Pet Peeves in video games

 
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What's some things that annoy the shit out of you in video games, regardless of what setting/genre it is?

For me? It'd be having a whiny fucking protagonist for a character. I've been trying to beat Tales of Zestiria lately and OH MY GOD the main character Sorey is such a fucking pussy. I'll spare you the details and just sum it in to this

"We can't kill anyone! We have to save them!"

Yeah, let your imagination wander with that and you have it. Doesn't help his voice is raspy, which annoys me. Raspy voices annoy me. Fuck you, Sorey.


 
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death spells in JRPGs are the only reason why i don't play JRPGs as often as i should

oh you like strategy and nuance in your video games huh well guess what kiddo i have a move that can just instagib your entire fucking party with one RNG-based attack that you have absolutely no way of stopping haha isn't this fun

this is actually more than a pet peeve for me, but i'm the only person i know who has such a low tolerance for this shit
Last Edit: November 27, 2017, 01:31:28 AM by Verbatim


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Input lag, clunky control scheme, high ping in multiplayer, low frame rate, sometimes camera. But I usually play nipponese hentai games, so didn`t encounter those there. Oh yeah, and when game devs make big empty world and think I'll play their game just because it`s big
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I hate when I aim down and can't see my character's legs in FPS games. Drives me insane.

Enemy AIs that have laser-pinpoint accuracy that can kill you in a few shots and always know your location no matter what. This is not how you balance a game.

Cover systems in third-person games that your character is attracted to like glue. This happened a lot in Mass Effect 3, mostly multiplayer. I wanted to dodge enemy fire by rolling/sprinting but my character will jump into the nearest cover instead when I clearly did not intended to.

Progression systems that are based on how long somebody plays the game rather than a progression system based on match wins and individual skill.


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Escort Missions. Wait here for x amount of time until we say otherwise. Slow walk while listening to radio chatter/dialog between characters.


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If you know, you know.
When aiming down sights makes you a sniper and when shooting from the hip the shots have an RNG hit or miss.
Unskippable cutscenes
Over 3 logos at startup
Multiplayer achievements but the game is dead
Death barriers literally 2 meters to either side of the path the game wants you to follow (COD especially loves this shit)



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-The hug weapons in JRPG's.

-The pointless female clothing in JRPG's.

-Your clothing staying default in JRPG's despite having something else equipped.

-Being forced to play as a human in RPG's when there's multiple alien and other races in the series. For example KoTOR, Mass Effect and Fallout.

-Friendly AI being completely useless.

-The higher the difficultly, the more health the enemy has and the more damage they do. You on the other hand would be doing far less damage despite using the same weapon.

-All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!


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Cover mechanics in third or first person shooters
Lazy half-assed writing when the single-player was clearly intended to be a significant part of the game
Completely half-assed research on historical time periods
Games that tell you you can play however you like, but then penalize you when you don't play in a specific fashion.
Games where the economy just feels hollow and vapid
Stealth mechanics that feel tacked on.


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-Online trophies for games that have the multiplayer servers switched off, making the platinum impossible. I wouldn't mind multiplayer trophies if they patched it to make the online trophies unessential.

-Being forced to walk slowly while your character follows or talks to somebody. The Arkham games were terrible for this, why can't Batman talk to people in his earpiece while still being able to sprint? They're like cutscenes except you can't skip them and you're forced to play, if you're following an NPC around.

-Unskippable cutscenes. I'm okay with them being unskippable on your first attempt, but I think all games should have the feature to skip them on repeated attempts. I really wish FFX HD had this.

-As Verb said, insta-death spells can go suck a fuck.

-Sequences where you're trying to do something like opening a door or pulling a switch, while infinitely respawning enemies attack and interrupt you.

-Turret sections. I don't think I've ever enjoyed a turret section.

-Stealth sections in games that aren't stealth orientated. You get thrown into this mission suddenly, where it's really easy to fuck up and have to restart because up until now the game hasn't required it, and you haven't had time to get to grips with it.

-Adding in a dumb twist to an already convoluted and finished plot that just somehow makes it even dumber.



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Not a fan of hunting in games. It's pretty damn boring killing 50 tigers or crocodiles or whatever to upgrade your gear/stats


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If you know, you know.
When you approach a door or section and it tells you to pay real money if you want to go there.


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Autoscrollers are the worst thing in platformers


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The angel agreed to trade a set of white wings for the head of another demon. Overjoyed, the demon killed one of his own and plucked the head right off its still-warm body.

The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
Input queues and not being able to animation cancel
Taking control away from the player thats short but has no limit. KNOCKDOWN SPAM HELLO WARFRAME
Fuckhuge viewmodels that take 1/4th of the screen
Not seeing both hands on the viewmodel
Character holding pistols with one hand
FOV under 90
Movement deceleration, hello Source games
Character animation not matching movement, hello Bethesda
Weightless movement in anything going for immersion
64 tick servers
Hipfire being the way it is in most games, Bad Company 2 did it right
As mentioned, insta death moves in JRPGs, COUGHFFXCOUGH
YOU ARE LEAVING THE PLAY AREA, TURN BACK NOW
Being able to consume consumables instantly through menus in anything thats going for immersion
Objects that appear interactable being static
By the numbers difficulty
Character feet not conforming to what theyre standing on
Non physical cartridge ejection
Hitbox being a box
Movement being purely directional in anything going for immersion
Chromatic aberration, excessive glare, excessive ambient occlusion, blurry anti aliasing
Quiet footsteps
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dramatic forced walking sections, easily


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Invisible walls in any place other than the obvious end of the map.


 
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graphical clipping of any kind, but especially when a character's model clips into itself


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-difficulty scaling affecting health, weapon stats, ammo and enemy reaction time/accuracy and nothing else.


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the god damn level 1 quest where all you're doing is killing rodents in a sewer/basement/field, hate the troupe, and all rpgs just need to stop with that shit, make the level 1 enemies original for christ's sake.

1 shotting Bullet sponges as "difficulty" instead of upping the enemy's AI to be smarter.

Hitboxes larger than the animations (Looking at you LoL, fuck blitzcrank)

Stealth sections where there's no actual stealth mechanics in the game.


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Excuse me, I'm full of dog poison
Lol, sorey sound like a Canadian stepped on your Nike's.


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Lol, sorey sound like a Canadian stepped on your Nike's.
His voice and character pissed me off a lot

I really hate the whole "I won't kill anyone no matter what :^)" kind of character, even when faced with real life shit. It's such a naive fucking thing.


 
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Lol, sorey sound like a Canadian stepped on your Nike's.
His voice and character pissed me off a lot

I really hate the whole "I won't kill anyone no matter what :^)" kind of character, even when faced with real life shit. It's such a naive fucking thing.
>>>>>undertale


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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
I really hate the whole "I won't kill anyone no matter what :^)" kind of character, even when faced with real life shit. It's such a naive fucking thing.

Even this guy?


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Excuse me, I'm full of dog poison
Lol, sorey sound like a Canadian stepped on your Nike's.
His voice and character pissed me off a lot

I really hate the whole "I won't kill anyone no matter what :^)" kind of character, even when faced with real life shit. It's such a naive fucking thing.

Just blind em and puncture their eardrums. Problem solved.


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
QTE "help the useless NPC" parts in missions.

"Quick, help lift this garage door!"
"Help, a monster got me and I can't fight them off myself"
"Help, I've fallen and can't get up"
*tap tap tap tap/mash button combo*

Combine this with terrible AI, indicators and sounds that coat the screen telling you to fix them, and failure to do so means failing the mission... well, fuck you, Sheva. Gears of War, Last of Us, etc, etc.


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Following/trailing missions

Literally all they exist for is exposition, but because the devs actually have to make a game they disguise it as 'gameplay'.


 
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Lol, sorey sound like a Canadian stepped on your Nike's.
His voice and character pissed me off a lot

I really hate the whole "I won't kill anyone no matter what :^)" kind of character, even when faced with real life shit. It's such a naive fucking thing.
>>>>>undertale
Undertale had some actual substance behind it though with the multiple save thing, along with the decision to go a variety of pure, and evil.

This game, being a JRPG, forces its ideals and most GENERIC OF PLOTS down your fucking throat, even when killing someone makes the logical sense. Like there is even a character in the game who kills for you so "you won't have to". It's the most cookie cutter pure paragon bullshit I have seen in a long while, and the characters persistent smiling fucking default face makes me want to punch him in the god damn face.