What turns you off games?

[jonyboy13]

I'm somewhat of a min/max-er, so if I play a game and realize I did something that prevented me from getting the best items or stats, I restart, which can lead to countless hours replaying a game. Perfect Example: FFXII Zodiac Spear. Yes, I did restart the game with a 90 hour save file.

Nothing more that I hate than missing the strongest or almost strongest weapon in the game just because you did some completely random and not related stuff.
Please tell me, how the fuck opening chests in Lower Town is related to the damn Zodiac Spear?>>"

I also must have the best stuff in the game but I'm not that insane to restart 90 hour saveXD (had Masamune in FFXII, good enough for me).

 

[teisjm]

Grinding.
Trying to fill the missing hours in a games length with repetitive booring stuff is not the way to do things.
I understand MMO's have it, cause they need something for people to to, once they've done all the developers had to offer, and no matter how much they make, people will get through it before the next content patch, they can only add content at a certain speed, so the alternative to grind in this case would be no gameplay at all.
But when it sticks it's ugly nose into singleplayer games, that are done from start to end, and not something that'll be continually added stuff to, it just shows that the developers ran out of money or ideas for more stuff, or tried to extend the length of the game by filling it with a ton of "Meh".

Also, games that put a ton of money into making pretty looking, high poly graphics, only to make crappy animations.

Also, games where the stuff that your character could perfectly pass through is unpassable, i mean if you're gonan define the boundry of the world, could you please do it with something else tha a 2 foot fence, which our double-jumping hero can't seem to pass for unknown reasons?

 

[Gladion]

Sex

Edit: That is, about to having sex, not sex in games.

 

[Leonardo Zaninetti]

Overly macho characters. It always annoyed me when all the main characters in a game are all "I'm gonna tear you a new asshole! Eat lead, motha f**kers!" and giving it all that. You can be glad you survived a fight, that's fine. But when they just charge in being all super-manly it pisses me off.

 

[Evil Moo]

Incredibly irritating characters, particularly if it is the player character. No, I don't want to have to listen to your 'witty' remark for the 50th time today. >_>

 

[hyker]

frustration or repetition and sretching out something

 

[DustyDrB]

Bad controls and Quick Time Events.

Two Worlds II has "sneak" and "run" mapped to the same button. Why? That pisses me off every time I play it and I never get used to it.

 

[Nimcha]

Turn based

Yeah this! The only turn-based game I've ever liked is Advance Wars on the DS.

 

[itf cho]

Getting stuck on 'rails'. Nothing I hate worse in a shooter than to hit a section where I can no longer proceed at the pace I prefer and am forced onto rails. I totally stopped playing Call of Jaurez: Bound in Blood when they did that to me twice. Finally got through one rail section, heaved a sigh of relief, and then got put back on rails again.

 

[airrazor7]

unbalanced gameplay: I hate playing games where your character is limited in mobility and ability yet you have to fight enemies who can bounce off the walls, fly and shoot tracking energy blasts. Example: FF7 Dirge of Cerberus. The game felt as if I were playing a Devil May Cry game with outdated Call of Duty controls

also under unbalanced: I hate action games in which you spend most of the game combo-ing waves of enemies only to encounter a massive boss that keeps you trapped in one spot while it goes through its patterned "I keel you in 1-to-2 hits" attack animations. Then when there is finally a break in the pattern, you have about 3 seconds to advance towards and cause damage to the boss with attacks that make it feel like you're throwing tissue paper at it until the boss rinses, lathers and repeats its attack pattern on your ass. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 nearly did this, Bayonetta did this and a few other games whose titles that I can't think of at the moment.

poor game mechanics: I've been playing Metroid Other M (disliking it so far) and I was severely delayed in one section of the game due to a chameleon sub-boss that wouldn't reveal itself (you can only damage it when you see it) so I was stuck in the room for 30 minutes until it decided to stop playing hide-and-go-hide with me and started to actually fight back so I could kill it in 2 minutes.
Also, switching from 3rd to 1st person in combat is not that great. No matter how quick, precise and accurate you are with the wii-mote, the enemies will usually not give the player enough time to switch back and forth between the two views.

repeating bosses: I frakking hate that, it comes off as the developers trying to add more time to a game without actually adding new or different elements. The counter to this is when a boss repeatedly appears and its presence fits with the story.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Unskippable sections.

I think you should be a bit more specific on this one.

I'd say unskippable cutscenes, in particular repetitive unskippable cutscenes. Just listen to the Too Human review and hear about death. They need to not do it that way, it's terrible, especially if it's long.

Forced mini-games for better endings - Hey Cousin, would you like to go bowling?

Terrible QTE setups - I don't mind QTEs as a concept(see Guitar Hero QTE games), but if I don't know it's coming, only going to happen once, is set off to a side I'm probably not going to pay attention to, or something equally stupid, then don't put it in.

 

[Geek_DR]

Male gaze. I want to play the game for fun - not to look at some polygon tarts fake tits.

Totally agree. It's at best distracting(in a bad way ) and at worst insulting.
Between the horrible characters and the pandering "sexiness" of Devil May Cry 4 I didn't make it to the third level (and I was trying to like it, since so maybe people do seem to).

OT: Bad characters, bad story or bad camera.

 

[trollnystan]

Bad dialogue/voice acting is a big one. Also bad writing.

Nonsensical use of sex appeal is another. A example I've used before is Jack and Samara from Mass Effect ": Jack's outfit, coupled with her personality and background, makes a certain amount of sense, whereas Samara's is just "hur hur, she got boobies" stupid.

Nonsensical use of sex appeal used for the lulz can be fun though, if it's done right.

I also got turned off from playing Witcher because of the whole sex-as-reward thing. Especially the whole pin-up bit which objectifies the women as trophies and adds that extra bit of sleaze. Yeah, you don't have to do it, but just knowing it's in the game depresses me. CD Projekt IS Eastern European however so it's to be expected I suppose... (Sorry, are my prejudices showing?)

 

[RaikuFA]

lack of exploration

 

[AMAZED]

Timed missions and having to rely on AI teammates, and spawn killing that makes me rage.

 

[windlenot]

Knockoffs and infinitely respawning enemies. I'm looking at Rock Revolution and Call of Duty: World at War. I just recently did World at War on veteran... That game is full of hate.

 

[lexisb95]

Games where if the main character dies then the whole team dies.... That always really irritates me

 

[captainwolfos]

- Escort missions; especially when tasked to defend someone with suicidal tendencies and wouldn't know the pommel of a dagger from the pointy end
- Retarded, out of place fetch quests
- Quick time events
- Having to collect an arbitrary sum of gold/gems/collector cards/whatever to unlock the next level
- A skewed scoring system (I'm looking at you, Angry Birds)

 

[Mr Shrike]

I hate it when the gun in an FPS is really prominent.

I mean, that M14 takes up almost a quarter of the screen! There's just no need for it.

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

poor controls
piss poor porting (generally leads to poor controls)
the VA that plays Carth Onasi in Kotor
invincible children (either don't include them, or have them despawn instantly when killed, them surviving the explosion that killed every other NPC breaks immersion)
invisible walls are annoying, but not game breaking