What's your pet peeve in gaming?

Post by **Saraph** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:57 pm

metaleggman wrote:At the friend comment, I just hate friends with low frustration tolerance. They really make games no fun.

I get it, and I laughed. Still, do you want to spend hours upon hours on one boss when your friend, who already did it, can offer advice or easily help you out with it so both of you can enjoy the game?

Post by **retrogamer** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:44 pm

My biggest pet-peeve is friends and family members who eat food while playing my consoles. Wash your grubby paws before touching the controller and don't eat while playing. If I see one more cheese doodle stain on my white Dreamcast controller or my white DSL I swear I'm going to go berserk.

Post by **metaleggman** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:41 am

Saraph wrote:I get it, and I laughed. Still, do you want to spend hours upon hours on one boss when your friend, who already did it, can offer advice or easily help you out with it so both of you can enjoy the game?

I usually think having someone help me out is alright. Tho I honestly haven't played any single-player games with friends, so I can't say.

retrogamer wrote:My biggest pet-peeve is friends and family members who eat food while playing my consoles. Wash your grubby paws before touching the controller and don't eat while playing. If I see one more cheese doodle stain on my white Dreamcast controller or my white DSL I swear I'm going to go berserk.

And that's why they made crappy third party controllers!

It's like the good china, only take it out when the Queen or the President is coming, otherwise, don't let anyone touch it. Cept yourself of course.

Post by **Perseid** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:49 am

Screwy save systems. RPGs where you have to make it 45 minutes without a save point then giving you 3 save points in the next 10 minutes. Resident Evil and its save ribbon crap. <shiver>

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:59 am

Perseid wrote:Screwy save systems. RPGs where you have to make it 45 minutes without a save point then giving you 3 save points in the next 10 minutes. Resident Evil and its save ribbon crap. <shiver>

Yeah, I'll add that to my list.
I have a short attention span and don't like to have long gaming sessions.
Saving is incredibly important to me...

Post by **Zork** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:09 pm

Perseid wrote:Screwy save systems. RPGs where you have to make it 45 minutes without a save point then giving you 3 save points in the next 10 minutes. Resident Evil and its save ribbon crap. <shiver>

I don't see what the problem really was with RE's Ink Ribbons? Maybe just for people who need to save a lot?

Post by **Perseid** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:36 pm

Zork wrote:
Perseid wrote:Screwy save systems. RPGs where you have to make it 45 minutes without a save point then giving you 3 save points in the next 10 minutes. Resident Evil and its save ribbon crap. <shiver>
I don't see what the problem really was with RE's Ink Ribbons? Maybe just for people who need to save a lot?

I save a lot. It's not necessarily that I need to. It's that I don't know whether I need to or not. And since there are a set number of ribbons and I don't know how many there are how do I know if I'm wasting a ribbon that I'll need later when the game gets really hard?

I don't want to be worrying about things like that while the zombie dogs are biting my feet.

Post by **Cerulean** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:19 pm

New Pet PEEVE: PEOPLE WITH THE SWEATY HANDS!!!!!!

NASTY TO THE MAX!

Post by **neohx_7** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:08 pm

*PS2 titles that lack 480p (This is just completely unjustified and moronic)
*Cheating AIs (this is okay ONLY in certain situations like if its a high difficulty setting. Most arcade originated games suffer from this)
*Bad cameras (Lego Star Wars, all 3D Sonics)
*Poor textures (Vines and trees in Zelda OOT)
*Poor graphics due to lazy development or stupid hardware limitations (N64, Saturn SOTN, early PSX, many PS2 titles)
*Repeated load times (initial load times are fine, but FF7,8,9,10 sucked. 12 rules!)
*Excruciatingly impossible tasks in games (treasure chests/item drop/steal system in FF12. SOTN has nothing on this)
*Bad save systems (Breath of Fire V, MegaMan X)
*Slow gameplay (FF9 just felt so damn slow...)
*Lack of optional sidequests/secrets in a game (Grandias)

I'm sure I can think of more...

Post by **metaleggman** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:09 pm

I too get a little pissed when games don't have 480p, tho widescreen is more important IMO, as I have a widescreen set and stretching can sometimes make the picture look horrible.