Current Events > Gaming pet peeves

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-When they hype the next year's game in the main fucking menu for the current game. Battlefield V, Madden 19, etc. Just let me own what I own, god damn
-When you can't skip a cut-scene and it's right before an area you need to replay a few times, or even many times. I remember an old LOTR game was terrible about that, I never could get over it, pretty much quit

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Time limits

Lemme explore bitch
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When you get a dog companion and they feel the need to constantly have him bark & whine
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No FOV slider
Texture/model pop-in
No button remapping
Fetch quests/dailies

SSJGrimReaper posted...

Time limits

Lemme explore bitch

This. Pilotwings resort is one of the worst offenders.

Literally puts a time limit on the free exploration mode because....reasons?
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The beginning is a mandatory tutorial level. Destroys any replayability
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In RPGs when ya have a party member who fights with their fists but a buncha their weapons're claws or have blades stickin' out

Fuck that

Multiples paths to explore, one of them leads to story stuff that takes you out of the area and you don't know which one.

Walk and talk with an NPC that walks at the perfectly wrong speed where neither your walk or run keeps up with them properly.
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When you can't loot a fallen enemy's gear or weapons. They're dead, hand it over.
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Escort missions/walk and talk sections where the NPC's default walking speed is slightly faster than your character's walking speed and slightly slower than your character's running speed.

Quorthon109 posted...

Walk and talk with an NPC that walks at the perfectly wrong speed where neither your walk or run keeps up with them properly.

My man.
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Instakills
Invisible enemies
Taking all your weapons/gear/ammo away
Weapon durability
Anything timed
Escort missions
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People reloading after a few shots. If you you have a 50 round magazine, you don't need to reload after 3 shots!!!
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Infinitely respawning enemies.

Cheater87 posted...

People reloading after a few shots. If you you have a 50 round magazine, you don't need to reload after 3 shots!!!

I do this and will continue to do so. If the coast is clear why wouldn't you want to maximize your shot count by taking two seconds to reload?
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Dumb teammate AI but the enemy AI are terminators
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Itachi157 posted...

Cheater87 posted...

People reloading after a few shots. If you you have a 50 round magazine, you don't need to reload after 3 shots!!!

I compulsively do this after killing an enemy usually

I always do it by accident at the wrong time
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

Dumb teammate AI but the enemy AI are terminators

Especially when your teammates cant hit the broad side of a barn while the enemies can land 6 bullets on top of each other in your right eye.

*glares at infamous*
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Objective matches in multiplayer with teammates who pay no attention to the objectives as you lose

All of my rage
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Regular non-boss enemies who have a instant-kill move
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Don't know if it counts, but I fucking hate referral rewards.

>implying I have friends that weren't already playing the game before I was

>implying I have friends that want to play the same games I do in the first place

>implying I have friends at all
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When I'm playing a game with instant respawns, like a beat 'em up or a shooter, and I come back to beat the boss in one hit. It's the worst feeling in any game. 9 times out of 10, I shut the game off when that happens.

It's like, the boss beat me in a clean fight and I'm handed the victory on a respawn. It's like the boss is saying, "Fuck you, I beat you. You don't get a second chance. Okay, you want to win? Fine. *lays down* Ugh, I'm beaten. Go on, you're the big winner. We can't have Mr. Hero lose a close fight, can we? Hes gotta move on to the next stage because he had an extra life."

It completely ruins the fun of victory and a bad victory is worse than defeat.

Unskippable logos on boot.
Fuck you, Criware. I don't even know what it is, but I'm sick of being forced to see the logo every damn time I start a game.

Itachi157 posted...

When you have to also sign up for some separate service (other than Steam, XBL, PSN etc) when you play a game. For example, play an EA game, also have to sign up for EA Special Access (or whatever) and integrate it with your PSN account. I haven't noticed this in a while (though I haven't played a lot of the huge recent multiplayer releases) but I know I've had to do this for games before.

I don't mind this on PC but I would be so pissed off if I had to do this for console games.
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Itachi157 posted...

Cheater87 posted...

People reloading after a few shots. If you you have a 50 round magazine, you don't need to reload after 3 shots!!!

I compulsively do this after killing an enemy usually

Same

It usually gets me killed
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When a game has a final choice with only two options yet within the story itself there's reasons for a third obvious choice. Looking at you Life is Strange.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

It completely ruins the fun of victory and a bad victory is worse than defeat.

Yup, this is a Skye post.
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Durability
Time limits
When you always have to keep moving progressing, and there's no option to keep characters in NG+. An example would be Super Robot Wars. In most SRW games there aren't free stages; you just keep advancing the story. And unfortunately for me, one of my favorite units, the Lancelot Albion, is only acquired in like the second/third to the last stage. So I could only use it for a few stages before I had to play through the entire game again <_<
Input-reading AI in fighters that just turtle all day
Having to unlock stuff offline in a game where I want to play online
Fire Emblem probability. I remember in one time in the arena I missed a 97% hit, then got killed by a 1% crit.
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Missable collectables or areas
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dave_is_slick posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

It completely ruins the fun of victory and a bad victory is worse than defeat.

Yup, this is a Skye post.

If I wanted victory handed to me, I'd punch in a cheat code or use save states. Hell. Why bother? Just watch a video on YouTube and say that you won because you played the video.

In video games with instant respawns, I honestly feel that bosses should regain a bit of health if you die. At least if they're on their last leg. There's really no reason why you should be handed victory because you have an extra life remaining.

SSJGrimReaper posted...

Time limits

Lemme explore bitch

Usually I agree, but I feel like some games need them. Like people complained about XCOM 2, but it was the only logical response to the overpowered strategy of Turtling in the first game.

Anyway, linear games and 'narrative driven' games. If there is more cutscene than gameplay, it's not fun for me. I don't want to be force fed the story, especially when video game writing is generally a much lower tier than other media. Games biggest advantage are that they are interactive and people can experience things differently, so why ruin that?

Not video games, but

In tcgs when the opponent has a clear shot at making a game-ending attack but instead take their last turn to do some long ass combo.

Ive got 1 card in hand and nothing on the field. Youve got 3 monster, five backrow and a full hand of cards. Just finish the game lol
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-Escort missions
-Uncooperative players who just leach experience and rewards.
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Limited Continues.
The NES era was fucking infested with this shit. Even Mario succumbed to it,

Limited inventory systems and they ways they get exploited.
In any other game 99 potions takes up 1 slot out of infinite, but if the inventory is limited; each potion takes up its own slot. The only way to make a Hunger system viable, is to limit the amount of food you can carry. And of course theres Weapon Durability to round out the trifecta of features in a limited inventory.
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fuzzylittlbunny posted...

When you always have to keep moving progressing, and there's no option to keep characters in NG+.

Persona
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...

fuzzylittlbunny posted...

When you always have to keep moving progressing, and there's no option to keep characters in NG+.

Persona

Yes, Persona annoyed me with this too. But at the very least with the free time you could grind in dungeons for as long as you could survive, so you could spend quite a while using late game characters.
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Online only achievements
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AlisLandale posted...

Not video games, but

In tcgs when the opponent has a clear shot at making a game-ending attack but instead take their last turn to do some long ass combo.

Ive got 1 card in hand and nothing on the field. Youve got 3 monster, five backrow and a full hand of cards. Just finish the game lol

lol
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fuzzylittlbunny posted...

EpicMickeyDrew posted...

fuzzylittlbunny posted...

When you always have to keep moving progressing, and there's no option to keep characters in NG+.

Persona

Yes, Persona annoyed me with this too. But at the very least with the free time you could grind in dungeons for as long as you could survive, so you could spend quite a while using late game characters.

Persona
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

Time limits

Lemme explore bitch

Time limits can be fun as long as it's like, one or two levels/missions.
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the dumbing down of gameplay elements in sequels to appeal to a broader audience
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Unskippable logos on boot.
Fuck you, Criware. I don't even know what it is, but I'm sick of being forced to see the logo every damn time I start a game.

I KNOW WHO MADE THE DAMN GAME

YOU TOLD ME THE LAST THIRTY TIMES
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The Wheelman1 posted...

Online only achievements

Honestly, I interpret multiplayer trophies as just the game's way of saying don't bother with any trophies.

Except in the rare case where the multiplayer trophies are, like, play X number of matches, instead of defeat every enemy four times before any other player can get a single kill on a Tuesday on that map literally nobody votes for when it is both sunny and raining in Santa Fe and the enemies all spawned as women.
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ExpertLover posted...

the dumbing down of gameplay elements in sequels to appeal to a broader audience

This always comes to mind whenever a new elder scrolls drops
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unskippable cutscenes, especially when combined with ultra long tutorial or introduction chapters. it kills the mood for new game+.
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