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[Bowsette]

So yeah, games are great. But they can also be annoying. What annoys you?

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High-speed or auto-fail QTEs. Especially when the former goes along the lines of "press this to OOP TOO LATE YOU LOST LOL" With the latter, I hate them because they create the illusion of difficulty when in reality it's just rubbish.

Whiny people in multiplayer games. Not just children (though I do hate getting stuck with noisy 12 year olds when I'm playing a game like BF3) but people who flip their wig in co-op. e.g complaining about people kill-stealing on Mass Effect 3's multiplayer, or TF2's MvM.

The illusion of choice, when one doesn't exist. RPGs are notorious for this. You get a choice menu of some description, but only the "correct" answer will progress the story. Anything else forces you to go through the same dialogue again, until you "choose" the right one.

Being the only one who isn't expendable. FFXIII does this, and I hate it. If your character dies it's game over, even if the rest of your party is still alive. This also adds to the illusion of difficulty I mentioned earlier. FPS' also do this a lot.

Unwinnable fights that cause a game over if you lose too fast. Remember Beatrix in FFIX? Perfect example. I hate it.

[Wolf]

High-speed or auto-fail QTEs. Especially when the former goes along the lines of "press this to OOP TOO LATE YOU LOST LOL" With the latter, I hate them because they create the illusion of difficulty when in reality it's just rubbish.

Add this to the fact that I have to have my ps3 controller emulate an xbox controller for it to work right, therefor I have ABXY show up instead of XOSquareTriangle... and yeah... fuck QTEs. You can't lord over me that I failed the QTE when you told me to hit a button that doesn't exist.


I don't play online games much at this point, and I would have to say it's because I don't look forward to the people. Half of the mature people act like tryhards and wannabe MLG players in every game, and it ruins the fun. I also can't stand the squeeky voice of whiny teens and kids. I wonder what kinda abyssmal, just IDGAF parents let their kids play half the games I play. I don't mind when they behave themselves, and act mature, but for every mature teen you get 10 whiny children screaming "Don't shoot me, I wanna play *tantrum*"*

*= Actual quote from a game of TTT

I dislike exposition dumps and bad pacing in ANY games, a good recent example being the intro scene to Skyrim. I don't expect a CoD SP "being yelled to go X", but at the same time I don't want Hideo Kojima to kill an hour of my free time. I want games to learn something from Journey, that you can have a story, exposition, and all these nice things without even a single word of dialogue. That being said try to use the dialogue for building characters, ambience, and the world, and try to present a nice, fluid pacing.

Poorly done escort quests... that's a given.

Poor AI, or inhuman AI. This is literally the only reason I'm excited for the next iteration of the Unreal engine. They've made major advancements in AI and making them act human. In a blind study, the Unreal AI was found ~53% likely to be human, when judged by actual humans. Humans who were studied only scored ~40%, meaning their AI acts more humans than... humans. But crappy AI can completely ruin a game, and great AI can add a whole new layer to your game, so I can't understand why they wouldn't work harder on AI, unless they don't expect it to be part of the core experience [read: Multiplayer game].

There's much more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[SushiKitten]

When it comes to competitive multiplayer games, I hate conflict so I the thing I hate most is when someone gets upset that they're losing or if something isn't going their way. I tend to take it personally, as if it's my fault that they're not doing well, and I really hate that.

I also hate yelling in general. My boyfriend would play League of Legends in the cafe on campus to pass time between classes. I'd usually slip away because he'd start raising his voice at the game, and I hated how he drew attention to himself like that, it embarrassed me.

[LD50]

Being the only one who isn't expendable. FFXIII does this, and I hate it. If your character dies it's game over, even if the rest of your party is still alive. This also adds to the illusion of difficulty I mentioned earlier.

that very issue is why i haven't completed 13. final boss has a death spell. without fail, RNG would fuck me over and not only make him target my party lead, but would also bypass my death resistance. no amount of skill or competence can overcome shitty RNG. that's my annoyance in games.

[Galactus]

I hate filler quests in games. In order to progress the story, you have to do this quest, before you can do another quest, before you can get the item, to unlock the chest in a dungeon before the quest giver will let you progress the story. It is just a bit lame.

[No-Danico]

Escort missions. Which is why I cannot figure out why I want the new Bioshock so damn much.

Game Designer: 'Hey, you know how the kids love escort missions so much?'
Me: 'Uhh, no.'
GD: 'Sure you do! What would you do if I make an entire game where all you do is escort a computer controlled girl?'
Me: 'I would punch you.'
GD: 'Oh, it'll be fun! We'll set the whole thing high up in the sky so she could fall off with terrible pathfinding A.I.!'
Me: 'No, seriously. Like, right in the throat. Closed fist and repeatedly.'
GS: 'Oh yeah, the guys who did one of your faviorate games will be makeing it!'
Me: "What the what?'

Seriously, Bioshock was Atlus Shrugged with guns and magic. I am in lesbian with that game. If Infinite comes out and is like Ico, I’ll be a happy panda.

[Diabolical_Jazz]

Irrational stealth sections in games.

Tales of Legendia.

There's a scene where you need to approach the back door of a castle during a pitched battle, and you have to do it without being noticed by the guards.
So far I'm okay with this. Like, fine, it's silly, but I'll roll with it.

I get caught by some guards. Well shoot. I have to battle them? Okay.
I crush them so utterly that people with the same first name on the other side of the planet spontaneously develop a splitting migrane.
...and then Will, that annoying bastard, says, "Well, we'd better start again at the beginning because blah blah blah."

...what?
Excuse me?
We killed the guards. We don't have to start over. They're dead. They didn't alert anybody of anything and they're dead. So we can just keep going?
Actually, fuck sneaking, too. These guys aren't so tough. We can take them. All at once, even. Let's just do that.
We can't do that? Why the fuck not?
Will says we can't?
Fuck that guy. He's a crappy character anyway. I say we leave him behind.

Can't do that either, huh?

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Shit.

[Bowsette]

Ha, there's a section almost exactly the same in FFVII where you have to sneak past some guards in the Shinra building. If they see you, battle. Kill them, back at the start, guards respawned. It's not even sneaking really. Just pressing X at the right time to run while the guards are looking 90 degrees away from you.

[Calvary]

Shooters tally scores. Halo is the only good one I've ever seen because it doesn't show you how many deaths you've had, I don't like that extra layer of competition because it stifles people's creativity and gambling. No one goes out and does anything because their death tally will go up. They should just show number of kills and number of assists.

[No-Danico]

That Tales of Legendia thing? Hillarious. And in FF7, the weird thing is just twenty minutes before that your team stands at the foot of the building and tries to decide what to do.

Tifa: Should we sneak in or just go on rampage? Tehee!
Barret: Shit, we need ta just go on'a rampage. &^*@#$!
Cloud: Rampage it is. Oww my head. Sephiroth! ...I love you.

And a rampage ensues. How is it, I can fight my way through forty floors of mooks just to be tripped up by three Souldier 2s? Inconcivable!

And in Halo I don't want to see anything unless I'm just really sucking it up, then I'm gonna go crazy, strap a plasma grenade to my back, and do my Buddhist monk impression.

[The Robstar]

I kinda annoy myself sometimes. Bad decisions, bad judgement and highly condescending :S

But I still love myself

[SpleenBeGone]

As a WoW player, escort quests. All of them. You guys can figure out how to get across that swamp yourself.

Shitty game remakes while good ones get left undone.

That Tales of Legendia thing? Hillarious. And in FF7, the weird thing is just twenty minutes before that your team stands at the foot of the building and tries to decide what to do.

Tifa: Should we sneak in or just go on rampage? Tehee!
Barret: Shit, we need ta just go on'a rampage. &^*@#$!
Cloud: Rampage it is. Oww my head. Sephiroth! ...I love you.

And a rampage ensues. How is it, I can fight my way through forty floors of mooks just to be tripped up by three Souldier 2s? Inconcivable!

And in Halo I don't want to see anything unless I'm just really sucking it up, then I'm gonna go crazy, strap a plasma grenade to my back, and do my Buddhist monk impression.

This kind of stuff. I am in control of the most badass warriors in the world, and there's one random guy to sneak around? wtf?!

[(V) (`m`) (V) ︵ ┻━┻]

As a WoW player, escort quests. All of them. You guys can figure out how to get across that swamp yourself.

LOL

Also, "Hey can you go give this nigga a letter?"

*walk three paces to the left*
*deliver letter*

:|

Srsly?

Also, players.

If there's one thing above all else I hate about games, it's other players.

Their cybering, begging for currency, following you around, general douchebaggery.

ALL HAIL HYPNOSKYRIM

[(V) (`m`) (V) ︵ ┻━┻]

And somehow you're getting married..

[(V) (`m`) (V) ︵ ┻━┻]

Man I guess. >.>

[Krankykoala]

Ha, there's a section almost exactly the same in FFVII where you have to sneak past some guards in the Shinra building. If they see you, battle. Kill them, back at the start, guards respawned. It's not even sneaking really. Just pressing X at the right time to run while the guards are looking 90 degrees away from you.

It's worth noting you can actually kill all of those guards. If you fail enough times(i want to say its 5ish) then they stop respawning.

[Krankykoala]

As a WoW player, escort quests. All of them. You guys can figure out how to get across that swamp yourself.

Remind me why the fuck i have a mount that three people can ride on?

Seriously, how escort missions should go: Hey you need my help to get from point a to point 4? ok hop on. 15 seconds later arive at b with no hassle.

[SpleenBeGone]

Remind me why the fuck i have a mount that three people can ride on?

Seriously, how escort missions should go: Hey you need my help to get from point a to point 4? ok hop on. 15 seconds later arive at b with no hassle.

This would be awesome. >.>