Cover systems, tired of seeing them already. It was revolutionary in Blackthorne, WinBack and Kill.Switch refined it, then it was brought to the masses in Gears of War. Now it's becoming a tired mechanic like the Lensflare or Light Bloom of this generation.

Also as far as this article and "mandatory installs" are concerned, if you delete saved games to make room for game installs, you're a f*cktard. Saved games don't even take that much space, so why not delete the data from the installs of games you're not playing instead?

Bad list

I have nothing against console exclusive features, unlockable characters, exploding barrels, mandatory installs and quick time events

Gamedaily is getting old, really

Bloodmask linking to game daily? Pretty desperate to get some contributor points then huh?

It's hard to blacklist the websites like GameDaily that obviously preached a coming of a deity (GTA4) then just as soon turn their back on it, but whatcha gonna do.

i'm more tired indeed about covers , but most of all that trend of removing health bar from fps , and replacing it with some kind of cheap blurry screen going red over time .

Got nothing against it , but dear lord , mix it a bit , not every game needs a bar , but not every game need that realistic crap , especially in completely unrealistic settings .

"Mandatory installs

It seems like every PlayStation 3 video game has a mandatory four to five gigabyte install that supposedly erases or speeds up load times, or at least that's what publishers tell us."

Every PS3 game?

I disagree with almost this entire article.

I like online unlockables. Makes the game last longer. I like Exclusive stuff. Nothing wrong with that. Install times dont bother me.

Exploding barrels and cars can go away. Cars dont explode in real life that easily. And bullets probably wont do it.

lol they are 360fanboys, that means I will not read them again, I hate fanboys.

Personally , while i can see its a bother , i dont see whats so annoying about them ... chance are if you can spare 4 giga you cant even download demos or video often .

And its not like you'd play that whole list all at once , far from it .
Are you still playing heavenly sword ? Sigma ? DMC4 ? Ratchet and Clank ? Resistance ?

I bet none of the above would stay more than the needed time for completion , and i bet you never felt the need to install them all together .

It's a bother , but if it give the game some advantage , or at least help running it smoothly , i dont care . i sound in this instance like an apologists , but seems to me that some people nitpick for a lot of crap , while they suddenly find stuff like swapping more than 4 disk ok lol

I am tired of hearing people complain about it. Its here to stay so get the F* over it! If it hurts your ego too much to allow the ps3 to sit there and install a game with intention of enhancing your enjoyment of the game, then GTFO and buy a new console.

Yet another half-assed lame boring 'what we want the industry to do because we want them to' list of things in games. You know I can say I don't mind it once in a while, but they seem to find a new thing to complain about every three days.

I think they forgot that the PS3 drive is upgradable. So far, only two companies have botched the installing. (Konami and the notorious Capcom).

Something things make sense (exploding barrels to a degree), but the rest is just getting a wtf. I get the impression that the people at GameDaily are only playing FPSs. Branch out and expand your mind a little GameDaily.

this is by far the worst list involving games ive ever read. Im not readin sh!t from this site anymore

Its true johnny McCasual wont have any business listing every games with mandatory installs , since he wont first own them all , then wouldnt play all of them at the same time .
Jhonny McCasual probably wouldnt spent his night converting mkv into mp4 , nor streaming everything . And while copying a few divx movies trailers , and demo , our deat johnny would logically still got space left ...

Heck dear johnny wouldnt bother giving up at least 10go for linux , he wouldnt tuch linux with a pole ...

So let's stop the catastrophy movie script and be realistic a little , those that are completely media oriented knows how to cope , by either cleaning once everywhile , or by installing bigger hdd .

Some games need mandatory installs. Try riding a horse in Oblivion without a mandatory install and you will understand the advantage it serves. I hope when he said he has to delete precious saved data that he was referring to past installs and not game saves, because I own 13 games and my save total is less than 10mb in total and 25% of that is Madden.

I beginning to think half of the people complaining dont even own a ps3 . I got gta installed , bought tekken 5 DR , got eye of judgement and its set 2 (basically 3gb) , downloaded gran turismo prologue , crash team racing , echochrome , reserved 10gb for linux , got dmc 4 data still installed , as well as NG sigma's , i always download demos of new games from various stores , and manage to keep them quite a while , on an average of 2-3 weeks , so i could show them to friends

Also I usual got like 2 to 3 entire dvd of divx (that's like around 5-6-7 movie a disc obviously depending of some being 2 cds or not) and leech a lot of gametrailers from gametrailers and plenty site , not to mention those videos from the store .

And guess what ? while i occasionally got to clean up , as every reasonable people should anyway , i manage without problems on a 60gb ps3 ...
So if someone not really casual like myself can pull it off easily , there is no way a normal person shouldnt .

Whinny blogs.

Theres something that should die. Look at the little b*tch carry on cos he'll never grow up to be Darth Vader.

"...and since we prefer Xbox Live to PlayStation Network, we won't purchase the PS3 edition. Sorry Darth."

Uh, bias much?

when the ps3 starts to outsell the wii and the xbox360, then thats when everyone will start respecting sony for what they deserve

How could you not? it's somthing everyone hates, in one list.

Darth & Yoda are both gonna get owned by veteran characters.Then people will stop playing with both of them.

Same goes for Street Fighter IV.

Sick of the Unreal Engine period.

The example he gave when unlocking characters makes sense.But how often does that happen?

i hate the unreal engine too, it just makes the characters in the game too bulky as if they are on steroids e.g. GOW, UT. but there still great to play

Seriously, these 4 hour campaign modes are rubbish.

It seems like quality is suffering because devs are trying to do both campaign modes and online multiplayers at the same time, and more often than not this leaves the campaign mode feeling incomplete or short and the online portion almost a throw in at times.

Developers need to decide if they're interested in making an engaging and rewarding story based game, or if they're more interested in making a complete online experience.

Some games have pulled off both successfully (Gears, Resistance) but those are becoming the exception to the rule.

Isnt it funny in rpg's that you can wander into someones house chat to them and then root through their draws and belongings looking for healing potions and gold - thats gottabe outlawed surely.....

while were at it lets just get rid of graphics and stuff thats over used too. this is a dumb article oh no u have to complete a mission to save the game on gta and i have to wait like 5 mins for an install hard drives are so cheap now and days the space is not a big deal

Gamedaily kinda sucks.

for every game that does it well 15 do it badly. It needs to stop. Unless your placing your entire focus into it, don't even bother.

Party games need to go too, they should be side games included in the feature title, like in super mario galaxy, they should have included 3 or 4 of the party games from the main game, like surfing/shell racing etc.

Very lame article. The original stuff was all dumb and the stuff they ripped off has been heard before... Need I say, ZeroPunctuation ripoff.