What do you hate the most about gaming?

[sshakespeare]

cover based combat, regen health, increasing lack of local multiplayer and focus on online multiplayer, more focus on multiplayer than campaign/story etc, the majority of people with a microphone, and the ridiculous number of FPS games out there.

so yeah um pick one of them

edit: dlc that stops you playing the full game until you buy it (like the map packs on halo) and dlc thats clearly already on the disk (burnout paradise for example)

 

[Terramax]

I think I hate just about everything about videogames today. The way they're made, sold, the people who make them, play them, advertise them.

Playing games in the 90's things weren't very political unless you subscribed to Edge magazine or were part of the industry.

Now, I can't even buy a game second hand without being forced to feel guilty about it, let alone the problems I have the with games themselves with their pointless sandbox levels with nothing to do, hours of grinding and sub missions - having to WORK to get to the fun parts of games now.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Sudden difficulty spikes!

Example: Saint's Row 2. The final 2 missions.

2nd to last mission: get to a yacht, kill some cops and dudes, get on another boat and chase down and destroy an easy-to-blow up small boat.

last mission: chase down and destroy an armoured limo while under constant gangrape by armoured police tanks, then fly around a tower shooting out 4 small and hard-to-see spots on its sides while under fire from helicopters equipped with homing missiles, which you can only take 3 of and you only get one helicopter.

See, stuff like this is a dick move on behalf of developers and it's because of it that I'm currently pissed off and am never going to be able to complete Saint's Row 2 without cheating.

Fuck you Volition, and fuck your children, and their children! You have awakened a sleeping giant!

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I like to micromanage. I like to fiddle with upgrades or equipment in my games to try and build a character or team that is powerful and fun to play because I used said micromanagement to good effect.

Sadly those days are gone. If they build a game that I can get lost in, I might not buy the next game that comes out and doesn't engage me fully in any meaningful way. *sigh*

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

FAnboys. Yes, I played Half-Life 2. Yes, I played it on PC. No, I don't think it was God's gift to gaming. No, that does not mean I have horrible taste in games.

Yes, I played Halo: Reach. Yes, I enjoyed it. That doesn't mean I'm a consoletard who wouldn't know a good game if it bit me in the ass.

Also, people who hate game companies unreasonably. For example, I can understand disliking EA, due to the whole DRM debacle, but why does everyone constantly scrutinize every decision and every sentence that leaves Bioware with a magnifying glass just because they are now owned by EA? They've made one game that actually has a broken fanbase, and that is Dragon Age II. However, the same company made Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect. All those games are nearly universally enjoyed. And the same thing with Dragon Age: Origins. But DAII is apparently the worst game ever made, despite the fact that it is quite playable, so all of a sudden, people are reading up on Mass Effect 3 news just to comment and ***** about how Bioware's going downhill because of EA.

TL;DR: Fickle fanbases, and people who assume the parent company is 100% responsible for any decisions their companies make. Also, cake.

 

[LITE992]

Crappy console ports to the PC that are poorly optimized. People can't even get decent FPS on computers that surpass the recommended specs.

Edit: Xbox Live trials. There's demos, which give you a small amount of content for an unlimited time, and PC trials which give you an hour or so of full content. Then there's Xbox Live who thinks that combining the two is an awesome idea, so we get a low amount of content for about 20 minutes.