(Discussion) What Drives You Nuts While Gaming? - Retro Bird
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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I'm the FX artist from Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I remember having big chats with other devs about the interrupting elements. Everyone knows about the tutorials in games, but this game had a mode where if you came across a pile of ripped paper, you were forced to assemble an image with touch controls. THIS HAPPENED DURING COMBAT! It's been 11 years since I worked on that title, but it still bothers me.
Wow. Very cool that you worked on that. We get plenty of enthusiasts on the channel, but always cool to have people who work on games. Thank you for sharing :)
Still a very good game
You know what drives nuts is that no one cares about video game history, and another thing that drives me nuts is constant updates, always signing in online, microtransactions, season passes and throwing under rated classics consoles and games under the bus, but that's just me😉
No one cares about video game history. Retro bird wouldn't have as many subscribers if that was the case..
@@lordeowstheking Well I don't know what I'm saying sorry I brought it that part up then
Welcome to Modern gaming.
I do worry about the younger generations caring about video game history. I have faith though. The kid who can tell you about the conflict between Sega of America and Sega of Japan during the '90s is the world I'd like to live in.
@@RetroBirdGaming For us 20-30 year olds that care about old systems like a PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Dreamcast and older for sure that do look back at Atari to N64 generations, no idea about PS3/360/Wii gen onwards as they are used to the same games for a third gen in a row of graphics and open world and multiplayer and such being the same and doubled down to be worse, the few that played an NES (not me only through the Wii U VC or Indies mimmicking but many others sure did I assume), the types that research and respect them for sure.
If our kids care will be the tricky part I feel because the 'judge someone if they don't play trendy game or has a default skin especially' is a problem I think at least on podcasts I've heard if they have a default skin which to me is just hilariously dumb to be judged by. Even then I never knew if with PC wallpapers if Crysis 3 was enough in high school then something else to 'blrnd' in. I thought the game was ok but I wasn't going to put Cod like a generic.
If similar to sports expectations just gaming instead these days that I can only guess as no idea what school is like for primary/middle/elementary and high school these days as it's been a few years
Whatever percentage we are I'd very small I feel but hopefully enough to keep going than the rest in our generation (too caught up with mobile games or live services and don't care either about games as a full package, better ideas, and so on elements to them or were never into games at all or expect like movies particular themes and elements in them) as much as the generation after us that we can't rely on.
It drives me nuts when I want to play just 10-15 more minutes then get stuck in an hour of cut scenes after some difficult boss fight and I can't save the game.
Oh, definitely. All you wanna do is save! I've been there.
Okami had some really long cutscenes. I wish there was an option to skip those.
Metal Gear Solid! xD
I remember watching my older brother playing the first super Mario Bros and he decided to beat it without the warps. He was on 8-4 and taking a lot of time bc he kept getting lost in the maze. He FINALLY figured it out. Just as we started seeing fire shooting towards Mario, my little brother came running through the living room and tripped over the cord. My older brother was pissed!!!
lmao!
This is why I'm glad beginning in the 6th generation games dont mess up when a controller is unplugged. I've had moments like that happen before with the n64
Weeeelllllll, I know you said not to throw loved ones under the bus, buuuutttt… when I’m in the middle of an intense gaming session and my wife comes in the room and decides that she wants to have an in-depth conversation at that moment, I do my best to listen to her and provide some sort of feedback while desperately trying to maintain focus on the game. But inevitably one or the other has to give and someone, or both of us ends up getting upset
When you finally get some time to play a game, and you eventually pick the game you want... and the console isn't reading the game. You really just give the tv a long hard stare as the troubleshooting part of your brain starts going into overdrive. Gets me every time.
Ahhh, that is a good one.
If it's NES, just give the cart a hearty blow 🌬️ 😉👍
@eversoslight no don't do that ever just take out clean with rubbing alcohol and a q tip
@@Freeborger I know, it's a joke from something everyone used to do until we realized much later that it was the wrong thing to do
the worst Part is when the Game takes HOURS to install...
When the save point before a boss is also before the unskippable cutscene before the boss, so you have to rewatch it every time you die and need to try again. That and when one of the discs for a multidisc game gets too scratched to read and it isn't even disc one, so you're well into a playthrough before you realize it. Original Playstation games were pretty bad in that regard.
Are you talking about Final Fantasy? :D
@@peloi111 You guessed it. I own two copies of Final Fantasy VIII that together form one complete working copy of the game (assuming that's still the case).
I watch a ton of gaming channels, and this one has quickly become my favorite!
All right! Glad you're enjoying it :)
I hate rubberbanding in racing games, or when enemy drivers catch up to you in a way that would be impossible otherwise. I don't understand the argument that "it makes the game more interesting", it just makes it more frustrating and it feels like I'm not being rewarded properly for racing well.
OMG F-Zero for this!
I read it wasn't really to make the game more interesting btw, but it was a technical limitation, because it was impossible to keep track of all the pods/cars along the race course. Cars could be tracked if they were in view, and otherwise they were just kept artificially right behind the player.
@ Super Mario Kart was especially infuriating with this as well
@ this was definitely removed from F-Zero GX,
It is a bit annoying in Super Mario Kart, but without it there would be far less challenge.
Online gaming does it for me. Playing games with a friend in person is the way to go.
Don't think I didn't notice the "interruption" by Rocket Knight Adventures at 1:02 haha. Love the videos. ❤️ Koalaty content. 👍🐨👍
I love the magically appearing Rocket Knight in the background 😆
As glad as I am that my daughter enjoys gaming, her play style is so different than mine. So when I watch her play anything it makes me crazy. Lol.
I live in a small town and for whatever reason the power decides to just go out randomly. It doesn't happen super often but it seems like every time it does I am in the middle of a game and end up losing a bunch of progress and potentially damaging my console. I got tired of it so I recently bought a little back up generator that will give me enough time to save and power off whenever it happens. The power hasn't gone out since I got it but whenever it does it's going to be a glorious moment, I just know it.
I'm in a similar situation to you, I just got a UPS and it has come in handy several times
I hate it when im looking forward to playing games during the week but have too many late nights during the work week so when i do get time to play games, im too tired to enjoy or pay attention to them.
Non-skippable cutscenes in games drives me nuts, especially for multiple playthroughs.
Retro gaming: when someone turns the console off when you're trying to keep your game that doesn't have battery saves paused while you're gone.
Modern gaming: The stars align, you've got a big chunk of time to game. You fire up that game you've been waiting to play, and the console prompts a 5GB+ update.
That's why you should play modern games offline. Not all of them have that option but it's still better than nothing.
I would push them into traffic for that.
Great topic! When I was a kid, my parents sometimes would drag me to places I didn't want to go while I was in the middle of a game. Many times, it was so immediate, that I wasn't able to save my progress and they wouldn't let me leave the game powered on while we were gone. Another one that was common for NES owners was actually getting older games to actually load! My cousins and I would blow into the cartridge, wiggle it around and keep resetting the console until we finally got the game running!
As an adult, one of the major pains is just controllers that wear out too quickly. Either the control stick is too loose, the controller no longer calibrates or even some of the buttons stick. Some these are relatively easy fixes such as cleaning, while others are more in-depth fundamental design problems. The worst is when you're in the middle of an online game and the controller malfunctions (causing you to lose). 😒
Oh I can relate to parents bringing you places you don't want to go. Church on Sundays would be one for me.
On the flipside, there's nothing greater than having a controller in really good condition that you feel like you can depend on.
@@tonyp9313 That was exactly one of the places for me as well! It would be a nice, quiet Sunday and I'd be like playing like Sonic 1 or something. Next thing I knew, I was sitting in a pew...😅
@@RetroBirdGaming That is absolutely true. In fact, it has only been modern controllers that gave me trouble. My retro controllers always worked fine.
I hate when people decide they want to have a deep discussion the moment that a cutscene in my game starts. You can't pause it or restart the cutscene most of the time when this happens, and now I'll NEVER know what just happened in the story. Thanks bro.
Just put on Subtitles. This way you can follow what they are saying even when people are talking. Yeah that's annoying when friends & family talk while you are playing a game or watching a tv show.
@@YourChannel-r4v Not all games let you at any time.
Time to look up the cutscene on RUclips.
the tripline is definitely a classic, i cant remember anyone doing it but there are definitely moments where my dogs just snagged the wire with the whole controller flying out of my hands
@Ginge5ify rough, my condolences
Sunlight! I grew up with our Mega Drive/PlayStation in a corner of the top floor of our house, which had four huge skylight windows on sloped ceilings and a standard window on the back wall. There would constantly be natural light flooding into the room, which was a nightmare for gaming, especially as games got darker with the start of stealth games and survival horror. Now I'm an adult, and I can arrange my furniture however I want, making sure the TV doesn't face the window is top priority whenever I move somewhere new, and it's always at the expense of practicality.
NES: when playing a game for a while and THEN the connections slowly start to go bad while playing. It was like playing until the walls finally closed in and you couldn’t play any longer
These days interruptions are the biggest pet peeve. But back in the day one of the worst was long passwords. I don’t miss it. It was frustrating when you wrote the wrong password down, or confused o with 0, I with 1, etc. These days, I’ll just take a picture with my phone, but my younger self lost lots of progress with wrong passwords.
Faxanadu and Metroid have entered the chat. 😝 Haha
I love that you used 30 minutes at the end of the night as your game time as a parent. This is my life. I've been reduced to just doing dailies on Animal Crossing NH because I don't want to fire up my OG consoles and not get to save anything.
Oh and rip Legend of Dragoon for the very reason that I forgot what I was doing I started my old save a little while ago and found myself in a cave. I thought ibknew where I was going but I ended up back tracking for an hour so I ended that session frustrated and right where I was 20 years ago.
Probably the thing that annoys me the most is a lack of quick saves. I know it's not very retro of me, but I kind of hate when I don't have the ability to save in that moment in case I need to stop what I am doing. I'll add that when it's a short game that can be beaten in one sitting like an arcade style thing, this doesn't really bother me that much, so I guess it only applies to longer games that exceed say 3-5 hours.
It's not exactly "anti-retro" if it doesn't affect the difficulty.
What drives me the most nuts 🤔 This is actually easy for me, dying over and over during NES games 😑😤😡🤬
But man it sure is fun to try 😅 for the most part! Great discussion Bird!
My teenager borrowed my Xbox controller for an extended period. I asked for it back one night since I planned a late night gaming session. After everyone was sleeping, I started up my game only to find the batteries in the controller were flat. Frustrated, I sighed and opened up my drawer to grab some batteries out of my secret pack of 38 double A batteries. I bought and hid my own pack for exactly this reason... When I pulled the pack out of my drawer, I was livid. My beloved family discovered the pack at some point and emptied it before I could even use a single one... Ugh, parenting is so rewarding.
Games you can’t pause. It’s a bigger problem in modern games that are meant for online multiplayer, but you often can’t pause even you’re playing by yourself. I don’t realize how often I pause while playing until I can’t.
I refuse to play games I cannot pause. How dare a game tell me its time is more important than my family. Not being able to pause a game is like buying a car you cannot BRAKE in.
When you finally get some time to play a game, start playing, play for 10 to 20 minutes, and then subsequently lose the motivation to game anymore. Happens to me all the time, and one of my rules is: never force yourself to game.
When my kids have to audibly announce the words "YOU DIED" or "GAME OVER" when it pops up on screen.
Two things drive me nuts anymore.
Games that feel like jobs, grinding or endless tedium to get anywhere.
People who seem to do everything in their power to either not enjoy the hobby with endless negativity, or insist that you should only enjoy things on their terms.
I love rocket knight adventures popping up in the background there
What drove me nuts was the new design of the 3DS with the power button in the front. I have my little finger over the power button. Hard to explain, but I accidentally pressed the power button while playing without possibilty to save several times. That was soooo annoying!
I finally started playing Diablo III and it never fails that once a cinematic begins or character speaks my family has to start telling me a story. Silence through a whole battle, talking when a character starts talking. For some reason no one acknowledges that Deckard Cain has the floor 🤷♂️
my family does this. They think the silent non talking areas is when they need to be silent, like I need concentration to battle, and only when IMPORTANT STORY elements are on screen they think "finally, I waited so long during the silent combat, FINALLY my chance to speak" and no matter how many times I explain to them that if they need to talk to me, PLEASE do it during combat, AS I CAN PAUSE THE GAME then... they never do, every time they wait for cut scenes I cannot pause.
@@slimebuck right?? And generally if you try to pause the cut scene it skips it so you're now left with trying to mine through various menus to find the information missed or else heading to a playthrough on RUclips to watch the scene 😅
Lol. That tripping on the controller cords was one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. And somehow it was never me that did it. Hmmmmmm.
One time, it actually broke my console. I made them give me theirs. That did not go over well.
I don't like when I'm focusing on a hard boss then suddenly I got like 5 different people trying to contact me. It's only when I'm focused on a hard game when people wanna talk to me. I could be sitting there doing nothing for 5 hours, but the moment I load up a hard game and need to focus suddenly everyone wants to talk to me
Yep. People seem to only want your attention, when you have none to give.
As an adult i have trouble winding down for a game because i feel too antsy something important will come up and i can't relax, even if it makes no sense and its much easier for me to just put on a video
I always use wired controllers now, so I never have to worry about batteries. Dirty cartridges are the main part, and many of my consoles seem to be breaking down, so fixing them is an annoying experience, yet an enlightening one.
There is a youtuber
Called John Riggs
He has many serious on his channel my favourite series is his open cart surgery videos learned a lot from them
He has 4 steps .
1.cleaning with one up card and ispropal alcohol
2. Originally he used brasso now he usesbright boy they are brass polisher.
3 . Use a soldering iron to re flow the solder points.
4. Board swap take the chips/roms and put then in another bord.
If you haven't checked it out you deffintly should.
John Riggs
Has an open cart surgery play list with more than 100 videos in it.
If you haven't checked it out you deffintly should.
You know what drives me nuts in gaming? Modern gaming. Retro gaming you put in any game you wanted, play within seconds. Now you go to wait 5 + hours because games are huge & the average person doesn't have 1-3 TB for their internet. They have something like 50-150 mbps. If you don't have a PS5 you ain't reaching top speeds. It'll be somewhere from 50-90 with a PS4 depending of you have that wired or not. Games are like 100gb & more now & on average something like 60 gb. Which takes again 5 + hours to wait just to play a game.
F-Zero GX makes two save files, one for the custom car creator and another for the actual game. In an attempt to preserve my progress data I placed (what I thought at the time) was my custom car data on a separate memory card. When it came time to make room, I checked nervously to make certain that I wouldn’t delete the wrong save file! The custom car data seemed to be the only one I could part with, turns out, it was the progress I had deleted! I lost my Diamond Cup data on the highest difficulty setting! It was a tragedy! It drove me to the nut house, _which is where I’m currently writing this from._
Great Stuff, as always.
The one time a game truly drove me nuts; (simply due to an individual circumstance). I had rented the original Ikari Warriors for the NES at my general store; an actual general store, not a chain. You could rent NES games, VHS tapes, get fresh sliced deli meats, buy fishing gear; etc. I got to the very last level of that game, when a thunderstorm knocked my power out. I've never tried to play it sense; nor do I plan to ever play it again. If you've ever played it; then you know how unnecessarily long it feels.
#1 thing that annoys me is being an adult with the income to buy games and having no time to play them while still maintaining that child mentality to get ALL the games.
Been a long time, but as a kid my mother insisted on vacuuming when I was gaming. Pulling the console down, can't hear, can't see, and then there are magic chores to be done. Or if you have waited all day to play, but a sibling gets hooked on one game and that's all you can play. Not everyone likes RPGS, fine, but WATCHING someone else play is excruciating. Although to be honest, my brother helped me tackle Dragon Warrior back in the day, so I guess I'll keep him.
Oh man, the tripline. I don't think I've ever had a person do it, but my dog did back in the day. We had the PS2 hooked up in the living room and she just didn't care that there was something in her way. She was going and nothing was gonna stop her. She ended up pulling on the wire and knocking down the PS2. It all ended up perfectly fine with no damage at all somehow, but she really tested me that day.
Speaking of losing saves that you're deep into and you don't have the heart to do it again and continue...that's how I ended up with my copy of Lost Odyssey! When I picked it up from the local store I frequent, the owner told me that that's exactly what happened to the guy who traded it in. He got far, lost his data, then couldn't continue. Thankfully I was there to be able to enjoy this game finally.
Know what doesn't drive me nuts, stopping playing Video Games to watch the latest Retro Bird video 👍
I had a (100% official) mem card corrupt the DAY after I 100% completed the original Kingdom Hearts. I sold that game within the week and never played another KH title again after that. I don't even know what other data was on that card, but that one stung bad.
That's why I like to back up my data on a second memory card. But even then it's still annoying that memory cards can be corrupted in the fist place. I have a corrupted memory card that even doesn't want to format which makes it a piece of plastic now.
7:22 this is absolutely the number one thing that can drive me nuts in games, although in my experience it happens more often in RPGs than in any other genre.
Loading times, & Game Updates (drove me crazier years ago due to slower internet)
What drives me nuts in gaming are 3 words: Ghost and Goblins 😭
Dark Souls when the enemy has a invisible hitbox and you know you dodged correctly
I never tried Dark Souls. Maybe if that is cheap enough I will.
Probably the tripline for me, especially if I cross or uncross my ankles or something and end up doing it myself. One such moment wrecked my toploading NES.
If you want to get off the phone then just act really Interested and start a sentence all excited but then just hang up in the middle of talking and turn your phone off. Text back later or the next day, "sorry my phone died"
As a left handed person one thing always drove me nuts in gaming since the mid 90s: the lack of customizable controls.
Was always being used to aim with the left thumb/stick (N64) and therefore was really not able to play games like XIII on the Gamecube or Dishonored/Singularity on the XBox360.
Today most games still do not get left hander control options right. At least the console system now allows for custom button remapping…
And remember those few NES games that had jumping on the B-Button…
unplayable…😂😂🆙
Oh I have definitely lost game saves before. Even recently I absentmindedly formatted my GameCube memory card that had nearly all my save games. Definitely made my heart sink.
The part about controllers running out of batterypower hits hard.
I remember when I first played Demons of Asteborg I was playing very poorly and I wasted most of the money I gained on extra lifes. So when I got the the castle my character was sort of underpowerd. I kept failing so hard I was already furious when the battery in my M30 needed recharching. I was sooooo determined to beat the game I picked up a wired Mega Drive controller and kept going. Don't get me wrong. The Mega Drive 6 button controller is a fine controller but the M30 has a better formfacter, better buttons and the D-pad feels soooo much smoother. So going back to an inferior feeling controller drove me nuts.
I did not beat Demons of Asteborg on that day but I did end up beating the castle stage.
Some gaming frustrations are when it’s an online game and my internet dies on me! One time it happened twice in one day! Another is when there’s a power outage. It’s annoying and startling!
Walls of text drive me nuts in video games. Most video game writing is quite poor and I don't have time to read a developer practice their bad writing.
When people try to talk to me during a cut scene. A lot of them now can be paused but all the older games cannot
A lot of modern games have these scenes where characters are explaining something to you while you're walking towards a goal. And almost, without fail, if you just walk at a normal speed you'll wind up at a loading screen that completely cuts that dialog off with no way to ever hear it again. It just seems like a weird design choice. I appreciate the games where characters pause and say "Ah, I'll get into that later" and follow up with it -- God of War is a good example.
What drives me nuts while playing games is the feeling I should be doing something more productive
The rpg games when you come back and forget where you were at 👀
When you have to go to the bathroom but haven’t finished the level so you waddle while playing until you either finish the level or you can’t take it anymore.
I get so little playtime as an adult that a $1.25 pack of 6 AA batteries from the dollar store is lasting me more than a month, when I realized that I could only shake my head sadly. Used to go through those little buggers like nobody's business
Opening the door, letting sunlight in
I’m driven nuts when getting to the end of what I think is an epic RPG and given a very weak ending. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that I never want to revisit the game again, no matter how great it was. A bad ending ruins a great game for me.
About the tripping on the cables, if possible cover them with a carpet, that will do the trick.
Interruptions happen especially with family. I've never had a cord issue always play right next to the TV with my same old bar stool. I've been using my bar stool for years & it looks like crap too.
To my wife the gaming bar stool drives her nuts. For me it is pausing the game for that interruption & then unpausing the game & then you miss something or you die right away. You know in your heart if you did not pause the game...You would have gone on to victory! But you didn't & that just left a bad taste in your mouth! That is what drives me nuts!
Consoles being pulled off the shelf by someone tripping: 💨💨💨💨
The original Xbox: *scratches head*
Yeah, the original Xbox will take down any who dare challenge it :)
I have OCD...so I'm not even gonna start getting started.
A big new one right now is the Stadia dying. I know most people didn't care for it, but I could play new games on my phone while I was on break at work. I thought it was great.
The dying batteries are also a turd and a half. My entire living room is connected to my Xbox. So, everyone in the house will use my Xbox, and not plug the controllers back in to charge. I come home from work, and I'm ready to infuriate myself with the Mega Man X collection, and low battery.
Then, there is the king of all gripes: Children. When kids ask to play a game, and you're like, "Sure, buddy here you go! Just don't load my file!" and then they load your file, waste all you're good items, and leave you stranded in a constant loop of doom because they went somewhere they weren't supposed to and autosaved you into oblivion.
I played so much NES (with game genie) for hours and hours as a kid with friends
Time we'll spent! 💯
When it’s game time and your just too tired to play
- Unresponsive controls
- Being trapped in animation frames & unable to react to what’s occurring.
- Checkpoint saves (vs save anywhere).
- DRM.
I lost three hours of progress on Uncharted 2 and since that day I never touched the series again. Absolutely ruined it for me.
For me its the battery fading out and forgetting what Im supposed to be doing.
As a PC retro gamer: Compatability issues. Opening the game and something doesn't work right and you spend an hour googling and trying to fix it instead of playing. Every time.
I enjoy your content retro bird!!
I never finished playing Fallout:New Vegas when I felt I was done. I always finished when it crashed, and I didn't want to wait for it to restart.
Definitely those stupid system and game updates. They take longer and longer, stop you in your tracks, and they're especially punishing when you haven't turned that console on in a while.
Don't forget when games are 100gb & more now, & the average person doesn't have the 1TB mbps speed & they only have something like 100-150 mbps. With PS4 you only get 90 tops so now it takes like 5 + hours just to download your game.
It drives me nuts the moment my controllers start drifting. It's really annoying. Even my ps2 and Wii nunchack drifted a few times (the problem at least didn't persist on them) and I already had to purchase 4 ps3 controllers because the drift was so bad on them.
Well let's see... Pesky wife is on top of my list along with dying batteries... And yes, the Wave Bird is an awesome controller that will last almost forever on a fresh set of cells!!!
when your neighbor suddenly start working on some diy projects, and the sound's so annoying.
I have a trip line story, my friend and I where playing n64, for some reason the controller cord was caught on something on the tv on the back side of it, but my friend didnt un tangle it, just grabbed it and started playing. I said something and my friend holding the controller spun around very quickly, and while doing so pulled the controller cord so tight it pulled the N64 and the TV off the tallboy Dresser. The N64 hit the ground first, then the TV fell onto the n64. The corner of the tv hit the side of the n64 breaking the WHOLE side of the n64 off. The n64 worked perfectly fine after that (looked like garbage but it worked) but that TV was so screwed, the screen was messed up and it made a high pitch sound. I miss when consoles where super strong
Yeah, people who say they are still using the same batteries that the Wavebird came with are totally full of it. I’ve picked up a lot of used video game controllers and 9/10 when they have batteries left in there, they are corroded, Wavebird included.
I do hate when the batteries crap out on me but that’s why I have WAY too many rechargeable batteries always on hand and not very far away.
Og xbox was a game changer at the time with the break away cord. Saved my Xbox a few times
2 things - not exactly related to retro gaming, but heyho!
1. Patching the game before you can play it - I mean, come on! I can think of hundreds of cases when I came from work to play some games and I needed to install a big a$$ update before even loading the game.
2. Game crashes when you saved 30 min before it happens. In this situation, I m usually just giving up on the game and moving to do something else
One thing that reallydrives me nuts while gaming is sucking at games especially ones where the character can die. Just the feeling of frustration and stress wondering why I'm stuck at a particular level of a game. A close would be too much tutorials, tutirials aren't bad but a lot are too long and aren't skipable which just wastes time during replays. Maybe grinding in games could also be included.
For more physical object interruptions. There's bugs flying around and cockroaches both of which unwanted. Then there's controller batteries, kinda drove me nuts when the rechargable AA batteries on my Wiimotes were being inconsistemt and randomly dying out while playing, which was due to them being old and worn out. Makes me miss wired controllers haha.
As a kid my parents would call me for dinner or because they needed my help outside working on something & even back then I didn't mind because food, or sure I'll help out but let me finish what I'm doing. That was not the expectation, it's like my parents (primarily my mom) didn't understand I couldn't just stop what I was in the middle of & I'd come once I get to the next natural stopping point (save point in JRPG, best the next castle in Mario World, failed the level then went back to a save spot in DKC), which resulted in my still to this day reaction of "what?" when someone interrupts me gaming. I've gotten better now that I'm older, but I've also found that a lot of times I'd get interrupted & expected to drop what I was doing which is just selfish & unfair of the person doing the interrupting.
Luckily these days it doesn't happen very often & I usually have a good idea of how long I have for gaming time, my wife is great at coming & mentioning if she wants to do something, but she means when I'm done & most modern games are great at allowing me to stop whenever I want. Heck even retro games usually have great stopping points because they were designed for either one big play session (I play these on Emulator nowadays) or short bursts of fun.
Getting into the weeds on this though, my most recent driving me nuts was when I was playing Resident Evil Remake recently. The save system having limited saves due to ink ribbons really bothered me, mostly because I was being a bit too conservative with my saves. I really hate losing progress as I'm currently trying to work through a large backlog & having a limited number of times I can save on a game I've never played before was more annoying than a fun design choice. Seemed like life things would pop up right after I'd saved, but just after I'd been successful with best g a boss or performing something tricky & I didn't want to quite yet use another precious ink ribbon to save. I get why it was done & I think having that as a option in future games on hard difficulties is great, but it meant I couldn't play a half hour if I had that half hour free & needed to wait for bigger chunks of time & not have the ability to jump off & play something multiplayer with friends on the same system (was playing on ps5) if they happened to pop online (which is often).
Being in IT, I'm part of the on-call rotation, so those kinds of interruptions can be really annoying, particularly when I'm trying to live stream my gaming session. Not much fun.
One hit death and no check points.
I'm thinking of selling all my games and consoles except a few, I never play them anymore, many reasons, time & room constraints, also I just use emulators on PC for convenience. Any advice, should I keep them, or let them go. I kinda can't be bothered selling them because that takes time also. But I feel like I'm hoarding stuff other people could get use out of.
Sell the stuff to someone who cares 👍🏻 no sense in keeping what you have if you don’t appreciate it.
@@ytjaymz-x I do appreciate it or I'd throw it out, I just never play it because emulation is so much more convenient. Already sold all my N64 games because of the everdrive
You don’t appreciate collecting it right? Otherwise you’d want to keep it. You still want to keep it? Fine, but why ask the question then.
@@ytjaymz-x chill mate I'm just trying to get some input from people who may have sold and maybe regret later or sold and are glad they did
5:35 the amount of times this has happened with my cousins LOL. What really drove me nuts is when the cousins touched the n64 controllers with greasy, cheeto puff fingers 🤢 🤢 🤢
The worst is when I go to play something... console, arcade cabinet, handheld, whatever... and it doesn't work, and worse, when I don't know how to repair it. I've had a run of bad luck in the last couple of years. I had to re-cap a Game Gear, completely rebuild my PC Engine Duo R, re-cap my Punisher arcade PCB, repair 2 of my PS2s, and repair the control panel on one of my CRT TVs... and then my OG Xbox stopped turning on (probably a leaky time keeper cap), one of my arcade cabinet monitors is taking forever to warm up and probably needs a re-cap, my Street Fighter II PCB c-board went out, and my freaking Ninja Baseball Batman PCB is on the fritz, and I honestly have no idea what is wrong with it. Life is too busy to keep up with it all! I have a family, a job, and a house to keep up with. I just want to play my games!
the cords. super bomberman 4 player. n64 sometimes, but that multitap didnt want to let go of the controllers or the console.
I wish I could game all night like I use to in my younger days. Now that I'm old I game a few hours a day and thats that.
My newest one is.... food hands!!! Don't you dare eat pizza and drink Barks root beer, then grab my controllers. I have started to look at our collection as a collectable and it didn't seem right anymore to eat and play one after the other. Please feel free to have food around but, go wash up before you play.
My 8bitdo Pro 2 controller loves to disconnect every once in a while and depending on what I'm playing, it leads to taking unfair hits in games. It drives me crazy! Also the joycon drift on the Nintendo Switch drives me nuts!
Resurrecting enemies drive me nuts. Once I kill 'em, they should just stay dead. Seems logical to me anyway.
My Mom use to regularly demolish our NES. It would go flying and the screen would freeze. "MOM!".
Buying a retro game with great reviews for a fairly high price, only to find within 5-10 minutes that I don't like it.