Gaming Pet Peeves

[KrackleJack]

1.LAG
2.Kids screaming into their mic when they get killed

 

[PatrioticPineapple]

Kids who think their BA's and just yell,yell,yell,yell,yell but is fun when you kill them and their like "AHHHWABAWA SHIT FACE AHAHWA NOO ! and they quit thats one good thing

 

[SimuLord]

Since I play singleplayer only (due in large part to the fact that so many MPers are complete douchebags), my pet peeves tend toward the gameplay side.

The biggest one? Games that force the player down a path. I want builders that allow me to build small and just experiment with it (<3 SimCity 4), RPGs where I can ignore the main quest (or where there IS no main quest, a la Mount&Blade), and strategy games where I can design sandboxes for myself to play around with the game mechanics (nobody, and I mean NOBODY, does this quite like Simutrans.)

 

[Pegghead]

An unfair camera, unfair checkpoints, getting stuck on a small little bit of scenery, cheesy story, voice acting, setting, main character, jokes. Bland graphics, unexciting missions that while cleverly disguised basically mean to go here and kill people. Playing as an unlikeable asshole. Bad music, intense fucking hype that doesn't live up to its claims, brown, depressing graphics, cliche, *Shudder* Realism, unbalanced gameplay elements, most examples of non-linearity because while alot of games pull off open world roaming very well such as the fable and fallout games with greatly varied clever environments each offering different characters and stories others do it badly making everywhere just as samey and boring as everywhere else such as prototype. I believe that a game should either tell a story through alot of PROPER cutscenes (Such as the resident evil games) or merge the story seamlessly into the gameplay (Such as half-life 2), a pet peeve of mine is when some games refuse these two good choices altogether and might have just one properly done, well animated cutscene with the rest being clunky, mistextured messes (Such as Prototype *Still a good game though*).

 

[kemosabi4]

Oh, you must hate my user name then.

Actually, yours has a nice ring to it. It's just absurd ones like I mentioned in the OP that I really hate.

We got a problem here buddy?

Maybe... You got a problem with me havin' a problem?

 

[Marshmallow]

Screaming 12 year olds on multiplayer. Especially on M games. Go play legos or something for Christ's sake. Only come back when you start churning out testosterone and grow a pair.

You took the words right out of my mouth. I especially hate it when they come into my game (other than Halo) and insist I go play Halo. It also seems that all they can do is complain about dying. I had one in L4D that I rather enjoyed leaving for dead.

I used to simply ignore them, but now I go out of my way to make fun of them until they leave. Not too nice I know, but it's especially worth it when they try to talk back. Apparently "your mom" jokes are all the rage with prepubescent kids these days.