Ok, so, gaming frustrations. I love gaming, I really do. Exploring new worlds, immersing myself in a good story, not interacting with real flesh and blood humans in favor of fake ones that I am not only allowed, but encouraged to punch. But, god, so many things about the modern climate of gaming really frustrate me. I'll spare everyone the politics because anyone paying attention, I think, could not feasibly BE happy with that stuff and anyone not paying attention doesn't care.
First of all, the always-online thing, and the fact that games can be patched regularly and repeatedly. This results in not only a handful of glitches and other problems, because nobody playtests anything with regularity, but also a constantly-shifting field in games that should be stable. Take Borderlands 3. They release it, and within a week or so everyone has nailed down the strongest weapons and best character builds. Do you need to use these weapons or those builds? No, but if you want to do optimal DPS and melt enemies in like 2 seconds then you use those things. This is how it was in Borderlands 1 and 2 and even the pre-sequel.
Within a week of these things becoming popular, half of them were nerfed. Within a month, all of them were nerfed. Including a stealth nerf that broke skills outright so that the only viable builds for some characters don't work at all. I don't understand the purpose of making every single gun feel and play the same. Balance is fine, but mind-numbingly sameness is just boring. Destiny does the same damn thing, but with the un-fun bonus of blatantly favoring certain gun types and one class above every other.
I love playing these games so damn much but it can be hard to really enjoy it when the developers can't leave well enough alone.
