Your personal hate in the gaming world.

[kool kitty89]

Things I hate :

-motion controls - only thing coming to moition when I play is my head, which I tilt to see around the corners, lol... I don't like twisting the controller etc.

The pointer is cool... (granted not accelerometer motion control) and you mention head movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
That's probably the coolest thing that the Connect could potentially be used for. (there's also PC software supporting that using standard web cams and face tracks -in the wii case it's using IR of course)

NES not having RGB out of the box, same deal for most N64 models

Yeah, that's a bit of a shame, though realistically, the NES PPU architecture doesn't use RGB colorspace, so (like the Apple II, Atari VCS/8-bit/7800, TMS9918, C64 etc) it wouldn't have RGB natively anyway. However, no separate chroma/luma is a more valid complaint as that would be totally possible (and many of those consoles/computers did have that), and of course there's some that output Y'PbPr directly rather than encoding internally. (the TMS992x chips did that to facilitate external video encoding for PAL/SECAM, so in that case, you could amplify/buffer the Y'PbPr and use component video on aTV that supports is )
S-video on the NES (and most of the others) would be good enough though... the dot crawl would be gone and that's what really matters. (especially in PAL where the composite chroma clock is much closer to the NES's dot clock -or others at that resolution, and higher than any 160/170 wide res stuff -where it matches the NTSC color signal -a lot of home computers with 3.58 MHz dot clock resolution modes I think, so perfect in S-video and often near perfect in composite)

-Nintendo d-pads

Hey, they're better than Sony D-pads. N64 is probably the best of the lot though. (either all my SNES pads have really worn D-pads or the N64's if a bit taller/springier -and the spot around the d-pad is more concave too, so less rubbing thumb into plastic -almost as good as a full round Sega d-pad)

-Games that don't let you play them, ala HL2 with its unskippable cutscenes/cinematics/story sequences/blablabla

Final Fantasy III made me think the game was broken as the long unskipable intro cutscene plays before you get to any start menu!

-lead free solder *coughrrodcough*

Yes, we must protect the kids (and idiots) who break upen their consoles and try to eat parts of the components.
Or... idiots who don't recycle their electronics.

Orchestral music aka cutscene music during gameplay

Better or worse than plain ambient sounds (not ambient music) during gameplay? (like what happened to Doom on the PSX... I can accept Doom 64 a little more as it's a new game, but more actual music -especially in the vein of that moody stuff in the title and a couple tracks that are real music- would have been awesome -and more action-y stuff for certain areas, fitting the mood)

[mick_aka]

I think my major annoyance with the gaming world/industry at the moment is lazyness.

The constant re-hashing of old ideas, franchises, gameplay, graphical style etc. is really starting to get me down.

I find myself retreating allot more to retro-gaming now than I ever did, the 360 and PS3 haven't even been turned on for a few months, may sell both of them soon.

[NeoVamp]

My personal hate in the gaming world..


Graphic whore kids.


OMG THIS SNES GAME HAS SUCH LAME GRAFIX, ITS NOTHING LIKE MY FAVORITE
XBOX360 GAME "ULTIMATE ONLINE FPS PART 3 THE SPACE WARS"

Always bugs the hell out of me when i check video's on youtube.


Note that i said "Graphic whore", i did not mean all kids.

[Zoltor]

My personal hate in the gaming world..


Graphic whore kids.


OMG THIS SNES GAME HAS SUCH LAME GRAFIX, ITS NOTHING LIKE MY FAVORITE
XBOX360 GAME "ULTIMATE ONLINE FPS PART 3 THE SPACE WARS"

Always bugs the hell out of me when i check video's on youtube.


Note that i said "Graphic whore", i did not mean all kids.

I hear you on that.

[GeckoYamori]

At least state of the art graphics don't tend to infringe on the game experience nearly as much as unskippable cutscenes, hours of passive dialouge, etc. Graphic whores > plot whores.

[Zoltor]

At least state of the art graphics don't tend to infringe on the game experience nearly as much as unskippable cutscenes, hours of passive dialouge, etc. Graphic whores > plot whores.

Actually they do, just indirectly(it wasts space, and it turned the industry into crap, with the hole using graphics to sell games, as all they care about is initial sale cout now, which before this BS, it used to be about overall sale numbers, so things like gameplay mechanics, options, exc take a back seat to graphics now).

Think back to the 16 bit era or hell even the PS1 era, developers put a lot of effort into graphics back then as well, but atleast it didn't overrun everything. Now the "only" thing developers spend any actual time on, is graphics, it makes me sick.

[M4R14NO94]

My personal hate in the gaming world..


Graphic whore kids.


OMG THIS SNES GAME HAS SUCH LAME GRAFIX, ITS NOTHING LIKE MY FAVORITE
XBOX360 GAME "ULTIMATE ONLINE FPS PART 3 THE SPACE WARS"

Always bugs the hell out of me when i check video's on youtube.


Note that i said "Graphic whore", i did not mean all kids.

Something similar happened to me yesterday. I was talking to a friend of one of the children of some relatives of my family, and I asked him if he knew about the DS, and he said that he knew it (or that he played it, I can't remember) and that it sucked. His reason why it sucked?

The graphics. Yep, all he cares about (or basically a lot of people I know care about) regarding consoles are graphics

I don't mind cutscenes, i.e Super Metroid, Contra Hard Corps, but today the focus has shifted to what they call a "cinematic experience", but the problem is I am playing a video game, not watching a movie.Soon they will have to call games interactive movies.

Didn't they do that in the 90's already?

[NeoVamp]

Didn't they do that in the 90's already?

No they did not! Everyone vas on vacation!!

[NavesRegge]

Overall, I don't have many gripes about gaming in general (except the aforementioned dislike of motion controls some many posts ago) except for those goddamn springs in Sonic at the end of a bunch of loops that send you all the way back through those loops and sometimes into spikes and/or enemies. I hate those things!

[Metal_Sonic]

My personal hate?

Gamers

About the whiniest demographic I have ever seen and heard. If companies do something to please one group, another group of gamers gets pissed. The amount of things gamers can come up with to whine about is astronomical.

[kool kitty89]

Didn't they do that in the 90's already?

Yep, and there were many games promoted with the "interactive movie" badge that had a lot more gameplay time relative to cinema then than the most extreme cases now. (Wing Commander III and IV were billed as interactive movies -it's right on the front of the box)

Interactive movie at the time was applied to both "FMV games" (extremely vague term) to games with streaming video limited to cutscenes and/or some background animation.

[TmEE]

The pointer is cool... (granted not accelerometer motion control) and you mention head movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
That's probably the coolest thing that the Connect could potentially be used for. (there's also PC software supporting that using standard web cams and face tracks -in the wii case it's using IR of course)

Now that was awesome Very very very clever

Better or worse than plain ambient sounds (not ambient music) during gameplay? (like what happened to Doom on the PSX... I can accept Doom 64 a little more as it's a new game, but more actual music -especially in the vein of that moody stuff in the title and a couple tracks that are real music- would have been awesome -and more action-y stuff for certain areas, fitting the mood)

Ambient sounds are not going into the music category, though I don't like them either... I want good tunes during the game, not nature etc. sounds or cutscene music...

[doomguy]

My personal hate?

Gamers

About the whiniest demographic I have ever seen and heard. If companies do something to please one group, another group of gamers gets pissed. The amount of things gamers can come up with to whine about is astronomical.

I agree 100 percent, gamers always have something to complain about.

[Iron Lizard]

I agree 100 percent, gamers always have something to complain about.

You guys must have never hung out with a bunch of car guys. Nine out of ten sound like crying girls making excuses for everything. Just watch an episode of Pinks, not the all out edition, just plain pinks. Its painful. Some of the car forums out there aren't much better.

[MrMatthews]

I don't hate anything about video games. They're fun.