Modern Games Pet Peeves

[moonbits]

everything dude, its a retro forum we fucking hate everything after 2015

 

[Retro Doomer]

everything dude, its a retro forum we fucking hate everything after 2015

Okay Zoomer,i hate everything after the Ps2 ;). Ah i am just messing with you.But seriously in my believe the quality of gaming took a huge dive after the Ps3 with some exceptions on the Ps4.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Cutscenes as a replacement for world-building.

Like, let me see the world myself and decide what I wanna take in instead of awkwardly showing me what you want me to see by having stiff set pieces or characters awkwardly talking about it on their own, little universes that seem to exist outside of the everything else.

The tram on Half-Life and the kids boxing on the Last Of Us conveyed info better because I was allowed to ignore most of what I was seeing, yet wanted to do anyway because things happening around me looked interesting and I didn't wanna miss them.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Ah I forgot what I also dislike is Movie Games. Pretty much games with little to no gameplay that is pretty much a movie at that point or a glorified cutscene simulator.

 

[Anti-Law Savior]

Devs ignore a problem, wonder why the game died and then EOS it when it's not making enough money from it.

used to kinda like some online games but after getting back into older things, and seeing how much more fun they were and how less stressed I was playing them, I just dropped most modern consoles in favor for something I can have fun with.

This isn't to say all modern games are like this.
I still have a few games I like but most modern games stress me out and their just not really that fun for me to play.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Cutscenes as a replacement for world-building.

Like, let me see the world myself and decide what I wanna take in instead of awkwardly showing me what you want me to see by having stiff set pieces or characters awkwardly talking about it on their own, little universes that seem to exit outside of the everything else.

The tram on Half-life and the kids boxing on the Last Of Us conveyed info better because I was allowed to ignore most of what I was seeing, yet wanted to do anyway because things happening around me looked interesting and I didn't wanna miss them.

Like the golden rule in World Building show don't tell.

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

Don't mention the obvious things like microtransactions, bad optimization or always online, we all hate those, mention something more personal.

For me is "deckbuilder roguelike". I just not a form of gameplay I enjoy much, and many, MANY interesting games use this form of gameplay. I like some, but honestly I would prefer them as more standard rpg roguelikes, or just rpgs. I don't love roguelikes either since we are at it; some people do them right, but a lot just use them as a cheap tactic to make their games seem longer than they are.

Games, including older ones, that HAVE subtitles, but don't turn them on by default, PISSES ME OFF!

I can read and hear JUST FINE, but I'm one of those people who thinks "wait what did he say? that's not what the subtitles said, WHAT DID HE SAYYY??" or I'm afraid I'll miss some important details that were being said in the conversation, or I'd miss on some context sensitive clues.

Hate having to de-rail the whole experience by digging through the options just to toggle them on. And heck, some titles don't even HAVE subtitles, and their dialogue can be a mixed bowl of "What did he say?" to "Uhhh....okay? Sure....whatever you say...."

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Depends on the game really. Games that do it very well are Card-en-ciel and Slay the Spire.

My only petpeeve is Unfinished Buggy games....

You forgot Balatro, friend.

 

[groundbeef]

Another pet peeve I have is the amount of bullshit games on Steam. Steam allows too many garbage games that are just plain stupid or worthless. It's nice to have variety, but I think Steam is far too liberal with what it allows. (sorry for second post).

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Sensory overload, by far.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Sensory overload, by far.

Especially annoying in games that are supposed to be for Adults only anyway.I mean come one are they serious the expect us to be able to join the Military and so on but heavens no we can have blood,nudity or bad words in our Adult only games because reasons.

 

[Tortuga]

Shiti hyperrealism, every UE5 game looks same, boring and bland no art style whatsoever. There is few exceptions but 90% of them are soulless.

 

[moonbits]

Okay Zoomer,i hate everything after the Ps2 ;).

I hate everything after 2007

 

[Retro Doomer]

I hate everything after 2007

Everything after we left our caves to build Houses is crap ;)

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

Okay one more: Web3 gaming.

Not taking a shot at the "metaverse" or anything. Virtual Worlds can be fun with lot of them having great communities built around them.

However, the Web3 games being made these days is just digital schlock that is only there to push the sales for "virtual land", nft tokens and cryptocurrency, all being blanketed over by what SEEMS to be an "open world exploration game" or a "deckbuilding roguelike management farming sim" dumpsterfire.

If you honestly thought companies like EA and Ubisoft and now Nintendo were the greedy ones, just remember that THEY actually make/made ACTUAL games. The web3 crypto bros are just making digital excuses of what they "perceive" to be "entertainment" when they are all really just ways for other whales and even less intelligent crypto bros to waste their money on.

 

[Anti-Law Savior]

Okay one more: Web3 gaming.

Not taking a shot at the "metaverse" or anything. Virtual Worlds can be fun with lot of them having great communities built around them.

However, the Web3 games being made these days is just digital schlock that is only there to push the sales for "virtual land", nft tokens and cryptocurrency, all being blanketed over by what SEEMS to be an "open world exploration game" or a "deckbuilding roguelike management farming sim" dumpsterfire.

If you honestly thought companies like EA and Ubisoft and now Nintendo were the greedy ones, just remember that THEY actually make/made ACTUAL games. The web3 crypto bros are just making digital excuses of what they "perceive" to be "entertainment" when they are all really just ways for other whales and even less intelligent crypto bros to waste their money on.

I fucking hate buzzwords like NFT or CRYPTO...just keep it outta my game, I'm trying to game not get scammed.

 

[Deleted member 99901]

I don't play enough modern games to have a solid opinion here, but I f'ing love it when that uber sword I just found is eclipsed by any other weapon available through some shoehorned crafting mechanic.

 

[Deleted member 525181]

Modern games bore me. The last title I played and enjoyed was Baldur's Gate 3, a really cool game, but I had to put in mods to avoid the LGBT thing. I didn't like that every character wanted to have sex with my character. Those developers seem creepy when they do this. Why do they shove these things on my face? There was this big, muscular dude who, out of nowhere, wanted to have sex with my character. WTF? Why? What's the point?

I saw many modern games are getting like this; this is an honest opinion, and sorry if I offended someone.

Apart from that, most modern games are boring to me, and I can't understand how someone wastes hundreds and hundreds of dollars in getting the most powerful PC to play those games. I just can't understand this.

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Shiti hyperrealism, every UE5 game looks same, boring and bland no art style whatsoever. There is few exceptions but 90% of them are soulless.

Exactly, those UE5 games look so similar, same assets, reflections, textures.

 

[UntoldLegend13]

Massive Install
Day One updates
Having to slowly scroll through 4 elua's and agree
Forced to create an account, for some reason
Ad's for DLC
Finally get the main menu, hit new game
hear a robotic voice you don't understand
5 pages of accessibility options in teeny-tiny font (no options to increase the size, naturally)
overly long opening cut scene
Hand holding opening, stopped every five seconds for dialogue and slow walking
finally get to play the game... and it's boring

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I'm seeing a lot of great Indie games all the time and feel like this is a great time for just trying out weird 20/30 dollar games and seeing the cultures of small teams shine. So that's a thing I'm liking but what's my peeve?

I can't stand how gross and sleezy it feels to even open most big AAA company's games to the title screen. The UI is plastered with billboards. Links to buy crafting materials...ads... people have already lamented what I'd say a thousand times over but you guys know - the games are getting more half baked with more and more wasteful use of manpower and resources..it's a mess.

Honestly I don't care about all the ways those huge mega conglomerate game companies shoot their own feet. The smaller scale up to even AA companies are delivering what I like about gaming way beyond what I could have expected or asked for. I don't feel like I'm missing anything and this is a peak period of gaming. Stuff like Hollow Knight, 30XX, and Cuphead are the best games I've ever played and they're all from last decade. I could go ON with this list lol.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Most Games Nowadays come out unfinished af and the corpos have the gall to sell them at full price. which is why I turn to the high seas most times.

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

Modern games bore me. The last title I played and enjoyed was Baldur's Gate 3, a really cool game, but I had to put in mods to avoid the LGBT thing. I didn't like that every character wanted to have sex with my character. Those developers seem creepy when they do this. Why do they shove these things on my face? There was this big, muscular dude who, out of nowhere, wanted to have sex with my character. WTF? Why? What's the point?

Sounds like a typical play through of Mass Effect to me.

 

[moonbits]

I FUCKING HATE CHROMATIC ABERRATION

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

I fucking hate buzzwords like NFT or CRYPTO...just keep it outta my game, I'm trying to game not get scammed.

Should look up a youtuber by the name of Jauwn, he introduced me to the world of crypto and web3 based gaming and oh...your...god.

If you thought just talking about them in games was bad....

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Lack of experimentation. I'm a bit tired of all the Action RPG open world games but they're selling so they won't go away. I miss the hack and slashes and strange hybrid genres. This problem even permeates indie games (rogue like spam, now everything is Binding of Isaac, even your SHMUPs!)

Can I have the "quirky Earthbound inspired RPGs" back PLEASE???

Where are the SMT (and Persona)-likes?
Why has no one attempted SHMUP RPGs like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Star Trader?
Why are the Mega Man-likes always so overshadowed?
Why has no one attempted to re-create the types of games getting fan translated, like how Sakura Wars is SRPG/VN or Baroque's Horror/ARPG?

 

[Zeroskill]

A pet peeve of mine are games where you are forced to complete the task/kill the boss in one specific way. Killing the XX monster boss should just be the task and it doesn't matter how you do it (hit it with a truck, throw poisoned poop at it, whatever).