7. Unreleased classics
I’m usually proud to be English but, if I’m going to be honest, there’s a tonne of crap we have to put up with. Forget the economy or government though, the worst crime is the amount of classic games we’ve missed over the years.
6. Sequels
The follow up title is always difficult, and developers are always put under pressure by the seemingly apparent logic that all successful games require a multitude of sequels. It is always a tightrope walk between progressing the formula enough, whilst at the same time retaining the core essence of the franchise. Sadly, it doesn’t always work out and fans of the original are seldom satisfied. The worst kind of sequel happens to be the one that takes the series in “a bold and dark new direction,” and thus the original Prince of Persia trilogy will always have a weak link in the chain.
5. The broken button
Controllers are expensive and no one likes it when they need to buy a new one. What’s worse is when your gamepad is only slightly broken, to the point where you can’t justify forking out the cash for a new one. Yet your A button is still inoperable, rendering your ability to “dance all day” handicapped at best. No one will give you any slack for it either. “A good workmen never blames his tools they say.” They just don’t understand. Hell hath no fury like a scorned gamer with a jammy A button.
4. Waiting
We’ve all been there
We live in an age where things are immediate. Information, gratification and communication all come quickly and easily, yet we constantly are forced to exercise our patience in our day to day gaming. We all have memories of staring blankly at loading screens in our youths, but the modern gamer is also stuck waiting for the next DLC pack or arcade title to finish downloading. We hate waiting but, until the internet gets a little bit faster, (yet another lame part of living in the UK) it is a cross that we all have to bare.
