Topic: Gaming's pet peeves

@Kidfried Eek, sorry you lost all that progress. I don't blame you for being fed up with it. It's a massive flaw in JRPGs generally and MegaTen can be quite spiteful when there are certain enemies that love to use instant death spells. Thankfully P5R lets you restart a battle if Joker falls during a boss fight. I swear I felt my heart stop when I died during a mini-boss battle after not saving for a while.

@Kidfried I get that, I lost a lot of progress a couple of times and did quit the game for a while. Persona 3 is actually even worse in that regard if you can imagine 😂

Yeah, losing a ton of progress is pretty gutting. I'm fine with it in Souls games as you know what you signed up for and it's part of the whole package. When the PS4 crashes and I haven't saved for ages, the lack of a regular autosave can be quite infuriating in some titles.

@Kidfried Mate, I feel for you but that's happened to probably every Persona 5 player at some point. Them's the breaks!

Seriously, Mementos is a bitch and the deeper you go the worse it gets. Learn from this, don't throw a tantrum.

@Kidfried Yeah that does my head in too. I really begrudge games without a manual save system, or games that do not make it clear when it is auto saving. It is the one thing Cyberpunk 2077 got right.

@nessisonett Ugh, Tartarus can be a nightmare. I once lost almost a whole block's progress and it took hours to redo. Losing level progress is frustrating as hell.

@mookysam I once lost four hours of progress because I must have forgotten to save between a trip to Tartarus and a full moon event and then died on the boss. Dropped the game for months after that 😂

My issues with Ratchet and Clank also remind me how rubbish games with single save slots are too.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture had an awful save system as well from what I remember.

@nessisonett Ouch. 😱 At least it prepared on my FeMC playthrough. I got a bit obsessed with saving on that run and repeatedly went back to the lobby each time I gained a few levels, even if it meant redoing floors. Persona 4 and 5 are quite a bit easier in comparison.

I encountered an annoyance the other day, and realised it'd make a good contribution to this topic. I really can't stand games that automatically start the first level when you initially boot them up. Maybe it's because I'm an option-tweaker, but the assumption that I'm ready to settle in and properly experience a game right from the get-go is an increasing folly in the age of pre-order bonus codes, progression transferring and multiple display and performance modes.

I installed Hitman 3 and needed to enter its in-game menus, in order to claim my DLC and Legacy Packs, but was I allowed to? No, I had to sit and watch the game's opening cutscene, which I really wasn't geared up to do. As soon as I had control of Agent 47, I had to quit back out, and then I could go about my incomplete set-up business. I've done such a good job of staying spoiler-free, and then the game went and spoilt itself, showing me a piece of its action that I'm many weeks away from.

This issue might've be heightened by Hitman's unique legacy-supporting structure, but other games have annoyed me in the past with this trick, as well. Give me a chance to sort out my control preferences, nudge the volume levels around, see what's what, go make a cup of tea, get my headset on, and then allow me to decide when to start paying attention to your all-important scene-setting. Otherwise it's just kinda rude, and I'm invariably gonna lose track of crucial context.

Very annoying, I agree. Especially now. Even in games for smartphones, until you complete the training, access to the settings is simply blocked.

@MattW Blimey, smartphone games do it, too? That's kinda nuts. Especially since the limited range of smartphone games I've played are almost always collecting data on you and your phone usage by default, and don't really have a "pause and quit back to the main menu" option.

Yes. They completely discouraged the desire to play their projects.

I've just found a new gaming peeve for me. DLC additions that make a smorgasbord of side activities from the main game a main quest and get you to a bunch of stuff you have already done shed loads of this before to progress. I rolled my eyes a little when miles morales did it but playing hzd made me groan out loud (in annoyance, I'm not that into a Alloy). Like, do I really have to do a bandit camp?! 🤔😐

You know what I hate? Games that lack an in-game report function. FIFA is absolutely rife with both cheaters and people who deliberately slow down their connection and the game doesn’t have a report function. And PSN’s report thingy says ‘try reporting them in-game’.

The casual or outright sexism that was disgustingly displayed by the gaming and pushsquare community (The ones who typically stick to commenting on articles at least... The typical forum members were wonderful as always) in regards to girl gamers thanks to that article yesterday.

I wonder how many liked ness's original comment in the article before then spouting the sheer bile that was spewed throughout the comment section?

Just a small peeve of mine really... I'm sure that'll be all worked out by the end of next week 😒

@OrigamiCrane I agree, I always have it so you just press the button once instead of having to hold it down too.

@OrigamiCrane I've been quite lucky over the years with controllers, the worst thing that has happened is that the battery eventually holds minimal charge.

Generally any action involving clicking the sticks I prefer to map it to another button if possible.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I think a lot of people just don’t understand that ‘men putting more time and money into games’ is less to do with men being the bigger gamers and more to do with a lot of women just plain having more important things to spend their time and money on due to wider societal issues. I know for a fact that my mum’s only playing games a lot more now because when we were younger she was trying to raise 4 kids and work to provide for us too. She quite literally didn’t have the time. Whereas it was my dad who got to do the ‘fun stuff’ with us. We should be celebrating the fact that so many women are finding the time to play games and love this hobby rather than questioning whether they play the right games or spend enough money to be considered a true gamer.

I was angry when I wrote that post yesterday (along with that secondary comment I wrote in that article yesterday too).

I'm big enough to admit that.

I certainly don't want to tarnish everyone with the same brush and come off as judgemental... There's a lot of good people here and we certainly can't all have the same views, beliefs and standards.

That's what makes us all unique after all.

I usually don't speak my mind about these sorts of things (@nessisonett typically does a good job at those social sorts of things and can frankly take it on the chin when people do talk back to him a lot more unlike me if I was doing it). I wasn't part of the debate club so I'm not all that eloquent either

Apologies for outright offending anyone.

@Jecht_Ultima A bit unfortunate I know but what can ya do? 😄

Thanks ness for reminding me of the majority of my twenties... If I knew for a fact I wasn't your mother I'd seriously be having a whole lotta doubts and questions right about now!

... We're talking about female gamers though... That's what the whole discussion is about and in turn has everything to do with video games @OrigamiCrane.

And it's not a "harmless" comment either.

Asking about whether they're "hardcore" or not is trying to devalue the statement one way or another. I'd be saying the exact same if it was being asked it about the male percentage.

It does nothing but try to evoke a sense of elitism that frankly none of us needs. We're all gamers and that's all that matters. It doesn't matter if you only buy Fifa, Cod and Assassin's creed every year or whether you tear through 80 hour jrpgs.

You're right... The cynic I am will happily admit to that last line as I raise my eyebrows whenever this happens either.

But who cares if it is inflated too? It doesn't harm anyone and promotes that a healthier image in that isn't just a boys club and that female gamers can find more like minded individuals.

... Please stop.

That whole section is just extremely embarassing.

For both of us.