genres, studios or even specific games, raging when someone dares to call out on flaws, mindless bashing of everything that they do not like themselves, whining that publishers expect them to buy games NEW ... Yeah that's the vocal minority of the internets, i understand that, but that's the image those so called "gamers" give these days.

Much preferred the times where it was just a hobby of socially-awkward nerds sitting in their basements.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Gamers who are too elitist to let anyone else into their hallowed club of people playing video games.

 

[Woodsey]

Most of my favorite games I used to play as a kid don't work on windows 7...

I don't understand this...I assumed technology was getting more advanced.

Same with trying to play PS2 games on my PS3 and such, doesn't work...Why?

Uuh... yeah. That's a bit like asking why a VHS tape won't play in your DVD player. Just because its new doesn't mean its compatible. Although most old games will run on Vista/7 with some simple tweaking.

OT: Other gamers. Too nerdy. Too mysoginistic. Too racist. Too childish. Too nerdy.

And shit PC versions. You're obviously planning to make money from the platform or else you wouldn't be releasing your game on it, so put some fucking effort in. Its gotten to the point where I'm using the arrow keys to navigate menus because they haven't even bothered to program the mouse cursor in the menus properly.

And people who defend bad games because "they're just meant to be fun". Because that makes sense.

 

[Brentpool]

Fanboys and the strain it has on my bank account.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

I actually asked a guy from Sony why the PS3 wasn't backwards compatible. He said that it was because just about anyone who owned a PS3 would also own a PS2, so it wasn't worth the money.

 

[Magicmad5511]

Achievements that require either pure luck or cooperation from other players. I'm OK with the
"Complete campaign co-op" as long as I have a friend who has the game, but achievements like "Professor Portal" in Portal 2 where you have to go through the first course online with someone who hasn't played co-op before. THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT THIS. Most people get the game on release day and all of my friends who have the game have already completed the co-op. I can't get that achievement until another one of my friends gets Portal 2.

The Vidmaster achievements in Halo are similarly annoying. I have done "Annual" on a guest account before I got my X-box, and now Halo:Reach is out no one is on Halo 3 and most probably most won't hep me. "Deja View" and "Endure" are the same though my friends don't have them yet, they are too hard, annoying and because they require others if the internet dies or a player has to leave I lose the achievement.

These kind of achievements. Oh yeah also achievements for multiplayer, for games with terrible multiplayer(I'm looking at you Brutal Legend and your stupid RTS online).

I like my achievements in single player, or at least online and possible with practice. The first game I got all the achievements on was Batman Arkham Asylum. Totally single player. That tells you something.

 

[MrGseff]

This is quite a vague question, is it for the production side of gaming, the distribution, the thoughts of video games or moments when you play video games that just aggravate you?
Any way I will just give answers for most of them.
The aspects of gaming I hate are that developers no longer put much thought into the story of a video and most shooters attempt to be like a Call of Duty title in order to reach the Call of Duty audience, its unimaginative.
I also hate the controversy that surrounds gaming and how parents worry how a video game will affect their child, how some people are so worried about the children that they are trying to ban violent video games and spoil the fun for the rest of us. If a major event happens in the news the media seems as if it tries to find ways to place some blame upon the games industry. Its quite sad.

Oh and one last thing, the constant war over which console or format is better. People seem to think that choosing a different format changes the person, I have seen some serious arguments over Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3 and Consoles vs. PC.

tl;dr Storytelling, controvery, format wars.

 

[FoolKiller]

Achievements that require either pure luck or cooperation from other players. I'm OK with the
"Complete campaign co-op" as long as I have a friend who has the game, but achievements like "Professor Portal" in Portal 2 where you have to go through the first course online with someone who hasn't played co-op before. THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT THIS.

I completely agree. Especially because it required you to BEAT the multiplayer before playing with someone who has never played. I just created a dummy account to do it. The same with the hugging achievement.

I like how you brought up the annoyance with multiplayer achievements, but I want to also add that the online achievements are not only annoying when the lobbies are empty, but even more so when the game is popular. I can't tell you how often I have entered a game where people are just getting together to achievement hunt. It actually ruins the multiplayer as well.

This is what I did love about COD: Modern Warfare. The online had no achievements so people were playing just to play. More games should try that.

 

[Continuity]

DRM

Closely followed by the lowest common denominator... you know who you are...

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I hate pointless console/platform wars, obnoxious people on fps multiplayer games (hence one reason I don't play them), fanboyism, over priced DLC, people bitching about the smallest things; stuff like that.

 

[CheckD3]

I hate how shorter games are getting, or trying to "lengthen" a game with either multiplayer, or by making certain areas hard as fuck to beat. It's worse when I'm actually enjoying the games and then all of a sudden, game over! It's only been 10 hrs game! I beat this in a week and spent, well most of the time nothing because I'm G like that but still, there WERE people who spent money on this game and you skived us! Yes you have multiplayer but no, I won't give you my, or others shouldn't give you their hard earned money to play online and nothing else!

If I wanted to buy half a game I'd wait until it was 10 bucks and on sale, if I wanted a full game I'd play an older title since they usually got it right. Fuck, playing the original Sly Cooper games lasts longer than most AAA title nowadays.

Why can't studios give us longer games, or cut the prices of the games. If you want lots of shorter titles, cut the prices or give me a full game

 

[Commander Jack Rankin]

Stupid Gamertags like xxxQuiKSniPZxxx or some such crap.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Honestly, I hate DLC. Why should I have to fork out more to play a chapter/quest in a game that could have easily been included in the original content and really only benefits you with a unique weapon or something equally useless that I will most likely forget about.