Where to even start.

Generally, my biggest pet peeve right now is unfinished games that are being released at full price. It's especially awful when the developers hype the game up far more than it needs to be hyped, just to buy the game and see it crash and burn immediately. Watch Dogs was a game like that; hyped so damn much, but it turned out to be an awful mess that wasn't at all what I had expected from the trailers they had shown. I didn't buy it at release, so it wasn't so infuriating to me, but Destiny was a different story. Went to the midnight release, played it for about 15 hours and, after that, I realized that was all the game had to offer for original content. The rest were those 15 hours over again, just with higher difficulty - truly a slap in the face.

Another general pet peeve would be mobile games with cash-grabs and energy. I won't lie, I actually enjoy some mobile games here and there, but the majority of them are clones of really popular titles, cashing in on the re-skins of previous games. Then they add energy, where you have to wait a damn fortnight just to do anything else in the game - for people like me, who like marathons and immersion, mobile games are absolutely dreadful. Not to mention the micro-transactions and the lack of player communication to the developers. Wish a little love would come to the mobile gamers, but I guess that'll come with time.

Boy, that was long. I'll just summarize my other points, haha.

• "Follow quests", where the NPC you're following is slower than molasses.
• When your sword is equipped on your back, but it just hovers there.
• Quick-time events.
• Quests that, once you fail, you can never do them again unless you go start another play-through.
• Achievements and challenges centered around collecting every piece of __________ in the game.
• Characters, quests, or achievements that are only earned if you've purchased the game during beta.

Well, fortunately, I've just bought The Witcher 3.

This probably means that I'll not touch another game for the next couple of months. If I absolutely had to choose, I'd say The Elder Scrolls Online - I have it on the computer, but my buddy plays Xbox One more, so I'm looking forward to playing that with him.

@spike6958: You're right, but I was more talking about how some companies (the ones that literally have money falling out of there ass) aren't putting any effort into their games. *cough* Activision *cough*. I understand what you're saying, having these games is a gateway to riskier ones, but the thing is that most of these companies aren't taking any risk at all. Which just results in the same game coming out every year.

All of these gaming conventions have the same thing. A huge company coming out from the curtains to reveal their newest project; but it's always the same, the next installment of insert watered-down serieshere.Aren't people tired of Call of Duty, Borderlands, Halo, and other huge franchises that seem to beat on a dead horse? I guess the number of sales say otherwise for these games, but I can't be the only one desiring more standalone and story-driven games, right?

I want these bigger companies to make different games. I'm tired of shooting people with different guns on different maps or experiencing a new character that I can only unlock in the next installment of Borderlands. Can't we have more games that aren't just successors to a previous franchise. Can't we have games that operate off of the player's emotions and not their wallets? I hope that these newer games that come out in 2015 will be good. I'm hoping the big AAA franchises don't blow everything out of the water and continue to bog down great developers and wonderful new games. Anyone else tired of AAA companies and their "Series" games?