I'm just sick of assholes.

I'm just sick of ass. And holes.

Inkmonkey
I agree with you there; the same thing happened for the DS for the first couple of years it was out. Once game designers get more used to it hopefully motion mechanics will be used to enhance games, instead of just being shoe-horned in for the sake of having them. There are some companies figuring it out already, but it could be better.

I wish people would realize three things about the Wii:

1) Waggle sucks. Don't use it. Ever.
2) Motion controls don't work with every game. Stop trying to force it. If you can't think of a GOOD way to put motion controls into a game, don't fucking do it.
3) We have enough minigame collections. Please stop making them.

Lord Shplane
3) We have enough minigame collections. Please stop making them.

Nonsense! We should a make a Drunk Duck Collection!

Lord Shplane
I wish people would realize three things about the Wii:

1) Waggle sucks. Don't use it. Ever.
2) Motion controls don't work with every game. Stop trying to force it. If you can't think of a GOOD way to put motion controls into a game, don't fucking do it.
3) We have enough minigame collections. Please stop making them.

I was about to say, "Oh boy, here goes Lord Shplane on the Wii again" but really, I agree with those three things. We don't need more minigames. Wii Sports, Mario Party, and Rayman have those covered.

But the Wii controls situation is getting better. Smash Bros. Brawl makes no attempts to shoehorn the controls into the game, while Zack And Wiki is built from the ground up with the Wii controls in mind. Hopefully, the more developers learn about the Wii, they more they'll follow suit.

Oh, also, I'm tired of these faddish gaming/internet phrases:

Full of win
Fail
Epic Fail
owned
pwned
the secks

Let us not forget about the 11 year olds with the excessive overuse of swear words when their parents aren't home.
(Halo 2 & 3, I'm looking at you)
I just wish there was a way to get rid of them without having to turn the volume down or not using the microphone at all.
One of them even had an entire conversation with his mother while I was playing COD.

I'm sick of easy difficulty. I'm tired of paying for fully fledged games and then beating then with in the week of purchase. And then when there's no replay value added then theres nothing left for the game but to collect dust. Thats why i commended Devil May Cry 3 for being so hard (at first). People gave it a bad rep cause it was "too hard" I liked that about the game. It was i don't know a challenge. Games theses days are getting to "scrub friendly" I want a game thats gonna test my skill. Not make itself easier for noobs who can play as well.

Tacked on multiplayer on otherwise good games. Im looking at you, Rachet and Clank!

Lord Shplane
3) We have enough minigame collections. Please stop making them.

We seriously don't need another mini-game compilation. Every time you turn around, there goes some other weird 'mini-game' game. Let's stick it with Wario Ware, Mario Party, and Rayman.

Hawk
pwned

That one phrase right there will live on past our deaths.

BlueFlame_Studios
We seriously don't need another mini-game compilation. Every time you turn around, there goes some other weird 'mini-game' game. Let's stick it with Wario Ware, Mario Party, and Rayman.

Actually, I'd rather Rayman was Rayman again. :/
You know; some insanely difficult 2D platformer.

I'd rather see Rayman get out of the Rabbids games. In the first one it seemed like he was tacked on for brand recognition, but by now he's just a distraction.

How about unskippable cutscenes?

Not that I don't watch cutscenes, I love them, but man, when you're playing through more than once, and you press start, and nothing happens... oh, that's when it hits the fan.

Why do some games even still do that? I... DON'T... UNDERSTAND!!!

lack of ammunition!!

stuff that is there, and has no purpose. yes, I'm looking at you beer. why would you drink it if all it does is drain your stats?

I like zelda
stuff that is there, and has no purpose. yes, I'm looking at you beer. why would you drink it if all it does is drain your stats?

On Oblivion, there's a certain quest that you HAVE to drink wine on to complete.

Lord Shplane

I like zelda
stuff that is there, and has no purpose. yes, I'm looking at you beer. why would you drink it if all it does is drain your stats?

On Oblivion, there's a certain quest that you HAVE to drink wine on to complete.

And in some games, it raises certain stats but lowers other. Also special ones like that wine in Oblivion that lets you see in the dark.

Hawke
Oh, also, I'm tired of these faddish gaming/internet phrases

It can get really weird when people get them wrong. The other day someone said I was going to get 'pond'.

Custard Trout

Lord Shplane

I like zelda
stuff that is there, and has no purpose. yes, I'm looking at you beer. why would you drink it if all it does is drain your stats?

On Oblivion, there's a certain quest that you HAVE to drink wine on to complete.

And in some games, it raises certain stats but lowers other. Also special ones like that wine in Oblivion that lets you see in the dark.

I can understand that, but if all it does is lower your INT CHA and WIS, it's not worth it, even if you are a fighter. all it does is keep you from using other drink items.

Custard Trout
I personally can't stand the action sequences where you have to perform a complex action by mashing buttons when prompted. I don't mind as much when it reflects the action, but it still pisses me off.

Only game that did it right was Shenmue.

fern
I don't think anyone has said this but 'Water Missions.'

God, I hate that. I hate having to venture into the deep unknowns, never knowing what I will find or what is out there waiting for me. Goddamn water missions, I hate you.

One thing that pisses me off most about all games made now is BLOOM. Goddamnit, if I wanted to be blinded I'd stare at the sun. It's worse when it's mixed with blur, thus making things both hard to see, and hard to make out all the while getting dizzy.

...don't get me started on dull colors, like in Resistance and CoD4.

Here's one: Movie/TV games. Okay, a movie like... Cars by Pixar, that would make a fun racing game. I don't have a problem with that. But a year after, when the movie's done with it's spotlight, they make a sequal to a game made jusst to popularize the movie!

And then you have movies like Dirty Dancing and Napolein Dynomate that have NO need for a video game.

As for TV, Sure, a game recapping variouse parts of the show was cute, but do you need a full Spongebob video game series?

Terminal
God, I hate that. I hate having to venture into the deep unknowns, never knowing what I will find or what is out there waiting for me. Goddamn water missions, I hate you.

One thing that pisses me off most about all games made now is BLOOM. Goddamnit, if I wanted to be blinded I'd stare at the sun. It's worse when it's mixed with blur, thus making things both hard to see, and hard to make out all the while getting dizzy.

...don't get me started on dull colors, like in Resistance and CoD4.

I agree with bloom.

But the dull colors are just realism. How often do you see anything neon green?

This does a great job of summarizing my position on next gen lighting effects and color pallets.

As for TV, Sure, a game recapping variouse parts of the show was cute, but do you need a full Spongebob video game series?

There is a market for games for children. A lot of kids like licensed games based on TV series or movies and these games need to tone down the difficulty to remain accessible to the below 8 crowd. They may seem substandard to a gamer, but they are more often than not perfectly tailored for their target audience. Even among E rated games, there isn't much to offer for the really young players. When there isn't anything on the market is when you get parents going into videogame stores and buying GTA for their six-year-old daughter (yes, I actually saw a woman walk into a gamestop once and ask her daughter of no more than seven if she liked the GTA series of games for the PS2). So, I'd rather see a bunch of licensed crap games that kids can get into than even more irresponsibility among parents.

I agree with that a lot. Kids deserve games too, and too often we harshly judge things that weren't made for us.

isukun
This does a great job of summarizing my position on next gen lighting effects and color pallets.

lolVGCats

Still though, like I said, if a game is trying to be realistic drab colors are what they should go for. The real world isn't very bright.

Now if games like Mario started to tone down on the "OOOH TRIPPY RAINBOWZ", then I'd be pissed.

Bloom does sux though.

Lord Shplane

isukun
This does a great job of summarizing my position on next gen lighting effects and color pallets.

lolVGCats

Still though, like I said, if a game is trying to be realistic drab colors are what they should go for. The real world isn't very bright.

Now if games like Mario started to tone down on the "OOOH TRIPPY RAINBOWZ", then I'd be pissed.

Bloom does sux though.

It is real annoying DX
Yeah, a game called "real flight" shouldn't have lime green grass, but night time dark gets old. Especialy in a daytime level.
Bloom effects suck, but they are okay for say, when you get in combo mode or something.

I think bloom has its place. It actually can work hand-in-hand with anti-aliasing to reduce jaggies, and now then it can really accent a situation. But the big key is to use it in moderation. They sort of figured the effect out partway through last generation and now it's "the new toy" so they're overusing it like a Photoshop lens flare.

Lord Shplane
The real world isn't very bright.

actually the exact opposite is true. You can't approach the brightness of real life with any conventional imaging system. :)
...unless you look directly into a digital projector or something lol!

Drab colour is a mental trick, the real world is made up of a kaleidoscope of spectrum variation. Even at billions of colours monitors can't display that and games certainly can't render realistic variation, so an average drabness looks more real on a monitor than neon tones -because in reality all objects consist of a mix of colours from drab to neons.

ozoneocean

Lord Shplane
The real world isn't very bright.

actually the exact opposite is true. You can't approach the brightness of real life with any conventional imaging system. :)
...unless you look directly into a digital projector or something lol!

Drab colour is a mental trick, the real world is made up of a kaleidoscope of spectrum variation. Even at billions of colours monitors can't display that and games certainly can't render realistic variation, so an average drabness looks more real on a monitor than neon tones -because in reality all objects consist of a mix of colours from drab to neons.

I look around me Oz, and I don't see many bright things. At least not bright things that would be sitting around in the middle of a battlefield.

What do you want to be bright in the middle of a random arabic city in the middle of nowhere?

Actually, in my day-to-day life I see a lot of bright things. Sometimes it consists of really simple things like colored boxes, the digital readout on my clock, or even just the LEDs that turn on when I power up my PC. Other times, it's large scale explosions of color like a bright blue sky or a red, orange, and pink sunset. Actually, I took a few pictures of the Savannah area for a set of posters for my parents. They were looking for something to add a bit of color to their basement TV room. I took one picture of the salt water marshes during the late Spring. The grasses were a bright yellow/green with a very bright blue sky. I took another picture down by the riverfront at night. It was of one of the larger boats all lit up at night and the colors ranged from whites to yellows to blues and reds. It's actually a pretty impressive picture. The last image I took was of the sunset over the marshes which is a really deep red. It took a lot of editing to even begin to touch upon the pallet I witnessed first hand.

Real life if full of bright and vibrant colors.

isukun
Actually, in my day-to-day life I see a lot of bright things. Sometimes it consists of really simple things like colored boxes, the digital readout on my clock, or even just the LEDs that turn on when I power up my PC. Other times, it's large scale explosions of color like a bright blue sky or a red, orange, and pink sunset. Actually, I took a few pictures of the Savannah area for a set of posters for my parents. They were looking for something to add a bit of color to their basement TV room. I took one picture of the salt water marshes during the late Spring. The grasses were a bright yellow/green with a very bright blue sky. I took another picture down by the riverfront at night. It was of one of the larger boats all lit up at night and the colors ranged from whites to yellows to blues and reds. It's actually a pretty impressive picture. The last image I took was of the sunset over the marshes which is a really deep red. It took a lot of editing to even begin to touch upon the pallet I witnessed first hand.

Real life if full of bright and vibrant colors.

Not as bright and vibrant as the ones that show up in games. What games had up until now was unrealistically colorful.

And not many games are actually set in those places. And the sky isn't really that blue. And grass isn't usually that green.

As for lights and whatnot, those tend to show up pretty brightly in games.

I can say for sure, most of the the world around me is not brown. The muted earth tones you see in modern games isn't realistic, either.