What do you think is the worst thing that has happened during this gen?

1. Microsoft bribing PC developers into making Xbox 360 exclusive games, while abandoning PC platform. Examples: Epic Games, Ensemble Studios, Lionhead Studios.

2. Microsoft's nonexistant commitment to PC gaming.

Lack of RPGs and Qualtiy RPGs (theres a few good ones but the rest pretty much bombed)

Lack of exclusives

The Witcher rise of the white wolf, being canned (/cry)

Games that we've been waiting for 3 years ish and it takes 8 hours to fully beat it...

DLC is especially bad when, even before the game is released, the developers give out detailed information about future DLC packs. See for example Infinity Ward announcing map packs for MW2 before it's even relased.

That's a huge ripoff IMO. If they know what content they are going to have, why not add it to the freaking game before releasing??

"600 American dollars..."GodofBigMacs

lol, yeah that was a good move by sony.

dlc definitely is up there, it's good sometimes, but it's also turning into a joke. like sims 3 lets take out furniture and objects from the game and sell them on an online store.

map packs too, the original game ships with like 5 maps, then every couple of months they release 4 more for 800 points.

Dumb Fanboys!!!

The rushed 360 and the motion control trend.

And motion controlls

1. RROD. 2. Lair. 3. Motion Control. 4. TEH PC gaming is dead!. (every gen tbh). 5. Sony arrogance. 6. Excited kid playing that drum game for the Wii I think during last year's E3. (LOL!) :lol: 7. Lack of inspring creative games. 8. This gen has been so weak compared to the last one.expanded

Not owning a 360 and watching Banjo-Kazooie be released for that system. :(

On the topic of DLC, just noticed this from the new PS Store update:

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Course Pass ($2.25)
Instantly unlock all the courses in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 with this download. You can play through the game to unlock each of these courses or unlock them all now.
File size: 100 KB

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Apparel (x16) ($1.50 - $2.25)
Use Apparel to increase your created golfer's Attributes. Note: You can play through the game in order to unlock and purchase each item individually, or unlock and purchase the entire collection now.
File size: 100 KB each

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Equipment (x16) ($1.50 - $2.25)
Use Equipment to increase your created golfer's Attributes. Note: You can play through the game in order to unlock and purchase each item individually, or unlock and purchase the entire collection now.
File size: 100 KB each

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Intermediate, Advanced and Expert Clubs (Drivers, Woods, Irons, Wedges and Putters) (x15) ($1.50 - $1.99)
After your purchase, don't forget to take your new clubs to the in-game Club Tuner so that you can customize your clubs to match your personal play **** Note: You can play through the game in order to unlock and purchase each item individually, or unlock and purchase the entire collection now
File size: 100 KB each

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Max Stats Costumes ($3.75)
Max out your original golfer's Attributes. Save yourself the time of building up your golfer, and instantly set all Attributes to 12!
File size: 100 KB

rockguy92

..and? You're not even getting shafted. Most of you cry about how developers knew they were gonna make DLC and should've included it into the game but this is nothing. It's just for the lazy people who don't feel like playing through the game.

most games are generic FPS games or sports games this gen, hence why I have less games for my current gen system

1. Microsoft bribing PC developers into making Xbox 360 exclusive games, while abandoning PC platform. Examples: Epic Games, Ensemble Studios, Lionhead Studios.

2. Microsoft's nonexistant commitment to PC gaming.

IgGy621985

Your sig is dumb.

Of course Halo 2 was going to get rated poorly, it changed nothing in the PC port and it was released 3 years later, in the same year where games like Crysis and STALKER came out.

too many first person shooters

not enought rpgs

natal

dlc

rrod

sony original 500 and 600 price

the wii having major sucess

gamers complaining more and moreMeowmixxvi

1. Microsoft bribing PC developers into making Xbox 360 exclusive games, while abandoning PC platform. Examples: Epic Games, Ensemble Studios, Lionhead Studios.

2. Microsoft's nonexistant commitment to PC gaming.

IgGy621985

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"] What do you think is the worst thing that has happened during this gen?

Clover Studios getting ShutDown. I know they didnt make any current gen games but it happened in 2007 and i think we could have had even more amazing titles had they still been around. Luckily we have platinum games now as they're pretty good.

shutdown_202

one of the sadest moments this gen D:

other then that.

RRoD

and 599US$$

giant enemy crab

gamers complaining more and moreMeowmixxvi

[QUOTE="expanded"]1. RROD. 2. Lair. 3. Motion Control. 4. TEH PC gaming is dead!. (every gen tbh). 5. Sony arrogance. 6. Excited kid playing that drum game for the Wii I think during last year's E3. (LOL!) :lol: 7. Lack of inspring creative games. 8. This gen has been so weak compared to the last one.Generalmojo

bland gray and brown games short games that are all about graphics extreme focus on multiplayershadow_hosi

Video games costing 59.99 plus tax and Wii Music.

1. DLC

2. RROD

3. Developers thinking that making prettier versions of what we've beenplaying for the las 20 is enough.

4.Sony removing BC from PS3

5. Fanboys saying that company A is destroying the industry because more people are insterested in what company A has to offer than what companies B or C offer. There are some out there (and you know who you are) that think that if you don't like the same things as them you're not a real gamer, you're some sort of imaginary gamer that's gonna force companies at gunpoint to stop making hardcore games.

6. Over saturation of the FPS market.

7. Developers that think the only colors M rated games come in are Gray, Brown and Bloom.

I think the best thing to happen this gen besides realizing that there's more to improving our interactions with games besides just making them prettier, is the rise of game rankings and meta critc. The review for GTA4, Zelda TP, Ratchet& Clank and Lost Winds on Gamespot more or less was a wake up call that the age of 1 game1 reviewer is over. A game in a genre you love may be reviewed by someone that hates that genre or vice versa. Looking at average review scores just makes more sense than blindly following the opinions of one person that doesn't know your tastes.

When Nintendo introduced the Wii

and

DLC

1. DLC

2. RROD

3. Developers thinking that making prettier versions of what we've beenplaying for the las 20 is enough.

4.Sony removing BC from PS3

5. Fanboys saying that company A is destroying the industry because more people are insterested in what company A has to offer than what companies B or C offer. There are some out there (and you know who you are) that think that if you don't like the same things as them you're not a real gamer, you're some sort of imaginary gamer that's gonna force companies at gunpoint to stop making hardcore games.

6. Over saturation of the FPS market.

7. Developers that think the only colors M rated games come in are Gray, Brown and Bloom.

I think the best thing to happen this gen besides realizing that there's more to improving our interactions with games besides just making them prettier, is the rise of game rankings and meta critc. The review for GTA4, Zelda TP, Ratchet& Clank and Lost Winds on Gamespot more or less was a wake up call that the age of 1 game1 reviewer is over. A game in a genre you love may be reviewed by someone that hates that genre or vice versa. Looking at average review scores just makes more sense than blindly following the opinions of one person that doesn't know your tastes.

genfactor

1. The wayyy too shortfull pricedgame

2. the $60 game

3. Over saturation of fps games

4. the WII

5. over priced ps3 and RROD

In order-

1. Motion controls

2. RROD

3. Shovelware and minigame collections

4. That a game has to have good graphics to be good:roll:

5. Generic FPSs

6. Sony's original $600 price point

The Nintendo E308 megaton...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulbjsiwnvrk

DLC, its ruining gaming imo. Companies release halfmade games, only to release the rest of the content to make more money, Resident Evil and Street Fighter IV being the worse cases here.

Oakfront

Three Letters:

D L C

Paying to play games online when I already pay to get online.

Sony's fall from the top. The PS3 was the system I was looking forward to most, but its first couple of years were a drag. The high price forced me to buy a gimped version, and there were only a handful of games that really delivered, and many of them were multiplat. Although it's clawing its way back with some solid exclusive games, it's too late for me to care as I sold my PS3 months ago.

1. RROD

2. The fact my X-box had a banned Serial number when I bought it of E-bay

3. Fps oversaturation of the market

4.Bad DLC (Im looking at you Little Big plannet with your costumes, Home costumes, Map packs for WAW/KZ2/Gears etc. infact the only games that have done DLC right Imho are Fallout 3, Oblivion shivering isles ,Burnout and motorstorm:pacific Rift) I don't however mind the Classics of the Psn store or either PSn games ob XBLA.

5.The fact Sony and Microsoft is tacking on Motion Controls as a last minute job because it was sucsesful on a diffrent platform (I have a Wii it's good but im dissapointed in Ms and Sony for there lack of inovation)

6.Games costing 5 GBP more to buy (For some reason the pound button on my keyboards broke)

7.The fact Rare is slowly stagnating into a shadow of it's formy glory and hasn't produced a good gameinthe last 7/8 years.

8. Microsoft paying for exclusivity instead of investing in 1st party dev teams

9.Microsoft paying for exclusive DLC. (Just seems a bit anti competitive, I mean no-ones going to change stance in a console war over small pieces of DLC. it seems a big waste of money to me that could be spent well making a game, I mean 40 million for dlc exclusity would make a very very good game.)

10. The death of single player gaming

[QUOTE="jakehouston88"]

Microsoft xbox 360...

Swift_Boss_A

giant enemy crabs!

motion controls

chikenfriedrice