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What's the worst thing done by a company this generation?

BrokenEchelon said:
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I feel this thread would do a lot better if it was stated that we should exclude actual games and focus on policy.

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We should also exclude putting things up here just because we don't like it.

Posting a console - any console - as a bad thing done by a business, unless it's say, a really huge bomb, is stupid.
 
antitrop said:
This travesty was massively downplayed by the press, essentially giving Bethesda a free pass on this disaster and AFAIK it's still broken to this day.
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It's still broken in the sense that it'll break down on all platforms if a savegame reaches over a thousand hours of game time. To my knowledge, the most glaring problems with the PS3 version, however, have been fixed. You shouldn't be getting drops to 0 fps anymore.
 
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By "Hello Games"

Used Sony pub dev funds to make the game, released it on PS3 and made the sequel exclusive to Xbox 360. The PS3 version will never be patched or anything...the PS3 version was also pretty barebones, looks like 360 is getting the content rich version.

The game sucked and was complete waste of $$ (IMO) but damn some of these developers....
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
I feel this thread would do a lot better if it was stated that we should exclude actual games and focus on policy.


We should also exclude putting things up here just because we don't like it.

Posting a console - any console - as a bad thing done by a business, unless it's say, a really huge bomb, is stupid.
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I agree w/ this post but a game not being the worst thing this generation is just our opinion =)

I think there are far more pressing concerns for the industry than the 2 I mentioned before (RRoD, DLC evolution) but to each their own :P
 
Nintendo putting the region lock in and having the gall to say it's for our own good is, in my opinion, the most regressive thing that's happened lately.

However, I say that as an import enthusiast. If I wasn't, then some sort of combination of DLC, consumables, on-disc DLC and the slippery slope involving all of these things that we've slid down in the space of about 7 years would be the worst.
 
BrokenEchelon said:
I hate the Wiimote. I hate it. It doesn't bring anything to the table and prevented me from enjoying my favorite childhood franchises for five~ years.
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Metroid Prime 3 controls much better with the Wiimote than its predecessors did with the Gamecube controller. The IR sensor makes this game a joy to play, and is the closest any console first-person game has come to approaching controls as efficient as a mouse and keyboard.

The Wiimote brought superior control, in some contexts, to the table.
 
BrokenEchelon said:
I hate the Wiimote. I hate it. It doesn't bring anything to the table and prevented me from enjoying my favorite childhood franchises for five~ years.
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If you're concerned with childhood nostalgia, all your favorite games were on the Virtual Console. And the previous consoles still existed.

Calling Mario Galaxy your favorite childhood game just because it has Mario isn't going to work.

Don't be the Star Trek geek that yells at the 2009 Star Treek remakeboot for "erasing all the pre-existing canon".
 
SniperHunter said:
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By "Hello Games"

Used Sony pub dev funds to make the game, released it on PS3 and made the sequel exclusive to Xbox 360. The PS3 version will never be patched or anything...the PS3 version was also pretty barebones, looks like 360 is getting the content rich version.

The game sucked and was complete waste of $$ (IMO) but damn some of these developers....
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Wasn't the Xbox version called a different name under the pretense that there would be more content on said version?
 
I have no great examples so I'm just going to use the same ole';

EA for turning a lot of once great titles into cheapened conveyor belt DLC machines.
 
Darth Pinche said:
No one should ever have to go through 4 consoles within a year. One of the ones they sent me was broken when it arrived. There is a reason I have since had a Wii and a PS3 in my home.

Anti-Xbox for life.
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Yeah that happened to me with my elite xbox when they sent me a refurbished one. It was already RROD when I tried to play games on it.
 
The Technomancer said:
Was there something really bad with the Wii? I feel like there was, but I can't for the life of me remember what it might be.
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wii being advertised as 1:1....too bad we didnt get it until a few years and an extra peripheral later


dont forget. no storage space. and no downloads tied to accounts.... oh and friendcodes...
 
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another waste of Sony's $$$, opened a studio, signed up with Sony for a three game contract with Sony. Even before Twisted Metal was even released, David Jaffe said he would be leaving the company to make smartphone games. As a result a lot of employees were fired, I doubt that contract still exists....a complete waste of resources for Sony.
 
BlazinAm said:
Wasn't the Xbox version called a different name under the pretense that there would be more content on said version?
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there was a thread about it in neogaf, PS3 guys who bought the game were obviously pissed. Looks like Hello Games used the PS3 buyers as beta testers.
 
satriales said:
Xbox Live Gold

Games are rarely being released with pure single player experiences, yet Microsoft charges us an extra fee to access the online component. Not to mention all of the other free stuff they hide behind a pay wall. This fee isn't charged once per console, but every user who wants to play online on that console has to pay this fee.
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Out of all the gaming travesties that have been described in this thread, I would put "Xbox Live Gold" as far down at the bottom as humanly possible.
 
A lot of publishers who are guilty of closing up shop on mod tools because it was the most reliable method to allow dollar & dime DLC on PC. EA and Sega are the two most prominent in recent memory who continually fuck their fan base around. The fact that BF3 is such a closed-off environment makes me weep compared to BF1942 & BF2 (where mods for those games didn't stop the release of many expansions), and every single time I see Shogun 2 on the Steam store I want to throw up. I know DICE and CA would rather a more liberal and open game due to their history, but when the boulder of shit rolls downhill you have to run with it to avoid getting hit.

The new SimCity is likely to suffer the same fate despite what the Maxis slaves comment to the media. Contrast that to the illustrious mods & tools available for its direct predecessor. So a double fuck you EA.


And yet on the other side of the coin stands Valve. They embrace it, condone it, and release their own "DLC" while sharing the profits with the contributors. They've shown that just because you need money to keep the lights on in the building, doesn't mean you have to bend your customer over and shove a gigantic cucumber up their anus.
 
Honestly? In my opinion the biggest blunder this generation is Sony removing Linux support, as it directly led to the PSN hack. There were plenty of major mis-steps this gen, but I think that was the biggest blunder. Second place (yet arguably might qualify as the first major cock-up of "next gen") would probably be Sony's handling of the Vita and it's pretty much looking like it's going to be the hand-held equivalent to the Dreamcast outside of a major miracle. (Still looking forward to playing Persona 4 Gold and Virtue's Last Reward on the damn thing, and Wipeout 2094+HD/Fury and LittleBigPlanet are things I really should get around to grabbing, not to mention there's a fair few PSP and PS1 games from the PSN to buy and to play, but still).
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
I feel this thread would do a lot better if it was stated that we should exclude actual games and focus on policy.
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Especially one that hasn't even been released yet.

Someone posting the re-imagined Dante in this thread is a joke and devalues the intention and the legitimate gaming travesties of the thread.
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
I feel this thread would do a lot better if it was stated that we should exclude actual games and focus on policy.



We should also exclude putting things up here just because we don't like it.

Posting a console - any console - as a bad thing done by a business, unless it's say, a really huge bomb, is stupid.
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I disagree. The Wii basically ruined Nintendo for me. And how much it sold has nothing to do with it it.

I was a huge Nintendo fan all my life. Evern console since SNES on or shortly after launch. Every game in all their major franchises I loved. But shitty graphics and waggle, both of which the system's design philosophy is to blame for, ruined Nintendo for me. Now I will probably never look at them the same way. That's a pretty big "horrible" thing.
 
BlazinAm said:
Wasn't the Xbox version called a different name under the pretense that there would be more content on said version?
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It was called Joe Danger: Special Edition. I really wasn't even bothered by the lack of additional content added to the PS3 version or the sequel being announced for the 360. This is what bothered me

"It's been so nice to come back to, now we've watched hundreds of thousands of people play through on PS3," Murray said yesterday. "They've been our playtesters for the changes we've made to Special Edition."
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-04-joe-danger-dev-understands-ps3-owners-anger
 
Roto13 said:
People need to get over online passes already.
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Yeah, as customers lets just be happy that companies are doing everything they can to destroy the preowned games market.

Sarcasm aside, no customer should ever, ever, at any point, in their right mind, give companies leeway over this. Online passes are a blatant attempt to erode our consumer rights to buy and sell preowned products. Such rights once lost, will be impossible to recover.

Its in no gamers best interests to "get over" such a serious concern.
 
yeah blizzard/ea/valve blocking access to your purchased games is fucking ridiculous, i know the latter 2 have stopped doing that now though
 
monlo said:
diablo 3 :-)
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Bullshit. That's not a legitimate answer, you can't just say "the entire thing". Name something specific about Diablo III that is one of the worst things done to gamers.

Diablo III is a good game, a disappointment, sure, but it's not some kind of travesty of gaming. Stop being so overdramatic.
 
Mama Robotnik said:
Yeah, as customers lets just be happy that companies are doing everything they can to destroy the preowned games market.

Sarcasm aside, no customer should ever, ever, at any point, in their right mind, give companies leeway over this. Online passes are a blatant attempt to erode our consumer rights to buy and sell preowned products. Such rights once lost, will be impossible to recover.

Its in no gamers best interests to "get over" such a serious concern.
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Nice to see you're still a drama queen.

I love online passes. It means if I buy used games, I don't have to pay for the shitty tacked on multiplayer modes if I don't want to. Plus GameStop gets screwed, which is awesome, because they're terrible.

But go ahead and scream about how it's infringing on your rights to... I dunno, pay $20 for an Assassin's Creed game with multiplayer, I guess?
 
SolidSnakex said:
It was called Joe Danger: Special Edition. I really wasn't even bothered by the lack of additional content added to the PS3 version or the sequel being announced for the 360. This is what bothered me
"It's been so nice to come back to, now we've watched hundreds of thousands of people play through on PS3," Murray said yesterday. "They've been our playtesters for the changes we've made to Special Edition."
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The phrasing is a little sly, but it's the same wording that people when taking about sequels. To me it's not a big deal but I see why it would bother some people.
 
iNvid02 said:
yeah blizzard/ea/valve blocking access to your purchased games is fucking ridiculous, i know the latter 2 have stopped doing that now though
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What are the scenarios in which they would block somebody access to games? I must have missed the story.

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Sorry for the double post.
 
BlazinAm said:
What are the scenarios in which they would block somebody access to games? I must have missed the story.

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Sorry for the double post.
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anything violating their TOS

i cant remember the exact story but one guy lost access to his EA games because he posted something on their forum which was against their TOS
 
Orayn said:
As a developer, or a publisher? Because they've been slipping as the former while becoming increasingly modern and relevant as the latter.
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Why should I care if they get to slap their name on a bunch of Eidos crap I don't give two shits about? They used to be at the top of the industry. Now they're just a worthless, delusional company thinking their name still means something.
 
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The worst game I've played since Call of Duty Finest Hour and one of the worst 3 games I played in the previous decade. A poorly designed game that somehow got 98 on metacritic, which makes me think of gigantic moneyhats and/or performing some evil rituals on video games reviewers. I have not touched a Rockstar game since then.
 
iNvid02 said:
anything violating their TOS

i cant remember the exact story but one guy lost access to his EA games because he posted something on their forum which was against their TOS
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Oh I remembered that I was referring to the Blizzard situation if one had come up. (I know cheating can get revoke your access to play online games which is cool as long as the person can still play bots.)

What was the Valve situation?
 
szaromir said:
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The worst game I've played since Call of Duty Finest Hour and one of the worst 3 games I played in the previous decade. A poorly designed game that somehow got 98 on metacritic, which makes me think of gigantic moneyhats and/or performing some evil rituals on video games reviewers. I have not touched a Rockstar game since then.
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This is an awful example for this thread. Just because you didn't like the game doesn't make it even close to being worthy of being posted here. It wasn't even the first game to initiate the stupid 10/10 ratings we started to see everywhere.
 
szaromir said:
The worst game I've played since Call of Duty Finest Hour and one of the worst 3 games I played in the previous decade. A poorly designed game that somehow got 98 on metacritic, which makes me think of gigantic moneyhats and/or performing some evil rituals on video games reviewers. I have not touched a Rockstar game since then.
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Now you are slowly beginning to understand how the games industry works.

But in all reality GTA 4 was a decent game. It's especially great on the PC when I did my re-play of it. If anyone should be blamed it should be the players who let their hype reach to unassailable levels. It wouldn't have mattered if the game was the next coming of Citizen Kane, people would have found ways to hate it.
 
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