DMTDeadpool
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Let's see.... What do I hate about video games....
DLC with no game play value:
Now I like DLC that enhances the game, like Dragonborne for Skyrim. Extra missions, a new story arc, new powers.... But DLC that is pointless... Like Hearthfire for Skyrim... Adopt two kids that are just annoying (One I can't even interact with) and build some houses that when you put armour in the armoury it just vanishes.... Thanks for the whole day wasted cause the last save that would get all the Daedric quest items back was from the previous day..... (auto save situation)
Talking of Autosave....
Pointless Autosaving:
You complete a mission.... okay auto save... Sure... Do something important... Autosave .... No problem... I open my inventory I don't want to friggin autosave... Nor if I go into a house or three seconds after I manually save do I think it is required to autosave. Keep autosaving for something important...
Less game, more movie:
Right. I didn't buy the game to watch a movie. I buy games so that I can immerse myself in a fantasy world for a few hours when I can. Fine for starting missions, short cutscene where you get your mission so you know what to do, and a little thing at the end of the mission, I can handle.... But to have 5 minutes of cutscenes thrown in after you turn a corner, or missions that need a full story told in cutscenes before it starts (GTA is bad for this) It's not needed. Just tell me what needs to be done.
Super-mega-ultra-celebrity voice acting:
It's pointless and it's going to blow the game budget waaaaay up. Instead of paying ONE actor $17 million to record a few lines... That $17 million could add in a lot of decent content and pay for an entire cast of voice actors. It is utterly pointless, I didn't buy GTA San Andreas cause Samuel L Jackson voiced a character.... I bought it cause I like the games. I do not give a flying **** who is doing the voices. It's a game... I remember when all you got was text on the screen and a very synthed up manical "MWUAH HA HA"
Where is my damned booklet?
Remember the good old days, when you got a booklet in your box, telling you some of the story, giving you the controls, a little info about weapons and characters you will encounter.... Yeah well that is now considered extra content and sold only in those waste of money collectors releases... You know the ones where you get two books and a figure but pay $150 more for the game.... Yeah... GIMMIE MY DAMNED BOOKLET!!!
Movie related cash ins....
Why are video games losing money? The dreaded Movie - video game cross overs... These do not work. For a HUGE part. Why? Because a movie has different requirements than a game. Plus to make it a truely authentic experience you basically have to do everything exactly as it happens in the movie, this gives players little control over the situation, and anyone that has seen the movie knows exactly what to do... Plus these games, because of the aforementioned points, usually end up being based very very very very loosely on the movie... Where you have a main character, a few bad guys and a bit of the plot with a ton of gameplay that has nothing to do with any of the action in the movie... and of course the obligatory car chase and underwater levels.... Just stop... Make a stand alone game, base it on the main character and build on their history. Movies like Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull had references to Indie's adventures that sounded waaaaaaaaay more interesting than the movie was... let's play those.
Highly censored R-rated games.
Hot Coffee was removed from GTA cause parents complained... Well the game is meant for MATURE gamers. If this is too graphic for your child THEY SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING THE GAME! Stop complaining to developers cause the obviously r-rated game you got for your 7 year old is full of violence and sex and drugs and torture and scary things.... BE A DECENT PARENT THEN AND DON'T BUY THESE GAMES FOR YOUR DAMNED KIDS! These ratings are there for a reason. To ensure the game is sold to the correct type of people. Stop ruining our enjoyment as adults cause your kid saw some computer generated boobs, or the scary monster makes them wet their bed at night...
Transport missions
You get a character that more or less wants to die, running right into gunfire as you, the only one with a gun and body armour, tries desperately to take the bad guys down while your charge's health is falling faster than something heavy falling from a really high hight. Give these NPC characters a little more self preservation AI please!
and my number one complaint about video games....
Other Gamers!
I don't play multiplayer because of other gamers. I, strangely, don't enjoy getting verbal abuse from some 12/13 year old who thinks they are hot *****. when all I can think is...
Also I don't like getting sniped from some camper, repeatedly killed at spawn points, the obviously over powered guy who has apparently no life outside the game winning every single match.... Thats why I hated Watchdog... Here I am happily playing the main story when BOOM I have to find some other hacker or suddenly I am getting hunted down by some other player... Not my cup of tea. I also don't want to be planning my life around other people, just so we can all get together and do a raid or some other team based event. (Usually done at like 3 am for me) Or if you get the moron that doesn't do their job in the team, causing failure after failure cause they want to go get some pointless thing.. or find out whats up there... or dies 3 seconds in. Oh and the people that think EVERYONE has to play the way THEY play or else they are doing it wrong... Look, once the game is in my possession I will play the game how and as I want. If I want to cheat I will, if I want to make super armour in Skyrim I will. If it "ruins" the experience then fine I will replay the game without it.. But absolutely no one can tell me how and what I should do to play a game "the right way" there is no right way only the individual players way. If you are on the other side of the world, bitching at me cause my Skyrim Daedric armour has over powered health/stamina/magic buffs and has an armour value of 2 million and my weapons can do over a million damage... Who really needs help.? Play YOUR game and shut up.
And end rant
DLC with no game play value:
Now I like DLC that enhances the game, like Dragonborne for Skyrim. Extra missions, a new story arc, new powers.... But DLC that is pointless... Like Hearthfire for Skyrim... Adopt two kids that are just annoying (One I can't even interact with) and build some houses that when you put armour in the armoury it just vanishes.... Thanks for the whole day wasted cause the last save that would get all the Daedric quest items back was from the previous day..... (auto save situation)
Talking of Autosave....
Pointless Autosaving:
You complete a mission.... okay auto save... Sure... Do something important... Autosave .... No problem... I open my inventory I don't want to friggin autosave... Nor if I go into a house or three seconds after I manually save do I think it is required to autosave. Keep autosaving for something important...
Less game, more movie:
Right. I didn't buy the game to watch a movie. I buy games so that I can immerse myself in a fantasy world for a few hours when I can. Fine for starting missions, short cutscene where you get your mission so you know what to do, and a little thing at the end of the mission, I can handle.... But to have 5 minutes of cutscenes thrown in after you turn a corner, or missions that need a full story told in cutscenes before it starts (GTA is bad for this) It's not needed. Just tell me what needs to be done.
Super-mega-ultra-celebrity voice acting:
It's pointless and it's going to blow the game budget waaaaay up. Instead of paying ONE actor $17 million to record a few lines... That $17 million could add in a lot of decent content and pay for an entire cast of voice actors. It is utterly pointless, I didn't buy GTA San Andreas cause Samuel L Jackson voiced a character.... I bought it cause I like the games. I do not give a flying **** who is doing the voices. It's a game... I remember when all you got was text on the screen and a very synthed up manical "MWUAH HA HA"
Where is my damned booklet?
Remember the good old days, when you got a booklet in your box, telling you some of the story, giving you the controls, a little info about weapons and characters you will encounter.... Yeah well that is now considered extra content and sold only in those waste of money collectors releases... You know the ones where you get two books and a figure but pay $150 more for the game.... Yeah... GIMMIE MY DAMNED BOOKLET!!!
Movie related cash ins....
Why are video games losing money? The dreaded Movie - video game cross overs... These do not work. For a HUGE part. Why? Because a movie has different requirements than a game. Plus to make it a truely authentic experience you basically have to do everything exactly as it happens in the movie, this gives players little control over the situation, and anyone that has seen the movie knows exactly what to do... Plus these games, because of the aforementioned points, usually end up being based very very very very loosely on the movie... Where you have a main character, a few bad guys and a bit of the plot with a ton of gameplay that has nothing to do with any of the action in the movie... and of course the obligatory car chase and underwater levels.... Just stop... Make a stand alone game, base it on the main character and build on their history. Movies like Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull had references to Indie's adventures that sounded waaaaaaaaay more interesting than the movie was... let's play those.
Highly censored R-rated games.
Hot Coffee was removed from GTA cause parents complained... Well the game is meant for MATURE gamers. If this is too graphic for your child THEY SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING THE GAME! Stop complaining to developers cause the obviously r-rated game you got for your 7 year old is full of violence and sex and drugs and torture and scary things.... BE A DECENT PARENT THEN AND DON'T BUY THESE GAMES FOR YOUR DAMNED KIDS! These ratings are there for a reason. To ensure the game is sold to the correct type of people. Stop ruining our enjoyment as adults cause your kid saw some computer generated boobs, or the scary monster makes them wet their bed at night...
Transport missions
You get a character that more or less wants to die, running right into gunfire as you, the only one with a gun and body armour, tries desperately to take the bad guys down while your charge's health is falling faster than something heavy falling from a really high hight. Give these NPC characters a little more self preservation AI please!
and my number one complaint about video games....
Other Gamers!
I don't play multiplayer because of other gamers. I, strangely, don't enjoy getting verbal abuse from some 12/13 year old who thinks they are hot *****. when all I can think is...
Also I don't like getting sniped from some camper, repeatedly killed at spawn points, the obviously over powered guy who has apparently no life outside the game winning every single match.... Thats why I hated Watchdog... Here I am happily playing the main story when BOOM I have to find some other hacker or suddenly I am getting hunted down by some other player... Not my cup of tea. I also don't want to be planning my life around other people, just so we can all get together and do a raid or some other team based event. (Usually done at like 3 am for me) Or if you get the moron that doesn't do their job in the team, causing failure after failure cause they want to go get some pointless thing.. or find out whats up there... or dies 3 seconds in. Oh and the people that think EVERYONE has to play the way THEY play or else they are doing it wrong... Look, once the game is in my possession I will play the game how and as I want. If I want to cheat I will, if I want to make super armour in Skyrim I will. If it "ruins" the experience then fine I will replay the game without it.. But absolutely no one can tell me how and what I should do to play a game "the right way" there is no right way only the individual players way. If you are on the other side of the world, bitching at me cause my Skyrim Daedric armour has over powered health/stamina/magic buffs and has an armour value of 2 million and my weapons can do over a million damage... Who really needs help.? Play YOUR game and shut up.
And end rant