Ok i got carried away and made this WAAAAY too long, so if you don't want to read my opinionated ramblings just read the firsts sentence of every paragraph and thats what i think gaming should be without.
MW2, all halo games, GoW games and many other generic shooters that have something in it that allows players to easily kill the majority of average gamers. In MW2, commando knifing and duel model 1887 made it alot easier to kill people with only an average skill level. i havn't played halo that much, mainly because when i did play it their were no aussie servers and i was lagging like hell. it still had a shitty sort of feel to it though. And of course, shotgun in GoW. I havn't played it in ages but last time i did that was the majority of kills against me.
collecting and achievements that don't take skill to get, just a huge amount of time being wasted.
cut scenes. HL2 cutscenes (if you can call them that) are how its meant to be done. you have control but the story still unfolds around you. u can't really call it a cut scene but meh, its a good system.
balance issues and the way they are fixed. Seriously Blizz, the way you fix balance issues is NOT by making another classs unimaginably powerful to counteract your first mistake.
Again for WoW, games that listen to the people who complain. The reason why the game has balance issues is because the people who don't know what they are doing think its unfair that they fail at the game.
bad voice acting
lack of character development, for games that need it.
milking. as in all newer mario games, all newer sonic games, the cross overs,and everything else.
a game that is meant to make you fit.. .go exercise properly you Wii fanatics, please!
Final Fanasy... 1 was enough.
a game that focuses on muscle size, body type and breast size more than the actual gameplay. yes I'm talking about Soul caliber 4. As if my armour wasn't skimpy enough, it just got smashed off -.-
Boss battles that are easier than the normal, run of the mill enemies.
Boss battles that don't seem like boss battles, and you don't realise it IS a boss battle until afterwards when you get an achievement for it, and wonder why there is an achievement for something so easy.
Releasing games for profit, not for artistic design and audience entertainment. although this can go both ways. looking at the aussie film industry, we have alot of 'artistic' films that have no popularity rating and are only enjoyed by critics. there needs to be balance between the two. or maybe their are 2 many gamers that have been bred to acknowledge shit as entertainment. I know it comes down to personal opinion with gaming, but also peer pressure. and when all the cool kids say something like fable 3 is good, some people go and buy it and no matter how bad it is, keep mentioning how great it is.
Quick time events.
Games that are more about whats on your character than how you play it. I know this makes me a hypocrite because i play WoW, but WoW is my mellowing game. as long as i don't do PvP, it calms me down cause its so damn easy.
Realism over enjoyment. Call of duty, battlefield etc. Its more about shiny graphics and the bullets doing more realistic damage, than actually having fun. Games like HL2 deathmatch and TF2 are great because they don't give a damn about realism.
Not young players, but immature players. most of these are 12 or under, but one does find the occasional 40 year old prick who acts like a 6 year old.
Releasing a game in parts on 6 month intervals. The sims, need i say more?
Games that have multiple parts but seem to only really focus on one of those parts. This mgiht just be my hate for retarded multiplayer (although this game is alot better in that aspect than its predecessors) but in black ops i find that, as a result of gameplay, it should be renamed. It should be called nazi zombies 2, as really thats the only thing that really keeps me interested.
Horror games that arent really horror. amnesia is the only game i've ever played that has ever been scary, although half life 2 scared me a bit as well, especially the fast crawler zombies while i was out of ammo and in a small vent sort of area trying to not get killed by the big alien outside. Amnesia does it alot better, tho, with good pacing ,good sound effects and music. Fairly lit halls for the first bit, then the first time you meet a monster and it attacks its bloody invisible, and you have to jump from box to box to survive. Introducing the other monster in overly dark rooms etc etc. every time i play the game i come out exhausted cause i was so enthralled.
REDOING STORYLINES. again, WoW. I absolutely loved the warcraft 3 reign of chaos and frozen throne storylines, and what to they do in WoW? Change half of it >.<
Most protagonists being cliche, muscled, manly named men. and when it is a women, its always about how she looks.
Whats happening to RTS. SC2 and warcraft 3 reign of chaos in particular. both games have more custom games going than the actual game itself. if you've never playd these games, basically theres the rts then map maker, and people go around using map maker and their magical skills to make games like Dota, footies and other such things, games that are contained on maps and played in SC2, instead of playing SC2 itself.
i havn't mentioned alot of what i wanted to, but i can't think of what i wanted to say at this point so i guess thats it.
