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[Catastrophic lolcats]

A lot of games have auto-detect for graphical settings now. They generally work well enough but I've never found changing the resolution too much of a hassle though. I do hate when a game has to restart every single time you change the smallest graphical setting.

[mastahcheese]

Or having a minimum resolution in order to play.

[guitarxe]

What do you think should be the default resolution?  After all if the default resolution is higher than some people's computers can use then it's going to cause problems for them.

Isn't it kind of obvious? The default resolution should be what your desktop resolution is set to.

Also:
Games that store hundreds of megs of random stuff all over your hard drive outside of their install directory
When I install a game and choose where to put the game to (there are games that don't even do that! I'm looking at you, Minecraft, and your fucking users/name/appdata(hidden by default, by the way)/roaming/ path) and then the games goes and dumps hundreds of megs of stuff into a completely different folder, even on a different partition/harddrive! WHY is it industry standard to have games dump save games, configurations, even custom downloadable content (such as player-made multiplayer maps for UT3) into Documents/MyGames/Company Name/Game Name/ ? If the intention is to keep everything to one particular place then they've failed hard in their execution, because the most logical place to put data and files related to a game is in the same bloody place where the game is installed! And they couldn't even agree on a convention, instead some games go into Documents/Company/Game Name instead!
My main drive where windows is installed is on a separate SSD with limited memory. I only use this SSD for windows and other small, important programs that I wish to have fast boot times for. I have a separate hard disk that keeps games and other stuff on it.
And what's worse is that some of devs for these games are so incompetent that they hardcode the path for these files rather than using the environment variables (%USER PROFILE%, for example). I once wanted to install some game I don't remember on a work laptop that didn't have a drive called "C:", and the game couldn't even install because of that.
/end rant. sorry.

[nenjin]

And if a game doesn't support your resolution/refresh rate....?

WHY is it industry standard to have games dump save games, configurations, even custom downloadable content (such as player-made multiplayer maps for UT3) into Documents/MyGames/Company Name/Game Name/

Because of the way Microsoft changed how user accounts work. Now that information is specific to the user account, stored under the user's own data directories...so when someone else signs on to your PC using their user account, they don't automatically have access to all the same data.

And what's worse is that some of devs for these games are so incompetent that they hardcode the path for these files rather than using the environment variables (%USER PROFILE%, for example).

That however is bad practice.

[MadMalkavian]

My two gaming pet peeves are not being able to find a way past DRM and not being able to install or run the game because of it either being too old or in a locale that I can't get to work with Applocale. I'm looking at you Thief and The Guild. I wanted to play the two of you so very bad but no matter what you just won't install on my machine unless I either downgrade my system to Windows 95 or make my machine somehow understand German without having to use Applocale.

GoG to the rescue.

Thief Gold

The Guild

Thank you very much.

[Levi]

Oh, I just remembered something I hate other than microtransactions in games.

Pre-Order bonuses that affects gameplay.  In general its not a huge deal for me anymore since its pretty rare that I preorder these days, but it used to really bug me.  For example Fallout NV I preordered and ended up with a shotgun and armor at the start of the game.  I don't usually pay that much attention to the pre-order bonuses list on the page though, so I didn't realize right away that I wasn't supposed to start with these things.  I felt like such a cheater when I realized that most people don't start with those items.

I really like to play the way the game was intended to be played, and when there are pre-order bonuses you never really know if it was intended to be played with the bonuses or without them.  Bugs me. 

I don't mind preorder bonuses when they are things like soundtracks and art books and such though.  Those are cool.

[Mrnocamera]

You could just sell 'em or drop them in the middle of the Mohave.

[Raddish]

As long as it is listed somewhere as an option I think in a singleplayer game it's a good idea.

[itisnotlogical]

Not allowing missions to be played individually after the campaign is complete

Star Wars: Battlefront II's campaign is the most egregious example of this. There's all sorts of damn cool missions in that campaign, but I hate having to play through all the not-as-good missions to get to them, excluding saved games (which are an unnecessary hassle).

[Krevsin]

Having the keyboard input set on american style QWERTY

While most games guilty of such a crime are based in flash and other online type things, it is incredibly frustrating when it says: "Press z" and pressing the zed on my keyboard does nothing.

[miauw62]

Having the keyboard input set on american style QWERTY

While most games guilty of such a crime are based in flash and other online type things, it is incredibly frustrating when it says: "Press z" and pressing the zed on my keyboard does nothing.

I already mentioned this under unchangeable keybindings.

[Mrnocamera]

pressing the zed on my keyboard does nothing.

Well, it should try to bite your finger, have you had it checked at a apocalypse hospital?

[itisnotlogical]

As a matter of fact, while I'm playing BF2:

(Significant) features that are exclusive to campaign mode

Why can't I have a fight between the Rebels and the Clones in Instant Action? Why can't there be a Galactic Conquest scenario where the Empire has to hunt down rebellious Stormtroopers?

[Akura]

As a matter of fact, while I'm playing BF2:

(Significant) features that are exclusive to campaign mode

Why can't I have a fight between the Rebels and the Clones in Instant Action? Why can't there be a Galactic Conquest scenario where the Empire has to hunt down rebellious Stormtroopers?

And for the original Battlefront(and BF2, even), why can't I play using the original B1 Battledroid? I'm stuck using the ugly unbalanced B2 Super Battledroid.

[mastahcheese]

As a matter of fact, while I'm playing BF2:
(Significant) features that are exclusive to campaign mode
Why can't I have a fight between the Rebels and the Clones in Instant Action? Why can't there be a Galactic Conquest scenario where the Empire has to hunt down rebellious Stormtroopers?

And for the original Battlefront(and BF2, even), why can't I play using the original B1 Battledroid? I'm stuck using the ugly unbalanced B2 Super Battledroid.

Yes to all of these. Also, why no jedi's in space? That would be so awesome.