Things in games that make you RAGE!!!!

[GodsAndFishes]

First let me just say that normally I am not the sort of person who goes straight into shouting at the screen when a game buggers up. But one thing that has the ability to set me off almost straight away is the auto aim (e.g. in Prototype where the boss is two feet in front of you but apparently a helicopter on the other side of the map is a greater threat).

So my question to you lot is this: What in a game makes you rage?

 

[iggyus]

I am enraged that I cannot kill children in video games. I mean they are the most annoying little buggers why cant I just take a shotgun to their heads?

 

[scnj]

Weapon degradation. It was fine in Fallout 3, where I could easily repair, but in other games (Silent Hill Origins) it was almost game breaking.

 

[XSA37]

My Rage is Auto-Aim as well. My Auto-Aim, however is in CoD4 when I am sniping. It really pisses me off when I am trying to shoot somebody and the auto-aim pulls my scope in the direction of somebody behind them, causing me to miss both people.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Escort missions!!!

 

[ShotgunShaman]

Deaths where there is no possible way you could have prevented it, especially when due to a faulty camera, a blocking ally, etc.

 

[atomictoast]

Snipers.

I HATE snipers so much. I don't care that most FPS players like being snipers. Its the least skilled way to play any FPS. Try actually playing the game instead of hiding in a little hill keeping your mouse at the same spot where you know someones head will always be at regardless of how you enter.

 

[IxionIndustries]

The anti-piracy methods for Earth 2160. You have to use your serial number, put it in, AND THEN REGISTER OVER THE FUCKING PHONE.
Unfortunately for me, since I have moved and upgraded quite a few times with my computer, when I put in the serial number, it doesn't fucking work online. So I call up the company to put in my code, it turns out, they aren't there anymore to register!

 

[Brown Cap]

In Left 4 Dead, when i'm just running along i have two regular zombies hitting me - it slows me down and i can BARELY move. How does slapping and hitting a person cause them to stop dead in their tracks? I can understand a horde of zombies gathering around you can do some damage but 1-2 zombies? REALLY?

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Snipers.

I HATE snipers so much. I don't care that most FPS players like being snipers. Its the least skilled way to play any FPS.

Even though technically it requires the most skill to be a proper sniper, but thats just me using logic....

Shitty endings...... I want to choke somebody for the ending to Eternal Sonata utter garbage to a really nice game

 

[TheScarecrow]

My Rage is Auto-Aim as well. My Auto-Aim, however is in CoD4 when I am sniping. It really pisses me off when I am trying to shoot somebody and the auto-aim pulls my scope in the direction of somebody behind them, causing me to miss both people.

I have only played the PC version a few times online but I don't think I've had that problem.

 

[Kajt]

In Left 4 Dead, when i'm just running along i have two regular zombies hitting me - it slows me down and i can BARELY move. How does slapping and hitting a person cause them to stop dead in their tracks? I can understand a horde of zombies gathering around you can do some damage but 1-2 zombies? REALLY?

This, and it also applies for World of Warcraft.

 

[XSA37]

My Rage is Auto-Aim as well. My Auto-Aim, however is in CoD4 when I am sniping. It really pisses me off when I am trying to shoot somebody and the auto-aim pulls my scope in the direction of somebody behind them, causing me to miss both people.

I have only played the PC version a few times online but I don't think I've had that problem.

I play the 360 version, and snipe about 90% of the time. That pretty much means that I notice it more since I'm not running around and aiming on the fly, but setting up and watching a specific area.

 

[Camarilla]

The anti-piracy methods for Earth 2160. You have to use your serial number, put it in, AND THEN REGISTER OVER THE FUCKING PHONE.
Unfortunately for me, since I have moved and upgraded quite a few times with my computer, when I put in the serial number, it doesn't fucking work online. So I call up the company to put in my code, it turns out, they aren't there anymore to register!

I know it's not ideal, but Good Old Games has Earth 2160 for sale at only $5.99 (it also has 2140 and 2150), DRM free. If you can't find another way to sort it, that might help

Link [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/earth_2160]

 

[Simalacrum]

I was ninja'd upon my hate for snipers, so I'd have to say grenades. Especially in CoD4... your just walking around minding your own business when suddenly your dead. You chcek the kill cam to see what the bloody hell happened and found that some lucky bugger cooked a grenade and threw it at where you happened to be. ARGH!

 

[Xojins]

When people use the same cheap tactics over and over and show no variation.

 

[TheScarecrow]

I play the 360 version, and snipe about 90% of the time. That pretty much means that I notice it more since I'm not running around and aiming on the fly, but setting up and watching a specific area.

Ah, I havn't played on XBL so I'm not sure. I'm more of a straight into the combat type, I just love the chaos of 50 odd players running about shooting and grenades going off.

 

[teisjm]

Rage-quitters in dota makes me rage (though I don't follow it with a quit)

 

[PhantomCritic]

I am enraged that I cannot kill children in video games. I mean they are the most annoying little buggers why cant I just take a shotgun to their heads?

Escort missions!!!

Snipers.

I HATE snipers so much. I don't care that most FPS players like being snipers. Its the least skilled way to play any FPS.

Even though technically it requires the most skill to be a proper sniper, but thats just me using logic....

Shitty endings...... I want to choke somebody for the ending to Eternal Sonata utter garbage to a really nice game

This, this and this.

And those annoying rival characters of the main characters in games, they boast they are stronger than you when quite clearly you can kick their butts anytime. Dunno why it annoys me, it just always has.

 

[wildwind1290]

Mine was when I had to deal with a sniper in a DLC of Valkyria Chronicles. He was sitting on a fifteen-foot ridge and casually taking aim at my beloved Susie, and I couldn't do a bloody thing about it because he always moved out of sight after putting a bullet in one of my guys. I just wanted to thoroughly maim him.