Your top ten gaming peeves

[FatCobra]

What are the ten most annoying things about gaming that piss you off to no end? Mine are in no praticular order:

1. Buying a new system, only to find out you have to shell out another $100 for the memory card, an extra controller for your buddy, and a game to play. Whatever happened to awesome bundle deals like the ones Nintendo did back in their SNES days?

2. Having to unlock everything just to have fun. You're jumping through more hoops than a dolphin at Sea World in some games.

3. EB Games and Gamespot ripping gamers off when they trade their games in. I know it's their money, and I've done trade-ins too, but it makes me mad how little they give you.

4. After all these years, Megaman still can't duck or find durable enough boots to survive landing on spikes.

5. Getting hit in a platformer, and getting knocked back into a pit or onto some crappy power-up you don't want.

6. Pointless cutscenes that interrupt gameplay, especially if the story is lame, and if the text scrolls v......e.......r......y........s.......l......o.....w.....l....y

7. Shmups are no longer as popular as they used to be, and arcades are pretty much dead.

8. The popularity of Halo. Ok, the multiplayer is fun, but there is no need to worship the damn game!!! Plus, Master Chief is a total Doom Marine knock-off.

9. That fact that Nintendo has not made a proper old school Mario game yet (New Super Mario Bros for the DS hopefully should change that).

10. The fact that EA is allowed to continue existing thanks to their scam called the "yearly Madden update for $50."

[Grinning Cat]

1. People talking about the "good ole days", and how gaming will never be that good again.


I'll finish the list later.

[FatCobra]

1. People talking about the "good ole days", and how gaming will never be that good again.


I'll finish the list later.

I assume that was directed at me? I know I can be stubborn and miss the ole days, but I believe gaming has gotten better, even if there is some stuff I don't like about it.

I do realize that I am simply annoying people with these rants, so I am gonna stop saying them. Play what you like!!

[Ex_Mosquito]

7. Shmups are no longer as popular as they used to be, and arcades are pretty much dead.

Shooters are as alive as they've ever been. The ratio of good to poor is also alot higher these days. Its quality not quantity.

[Grinning Cat]

I assume that was directed at me? I know I can be stubborn and miss the ole days, but I believe gaming has gotten better, even if there is some stuff I don't like about it.

What are you talking about? I was just stating my pet peeve

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

1) Backtracking: The single most evil thing propagated by modern gaming.

2) People hating on 2D gaming: Most people don't know a thing about videogames.

3) People buying licensed crap: Whenever I see kids or their moms buying the latest Spongebob Squarepants game, I want to punch them.

4) Easy games: If a game isn't hard, it isn't worth my time. Monkeys can play easy games.

5) Too many cutscenes: Make 'em short and sweet, please.

6) Motion sickness: FPS the main offenders here.

7) Badly designed controllers: I'm looking at you stupid DS. My hands! The cramps!

8 ) Gimmicks: Also known as "minigames."

9) No soft reset: You mean I have to kill myself to restart the game or stand up from my seat!?

10) Crappy voice acting: My ears burn.

[Ramus]

When you're going for a shmup high score at the arcade and some little, snot-nosed brat puts in a quarter and starts playing the 2P side.

[howmuchkeefe]

3. Having to buy peripherals in order to use capabilities which have already been built into the console.

2. Linear gameplay in RPGs.

1. Laggy, unresponsive play control.

[BulletMagnet]

1) Bad hit detection.
2) Invisible bullets or foreground objects that completely obscure the playing field.
3) Gamers who think that only their own tastes in games are valid and everyone else's are ill-conceived and downright stupid.
4) Gamers who maintain that fans of certain games that they themselves don't like are "mindless and rabid," when in fact most or all of them are balanced in their opinion towards it and acknowledge its flaws readily.
5) Highly unbalanced character/vehicle rosters.
6) Games which give you the ability to take several hits from most attacks but then throw almost nothing but 1-hit deaths (bottomless pits, etc.) at you.
7) Home ports which could have obviously been much better, but the developers just didn't bother to make it so.
8 ) Developers not fixing painfully apparent flaws in the sequel to something.
9) "Sit there and wait" puzzles, which require you to just put down the controller and sit in a certain spot until something activates. Ughhh...
10) Games which rely on sex and/or violence rather than gameplay for sales.

Those come most immediately to mind...

[The n00b]

1) Crappy Japanese RPGs. They are watered down RPGs with a spikey haired effeminate hero. Why do people keep buying this crap?

2) "nintendo is god" people. These people will buy anything with a Nintendo label slapped on it. Thus furthering the decline of this once great company by encouraging it to put out crap.

3) Crappy Sony hardware. Seriously these guys are like the MS of hardware. I truly would get a second job to buy a ps3 if only these guys made it a solid well made console.

4) The once great Devil May Cry series of games. I think it's time Capcom took this one out to pasture and gave it a mercy killing. God of War and Ninja Gaiden do this genre of gaming right while every DMC sequel that comes out is in danger of joining Bloodrayne in crappiness.

5) Needless Gran Turisimo sequels. This series of games have coasted by on an overly forgiving fanbase for too long. Pretty soon they are going to have to name the sequels GT 2006, 2007, etc. Toca and Forza took the throne for best driving sim away from this tired franchise a long time ago.

6) People who have not played Halo but enjoy bashing it.

7) The Halo>>>Halo 2 people. I'm sorry Halo 2 does not pleasure you every night, cook for you, or take your daughter to the prom. I truly am sorry. Halo never did that for you either so why is it the better game?

[Icecap Veiwin]

The GameFAGS Great Character Popularity Contest.

Seriously. That's my only qualm.

[Rob]

1. The games that aren't shooters over the last few years.
2. GBA as 2D "oasis."
3. Nonlinear RPGs. Streamline that garbage.

[SheSaidDutch]

Sega having to pull out of the hardware market while Nintendo should've gone along time before Sega

[Andi]

3. Nonlinear RPGs. Streamline that garbage.

Oh man. I say fuck linear RPG's, give me some choice in how I approach the game. We need more interactivity.

[Ramus]

3. Nonlinear RPGs. Streamline that garbage.

Oh man. I say fuck linear RPG's, give me some choice in how I approach the game. We need more interactivity.

2nd that.

[Rob]

To be more clear, an RPG I will play is one that looks good (i.e. Japanese one), and their idea of nonlinear is a linear game with a few dead ends between checkpoints. Dead ends are a waste of time.

[dave4shmups]

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10) Games which rely on sex and/or violence rather than gameplay for sales.

Agreed, and also the still relative lack of shmups on the GBA-why are Japanese shmup developers not paying more attention to this hardware??

The fact that console makers today charge extra for their consoles just because they can play DVD's-news flash! New DVD players can be had for well under $50.

EA games flooding the video game market with their cookie-cutter crap.

Capcom refusing to port 19XX, 1941, and 1944 to ANY home consoles.

Konami not giving Contra fans a REAL Contra game, nor a collection of older games in the series, for home consoles.

And finally, the fact that arcade culture in the US is on life-support at best. And when you actually do locate an arcade, it's mostly virtual reality crap.

[Elixir]

1. Buying a gamecube only to realize nintendo is dead in the southern hemisphere.

[theevilfunkster]

1. Game boxes with the name of the game on the spine, the wrong way round.

2. Decent in game music being taken over by EA Trax

er, that's all I can think of at the moment

[SheSaidDutch]

Nintendo using cardboard cases back inthe day

not alot otherwise, now If this was pet peeves of gaming on a PC I'd have plenty.

[BrianC]

Nintendo using cardboard cases back inthe day

not alot otherwise, now If this was pet peeves of gaming on a PC I'd have plenty.

SEGA did this too, though not until late in the Genesis's life. I was annoyed when both Nintendo and SEGA stopped providing plastic cases for their portable games and when Nintendo stopped providing those plastic bottoms for SNES games too (that's one of my pet peeves). I was very thrilled when the GG Shinobi II I received from sega-parts.com came brand new in the older style box where the games came with cases. Sure enough, Shinobi II had the case with it like I expected.

[dave4shmups]

now If this was pet peeves of gaming on a PC I'd have plenty.

Oh I hear 'ya! I could right a friggin' book on my pet peeves with PC gaming!

[Damocles]

Considering that pet peeves are minor, the only thing I can really think of is the day they stopped printing manuals in color.

[superhitachi4]

This is a bit of a rant, but anyone who dislikes Gamestop should appreciate this. If you like Gamestop, go to hell. Just kidding. Here we go: I'd say my main peeve's a store called Gamestop. They're such a disease, and I'd like to see them fold up. In my experience, no one there has a clue, or seems to care about any gaming systems / titles more than 2 years old. Dreamcast? Saturn? Neo what? Super Ninfriendo? I've actually been laughed at for mentioning Dreamcast / Saturn before heh. Newer=Better to them. Not to mention that all of the stores stopped carrying anything older than some crappy Playstation games, to which they threw the cases and instructions out. They like to open all of their "NEW" games, and keep the disc behind the counter in a sleeve, so it can be scratched. Would it kill them to leave something SEALED? I'm sorry, but broken seal = USED to me. They always have "one last copy" which is the open one... I could go on and on about this store. Gamestop = JOKE.

[BrianC]

This is a bit of a rant, but anyone who dislikes Gamestop should appreciate this. If you like Gamestop, go to hell. Just kidding. Here we go: I'd say my main peeve's a store called Gamestop. They're such a disease, and I'd like to see them fold up. In my experience, no one there has a clue, or seems to care about any gaming systems / titles more than 2 years old. Dreamcast? Saturn? Neo what? Super Ninfriendo? I've actually been laughed at for mentioning Dreamcast / Saturn before heh. Newer=Better to them. Not to mention that all of the stores stopped carrying anything older than some crappy Playstation games, to which they threw the cases and instructions out. They like to open all of their "NEW" games, and keep the disc behind the counter in a sleeve, so it can be scratched. Would it kill them to leave something SEALED? I'm sorry, but broken seal = USED to me. They always have "one last copy" which is the open one... I could go on and on about this store. Gamestop = JOKE.

EB does that annoying last copy thing too (though it's not as annoying for GBA games). BTW, both EB and Gamestop still sell used GB b/w and GBC games. Some used games at both places are in atrocious condition, though most of the ones I got work fine (I like to look at the games before getting them).

[EddyMRA]

What are the ten most annoying things about gaming that piss you off to no end? Mine are in no praticular order:

1. Buying a new system, only to find out you have to shell out another $100 for the memory card, an extra controller for your buddy, and a game to play. Whatever happened to awesome bundle deals like the ones Nintendo did back in their SNES days?

2. Having to unlock everything just to have fun. You're jumping through more hoops than a dolphin at Sea World in some games.

3. EB Games and Gamespot ripping gamers off when they trade their games in. I know it's their money, and I've done trade-ins too, but it makes me mad how little they give you.

4. After all these years, Megaman still can't duck or find durable enough boots to survive landing on spikes.

5. Getting hit in a platformer, and getting knocked back into a pit or onto some crappy power-up you don't want.

6. Pointless cutscenes that interrupt gameplay, especially if the story is lame, and if the text scrolls v......e.......r......y........s.......l......o.....w.....l....y

7. Shmups are no longer as popular as they used to be, and arcades are pretty much dead.

8. The popularity of Halo. Ok, the multiplayer is fun, but there is no need to worship the damn game!!! Plus, Master Chief is a total Doom Marine knock-off.

9. That fact that Nintendo has not made a proper old school Mario game yet (New Super Mario Bros for the DS hopefully should change that).

10. The fact that EA is allowed to continue existing thanks to their scam called the "yearly Madden update for $50."

Peeves #1, #2, and #10 seem to be taken from the Sept 2005 MAD magazine's 50 Worst Things About Video Games article.

@ peeve #4: But he can power slide. And why duck when he can jump over bullets?

@ peeve #7: Tastes change. One reason why arcades are dead is the fact that home console hardware has finally caught up, if not surpassed, technology being offered in arcade hardware.

@ peeve #8: Hey man, Super Mario Bros. 3 was worshipped in 1990 as much, if not more than, as Halo is today.

[zaphod]

The fact that console makers today charge extra for their consoles just because they can play DVD's-news flash! New DVD players can be had for well under $50.

This is forced upon the console manufacturers. they have to give a cut to the dvd people for any console that plays DVDs. MS socks yu when you buy the remote, and the sony ps2 has it built into the consoles. they are required to cost momre to pay off the royalties.

[landshark]

When you're going for a shmup high score at the arcade and some little, snot-nosed brat puts in a quarter and starts playing the 2P side.

How true.

[howmuchkeefe]

Heh. The only thing I really hate about Gamestop is the way they hold your purchase hostage while they push their premium member services.

You think that surrender is the only solution, so you get the damn card. Alas! ...then they hold your purchase hostage while they plus sell every game which is even remotely similar to the game you're trying to purchase.

"SHUTUP! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP! For the love of god, don't you see the people behind me? Please let me give you money..."

[IlMrm]

1) Backtracking: The single most evil thing propagated by modern gaming.

Oh God, yes.

2. Starting over at checkpoints with the slowest speed and pea-shooter.

3. Enemies coming from behind.

4. Enemy homing missiles that can't be destroyed.

5. Fast enemies couple that with your slow ship's huge hitbox is an annoying combination.

6. Boring levels.

7. When the AI gets cheap(in sports games).

8. Why do I have to find a key to unlock this wooden door when I have a shotgun?