What enrages you most in gaming?

[Azriel Nightshade]

I hate it when I play games that let me make custom characters, but for some reason do not allow me to make an brown skinned person. Dragon Age and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning( the demo at least,never got the game) are shit about this. Kinda bugs me in the Fable series, but to a lesser extent.

 

[thejackyl]

Lag. Anyone who plays online games should have this for their top answer.

"Artificial" Difficulty - I'm not talking Dark Souls. I thought that and Demon's Souls was punishing but fair. I'm talking something along the lines of enemy AI being damned near psychic. Perfect Sims and Dark Sims on Perfect Dark, Veteran Difficulty on CoD are some examples.

Infinite combos

Infinite combos should not exist. I was playing Anarchy Reigns online, and mixed with the lag I had, I could never break a combo, and consistently getting knocked into a long combo by someone who on my side was clear across the map. Lag and timing issues made combo-breaking impossible, if it was in the first place.

Open PvP in MMOs

Let me level in piece you bastards. I played WoW for about a week on a private server that had open PvP. It was even modded so that only Shattrath(sp?) City was safe. Needless to say there were "Donors" who had 3000 or so of EVERY STAT (Donating gave you free T6 gear, and special gear that gave 200 to every stat for EVERY SLOT, except trinkets) And of course people camped the starting areas. Freaking lvl 70s.

I played longer on the real servers and played the last expansion (Cata, not Panda-land) on a PvP server. I ended up getting camped an entire guild when I was level 50 or so. Most of them were level 85.

UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES: I can see forcing the player to watch it once, or if it's masking a loading screen (Show me a progress bar if I try to skip one of these, please)

Verbose Tutorials: I've been a gamer for over 20 years, I know some people are starting their first game while this is just another in my collection, but you don't need to treat me and every other gamer like they are pants-on-head retarded. I don't need a dialog box telling me how to move or "Press X to when the "Press X to use" icon shows up, which is ALWAYS shown as, who'da thunk it, an X, and usually a caricature of the PC doing an action, or even words.

Other (Online) Gamers: I like multiplayer games with friends. WITH FRIENDS. I abhor the average online gamer though. whether it's the elitist "pro gamer" who apparently sleeps with everyone's mother, the trolls, or the people who want to get good at a game without any effort (I saw this a LOT in WoW. The game is not hard to be decent at. I figured it out and was usually the top DPS in any run I went on. I had one person who CONSTANTLY bugged me about how to lay because we played the same class. I linked him to a site I used, and he complained that he didn't want to read anything, he wanted me to teach him... this was through the in game chat too.

 

[Jaxs]

-Generally, games that tout that the game is super immersive and engaging, then a big, giant QTE button appears in the middle of the screen. For me, nothing breaks immersion faster than that.

-Games that require 5% skill and 95% luck.
Every Mario Party game ever made has been made like this.
It pisses me off to no end when an opponent beats me by 1 star because he rolled a six-sided die better than me.
And the games just got worse as they went on, in one of the newer ones there is a mini-games where you have to pick the tallest tree, but no one knows which tree is tallest until everyone picks one (yes, they literally made a mini-game where everyone draws straws.)

I feel like I could just mash the A-button without looking at the screen for the entire game and I would have just a good a chance of winning as everyone else.

 

[Saregon]

Idiot AI partners, especially ones that get in the way. Colonial Marines has this one in spades. It feels like everytime I'm lining up a shot one of those morons steps right in front of me.

This. On my sneak archer in Skyrim I kept accidentally killing every single follower I got because they though stepping in front of my best enchanted bow with the best enchanted arrows while I'm sneaking just as I release the arrow is a great idea.

Also the whole DRM thing. If I buy a game in Steam, that should be enough, but no, I then have to get U-Play, or Games for Windows - LIVE or some such dumb crap. And now I can no longer get new EA games on PC, because that means Origin. Too bad, I do want to play ME3, but I can't be arsed to get it on my 360 and lose what I did in ME1 and 2, and I don't like Origin. So yeah, that.

Captcha: Finagle's law. Even captcha agrees that the timing of EA insisting on Origin is bad.

 

[Rook]

I have grown to despise the majority of online gamers I come across. Namely when they gloat about how well they've done or are doing despite using something like the the easiest fucking weapon in the game or the most pathetic method. The amount of times I'll be playing with my friends and they'll mention how much better they're doing, only to turn out that they're camping with a shotgun or something.

For instance, the amount of times my friends will go on Conquest on Metro in Battlefield solely to use the Striker or USAS and then gloat about the amount of kills they get. WHAT YOU'RE DOING INS'T SKILLFUL IN THE SLIGHTEST!!

...otherwise, when bosses regenerate large amounts of health moments before their death. Or after defeat, show up later in the game, EVEN STRONGER!

 

[Henkie36]

I notice that I get very quickly annoyed by poorly optimised gameplay (great example: the spawnsystem in CoD), and something not neccessarily related to gaming, my relatively slow connection. I hate it when someone kills me who is not exactly better, but just has a big advantage because he has a better connection.

 

[Xarathox]

I hate it when publishers think it's a good idea to say "FUCK YOU" to the fans with bullshit such as online passes and DRM.

I really don't have anything else other than that. :-|

This.

Also, exclusivity deals. (I'm looking at you Bethesda)

 

[Dogstile]

Honestly, it's not so much games these days as it is gamers.

I fucking hate the way a lot of gamers act these days.

This goes doubly for anyone who plays world of tanks. COD players will just mock you or are chavs who have picked up a controller. World Of Tanks players will spend the entirety of a match shouting at their team for not helping them (these are 15 minute matches) after suiciding.

Anyone who can spend 15 minutes frothing at the mouth isn't right in the head.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Earlier I mentioned online-only multiplayer being used in games that talk up their multiplayer to no end. I also griped about bot matches not being in anything anymore. Here's another thing that's going to really piss off achievement hunters in the not too distant future: Games like Halo 3, Mass Effect, etc with achievements based around DLC or online play will be impossible to complete in terms of achievements. I kind of gave up on achievement hunting long ago but the fact that I'll never earn many achievements because servers will be taken down and DLC will be made unavailable outside of the possibility of a complete edition of games with said DLC. Not so much of something that enrages me as it is a problem I have with achievement hunting and game completion...I was a lot angrier about this back when Halo 3 launched and I realized there were a shitload of achievements exclusive to online multiplayer.

 

[KillaBC]

It's been said but I'll reiterate it, artificially raising the difficulty by making your character weaker and your enemy stronger with better armour and weapons. GTA had it right by making the game progressively more difficult by throwing more enemies at you and generally putting you in more difficult situations. That's how it should be, or if you do want to raise the difficulty make the AI smarter by giving it more paths, options and algorithms to work from.

 

[jibjab963]

First off it would have to be the passes. When I want to see how a game is I normally just go out and rent it. However this is a major issue when I want to try out the online (At least give me a 5 day trial with no restrictions or something) or I miss out on a chunk of the game (I guess an example of this would be the Cat Women parts of Batman Arkham City). I didn't buy a lot of good game due to my hate towards these passes. (Far Cry 3 and Darksiders 2)

DLC.Dlc is generally a good thing. It can expand a game that you love for many hours and give you some extra information on your favorite characters or places. However it seems like all that Dlc is good for is getting even more money from poorly made content. Not to mention the general price hike of the Dlc. I remember when we got six multiplayer maps for ten dollars, and they were good maps.

Broken check points when I'm playing a game on the hardest difficulty. When I spend two hours trying to pass one part only to get a checkpoint the 50th time through will get me raging.

Being lied to by developers about there products.

 

[karma9308]

It's already been mentioned, but unskippable long cutscenes. If you put it right before a tough boss fight that I'm going to die at several times...Please just relax and let Satan politely escort you to your spot in game developer hell, right below forced stealth missions and just above escort missions with dumb AI.

Also, parts in games that take away your equipment. I can understand why it's done, but for the most part it sucks.

I guess also stupidity in games. As in, a plot twist you can see coming a mile away...but when it happens the game punishes you for going along with it and treats you like you were stupid...though you had to do it to keep playing.

 

[RicoGrey]

What enrages me about gaming?

The high cost of owning a console. Wouldn't bother me, except some games are exclusives such as New Super Mario Bros Wii. Been waiting over 3 years for the price to drop, and it hasn't. I go to Wii's virtual console to download the mario bros for the SNES, and it will cost me 10 bucks even though the game is over 20 years old. Eveeeeeen worse the game actually costs 8 bucks, but I have to pay 10 cause that is the minimum amount I can spend to purchase Wii "points"!!!

Hate consoles, will not buy another one.

 

[Jamous]

Having to deal with Bullshit.
This tends to come in three varieties.
1) Players deciding to sitting and waiting for someone to walk through the door they're staring at with a one-shot weapon readied. It just makes the game boring, it's a lot more fun when people are trying different things and just having a laugh as opposed to sitting and waiting.
2) Connection issues. When someone is slap bang in the middle of my screen they really shouldn't be behind me, especially when I have a decent connection. This would also include insta-kills that shouldn't have been, being killed round corners, etc. etc.
3) Just bad design. You should not spawn in crossfire. People are not -literally- invisible for some reason (unless that's actually a part of the game). And having a world easier to clip through than it is to walk through is bullshit.

Then there's bullshit that PCs throw at you. I love them and they're beautiful but JESUS CHRIST DO I HATE HOW THEY RANDOMLY DECIDE NOT TO WORK FOR NO DISCERNABLE REASON.

 

[TrevHead]

Games that are nothing but endless set-pieces and cinimatics with only monotonous shooting in between. I don't even know how these things can be classified as games any more, since there is no 'game' to be had anywhere here.

While I agree with the point being made about the problem games have, your definition of "game" is a little faulty considering the first computer games were things like Space Invaders, Pong and PacMan. Games that had an analogue stick and one or two buttons and were literally a case of "Once you have played this game for 5 minutes you have seen all it has to offer."

With all due respect I disagree with your opinion on arcade games that you can play them for 5 mins and "seen it all" when there is alot of depth of play and strategy in Arcade games. Unfortunately much of this is lost upon westerners who just credit feed to see what content it has to offer and leaving it at that, rather than sticking with one credit or playing for score.

This works perfectly into my pet peeve, how it seems that single player games are changing from low content but skill based that encourages replayablity to content rich, lots of padding that players experience never to replay. That's not to say skill based mainstream games have disappeared, but they are all MP focused.

Pet peeve #2 is how multiplat gaming has spread the playerbase too thin for any MP game that is slightly niche. Either release the game on 1 platform or include cross platform play. It sucks buying a MP game to discover it's dead on your platform of choice and the only option I have it to rebuy the game to find ppl to play with.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

When the game forces me to act out of character/like a complete idiot, like not shooting that god child in the face, or Connor in AC 3 turning into a complete pussy and almost getting himself killed.

I also hate moral choice systems that completely misinterpret my actions, like pretty much every Deus Ex H.R. ending.

 

[JagermanXcell]

-CHEATING (especially online): If its in the game but is strangely overpowered thats ok, it was clearly the developers fault for not balancing the weapon tactic, ect. and if you like using that cheap feature then to each their own. BUT but, if you are HACKING OR MODING for the sole purpose of winning and you boast about it, I want you to take your game and either take it back to where you bought it or smash it over your GODDAMN HEAD!!! Cause if you're not willing to play the game as it was meant to be played then take that crap offline cause we don't want anything to do with it it or you.

-THE INDUSTRY: You got EA, you got Capcom, you got Square, you got Gearbox and so on. Do you realize that you are making people mad with every. single. decision. you make. If you want money sooooooo bad, either tell us to our face instead of lie and lie and lie or earn our money. And stop treating your employees like hamsters on wheels. People aren't numbers, they're clearly people.

-GAMERS: Why do you people sit back and take ^^^THEIR^^^ bull crap in the ass?! WHY?! Does integrity/self respect/reasoning exist? Please God tell me it exists! Cause if ignorance continues, games will continue to get worse.

-REALISM/EDGY/GRIT: Its a video game, did you know it can be more then just "THAT" over and over again. Thats pretty much all I have to say about "THAT"...

-GAMEBREAKING CUTSCENES: I don't mind cutscenes just as long as they have good exposition and have a story and characters worth sitting to watch until the gameplay kicks in. But when there are cutscenes during gameplay I want to shot myself. Way to break the flow I was in by having me look at the dramatic close up of the boss after I press that button you forced me to press CAN I PLAY NOW?!

-DIFFICULTY: A majority of games are easy these days anyways but this I never understood. Very Easy: Is Very Easy. Easy: Is Very Easy. Normal: Is Very Easy. Hard: Is Very Easy. Very Hard: Is impossible.

-THAT GUY AGAIN: Why do I have to fight the same boss again?! Why Hideki Kamiya?! Why?!

-MORAL CHOICE: I'm not saying all games but for a majority of them no matter how much of a hero or dick you are, it always comes down to choosing 2-3 endings. With all the moral choice games I've played I bet there are 3,452 different endings amongst the 24 generic good/bad endings I got that I so rightfully deserve.

 

[MissP]

Well, having just beaten DA:O Awakening last night, I guess the one that comes immediately to mind is obvious laziness.

Like when all you get for your ending scene is static pictures and text. Or when that text tells you a character is alive who very clearly died in the previous game, thereby completely ignoring story continuity. Or when the quests that are supposed to add depth to companion characters boil down to "go talk to this NPC-->quest complete!"

I seriously enjoyed it overall, but it's distracting when you can clearly identify areas that were rushed.

 

[Altair_Ibn-La'Ahad]

What probably makes me the most mad in gaming is jumping off buildings in the wrong direction and falling to my ultimate doom.
Also when I'm playing GTA IV is getting hit, falling over, and as soon as I get up it happens again. This usually repeats until I die.
It's usually unnecessary deaths.

 

[mokes310]

The notion that everyone wants to play, or is interested in multiplayer. This is especially true in the Assassin's Creed games. The multiplayer seems meaningless to me, and it's space that could have been better utilized with additional story.