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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: argyle on June 02, 2014, 09:19:17 am
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What are some little things games do that just drive you batty? Here's a couple of mine:
1) Returning you to the main menu when you die. Seriously? You *want* me to quit your game? Why make me wade back through a menu, often times the company logo, etc. just to reload my save? Give me either a Continue option or put me at the load screen.
2) "All progress since your last checkpoint will be lost!" upon trying to quit. This is the exact opposite, because it's like these people never want me to stop playing. Look, I don't know when the last checkpoint was - that little save icon disappears pretty quickly and plus I'm not focused on it. Why don't you do what bafflingly only a handful of games have done & tell me HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE MY LAST CHECKPOINT? :o I'll also accept the "Save & Quit" option.
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1). Not being able to skip/FF dialogue,
2). no 'soft-resets', and
3). topics about my gaming pet peeves ;)
- off of the top of my head
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1. Rushed releases. Make me wait six months for a game that's done. Don't send out something broken.
2. This whole no manual thing is driving me crazy. I feel like I'm getting a lot less with all these Xbox One games.
3. Porting. Just make the game for all the consoles. Make it optimized for each console.
That's all I've got so far, but I'm sure there are a lot more I'll remember later.
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Oh yah; another big pet peeve of mine is when "peeve" is spelled/used incorrectly :P
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Oh yah; another big pet peeve of mine is when "peeve" is spelled/used incorrectly :P
Man, you're just saucey today aren't you? :P Happy now?
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Oh yah; another big pet peeve of mine is when "peeve" is spelled/used incorrectly :P
Man, you're just saucey today aren't you? :P Happy now?
I'm just being...
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...wait for it...
"Peevish" today :P
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More on-topic, another gaming-related peeve of mine are on-line/multiplayer required trophies in single-player campaigns/RPG's; likewise trophies that become impossible to get when servers go down.
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Oh yah; another big pet peeve of mine is when "peeve" is spelled/used incorrectly :P
Man, you're just saucey today aren't you? :P Happy now?
I'm just being...
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...wait for it...
"Peevish" today :P
(http://media2.giphy.com/media/PcTzEWBzqiL5u/giphy.gif)
More on-topic, another gaming-related peeve of mine are on-line/multiplayer required trophies in single-player campaigns/RPG's; likewise trophies that become impossible to get when servers go down.
Heck, I'd say online trophies period. Really annoying.
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Checkpoints before unskippable cutscenes.
Games that don't have multiple save files.
Famicom controller cord length.
Sloppy ports to PC.
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Games w/ completely impossible-to-get True Endings w/o a guide!
Especially, when they have ridiculously obtuse & un-intuitive requirements/pre-requisites (like, in Cross-Edge) there's certain Bosses & enemies that...if you *mistakenly* cause them any damage = you can lock yourself out of the True Ending :o
Peeves are good & all -but- how-z-about also listing solutions that we've seen done in games that can alleviate some of these peeves -and- that more games should be adopting. I can think of 2 right off of the top of my head:
"Peeve" = having to run around in circles -at the mercy of a RNG- *Hoping* that you'll keep setting off random encounters when you need to grind/level-up.
"Solution" & Game = Cross-Edge has a feature where you can press a button for "Random Encounters On Demand"; whenever you want one...press the button for insta-fight!
"Peeve" = Games w/Branching & Multiple paths & endings where you have to play through the game (from the beginning) over, and over, and over, and over, and over again if you want to see & experience all of the different paths, outcomes, scenes, dialogue, and endings.
"Solution/Game" = I loved the way that Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ci'el (AT3) handled this...it automatically allowed you to to pick-up from where you left off (aka from right before any of the "Point-of-no-return" scenes/answers/choices; so...if there were say, 3 different paths/endings ==> after beating the game (with whatever ending) & after the credits roll & your NG+ starts ==> you can simply re-start from that point of the game w/o losing any of your $, items, levels, skills, etc.
I was very happily impressed w/ how this was implemented!
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the game fear (http://vgcollect.com/item/3430) is a list of my gaming pet peeves but i'm only neming one of them
AI spaming: if your game relies on giving you 20 of the same generic enemies in a small room to make the game more difficult instead of making new enemies, you are just spaming the AI and thats bad game design
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Another one!
Wtf?!
(At least) As far back as the PS *ONE*, games often came with the option of re-mapping your controls however you wanted to...WHY has this become such a rarity/gone out of vogue as the tech continues to grow & becomes more powerful & capable?
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Another one!
Wtf?!
(At least) As far back as the PS *ONE*, games often came with the option of re-mapping your controls however you wanted to...WHY has this become such a rarity/gone out of vogue as the tech continues to grow & becomes more powerful & capable?
Games that don't allow you to invert in this day & age baffle me. Wind Waker HD does this - actually, if I remember correctly it lets you invert the X axis but not the Y. ??? Seems like a simple option that should be a default in any non-2D game.
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(At least) As far back as the PS *ONE*, games often came with the option of re-mapping your controls however you wanted to...WHY has this become such a rarity/gone out of vogue as the tech continues to grow & becomes more powerful & capable?
This has reminded me of my top peeve...
Imagine yourself using a camera on a tripod. if you want the camera to look left, you push the tripod handle to the right. If you want the camera to look up, you have to pull the handle down. Makes sense.
Here's what doesn't make sense: No option to invert X-axis on camera controls!
It's mostly American games that do this. They'll include the option to invert the vertical Y-axis, but not the horizontal X-axis also. Why?? How many precious seconds would it take to program that in? Third person games are nearly unplayable for me if you can't fully invert the camera. Tomb Raider was the most recent offender.
It's so bad I had to get a re-mappable PS3 controller in order to play these games without looking in the wrong direction every time... ::)
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Which controller did you get for your PS3?
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Annoying flying enemies like birds, bats, and Medusa heads.
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Which controller did you get for your PS3?
The Thrustmaster Dual Trigger 3-in-1
http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=65 (http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=65)
(http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/input_devices/Thrustmaster%203-in-1/DualTriggerPS3Product800x600.jpg)
They were released in back in 2007, so they're not too common, but Thrustmaster has since made other PS3 controllers that are fully remappable as well.
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The Thrustmaster sounds like something you'd order out of an Adam & Eve catalog. :o
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The Thrustmaster sounds like something I'd order out of an Adam & Eve catalog. :o
Fix'd it ;D
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The Thrustmaster sounds like something I'd order out of an Adam & Eve catalog. :o
Fix'd it ;D
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Tutorials
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Tutorials
Badly done tutorials. If it's the kind where it's stopping the game to show you how to jump, then yes. A good game teaches you how to play WHILE you're playing. I also point to Dark Cloud 2 as a perfect example, but there are others.
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Tutorials
Badly done tutorials. If it's the kind where it's stopping the game to show you how to jump, then yes. A good game teaches you how to play WHILE you're playing. I also point to Dark Cloud 2 as a perfect example, but there are others.
Look at Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 is meant to teach some who has never played a video game. There's a real cool write-up out there about how much thought went into the first stage. I need to find that.
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Tutorials
Badly done tutorials. If it's the kind where it's stopping the game to show you how to jump, then yes. A good game teaches you how to play WHILE you're playing. I also point to Dark Cloud 2 as a perfect example, but there are others.
Look at Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 is meant to teach some who has never played a video game. There's a real cool write-up out there about how much though went into the first stage. I need to find that.
Yup, I read (or was it a video?) something very similar about the first level of Mega Man X.
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Probably my biggest one is when people inappropriately use the word "rare" to describe a game. You see this a lot of Ebay with people posting Mario/Duck Hunt and calling it rare in the description and/or title, but it bothers me the most when someone says it in person for a game that is not genuinely rare. Or when people say something is rare, but actually it is just valuable like Super Smash Bros or Zelda Majoras Mask. Makes me grit my teeth every time.
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Probably my biggest one is when people inappropriately use the word "rare" to describe a game. You see this a lot of Ebay with people posting Mario/Duck Hunt and calling it rare in the description and/or title, but it bothers me the most when someone says it in person for a game that is not genuinely rare. Or when people say something is rare, but actually it is just valuable like Super Smash Bros or Zelda Majoras Mask. Makes me grit my teeth every time.
L@@K RARE ORIGINAL NINTENDO GAME: MARIO/DUCK HUNT
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Probably my biggest one is when people inappropriately use the word "rare" to describe a game. You see this a lot of Ebay with people posting Mario/Duck Hunt and calling it rare in the description and/or title, but it bothers me the most when someone says it in person for a game that is not genuinely rare. Or when people say something is rare, but actually it is just valuable like Super Smash Bros or Zelda Majoras Mask. Makes me grit my teeth every time.
L@@K RARE ORIGINAL NINTENDO GAME: MARIO/DUCK HUNT
But is it an NES-001?
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
Why is quick check eBay sellers bad? eBay is honestly to best gauge to see what an item is really worth at that moment in time. Problem is, most people only check listed prices rather than completed prices; which is what they should be checking because that's what people are actually paying for the item.
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
Why is quick check eBay sellers bad? eBay is honestly to best gauge to see what an item is really worth at that moment in time. Problem is, most people only check listed prices rather than completed prices; which is what they should be checking because that's what people are actually paying for the item.
Because as I tell my wife, if I'm going to pay ebay prices I'm going to do it sitting at home in my underwear not at a flea market or worse yet, a yard sale at 6:00 in the morning. ;)
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
Why is quick check eBay sellers bad? eBay is honestly to best gauge to see what an item is really worth at that moment in time. Problem is, most people only check listed prices rather than completed prices; which is what they should be checking because that's what people are actually paying for the item.
Because as I tell my wife, if I'm going to pay ebay prices I'm going to do it sitting at home in my underwear not at a flea market or worse yet, a yard sale at 6:00 in the morning. ;)
Not to mention they always seem to go for the highest price they see someone trying to sell it for and not what it has sold for. Also those asshats customers who will try to prevent you from buying a game by bringing up ebay prices.
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
Why is quick check eBay sellers bad? eBay is honestly to best gauge to see what an item is really worth at that moment in time. Problem is, most people only check listed prices rather than completed prices; which is what they should be checking because that's what people are actually paying for the item.
Because as I tell my wife, if I'm going to pay ebay prices I'm going to do it sitting at home in my underwear not at a flea market or worse yet, a yard sale at 6:00 in the morning. ;)
Not to mention they always seem to go for the highest price they see someone trying to sell it for and not what it has sold for. Also those asshats customers who will try to prevent you from buying a game by bringing up ebay prices.
So then it sounds like you guys don't want to know what a game is actually worth, you guys want to find a discount on a game. Which there's nothing wrong with that, I do the same thing of course.
I don't understand why everyone has all this hatred in the online collecting community for people trying to get the worth out of a game that everyone else is getting. I mean, you do the same when you're selling your games, right? You want the most money possible for your item. That's all people are doing when they price according to eBay. (Granted, if it's on a gaming message board like this I try to straight trade or give a discount in hopes of the same happening to me, though.)
But like I said before, I think the biggest mistake with pricing on eBay that people make is pricing according to unsold listed prices. That isn't what people are paying. Completed listings is what they should make their judgments off of.
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I have no problem w/ someone asking a fair price for their games. But if I'm standing face-to-face in front of you, that price is NOT what it sells for on ebay because:
1) You're not forking over 10% to ebay (plus another 3% to Paypal)
2) You're not paying to ship it to me
3) You're taking zero risk by selling it to me, which you would be taking if you sold it on ebay
So if they ask a little less than ebay, that's fine. But they should also probably know how much they want for it before someone comes up to buy it, so it's still bad form to start checking value at the time of the sale.
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it's still bad form to start checking value at the time of the sale.
That's true. Especially if it's at a used game shop where it says $12.95 on sticker. Stupid Video Exchange. >:(
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But is it an NES-001?
Which leads into my pet peeve, People still using that damn episode as if that guy was right to validate why they're selling a NES for so much. Also "quick-check ebay" sellers
Why is quick check eBay sellers bad? eBay is honestly to best gauge to see what an item is really worth at that moment in time. Problem is, most people only check listed prices rather than completed prices; which is what they should be checking because that's what people are actually paying for the item.
Because as I tell my wife, if I'm going to pay ebay prices I'm going to do it sitting at home in my underwear not at a flea market or worse yet, a yard sale at 6:00 in the morning. ;)
Not to mention they always seem to go for the highest price they see someone trying to sell it for and not what it has sold for. Also those asshats customers who will try to prevent you from buying a game by bringing up ebay prices.
So then it sounds like you guys don't want to know what a game is actually worth, you guys want to find a discount on a game. Which there's nothing wrong with that, I do the same thing of course.
I don't understand why everyone has all this hatred in the online collecting community for people trying to get the worth out of a game that everyone else is getting. I mean, you do the same when you're selling your games, right? You want the most money possible for your item. That's all people are doing when they price according to eBay. (Granted, if it's on a gaming message board like this I try to straight trade or give a discount in hopes of the same happening to me, though.)
But like I said before, I think the biggest mistake with pricing on eBay that people make is pricing according to unsold listed prices. That isn't what people are paying. Completed listings is what they should make their judgments off of.
Lots of agreement.
These contradictory thoughts & ideas are bound to happen on a site where everyone wants to:
a). Pay as little as possible for THEIR purchases, and
b). Make as much as possible on THEIR sales :P
(Not only am I including myself in this list -but- I'll put myself at the top of it:) ;D
No shame in dis game ;)
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Video Games trying to be a movie. Start a game, watch a long opening scene, move your character for 2 minutes trigger another long scene, lather rinse repeat. Get's annoying when I just want to play.
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I have no problem w/ someone asking a fair price for their games. But if I'm standing face-to-face in front of you, that price is NOT what it sells for on ebay because:
1) You're not forking over 10% to ebay (plus another 3% to Paypal)
2) You're not paying to ship it to me
3) You're taking zero risk by selling it to me, which you would be taking if you sold it on ebay
So if they ask a little less than ebay, that's fine. But they should also probably know how much they want for it before someone comes up to buy it, so it's still bad form to start checking value at the time of the sale.
^^THIS^^
and I'll admit I'm the guy at a both checking the price on sites and that's because you got to know about what your buying
and here's what I mean If I'm looking to buy a copy of Secret of Mana CIB I ask the person the price they say "It's going on ebay for $250" and I do a search on ebay myself and pricecharting and make a Counter-offer of $100 because that's what I see it going for and I get told the price isn't going lower and they start giving me attitude because they think I'm tryin to rip them off, That's when I get Pissed off.
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Video Games trying to be a movie. Start a game, watch a long opening scene, move your character for 2 minutes trigger another long scene, lather rinse repeat. Get's annoying when I just want to play.
Yep. I don't play RPGs or Metal Gear games because of this.
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Video Games trying to be a movie. Start a game, watch a long opening scene, move your character for 2 minutes trigger another long scene, lather rinse repeat. Get's annoying when I just want to play.
Yep. I don't play RPGs or Metal Gear games because of this.
LMAO, I see this post then I look at your last 5 recent items and one of them is Metal Gear. :)
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Video Games trying to be a movie. Start a game, watch a long opening scene, move your character for 2 minutes trigger another long scene, lather rinse repeat. Get's annoying when I just want to play.
Yep. I don't play RPGs or Metal Gear games because of this.
LMAO, I see this post then I look at your last 5 recent items and one of them is Metal Gear. :)
Yeah. I keep trying to play them. The first one on PS1 was fantastic. I loved it. Then I tried Sons of Liberty, and watched video after video. I'll keep trying. I'm a glutton for punishment.
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I guess that is another collecting pet-peeve of mine, when retail sellers use Ebay BINs, especially insanely overpriced, unsold BINs to price games. There is a local store owned by Bookmans that does this, but used to be way worse. They got all three .Hack GU games in for the PS2, and they wanted $100 each for them. It pissed me off so much I demanded to speak to a manager. He of course tried defending their prices by saying "well that's how much they are being sold for on Ebay and Amazon!" I pulled out my iPhone and showed him completed listings for half that price and also asked him what my motivation was to shop at his store when I could easily save time, money, and gas by getting a better deal on Ebay. He would not give me a straight answer. I went back there a few days later and he did end up lowering the price. . .to $70 per game ::) . So yeah, people not knowing that retail is not EBay is quite an annoyance. I have no problem with people using Ebay as a guide to get a ballpark price on what a game is worth, but taking your prices directly from there gives me no motivation to buy from you.
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These eBay sellers can cause a lot of other problems too. I had a garage sale this last weekend and had put out some of my doubles. Things like an NES for $15, just because it was easier to sell it that way than list it and mess with it. I had people flaunting their own collections with stories all day. I had this one guy tell me he had a really rare game, but he couldn't remember the title. But it was so rare that he tried to take it to Replays (local game shop) and the manager wasn't there so the employees wouldn't offer him anything for it and he was going to have to come back. The name of the game was on the tip of his tongue, blah blah. He started looking through the rest of my classy garage sale merchandise and then he spun around and pointed, practically yelling "Simon's Quest! That's the one!" I was like "For the NES? You mean Castlevania II?" and he was like "Yeah, it was on eBay and was selling for thousands and I have a copy!" and I couldn't help myself..."Well if that's the case, I guess I shouldn't be standing out here selling crap, I should go digging through my boxes to see if I have just 3 or if I have 4 copies of it lying in the basement. I guess I don't have to worry about saving for a down payment on a house any longer!" in the most sarcastic voice I could muster. People really think they have these amazingly expensive treasures at home and that collectors will just pay these crazy prices for them, because they've seen them on eBay.
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The rising prices of new games in Canada. :( That, and also random encounters in any RPG that isn't a first-person dungeon crawler. I just feel like it takes away from exploration when I get into a fight when I'm trying to get my bearings. It doesn't ruin the experience for me, I'm fine with them in older games like the old Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior games and Final Fantasy. It just feels like a real nuisance sometimes.
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If it's already been said ==>
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Digital-Only game releases >:(
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If it's already been said ==>
==> (it can't be said enough/Too much)...
Digital-Only game releases >:(
Digital only releases may suck, but at least it's marginally better than not getting a release at all... sorta. ??? Except for when it costs just as much as it should for a physical copy of the game. >:(
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If it's already been said ==>
==> (it can't be said enough/Too much)...
Digital-Only game releases >:(
Digital only releases may suck, but at least it's marginally better than not getting a release at all... sorta. ??? Except for when it costs just as much as it should for a physical copy of the game. >:(
Yeah, maybe it wouldn't bother me as much if the "in theory" part of it (the part that digital-only releases should be passing-on the savings to the customers as the manufacturers are *obviously* saving costs by not issuing physical releases) carried-over into the "in practice/reality" part (where, I've seen newly-released digital titles selling for as much as (sometimes even *more* than) than the physical versions >:(
I mean, I'm all about choice ==> if it was up to me, every game would get both a physical & a digital release...so...for those who don't mind spending (a hypothetical) $10 - $20 extra to own it physically are happy - as well are those who just want to play the game being able to do so at a bit of a savings :o
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If it's already been said ==>
==> (it can't be said enough/Too much)...
Digital-Only game releases >:(
Digital only releases may suck, but at least it's marginally better than not getting a release at all... sorta. ??? Except for when it costs just as much as it should for a physical copy of the game. >:(
Yeah, maybe it wouldn't bother me as much if the "in theory" part of it (the part that digital-only releases should be passing-on the savings to the customers as the manufacturers are *obviously* saving costs by not issuing physical releases) carried-over into the "in practice/reality" part (where, I've seen newly-released digital titles selling for as much as (sometimes even *more* than) than the physical versions >:(
I mean, I'm all about choice ==> if it was up to me, every game would get both a physical & a digital release...so...for those who don't mind spending (a hypothetical) $10 - $20 extra to own it physically are happy - as well are those who just want to play the game being able to do so at a bit of a savings :o
Absolutely, I agree completely. I think that Steam handles digital releases relatively well, with some exceptions of course. Frequent sales, discounts, etc. Though their launch prices for many games are just as high as what it would cost for a physical copy (if of course it's actually available physically), which I don't agree with. In my opinion Nintendo handles digital releases fairly poorly, with Sony being a bit better, but not by much.
Except from a collector's standpoint, screw digital-only releases. Especially when some regions get them and others don't, like with Senran Kagura Burst last year. Digital only for NA but a physical release for Europe? :'( That reminds me of another pet peeve, region locking on consoles and handhelds. :(
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Region locking on handhelds would probably be my number one pet peeve in gaming. I speak a little Japanese (although it's rusty since I haven't used it much in the last few years) and I imported games from Japan on the DS pretty often, especially rhythm games, since I knew enough to navigate menus but didn't have to read walls of text quickly. I have all the games in the Daigasso! Band Bros. series, even the European Jam With the Band. The game is excellent but never released to the U.S. for some reason. It's been killing me to see the new one come out for 3DS and know that I'd have to buy a Japanese 3DS to think about playing it. European games might be even worse, because they are often in English. I want Layton vs. Ace Attorney so badly, but we still don't have a concrete release date here. I would have been playing it already if I could import European games and have them work on my 3DS.
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I hadnt really posted here til now ... but once someone mentioned region locking, I realized thats probably my addition to this thread. It just honestly makes no sense to me. That and games not getting translated. There is no reason for any game to not get an English translation.
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1. QTEs
2. Unskippable Cutscenes, after I've already seen them once.
3. Multiplayer only achievements/trophies
4. Shoddy DLC, or DLC released within a month of release (Which should have been on disc in the first place)
5. Region Locking
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If it's already been said ==>
==> (it can't be said enough/Too much)...
Digital-Only game releases >:(
Yeah, I prefer physical games as well. Which is why I fear for the future where hard copies are a thing of the past(same could be said for music and movies). It's convenient and won't take space in your rooms but overall, I much rather hold things in my hands and place them on my shelf to admire after playing though them enough.
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If it's already been said ==>
==> (it can't be said enough/Too much)...
Digital-Only game releases >:(
Yeah, I prefer physical games as well. Which is why I fear for the future where hard copies are a thing of the past(same could be said for music and movies). It's convenient and won't take space in your rooms but overall, I much rather hold things in my hands and place them on my shelf to admire after playing though them enough.
thats why i love nintendo, they are not letting go physical releases anytime soon and in fact, if you buy the physical release of bayonetta 2, you will get a port of the first bayonetta game for free
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I have no problem w/ someone asking a fair price for their games. But if I'm standing face-to-face in front of you, that price is NOT what it sells for on ebay because:
1) You're not forking over 10% to ebay (plus another 3% to Paypal)
2) You're not paying to ship it to me
3) You're taking zero risk by selling it to me, which you would be taking if you sold it on ebay
So if they ask a little less than ebay, that's fine. But they should also probably know how much they want for it before someone comes up to buy it, so it's still bad form to start checking value at the time of the sale.
Yeah, there's a game store here, where they basically check the value of any game when you go to buy it. Never mind that they priced it with a sticker, if the price has changed, you're paying what it changed to, whether it went up or down. That sucks. Even GameStop has honored a wrongly marked price tag in my favor before. Go to an indie shop, and that's probably not gonna happen. Every single one that I've been to this year checks the latest value right in front of you before charging you.
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the existence of DLC
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the existence of DLC
That in itself isn't bad, when done right. Look at Shimmering Isles for Oblivion. That was well worth the DLC price for an entirely new continent and storyline.
It's bad when they nickel & dime you. Like for example, in the same game, charging for horse armor as an add-on. Or charging for content that's already on the freaking disc!
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The usual,
Region locking
Capcom's idea of DLC
Digital only releases
Online trophies/achievements
Games sold as a single player game that focuses entirely on online multiplayer
Collectors editions, Rant alert!
Seriously if ever there should be a name for the seventh gen it should be the era of the limited/collectors editions. I remember when a collectors edition meant something. Now every new I.P. or sequel to a standing one, that they pinch out has to have 1-5 limited editions, for what? Seriously what is the point. I mean some companies get it right, by releasing some LE's that are well worth it. I remember when they used to catch your eye. Perusing the games shops of yore, you knew you had something special when you picked up that Working Designs title. Now days it's just Sepia Set Piece Hallway Shooter DCLXVI Limited Collectors box o' junk.
The bad thing is it's not going to end anytime soon, either.
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TOPIC FROM 2014
BUMPED TO: 12-1-2020
One of my own gaming pet peeves is like first person shooters with complicated puzzle solving, Or games that you need fast reflexes on the easiest setting, or racing games where if you make one mistake it can cost you the entire race. the game "Test Drive 4" for the PlayStation 1 is like that. I hate games that have a strict timer, that when the timer runs out you lose the game or need to do the entire stage or level over again. I hate when I'm losing a game due to broken or unresponsive controls or the fact that I try 30 times on the same section of a game and still was not fast or precise enough,
Or when a game back you into a corner and keep respawning or swarming enemies all around you faster than your in-game person can move to reload or something. Halo Combat Evolved or Doom 3 BFG edition are like this scenario
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Holy necrothread, Batman!
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My number one pet peeve is
RUBBERBANDING.
This is the reason I don’t like most racing games in general. Games like Out Run are fine, because your success is mostly based on your skill. But racing games where you can run a flawless race, yet make one minor mistake at the end that bumps you down to 4th place...that’s frustrating.
Other pet peeves:
- Multiplayer achievements
- On-disc DLC (DLC can be fine when done properly; Horizon Zero Dawn’s Frozen Wilds expansion is incredible, and maybe better than the main game for me. But locking out portions of the main game to make players pay extra for the whole experience...that’s just plain greed).
- In fighting games, cheap input-reading AI that breaks the game’s own rules (I understand the need to challenge players, but it can be done without Guile insta-charging Flash Kicks and Sonic Booms).
- Tacked-on multiplayer in a single-player game (seriously, just use that time to make the single player experience better).