What do you hate about current games?

i hate the fact that developers only care about profit now when they had the chance to make perhaps the best games in history.

Take Call of duty for instance. Its a good, simple shooter with some great game mechanics and a massive community that more or less defined the FPS genre, but with Modern warfare 3, what exactly makes it different from its predecessors? All infinity ward do is a copy + paste job, a few quick maps, a few new guns, a new game mode which is a take on an existing one, and they stick a 2 or 3 and the end of the title. COD is that popular that all infinity ward need to do is stick 'Call Of Duty' in front of the title and it will SELL regardless. When its Treyarch designing the games, they add new things such as the zombies which was brilliant but as for multiplayer, nothing worth screaming about.

Then take Battlefield. The single player campaigns are ok but you get battlefield for the multiplayer. Dice pay attention to EVERY detail and with their FROSTBITE engine, they make near-fully (and large) destructible maps to make the game feel more realistic, they give you plenty of DLC with fresh ideas to make it unique once again and they take their time to work on the game so its a good few years between battlefield games. BUT, because the games are that big, there are so many minor/major bugs - overpowered combinations, easy ways to boost challenges/XP, exploits with gadgets that make destroying vehicles etc too easy and can help players get to hard to reach places where they can farm kills at the enemy spawn (battlefield 3 has been out for just under a year, has had 4 patches and still suffers with these - the patches caused more problems than they solved). They rebooted the Medal of honor franchise and collaborated with danger close (the old Infinity ward team from COD), but the game felt tacky and rushed, so their selling point for the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter (which feels no different from the previous MOH) is that you get a beta for battlefield 4 (even though battlefield 3 is still awaiting more DLC, more patches and is generally still not a complete game) so you instantly know that, seeing how big battlefield games are, battlefield 4 is getting rushed and will certainly be nothing more than one BIG bug. Nice one EA...

Bethesda, who make the RPG games Fallout and Elder scrolls, make fantastic games that have plenty of replay value (give you different choices that change the course of the game) but again they add so much into the game that, just like battlefield, patching the game takes forever and still doesnt fix most of the main issues. Fallout 3 has been around for years and there are still glitches that can break your save game and stop you doing the main quests.

all they need to do is thoroughly test their games and fix any bugs before releasing games that dont even work. I'd love to see what game testers actually do when they work...

rant over :)

Devs seem to focus so much more on shiny graphics than gameplay or character development. A good example of this is Risen 2, the characters are boring, the gameplay is boring, the combat is awful and the only good thing is the game looks half decent. It seems like the devs did a decent job at Risen 1, I personally enjoyed it quite a bit, enjoyed the combat, the characters and the gameplay and the graphics were still half decent. Mass Effect 1 & 2 are fantastic examples of how graphics and gameplay should go together, I still think about the things my Shephard would of done after ME1 and ME2 which shows how good the game play is.

I think devs today are making many mistakes in the core development of games, they are looking to build pick up and play games with shiny graphics and no long term game play value any more, that and most of them either release "on release day" DLC which should of been included in the final game or expansion packs which again could be included in patches or at least sold at a really low price (as opposed to EA's thinking of having The Sims 3 and then about 20 expansion packs at £25-£30) but no, too many companies make a game, get their money then forget about it.

I miss the days where I could play Fallout 1 or 2 for hours on end and not get bored, or Jagged Alliance 2 (which I still play today) and I enjoy/ed those games massively due to the way the story was written or the style of game play.

Another issue is that games can be finished in a matter of hours these days rather than days

Mandatory tutorials, repetitive scenarios, and higher fixation on graphics rather than that of the actual game engine. These issues cause me irritation to no end. I like to see a game that you can learn to play on your own and adapt to your own play-style, new and compelling challenges, and the lack of glitches that cause me disappointment. I don't mind some complex controls every now and again, but I disapprove of incomprehensible combo moves. The thing I love most about a good game is it's plot. I am of the mindset that if the plot of a game is good enough, then I will play through the entire game (no matter the difficulty or poor gameplay). Take "Ib" for example: SNES graphics at best and very simple controls, but a plot that can bring a grown man to tears. The game doesn't need be an RPG like Ib, but it sure as hell better have a decent plot.

when i was younger you could buy 3 preowned games for bout 20-25 pound and atleast 2 of those games would turn out to be gems and have so much replay value. nowadays you pay over £25 for just one preowned game and it turns out to be utter garbage all the games are the same hardly any standouts. i want timespitters back.

Well I think most individuals lost religion within the series after Sonic 06, and the other people most likely do not like whats been done to the canon over time, overall simply mad enthusiasts who failed to get precisely what they wanted

take too long to make now.