Before I discovered the delights of frittering away untold hours posting on the SDMB (and almost fainting with horror when I go to disconnect and discover that I’ve been on-line for three or four hours), the time-wasting activity I enjoyed engaging in the most on my computer was playing games, mainly first-person shooters. This is an activity that has brought me much pleasure over the years, but unfortunately, there are various things about the games I’ve played that have really PISSED ME OFF. Some of these things are specific to individual games whereas others apply to more than one game (generally quite a few). I’ll list those peeves of mine that fall in the latter category in this post.
First of all, I hate the way computer game programmers seem to collaborate with the evil forces of Microsoft to force us all to upgrade to new versions of Windows when we really don’t need or want to. Aside from using it to access the Net or play games, about the only thing I do with my computer is write on a word processor. Therefore, in a much less imperfect world than this one, I could probably be quite content with a fairly old and basic version of Windows. But no! In this shitty world, I have to keep upgrading if I want to play the newest games. Mm, that looks like a good game; I think I might get it. Oh shit, the system requirements state that I have to have Windows XP on my computer to play it. Well, fuck you then, evil programmers! I guess it’ll just have to stay on the shelf! Maybe I’m displaying a truly appalling level of ignorance here, but whatever happened to the good old days when computer games could be run through DOS as well as Windows? :mad:
Secondly, I hate those games in which you get to a part of the game (a part you can’t avoid, of course) where you’re stripped of most (if not all) of your weapons and ammo, and have to continue with something really pissy. Doom was the earliest offender in this regard that I can recall playing; in many a game, I’d finish “The Shores of Hell” with, among all my other abundant supplies of ammo, several dozen rockets (those that I hadn’t used to blow up the Cyberdemon), but be forced to begin “Inferno” with nothing more than that stupid pistol. I particularly loathe it when, just before you get to that part where you have most of your weapons and ammo stolen from you, the game becomes super-generous with spare ammo: presumably a sick joke on the part of the programmers (by Satan, may they burn in hell!). :mad:
Thirdly, I hate superpowerful end-of-level/end-of-game monsters/bosses that prove almost impossible to kill. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the scenario: you’re coasting along fairly comfortably - having fun, being challenged but not frustratingly so - when suddenly you run into some huge, nigh-on indestructible (and, of course, unavoidable) motherfucker who merely has to cast one of his/her/its eyes in your general direction to destroy you. Does anyone actually enjoy fighting those things?! :mad:
Well, those are my general rants out of the way. Check out the next thread I write on this subject for my game-specific rants (I was going to include them with this one, but didn’t want it to get too long).
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