Gaming Mechanic you hate the most!!!!

[DustyDrB]

Quick Time Events and Regenerating Health. I hate them both.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Cutscenes that you cannot skip. These should be done away with by LAW

 

[TitanAtlas]

Well I don't really hate QTEs but a game that only uses them occasionally is annoying. You're not looking for a QTE so by the time you see it you're like huh? what? I mean would it be so hard to show a little pop up in the corner that says QTE scene so I'm not eating or drinking or something when a QTE suddenly happens!?

exactly... lost planet 2 was the worst with those... i didnt even knew the game had them... you could be on a cutscene nothing happened, but suddently qte... and there were no differences between cutscenes... you had to pay attention and watch them all...

Lost Planet was the worst? HAHAHAHAHA!!! You obviously haven't played Bayonetta.

OT: Guards that are more powerfull then the hero, especially in Oblivion.

Well i have played bayonetta, but the game from the start was a gigantic QTE... in Lost Planet 2, you didnt ven knew there were QTE... and in bayonetta the cutscenes were different from one to another, so you never used QTE in the cutscenes, only in-game... so thats not so bad...

also i agree with the super guards... guards should reach only a certain level... for example if youre playing a game where the lvl cap is about 50.... its ridiculous to find guards THAT level... they should only reach level 35/40 TOP!!! basicly the guards are more powerfull, then the person whos destined to save the world...

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Time Limits - Because you're constantly panicking and worrying that you're running out of time. And if you lose you have to do the whole thing all over again

Weapon Limits - It's just not fun ...

Escort Mission - I don't need to say more do I?

Fetch Quests - They're boring, they're stupid and they don't reward you much

Backtracking - The developer's way of saying "I was too lazy to think of something new"

Recycling - When you fight the 3 main bosses 4 times ... something's not right(Yeah, I'm talking about you Devil May Cry 4!)

Text ending - Where you have to read something for 5 minutes ... GIMME SOME CINEMATIC CUTSCENES DAMMIT! I beat the game and this is all I get???

Escort Mission - Yeah, I REALLY hate them

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Fucking Karma Meter, Paragon/Renegade Bar, every other moral allignment thing
They are so stupid. I don't need this. They serve no purpose except to make you play the game more than one way. Except they force you to play it either good or bad and thats no fun.
Also, they have video game logic with them. Like in Fallout 3 I hated doing the evil option because it was always kill a kitty morally black evil. So what I did to get the achievements was I stole all I could and still went with the good choices for most of the major ones like with the slaves. And Three-Dog would still greet me as the horror of the wastes. But yeah they need to get rid of that or fix it somehow.

Did you even play Mass Effect before you lumped its Karma meter with those of other games? Both sides of the Mass Effect meter aren't mutually exclusive, so it's not "forcing" you to do anything. It's not "If you're evil, eat this kitten to prove it" either. Shepard is always a hero technically. The difference is just now nice he/she is when getting results.

I have played and I do like Mass Effect. The same goes for Fallout. I know that the its not a linear alignment, but the point is both Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 have the karma meter tie in to the speech. So you have to go all the way on one end if you want the speech skill. However, it is true that Renegade isn't tie women to railroad tracks bad, but just asshole/racist bad, but asshole/racists can save the galaxy too.

Ah, speech checks. Yeah, that makes more sense. Sorry if I came off as rude or insulting.

OT: Found one. Unskippable, unpausable cutscenes. I might need to do a chore like I always do, I might have played the game already. Convenience is good, yes?

 

[MrMrAwesom]

turns out its about half that if you do the 6 month at a time thing, but i see your point. though the casting time makes a little bit of sense (takes time to conjure the spell, especially the powerful ones) and it allows another option for them to fiddle with for game balance (because if magi were as powerful as they should be in games, it would not be fun for all non magi)

as for my personal least favorite game mechanic, never really liked quick time events, but they can be useful (like in infamous where to heal or leech people you had to do a very minor quick time event, like a double check to make sure you didn't accidentally do the karmatic opposite thing).
also hate time limits most of the time (again, sometimes they make sense)dislike invisible barriers (if i shouldn't go somewhere, lay a minefield or put a wall/fence/wall of men with guns on hair triggers and even shorter tempers) and it really bugs me with a noticeable lack of voice acting in single player games. just seems lazy.

and finally, dipshit Allied AI, because it seems the enemies sucked all of their intelligence and use it to absolutely destroy you, and your allies cant remember how to do much more than shuffle forward and pull the trigger at anything which resembles a mobile organism. becomes especially irksome on higher difficulties, when it would be nice if your allies could draw fire for more than a second, cover a flank, actually do some damage (in rts games and fps games. rpg games seem to not suffer from this problem as much)

All of those too but I have a low mental capacity & half way through I'd probably -hey a bird!

 

[Doti]

Any game that seems to insist in not actually letting me play it. Either by long winded cutscenes, with bonus points if they show your character being all awesome and badass and doing things you could never actually do in-game a la FF XIII, or riddled with QTEs, like the end of Wet (seriously, I was absolutely appalled by how bad the whole thing was, but that took the cake for the most anticlimactic finale I've ever (not) played).

 

[Sovereignty]

Any form of loading screen, without a video, mini-game, something to keep me occupied.

Seriously, at least in DW7 they string the cut scenes into the loading screens.

 

[Duskflamer]

limits to the amount of W/E you can carry. Im thinking inventory limits such as in mass effect,dragon age, oblivion, fallout, etc. I understand that this is supposed to make the player economize their inventory to add a strategic element to the game but i know im not in the minority when i say that all it does is make me collect junk until i have reached capacity go to the nearest store to sell the junk i dont need then return to the place i was picking the junk up from. Maybe this is all my fault for doing it, but the aforementioned games almost insist you do this in order to be able to afford all the good slash services you'll need to progress. A good game would accommodate for all gameplay strategies that a player may come up with when it comes to stuff like this. At least make it an option game developers!

Hmm, I realize this thread is mostly licence to complain about things but I feel a need to contest this, as far as the way Oblivion and Fallout 3 handle this. Given that you can see both how much an item weighs and how much money it's worth, it's a lot easier than in most games to decide which items are worth keeping and which items you can stand to leave behind. In addition, if you feel you want to carry more, all you need to do is make a character who focuses on Strength, as that increases your carrying capacity, or in Oblivion you can use feather spells to increase how much you can carry, dropping everything to vendor dump is not the only option.

Also, Money is not nearly so scarce in Oblivion and Fallout that you absolutely need to sell every little thing in order to stay competitive, especially considering that you can usually loot the next tier of weapons and armor from enemies a good 2 levels before they appear in shops.

That last point becomes something I have a bone with actually. Not a game mechanic per-say, but games that give you far too much money with far too little to spend it on piss me off.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Anything that makes you lose control of your character, it puts your mind into an absolute mess of frustration and makes me play extremely bad even if you are slowed/stunned very lightly.

 

[Alphakirby]

XP SYSTEMS IN MULTIPLAYER FPSs: It causes an imbalance in play,for those who don't play the game all the time,they'll constantly be killed by people with better weapons,perks,and death perks. Yes,I've had to deal with this,why do you ask?

Regenerating Health: It kills some of the skill of the game,in terms of preservation. Because all you would need to do is hide behind a corner for a minute and all your health and armor would be back at full force. It also takes away some of the challenge seeing as you'll never need to be careful because there's always cover somewhere in these games.

Only Two Weapons!?: I remember in Doom or Wolfenstein 3D where I would have lots of neat weapons to customize my killings (I.E. Minigun to one guy,shotgun to another,then topping it off with a BFG) But having 2 weapons only limits my options for killing dudes.

Fucking. Escort. Missions.: Sadly,this is what turned me off of RE4,having to protect some ball and chain that's as fragile as fiberglass and doesn't do anything to aid me. Not to say that RE5 was any better in that department which leads to my next mechanic I despise.

Broken Partner AI: This was one of the biggest reasons RE5 sucked (Other than it completely becoming an action game) your partner was so stupid,you needed to play with another person just to survive.

and finally
Map Packs or how I stopped loving Halo and learned to hate paying $15 for more game maps: Seriously,it's a waste of money but you have to buy them...because everyone else will be playing them, cutting you off from playing multiplayer with your friends and others because you didn't "Collect 'Em All!"

This is merely a sampler of gaming mechanics I hate,but this post is getting pretty damn long.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

I can't believe so few people have mentioned Cover-based-shooting.

Imo, its the single worst part of any 3PS and of shooter games as a whole, utterly detracting from the experience in everyway. Mass Effect is one of the worst offenders here -- literally every single action sequence is based around this mundane game mechanic.

 

[cognitively_deprived]

I don't like cover based shooting in 3PS, I thought it was pretty cool when I first came across it but I prefer having the freedom to move the camera and my character.

I understand why games use this because it lets them put in a cool animation but I am not a fan.

 

[TheTim]

Time Limits, or protection missions, those are the worst.

 

[cognitively_deprived]

oh and AI partners and team mates.

Very good in theory, I have not played a game where it works properly. Apart from maybe an old rainbow six game (forget which one) but only because they just stayed out of the way unless I specifically told them to go somewhere/do something, and this is hardly it working properly.

 

[cognitively_deprived]

I quite liked the protection missions on brink playing as the engineer.

 

[DrScoobs]

collect x amount of something scattered about THE HUGE FUCKING OPEN WORLD CITY THAT YOU ARE WALKING AROUND IN.

jesus, its a rubbish, time wasting mechanic.

 

[cognitively_deprived]

Time Limits, or protection missions, those are the worst.

I quite liked the protection missions on brink playing as the engineer.

 

[Scabadus]

It's a bit more specific than most examples, but there's a mechanic in Command and Conquer: Generals and its expansion Zero Hour where if you have the computer totally beaten, it'll sell the last couple of its buildings and self destruct all of its units.

Let me say that again: once you've effectivly won the match, the computer ragequits.

I wish I was making that up.

 

[Doti]

It's a bit more specific than most examples, but there's a mechanic in Command and Conquer: Generals and its expansion Zero Hour where if you have the computer totally beaten, it'll sell the last couple of its buildings and self destruct all of its units.

Let me say that again: once you've effectivly won the match, the computer ragequits.

I wish I was making that up.

Doesn't Age Of Empires II do the same thing? A little off -topic, but I'm just wondering.