Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[tomwhite2004]

We're not spoiling: you're late..

Not sure that's fair considering he probably wasn't even a year old when the first game was released and a backlog taking in all systems to someone his age is pretty huge.

[Xyga]

We're not spoiling: you're late..

Not sure that's fair considering he probably wasn't even a year old when the first game was released and a backlog taking in all systems to someone his age is pretty huge.

So what ? as TransatlanticFoe just hinted we can't put spoiler tags for everything/everyone, after so much time it's not our fault some member is so young he still has to ask permission for anything, same for the one who'd be a withering middle-aged fart like most of us yet never played the said über-known game when he's had all that time.
People show manners in the movies thread because there are so many and they're only about 2h media easily spoiled, but for big mainstream titles, games or movies, that have been around for decades: bitch please.
Can we even fucking talk about today's weather without spoiler tags because someone hasn't even looked outside the window yet ?
Also "fair" ? ag99 bitching about SJW yet whining about fucking everything like a homo hairdresser is old meme now, please don't encourage or support him.

PS: I'm saying you never played SH1 you gonna hear from Gyromancy, bitches.

[Sumez]

SH1's endings don't matter at all, and the story is pretty run of the mill horror. I never actually heard of the "it's all a dream" scenario. I mean it's an obvious conclusion to jump to as with a lot of other horror stories, but it's also very rough. Obviously there's a lot more to the town of Silent Hill, as SH2 elaborates on.

As for the SH2 plot, it's easy to spoil, but it's also really easy to miss entirely when playing it through for the first time, depending on how alert you are to the minute details, and which ending you get. I didn't have the game "spoiled" until years after completing it

[Blinge]

How the hell could you "miss the plot" in sh2.
And if this is possible, then maybe you missed the plot of sh1 ^_^

I'm not sure what run of the mill horror is either.
SH1 still has a better story than most of the shitty horror movies out there, and god damn have I seen a few.
(like silent hill revelation hahah, it's amazing how bad that film is. AMAZING.)

[atheistgod1999]

Guys, I don't care any more. I just thought the ending was the legit one. Now that I know it isn't, I don't care anymore.

[Blinge]

The conversation isn't about you, kid.
It may have started there but it's moved on.

[WelshMegalodon]

Can we talk about Silent Hill and its "tank controls"? The setup seems to be widely regarded as something "obsolete" and a limitation of that time period rather than an intentional design choice that made sense with the camera angles in Biohazard, etc.

I mean, 2D belt scrollers and isometric platformers technically had 3D movement, and they got along just fine without tank controls*. Nothing prevented developers of that time period from making a horror game with an overhead camera, or with 8-way movement relative to the camera.

*

Spoiler

inb4 Brandish

[TransatlanticFoe]

Never understood the issue with tank controls, didn't even play the games that used them until much later either. Biggest issue with the classic Resi-style games were the fixed cameras! Usually meaning obstacles were ambiguous by perspective - leaving you snagged on the corner of something and doing an awkward half-sideways run along it until you got past.

[Durandal]

That one point in a discussion where things start to get slightly heated and everyone else not (originally) involved immediately starts heaping on how both sides of something are (not) fine, and 'everyone can have their opinions, it's okay'
Goddamnit man, just let me writhe angrily in peace!

[WelshMegalodon]

Something I saw far too many times on YouTube, back when I was enough of an idiot to bother reading YouTube comments.

I don't know if the people that write such comments fancy themselves peacemakers or whatever, but I've never found their contributions any more inane than the idiots arguing about creationism or K-pop idols getting plastic surgery, especially when they know little to nothing about the subject matter. In addition to being predictably obnoxious, there are occasions when such posters risk shutting down a discussion with the potential to actually teach the community, one that can show them something outside their little Internet bubble.

[Xyga]

Piles.

[Mischief Maker]

Aliens vs. Predator proved unequivocally that you don't need the player to control like a cripple for a game to be scary.

[Squire Grooktook]

And Capcom's Alien Vs Predator Arcade proved that you don't need the 3rd dimension to create a character action game that surpasses DMC/Bayonetta/anything since.

Sorry but I can't help but plug Capcom AVP every time it comes up. GO PLAY ALIEN VS PREDATOR

[vol.2]

We're not spoiling: you're late..

Not sure that's fair considering he probably wasn't even a year old when the first game was released and a backlog taking in all systems to someone his age is pretty huge.

So what ? as TransatlanticFoe just hinted we can't put spoiler tags for everything/everyone, after so much time it's not our fault some member is so young he still has to ask permission for anything, same for the one who'd be a withering middle-aged fart like most of us yet never played the said über-known game when he's had all that time.
People show manners in the movies thread because there are so many and they're only about 2h media easily spoiled, but for big mainstream titles, games or movies, that have been around for decades: bitch please.
Can we even fucking talk about today's weather without spoiler tags because someone hasn't even looked outside the window yet ?
Also "fair" ? ag99 bitching about SJW yet whining about fucking everything like a homo hairdresser is old meme now, please don't encourage or support him.

PS: I'm saying you never played SH1 you gonna hear from Gyromancy, bitches.

Hey. This whole thread is about bitchimg over little things. I suppose the irony got lost somewhere in translation.

I really hate when I bite my lip while I'm chewing gum, and then it swells up so I bite it again. Happens more frequently than you might expect.

[Sumez]

Can we talk about Silent Hill and its "tank controls"?

No

[Sinful]

People complaining about tank controls. And here I thought everyone loved riding tanks.

[null1024]

Tank controls are kind of shit, but you can get used to them in like five minutes. Mostly not worth complaining about.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I remember my first tank controls.
Ah, memories.

[BrianC]

I like Battlezone. Dual joystick tank controls.

[Mischief Maker]

I just want to state for the record that all your examples of great tank controls are games where you're piloting TANKS.

Not some dude walking around on his own two feet swinging a piece of rebar at a demon dog.

In Aliens vs Predator you zipped around like the Doom marine, had lots of ammo, and the game was pants-shitting in execution. Still is, thanks to random enemy placement.

[Blinge]

Aliens vs. Predator proved unequivocally that you don't need the player to control like a cripple for a game to be scary.

Yeah but in classic Resi and SH1-3 games it worked really well - even the fixed camera in the former added to it.
It can be a great formula, until clone games like Deep Fear come along and really screw the pooch.

Welshy, there's probably a load of peeps on this forum that like old survival horror.
We're not quite a den of "old games R shit xDDD resi 5 and 6 were tha best evar!! OMG i jump erytiem LUL pls like and share."

I'm sure birru, myself and some others spend several pages gushing about Silent Hill at some point.

[atheistgod1999]

Trying to get some sleep when my parents stay up all fucking night, and my dad yelling at me when I ask him why the fuck he's up at 2 AM, saying that it's none of my business. This shit is why I only got 2 hours of sleep the night before I took the PSATs.

[Sumez]

People selling used consoles "with X games" without giving any indication of which games are included.

I get that it's usually people who aren't into "retro games" or the used games market in general, but how can you possibly pick up the idea that the identity of the actual games don't matter, while the quantity does?
It doesn't annoy me so much that I don't know what games are included (as there's a 95% chance they are all shovelware), rather it just bothers me that people have this approach in the first place.

[soprano1]

Games that don't point the cursor to Load Game when you have save data.

[Xyga]

My smartphone's speaker crapping out, when it dies completely the thing will be useless.

I mean you expect to drop and break the screen or the battery to explode in your face, right, but this ?
Especially when I never ever abused it (hate too loud ringtones or piercing notifications anyway)

[Mortificator]

Dual joystick tank controls.

This is why it always sounds like a misnomer to me when people call the system used by Alone in the Dark and its successors "tank controls." Pedantic, I know.

[Blinge]

Jury service.

[vol.2]

jury duty is the worst. they call you like every 2-3 years in NY. i know i'm supposed to be all happy to be part of the political system and whatnot, but it's usually just 3 days wasted in a selection room.

[Durandal]

My new job at a cheese factory. It's not so much that I have any problems with the job itself, but rather that everyone around me who knows about my new job keeps making cheese jokes and asking me whether I'll get any cheese for my Christmas gift (which I did get). It never ends

[TransatlanticFoe]

The best thing about cheese jokes is just when you think they're done, there are stiltons more.