Your worst gaming peeves?

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

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.

Pug-Nasty

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.

yea forgot to add that. It really stinks when it cant be paused in any way even pressing the home button on my ps3 wont stop it. Sometimes nature calls or I gatta help someone in hte house.

Camera screws.

Loose controls.

Difficulty spikes.

Unskippable cutscenes.

Bad voice acting.

1. Games telling me to 'buy this!' or 'you could have had access to this!' and other ingame ad nonsense. (X360 FU.)

2. Accountsex: Unnecesary accounts. Accounts linked to accounts. Accounts displaying all my sexlife to the world. 'Oh please Like me on FaceBook!' 'You disliked our game on this forum and thus lose your $1000 library. Corporations telling me whether I am allowed or not to play their game that I paid for. Platform wide anti-cheat, game wide anti-cheat. Seems great, until you end being banned for nothing, and then who is going to back you up or believe you? When the computer says no, you're screwed. Right now, one developer actually appears to have 'lost' my freaking account that I paid for and everything...

3. Reviewers. Entire branches of gaming get ignored, prices are ignored, games being incomplete gets ignored, only x360 versions of multiplats get reviewed but of course they do pretend they also played the other versions, and score is increasingly based on popularity. They are now more useless than my magazines zodiac sign predictions. Instead of getting in there and bashing the PR guys head in with their 'exclusivity deals' they kiss their bottoms and buy them drinks.

4. TOU, ULA, AHO agreements that nobody ever reads or agrees to, and that nobody gets to read before a purchase, and that they can change every day to keep you busy, and other DRM crap that only hinders you. Games for Windows Live is a nice one. Made people lose their Batman AC saves, can't let you play your game when the service is down and exists on top of Steams DRM. Speaking of which. The freaking leader of digital gamesales, and publisher to their games, Valve, stated piracy is a service problem. Provide better service than pirates, and it is solved. Yet nobody seems to listen. It's proven to work with Steam and iStore and lastFM. Steam may be DRM in disguise but it's one of the least annoying DRM out there, and the only one that works. Learn from it.

5. Lack of interactive tutorializing in simulators. Guess what devs, people today grew up with flashy cartoons and one liner newsfeeds. We don't want to read no 700 page long PDF file. Look at Civ 4, get a wikipedia ingame. Get an interactive list onscreen of the actions you go through. Give us the option to turn that all off again and bam! 3 times the sales. Thank me later.
RPG's don't need XP curves, random encounters or filler... Save that for traditional RPG's, and start thinking like a modern day developer.
And don't even think about making another COD clone, or another pokemon that is not in 3D.

Too many equal NPC's

Super Extra Mega hard enemies

Bad voice acting

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

SaintWalrus

Camera screws.

Loose controls.

Difficulty spikes.

Unskippable cutscenes.

Bad voice acting.

PsychoLemons

[QUOTE="DarkGamer007"]

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?

topsemag55

sewer levels, water levels, back tracking, crappy check points, man i got alot of gaming pet peeves, its pissing me off just talkign about them.

[QUOTE="topsemag55"][QUOTE="DarkGamer007"]

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?

Lonelynight

.... I love asian girls but that chick in your sig is so uglyChris_Williams

[QUOTE="Chris_Williams"].... I love asian girls but that chick in your sig is so uglyLonelynight

[QUOTE="Lonelynight"][QUOTE="Chris_Williams"].... I love asian girls but that chick in your sig is so uglyChris_Williams

un-pausable cutscenes annoy me,especially considering how long some are.

inconsistent grenades also.

Yip, she's hot.

Game peeves aye.....

- Loading screens that go on forever.

- When a game autosaves at the worst of times when my character gets killed a second later, reloading the save just to load into death forcing me to start the game over.

- Trophies that I need to get from DLC that I dont have and never will. It is impossible for me to achieve the platinum.

- Rage quiters and disconnectors and the games that dont penalise them for doing so.

Health regen.. pretty much ruined the FPS and TPS genres (and other genres for that matter).

..and stupid animations that are useless, unimportant, and take up time (RDR skinning animation, I'm looking at you !)

Yip, she's hot.

Game peeves aye.....

- Loading screens that go on forever.

- When a game autosaves at the worst of times when my character gets killed a second later, reloading the save just to load into death forcing me to start the game over.

- Trophies that I need to get from DLC that I dont have and never will. It is impossible for me to achieve the platinum.

- Rage quiters and disconnectors and the games that dont penalise them for doing so.

sailor232

DLC trophies dont count towards platinum im sure.

Difficulty spikes (Metro 2033)

Lack of quicksave (take your pic)

Strawberry jam on your screen whenever you get hit (CoD, especially since MW2)

Lack of customisable controls, especially in racing games that have automatically mapped the gas button to R instead of A (SkyDrift, FUEL, Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing)

Having to indulge in American self-glorification stories in nearly every war-themed game.

When I start up a shooter on the PC and I play with M+KB like I always do. Then, when I fire my gun for the first time, the controller (which is connected for racing games and the like) will start rumbling and sometimes even fall of the shelf (I think Crysis 2 had this). Worse yet, when I start up a game and I have to disconnect the controller because the game won't let me use mouse + keyboard until I do so (Skyrim for menus).

Invisible barriers. It's not gamebreaking, some of my favorite games have them, but it's still annoying.

Also, games with basically one fun mechanic and a whole lot others that are boring. (coughRedDeadRedemptioncough)

Oh another bad one is when they put in mouse acceleration and you have no way to turn it off. That completely turns me off of any fps game.

Invisible Barriers

few Checkpoints

The inability to save anywhere

I think that's about it.

Not being able to have multiple saves.

Oh another bad one is when they put in mouse acceleration and you have no way to turn it off. That completely turns me off of any fps game.

cain006

When a hot girls jumps on my lap while I'm playing a game and says she wants to have sex.percech

Keeping this topic classy. :lol:

[QUOTE="Chris_Williams"][QUOTE="Lonelynight"] **** you! She's the most adorable girl I've ever seen :xLonelynight

I'm not really big into Asian women, but I'd say she is cute... I guess...

[QUOTE="sailor232"]

Yip, she's hot.

Game peeves aye.....

- Loading screens that go on forever.

- When a game autosaves at the worst of times when my character gets killed a second later, reloading the save just to load into death forcing me to start the game over.

- Trophies that I need to get from DLC that I dont have and never will. It is impossible for me to achieve the platinum.

- Rage quiters and disconnectors and the games that dont penalise them for doing so.

razgriz_101

DLC trophies dont count towards platinum im sure.

they dont. They only count if you want your game to say 100%. Though let me add I hate anoying online trophies.

[QUOTE="Lonelynight"][QUOTE="Chris_Williams"].... I love asian girls but that chick in your sig is so uglyChris_Williams

I think shes cute. The outfit is a nice addition too.

Unskippable cutscenes.

Games where you spend half the time hiding.

Games where you are grossly underpowered and spend a lot of time running away/around whilst your health regenerates.

Badly written antagonists (see: Darkspawn from Dragon Age)

Anticlimactic endings (see: so many f*cking games...)

The inevitable one hot female in every manly man game, put there for the sake of ticking the box.

Characters who aren't fun to play as (most d*cks in FPS games are just d*cks).

Choices that mean nothing.

Bad dialogue (unless laughably bad, see: Deadly Premonition).

Behind the shoulder view. Used to build tension in Resi 4, copied by everyone for no f*cking reason. Why can't I see what is in half of my characters periphery...STUPID.

No save anywhere feature.SaltyMeatballs

I hate qiuck time events. Seriously f*ck qte's.

Games where you can't jump

Quick time events. Hate them.

Enemies that are 10x stronger, BECAUSE OF AN EXTRA WORD. OMG. Bandit? I can one shot. Bandit Chief? LOL 10 arrows to the face and he laughs.
Atleast make them look stronger. Some badass armour, more muscles, a dinosaur for a mount, ANYTHING, just not a single bloody word to let me know he's gonna destroy me.

Not seeing my feet in an FPS. Seriously, this is the day and age of impressive technical features. I thought the days of being a floating torso were over already :P. DethSkematik

yea games that do this also anoy me. I can still play them but I hate feeling like a camra not a person.