LogFAQs > #969300577

Ooh, do I have a list.

-Games that require Day 1 patches. For that matter, games that release horribly broken with the intent of patching them later, because the developers are basically offloading their testing and Q&A process to their own fucking customers.

-Games where you have scripted losses against enemies that you can easily mop the floor with. I don't mind losing a battle if the story needs it to happen, but at least do me the courtesy of *actually* making me lose to a decent opponent, rather than having the equivalent of Mario surrounded by three Goombas declaring the situation to be hopeless. I absolutely love the Kiseki/Trails series, but man do those games absolutely love them this trope.

-Games with forced multiplayer achievements, particularly when multiplayer isn't even the main focus of the game. I'm a completionist and also a bit of a recluse, so I almost never play games online and it always annoys the hell out of me when I'm missing ~20% of the achievements because they require you to do random shit online.

-Everything to do with microtransactions, loot boxes, paid DLC, season passes, and basically all the money-grubbing dirty tactics that has turned gaming into absolute shit in the last 5-10 years. I honestly can't remember the last time I played a new, triple-A title, because of all the bullshit that modern gaming tosses in fistfulls at you that prevent you from actually enjoying the game. It has to have been almost a decade now - last one honestly might have been Skyrim. Since then, I'm basically exclusively into retro gaming and indie titles, because at least those games usually don't have their heads planted firmly in their own asses.

-In a game with no autosaves and/or where saving is limited to specific spots, do not present me with two identical paths, one of which leads to collectables and/or extra stuff, the other of which leads to story progression after which it is impossible to backtrack to re-explore the first path. Whichever psychopath thought this up needs to be in an institution.