Things You Hate In Video Games

[Nrein]

I remember back in my Counter Strike:Source days, just how many people would join my servers and spout that they're "MLG" and "super pro."
But then after many a time I've kicked their butts (I used to be mad good at the game, to the point of constantly being called out for hacking), one had the nerve to record me playing, and report me for cheating. They also knew that I had a lot of Skins files, and one in particular that changed it so that the M4, instead of putting on the silencer for me, would switch to ADS. Didn't make the gun more accurate, but just gave it a better feel. It still was technically silenced for everyone else. However, it was still a rather foreign file, and since reporting is through VAC is almost automatic unless you don't have said files, I was instantly banned from all VAC servers

Not only to add to hating all those really smug players out there who think they're "the best", this also goes to a great hatred of Reporting in general, since half the time it over works, half the other time it doesn't work at all (Xbox Live, anyone?)

[Aloneness]

1-no challenge whatsoever (call of duty)
2-predictable story line (call of duty)
3-lack of emotion/humor in characters (nothing worse than when people talk like robots)
4-linear gameplay (call of duty)
5-short game (dishonored -_-)
6-doesn't bring anything new to the table (copy and paste "ermahgerd new gunz" call of duty)
7-no replay value


all of these can be set aside for me.
particularly 5 as dishonored was an excellent game though 7 was very apparent in this game and really got to me.

I take it you don't like Call of Duty much, eh?
I don't like Call of Duty (Well, FPS in general), except for... Call of Rosen: Plum Ops! (Look it up on Youtube, kinda profane, but its funny. xD)

#5 is a big problem in the whole Trauma Center series, and #6 is sort of one for Trauma Center: New Blood and Trauma Team. I know that there's not much surgery you can show in an exciting setting without getting too gruesome, but I would have liked to see some different surgeries and modes in those two, however Trauma Team took care of that pretty well, so I can't complain.

Kind of branching off from #7, games that when you finish them, don't offer to save your completed game file, and make you reset the system. That kind of stuff should have been left in the NES days, it makes you feel like you're throwing away all of the accomplishments you've made; all in all its really anti-climactic. ;_;

Two others that I've thought of, or that a friend mentioned:

3.) Having a Town That you Can't go Back to: The bane of my existence, when you're trying to get 100% completion on something when all of a sudden you realize that the town was razed, everyone was slaughtered, and no, you can NOT deliver the package to a recipient in exchange for the last item you need for your Collector's Book. Happened in Tales of Sympohonia, and I'll never forget the anguish.

4.) Having a Team Member Betray You...: ...And steal all of your stuff. Especially if you like them and give them all of your good armor. ;_;

5.) No Sequel To A Good Game: And then they make sequel after sequel of the popular games that shouldn't be given the time of day... Its sad man, just sad.

I'm going to copy and past this because both of you pretty much summed up my hate for COD and bad games

[Marcus]

I fear my rant would look like:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=293


But I share all views stated with those who have posted before me.

[anoni]

I also have some rants about gaming trends.

We're making games easier
  Games back in the past have been increasingly hard, but as the gaming market has opened up to more casual gamers a demand for easier games has been consistently made. While a hard game can be frustrating, it can also be fun and present a challenge. More games these days are moving towards the style of easier to play, which is something that I think is slowly killing the professional SP gaming market.

Games are being less innovative
  With a bigger market comes bigger risks, large game developers have to be very careful with what they do in games and how innovative they are, because a large innovation like DJ hero that becomes a flop can be totally devastating to the game company, it's a make or break deal. This has caused less innovative games and more or less the same game with slight tweaks and different engines, innovations have been hard pressed with most block buster game titles, with some notable exceptions.

The Graphics Race:
  I love graphics, graphics are pretty and make a game look better. At this point however I've noticed that game companies invest too much time with making their game beautiful, which retracts from several other things. For example, there have been considerable innovations to graphics, but how many innovations have their been made to more sophisticated AI? Several factors of the gameplay element of games suffer when too much time is made to make a game look pretty, this supports games becoming more like interactive movies than gaming platforms, which can be very bad for fun games.

[Nrein]

To sort of add to Anoni;

Game developers underestimate just how smart we really are. Nowadays, every game has what I like to call "Game wide tutorial." You could be half way through the game, and still get messages telling you to "Push X to reload" or "Press B to croush" or "Push LT to aim, RT to shoot."

Honestly, there was once a time where games taught you as you played, without spamming you with what to do every few minutes. Or there used to be a time when, if there was tutorial, you would learn all of your skills right in the first level/tutorial, well enough so you'd never need to worry about (Splinter Cell is the best example.)

Nowadays, they probably stray from that, because they want to "wow" you with cool mechanics. But honestly, most of those mechanics are one time use, and then you never see them again. Sure they're cool, but having ot take your time to learn how to use it, while you use it, at a critical part in the game, can be a pain.

[Aloneness]

I also have some rants about gaming trends.

We're making games easier
  Games back in the past have been increasingly hard, but as the gaming market has opened up to more casual gamers a demand for easier games has been consistently made. While a hard game can be frustrating, it can also be fun and present a challenge. More games these days are moving towards the style of easier to play, which is something that I think is slowly killing the professional SP gaming market.

I hate that they make games so easy now, because I mean even with C&C Games, I still can't beat C&C and C&C Red Alert, (and I don't mean just the last level I mean like I've still not beat half the game) yet I've beat every game Tiberium Sun and newer.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Games being pushed back again and again. WEH BIOSHOCK.


Also, a lot of the things mentioned.


Level grinding. Nothing makes me lose interest faster.
Escort missions, holy shit I may as well just not even try... Which brings me to my next one.
Stupid AI. I mean, sometimes it's funny, but it sucks if that stupid AI is someone in your party, wehhh.

[NovaAurora]

Games being pushed back again and again. WEH BIOSHOCK.


Also, a lot of the things mentioned.


Level grinding. Nothing makes me lose interest faster.
Escort missions, holy shit I may as well just not even try... Which brings me to my next one.
Stupid AI. I mean, sometimes it's funny, but it sucks if that stupid AI is someone in your party, wehhh.

Personally I'm ok with games being pushed back. I'd rather have a polished, working product that I have to wait a little longer for than a game that launches broken and buggy. Especially if it's going to be primarily a multiplayer title.