Chapter 1: What are the biggest frustrations in modern gaming?
Dude, I don't know why anybody in the world would ever make a cutscene to where you cannot skip it, but unskippable cutscenes might be one of the worst things in all of gaming, dude. It drives me crazy.
Oh, it's the worst, especially on, like, a second playthrough, and it's a long cutscene, and you're just like, come on, man, let me just get through this. I already know what's going to happen. I know what they're going to do. You're mashing the button a thousand times still, like, just skip! Yeah, just trying to hit square or something just to get it through.
But what makes me even more upset is escort missions, dude.
Chapter 2: Why are unskippable cutscenes so annoying?
Like having to just drag some dumb AI that doesn't know what the heck they're doing through this level and just watching them die over and over and then you die. It's, oh, I hate it.
Oh, dude. Escort missions are the worst.
We've talked to developers. They say they hate making them. They're hard to code. They're hard to develop for. No gamer likes an escort mission. Like, why is this still a thing? Nobody, nobody likes them.
Looking at you, Resident Evil 4.
Dude, escort mission is the absolute worst time wasters. But you know what wastes your time more? Bosses that heal midway through the fight and send out waves of freaking enemies.
Drives me insane. The bosses are hard enough to give them the ability to heal, and it's like you better interrupt the heal or have a way to deal with it, because otherwise it's like, oh, I'm just full health, all that work for nothing.
And then a lot of times to do it, they'll send a wave of enemies, so then you lose more health most likely, and then they heal up, and you're like, oh, come on, this is a bad trade.
Yeah, why are they allowed to heal? I'm the only one who should be allowed to heal.
Guys, you know what I really hate, though, is when a podcast, they don't even start with the music that I'm used to.
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Chapter 3: What makes escort missions universally hated?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Video games may be our favorite pastime, but it doesn't mean they don't do things that aggravate us, make us complain, and all around just go, what the heck man? Well, if you haven't guessed on this episode, we're going over all the things that suck about video games. But first, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh, and I hate when people are always late to everything. And no, I didn't bring that up for any specific reason at all.
It's Ryan. We've gone over this many times, my friend. Time is a man-made construct. Time is relative. So, you know, it's just one of those things.
Time is only relative to you, Brian. Time is there for everybody else.
Oh, wait. Maybe I should reassess this situation.
And joining us, I hate when your friend tells you he's totally going to play this awesome new game with you when it comes out, but then you see he's still playing Marvel Rivals instead. It's Ace.
I have no defense. I just suck.
Chase is like, I'm a terrible friend. I know I said I was going to play Battlefield 6 with you guys, but I lied.
Daredevil's cool, though. I'll say that. Wait, Daredevil's in it now? Yeah, they put Daredevil in the game. He is blind.
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Chapter 4: How do boss mechanics frustrate gamers?
Bro, if you can see 30 meters, you're not nearsighted, because nearsighted is like this. I need to hold it further away to read a book or something. So he's just normal, basically. Yeah, basically.
We'll just call him normal. Is it actually echolocation?
Yeah, it's like a super echolocation thing.
I thought he just had really good hearing.
No, he actually has some kind of super mutant echolocation thing.
Does he click? To make it echo, don't you have to put out something to return?
You want me to explain a Marvel superhero? I'm just trying to learn. Ryan's right on this one. Look, because dolphins have echolocation. You have to click. You have to make a sound and then wait for the sound to bounce off of objects and come back to you. It's like radar. Ace is looking it up. I am. Yeah, Ace is like...
So if Daredevil's not sending out clicks or pulses, then he's not using echolocation.
All it says is Daredevil doesn't see with his eyes, but rather a form of echolocation similar to a bat's sonar.
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Chapter 5: What are the issues with overpriced DLC?
There are trends that irritate us. There are moments, you know, that kind of thing. You know, we hinted at a few in the intro for the show. But look, this is something that I feel like every gamer in the world can relate to. And man, sometimes it's good to just get that off our chest, man. To just get it out there and then go like, okay, I feel better now.
But guys, before we get into being grouchy, we're pretty darn happy right now, man. Because number one, we have some new people to thank. We have three new supporters of the show today. Man, listen, we have put the call out there to everybody to say, hey, listen, we need your support to keep this podcast going. And y'all out there have answered. And it is amazing. Number one, we're very humbled.
Like, we're just three dudes that love games that talk into a microphone, you know, and just this is our passion. But all of you out there that are helping to support that are truly making the difference. And one way we like to say thank you is to say thank you on the show. So a huge shout out to...
Ben Bunker, who was there for our community night that we're going to chat about here in just a minute. Kevin Pfeiffer and Ricky for signing up for Rare Status to support the show. All three of you are awesome.
Thank you. Superstars, all of you. Thank you.
Oh, man. And I love the fact that we have already played Battlefield 6 with a couple of them. And Kevin, I don't know your Discord name if you're in our Discord server, so I only went with what I had there. And then, guys, we had our first Battlefield 6 community night just this Saturday. We were super stoked for it.
We had a little bit of technical hiccups with some server issues where we couldn't get our own private server working, but we worked it out. But through the course of the night, we had over 40 gamers that played Battlefield 6 together, man. It was an absolute blast. And, guys, one of the highlights of the night was longtime supporter of the show. Awesome. Awesome guy.
Norwegian greaser drops into the Twitch who he's always there. You know, anytime we stream and then drops a hundred gifted subs. So Norwegian greaser, once again, our friend, you are incredible.
Yeah. That was nuts. I don't know. I have to look and see if I can find if it's still up on there, but I remember looking cause I heard the noise and I look and then I
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Chapter 6: Why are multiple game delays frustrating for players?
And you see him pop up to the top gunner. And then I'm going to go cap C. So I hop out and the Jeep keeps coasting and just explodes. I ran over a mine and Josh, Ryan. Just insta-death. You sounded like my dad, dude.
Ryan. Ryan.
I say that a lot. A lot of people do.
Chapter 7: How do console wars impact the gaming community?
I've heard it a lot. I'll say that. Listen, thank you to everybody that participated in the community night. Guys, this is why we love video games. This is why we do this podcast. If you like playing video games with people that are awesome people, nobody's toxic. You know, everybody's there to have a good time. You need to join one of these community nights. You need to join our Discord server.
there is nothing like playing video games with your friends and people that are there to have a good time. So, you know, if you couldn't make this one, we're probably doing another one very soon since, uh, since that one was so much fun and we've got a game to play with people now. Uh, but yeah, once again, thank you everybody.
And don't be scared off. If you don't have battlefield, we usually, we switch up the games a lot. We've done like fall guys, um, rivals, um, uh, Halo Infinite.
We tried to do some free-to-play games, too. Just so happens Battlefield 6 is all we're doing. But that's all we're doing now, for sure. Yeah, we're just a Battlefield 6 community at this point.
Chapter 8: What complaints do gamers have about game tutorials?
That's what we are.
All right, guys, listen, you know, we hinted at this, man. There are, I could have gone on forever with my list. I know, look, I know I might be the guy that voices my complaints a little bit more readily on this podcast. You know, I've just, I've had more time to experience these annoying things that we all deal with. So let's just get into it, boys.
Let's just get these irritating, just stupid, wrong things off our chest. Let them have it. Yeah, I hit it at the unskippable cutscenes, which is an atrocity. If you are a developer and you make your cutscene unskippable, shame on you. Like, shame on you. But you know what might be even worse than that, guys? Very much in the same vein, unskippable intro scenes.
The freaking splash screens that pop up where it's like, made with Unreal Engine, you know, published by EA. Bro, I don't need six different screens. I just want to play the game. Put it in the credits, homie. Just put me in the main menu and then tell me to wait a few seconds. That's fine.
If you need to load stuff like I get it, but don't make me feel like I have to watch the same five freaking splash screens over and over again. Every time I start your game.
Just let me play the game.
Oh, my. Dude, Battlefield started doing this. And I swear, day one, that you could not skip the opening cinematics. And then I noticed that shortly after day two, if you pressed and held the space bar, it did the little skip where you have to press. Guys, nobody wants the warning that you're about to skip that. You can just make it where you press the space bar.
Are you sure you want to skip this for the 8,000th time?
It's not like it's dialogue or anything. It's just the intro. Like, you know, nobody cares, dude.
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