Your top 2 pet peeves in games

Mine would be:

1- Ugly looking characters & enviorments.

Offending games: Bioshock (enviorment & characters), Resistance (characters: aliens look like an intestine mixed with turd).

2- Unecessary Monster Closets.

Offending games: Doom 3 (no execuse for it to have this much monster closets, Doom 1 & 2 had those in rarity), Dead Space (albiet the story delivers in spades and makes up for it, but I wish if they had dialed down the moster closets a tad bit)

Bioshock with ugly looking environments?

Not. Sure. If... serious?? :?

1. sequals

2. bad stories... Developers need to take more risks.

Bioshock with ugly looking environments?

Not. Sure. If... serious?? :?

AdobeArtist

1.) unbalance in multiplayer

offending games: almost every shooter this gen.

2.) Horrible singe player

Offending games: most multiplayer ones.

1. Cinematic Gameplay
2. Stat Tracking

1. Games that make no effort to hide their repetitiveness. Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you.

2. Boss fights that require you to deal with a bunch of smaller minions.

1. Cinematic Gameplay
2. Stat Tracking

Maroxad

[QUOTE="Maroxad"]

1. Cinematic Gameplay
2. Stat Tracking

bobbetybob

That is a huge problem with Cinematic gameplay, devs having too many cutscenes. Personally I have never been a fan of cinematic gameplay for the same reason I have never been a big fan of movies. I prefer reading books and such.

One thing that I have started to find annoying in games is when devs take control over your character and while you lose complete control someone in your group dies, while your character just sits there and stares. I could have killed the assailant, not only saving that character, but getting rid of the enemy as well. I liked how Fire Emblem 4 did it.

[spoiler] the game killed 2 of your characters, all in gameplay, you feel you could have done something to prevent their deaths, but alas the desert slows down any of your non-aerial units down too much. [/spoiler]

1. Cookie Cutter anime characters with the same reused personalities.

2. Games that don't take any risk in improving, changing, or adding anything new to it's genre. (Cough Call of Duty Cough)

1. Tons of ugly jaggies

2. Low framerates, tons of frame skipping becoming acceptable in this gen (just say No)

1.) unbalance in multiplayer

offending games: almost every shooter this gen.

2.) Horrible singe player

Offending games: most multiplayer ones.

Microsoft1234

1. Games that make no effort to hide their repetitiveness. Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you.

2. Boss fights that require you to deal with a bunch of smaller minions.

GreySeal9

So does trying to hide repetitiveness make it any better?

[QUOTE="GreySeal9"]

1. Games that make no effort to hide their repetitiveness. Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you.

2. Boss fights that require you to deal with a bunch of smaller minions.

epicstory

So does trying to hide repetitiveness make it any better?

Yes, it does. All games are repetitive to a certain degree. Some games just do a way better job of masking it than others.

At first i thought your "offending games" was a category, and didn't quite understand what you meant by Bioshock and Resistance.

My first, and foremost, pet peeve is the use of the term "pet peeve." I detest the usage, for reasons that the TC has nothing to do with, of course.

Other than that, I suppose my most disliked, common, occurance, in games is a SP that sucks so that the devs can shoe-horn in a MP, which also sucks.

1. Strawberry jam on screen to indicate damage. (Battlefield BC, Call of Duty MW2, Medal of Honor, etc.)

2. Autosave. (Crysis 2, FEAR 2, etc.)

Crysis 2, Gears 1/2- Someone/a squad member is trying to communicate with me, I'd better suddenly start walking as slow as possible for no discernible reason.

Shooters in general- Rigorously trained soldiers who can only sprint for 8 seconds.

Rigorously trained soldiers who can only sprint for 8 seconds.Floppy_Jim

1. Tons of ugly jaggies

2. Low framerates, tons of frame skipping becoming acceptable in this gen (just say No)

LovePotionNo9

Thank you.

Linearness

Bad graphics and gameplay

1. Crappy checkpoint save systems (doesn't make sense in all games that have them)

2. Badly optimized ports (ala Black Ops and GTA IV).

1. Poorly executed combat (weak gunplay, poor sounds or impact) - unforgivable in games that soley focus on the combat.

2. Take cover or die gameplay - I think it's just laziness to not allow for more variety in this formula where you are punished for not hiding behind a wall (yes I'm looking at Mass Effect 2 as good a game as it is, could have been a hell of a lot better on the gameplay front).

Bad Framerate

Escort Missions (I hate it they always die because I tend to try and rush through the mission but they are too slow.)

I have way more than two :P

1. Realism in gaming. I've only seen two games actually use it right this generation (L.A. Noire and Heavy Rain), usually it's just boring to me.

2. Bald characters. Why are they almost always boring?

3. Brown. And gray. Seriously, we have more colors than that.

4. Multiplayer. Way too much focus on that ruins the SP.

5. Unnecessary violence and nudity. Absolutely despise it, makes it feel exploitative.

6. Sandbox gameplay. I genuinely prefer linearity.

1. A lack of polish (though I can forgive Fallout 3 for it, New Vegas went WAY too far).

2. Unbalance and bad pacing (both sort of go hand in hand at times, so I included them both as one).

1.Game clones >_>

2.The general lack of inspiration and dare this generation.

Do games have to be censored?

Bad controls/camera

combat imbalance.

I hate these 2 things more than anything else and when combined they make a game completely unplayable for me.I can take a crappy story, apparently if you listen to all of the novelists and scriptwriters in System wars every game story is bad. I can get past that if the game is fun to play though.

Bad voice acting grates me as well, especially if there is a lot of dialog in the game..A bad game UI could be added to that list as well.

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

Bioshock with ugly looking environments?

Not. Sure. If... serious?? :?

Mystery_Writer

While you may not have preferred the 50's styIe aesthetic to the architecture, it was still rendered with stunning technical proficiency. A debate over art direction is seperate from how well that is rendered, and in that regard, along with the lighting and atmospheric setting to it all, the game excelled. The believeability of the environment, where everything had weight and substance to it, really enhanced the games immersion.

Also gotta keep in mind the game is actally set in the early part of the new year of 1960, but that means the city of Rapture was designed in the 50's, so that Art Deco style is in keeping with the context of the game's setting, which is very relevant to the look the game should be expected to have. Not everything takes place in contemporray 21st century or near future events (10 - 30 years from now) that would have their own distinct styIe.

Protect missions, and the fact friendly AI is always way more retarded than the enemy's.

Massive, unpredictable spikes in difficulty to artificially lengthen a game.

Bad Framerate and PC games that make you use the keyboard to navigate the menus.

1. Too many checkpoints. beating half a level then dying, then beating the other half is bullcrap. There shouldnt be checkpoints in levels if you cant beat the level then you dont beat it.

2. Games that try and make you feel like there is exploration when in reality its just A to B.

Encouraging camping in multiplayer

Letting players benefit from camping in multiplayer

Obscure & tedious achievements that are worth barely anything (5g, etc). GTA4 & Red Dead Redemption are terrible in this department. I'd say when it comes to faults in games, it would rank fairly low on the list, but it really does bug me.

Obscure & tedious achievements that are worth barely anything (5g, etc). GTA4 & Red Dead Redemption are terrible in this department. I'd say when it comes to faults in games, it would rank fairly low on the list, but it really does bug me.

Twin-Blade

Bioshock with ugly looking environments?

Not. Sure. If... serious?? :?

AdobeArtist

Bioshock is not a good looking game. I completely agree with TC.

• Bland/repetitive environments

Oblivion, Bioshock, Killzone 2, Fallout 3, Gears of War, and more feel this way to me.

• Framerate drops

Infamous, GTA IV, and more

#1. Poor story telling in games that boast having an epic story. #2. "RPGs" with poor character customization and leveling systems. And, no, this isn't a jab at Bioware's latest work. Though, I'm sure you can imagine how I must have felt about them. :P MrSelf-Destruct

[QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"]#1. Poor story telling in games that boast having an epic story. #2. "RPGs" with poor character customization and leveling systems. And, no, this isn't a jab at Bioware's latest work. Though, I'm sure you can imagine how I must have felt about them. :P heretrix

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"]#1. Poor story telling in games that boast having an epic story. #2. "RPGs" with poor character customization and leveling systems. And, no, this isn't a jab at Bioware's latest work. Though, I'm sure you can imagine how I must have felt about them. :P MrSelf-Destruct

I actually felt the presentation and story telling of dark siders was much better than some other big name games out there. And on top of that, I think the customization and such is much better in the game, than it is in God of War. Darksiders is definitely underrated, although I hope in the new one they make the world more open like zelda.

[QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"]

[QUOTE="heretrix"]Then how are you a fan of Darksiders?

NaveedLife

I actually felt the presentation and story telling of dark siders was much better than some other big name games out there. And on top of that, I think the customization and such is much better in the game, than it is in God of War. Darksiders is definitely underrated, although I hope in the new one they make the world more open like zelda.

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"]#1. Poor story telling in games that boast having an epic story. #2. "RPGs" with poor character customization and leveling systems. And, no, this isn't a jab at Bioware's latest work. Though, I'm sure you can imagine how I must have felt about them. :P MrSelf-Destruct