Your worst gaming peeves?

1. Giving powers/items that only serve to advance the story/level

Rayman origins was a huge offender of this. Seriously? I can't learn how to dive until HALFWAY through the game? And it's a useless power.

I hate it when games give me powers that are ESSENTIAL to move forward

Fine, if I need a power to move on ATLEAST give me a power that I can use whenever I want. Not a dinky power that I can only use at certain parts of the game. So freaking stupid.

2. Games that think their plot is epic and so seriouz when in actuality, it's kind of boring

Offender: Mass Effect 1 and 2

Respawning enemies.

Respawning enemies.

spookykid143

oh yeah, definitely this one

2. Games that think their plot is epic and so seriouz when in actuality, it's kind of boring

Offender: Mass Effect 1 and 2

SaintWalrus

how so?

Bushes growing in the middle of roads.

[QUOTE="spookykid143"]

Respawning enemies.

R3FURBISHED

oh yeah, definitely this one

2. Games that think their plot is epic and so seriouz when in actuality, it's kind of boring

Offender: Mass Effect 1 and 2

SaintWalrus

how so?

enemy corpses disappearing

Another.

When a game developer/game reviewer's idea of Replay value is, wandering throughout a city, mindlessly finding 5000 of X object and leadership boards

Bethesda games that won't let me travel as the crow flies.

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[QUOTE="spookykid143"]

oh yeah, definitely this one

[QUOTE="SaintWalrus"]

2. Games that think their plot is epic and so seriouz when in actuality, it's kind of boring

Offender: Mass Effect 1 and 2

SaintWalrus

how so?

enemy corpses disappearing

PillyChickle

Saving before dialouge or cutscenes that may also invovle doing nothing while walking a distance to a action sequence that is difficult. I cannot stand being stuck in a game and having to hear the same dialouge or watch the same cutscene over and over again before I can do the segment again. Why can't the game save after all the dialouge and cutscene?

[QUOTE="PillyChickle"]

enemy corpses disappearing

ShadowDeathX

Oh also, being forced to walk. Excuse me game, but if I decide it is more epic to slow walk, I'll slow walk. My experience isn't going to be destroyed if you let me run around the environment.

Respawning enemies.

spookykid143

Bad uncustomizable controls

No graphics sellecting options

No mouse pointer in menus

Badly optimized console ports

Enemies with bad body physics not properly reacting to bullets

No bullet wounds or other damage on targets(Im not asking for SoF level of gore,but at least something)

Dead bodies losing physics,not reacting to the enviroment

And as already mentioned,dissapearing bodies and respawning enemies(qualities of modern corridor shooters)

Games with patches.

I paid for a game I don't want to have to fill my harddrive with a gig of patches because the programmers/publishers were too stupid/lazy/greedy to get the game right before releasing it.

Last one to annoy like this was Battlefield 3 - got it at launch, it needed a 200 meg patch. Pathetic.

When your character can pull off amazing moves in cutscenes that you can't do in actual gameplay. I guess most games meet this criteria unfortunately.

respawning enimies untill you pass a certain point. when stuff doesint carry over in your repeated playthrough. Cant skip cutscenes at all not even in your second playthrough.

Stupid looking characters is #1 on my list. If my protagonist is a guy, I want him to look like he can kick some a**, not like he wants to make out with Pee Wee Herman.

Sh*tty voice acting is #2 on the list, then having over the top sympathetic characters.

respawning enimies untill you pass a certain point. when stuff doesint carry over in your repeated playthrough. Cant skip cutscenes at all not even in your second playthrough.

finalfantasy94

Respawning enemies, too many cutscenes, focusing on a story when the story is cringe worthy, cringe worthy writing/voice acting and rubber band AI.

unskipable cutscenes. i mean sure for some games i watch the cut scenes..but if its a second play through i don't wanna watch it again.

Invisible walls.

Invisible walls are the ultimate form of lazy. You already have to program the wall into the game, why not apply a texture to it? Broken bricks, mountain, pile of dog poop, fallen trees, whatever, just *put something there that logically would stop my movement*. A naked flaming ninja waving swords around makes more sense than my character just arbitrarily stopping and walking in place.

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Knee High Barriers

Really? Really? My sword-wielding half-demon shoots-fireballs-out-of-his-hands character can't step over a foot high pile of rocks?

When it takes a long time to get to a boss, or unskippable cutscenes before a boss.

Respawning enemies.

spookykid143

Best Part about Perfect Dark and Golden Eye 007 and The Worst Part about Call of Duty.

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[QUOTE="spookykid143"]

oh yeah, definitely this one

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2. Games that think their plot is epic and so seriouz when in actuality, it's kind of boring

Offender: Mass Effect 1 and 2

SaintWalrus

how so?

If anything ME1s story was so much better and ME2s was just a filler

Invisible walls, and areas that you walk up to and a text box or something pops up like "Oh, there's nothing over here" or "I should really see what X has to say"

The worst was resident evil.

-holding bazooka- walks up to door, it's locked

chris-:(

respawning enimies untill you pass a certain point. when stuff doesint carry over in your repeated playthrough. Cant skip cutscenes at all not even in your second playthrough.

finalfantasy94

I agree with 2 and 3, but respawning enemies can be fun if you just want to play around and kill a bunch of NPCs. I had a blast in MGS IV just messing around with different weapons and trying different techniques in a few areas where enemeis constantly respoawn until you turn the tide of battle towards the militia. Maybe it should be an opttion.

I'll add a few:

• Difficulty levels. The changes from one mode to another don't makes sense. It would make more sense for different difficulties to encompass different viewpoints of an overall story, with the difficulty being organically derived from the more desperate situations of some playable characters.
• Bad aiming controls. This is especially annoying considering we have some games that just nail them, such as Killzone 3. Take a note for once other devs.
• Cutscenes you can't pause, cutscenes you can't skip, and cutscenes you can skip by pushing any button without confirming your decision to skip. All of these things are annoying to me.
• Having to use a particular weapon on an enemy with no explanation as to why, especially when many of your weapons are already similar.

Achievements or trophies you unlock by playing through a game normally. Ones that you get for pressing the jump button, beating a standard level or pausing the game. They don't feel like real achievements. The only game in which those kind of achievements actually felt like real achievements was Catherine, because that game was freaking hard even on the "normal" difficulty setting.

Short single player campaigns that take about 8-10 hours to beat. I'm not gonna spend $60 on a game that I can beat within a week. (I'm looking at YOU Call of Duty.)

Tutorials that constantly get your way. I hate running along perfectly fine, and then having the game freeze on me so it can say "YOU SEE THAT ENEMY THERE!? YOU NEED TO KILL HIM BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU!!!! Press A to continue." Most of these tutorials that slow the game down only explain simple things that the average human being should be able to figure out on their own.

Games that lack a story. I have little to no motivation to continue playing a single player game if there's no story. It's the reason I hated Resistance 1 so much. The longest cutscene in that game was about 30 seconds long, and the protagonist had about 5 lines throughout the whole game.

The lack of good JRPGs in the market right now.

And finally....EVERY CALL OF DUTY, HALO AND GEARS OF WAR CLONE!!!!!!!!!!

Those are only a few things. I could probably ramble on for a while about so many different things that I hate about the gaming industry today.

Games with patches.

I paid for a game I don't want to have to fill my harddrive with a gig of patches because the programmers/publishers were too stupid/lazy/greedy to get the game right before releasing it.

Last one to annoy like this was Battlefield 3 - got it at launch, it needed a 200 meg patch. Pathetic.

d_parker

I agree. If the game wasn't the way they wanted it when they released it, why the hell did they release it!? Quit making the game take up more and more space on my harddrive!

Patches are ok with some games, like World of Warcraft, but patches are a HUGE part of WoW. It's a constantly evolving game because it takes place in a fictional and dynamic world with it's own history that the players are experiencing. So Blizzard needs to patch to game in order to allow the players to experience the history of that fictional world.

- Constant back tracking

- Not being able to save from the menu

- Terrible one-liners

- Bugs/glitches

Saving before dialouge or cutscenes that may also invovle doing nothing while walking a distance to a action sequence that is difficult. I cannot stand being stuck in a game and having to hear the same dialouge or watch the same cutscene over and over again before I can do the segment again. Why can't the game save after all the dialouge and cutscene?

DarkGamer007

the wii

QTEs in an FPS game

Cutscenes with no way to skip

Respawning enemies

No savegame function

I'm not a big fan of rail sequences either

Hackers. I don't care if people use cheats in single player, but hackers ruin other people's gamming experience. Also, I do not see the point to hacking.

-People play games... because they are games. We play them to have fun. How is it fun to let the program do all the work?

-What is the point? Yea, you get a gread k/d at the end of the day but that is all. Having that k/d doesn't increase your GPA, it doesn't make you more money, and it doesn't get you laid. Actual skill can get you money through being a pro gamer, but hacks will just make you worse.

-If I had to use hacks to do well in a game's MP, then that would just make me feel like a sad, pitiful human.