PS3 Whine and Cheese, popular games that annoy us

My biggest gripes with games these days are unlockable super weapons and DLC rip-offs.

The unlockable super weapons came first, started by COD (that ****ing game has a lot to answer for), where by players who have the time to spend on a game and get good are rewarded with weapons that are better than the starting weapons, the idea behind this is to add longevity, which yes is a great idea, but has been very badly implemented in various games in the past, the worst culprits that i've played are the Socom games, Confrontation and Special Forces, though CoD is also bad for this.
The whole idea that spending 400 hours online will unlock some extra stuff is great, but why make it stuff that gives those who've gained experience (via the 400 hours required to unlock) an advantage? Make it a fecking pea shooter that looks cool as ****! Those who have gained experience and want to show off can then do so by annihilating people with a gun that's worse.
Socom Confrontation had this quite badly when the Specialisations were patched in, requiring silly amounts of time in ranked rooms to max them out and get a stonking advantage over those without the time or skill to unlock them.
Socom Special Forces was horrific too, with 400-500 required for someone of my skill level to unlock everything, and those things you unlocked made a BIG difference. God help those of us who are getting on a bit and struggle to get kills, it would literally take a lifetime to unlock everything.

Now onto Battlefield 3, a game that almost had it right! 'Most' of the guns in BF3 are very well balanced and it's more of a case of finding a gun that suits your play style, many people here will have heard me complaining about the FAMAS being an aweful gun, worst in it's class in my opinion, where others feel it's the best in it's class. That goes to show how well balanced it is.
But I wish they'd allow you to pick a single attachment as your starting attachment for the gun so that you don't need to use iron sights, which on some guns makes it very difficult to get enough kills to unlock a usable sight...the FAMAS being one of these for me, I don't engage people at point blank with hip fire, so using a gun that is innacurate over range is bad enough as it is without the iron sights covering most of your screen and certainly the whole area you need to see to kill anything.
Similarly I wish they'd done the same with vehicle unlocks, and this is the area that really gets some inbalance in the game, a new player with nothing unlocked in a jet or heli will really struggle in the air with experienced pilots. I do strongly believe that the weapons unlocked in the vehicles make little or no difference, Tanks most powerful weapon is it's main cannon, Jets are best at killing with their guns, Heli's are best at killing with their stock weapons...but the countermeasures make a world of difference, ECM jammer and under the radar make it very difficult to take an air vehicle out from the ground or the air without using guns, but a newbie has no defense at all.

DLC - completely ruining the gaming market, companies regularly sell unfinished games, or games with parts locked down and only unlocked through micropayments. I'm gonna leave it at that as I could literally bang on about this all day, but i'm at work.

 

I agree, but I also hate the famas and that said I see people getting great kd using it. I hate the F2000 but again some players are great with it. You find a gun you like and you stick with it adding mods will also help. I was on UC3 last night and heard all about how bad BF3 is. But I enjoy it more then MW3. If we all liked the same thing life would be boring. I'm crap at UC3 moan all the way through the game getting put against top level 75 prestige 4 players at my rank 40 prestige 0. They obviously only play UC3 and it shows. I also sit full clipping people in the back for them to turn around and one shot kill me :-\

My boss at work got bf3 and hated it, I told him to stick at it as gun unlocks will help, I explained what the heavy barrel and stuff did and now he loves it. He's an EggBox gamer so has to endeavour screaming kids.

I also posted on my blog a few months back about dlc, I could also go on about it but as I bought premium its more like a contradiction of what I said :-\

 

I hate spawn campers on BF3. Fair play to them for fighting their way there and C4ing the hell out of all the vehicles/place, and there is nothing in the rule book to prevent them doing this, but I hate them with a passion. It just doesnt seem to be in the spirit of the game at all.

I hate day 1 DLC, no matter what game. I also hate DLC released that is 100KB in size and is quite clearly a key to unlock whats already on the disc. But more than that, I hate the pointless DLC that the Japs seem to do religously. This is why the Japanese are no longer the best developers in the world; they all just churn out the same stuff and copy each other. Costumes, song tracks, backgrounds etc do not add value to a game.

Rock Band DLC is by far my biggest bug bear. Every day I sift through about 15 songs to get to the latest DLC on Xbox Marketplace. Is anyone buying this crap any more?

I also hate the way DLC fragments an online community. Credit to EA for Mass Effect 3 and its bundles of free DLC to keep it alive. Makes a change that its EA too.

 

This should be free the data is on the furkin disc :angry:

 

Argh that gets to me a lot, the strange thing is every game that did this last night wasn't in my cinema? So I cant YouTube the video for everyone to see including naughty dog

I literally ran up behind someone unloaded a full clip, reloaded started on the second clip they turn around and bang one shot kill.

Also the mag5, bloody 5 shots on some twat at point blank and no furking kill :angry:

And that blue ninja bull shit what's all that about it pops up I click punch and my guy just punches into the air like someone having an epileptic fit.

And the hanging grab, knock off crap, how come I can't do either. Some e grabs me I'm ****ed I try and grab someone I'm ****ed.

Sorry about the bad language but it takes the ****ing piss, every Tuesday I leave thinking not gonna play it again, then the next I'm back on moaning about the same shit taking the piss.

Why do my grenades take what feels like a week to blow and other people's take just the right amount of time to blow when it lands in front of me?

Whhhhyyyyy!

 

Surely that's just lag...that's what it sounds like.

The solution to which is not to play with the public.

Unfortunately most games that suffer badly from netcode issues that result in lag tend to only have the laggy players left because everyone else has fecked off to play something less laggy.

Socom 2 was like that last time I played, the only public players were jumping around all over the place with lag, one shot killing, not taking any damage from my shots. It's not fun at all.

There's something else, why can't they allow you to enforce regional settings? Set your game up as EU/UK only or something to help reduce lag...or ffs just set a ping limit and boot people who get too low.

 

well martok i couldnt have put that better myself

 

Tried Virtua Fighter 5 last night (Free to ps+ gamers), and my god I'm crap, mind you I was getting hit from miles away and going down. I think this is a game where if you play it and your good, your good if your bad, your bad. Sometimes my character wouldn't punch and kick unless a hammered the buttons repeatedly. I tried a few games online, in the end I have deleted it and probably won't play another Virtua Fighter game again

And before anyone says it my controller is fine works on everything else

I also hate you don't get points from private games, but as you said it stops farming of points. Although coop is my new favourite on UC3 points for playing against npc