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I hate rubber band opponents; ...
Driving games are the biggest source of annoyance to me.
I hate rubber band opponents; you either drive perfectly and beat the computer opponents by a fraction of a second, or you take a toilet break, and leave the game running and beat the opponents by a fraction of a second... or you find a glitch that allows you to take a corner at 250mph, and still you make no extra distance to the opponents.
Oh, and any NPC in any kind of a game that apparently has precognition for no good reason. Know what I mean? It's the computer driver that dodges a crashed car behind a corner before it can see it. The soldier that throws a grenade blindly but with absolute accuracy for no apparent reason. Or the enemy squadron that suddenly decides to alter its route illogically and for no reason to run straight into your troops...
I was waiting to see if anyone would put up a few things that annoy me, but they didn't. So other than the ones already mentioned, such as a stupid AI, bugs, etc., these are the thing that annoy me:
1.) A terrible story - The story is the backbone for the game. Its the one thing that grasps you and pulls you into it, making you feel what the characters feel and it is constantly convincing you to come back for more. If the story is terrible, there's almost no reason left to play it unless the game has an amazing multiplayer.
2.) Dated gameplay & graphics - With the 7th gen. consoles out (the 360, PS3, and Wii), many new types of games are being introduced with new and exciting gameplay and amazing graphics, or at least adding on to the already great gameplay with new additions. However, many developers deem it necessary to keep the same thing going without changing a thing-graphics included.
3.) Terrible voice-actors - Now, what's the one thing the world has enough of? Actors. Out of all the actors out there, at least 1/3 have to be decent. However, it seems that whenever a developer is going to voice-over work for a game, quite a bit of the time they just go out a grab a random hobo on the street and say "Speak into this. It'll make you famous." The actors do not have to be on-par with Oscar winners, but I at least expect the delivery of the lines to have some value in them, and not just dry words.
...and that's about it.
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How japanese games always have a weird since of homo-erotiticism. I love Metal Gear and all, but.... that guy grabbed my nuts? Why did that guy just grab my nuts (MG3)? Or, in the JRPGs, especially most of the ff games, your main character is dressed like... well, saying that their dressed like metrosexuals would be putting it kindly. What's with the armor man-bras and cod pieces?
Bad AI. Especially when the AI is supposed to be helping you out. I'm looking at you, RE5.
I think most of the others have nailed most of the big ones.
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In older arcade games I hated how games set you up to fail. Capcom was notorious for this. The arcade version of Bionic Commando was ridiculously hard not to mention Ghouls and Ghosts series.
It's cool playing them in compilation collections now though. The G&G games are still unbeatable for me even with infinite continues though.
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
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.
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.
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....
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