I am sure I am not the only one sick of the huge amount of games that have some horribly bad issues with camera's, graphical glitching, sound errors, loading times and controls!?
Camera's I can understand, no one has yet to make a perfect camera in a game but c'mon. When you want to turn the camera and you can't because there is either something in the way, like some invisible border, or just unable to move it. Most annoying is when it moves away from where you are going and you struggle to get it back... or when you are against a wall and the camera won't move between you and the wall so you can see what the wall is facing...
Graphical glitching such as pop-in/out, model changing and such are, though mostly insignificant, annoying. Sometimes what is most annoying is when the camera gets stuck behind a polygon that really shouldn't be there and you can’t see where you are... sometimes it's area that you'd think would be solid as they are part of the level your own, not being solid and you end up dieing due to your own curiosity or sense of adventure.
Sound issues, thought not that common, are the worst. When some background noise loops for no reason and won't stop or plays louder than it should is distracting as hell but not as bad as when everything just... pauses or stops for no real reason but poor programming.
As for loading times... I don't mind them if they are actually loading new material, such as a HUGE new level with new music and such but, in the case of Sonic Next (Thats 360/ps3 version) when the game loads the exact same level and music and, well, basically everything ... that is annoying, pointless and the worst programming ever.
Controls are something that everyone complains about but it's not until you get unresponsive controls and the cpu taking over your controls and then splashing you back in as you plummet off the game world (Sonic yet again I’m afraid) that it gets to the point of annoyance.
These games take months, sometimes years, to make and are tested. Usually tested by several people over the course of several weeks. So these errors are either down to the testers not reporting these errors in the games or the game companies just ignoring the errors.
Sometimes these errors and glitches can be fun but for the most point they are just idiotic. Sometimes they can be fatal to the game being ‘fun’, or even playable. There has never been a game I have played in which I have not found some sort of glitch or error, both fatal and enjoyable. Now that the 360 and ps3 have the internet as well as a hard drive, companies are issuing patches to their games, ala the pc. This may lead to future games being even worse for glitches and errors now that companies can simply just charge people a little extra to fix one or two of these bugs they left in. It has already happed with a few games already.
This could be the beginning of an era of cheaply made games for us now, but since the generations that will suffer from these cheaply done, overly priced games are too busy being chavs or emos, it doesn’t seem anyone will care and the companies will of gotten away with this.
Depressing isn’t it.
Rant over.
