What’s Your Biggest Gaming Pet Peeve?

[JacquesPatat]

What's Your biggest gaming pet peeve, past and present

[Jackie Daytona]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JacquesPatat:

What's Your biggest gaming pet peeve, past and present

Cheaters.

Second is people that look up how to play. Then just do that. No uniqueness. Nothing interesting about them. Just the same as the last 50 people I defeated.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

When the music volume slider affects all audio of a cutscene.

[Hammer Of Evil]

individuals with slovenly microphone habits.

[Daenoxiis]

Past: When different consoles would receive different treatment. Example being Soul Calibur II having Link on the Gamecube, Heihatchi on the Playstation and Yoda on the Xbox.

Present: DLC in general. Because you know, remember when you could just buy a game, and actually get The Whole Game?? I would like for that to be a thing again. Or at the very least, just roll it back to Expansion Packs, instead of dozens of micro-transactions. Gacha also annoys me, if I wanted t o enter a raffle, I'd just enter a raffle, not play a video game...note that this does not include oldschool RNG in-game raffles prior to internet games, those I have no issue with.

Basically, I am adamantly against the idea of the dumbing down of society through destroying the attention span of people by injecting them with more dopamine than a corner store addict.

[Daenoxiis]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ṼṏẌṏḭḊ:

When the music volume slider affects all audio of a cutscene.

Hrgh!! I just cringed.
That sounds like a lazy mastering.
Who, what, did that??
The audio nerd in me feels like it just got kicked in the balls.

[Jingshen]

Escorting NPC from A to B missions. I'll avoid them for as long as possible.

[Sixtyfivekills]

What's that, you don't want motion blur?

Well too bad, you don't have an option to disable it, you can either mess around in hex to find it or hope someone makes a mod about it.

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Gopher missions.

You know go for this go for that.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Past: Lack of saves and poor pacing.

Present: Temporal ghosting. Which so. Many. Games. Seems to have to some degree today. Even games without TAA. I don't know if it's everything being deferred now, or motion vector clamping not being enough of a thing, or what, but it seems like virtually every newer game, even on a 240Hz 1ms display, with TAA disabled, motion blur disabled, and no superscaling methods applied, even then, still has motion quality issues.

If not outright streaking in specific scenes of low temporal coherence, then at least limited outline ghosting in motion that vanishes when still. This didn't used to be a thing and my weird brain can never quite unsee it and it drives me nuts lol. I eventually just accept it and play after minimizing it as much as I can but sheesh.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Daenoxiis:

Oprindeligt skrevet af ṼṏẌṏḭḊ:

When the music volume slider affects all audio of a cutscene.

Hrgh!! I just cringed.
That sounds like a lazy mastering.
Who, what, did that??
The audio nerd in me feels like it just got kicked in the balls.

Code Vein was one of them, but they fixed it when they added the first or second DLC.
There have been a few others, but I can't remember which games they were. I'll edit them in if I remember what they were.

[salamander]

well growing up decades ago i never like when you have to restart the entire game from the beginning if you lose, but this is mostly a thing of the past these days unless a new game is specific trying to replicate this.

[☎need4naiim☎]

Seeing BSOD all of a sudden.

Now, THAT is bad.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Spaghetti code.

[Duck Twacy]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JacquesPatat:

What's Your biggest gaming pet peeve, past and present

Hacking, and movies attempting to compete with games by offering ridiculous over the top stunts and CGI.

I love story oriented and tactical and strategic war simulations ... regrettably I have to stick with online gaming because of my security circumstances.

And so I get angry that there's aren't new genres being explored or offered, unlike in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Instead it's more FPS and RTS stuff ... more Armas, CSes, COD, BFs and so forth. And making the graphics more detailed doesn't make a game better. It can help, but the game is the game, not how pretty it looks.

[TopDog]

players who think they the sun shines out their backside