your biggest pet peeves in games

What are some things in games that irritate you to the point where you want to stop playing a game? Here's mine

Infinitely respawning enemies: For God's sake, let me clear out a room and have a chance to explore! Having a place where enemies are constantly harassing you with no chance to be done with them is irritating!

Final bosses that are 100x harder than any previous boss: The Final Fantasy series is pretty bad about this, you get all the way to the final boss and then realize you're ill-prepared to beat him and then can't finish the game.

Online cheaters: What's the point? Aside from the fact that you are ruining a game for the other players, I just don't get how a person can get any satisfaction from beating other human players by cheating.

Ridiculously spaced apart checkpoints - who doesn't hate losing an hour of work because of a miss timed attack or jump. I don't think I could ever play Demon's Souls without breaking a controller or two.

Unsatisfying combat - attacking an enemy and they look like they're experiencing no pain annoys the hell out of me. It's a shame because Bioshock looked really good. This is one pet peeve I would like to get past.

Cheap AI. The Mario Kart series is a perfect example of this. If I am running a perfect race and still lose, not because the computer opponent is racing better, but because it is programmed to catch up, that is super frustrating. If I lose, it should be because I stink.

I agree 100% with yours.

One of mine is when you'll be playing the campaign, say for example an fps or shooter and for the first half of the game you'll be fighting humans, then out of no where monsters come into the game. That really puts me off.

Games that have boring main characters, games that copy other games and do it poorly (grand theft auto clones and halo clones), games that have horrible frame rate problems (Obsedian entertainment KOTOR2 and alpha protocol), games that are 60 dollars but should be less because they are short, and also games that lack a co-op feature and have weak online play

I agree 100% with yours.

One of mine is when you'll be playing the campaign, say for example an fps or shooter and for the first half of the game you'll be fighting humans, then out of no where monsters come into the game. That really puts me off.

superiorNilly

Respawning enemies is annoying. Especially in stealth games like Metal Gear Solid 2. I'd clear out a room on, go outside, come back in, and they'll all back on their feet.

Blood splattering on the screen when you're hurt in FPS. It's okay in some games (Metro 2033), but I don't like playing games where it constantly looks like your screen is covered in strawberry jam (MW2).

Invisible walls. If you are going to limit my creativity, at least make it believable by designing a real obstacle, and not go like 'oh, wait, it may look like you can go there, but you are not programmed to do so, tough luck kiddo'.

Game stories that take themselves a bit too seriously. Let me just say this once and for all, and this also applies to movies and even books. Lengthy, philosophical monologues/ramblings are only appropiate in so many situations, and only if they are well written. But more often than not, it results in pretentious, shallow rantings that are in no way interesting. Also, Niko Bellic can be a real crybaby at times.

Lack of quicksave in PC FPS. I want to be able to save whereverI want. Trial & error gameplay is not challenging, just annoying.

Whiny, teenage protagonists. Especially when they have long, spiky hair and a shirt that exposes most of their chest.

Worthless choices that does not matter.

Worthless choices that does not matter.

wiouds

Cheap AI. The Mario Kart series is a perfect example of this. If I am running a perfect race and still lose, not because the computer opponent is racing better, but because it is programmed to catch up, that is super frustrating. If I lose, it should be because I stink.

Euaggelistes

long and boring cutscenes! MGS4 had some dramatic cutscenes, but ETERNAL SONATA.....i gave up on the game due to the dull snorfest cutscenes!

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Worthless choices that does not matter.

reason58

Yeah, but it's a different thing when developers claim your choices and playstyle will really have an effect on gameplay, and it turns out to be untrue. The first Fable is a great example.

Yeah, but it's a different thing when developers claim your choices and playstyle will really have an effect on gameplay, and it turns out to be untrue. The first Fable is a great example.

DraugenCP

You don't see it as much any more, but something that always bugged me was when people who hold the controller physically over to the right to try and turn right faster. Especially in racing games.

You don't see it as much any more, but something that always bugged me was when people who hold the controller physically over to the right to try and turn right faster. Especially in racing games.

reason58

A game pet peeve of mine is common in poorly designed games. You ever play a game where you killed an enemy somewhere and all the enemies know where you are at even if they cant see you. In some cases, you probably did not do anything yet but AI is always aware ofwhere you are at.

Another one is in shooters where the computer never seems to miss a single shot on you. Its just bad programming when everyone is 1st class shooters.

when a game it's too easy even on hardest difficulty , i need to die from time to die to keep awake

Manditory training modes.

I can stand them. They are too long, boring, and teach you to stuff you're not going to need to know for maybe 20 hours. And they are just too hard. They suck the fn out f the game because instead of letting you play the game in the way that's the most fun to you, they force you into 1 particular method.

Manditory training modes.

I can stand them. They are too long, boring, and teach you to stuff you're not going to need to know for maybe 20 hours. And they are just too hard. They suck the fn out f the game because instead of letting you play the game in the way that's the most fun to you, they force you into 1 particular method.

BuryMe

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Manditory training modes.

I can stand them. They are too long, boring, and teach you to stuff you're not going to need to know for maybe 20 hours. And they are just too hard. They suck the fn out f the game because instead of letting you play the game in the way that's the most fun to you, they force you into 1 particular method.

ZenesisX

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Manditory training modes.

I can stand them. They are too long, boring, and teach you to stuff you're not going to need to know for maybe 20 hours. And they are just too hard. They suck the fn out f the game because instead of letting you play the game in the way that's the most fun to you, they force you into 1 particular method.

BuryMe

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Worthless choices that does not matter.

reason58

Mayhaps some effects are so minor that you just don't notice them?

I'm sure these have popped up already but:

-Artificially inflated difficulty: I hate it when games make things more difficult by either mobbing you with enemies or just making them use incredibly cheap and powerful attacks. It's incredibly frustrating.

-Unskippable cut scenes before a boss fight: especially when it takes multiple times for me to beat, I end up hating not skipping the scene more than the fight.

Ridiculously spaced apart checkpoints - who doesn't hate losing an hour of work because of a miss timed attack or jump. I don't think I could ever play Demon's Souls without breaking a controller or two.

Unsatisfying combat - attacking an enemy and they look like they're experiencing no pain annoys the hell out of me. It's a shame because Bioshock looked really good. This is one pet peeve I would like to get past.

tryagainlater

Lost Planet 2 was completly unforgiving with checkpoints. If you died 3 times you had to start the entire stage over...

And Force Unleashed had better fix their combat. I'm supossed to be the baddest mo fo in the galaxy and I hold my lightsaber backwards cause I'm that good - and then when you hit stormtroopers it feels like you're hitting them with a wooden stick... And then there were those really tall grey stormtroopers that could block the force. I was like what.....??!?!?!?!?!?

I would have to say spaced out checkpoints and online cheaters.

Easy games or games that have an easy or very easy difficulty setting.

Games that have an automatic mode where it does everything for you.

Fetch Quests.

Games that have repetitious combat that ISN'T enjoyable.

Games with large breasted women with NO jiggle physics.

Auto-aim.

'Good' A.I. that just seems to know where you are.

Cinematic Gameplay. i.e. going into a smaller cutscene for an action where, say, all the enemies around just seem to let you take your time and finish decapitating their ally.

You don't see it as much any more, but something that always bugged me was when people who hold the controller physically over to the right to try and turn right faster. Especially in racing games.

reason58

Easy games or games that have an easy or very easy difficulty setting.

Games that have an automatic mode where it does everything for you.

Fetch Quests.

Games that have repetitious combat that ISN'T enjoyable.

Games with large breasted women with NO jiggle physics.

Auto-aim.

'Good' A.I. that just seems to know where you are.

Cinematic Gameplay. i.e. going into a smaller cutscene for an action where, say, all the enemies around just seem to let you take your time and finish decapitating their ally.

. DLC salesmen or pathetic use of advertising - Dragon Age was great, I enjoyed it so much and just as I got properly immersed in the game I met the bastard salesman. Same with Burnout: Paradise, I'd like to race without having a huge billboard asking to vote for Obama pop up every few seconds. .koospetoors

Ridiculously spaced apart checkpoints - who doesn't hate losing an hour of work because of a miss timed attack or jump. I don't think I could ever play Demon's Souls without breaking a controller or two.

tryagainlater

You would never lose an hour of work in demons souls from dying, all you would lose is the travel time back to where you were, wh9ich wouldnt even exceed 15 mins most likely.