5 things in gaming you can't stand

[dethink]

1) people that think halo is the biggest evil on this earth next to hitler
2) online gaming - sorry, busting out SoR 2 with a living room full of friends was/is way more fun than anything i've played online. then again, when you spend all your time being a fanboy, i suppose you have trouble getting out.
3) people who take GTA seriously, as either a game or a cultural evil.
4) RPG fans
5) modern games that are 80 hours long and no fun to play again afterwards.

[link1110]

I found another one watching G4 today

4) The stupid logo on the topright of the screen on "cheats" on g4 that blocks the end of the cheat codes and makes the whole point of the show moot.

[deathofthedead]

Damn, us EB employees aren't getting any love here! While I agree that there are some idiots working for us/Gamestop, most of them (the people I work with, at least) are extremely knowledgeable about gaming, be it classic or current. So don't hate us just because we work in a game store. Some of us do know what we're talking about!

[deathofthedead]

Crap. Sorry to double-post, but I got so caught up in defending EBers that I forgot to give my top five list.

5. The trend of late to make a violent game and market it toward the "urban" community. (In the latest issue of GMR, GTA/True Crime/Getaway-style games were referred to as "Urban Life Simulators". Seriously.)

4. Naive pre-peubescent gamers who call PS1 "old-skool" but are in fact idiots. They're young, yes, so maybe I should cut them some slack, but let's face it: they're idiots.

3. (To turn it around on all you EB-employee haters) People who come in and assume you know nothing about games, just because you work at EB.

2. Hardly any game companies seem to want to publish funny games. What's up with that?

1. Any company that waters down their games to make them more marketable to aforementioned idiots (ex.--Deus Ex IW, Starcraft Ghost) or cancels games because they don't think the masses will buy them (Lucasarts, I'm looking in you direction--Sam and Max 2, Full Throttle 2, and where the hell is the next Monkey Island game?)

[dreamcaster]

My dislikes are quite easy to define and as such, easy to list.

1. The lack of Sega in the gaming hardware market.
2. PC gaming.
3. 'Western' RPG's e.g. Morrowind.
4. Real Time Strategy games.
5. ....and yeah, fanboys.

[Richter]

- lack of GCN support
- excessive sequels
- excessive expansion packs
- excessive logos at the game's boot
- no option to change the controls

[Nature Boy]

I changed my mind. I like this list better.

Thanks Cap'n. I've been thinking about this stuff for *months* now just *waiting* for a thread like this to pop up. Time to start thinking ahead to the next time now that this stuff is off my chest...

[Cryomancer]

1) Stuff being overinflated in price, ie "RARE CORPSE KILLER FOR 32X" on ebay or loose n64's marked at 50 dollars at garage sales, ect.
2) Wrong game / case combos. There's a capcom fighter for saturn at my local pawn with a copy of sewer shark in it. Ugh.
3) The time before now when the US market seemed very intent on not letting us know (as kids) that games came from another country. Especially Nintendo power....damn you NP, the n64DD does exist!
4) Current market's focus on casual gaming.
5) Super Ultra Franchise Collection++ with two great games(out of the 50)!

[rxdoga]

1. Prices for old software being overinflated because someone thought it was a good idea to horde video games in basement.(geek really is in now)
2. Paying 200+ dollars for a game that was only 40-50 dollars when it came out a decade ago.
3. People be it at a garage sale, pawn shop or thrift store using ebay to price their goods.
4. People who pay outrageous prices for video games on ebay causing #3 to happen.
5. Nintendo for not jumping at Mr. Gates offer for buy out. I do miss the days when it was just two video game giants slugging it.

[mizarkgram]

1. Everything under the sun leading to ONLINE gaming
2. RIP Dreamcast
3. Little turds who buy older systems right under my nose at Yard Sales / Fleas
4. Little turds who do not even know how to get the warp whistles in SMB3
5. Little turds trying to show me how to play games

[The Great Dane]

1. Fanboy of any system- I admit that I used to be a sony fanboy back when ps1 very first came out and refused to try anything else out. But now I am open to pretty much anything. If it is a fun game I will like it.

2. People who are close minded to anything that doesn't have a mature rating on it- I actually got into an argument the other day with this guy that I know. We were talking about games and I asked if he had ever played Super Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube. He hadn't so I told him what it was about and how it is one of the funnest game I had ever played. He went off on how games like that are "gay" (what he actually said) and how people who play games that are kid-like are gay. I said that he should at least play it before he judges it. He refused and said that it was gay. He then went off on how he loves Devil May Cry 2. So, I gave up and decided that he was another mainstream gamer that only likes games with lots of blood and violence.

3. The current fad in RPGs to just be a big long cinematic movie. This ruins the rpg experience for me, personally.

4. Kids of today refusing to play older games because the graphics "suck" or whatever.

5. Not having enough money to buy all of the older playstation 1 games that I am really wanting.

[Cauterize]

unfortunately, points 2 & 4 will always be the same.... (i reckon)
there is a small minority accepting retro really, as somethign new and better will always come out...

dont let it get to you...

[The Great Dane]

unfortunately, points 2 & 4 will always be the same.... (i reckon)
there is a small minority accepting retro really, as somethign new and better will always come out...

dont let it get to you...

Very true, but it still bugs me :P

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

-Fanboys OMG I hate them so much
-People that think Old games suck (Most of those games Helped shape the games of today)
-People that think New games Suck (I Might be Guilty of that one some times)
-Not having the money to start collecting games seriously
-People that think that yearly sports games only change the rosters every year(each sport game has usually new features every year)

[Griking]

-People that think that yearly sports games only change the rosters every year(each sport game has usually new features every year)[/quote]

I'm guilty as charged there.

There'really just isnt very much that you can change in a well done sports game since you can't alter the rules of the game itself

[davidbrit2]

RPGs
Squaresoft
Final Fantasy
XBox
Halo

Ha ha, that just about covers it I think.

[evildead2099]

Querjek: A character whose "coolness" is contrived can indeed seem annoying, but what about Sonic The Hedgehog?

[Backgammon]

1) Online assholes
2) Great games not getting sequels
3) Crappy games getting sequels
4) Fanboyism
5) Hype

[Azazel]

In no particular order.

Online games
Fanboys/girls
Sports games especially EA
Too many sequels
Sony/Microsoft

[suppafly]

1) RPGS
2) PS2
3) FMV