Gaming trends that need to die

[Septimus Prime]

Now I just look like a jerk with a beef against mobile gaming.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Septimus Prime

Now I just look like a jerk with a beef against mobile gaming.

lol I don't like it either but I think I brought it up in the first place

[Sponge-worthy]

Originally Posted by THE_JUDGE

I was playing Tekken 6 for the last couple of weeks and it donned on me that I am seriously sick of fighting games that have you fight through all human opponents up until the final boss battle that turns out to be something unhuman. This is a trend that needs to die. I don't want to fight a giant Egyptian lizard or a Giant Machine with a girls name. If you want me to fight these you should put regular characters like this in earlier in the game or allow me to become a large animal beast as well. Do you have any other annoying gaming trends that need to die?

I liked the bosses in Tekkens 2 and 3 the best: basically normal characters but with just a little extra to them.

Some of the DLC has gotten out of control. Capcom and EA come to mind as some of the worst offenders.

[MikeCL]

I will chime in.. 2 years ago I was still into video games for the pc.. so console gamers were like oh console games don't need as many patches.. blah blah.. yeah I found that out to be true...

Getting shot in in video games and unable to move it's like as soon as you ger hit you feel like you are pulling a 500 Lb weight..

Screen that turns fully red..

Have to pay for DLC for consoles in which the PC version you don't (Battlefield bad company 2)

Sometimes the rumble can be really overdone

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Icemage

...and that isn't really any different than buying used.

You want to know why companies are coming up with things like DLC? Because it's fricking expensive to develop and support a game these days, that's why. And because of people like you who don't put any money into the developer's pockets.

if someone bought pre-owned, I would agree, but even if it was in the bargain bin (as the OP said he does) $ goes to the game developers. Obviously not as much as people that buy day 1 but it still goes there.

[THE_JUDGE]

Originally Posted by Sponge-worthy

I liked the bosses in Tekkens 2 and 3 the best: basically normal characters but with just a little extra to them.

Some of the DLC has gotten out of control. Capcom and EA come to mind as some of the worst offenders.

Those are the best kind of bosses for fighting games. I think that Shang Tsung may be the best fighting boss of all because he could shift into any fighter and wasnt over the top (most of the time).

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

Originally Posted by MikeCL

Have to pay for DLC for consoles in which the PC version you don't (Battlefield bad company 2)

A pity though, that the devs seemed to have caught wind of this and then essentially started charging for DLC on PC and the fact that proper expansion packs are becoming rarer than ever.

As for publicly released SDK's, I'm pretty certain that the major publishers will start trying to phase them out in future PC games (at least the multiformat ones). Battlefield 3 seems to be one of them, stating that the engine would be too much of a hassle for users to create content (I don't believe them for one moment, it might be a hassle, but I'm almost certain that they'll get the hang of it). Since then, DICE has gone back to considering if they should release it after all.

So yeah, greed.

[MikeCL]

Yeah that makes me mad.. a good way to kill that market off..