Name one thing about your fellow gamers, that pisses you off.

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#1 m25105
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I'll start.

I hate how MANY gamers on forums (such as this) accuse other gamers for being immature or not having an attentionspan, if you say that you find games like the Metal Gear Solid series, the Witcher or Bayonetta, boring. (Witcher 2 looks like fun though and the demo was pretty kick ass, but the Witcher was definitely boring) and that I should go back to playing Call of Duty/Halo/Gears of War (I haven't even played Halo, Gears of War).
And God forbid if you say that you think Super Mario World is an amazing game.

Seriously? Do I need to hand you my gaming resume, that shows that I enjoy games like Fallout 2, Theme Hospital, Curse of Monkey Island, Warcraft 3, Dragon Age:Origins? Sometimes you just find games boring, and you think the story is crap. That doesn't translate into me hating these so called "Mature" games.

So what about you folks?

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#2 GeoffZak
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Too many to choose just one...But I'll try...

I suppose the thing that pissed me off the most recently was how everyone was butthurt over the Mass Effect 3 ending.

They were being so unreasonable and over-demanding.

If you don't like a game's ending, don't throw a hissy fit and send the developer angry emails. Just accept it. Mass Effect 3 is a great game otherwise, or so I hear. As long as the game as a whole is good, why does the ending matter so much? It's such a minor detail.

There are so many games I love that have mediocre endings, and I don't really care. If I enjoyed the game, I'm not upset over a sub-par ending.

The Mass Effect 3 wasn't even that bad. I can't believe people were petitioning Bioware to release an alternate ending.

You have every right to dislike the ending, but don't DEMAND a different one.

"Bu-bu-There's no sense of accomplishment!"

You played a video game for hours on end, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING! You're not entitled to anything.

It pisses me off how some gamers are some of the most over-demanding and spoiled people on the planet.

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#3 Easports48
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All the Madden hate. Look. No game is ever PERFECT. I just get sick of hearing all B**ching about madden. Every year it's the same thing. The game lacks this,the game lacks that. Or this. I have not played a madden game in years. What ever.

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#4 CRS98
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People who hate otherwise excellent games, especially when it's measured on arbitrary standards.
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#5 Omni-Slash
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Elitism...the fact that every game has to be this work of art...we didn't start playing games for the "artistic" experience...we started playing games to have fun...to get lost in the experience....just because gamers are old and cynical...doesn't mean that every game has to be a dark and brooding experience...
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#6 ydnarrewop
Member since 2004 • 2292 Posts

There's not much that really bothers me to be honest. I work on a staff of so called 'academics' and every day I'm reminded just how stupid educated people can be. This has given me much much much repose and the ability to ignore assinine comments lol Thus, when a kid says something that is annoying it just bounces right off :)

Oh! and one other thing. I like to think I have the ability to admit when I'm wrong. No one likes being wrong. However, personally I can own up to it. Frak sakes no one is perfect; especially not me...God knows lol. However, some people will not back down and accept the notion that they have made a mistake. This drives me loopy...makes me see red sometimes :D

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#7 megadeth1117
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"(Enter critically acclaimed game studio here) PAYS FOR THEIR REVIEWS"

"IF YOUDONT LIKE THE WITCHER GO PLAY COD"

"(Enter critically acclaimed game here) IS OVERRATED,NIER IS THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME"

"I DONT AGREE WITH THIS REVIEW, SO THEY ARE WRONG AND THIS WEBSITE IS BIASED"

"SYSTEM X IS BETTER THAN SYSTEM Y"

"DLC IS WORSE THAN GENOCIDE"

I could go on, but I don't think I have to. It's moronic when gamers think they are some sort of minority group that deserve reparations for years of injustice.

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#8 bowserjr123
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When people only play COD, Halo, Gears, and games of that nature (shooters primarily) and dub Nintendo games immature and not "hardcore" enough, even though they've never played them.

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#9 almasdeathchild
Member since 2011 • 8922 Posts

hate people with some stupid code and if you don't follow it then you are a noob

gears of war is the worst at this,worst gaming community ever(yes worse then CoD)

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#10 thom_maytees
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Most of the elements found in System Wars. Also, defining terms like "hardcore," "casual," "generation" for elitist reasons.

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#11 Lord_Nas3k
Member since 2006 • 1492 Posts

worst gaming community ever

almasdeathchild

Don't know if you noticed, but uh, pretty much every gaming community sucks.

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#12 Euaggelistes
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When people, refuse to admit that they are cheating. If you find a glitch in a game and want to take advantage of it more power to you but own up to it. I will use the Mariokart 7 Maka Wuhu glitch as an example. I lost count of the number of excuses I saw people use to justify cheating without calling it cheating until Nintendo officially called it a glitch and patched it. Cheating is cheating whether the game developer calls it so or not. If you are going to cheat at least admit it and stop trying to justify it.

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#13 almasdeathchild
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[QUOTE="almasdeathchild"]worst gaming community ever

Lord_Nas3k

Don't know if you noticed, but uh, pretty much every gaming community sucks.

true. but for some reason out of all the gaming communitys ive played with GoW are the biggest D-bags ive ever had the displeasure of meeting. sure CoD has d-bags but they are atleast entertaining to mess with.

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#14 bluedeathking
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There is to many to pick from. I learn over the years most gamers are immature and spoils as hell, more so when you come to a web site like gamespot, ign, and ect. For most they see there opinion as fact rather then what they are. Instead of talking out as professional they do resorts to childish tactic like attacking someone spelling or gammar mistake, name calling, and flamming them for no reason. I also notice alot of them are follower when it come to certain games one minute they like the game then a reviewer bash it then they hate the game vise versa, ect. the only time i see someone acting mature is when you are actually talking to them face to face about a game.
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#15 bluedeathking
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[QUOTE="Lord_Nas3k"]

[QUOTE="almasdeathchild"]worst gaming community ever

almasdeathchild

Don't know if you noticed, but uh, pretty much every gaming community sucks.

true. but for some reason out of all the gaming communitys ive played with GoW are the biggest D-bags ive ever had the displeasure of meeting. sure CoD has d-bags but they are atleast entertaining to mess with.

well look at the majority of the community of both games. you will notice both game actually do attract different type of people (the one who consently play them and is in the majority). personally i stop playing online games because of the online community seem to be very immature for the most part though there some that are not that bad though i usually dont play them long enough to notice which are bad and god awful.
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#16 enjoy07
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I think the biggest thing that bothers me is the war between systems. By just owning and sticking to one system, you're going to miss out on some fantastic games. Yes, I understand not everyone can afford every console on the market, but don't go bat sh*t pissy over the system you can't afford to own, and insult the people who own and use the system you don't have. It's just silly.

Also, on a personal note. I've got a friend who is pretty baller at games, and whenever I struggle with a game, he likes to pick that game up, fly through it with ease, and rub it in my face. It's kinda annoying.

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#17 meetroid8
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I love all my fellow gamers and everything about them.
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#18 sundayismyDAD
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When people, refuse to admit that they are cheating. If you find a glitch in a game and want to take advantage of it more power to you but own up to it. I will use the Mariokart 7 Maka Wuhu glitch as an example. I lost count of the number of excuses I saw people use to justify cheating without calling it cheating until Nintendo officially called it a glitch and patched it. Cheating is cheating whether the game developer calls it so or not. If you are going to cheat at least admit it and stop trying to justify it.

Euaggelistes
This was an immature comment. I believe that anyone has the right to cheat if they want to. I speak specifically of cheating in video games. Any other form of cheating is frowned upon by me, whether it be cheating on a spouse or cheating on a test. If a player decides to cheat on a single player game, he or she is not immature because of it. One who calls it a bad thing must realize that they are not doing anything that important. To point your finger at those who cheat in a game is immature.
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#19 SoNin360
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Console wars, people whining about graphics (I'm talking about the ones who point out every little fault that your normal person wouldn't notice or care about), people who get egotistical about their online gaming "skills" and brag about it when no one really cares.
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#20 SaudiFury
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Elitism...the fact that every game has to be this work of art...we didn't start playing games for the "artistic" experience...we started playing games to have fun...to get lost in the experience....just because gamers are old and cynical...doesn't mean that every game has to be a dark and brooding experience...Omni-Slash

this.

and your Lollipop Chainsaw pic brings up a great example. not every damn game that comes out has to be this work of art it's aiming towards. and the overly-sensitive or ivory tower seated gamers lambasting it is tiresome. Was just reading a 1up.com story about how Uncharted's Chloe and Elena are bad examples of female characters in games. seems like so many game journalists are extremely sensitive and are projecting their own thoughts on what constitutes objectification, sexism, and misogyny. and apparently the terms are so broad as to encapsulate the vast majority of females one way or another.

in fact i'd go so far as to say if your a woman with any sort of hip to waist ratio of greater then 1:1, and you've got breasts that nature has depicted you in a sexually objectifying way. for shame natural selection! for shame! ESPECIALLY if you ever use those aspects of your physicality to attract someone you like, then that's REALLY bad.

when it come to games like Lollipop Chainsaw, it's like someone who is lambasting Bio-Dome for not being a better movie. fine in small spurts, but when the bandwagon effect kicks in it's like beating a dead horse, when it really didn't need beating in the first place. because, you know, it's Bio-dome with Pauly Shore, it's not going to be an epic saga shooting for the Oscar's.

This may also explain why i don't hate the Transformers movies as much as most geeks do, because after the first one i just saw it as CGI-porn of giant robots beating the snot out of each other. enjoy it for what it is, not for what it is not and will never be (with Michael Bay at the helm). Obviously most geeks still froth at it, yet the general public seems to have liked it all the same. if you can't enjoy it for what it is, no point in continuing to b*tch about it, doesn't change the movies. Also i must add, the notion that every game has to be serious, dark brooding, and has to hit some social commentary to make it worthwhile to play. Can't play or enjoy Mario no mo' that garbage for little kids.

[spoiler] and misogynistic because it uses the damsel princess trope to a T, even though the story or setting is - i would argue - the least important aspect of those games, it's all about the gameplay. [/spoiler]

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#21 SaudiFury
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Console wars, people whining about graphics (I'm talking about the ones who point out every little fault that your normal person wouldn't notice or care about), people who get egotistical about their online gaming "skills" and brag about it when no one really cares.SoNin360
that is annoying as hell as well. gotta say. specifically the console wars, and gloating over which piece of plastic your mom and dad bought you, and how it's better then yours, or the neighbor kids.
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#22 Sweetbackhair
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I don't know if anyone agrees but people who say the game is broken (example: Skyrim) just because it has bugs and glitches
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#23 speedfreak48t5p
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Elitism and graphics whores.

Basically, 90% of system wars

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#24 lShadyl
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In the last couple of years I have noticed that gamers have to compare every new game to an already existant/old game.

I have actually made a thread about it on my blog when I decided to sign up for GS but it has zero views to this day :P

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#25 famicommander
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Fanboyism/elitism: I work at a video game store and I see this every single day. PS3/360 zealots will literally hang out by the Wii games just to tell people coming in to get some Mario Party that the Wii is gay and that they should buy a "real man's system". Same goes for PC elitists; they come in and just wait around for someone to buy a PS3/360 game just so they can tell them how much better it is on PC. Makes me ashamed to be a video game fan. People who make excuses for terrible business practices/anti-consumer nonsense: Intrusive DRM, on-disc DLC, online pass, half-finished games at launch (PS3 Skyrim anyone?), etc. I understand liking a game or a company so much that you personally might look past something ridiculous to play a game. But making excuses and justifying these practices on the behalf of these game companies is just going to make it worse for everyone in the future. You're doing EA/Ubisoft/Activision's PR work for them and you're not even getting paid; on the contrary, you're being given less value for your dollar all the time. And you asked for it. People who rely on reviews from professional game "journalism" sources: Learn to think for yourself. Download a demo, ask a friend what he thought of a game, watch a gameplay video/video play-through, check the developer's track record, follow your gut, give it a rental. Any of those are great ways to research your purchases. But these review outlets have proven themselves incapable of objective journalism on many occasions; they act as an extension of publisher PR arms on a daily basis. They accept ad revenue from the companies whose products they are reviewing. They accept ridiculous gifts from publishers which are almost never disclosed to the public. They use their position as journalists to buddy up with publishers and get their foot into game development. People with zero knowledge of a genre are often assigned to review games in said genres (remember IGN's Football Manager fiasco?) It's just disgusting, and no other field of journalism is as bad as this one. Nobody at Gamespot, IGN, GameTrailers, GameInformer, or G4 would pass journalism 101 at the local junior college. These people aren't experts, they're just guys who happened to get a job writing about games. People who are just out to make sure others don't have a good time: Screaming racist nonsense over your microphone. Hacking. You know the type.
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Console wars, people whining about graphics (I'm talking about the ones who point out every little fault that your normal person wouldn't notice or care about), people who get egotistical about their online gaming "skills" and brag about it when no one really cares.SoNin360

Yeah, pretty much this!

I started gaming on an Atari 2600. These graphics nowadays just amaze me (especially you lucky bastards with your ultra awesome computers:), I am just in envy), comparing it from back then, but still graphics don't dictate how good a game is or how fun it is going to be for me.

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#27 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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People who can't see excellent games on other systems or can't see passed their own system because they have to hate everything else. aka fanboys.

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#28 immortality20
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Their need to tell me what to play and what I should like. They know everything, they hate everything and they think there should never ever be any post launch DLC. Ever.

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#29 iHarlequin
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-> People who like categorizing entire companies into 'Casual' or 'Hardcore'.

-> People who care about what games I play to the point of trying to convince me they're bad games (I've had discussions with people trying to tell me how SS is terrible and I shouldn't play it -- even though I was enjoying it thoroughly).

-> How people blame 'casual' gamers for everything that's bad and wrong in the gaming industry.

-> People who hate on motion controls or any other changes/improvements/innovations that aren't related to the graphics.

-> Elitism.

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I hate how MANY gamers on forums (such as this) accuse other gamers for being immature or not having an attentionspan, if you say that you find games like the Metal Gear Solid series, the Witcher or Bayonetta, boring. (Witcher 2 looks like fun though and the demo was pretty kick ass, but the Witcher was definitely boring) and that I should go back to playing Call of Duty/Halo/Gears of War.m25105
This happens when someone posts a topic about how much a game sucks without a clear understandable reason. I'm not saying you didn't list a reason but 60% of other people do this. Anyways, I hate it when friends who love a specific fighting game will never try anything else of if they do, give up quickly. Happens all the time at the gaming club "meetings" in college.
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#31 NiKva
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PC gamers who try to push their PC elitism onto console gamers. People calling the PS Vita horrible.
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#32 Ryder_49
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Too many to choose just one...But I'll try...

I suppose the thing that pissed me off the most recently was how everyone was butthurt over the Mass Effect 3 ending.

They were being so unreasonable and over-demanding.

If you don't like a game's ending, don't throw a hissy fit and send the developer angry emails. Just accept it. Mass Effect 3 is a great game otherwise, or so I hear. As long as the game as a whole is good, why does the ending matter so much? It's such a minor detail.

There are so many games I love that have mediocre endings, and I don't really care. If I enjoyed the game, I'm not upset over a sub-par ending.

The Mass Effect 3 wasn't even that bad. I can't believe people were petitioning Bioware to release an alternate ending.

You have every right to dislike the ending, but don't DEMAND a different one.

"Bu-bu-There's no sense of accomplishment!"

You played a video game for hours on end, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING! You're not entitled to anything.

It pisses me off how some gamers are some of the most over-demanding and spoiled people on the planet.

GeoffZak
Yes. Yes. Thank you so much. That annoys me so much. Plus several other classics like : "DLC is blasphemy!" "Game gets 8/10. Gamer reaction - 'Must be a piece of ****!'" "Favourite game gets marked low and gets an 8 or below out of 10. Gamer reaction - 'What a bad review. Obviously he's been paid off by the evil overlords!'" Reviews are opinions! Don't base everything you do around them!
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People who make excuses for terrible business practices/anti-consumer nonsense: Intrusive DRM, on-disc DLC, online pass, half-finished games at launch (PS3 Skyrim anyone?), etc. I understand liking a game or a company so much that you personally might look past something ridiculous to play a game. But making excuses and justifying these practices on the behalf of these game companies is just going to make it worse for everyone in the future. You're doing EA/Ubisoft/Activision's PR work for them and you're not even getting paid; on the contrary, you're being given less value for your dollar all the time. And you asked for it.famicommander

Very much agreed. It astonishes me to see people coming out and not only defending Activision (using Diablo III as a recent example), but even going further and claiming gamers "cry-babies" and "entitled" when all they expect is for their game to work as it should. That's not asking much, but apparently nowadays if someone gets pissed off from not being able to use something as advertised that they paid for, it's whining, crying, and entitlement.

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#34 Greyfeld
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There are a few posts on here that I'd like to respond to.

Too many to choose just one...But I'll try...

I suppose the thing that pissed me off the most recently was how everyone was butthurt over the Mass Effect 3 ending.

They were being so unreasonable and over-demanding.

If you don't like a game's ending, don't throw a hissy fit and send the developer angry emails. Just accept it. Mass Effect 3 is a great game otherwise, or so I hear. As long as the game as a whole is good, why does the ending matter so much? It's such a minor detail.

There are so many games I love that have mediocre endings, and I don't really care. If I enjoyed the game, I'm not upset over a sub-par ending.

The Mass Effect 3 wasn't even that bad. I can't believe people were petitioning Bioware to release an alternate ending.

You have every right to dislike the ending, but don't DEMAND a different one.

"Bu-bu-There's no sense of accomplishment!"

You played a video game for hours on end, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING! You're not entitled to anything.

It pisses me off how some gamers are some of the most over-demanding and spoiled people on the planet.

GeoffZak

If you're not even going to take the time to understand the issue, don't even try to lambast people for their opinions.

When a game's ending completely tosses any and all character development and decisions out the window in a complete about-face to the original theme and mood of the entire series, fans of that series have a right to demand that the developers go back and do it right. Video games aren't just "art" that can hide behind the whole "artistic integrity" argument, they're also entertainment that require input from the consumers. It's a commercial product, and customers have every right to demand a product that they buy live up to the standards expected of the company who develops that product.

And if you still want to hide behind "artistic integrity," Bioware already violated that integrity the moment they betrayed the soul of the entire trilogy with that half-baked ending. Most unhappy players are just requesting they return to the integrity inherent in every part of the series before the last 10 minutes of the last game.

"DLC is blasphemy!"Ryder_49

I think a lot of people don't have a problem with DLC in theory; I think they have a problem with how DLC has turned out in practice.

The problem is, the wide majority of DLC is extra outfits and weapons and crap like that, that doesn't actually add anything to the overall experience of the game. And DLC that does extend the experience of the game is usually extraordinarily short and subpar content compared to the original game experience.

Then, you have on-disc DLC and day-one DLC which seems like an obvious ploy to rip out chunks of the game and sell them as "extras" for more money.

For example, I recently picked up Final Fantasy XIII-2. I saw a section for unlockable character outfits, and I thought to myself, "Cool, I wonder how I unlock these?" After completing the game and never unlocking anything, I checked online and found out that all the "unlockable" outfits are all DLC outfits. But the feature is integrated directly into the core game, rather than being added on once you download the DLC. This tells me that they made this whole outfit feature from day one, but decided to rip it out of the main game and sell it off to players piecemeal to make more money.

The problem with DLC, ultimately, is that it's become a way for companies to milk more cash out of their customers, rather than a way to extend the life of their games as it was originally intended. What used to be free content that you would unlock through the progression of the game's storyline (or found by doing sidequests, time trials, beating high scores, etc etc) is now being called "unessential to the core game" so that they have an excuse to make more money off of it.

And the casual consumer just eats it up, happy to spend half again the original price of the game to buy content that would have been part of the game itself before this generation of consoles.

People who make excuses for terrible business practices/anti-consumer nonsense:

Intrusive DRM, on-disc DLC, online pass, half-finished games at launch (PS3 Skyrim anyone?), etc. I understand liking a game or a company so much that you personally might look past something ridiculous to play a game. But making excuses and justifying these practices on the behalf of these game companies is just going to make it worse for everyone in the future. You're doing EA/Ubisoft/Activision's PR work for them and you're not even getting paid; on the contrary, you're being given less value for your dollar all the time. And you asked for it. famicommander

I couldn't have said this any better.

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#35 SPYDER0416
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There are a LOT of things. Entitlement, loudmouthing, fanboyism, immaturity, terrible hive mind consciousness, etc.

I'd say its probably the mix of immaturity, entitlement and nostalgia that I hate. SO many games today come out, and you have a brigade of haters, but what separates these haters is that they call themselves "fans" and say they have a right to hate on it. They say its not a "real" game or doesn't belong in the franchise, some such crap.

Max Payne 3, Modern Warfare, Battlefield 3, Grand Theft Auto, Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Fallout 3, etc. These are all amazing games that people with rose tinted glasses on hate because of the overwhelming nostalgia they have for the older titles, ignoring the older games flaws (which is simply a result of basic human memory and not actually because those games were flawless), and hate on the new iterations or sequels without knowing what they are talking about.

With Mass Effect they complained ME3 was too shooter focused and didn't have enough choices, ignoring the terrible Mako missions in 1 and the culminations of choices from all games while thinking its ok for them to beg for a change in a game they had no hand in. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an amazing stealth/RPG game, but because its set before the first games and adds modern conventions (which has to happen when its been YEARS since the last game), they complain its not a "real" Deus Ex title, ignoring that its still better then the poop that was Deus Ex 2 (which was apparently excised from their memories, along with the memories of Deus Ex 1's various flaws and bugs). Heck GTA IV, one of the best titles of this generation, got some hate because the developers put a focus on storytelling and polish, when fans of VC and SA decide that GTA IV is poop because you can't parachute out of a jet or own a giant mansion, ignoring that the gameplay is the most solid its ever been in the series and the expansions that very much allowed some of this craziness without sacrificing fun like the previous games did.

So yeah, people with their nostalgia goggles on, a sense of entitlement and a resistance to change or progress really bug me.

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#36 keybladegamer
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" X franchise is for the n00bs!"

"COD IS TERRIBLE AND DESERVES NO SALES! REHASH REHASH REHASH!"

The unneccesary hate towards yearly titles.

Oh, and I think the Mass Effect ending change petition was a bit extreme. But beyond that there's really nothing that makes me mad about the gaming community.

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#37 Mcspanky37
Member since 2010 • 1693 Posts

I'll start.

I hate how MANY gamers on forums (such as this) accuse other gamers for being immature or not having an attentionspan, if you say that you find games like the Metal Gear Solid series, the Witcher or Bayonetta, boring. (Witcher 2 looks like fun though and the demo was pretty kick ass, but the Witcher was definitely boring) and that I should go back to playing Call of Duty/Halo/Gears of War (I haven't even played Halo, Gears of War).
And God forbid if you say that you think Super Mario World is an amazing game.

Seriously? Do I need to hand you my gaming resume, that shows that I enjoy games like Fallout 2, Theme Hospital, Curse of Monkey Island, Warcraft 3, Dragon Age:Origins? Sometimes you just find games boring, and you think the story is crap. That doesn't translate into me hating these so called "Mature" games.

So what about you folks?

m25105

They are all a bunch of idiots (including me) and usually don't have a damn clue about what they're talking about. BTW is that Frank Mullen in your profile pic to the right?

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#38 JustPlainLucas
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I had a nice reply I was going to post in another thread, but now it's locked, so I guess I'll say one type of gamer who pisses me off are the kinds of gamers who spend too much time on gaming forums locking topics. *tips my hat to you, Drac*
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#39 Kocelot
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For me, it's Call of Duty commentators.

Why would i hate them, you ask?

because it pains me that they call themselves gamers and base everything on Call of Duty(which has went downhill ever since it even got popular at COD4).
why does it pain me? well, not really 'pains'.. b/c it "hurts" to know there are ppl missing out on other, better games.

They compare literaly every game to Call of Duty, even from other genres.
"yeah, the skill books are kind of like Call of Duty perks."
"Wow. These guys are bullet sponges!" (playing a different military shooter where it only takes 2 or 3 more bullets to kill)

They think they have superb skills just because they do well in COD. And anybody can do well from my experience. My 8 year old cousin got a blackbird in the first 2 minutes just from hip firing, which is ridiculous since COD has exaggerated hip fire radius (being too wide).

I clicked a random video which still happened to be in my sub box of a commmentator playing a different game other than COD, and it was so painful to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3YburxQC-U&feature=relmfu
kept aiming down his sights like in.. youknowwhat.
caught this other vid where kidsw tried to quickscope in Borderlands, and Minecraft. yes, Minecraft. you know, with a bow and arrow. LOL.

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People that think that by using racial epithets, it will make them seem cool and tough. It's mainly kids that do it but there are a lot of adults (and I use that term very loosely) that will go around being e-thugs. I find it all very amusing and I thank the devs for the ability to mute mics.
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  • PC elitism - I don't have to be reminded how much superior PC gaming is and how much consoles suck all the time. PC's and consoles both have their benefits. Deal with it.
  • Hardcore RPG elitism - They always say how horrible games are that are RPG's but aren't as "hardcore" as they would like them to be and have turned too casaul (examples: Mass Effect 2 & 3, Skyrim) I like the direction some of these "casualized" games have gone. Sue me.
  • Console Wars - Play your own games and STFU.
  • Graphic Whores - Who cares what game has better graphics, as long as it's fun I'll play it.
  • People that only play shooters - I guess this make me a bit of an elitist, but it still annoys me. It's especially annoying when they think games that aren't generic military FPS's are "stupid," "boring," or "too hard"
  • Madden haters - I loved NFL 2K5 too, but it's ridiculous how much hate Madden gets. To a degree, sometimes they're right, but no matter what they never stop complaining.
  • People that take review scores too seriously - Pretty much everyone on SW. According to them Gamespot is neverwrong about their reviews. I mean look how many dislikes their inFamous 2 review got lol.
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#42 digitaldame
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- Gamers who do more time trash talking about their skills than actually proving they have them.

- People who take non serious games way too seriously.

- Gamers that pirate what they play.

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Elitism and fanboys

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#44 Pedro
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  1. Gamers who act as if Nintendo cares about gaming and still makes great games.
  2. Elitism
  3. Bandwagoon jumping
  4. Gamers who think they are cool because they frequently announce their hatred to COD
  5. COD is the ecape goat for EVERYTHING wrong in the industry
  6. Looks are great looking games and claim it looks like trash
  7. Complain about low res textures when they ZOOOOM in on the texture :|

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There are a LOT of things. Entitlement, loudmouthing, fanboyism, immaturity, terrible hive mind consciousness, etc.

I'd say its probably the mix of immaturity, entitlement and nostalgia that I hate. SO many games today come out, and you have a brigade of haters, but what separates these haters is that they call themselves "fans" and say they have a right to hate on it. They say its not a "real" game or doesn't belong in the franchise, some such crap.

Max Payne 3, Modern Warfare, Battlefield 3, Grand Theft Auto, Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Fallout 3, etc. These are all amazing games that people with rose tinted glasses on hate because of the overwhelming nostalgia they have for the older titles, ignoring the older games flaws (which is simply a result of basic human memory and not actually because those games were flawless), and hate on the new iterations or sequels without knowing what they are talking about.

With Mass Effect they complained ME3 was too shooter focused and didn't have enough choices, ignoring the terrible Mako missions in 1 and the culminations of choices from all games while thinking its ok for them to beg for a change in a game they had no hand in. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an amazing stealth/RPG game, but because its set before the first games and adds modern conventions (which has to happen when its been YEARS since the last game), they complain its not a "real" Deus Ex title, ignoring that its still better then the poop that was Deus Ex 2 (which was apparently excised from their memories, along with the memories of Deus Ex 1's various flaws and bugs). Heck GTA IV, one of the best titles of this generation, got some hate because the developers put a focus on storytelling and polish, when fans of VC and SA decide that GTA IV is poop because you can't parachute out of a jet or own a giant mansion, ignoring that the gameplay is the most solid its ever been in the series and the expansions that very much allowed some of this craziness without sacrificing fun like the previous games did.

So yeah, people with their nostalgia goggles on, a sense of entitlement and a resistance to change or progress really bug me.

SPYDER0416

Very well put. NeoGAF is full of motherf**kers like those.

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Wait wait wait wait hold up...you know people who say Super Mario World isn't awesome???!!!

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I have a few...

1) when Gamers think thier ideals, and PoV is the only right one, these typically define the top of arrogance.

2) Fanboys. No seriously I put this in its own kind of "piss off" People who rabidly defend and critisice anything that is not made by thier favored platform.

3) The crowd who shrugs at the industry at large, never "voting with thier money" on how things go in the industry, and yet complain about it.

4) The opposite of the spineless followers of the things they dislike in the industry, the Die hard outcryiers about every change, or alteration in games. (altho I agree with the shortening games, and pulling layers of gameplay out is a huge negative).

5) The selfentitled smirks who take odd pride in finishing specific games, and consider themselves "Better" It is good to have pride in your hobby, but when you develop a "better then you" attitude, you know you are borderlining on mentally unstabile.

6) The people who brands other people "Casual" or "Hardcore" while in reality they themselves fail under thier own difinition of "hardcore".

7) when they are immature, and have the mentality of a 3 year old, having a hissy fit.

8 ) And finally the one thing I dislike most amongst my fellow gamers. When they fail to understand how games are made, and by the people involved. Alot of people in the industry continously get crap from segments of the player base, and often due to areas they have nothing to do with. Someone creating story, or game engine, getting racked on, due to gameplay elements thay have had nothing to do with? Yeah when that happen THEN we know we, my fellow gamers, hits rock bottom. And we seem to do this so often that most of us hav egotten content with sitting on said bottom -.- sooner or later someone will invent the spade, and dig us under said bottom, just wait and see ^^

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#48 wiouds
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I have a few things I do not like:

Gamers that does not have a valid reason for some.
I played a number of fun games that were turn base this gen and there are some that say things like "Turn base should be gotten rid of because it is old." How old something is not a valid reason for something be gotten rid of. For some game play Turn base is not just good but better than other type of system.

I hate when gamer hold unfair look at different type of games.
I lost count of the number of times I read someone saying that all JRPG characters are whiners while they defend WRPG characters that whine more.

And then there this:
I enjoy both WRPG and JRPG and play both type. There are a number of topics that ?compare? JRPG to WRPG are just full of attack on JRPG. I make a post where I try to make that point out valid weaknesses with WRPG. The only answer I get is ?since I clearly hate WRPG so I should not attack WRPG.? and after that continue to attack JRPG while praising WRPG.

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#49 Hughmanoid
Member since 2012 • 58 Posts

Too many to choose just one...But I'll try...

I suppose the thing that pissed me off the most recently was how everyone was butthurt over the Mass Effect 3 ending.

They were being so unreasonable and over-demanding.

If you don't like a game's ending, don't throw a hissy fit and send the developer angry emails. Just accept it. Mass Effect 3 is a great game otherwise, or so I hear. As long as the game as a whole is good, why does the ending matter so much? It's such a minor detail.

There are so many games I love that have mediocre endings, and I don't really care. If I enjoyed the game, I'm not upset over a sub-par ending.

The Mass Effect 3 wasn't even that bad. I can't believe people were petitioning Bioware to release an alternate ending.

You have every right to dislike the ending, but don't DEMAND a different one.

"Bu-bu-There's no sense of accomplishment!"

You played a video game for hours on end, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING! You're not entitled to anything.

It pisses me off how some gamers are some of the most over-demanding and spoiled people on the planet.

GeoffZak

This right here. Can't agree more!

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- Videogame elitism. Hating on COD, or franchises, because it's popular doesn't make you cool. Just pathetic.

- The whole 'it could be worse' attitude. Jim Sterling made a video about this and it's true. Everytime someone complains about Day-1 DLC or something equally as bad as that, there will always be this one person who says 'stop whining, it could be worse'. These are the people we should thank for ruining our hobby.