Things That Annoy You In Videogames

[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]

Originally Posted by fstuff29

Dudes playing female characters!

Example?