Gaming Pet Peeves

[JMeganSnow]

if you've played DMC3 then you'd know what i'm talking about, second cutscene.. Dante rides a rocket. HE RIDES A ROCKET!

That seems like it would be tough on the ol' cojones if you misjudged the subsequent explosion.

There were a couple of brief cuts in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones where the Prince platforms up things with no hand or footholds. They were somewhat annoying just because they made me wonder "why didn't you just let me climb the rest of the way up and start the scene at the TOP?!"

The animators did a cute "bloopers" track that plays after you finish the game, and I thought it was hilarious (considering how absurd such a concept as "videogame bloopers" is) and I really wish they'd confined their desire for OSSUM ANIMATION!! to that.

 

[lukey94]

speechless protaganists as said early but i also have a list:

-needless ability to jump
-clueless AI (Blacksites Iraqis that allow you to shoot three of them before clocking on)
-brown; Its depressing for lords sake
-games where you can see bugger all
-very short games with no modes to let you pass time
-rpgs and such with an ending and then thats it - you can either redo the final fight or bugger off
-good games on PC - but not mac :'(
-games that wont run on newer macs (i know this one and two up are like the ones above them but its my list bitches)
-very short games that we have to wait yonks for
-Terrible voice acting
-awkward mmovement
-developers taking a perfectly good working control scheme and pooing all over it (blacksite again)

plus many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many more, i kind of hit a roadblock

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Cut scenes that have the character perform moves that can't be done IN GAME, devil may cry 3 is the worst example i can think of, anyone played that?.... the intro has dante using a pool table to devistating effect.

Well said. In the final boss fight of Metroid Prime, there are a few mini-cutscenes where Samus jumps ridiculously high.

"Y'know, that would have been real useful if I could jump like that in the game, instead of having to get the Double Jump Boots to cross wide gaps between platforms."

Or in Devil May Cry 4, when Nero uses a Scarecrow as a sled and starts sliding around and killing all the other Scarecrows. You can't do that in the actual game. The funny thing is, you CAN do that in Devil May Cry 3!

On the other hand, Devil May Cry 4 had the reverse of this. When Dante was slaughtering the guards in the intro cutscene, I couldn't help but think to myself, "Why doesn't he Prop Shredder / Million Stab / Dance Macabre them?"

 

[Avatar Roku]

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What is your biggest pet peeve in gaming? Mine is pre-pubescent children talking incessantly into the microphone.

Thirded. Also, I hate it when guns sound weak in FPS games.

Like the 10mm pistol in Fallout 3?
I hate that too. Big machine gun sound = BB gun

Yeah, I hate the 10mm, although most of the guns sound pretty good in Fallout 3. FEAR had some of the best feeling (and sounding) guns in any game I have ever played.

.Definitely, F.E.A.R was good like that. Can't wait for the sequel, this February.

 

[Mr. Fister]

Games that skimp on some graphical details annoy me. Especially when the character's hands look like their fingers are glued together, and they have arthritis. That just bugs the crap out of me.

 

[klc0100]

Yes, but when prompted for an explanation, he provided one. That's not very fanboyish, if we're using the same definition of the term.

Yes but his original post itself was, and according to him it wasn't. Had he not said that and just put his explanation I would have been fine, but he refused to accept he had done the same thing he had just said he dislikes.

Well, not quite, actually.

I also hate games that attract fanboys. Like, I was talking about Half-Life 2 or something and this kid was like, "Halo 3 is better!!!!" and I asked why, and the only reason he could give me was because it was fun. Half-Life 2 is fun, but Halo 3 doesn't even compare. Fanboys piss me off.

I'm not trying to be annoying, but what he said wasn't very fanboyish. He provided his opinion, and when asked for reasons, he provided them.

He provided his opinion as fact

Uhh... no? Half-Life was an all around better put together game and had a much better story, no matter how you look at it.

But I normally would over look that its just me nit picking now. I am not saying he is a half life fan boy I was just pointing out the oxymoron(word I was looking for earlier) in his original post I probably should of left it there so I will back down from this little debate
and let the thread get back on track. well played.
Also i wasn't trying to get into in argument we did keep it civil.

 

[Xojins]

He provided his opinion as fact

Don't we all?

But I normally would over look that its just me nit picking now. I am not saying he is a half life fan boy I was just pointing out the oxymoron(word I was looking for earlier) in his original post I probably should of left it there so I will back down from this little debate
and let the thread get back on track. well played.
Also i wasn't trying to get into in argument we did keep it civil.

I'm not trying to get into an argument either. The word you're looking for is "hypocrisy," by the way.

 

[MikeHax]

What is your biggest pet peeve in gaming?

No matter how much time I devote to a game (especially a fighting game), I will never be as good as the game is.

One example is Puzzle Quest, the CPU does a 13 hit combo (or chain) with 6 of them being four-in-a-row. My turn comes and I can't find any red mana and am lucky enough to string 3 gold together.

A better example is any Mortal Kombat game with Jax in it. CPU Jax is a bout as cheap as they come. He hits you with his rocket fists and gotcha grab. He then riddle you with bullets and ground pounds and before you know it, you're watching yourself get finished. I use Jax and my rocket fists are always blocked, before I can pull my gun I am speared, frozen or soul sucked and dead.

Second biggest pet peeve is being unable to see my characters (Force Unleashed and Hulk on 360, I'm looking at you.)

 

[DigitalSushi]

Angst main characters. Pathetic.
And gamers thinking Half Life 2 is completely flawless.

its not completely flawless, I always think to myself why don't the medics patch themselves up constantly during the "follow freeman" chapter, they seem to have an endless supply for Gordon.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

People who are unaware their Xbox 360 headset and mic are on....this usually leads to everyone having to listen to heavy breathing or otherwise strange background sounds.

This!

A few days ago on TF2 theres was kid playing who just wouldn't stop breathing into the mic. I've done this before, and usually someone will say "Dude, we can hear you breathing" and then I'll say "Oh, sorry" and move the mic away from my face.

This kid just didn't get it. It was 45 minite match of nothing but continous breathing.

Me: Hey, Slasher457, can you move your mic away from your face, we can hear you breathing
*breathing*
Me: Slasher, we can still hear it
*louder breathing*
Me: Dude, for gods sake, would you move your mic away from your face
*breathing*
Me: For fucks sake, Slasher that is possibley the most annoying noise I have ever heard
*Breathing, Cough, Breathing*
Me: Slasher, please! I really can't concentrate with you breathing
Asma kid: Wh-What?
Me: Could you please move your mic away from your face, your breathing is really annoying
Asma kid: Oh, right yer
*rough noises*
Me: Cool, cheers.
*breathing*
Me: WHAT THE HELL!!

Now imagine about 40 or so minites of this. Worst thing was, when I turned off my mic, it was so loud I could hear it coming out of the screen, like over the explosions of TF fucking 2

I had the same exact situation in Left 4 Dead. I tried to boot the kid but apparently everyone else wanted him there.

Thats the problem with left 4 dead. Unless there actually sat their intentionally shooting you, a bot is a hell of a lot more annoying. Most retards can sit in a corner and shoot. A bot that can shoot a hunter with a shotgun from 300 yards can't follow orders, or form stratagies.

 

[ExistentialCrisis]

While I have a laundry list of pet peeves, I'll try to narrow it down to the big ones...

- laughable plot holes that could have been more creatively handled.
- most all adolescent or teenage characters (with a few exceptions); I don't know who wrote the book on their stereotypes as video game characters, but a copy of that book seems to be in every game developers office...
- when a secondary, largely ignored character is ten times cooler than a main character.
- having to go to GameFAQs to figure out a puzzle, boss, or gameplay mechanic when the manual/in-game-text doesn't explain it fully.
- unreasonable or unforgiving quick-time/timing-based game elements. Case in point: I thought Legend of Dragoon was a decent game aside from the timing-centric battle system. Conversely, I never got the Attack Scarf or Super Suit in Super Mario RPG...

 

[DigitalSushi]

WAIT I GOT ANOTHER ONE!

stupid douchbag bosses that care only to be brutally murdered by a particular weapon, Vamp's a good one in MGS2, not the first fight with him but when he's holding up Emma Emmerich... why can't I run up to him and stab him in the face?, Sniper wolf, I could lob grenades that far you spiteful bag.

Worst of all, the Campaigner from the N64 classic Turok (it was good alright), in the game you search for the most powerful weapon that can defeat everything called the chronoscepter, you get eight levels in which it happens to be scattered in, the last peice is found just before the fight against evil pantomine villian "the Campaigner".
So what do you do?, you equip it, he then does a move which stops you using it?
AYE? i've only just got this bloody thing and you steal it from me? you cheap bastard.

same goes with the fusion cannon and particle gun. I hate him!

the instruction manual stated I needed the chronoscepter to defeat him?, so I looked for it real hard, then I'm not allowed to use it? *STARTS FOAMING AT THE MOUTH*

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

-players that try to talk like rappers "Ah, everybody's pickin medics? What the hell dawg, everybody's tryin' to steal my shine." I shit you not, somebody said that last night.

-Orb pick ups; We get it, skills and health for killing people.. I don't need the illogical light show that doesn't even work within the logic of the game (Force Unleashed) to demonstrate this to me for 4 hours.

-bad checkpoint placement; sorry, but i don't want to kill 100 grunts and run up a staircase just to reach the doorstep of the boss' lair all the while breaking my rythm for his pattern.

-games where you learn by trial and error where even logic and skill can't save you

-QTE; I played Dragon's Lair when I was 9 years old, it didn't feel like a game then and it still doesn't feel like one now. It feels more like a repititious game of Simon.

-Massive Raid Content; I have children and I want them to know my name. I just don't have the time to socially work up the peer pressure ladder of a guild just to get sweet gear before they inevitably break up due to an online affair.

-Mission Failed Screens; nothing kills the immersion of a game more than having text telling me that i messed up so bad that i can't beat the level therefore they are shutting me down immediatly. it's like when you fowl up on bumper cars and the attendant jumps on your car and ushers you back to the sideline for being a jerk.