Apocalyptic game settings I.E. anything with the world being destroyed, Zombies, Unnatural creatures spawning from Radiation, having to survive after the world as we know it just ended. I think there is enough of those, yet companies keep making more. I guess if it makes money... bah.

I think the only thing I hate at this point is EA Origins. I would very much like to see it burn. As for trends? I think we're in a sweet spot on the PC. Steam is a good digital distribution method, we have tons of indie games or smaller ones which fill niches no large publisher can. If I want a difficult game, all I have to do is go and look. Maybe the only other thing is this... cutting up of content. I don't like them cutting out the game to sell later as DLC, I also don't like cutting stuff out for pre orders. Cutting up the game, basically. The more you fracture it. I don't care if you make all of this stuff independantly to go with it, the problem is when its removing form what would have been considered the base game. I'm also a little annoyed at how RPG's are being simplified. They've simplified it and made it easier to play, but they sure as hell haven't added a LOT to do. People confuse simplification with cutting out content to make it easier. [censored] no, as long as everything in the game is simple/easy to use put as much in there as you can.

Einstein said it "“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Well, 1. it would be kept under-wraps as best as possible, so you wouldn't be waiting, you'd have no idea. 2. It would not be something implemented for those who would no longer care. It would obviously work as a reward for those who do care. If you don't care, then you probably wouldn't appreciate the extra ending anyway.

Why do you have to look at it as getting "the rest of something [you] already paid for"? Why can't it be finding what you paid for includes something new and exciting that you didn't even know about that you now get for free?

- I hate the common perception alot of companies have, that games need to be easy and have for me not enough moments where you have to stop and actually think

- I hate how some games are too multiplayer focussed which imo leads to a poorer single player experience

- I hate dlc released on the same day as the game

- I hate games series that are release every year and lack anything really new. They are just copied from the previous installment with minimal upgrades -
Sports games like Fifa for example
FPS, like Call of Duty
Smackdown series. Seriously just give it a rest for a while and just make a "new" game stop regurgitating the same crap every year. Give yourself more than 10 - 12 months to make the bloody thing

- I realise it's a business as well but I wish companies would also focus a little less on making a huge profit and instead focus on making the best game they can. Games are a form of art and most companies seem to forget that.

If the graphic aren't uber realistic the game is instantly [censored].
I hate quick scopers, nooby little [censored], I'd rather be noob tubed at least that involves some skill.
If the game involves some strategy over Run-N-Gun it's crap and boring.
Dumbed down games, to the point where my character does this face at the enemies explosions and then flicks said enemy against the wall

Developers more interested in making glorified movies rather than games. Doesn't help that it also seems to be what the general gamer audience seems to want.

Final Fantasy XIII was like that but, well that was completely awesome to watch and it had enough gameplay to make up for it
I can't think of any other games beside that.

The fact that features and selling points are all shoved in your face, there is no sense of discovery anymore (at least not in mainstream games).

And the apparent belief that no-one will play a game without the dialogue being read to them, I wouldn't be too surprised if Bethesda tries to have voice acting for books if not for the player character.

Ad any games that get you to hammer on a button in the place of mechanics gets a thumbs down from me.

Street Fighter 2.

I'm pretty sure some 80% of those words are actually English, but ... what?

Seems like XIII-2 might actually, -gasp-, have been made with criticisms taken on on board. Two discs of movie, or do it with the engine.

I know noob tubing is excessive rocket launcher use to ensure victory, but IDK what a 'quick scoper' is. Curse my lack of playing FPS

Well, I play FPS quite a bit too (ArmA 2, to be precise, mostly solo or co-op with a few friends), but even so can't understand this ... "sentence", for a lack of better word.

Your not buying it because it has different modes that try to appeal to different kinds of gamers? Even though the real Mass Effect that you know and love is in regular Role-Playing mode? And they did make the game they wanted to, just tweaked it for people who may not be as skilled as you are but still love the story or those who are adrenaline junkies?

Oh, well, okay then.

Someone who uses a sniper rifle but not for sniping at long distances. They get in close and then quickly aim down the scope and shoot. Hence the term; Quickscoper.

Linky Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1LYKSQdxE

CG scenes are among the few things that didn't really need fixing in XIII. They were gorgeous, still significantly better looking than anything they could do in-game.

I've tried to do that to stop a friend or two while Co-Oping on Saints Row the Third that way, I fidn it a little annoying since you have to zoom out first to get a proper aim. But I'm better at long distance sniping than short range 'quick scoping', so I suppose maybe I just svck at it. (Although, maybe sniper scopes work differently in CoD and BF)

I said that in the context of the 'interactive movie' complaint. (Initially) linear game with gorgeous cut-scenes, to exploration with game engine renders. I know which I would prefer.

@Drop Dead, the ME I love was the first installment. They already took out most of the character progression, and the armour and weapon upgrades (which while nods to rp, didn't really require any skill, it was just enjoyable). Apparently improved graphics and combat OR some depth to character progression, ME2 seemed to think that the two were incompatible. The modes are just one thing, along with tacked on multiplayer, day one dlc/pre order bonuses, and this 'A' for awesome (and I will go against my own grain and not say 'in my humble opinion' this time) nonsense they spout. If they made one game, that's it, with the old difficulties that had nothing wrong with them in the first place, the likelihood would be they would make a better game.

What bothers me most in modern games is aggressive DRM and lack of originality.

No, I don't want to play another "art" platformer, a linear modern shooter or an overpriced physics based puzzle game.

Digital pre-order and CE content that is not available after the fact. [censored] evil. Made 100x worse when different stores have different item packs and you can't get all the items packs unless you pre-order the game, full price, from multiple stores.

I'll define clearer for FPS strangers...
QuickScoper: Some who runs around with a sniper as if its an assualt rifle, pulling the scope up just enough that the reticle covers a person and fires - never fully using a scope - garenteeing an instant kill.
NoobTubing: The term used when someone uses the Grenade Launcher attachment on their weapon even once.
Nooby Little [censored]: Was my way of venting some angry for QuickScopers.

We all clear now

Wait, you hate quickscopers because they are really skilled with the weapon?

Most sniper rifles are (slightly modified) assault rifles nowadays (AMR sniper rifles aren't, but you can't "quick scope" with that one for any sane definition of "quick" ). A single solid hit with any rifle is a casualty (not "kill", though, just out of the action) in all FPSes I play, so all those people are doing is slowing themselves down by using a heavier than necessary weapon, from my point of view.

Poor guys.


Yeah, grenade launchers are for noobs. I prefer to just call in an artillery strike on the enemy's position. Nothing spells "I know where you are hiding!" like half a ton of ordenance raining down on them.

No, not the Barrett, RSAS, L118, MSR or AS50 - these are full of sniper rifles that these people are running and firing, they'd have screwed up their faces so bad if they were doing this for real.
You can't be playing Call of Duty MW2 onwards then because a Sniper is insta death 93% of the time and an AR is about 2-4 shots depending. Nothing but explosions, snipers, throwing knfes and normal melee can kill instantly, though the last two are ridicilous.
I like noobtubes, they were by far the most fun I've had in a game, the hate mail is the 2nd best part about it
It's a shame MW3 nerfed them but kept QuickScoping in it.

MOOOOOOOOTIOOOOOOOOOOOON COOOOOOOOOOONTROOOOOOOOOOOOOLS

Can't believe Sony and Microsoft looked at the Wii and thought 'that's what we want to be like!'