What's your gaming pet peeve?

A pet peeve is something that you find annoying. My gaming pet peeve is frame rate problems. It bugs me as soon as I see it. What about you guys?

Push forward for 3-5 seconds cutscene for 1-2 minutes. Push forward again for 3-5 seconds, more cutscenes. When the game is generous you might get the opportunity to play for 30 seconds - a minute before the next cutscene.

Force walk or the game taking away mobility for exposition.

Hard "look over here", where the game takes control of the camera.

Characters that look out of place with the world. This is a common problem with JRPGs.

Female characters that are just dumb bimbos and only exist for horny men who haven't discovered Internet porn.

Clothing that is out of sync with the supposed role of the character. Like a soldier with long hair and little clothing or a military robot that is model like a sex bot.😂

Developers reloading scenes from scratch instead of resetting.

Hate when a game gives you guns and ammo etc., then routinely takes it all away from you.

Woke shit sucks, too.

How could it be anything else than clipping? I AM SO FKING TIRED OF SEEING LONG HAIR CLIP THROUGH ARMORS, SHIELDS WHEN ITS ON YOUR BACK, A GREATSWORD, ETC. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. From generation to generation, this shit never changes. The only game that did this well, and the best i've seen in a game is gow2018 and Ragnarok. Its so annoying.

Well, since you asked...

*deep breath*

• Escort quests. Why walk? RUN! FFS Run you stupid NPC! And why do we need to make stops and chat to people or point out landmarks? OI VEY! What are you even doing here in this war zone/infested area? If you got here in the first place, you can get yer ass out!
• Excessive cinematics, or frequent cinematics. If you're interupting the game every few minutes and taking control out of my hands to tell a story, you're not really using the game to your advantage to tell a story. Immerse me into the story! Don't make me watch. I barely watch TV and movies these days, why would I want to watch my video games?
• "Hold down for _" inputs. I don't know if you're trying to protect me from accidentally pushing a button, but there is almost zero need for me to have to hold down a button for more than it takes to register said button push...why do I need to hold it down for 1+ seconds. Yes it's trivial, but that's why it's a pet peeve because it's petty and drives me nuts! SHUT UP!
• Shallow characters. There are a lot of talented writers out there that aren't famous and are looking for work or looking for their big break...go find them, game developers! Make some good, fleshed-out characters. There's really no need for me to be playing Atomic Heart and thinking "Man, screw this guy, what an asshole" every time my character opens his mouth. They even made the vending machines obnoxious in that game I mean WTF!?
• Weak characters, especially women but overall all characters. We all have strengths and weaknesses but I have never met a single person in my life that was a lost cause and need "damsel in distress" levels of assistance. While video games are far from real life, I feel like they can get a bit cartoonish and ridiculous in their depiction of women, nerds, and so forth.

Yeah, I mean I get it, but it seems way too common these days, especially in AAA content. I know there's a lot of systems at work when building a game but you'd think something that kills immersion as much as clipping does would have been solved by now.

@mrbojangles25: We are on the same page.

It's hard to say when I am enjoying a lot of games and not having many complaints.

I could come up with some things that I don't enjoy, but then it feels unfair to complain about them because there are others who do enjoy it. I'm not going to try to ask that every game fit to my tastes. For example I don't like deck building but other people clearly do, but there are so many good games out there I can easily avoid it. Same with grinding for loot drops.

I guess one thing I would mention is difficulty spikes. Another is releasing unfinished games, and paying for early release versions. Also if there is lack of a physical release.

Some of mine have already been mentioned.

But I'll add rolling boss battles. You beat a boss....then straight away another boss. It may even be the same boss. Xenoblade 3 was a big offender in this area. GOW 2018 could also be problematic (i just started but already faced off against the same guy 3 times!!). Most of the time they don't really do anything new in the following fight either. It's the same strategy to beat them.

I get what the developer is trying to do. A demonstration of your opponents power. But surely there are more elegant ways to do it. Even a quicker cutscene where the PC and their party loses or needs to retreat would be better than beating the same boss fight...AGAIN!!

Technical issues that kill immersion and keep me from enjoying games. Things like low frame rate, frame pacing issues, stutters/hitches, flickering textures, bad LOD pop-in, ghosting, blurry graphics, poor optimization, etc..

Beyond the ones others have mentioned already, I also HATE modern game traversal sequences. Hold a direction, look for the shiny yellow ledge, press button and *watch* crazy shit happen. Then there’s the “hidden” items that ✨ in the distance. “Treasure” 🙄

@dracula_16: Too much CGI. Especially CGI with "OMG, Press X or die!" inserts to make sure you're paying attention to the boring CGI.

For me, it's Stuttering problems! I can tolerate minor stutters when it's not consistent but doing so now and then is a huge problem.

Almost everything in modern gaming.

Mainly long loading times.

Why do they never let you carry them on the protagonist's back? That medieval rat infestation game is a good example. Her little brother was much smaller than her and still she always ran while holding his hand, the tight field of view hiding that his feet were not long enough to keep up with her.

When games, typically RPG’s, take away my access to using certain characters.

When the game takes the controller away from you, it's why I play a lot of racing games.

Modern day gaming does this a LOT, its why i'm not a fan of Sony's big first party games.

Too much repetition and bad pacing.

Technical stuff: stuttering, bad ultrawide support, no or bad HDR support.

Unskippable cut scenes or dying and being placed before a cut scene. Ugh.

I also hate what my generation cried, "computer assist!" though I think the kids today call it rubberbanding. Gross...

Having content behind a paywall when it should already on the game... Having to buy microtransactions in order to be on par with other players

@mrbojangles25:

Really? I've met so many people in life that are ridiculously more helpless and useless than any depicted NPC character ever conceived.

• Weak characters, especially women but overall all characters. We all have strengths and weaknesses but I have never met a single person in my life that was a lost cause and need "damsel in distress" levels of assistance. While video games are far from real life, I feel like they can get a bit cartoonish and ridiculous in their depiction of women, nerds, and so forth

@mrbojangles25: A perfect example of some of the issues you and others have listed.