This is a topic I'm sure would be quite a relief from people's minds... What just p***es you off about games or the general gaming community? Just let it out, speak your mind about anything related to games that just tick you off, and we'll discuss 'em.

...Any takers?

...though I'd enjoy this more if I could stray outside videogames.

I hate sport games. I hate Halo fanboys on Xbox Live. I hate poor connection on Xbox Live.

I'll add more later when I think of 'em.

xD I should really change the subtitle and get this topic moved... This is different from what I intended, but, a topic like this is needed for everything, not just games.

My addition to the convo...

One thing that totally ticks me off is diehard fanboys/fangirls when it comes to games.

The first is the type of fanboy who thinks that a new Halo/Final Fantasy/Whatever game is like the second coming of Jesus-f***ing-Christ. I'm serious... They can look at something mediocre and call it perfection, whilst they are surrounded by stuff that is MUCH better... I don't know WHAT they are smoking, but I'd probably try a whiff in order for me to see if I can enjoy E.T. on the Atari for longer than a second.

Secondly, the diehard fans who look gift horses in the mouth. These are the people who are denied something for the longest time, that when they get it, they're so bitter about not being able to get it sooner, that they obsess about how different it is from what they played 20 - 30 years ago. I'm letting off smoke here, but I joined this site for a game called Fallout, I was totally psyched Fallout 3 was coming out in 2008, the ten year anniversary of Fallout 2. I get on the site, expecting to find lauds and praises that FO3 is FINALLY being released, and all they do is b**** about how it's not EXACTLY the same as Fallout 1 & 2, which were made 10+ years ago!

In short... Diehard fanboys/fangirls just annoy me to no freaking end...

10 minute cut-scenes that occur right before an extremely hard boss battle. That you can't skip. Every game should have a Skip Scene option, at least if you've seen it before.

Some of the things I hate about gaming communities:

People who whine over character voices
People who whine about how they won't play a game unless it has voice-overs
People who whine about Anti-Aliasing
People who let game mag reviews think for themselves; example - people who listened to reviews of Lair saying it had bad controls when it does not.


This next one doesn't tick me off, but it causes me to roll my eyes:

People who complain that a remake will ruin the original, and that the company should focus on new games.

The solution to that first part is simple: Don't play the remake. Of course, there will be still people whining over that.

What makes the latter part of that annoyance is that a company is making new games with new stories. It's just the company has gotten so large that it can spend time and money and have a team work on a remake, or re-release a past title with improved graphics and sound. Thus the people complaining about a company needing to focus on making new games is actively throwing egg on their faces.

Just thought of one about a game company.

When a company makes a new console, but at the same time, makes it so it is somewhat inferior to the console it's replacing.....say, it doesn't come with a hard-drive in every console, thus hand-cuffing game developers.

And this same company, thinking re-using the same disc format which also hand-cuffs developers because of lack of space, thus more time and money is spent on trying to compress the game so it fits on a disc less than 8.5 gigs in size.

Also, once again the same company, develops a console with poor air circulation, not to mention poor placement of it's graphics chip and dvd drive, thus resulting in overheating issues that kills the system. Then the company has to spend, or waste I should say, 1billion dollars on a 3 year warranty.

Ok, just came up with another one for a different company.

A game company that takes their console that's been out for a handful of years, strips it down, over-clocks it, and adds a motion sensing controller and slaps a new name on it.

Congrats <company name="">, on fooling many people, and hand-cuffing 1/3rd of the gaming market for companies that release multi-platform games, thus hurting not only the company, but the gaming industry as a whole for those companies won't grow as fast if that last 1/3rd of a market was open to them.

What about the companies that make a game specifically for this over-clocked console? What if they wanted to port to the other 2 consoles on the market to make extra money? Oh, wait, they can't. Because the game they made for this little console looks like crap compared to the games on the other two consoles, because of the system specifications, and would ultimately have to remake the game for the other consoles. Save for a handful of games that do look good, but chances are they are made by first party developers and won't ever see the light of day on opposing systems. Thus these specific developers lose out on 2/3rds of the market.

This same company, with this little console, just had to go and make a console targeting the "casual gamers." While that's truly nice, but unfortunately, the gaming industry as we know it didn't get here on casual gamers, it got here on the shoulders of the hardcore gamers, or gamers that spend many hours a week playing games. With a lack of diverse games for the gamers that spend more time playing than the casual gamers, only 2 of the 3 consoles have a great selection of games for the gamers that do spend lots of time playing.

Hmmm....t