Totally got you...I still remember 1 of the best games Metroid...no DLC..no boring intros...no nothing..just GAME
Ah METROID, alot of my friends were into that game back in the day. The invention of portable game systems like the GameBoy and its followers were a dream come true for them as they could play games like METROID anywhere. By the way nice Forum name
Am 51 and things am too old for are Friends List. I have always kept mine short and even then I have run into phony types like a woman I was friends with for almost two years giving me a story about being in her 60s who will probably never find someone special in her life making it seem like she was some sort of ultra introvert and never had a romantic relationship. Then about a month ago she tells me she has been married for thirty years. Ouch. And after I had gifted her FALLOUT 4 a few months back. Off she went from my Friends List. Shame shame.
Only being able to save at checkpoints instead of anywhere I want in a game. Gamers these days make it seem like this new trend has been around for ages for games like DOOM but thats not the case. I have been gaming first on the Commodore Amiga 500 and then on intel based pc's since 1989 and I have always been able to save anywhere on almost every game until the past five years or so when checkpoints were suddenly becoming the norm.
Subscribing to ORIGIN only to find when I switch to a new motherboard I had to jump major hurdles to get into my account to play the games I own and have the physical cds for like DRAGON AGE INQUISITION. I had to wait like three hours on the phone while trying to get my new account reactivated and finally just gave up. I found out from my Brother inlaw he had a similar situation when helping out a relative who could not play their games either. I can understand the security issue but I dont run into these issues with STEAM or U-Play.
Console vs Pc, I dont care and it all seems like hype and fake drama to me.
YouTube personalities who are or have become marketing shills especially when it comes to Loot Crates. Thank goodness YouTube is more then just gaming talk channels but even then someone will try to advertise something all the while saying how they just mentioned it because it is something they personally. I ran into this on a mental health channel and it was so painfully obvious they had gotten paid to mention the product which in itself is not bad but dont come off as all naive and innocent about it after all there is a thing called disclosure as the consumer activist TotalBiscuit always mentions.
Commercials that are loud compared to the video channel's original volume. Its getting extra annoying now with YouTube allowing commercials in the middle of regular videos. I'll be falling asleep to the nice voice of a female gamer doing a Let's Play only to be awoken fifteen minutes later by a frigging MONSTER TRUCK RALLY!!! IS COMING TO SO AND SO COLLISEUM!!! BE PREPARED TO SEE UNHEARD OF DEVASTATION!!!! yea the only devastation am gonna hear is my pissed off neighbors having one more reason to hate me for my already too loud pc habits.
Drama and game reviews full of hate. Its gotten to the point where I just remind myself of the old days and just play the friggin game because if I had listened to alot of these reviews I would have missed out on some of my all time favorite pc games like DYING LIGHT.
Not being able to change my keyboard input. I have always used the arrow keys and mouse to interact with the game world so being forced to use the WASAD keys is a major pain. I always end up not playing the game after an hour or so never going back to it unless its a early access game which intends to add the option later.
And talking about early access. I have brought so many early access games which have never been finished by the developers I now am weening myself off the habit of buying them and just paying for complete games as much as I would love to support the devs but too many times I have gotten burned by unfinished products. Fortunately I have also had plenty of good results like THE DARKEST DUNGEON, GRIM DAWN, ZIGGURAT and quite a few but the past year or so has been way too horrible on my wallet. Gaming is supposed to be about playing complete games not gambling on the lottery wondering if a product will ever be finished or not.
Gaming gear especially headphones. Give me a real headphone like the Audio Technica Ath M50 X or Sennheiser HD 650 over a surround sound gaming headphone that does not sound anywhere as good and wont last as long.
These and many more are the things I am too old for in a sea of joyous gaming.
