Disappointments of the Year - The Bear and Badger

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I would say Spurs have been disappointing but they are performing about as I expected.

adkm1979

This isn't really 2014 related, but I'm still disappointed that USB devices don't all have a USB port at the end. When USB arrived we were promised daisy-chaining of up to 128 devices. By rights, no computer or console should need more than one USB port. We should just be able to plug into the last thing on the chain.

mistercrayon

Good shout about football.

Leicester beating man u 5-3 and then turning completely embarassing.

GurtTractor

Scottish non-independence. It's probably for the best, I don't actually know, I didn't do a huge amount of research into the pros and cons. But it would have been entertaining perhaps, not to mention a kick up the bollocks for Cameron.

FREEDOM!

djchump

I guess maybe I'm getting older, but I've been pretty disappointed by next gen so far - as in, during the 360 launch year I was pretty desperate to get one, but I've just not felt all that keen so far. As I say, could just be my priorities changing though.

Diluted Dante

Next gen is the biggest disappointment, complete waste of time so far.

Destiny might actually be bigger thinking about it, because of what it could and should have been. MP is just so fucking good, it almost makes up for the rest of the game.

regmcfly

Can I reiterate. Amiibo. I'm sitting in my new house. On my own, the wife is away. Im having a glass of wine and wrapping up giant bomb's day 2 podcast. The fuckers are staring at me. Just staring.

WorKid

Not sure how you can be disappointed in them, they do exactly what was promised ie rape your wallet then take up room on a shelf.

regmcfly

I'm more disappointed in myself tbh

Diluted Dante

I love my Kirby.

optimark_prime

adkm1979 wrote:

Oh, I know: Breaking Bad.

My only disappointment with Breaking Bad was, I've now watched it all and it's over

Outlaw

I want the Yoshi one. It can sit next to my Agent P and Stitch Infinity figures. I do not have the Infinity game.

EvilRedEye

The Kirby franchise ones will work with the new Kirby game next year so that will be nice. I think they give Kirby a game-breaking hat or something.

Diluted Dante

Only if I delete the Smash Bros data first.

Ed_Flanders

regmcfly wrote:

Morrissey - World Peace Is None of Your Business Again, more than aware of Morrissey's status as a lolsymbol in places, but as someone who had been waiting years for his next album, and after the faffing around with record labels and delays, it was all for... This? A bunch of functional songs. A shame given the quality of his autobiography to spin a sentence.

I enjoyed the album, although I realise it's not his best. Good tracks IMO: Neil Cassady Drops Dead, Istanbul, Staircase at the University, Mountjoy, Art-Hounds.

ZMM

Brooks wrote:

Persimmons are wretched, this is a truth.

Personally, I find them to be delicious. Insanely sweet, consistently textured and juicy.

mistercrayon wrote:

The Next Generation (PS4 + XBOX One) Games have a marginal graphics upgrade. They take way longer to make and are blander than ever. E3 promises now relate to the following calendar year.

This!

Vela

The only personal disappointment I have is that I haven't been able to complete as many games as I would have liked. A handful of games in particular are massive time sinks which stop me finishing other stuff Id love to get stuck into.

More widely I'm disappointed that publishers and developers are increasingly releasing shoddy, broken, scam products at full price when they should still be in beta. Halo Master Chief Collection, Assassins Creed Unity, Driveclub all join the ranks of Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Battlefraud 4 as games that should have been recalled from retail.

And Gamergate is the most retarded thing I can ever recall seeing in forever in context of this industry. People who were sending death threats or hiding behind an excuse/cover story of "integrity in games journalism" need a swift kick up the backside and in some cases, prison time.

Escape

Consider the last generation without online modes. Go on! Consider that! In your corner.

The creative rot set in during the PlayStation's final years.

davyK

The problem with online mode is that it is lazy. It compensates for lazy game design and has crowded out proper same room multi-player which is what video games were invented for.

Facewon

davyK wrote:

proper same room multi-player which is what video games were invented for.

Woah. Is this some sort of natural law?

Diluted Dante

You'd think platform holders would be dead keen on same room multiplayer, to shift 4 ridiculously expensive pads to each console owner.

regmcfly

Ed_Flanders wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

Morrissey - World Peace Is None of Your Business Again, more than aware of Morrissey's status as a lolsymbol in places, but as someone who had been waiting years for his next album, and after the faffing around with record labels and delays, it was all for... This? A bunch of functional songs. A shame given the quality of his autobiography to spin a sentence.

I enjoyed the album, although I realise it's not his best. Good tracks IMO: Neil Cassady Drops Dead, Istanbul, Staircase at the University, Mountjoy, Art-Hounds.

I'll give you Staircase for the lyrics.

Vela

Diluted Dante wrote:

You'd think platform holders would be dead keen on same room multiplayer, to shift 4 ridiculously expensive pads to each console owner.

Don't the new consoles support up to 7 players with the controllers being bluetooth? Not that any game will ever test that.

Although Wii U does 8p with Smash.

regmcfly

Plus I'm sure there'll be something about money put into live / psn over the same time period for not selling a physical product and retaining a customer being better value for them.

mistercrayon

Diluted Dante wrote:

You'd think platform holders would be dead keen on same room multiplayer, to shift 4 ridiculously expensive pads to each console owner.

I think selling two games to two friends is way more profitable.

mistercrayon

Vela wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

You'd think platform holders would be dead keen on same room multiplayer, to shift 4 ridiculously expensive pads to each console owner.

Don't the new consoles support up to 7 players with the controllers being bluetooth? Not that any game will ever test that.

Although Wii U does 8p with Smash.

Ps4 has gone down to 4 from ps3's 7

davyK

Facewon wrote:

davyK wrote:

proper same room multi-player which is what video games were invented for.

Woah. Is this some sort of natural law?

Ralph Baer in an interview shortly before his death expressed disappointment at the focus on the lone gamer (online or otherwise) as he developed the first console with the view of family and friends playing together.

I have say I agree a great deal with that. While I appreciate what online has done for gaming it has also done an awful lot of damage to game design in general.

mistercrayon

On the Flipside online has made indie games feasible products so I think the trade off is worth it.

davyK

Indie games have so far been fairly uninspiring I'm sorry to say.

And that's coming from one who would love to see a huge breakthrough from that part of gaming as mainstream is all but dead to me.

davyK

Online offers a splendid platform for distribution - don't think anyone can complain about that.What I rail against is the dumping of several gamers into an arena to slug it out as opposed to trying to build new games that can entertain more than one gamer in new ways.

Nothing wrong with Online death match - it is/can be great - it has its place - but it has for the time at least been a substitute for multi-player game design and the so-called strive toward "reality" has soaked up an awful lot of resource and talent.

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