Things That Annoy You In Videogames

[shipwreckdisco]

what annoys me is the lack of originality and the fact that i'm part of the problem because i keep playing the sequels of games i fell in love with years ago i.e. resident evil silent hill madden mlb or thegames that are pretty similar like fear or dead space i spend so much time on those that i never try a game like mirror's edge or some other ground breaking title

[fadeout001]

what annoys me is the lack of originality and the fact that i'm part of the problem because i keep playing the sequels of games i fell in love with years ago i.e. resident evil silent hill madden mlb or thegames that are pretty similar like fear or dead space i spend so much time on those that i never try a game like mirror's edge or some other ground breaking title

Mirrors Edge is a great game but definitely not worth more than 20, maybe 25 bucks. It gets very annoying at times as the game plays basically like the Matrix. You don't want to fight but rather run away and if you get outnumbered by more than 2 or 3 guys and are not sure of which way to run you are almost certainly dead. It is basically you running away from Agents. It is interesting to say the least but the running away can be problematic as well because you are not told specifically where to go and sometimes the "flow" which translates to red colored objects can be really hard to see and find. You can spend anywhere up to like 2 hours just replaying the same part trying to figure out where to go or which way is the best path to take with the least enemies. Good game, annoying at times, but overall game play and replay value just not worth 60 bucks.

That is one thing that does annoy me with the new consoles. Most games don't have great replay value, most are not all that long or difficult to beat, and overall hardly any of them are worth the asking price of 60 bucks. As games evolve with systems it seems replay value, and fun game play drop. Story telling increases (depending on the game). The price just keeps going up. I remember the old Original Atari and some NES games just going on forever were always fun and the replay was excellent for those systems. The Super NES and Genesis were close but some games on those were just not worth replaying. Then the 64, ps one and 2 generation started out with like 3/4ths of the games being worthwhile but dropped to about half and half. Now you buy a game, play it, then either not touch it for 6+ months or sell/trade it in for another game that you want to play. The only exception to this rule is games with really good multiplayer and the fan base that people don't stop playing it. Overall to there is only a few games that have this constant multiplayer element and the rest just slowly die off as people get tired of the game.

L4D, Halo, Call of Duty; these are just a few of the games that it is doubtful the multiplayer will ever die rather in cases like Halo and CoD it will just transfer to the newest version of the game.

[robbob]

One of my biggest gaming peeves is games (RTS's especially) that take advantage of the fact that they are a computer and can concentrate on multiple areas at once and you cannot. Too many times have I been attacked in 2-3 areas at once in games where you need to manage the battle manually.

[mambrose1986]

NPCs who get stuck or disappear. Online games with horrible lag. Terrible voice acting or dialogue. Framerate issues on a console.

A good story or fun playing can make up for some of these though.

[bdave351]

Online.....

Team killers who think its cool to ruin some random other persons game.

8 year olds on the mic talking tough swearing the same thing over and over again till mom catches them.....

Objective based games where most of your team are snipers sitting with thumbs in butts at the very edge of the map doing nothing while your team gets serverly violated from behind....

[computer2slow]

Moms that come on to yell at people swearing while playing Halo with their kid.

[callmefred]

In games like Rollercoaster Tycoon where the objective is to make cool rides, it is impossible to have more than 3 loop the loops without the guests deciding the ride is too intense and refusing to go on it, meaning you have to restart on this ridiculously expensive rollercoaster.

[shadow]

Load times

[psprulz]

Unsporting online players.

[Presto]

There are a lot of good points made in the previous posts. Here are some of the ones I hate most:

1) Bad storyline - If the character I have spent hours building up is required to die at the end of the game even if I 'win', I don't like the story.
2) Bad on-line play - either because of the other players, or because you have to play 24x7 just to survive.
3) Difficult in-game controls - I shouldn't need 3 or 4 hands to play a game.
4) Cheating or bad AI - Bad AI can ruin a good game, but AI that cheats is just plain frustrating. If I lose a game because I make a mistake, fine, but to lose because the AI cheats just sucks.
5) Bugs - enough said.
6) Bad or no camera control - Games that control the camera angle and move it around based on what I do, sometimes put it in really weird places where you can't see where you want to see.
7) Inability to skip 'cinematic sequences' - Most really good games are games that I will play more than once. If I am playing a game more than once, it is likely I would want to skip past movies or sequences I have already seen.

[snarflx]

Thanks Presto for mentioning camera control. I didn't see it mentioned before, and it has resulted in more thrown controllers than anything else for me. Cutting edge graphics don't count for much when all I can see is the wrong side of a wall.

Another irritant for me is games that are too easy. I'm not exactly the greatest player of my generation (that being the NES generation), but I would like winning a game to be harder than turning my system on.

Also, I'd like to echo the widespread frustration with poor voice acting. Good voice acting can make a game so much more enjoyable, and horrible voice acting can make an otherwise good game almost unplayable.

[Roaddog31]

Yeah, its the slight variances in an MMO like the same characters but just a boot is different or the buildings are the same but just a different color. Lame weak developers that didn't want to put in any extra work.

[jingizu99]

When it comes to video games I'm actually very easy to please. Most of the games I have 1000 achievements for or have played the longest score in the 70's (like Conan). One thing that absolutely ruins a game for me is lack of consistency.

It's laughable something so small ruins it for me, but it does. Take games you can cling onto ledges and pull yourself up... why can't I do that with all blocks? Or fences I can't jump over? If I can do it in one part of the game I ought to be able to do it everywhere.

[fstuff29]

Dudes playing female characters!

[xrnzaaas]

Dudes playing female characters!

Example?