What's your biggest pet peeve in gaming

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[QUOTE="delta3074"]How so? how are lemmings anymore delusional than any other fanboy?delta3074

All fanboys suck, but the topic was "biggest" pet peeve. Well IMO, Lems are the worst.

When developers put a beta version on the market for full price, expecting the gamers to beta-test it so they can patch it later (if you're lucky).
I'm looking at you, Bethesda.

Also, overpriced DLC. EA/Bioware

[QUOTE="brofists"][QUOTE="ispeakfact"]But what's the point in purchasing a console just for multiplats that play practically the same as the competition? :(delta3074

[QUOTE="brofists"][QUOTE="Slow_Show"]Guess I'll go with the industry's hard-on for multiplayer. Unless your game rhymes with "Call of Duty", "Starcraft" or "Halo", chances are the MP is going to suck something fierce and will do nothing to help sales/discourage trade-ins. So instead of pissing away millions on that, how about you put it towards some competent writing and/or voice work?delta3074

Of course a lemming like you, is going to say that cows are the worst, and its that blind ingorance, which you show, which further proves how bad leemings are. You need to get a grip of yourself.brofists

[QUOTE="brofists"]Of course a lemming like you, is going to say that cows are the worst, and its that blind ingorance, which you show, which further proves how bad leemings are. You need to get a grip of yourself.delta3074

the term harcore and casual.

escort missons

[QUOTE="brofists"][QUOTE="delta3074"]MLG, enough saiddelta3074

[QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="brofists"] And yet an 8.year old kid was able to own Halo tournaments. Says it all about the "skill level' Nuff' saidbrofists

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.

noobs-a-buck

[QUOTE="brofists"][QUOTE="delta3074"]so you missed the part.delta3074

I have many but horrible mouse/aimer movement.... yeah looking at you killzone, and arma

[QUOTE="brofists"][QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="brofists"] And yet an 8.year old kid was able to own Halo tournaments. Says it all about the "skill level' Nuff' saiddelta3074

Quick Time Events, they drive me insane when overused. I especially hate them when the actions could be completed using normal controller inputs too.

Battlefield 3's singleplayer did a great job of including useless QTEs.

My pet peeve was the fact I wasted the money and time buying a PS3.I should have done more research into the console before buying.But as they say.........Live and learn.This is not to sway anyone into not buying a PS3,it is just my sole opinion.

Locked DLC. I've just paid for it and I can play with it.

I still haven't played with any of the DLC from HAWX because you have to RPG grind your way up the levels to unlock aircraft and weapons.

In Forza it's different because for some reason I enjoy unlocking stuff in that.

My pet peeve was the fact I wasted the money and time buying a PS3.I should have done more research into the console before buying.But as they say.........Live and learn.This is not to sway anyone into not buying a PS3,it is just my sole opinion.

brimmul777

Why didn't you like it?

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[QUOTE="delta3074"]360 was cheaper than a gaming rig, i have financial responsibilities so i had to get the next best thing for my gaming needs which was the 360, before you start there is no way i can get a gaming rig, even a hand built one for 200 quid, and it would be stupid of me to put down money to buy a ps3 and completely replace my existing libarary with the same games i have on my 360 minus the ones i like that you can't get on the Ps3 ,playing with a controller i prefer less wouldn't it? also, he said the 360 had no games, i was just correcting him, end of.Heil68

Ignore Heil, he's just an idiotic fool who JUST plays exclusives. Everything you say will end up being ignored by him because he can't resist the 'sexiness' of his PC and PS3. Samee thing applies to ispeakfact too. People should just play both exclusives and multiplats. That is why I own both consoles and are the primary gaming tools for me. My gaming rig happens to be some gaming laptop. It feels uncomfortable playing it. In all honesty, it really doesn't matter what you game on for multiplats because you aren't missing out on mods on the PC.

Personally it's gamers who are too worried about change. Gamers who do not think there is not space for both motion based gaming such as the Wiimote and Kinect. Personally I rather enjoy motion based games and look forward to what coming next gen. HarlockJC

Well, I disagree with you on two points:

1). It's true, there's a lot of "change" going on in the industry, yet must of it seems to go against us the consumer, AKA gamers. Most companies now release unfinished buggy games then have the audacity to charge us for DLC crap, especially in the cases when those DLC pieces are already in the games to begin with, yet you don't get them unless you preorder the game ongamestop (way to make gamestop rich publishers). Let's continue this DLC trend that young gamers seem soo eager too embrace. As far as I can remember, must of the things we call DLC now, we used to get them for free in the past, or they were charged in actual worth-while expansions. Threre are other problems right now such as: overprised games and peripherals coupled with overprised console hardware, XBL fees,milking the overuse of online features in games, keeping you away from the possibility of suing the companies, etc.New generations of gamers deny this because they don't have much experience with gaming from past gens.

2). Why should I respect the gaming community we have now since most of it is made of annoying kids who want to play COD or another mainstream shooter all day while ignoring and trash talking anything else. Most of these people don't care or respect or have any kind of appreciation for older games and classics. They don'tcare about the origins and history of franchises of old and think that COD is the bread and butter of gaming. For examples, you find a lot of people(especially here in sw) that don't seem to have touched an rpg before,until Mass Effect was released that is, and then trash-talks any gamer that actually has experience with this genre and call then elitests for mentioning that the Mass games are shooters.

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[QUOTE="delta3074"]360 was cheaper than a gaming rig, i have financial responsibilities so i had to get the next best thing for my gaming needs which was the 360, before you start there is no way i can get a gaming rig, even a hand built one for 200 quid, and it would be stupid of me to put down money to buy a ps3 and completely replace my existing libarary with the same games i have on my 360 minus the ones i like that you can't get on the Ps3 ,playing with a controller i prefer less wouldn't it? also, he said the 360 had no games, i was just correcting him, end of.Heil68

Ignore Heil, he's just an idiotic fool who JUST plays exclusives. Everything you say will end up being ignored by him because he can't resist the 'sexiness' of his PC and PS3. Samee thing applies to ispeakfact too. People should just play both exclusives and multiplats. That is why I own both consoles and are the primary gaming tools for me. My gaming rig happens to be some gaming laptop. It feels uncomfortable playing it. In all honesty, it really doesn't matter what you game on for multiplats because you aren't missing out on mods on the PC.

Gamers (including casuals)>Fanboys

Bull**** you own a gaming PC

Quit sucking Sony's ****

You're not a core gamer, you are a fanboy

You own most of your multiplats on the 360

I've been told this by manticores, may I go on?

Circles. I hate it when I see something that is suppoused to be a circle but it looks like some sort of pollygon. That goes double for textures that are suppoused to be circles.

so you missed the part about the multiplats that i cannot get on the Ps3 then? left4dead,left4dead2, darkstar one (the Ps3 doesn't even have any space flight simulators) Risen, Ego draconis, witcher 2 later this year,metro 2033 and other games only on PC and 360.delta3074

can u explain what pet peeve means?

free_milk

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

[QUOTE="delta3074"]so you missed the part about the multiplats that i cannot get on the Ps3 then? left4dead,left4dead2, darkstar one (the Ps3 doesn't even have any space flight simulators) Risen, Ego draconis, witcher 2 later this year,metro 2033 and other games only on PC and 360.Heil68

Bull**** you own a gaming PCsonic1564

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

My pet peeve was the fact I wasted the money and time buying a PS3.I should have done more research into the console before buying.But as they say.........Live and learn.This is not to sway anyone into not buying a PS3,it is just my sole opinion.

brimmul777

Current competitive gaming culture. Gamers are the worst when it comes to being a sore loser/winner. There's nothing quite like playing a game of Call of Duty to make you consider that abortion might be the greatest thing in the history of mankind.

Current competitive gaming culture. Gamers are the worst when it comes to being a sore loser/winner. There's nothing quite like playing a game of Call of Duty to make you consider that abortion might be the greatest thing in the history of mankind.

Assassin_87

LOL, true that. You wouldn't believe how many private messages I get from curb stomping kids in Call of Duty. I am pretty dang good at the games. I turn the voice chat off and never use mics, because none of my friends play Call of Duty, they all play Madden and NBA2K, so I don't want to bother talking to random people. So I don't antagonize people, talk ****, or anything like that. All I do is whoop their ass in the game and they come to me complaining through private messages all the time.

Shortsighted greedy ass publishers and the endless scapegoating of the people who are putting food on their goddamn tables.

I put EA and Ubi at the top of this list.

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

Current competitive gaming culture. Gamers are the worst when it comes to being a sore loser/winner. There's nothing quite like playing a game of Call of Duty to make you consider that abortion might be the greatest thing in the history of mankind.

Assassin_87

Shortsighted greedy ass publishers and the endless scapegoating of the people who are putting food on their goddamn tables.

I put EA and Ubi at the top of this list.

heretrix

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Current competitive gaming culture. Gamers are the worst when it comes to being a sore loser/winner. There's nothing quite like playing a game of Call of Duty to make you consider that abortion might be the greatest thing in the history of mankind.

wis3boi

@Brofists

You are right about the Microsoft peripherals being drastically overpriced.

The worst part about it? They intentionally cut out 3rd party peripherals, so you're forced to buy their overpriced stuff.

For example, a 3rd party released a 250gb 360 slim compatible harddrive for $60 bucks. You could get it on Amazon, Ebay, and other places. The alternative was paying $120 bucks for the Microsoft brand one. Microsoft found out about the 3rd party competition, and they released a firmware update to their OS that blocked out the 3rd party competition, rendering them useless and incompatible with the 360, when they had worked just fine originally. Not only that, but there were several reports saying that the firmware update that blocked the 3rd party harddrives was causing many people's consoles to get bricked if people tried to use the 3rd party harddrives after the firmware update had been applied, ruining their entire 360 console. What is especially disturbing about this, is that one of the big advantages the PS3 had, was that you could just install any laptop internal harddrive you wanted into the console, regardless of the brand. Tons of people have huge harddrives in their PS3s that they installed themselves. Nintendo doesn't require proprietary SD cards for the Wii, etc. etc..

To me, that's an extremely underhanded method of making money. Monopolizing things is nothing new to Microsoft, though, they have had a history of doing it in the past. If they can get a stranglehold on a market, they will do so, even if it is under cutthroat circumstances. These underhanded and cutthroat business tactics stem much further than just peripherals, it has affected the entire gaming industry. Everything from the games being released, to the content being cut, to the DLC growing in popularity, to just about everything people are beginning to despise about gaming, just about all of it derived from Microsoft.

You were also forgetting about some of the peripheral add-ons to make the 360 equal to the PS3 in terms of features.

The HD-DVD add-on was selling for $150.

The Wireless Adapter you mentioned was $100.

Play and Charge kits aren't included, which run you an additional $20.

Xbox Live like you mentioned, for $60 bucks a year.

There are in fact a lot of hidden fees involved with the 360, and I was well aware of it before I bought mine. Not only was I aware of every single hidden fee, but I despised them at the same time, and I still bought a 360 regardless. The reason I bought a 360 was for Halo. Halo was and still is the only reason I own a 360.