Your personal hate in the gaming world.

[sheath]

Oh boy, I played Sonic 2006 a couple of months back, it was broken as hell. Boss battles were a nightmare, with the camera losing track of you, Silver's stages were annoying to complete because of his controls, Sonic's highspeed rush sections were near impossible again due to the controls, and I kept droping through the floors or missing my targets because the homing attack would work like 30% of the time. Definatly not an experience I'd like to repeat any time, that's a fact.

I didn't have any more camera problems than I have with any other 3D game, I'm not sure what happened there. Once I could install the game on my 360 hard drive the double load times were cut down to barely tolerable limits and I was able to finish the game over a weekend. It is broken, because of the load times, but I didn't have a problem with most of the rest of it. Still, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 are leagues better.

[16-bit]

Sonic 06 is terrible. It's glitchy, the camera sucks, and the story was downright horrible. Like I said before, I don't really care much about story, but if you put an emphasis on it, then it's bound to get scrutinized.

Grrr I hate it.

[The Jackal]

Sheath, play the Egg Genesis boss as either Sonic or Shadow and stick to the ground; the camera will go haywire and stop tracking you.

[villahed94]

I hate Nintendo and anything related to it. It's mostly because I didn't get an appeal for their games, and mostly for Mario.
I hate that bastard so much...

[QuickSciFi]

Mine is two-fold:

1. GameStop.
2. Downloadable/Streamable content (including patches).

[StarMist]

My personal hate in the gaming world would be the playstation controller.

You were excepted, my friend with the keyboard crippled wrists. You know you'll always be my shnookems.

At least Mario hasn't spawned one of the absolute worst fanbases of any game series ever.

Watch out or eddiespruce will go Werehog on you.

I'm not going to go so far as hatred with this one but I do get annoyed with all the ebay price complaints. Japanese sellers charge too much for shipping? Buy a two-way fo Tokyo. Auctions too crazy? Buy It Now. BIN too high? Go find it in a shop--oh, wait, those don't exist anymore. "But in this economy" : that's why so many people have to sell their stuff.

[Gogogadget]

@QuickSciFi: Why do patches bother you? I understand some devs use patches/DLC as a content to release a product half-arsed and finish it up later, but when game developers actually have a chance to fix games and not charge the end-user anything in return, how is that really a bad thing?

[TrekkiesUnite118]

I did notice some glitches and broken aspects to Sonic 2006 when I played it. But I never fell through Geometry. Then again I was playing the Platinum Hits version, perhaps they fixed a few bugs in it? It is a bit sad how unfinished it is. There are some high quality aspects to it and other bits that you can tell they really had a good idea brewing, just not enough time to flesh it out and make it work. For example if they simply allowed you to stop and side step in the speed up sections that would make the game significantly better.

But still, I had more fun playing Sonic 2006, especially with friends, than I ever did playing Mario 64. And Sonic 2006 had infinitely better music than Mario 64.

[NeoZeedeater]

At least Mario hasn't spawned one of the absolute worst fanbases of any game series ever.

Nintendo has done a great job maintaining quality in the Mario series but Nintendo fanboys are pretty much the worst thing ever, though. I would say there are plenty of douchebags in the Mario fanbase, people that put the series on a pedestal above everything else or make up bullshit like SMB saving the industry or being the first scrolling platformer.

[QuickSciFi]

@QuickSciFi: Why do patches bother you? I understand some devs use patches/DLC as a content to release a product half-arsed and finish it up later, but when game developers actually have a chance to fix games and not charge the end-user anything in return, how is that really a bad thing?

What's so difficult to understand? It's really just a matter of personal preference. I like to own all my games in hard copy format and "in full". 10 years down the line, if I were to buy a game disc (hard copy), I'd like to be able to just boot it up and not have to worry about having to download extra content just because the particular console's network has gone offline. Personally, endless patch work feels to me like a American soap opera that will never know what it wants to be. Accepting such behavior is exactly what's giving devs license to slack-off in the first place. There are a shit ton of games out there, I can wait. No need to rush anything.

[StarMist]

@ patches/DLC = I actually surmise it a prevention of piracy: can't rip the game if the whole thing's not there, can't download the patch on a hacked console. Sure there are instances where the DL Content is already on the disk and just needs to be activated, and presumably a proficient hacker could activate it on his burn, but that's not to be expected from the average 90%+ of burners.

[sheath]

I do think they tried harder to complete games when patching wasn't consumer accepted. Developers focused more on the basics of gameplay and didn't get hooked on minutia like how many trophies they could stick in every nook and cranny. Also, if they had a game breaking glitch in the final revision, it was automatically a bad game. I wish quality control would return to this, but then the smart phone/social gaming is about to "revolutionize" gaming back to what it was in the late 90s. Meh.

[MrMatthews]

What's so difficult to understand? It's really just a matter of personal preference. I like to own all my games in hard copy format and "in full". 10 years down the line, if I were to buy a game disc (hard copy), I'd like to be able to just boot it up and not have to worry about having to download extra content just because the particular console's network has gone offline. Personally, endless patch work feels to me like a American soap opera that will never know what it wants to be. Accepting such behavior is exactly what's giving devs license to slack-off in the first place. There are a shit ton of games out there, I can wait. No need to rush anything.

I'd rep you for that, but apparently I've been respecting you too much lately and I need to spread the love around.

[QuickSciFi]

Thank you my friend. It's the thought that counts.

[ApolloBoy]

I hate Nintendo and anything related to it.

Talk about painting with a broad brush, goddamn.