MAD's 10 Worst Things about Gaming

Deuce Magnum writes "GamePro's got up a story that was apparently designed by the guys at MAD magazine. It details the lows of video gaming, from big boobs to MMO patches. From the article: "8. Mind-numbingly dull 'cinema sequences' -- as if we really needed to interrupt the game with ten minutes of bad acting and cliche'd dialogue to explain the deep motives and back story of why Ratchet and Clank are running and jumping. 9. Choppy, second-rate video games designed for cell phones. Was text messaging not a useless enough way to drain battery power? "

Comments

Boring list

[Stormwatch]

Gamespy has much more interesting top 10 lists.

Re:Bad List

[turpie]

5) The play timer ....
I like play timers, if they show I've been playing for a really long time then I feel like I'm getting value for money. Though I've always wondered if there were kids getting into trouble from parents due to the number of hours they've racked up, actually I hope they're still in use on the next-gen consoles so I can keep an eye on my future kids.:)

6) Unlockables suck!
Unlockables are Ok as long as they dont make up half the game. Some games I've had required you to stuff around for hours unlocking stuff that was advertised on the packaging as major feature. Unlockables should just be for bonus stuff.

8) Cutscenes
I dont mind most cut-scenes, unless they can't be skipped, can't be replayed if you missed the important bit, or if like the ones in Metal Gear Solid 2 they are overly long, completely stupid-insane, and made little difference to the actual game.
It's odd the article picks on Ratchet and Clank for the cutscenes, when that series usually does a good job of them

WoW Patching

[kaellinn18]

I don't know if you knew this or not, but this is just in case you didn't. If you're behind a router, in order for the Blizzard downloader to run efficiently, you need to forward some ports as well as enable connections on those ports in your firewall if you have one enabled. My guess is that, this being Slashdot, you already knew this, but there may be someone here who could make use of this information.