Name one thing you don't like about pc games

If it's only one thing, then it's when developers fail to deliver a ported console game that feels like a PC game. I mean stuff like huge letters and prompts, games that show you controller prompts instead of keys (Bionic Commando comes to mind), games that have no real graphics options, bad controls... What's more is that games seem to have been dumbed down. You barely ever get a game where you can go prone or lean around corner, for example. Regenerating health. Badly implemented checkpoint systems.

NoAssKicker47

I feel like Black Ops 2 is actually a great example of both the good and bad of that. It was the first COD game I'd played in many years, and I was very pleasently surprised to find a "lean" option, and used the sh!t out of it, all the time, in the campaign. But, it also had one of the worst checkpoint systems I've ever seen. Absolutely no real save game. Dozens of checkpoints per mission, but only like 2 that would actually save after the game was exited. And you'd have to rewatch the mission's opening cutscene when reloading, even if you were at the halfway checkpoint in the mission (sometimes, at least. It also bugged the sh!t out of me how the cutscenes were sometimes skippable, and sometimes not. I couldn't find any pattern. They just wouldn't let you skip them sometimes, for no reason). 

Worst thing about PC gaming is the community and the developers. Mostly because they are terrible at gaming and really should just p[lay on consoles instead.SKaREO

I don't like popping a game in or finally installing one and it doesn't work. On console, every time I put a game in, it works. Period. I guess that's the price to pay for such customizable hardware, but it doesn't hurt less when Call of Juarez won't go past the intro cutscene and Max Payne 3 needs to be played in Compatibility Mode for Windows 7.

Too many services like Uplay, Origin, Steam GFWL (which can go to hell).

Too many services like Uplay, Origin, Steam GFWL (which can go to hell).

mhofever

This. GFWL just needs to go away entirely. Origin... okay, EA thinks they're hot sh!t, whatever, they can have their little thing. I hardly ever play any EA games. Uplay.. I haven't had much experience with it, but I'd be much happier without it. I just hope no more come up. EA and Ubisoft are huge companies, so I can see them having their little DRM schemes, but I really hope it doesn't turn into a thing where every publisher has their own little shell program to run all their games through. I hope the rest of the smaller publishers out there just recognize and accept Steam's virtual monopoly, and roll with it.

Mostly console ports and bad support in general when the games don't run as well as they should.

lack of platformers
lack of console japanese style exclusive games
japanese devs allergic to pc

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forced mouse accel, if there is mouse accel, let me configure it like quake live. Also post the formula on how its calculated so I can syncronize it with quake live.

sensitivity sliders that change your mouse sens from 400 cm/360 to 5cm/360

sensitivity sliders that don't go low enough

vsync on by default

input laggy engines (cryengine 3), cryengine 2 is fine though

games that look bad and run bad

fps caps like at 60

bad mouse feel

lack of support for 4:3 (bf3 I have to force through nvidia control panel to give me black bars, ati users are SOL, their black bar thing doesn't work in bf3, I tried)

draconian DRM. Is there anything worse? Console kids dont have to put up with that type of garbage. Although its slow creeping onto consoles too with online passes. Full on DRM might be included in the next gen of consoles.

 

lack of support for 4:3 (bf3 I have to force through nvidia control panel to give me black bars, ati users are SOL, their black bar thing doesn't work in bf3, I tried)

 

JigglyWiggly_

Do you game at a 4:3 resolution?

lack of support for 4:3 (bf3 I have to force through nvidia control panel to give me black bars, ati users are SOL, their black bar thing doesn't work in bf3, I tried)

 

JigglyWiggly_

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lack of support for 4:3 (bf3 I have to force through nvidia control panel to give me black bars, ati users are SOL, their black bar thing doesn't work in bf3, I tried)

 

the_bi99man

Do you game at a 4:3 resolution?

1280x960

proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jbqUXJ9lPM&hd=1&t=9s

Second string support from developers.

OP said dumbest thing ever :|

The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware. I also wish we had more cinematic games on the PC. If this is the best platform, why aren't we seeing more games play with the form, the camera angles, like some of the exclusives on PS3??

The other big thing: unify the platform onto Steam and maybe one other like Origin and get rid of all these silly logins. Its annoying having so many different programs because with some of them you might only want to play one game. I'm only using Uplay for FC3 for example.  

I HATE STEAM. nuff said

The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

biggest_loser

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

I can't trade in my old games.

Bad ports and genric games.

I feel that most AAA games just recycle old gameplay. Foruneatly there are indie developers. Too bad everyone there seems to focus on adeventure/puzzle/platform yadayada.

Bad ports and genric games.

 

I feel that most AAA games just recycle old gameplay. Foruneatly there are indie developers. Too bad everyone there seems to focus on adeventure/puzzle/platform yadayada.

LifelikeThunder

What games would you like to see? im curious as to everyones different thoughts

I hate that there is no sense of humour in games these days,It's all serious macho stuff with the same old boring gruff miserable looking characters,Come on devs let's have some laughs!

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The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

NoAssKicker47

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

Bad console ports.

geitenvla

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The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

NoAssKicker47

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

I just wish that the system requirements were more accurate. I've ran into at least a few games where the "minimum specs" were clearly a lie, as I more than met the "minimum specs" and couldn't run the game for sh!t, at any settings. The Witcher 2, for example. My laptop actually exceeds the minimum requirements, at every turn. Not by much, but just barely. I've got a better CPU than the minimum requirements, more RAM, and a better video card. Still, at absolute bare minimum settings (every single option set to "very low" or "off", and 800x600 res) I get 12-17 fps. Completely unplayable, by any standards. GTA4 is the same way. My laptop actually crushes those minimum specs, by quite a lot, but I still can't get any better than a choppy 18-30, with some brief spikes into the 40s, in small, indoor environments.

"Minimum system requirements" should be a guarantee: "if you meet or exceed these specs, you will get at least 30 fps, at minimum graphics settings".

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The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

the_bi99man

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

I just wish that the system requirements were more accurate. I've ran into at least a few games where the "minimum specs" were clearly a lie, as I more than met the "minimum specs" and couldn't run the game for sh!t, at any settings. The Witcher 2, for example. My laptop actually exceeds the minimum requirements, at every turn. Not by much, but just barely. I've got a better CPU than the minimum requirements, more RAM, and a better video card. Still, at absolute bare minimum settings (every single option set to "very low" or "off", and 800x600 res) I get 12-17 fps. Completely unplayable, by any standards. GTA4 is the same way. My laptop actually crushes those minimum specs, by quite a lot, but I still can't get any better than a choppy 18-30, with some brief spikes into the 40s, in small, indoor environments.

"Minimum system requirements" should be a guarantee: "if you meet or exceed these specs, you will get at least 30 fps, at minimum graphics settings".

I would help to evolve cheaper. pc gaming is expensive

Games that don't support multi gpus.

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The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

biggest_loser

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

Bad console ports.

geitenvla

The lack of guarantee that they will work on your particular set up or rig. That's rarely a problem with consoles. Plus, those long install times...

But, it's all worth it in the end.

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The system requirements. I hate having to upgrade because I am not confident with buying and installing new hardware.

the_bi99man

Yes but this is the reason why the PC is technically the optimal gaming platform. It evolves very fast and allows developers to push the limits, whereas consoles are stuck with the same horse power for years and years.

I just wish that the system requirements were more accurate. I've ran into at least a few games where the "minimum specs" were clearly a lie, as I more than met the "minimum specs" and couldn't run the game for sh!t, at any settings. The Witcher 2, for example. My laptop actually exceeds the minimum requirements, at every turn. Not by much, but just barely. I've got a better CPU than the minimum requirements, more RAM, and a better video card. Still, at absolute bare minimum settings (every single option set to "very low" or "off", and 800x600 res) I get 12-17 fps. Completely unplayable, by any standards. GTA4 is the same way. My laptop actually crushes those minimum specs, by quite a lot, but I still can't get any better than a choppy 18-30, with some brief spikes into the 40s, in small, indoor environments.

"Minimum system requirements" should be a guarantee: "if you meet or exceed these specs, you will get at least 30 fps, at minimum graphics settings".

I completely agree with this. If you are over the minimum specs for a game, then you should get at least 30 fps with everything off/low. This may not be a big deal to people who upgrade all the time, but for someone like me (I don't mind playing games on low/medium if I have to) it is really annoying when a game isn't even playable on the lowest settings.

I don't like it when sometimes you have to tweak .ini files for configuring settings that are not available in-game. Thank goodness for knowledgeable users who share the tweaks on gaming forums.

DRM

Games without FOV sliders

Bad console ports

Badly Optimized Games

How much of a pain it can be to get a game working correctly sometimes.

Legendaryscmt

Bad console ports.

geitenvla

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Bad console ports.

s-e-e-k

Oh, if I'm allowed to name one more, it would be Games for Windows Live. Ugh.

Its not utilized by Devs fully anymore. So graphics are shiny or crisp but complete user created MODS are needed for most games to get decent textures etc. 

DRM. I draw the line at disc verification, any extra DRM is a a real pain in my proverbial @ss. Atleast steam has some up sides so, Yay for steam !Lulekani

I can't get high off of them.

The amount of money you have to invest in to the hardware side. Consoles are 300 bucks. PCs are far, far more.slateman_basic

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Bad console ports.

SKaREO

lol so they are going to start developing games on consoles for consoles? lol pc gaming is good and so are consoles. fanboy coff coff