Things you hate in games
 

As much as we like games in this section there's always things that annoy us or that we seriously dislike about them. I'll start:

Water levels: a classic most seem to hate. Rarely do I play a water level I enjoy. It's just annoying to have slower movements and being unable to attack or have your attacking options limited.

Long unskippable cutscenes: OK, I get it that I gotta watch ti the first time, but if I die in that level or against that boss and need to start over why the hell should I be forced to sit through the cutscene again?!

Missions where you gotta follow a car without being seen/noticed: Yeah Sleeping Dogs and GTA sort of games love these. I don't mind car chases but having to drive slow and keeping a fairly long distance away from a car is annoying.

Having to fight several bosses in a row without checkpoints in-between them or being able to refill your health: Like Hyperstone Heist in the Gauntlet level. 4 goddamn bosses in a row UGH

Boring long loading screens: Some games need some time to load every time we start them up such as Europa Universalis because they gotta load the maps and such. It'd be less boring if I could read some tips or some sentences during those 3 minute long loading screens instead of just looking at an 18th century knight on top of his horse whilst I wait for the game to fully load.

When a game doesn't give you the option of turning on subtitles during cutscenes: My English is quite good for a non-native speaker but sometimes the character might have a tough accent to understand or I might miss a word or two. Not to mention I tend to pay more attention to what I read than to what I hear.

What about you? What are some gripes you have?

Came here to say underwater levels. At least they normally have pretty great music.

Trailing missions, especially ones where you're responsible for keeping the NPC from getting attacked. Guiding the robot in Skyward Sword up the volcano comes to mind as an easy example.

Ah escort missions? I never got many of those, maybe because the types of games I play usually don't have them but I hated that level in BattleNexus where you had to protect the Fugitoid from the Federation soldiers.

Thank God Ruto in Ocarina of Time doesn't get hurt otherwise Lord Jabu jabu's dungeon would have been even more unbearable.

Oh god, the wagon thing in Twilight Princess...Ruto is bearable compared to that. Her personality is annoying, but the actual process isn't so bad.

Well true that. Btw, I liked Hyrocity Zone in Sonic 3, which is an oddity since water levels in Sonic tend to be nerve wrecking.

Ruto gets much better when you finish the dungeon and especially when she grows up. She actually gets some character development.

Mipha > Ruto! :D

I really oughta play Twillight Princess someday but Wind Waker didn't do much for me and I heard TP is just as easy if not even easier. Not really dying to play Skyward Sword.

Never play an SNK game.

When you beat a game on the easy or normal difficulties, and then the game telling you to play on the hardest difficulty in order to see the real ending.

TMNT 4: Turtles In Time on the SNES is guilty of that.

Or games that require you to get 100% in order to see the real ending too.

Street Fighter II did that too. Tbh, it gave those games more replay value. Gotta keep in mind that games back then were usually shorter. Turtles in Time is quite easy in the easy difficulty but on the hard one it's quite challenging and I usually run out of continues by Prehistoric Turtlessaurus.

Muthafvcking fetch quests

Also, poor autosave systems. I was playing Skyrim and trying to level up one of my character's magic stats and I kept getting killed by the same enemy in the same spot after having to fast travel back to where I was trying to complete an objective. I eventually just rage-quit :lol:

I also really hate dying at a boss and not being able to restart the fight right again but having to go through the whole level or a certain section before getting another try. It kills off the adrenaline/pace a bit. It's particularly annoying in Zelda games because you ALWAYS restart at the beginning of the dungeon.

I'm going to list these annoyances of mine:

1.) Glitches within game play. Some glitches are sorta cool or just plain weird - most of the time, a player runs the risk of being screwed over by a video game glitch.

2.) Having to work alongside an 'incompetent acting' AI partner, while the other AI opponents are brutally competent. I'm not going to lie, I do like the challenge some of the time within the game, but not through every single level within the game itself.

3.) Icy surfaces within the level(s) of the game. Absolutely NO traction on an icy surface whatsoever, and the games that have made an icy surface bearable to tread, run, or drive on ...seem sorta hard to come by.

Boss Endurances or whatever they're called. Right before the final boss. It's annoying and cheap. Give me something new or just take me to the final boss to begin with. (I agree having to replay a stage kills the adrenaline and flow)

1-Hit-Kills is probably my number one complaint ever. It's the cheapest thing. You're going to mess up at some point. If there's no health bar system I'm out.

As much as I love Mega Man 2 what was the need to face all of the Robot masters again in Wily's Castle. it's true they're pretty easy now since you know their weakness and have every weapon at your disposal... but still not really needed.

As for one hit deaths that's mostly an older games thing. I don't believe many modern games have those do they?

Ya the boss thing is some of games I have. It's pointless

The 1 hit kills are mostly in older games I think. Especially now since save points defeat thier purpose entirely. Maybe some arcade style games still have them. I don't know.

Quick time events. They're mostly a lame way to turn a cut-scene into a mini-game, but I hate them even more when they include them in actual game play. For example, when you are fighting a boss and they perform some kind of charge attack, then you're given a split second to remember if the triangle button is at the top or on the left, fail, and lose most of your health.

Micro transactions. Uggh

Timed missions. That timed Security Hall stage in Sonic Adventure 2 was frustrating and took me sometime to beat. I found the timed duel against Gozaboro in Yugioh Nightmare Traoubadour annoying as well.

Loads and loads of loading. Duels in some Yugioh games such as Reshef of Destruction and WC2011 can be tedious because of this.