What's your biggest pet peeve in gaming

My pet peeve in gaming would have to be the length of cutscenes. If it is short and sweet, than it is ok, but if it is long and boring, than it is a major turn off to me. That is mine, but what is yours?

can u explain what pet peeve means?

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

fanboys, people that trying to seperate "hardcore" and "casual" gamers to make themselves feel superior. different preorder bonuses from different places.mems_1224

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

[QUOTE="mems_1224"]fanboys, people that trying to seperate "hardcore" and "casual" gamers to make themselves feel superior. different preorder bonuses from different places.free_milk

Games which are just glitched out eg. mario 3d land.

[QUOTE="free_milk"][QUOTE="mems_1224"]fanboys, people that trying to seperate "hardcore" and "casual" gamers to make themselves feel superior. different preorder bonuses from different places.mems_1224

[QUOTE="speedfreak48t5p"]

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

mems_1224

:lol: Best thing I've read all week.

Quick time events. When theres a cutscene, no matter the lenght, i wanna be able to RELAX, and not be on edge waiting for random PRESS X TO NOT DIE

Quick time events. When theres a cutscene, no matter the lenght, i wanna be able to RELAX, and not be on edge waiting for random PRESS X TO NOT DIE

AndersK

Bad controls.

I don't care how epic a game's story is if it controls like ass, I'll go rent a movie instead.

Developers who feel the need to have MP in every videogame.

Mine would have to be the Kinect and what it's doing to the gaming industry.

QTE's. They suck ass.

Developers who feel the need to have MP in every videogame.

Demonjoe93

the fanboys

Two things: really terrible controls and herding the gamer from plot device to plot device. Especially when games have lengthy tutorials at the start of games and the actual gameplay doesn't start until several hours in (prime example: FFXIII).

glitches, pop-ups, stone-age robotic animations, block graphics and caracter models with one turd texture for an excuse for hair.

basically products that seem to be unfinished or unpolished.

System Wars except for PS3 vs 360 discussion.

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

S*it just got real

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

Sell it?

Long loading times and badly placed checkponits irritate the hell out of me.

And bad voice acting in a game where story and characters are supposedly key, or important at least.

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

for me it was $600, smh, sony got me wit the PS3 in 2007, RIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDGE RACER

[QUOTE="Heil68"]Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. ispeakfact

how cute, sweet bromance

[QUOTE="ispeakfact"][QUOTE="Heil68"]Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. slantedandencha

how cute, sweet bromance

DLC, in almost every circumstance (except for major stuff like Shivering Isles and the like), but particularly in regards to MP and how you slowly get excluded from most of a games multiplayer if you do not spend another $40-60 on DLC. I remember buying Halo 3 and over the course of a year being limited to three or four playlists because I wasn't going to buy the cost of the game again. This expectation in being able to play MP is probably from playing PC a lot, where map packs where uniformly free until they realized console gamer would pay for them. I miss when a patch for BF1942 might come with a new map or two and not charge you anything.

Jaggles, Screen tearing, and game that require you to collect a certain amount of the same things and don't reward you accordingly. (just colected the Stones of Barenziah in Skyrim and that was the biggest waste of time ever since I got nothing of value for it.

My pet peeve in gaming would have to be the length of cutscenes. If it is short and sweet, than it is ok, but if it is long and boring, than it is a major turn off to me. That is mine, but what is yours?

sonic1564

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. Heil68

:lol: dude you're relentless

[QUOTE="Heil68"]Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. delta3074

But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(

I have a few:

- Rubber banding in racing games. (Looking at you Burnout, Motorstorm + Mario Kart)

- Being forced to lose to proceed, resulting in you using up health packs or restarting the level. I once spent over an hour trying to beat a level on Patapon, restarting every time I was about to lose. Then I lost and the game carried on and a new level opened up. I was then told that I needed an item from that level to beat the previous level. I admit I did rage that day.

- Enemies that simply refuse to kill AI buddies.

- AI buddies that simply refuse to kill enemies.

- Online gamers in general: Cheaters, screeching kids, etc.

- Trailers ruining the best parts of the game for you. (Honestly Free Radical... Haze could have been interesting if it weren't for the fact that we knew the big plot twist from day one)

- Overpriced DLC. (£6 for 3 new songs on DJ Hero? Are you f***ing kidding me?!)

I have two:

1. Lack of polish, which is easily the number 1 score detractor in gaming. Awesome ideas like Alpha Protocol get marred by bad framerates, terribad AI, slow texture loading and poor difficulty balancing. Other games like Battlefield 3 and Fallout suffer to a lesser degree, but it still sucks.

2. Blatant ripping off/generic design. I get it, Call of Duty 4's campaign was an amazing game, I don't need to play it 5 more times reskinned as Homefront or Battlefield 3. Sure these games have great unique multiplayer, but they should either go their own way in single player, or just avoid campaign altogether and leave it to the guys that do it right (like Crytek).

[QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="Heil68"]Buying a $400 console and having no games to play on it. ispeakfact

But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(

RPG elitists claiming every rpg under the sun to "not be hardcore/complex" enough

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

speedfreak48t5p

They don't count as full games, because they aren't full games.

[QUOTE="speedfreak48t5p"]

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

They don't count as full games, because they aren't full games.

[QUOTE="speedfreak48t5p"]

Call of Duty.

Anti-casual "hardcore" gamers

Activision

xbla/psn games don't count as "real games" (more here in system wars than anything)

Pug-Nasty

They don't count as full games, because they aren't full games.

[QUOTE="ispeakfact"]

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i have been playing plenty of games on my 360 dude, you are so full of Crap, if you said 'no exclusive games' then i may be able to see your point but to say it has no games is just pure BS dude.delta3074

But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(

I'm not taking to task what games you like, but I'm simply continuing from what you said above "if you said 'no exclusive games' then i may be able to see your point." All the games you just mentioned are multiplats. Heil68 was, in a trolling way, stating that the 360 is lacking in exclusives. Which is why I was just curious why someone would purchase a console simply for multiplats.

RPG elitists claiming every rpg under the sun to "not be hardcore/complex" enough

wis3boi

[QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="ispeakfact"]

But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(

I'm not taking to task what games you like, but I'm simply continuing from what you said above "if you said 'no exclusive games' then i may be able to see your point." All the games you just mentioned are multiplats. Heil68 was, in a trolling way, stating that the 360 is lacking in exclusives. Which is why I was just curious why someone would purchase a console simply for multiplats.

[QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="ispeakfact"]

But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(

ispeakfact

I'm not taking to task what games you like, but I'm simply continuing from what you said above "if you said 'no exclusive games' then i may be able to see your point." All the games you just mentioned are multiplats. Heil68 was, in a trolling way, stating that the 360 is lacking in exclusives. Which is why I was just curious why someone would purchase a console simply for multiplats.