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Joined: Aug 28 2011 Posts: 537

This is a thread where we come up with future annoyances or pleasures in videogames that companies may pull on us.

My annoyance will be that next-gen systems will have games that force you to watch advertisements for the companies upcoming games before you can play the game you bought.

edit: thread originally titled 'How Bad Could Gaming Get?'

Posted: Mar 16 2012 06:09 pm

Bad translations or spelling errors in general. In the past it was understandable, most games came from places that aren't English-speaking. Nowadays, there's no excuse, especially with teams dedicated to it.

Posted: Mar 16 2012 07:59 pm

Selling day one DLC that's got plot information or aspects integral to the g- wait. Nevermind. The idea of advertisements needing to be waded through in order to play the property you already own IS pretty horrid to think of. The thought that some companies will keep churning out huge games with tons of bugs that require almost constant updating is a rather bleak one as well; I would have rather waited another half a year for Skyrim and paid a hundred bucks for it if they could've kept it from being glitchy as fuck.

Posted: Mar 16 2012 08:07 pm

The Neo Geo X. Basically a portable Neo Geo Console wich costs 600 dollar. It's limited, so they make it a item for collectors but it's still insane thinking of that you can emulate these games nowadays.

Posted: Mar 16 2012 08:25 pm

I kind of hope that eventually more PC developers start realizing that most people have more than 2GB of RAM soon. Fucking Skyrim required a fan mod to make it use more than 2GB of RAM before BethSoft finally released an official LAA patch nearly 2 months after release. That fan mod solved every bug I had in the game other than the glitched-to-fuck house obtaining quest, especially the fact that there was a massive memory leak at launch that caused the game to crash nearly every half hour after you changed the world by doing too many quests or killing things.

Sadly I think stupid bugs and oversights like that are only going to get worse as time goes on, because we keep right on buying their bug ridden games at launch so they have no reason to change it. Seems like most games I've bought new on day one in recent years have had a patch sitting and waiting for them once they were installed or put in the console. Seems like you shouldn't ship something that you know is unplayable without that patch.

Title: an horse Joined: Feb 26 2012 Posts: 169

IGN has a pretty interesting article about consoles dying.

http://au.games.ign.com/articles/122/1220883p1.html

Posted: Mar 17 2012 01:36 am

Multiplayer taking priority over single player.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

justdrop wrote:

Bad translations or spelling errors in general. In the past it was understandable, most games came from places that aren't English-speaking. Nowadays, there's no excuse, especially with teams dedicated to it.

What? Even for one or two spelling errors in a large game that absolutely no-one except maybe someone deliberately looking for them will notice them?

Posted: Mar 17 2012 10:53 am

Mr. Satire wrote:

justdrop wrote:

Bad translations or spelling errors in general. In the past it was understandable, most games came from places that aren't English-speaking. Nowadays, there's no excuse, especially with teams dedicated to it.

What? Even for one or two spelling errors in a large game that absolutely no-one except maybe someone deliberately looking for them will notice them?

I don't deliberately look for them, I notice them and it bugs me.

Posted: Mar 17 2012 01:23 pm

The gaming community will get worse because of fanboys bitching an moaning about every change in the industry like it's the end of the world.

Posted: Mar 17 2012 04:38 pm

I am surprised no one mentioned being forced to play online all the time. You will probably buy a new game in the future and not be able to play at all without registering it online first or patching it right from the get-go.

Posted: Mar 17 2012 04:50 pm

Hell it pretty much is already that way on the PC. Almost everything uses Steam now and requires you to be online to register it the first time and snag the day 1 patch. Civ V did it two years ago to me, Skyrim did it last November. Don't even know why they give you the disk when most of them just add it to Steam and download it anyway.

Joined: Feb 16 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 329

Rawr rawr EA, Ubisoft, Capcom rawr rawr

Posted: Mar 19 2012 12:51 am

Video games becoming download only but still paying 59.99 for each. One day you do something Sony doesn't approve of and they delete your account along with your entire game library.

Its happening with ebooks already and I think that's where video games will end up.

Posted: Mar 19 2012 12:58 am

Especially if you think of collectors edition games wich usually come with artbooks and posters and these things.

Posted: Mar 19 2012 01:40 am

justdrop wrote:

Mr. Satire wrote:

justdrop wrote:

Bad translations or spelling errors in general. In the past it was understandable, most games came from places that aren't English-speaking. Nowadays, there's no excuse, especially with teams dedicated to it.

What? Even for one or two spelling errors in a large game that absolutely no-one except maybe someone deliberately looking for them will notice them?

I don't deliberately look for them, I notice them and it bugs me.

People have been printing books for hundreds of years but they still have misprints and errors! How dare they, they've had plenty of time to get it right so there's no excuse, especially with hordes of dedicated editors looking over these texts!

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Bad translations is kind of annoying . You do start to notice when localization is handled by the only guy they could find who spoke Japanese/English when dialogue starts to repeat itself, and once character speech is indistinguishable from another.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

A thing that is already annoying me is services like Steam that don't have an offline mode, or, in the case of Steam itself, an offline mode that actually works. Since I don't always have Internet access on my computer, it is annoying to try and enter Steam or one of the games I downloaded with it, see a failed to connect dialog, click the offline mode button, only to be given a "this operation cannot be completed in offline mode" message. To me, that is even worse than a single game wanting to be online to launch, considering all my PC games (minus Minecraft) are from Steam.

Posted: Mar 19 2012 11:07 am

LordHuffnPuff wrote:

justdrop wrote:

Mr. Satire wrote:

justdrop wrote:

Bad translations or spelling errors in general. In the past it was understandable, most games came from places that aren't English-speaking. Nowadays, there's no excuse, especially with teams dedicated to it.

What? Even for one or two spelling errors in a large game that absolutely no-one except maybe someone deliberately looking for them will notice them?

I don't deliberately look for them, I notice them and it bugs me.

People have been printing books for hundreds of years but they still have misprints and errors! How dare they, they've had plenty of time to get it right so there's no excuse, especially with hordes of dedicated editors looking over these texts!

Oh hey, I was wondering if you were still a fucking asshole, thanks.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

You have to respect a man who takes the hardline on an unpopular opinion like supporting typos.

Joined: Jun 29 2010 Posts: 1818

It's almost like mistakes, like typos, are bad, and should be avoided.
On a more serious note, several consoles give the game companies the option to patch their games. Sadly, I haven't seen any of them put any effort into fixing this kind of thing, even though several people on the internet make translation patches for the games they like, sometimes even before an official translation is out.
They just fix the infinite combos, and bugs like flying hawks that are actually twisted human shapes. Which means they could do it, but don't think it'll be worth their time.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Patches are very expensive, especially on consoles and Steam. Tim Schafer said a console patch can cost at least around $40,000 (link). You need to get a team that has already released a game to collect bug data, find possible causes, test, rinse, repeat. Not only that, but there's a lot of red tape that you have to go through with Steam/PSN/XBL (not sure about Nintendo's) to get it released. EA says Origin is supposed to be good about this, but again, I haven't followed Origin since it was released.

Posted: Mar 19 2012 01:15 pm

I can't begin to tell you how many jobs I've worked where I've had months to look over text and make sure there's no errors, only to let some slip. Teehee!

Posted: Mar 20 2012 05:41 am

I usually have fun finding typos. I keep quoting them for months if they are funny. Whats annyoing is when every second sentence has one like in SNK Versus Capcom Cardfighters DS, wich is by the way the worst game i have ever played. The AVGN should review it, that would be perfect.

Posted: Mar 20 2012 07:27 am

I just hope developers find a creative and functional new form of netcode. I'm so fucking sick of server side netcode with client based hosting, it's idiotic and broken. The retarded ass excuse is that it helps prevent aimbotting...no dumbfucks it just ruins the game for legit players. I'm sick of seeing people run around corners THEN die 5 seconds later, or worse yet dying before people exist on my screen because of sloppy idiotic coding. We live in an age of fios and cable internet, and in an age where a decade old engine (quake 3) can support three types of netcode (server side, client side, AND peer to peer) working in unison for flawless hit detection, yet I still have to put up with subpar lazy horseshit coding that ruins my experience.