Your gaming "kryptonite"

[Thespian]

Button mashing. You know in QTE's where you have to press a button a million times per second? I JUST CAN'T FUCKING DO THEM! IT'S NOT POSSIBLE! I DON'T KNOW WHY?!

It's not like it measures skill or anything it's just unpossible

 

[NoseDigger]

Games the give me a BSOD. I'm looking at you, AC Brotherhood, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas.
The anger I get from it is just immense.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Incoherent stories, boring gameplay, and meh soundtracks. I can take one or the other, but not the three in conjunction.

Incoherent storytelling was balanced by fun-ass gameplay in Resonance of Fate.
Boring gameplay was saved by a sweet-ass, but almost incoherent story in Killer 7.
A mostly meh soundtrack was made up for by pretty much the rest of the boss themes in Persona 3.

But one that did not have either one of those covered, well:
Insert violin onomatopeia here.

 

[tzimize]

Loading Screens that don't fit in.

At least Portal 2's loading screens made sense.

But man, there were WAY too many of them...

 

[ChocoFace]

any game that requires me to grind for loot/levels/anything.
also point and click games are really boring to me.

 

[Titan Buttons]

Terrible storys that have no emerson of any kind

 

[Tim Mazzola]

Fake difficulty and the excessive necessity for grinding (or just unnecessarily repetitive gameplay in general). Also, kind of under the "fake difficulty" but not exactly, enemies that have stupid amounts of health for no reason tend to piss me off, especially when they come at you in waves and they're more annoying than challenging.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Quicktime events that require my fingers to move faster than is physically possible.

 

[Antwerp Caveman]

Quick Time Events. I hate them.

Real people.

I can play against AI easy (Who can't?), but I suck against people.

Modern gaming in a nutshell.

 

[Eternal Skies]

I have a few that I can think of...

Timed escapes with missable Items - Seriously? When i need to escape somewhere, I don't want to have to spend most of the time getting all the items, and then getting a game over because i spent just a bit too long getting the infinity +1 sword.

Escort missions where the NPC has poor AI - Self explanatory. If you willingly run straight towards the beasties that want your soul as a mid-afternoon snack, then you deserve whatever happens to you in my book. That may seem slightly cruel, but i had many game over screens due to this, so i hope it's justified.

Games that don't allow you to backtrack for no real reason - Really?.

RPG's that block access to all towns when you access the final dungeon for no adequately explained reason.

That's all i can think of right now.

 

[RazgrizInferno]

Fighting games. I love them but I suck at them.

 

[Bigsmith]

Real people.

I can play against AI easy (Who can't?), but I suck against people.

I have this problem with RTS games. I can mop the floor with then opponent in like half an hour tops. But, put me up against a Human and I'm the one getting owned.

 

[matrix guardian]

I hate a game that provides a long-term punishment for failure, such as an rpg that docks XP when you die or a strategy game that kills characters permanently if they die on a level, especially if you don't have the option to easily go back and do it better.

Edit: Like Pokemon, where they dock HALF OF ALL YOUR MONEY should you ever lose a battle.

Then you would HATE Steel Battalion. It's a mech game where if your machine gets destroyed, you have to eject before it explodes. Then you have to use credits to purchase a new mech to replace it, and then start the mission over again. And if it so happens that you didn't hit the eject button before your mech exploded...you're dead...completely dead. If you die, your save file gets erased and you have to start completely over.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Cheapness, although it depends really on the severity of it. Mainly in FPS's where bots take can't-miss shots at you. To get an example of this, if you have any of the unreal tournament games, turn on Instagib with a single bot that has 100% accuracy. SOOO lame. >.>

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

AI that uses blatant cheats instead of intelligence.

Especially if it's accompanied by utter stupidity.

I'm looking DIRECTLY at you Sid Meier. Colonization is an outrage of bad AI.

Also any game that has an Avatar freeze spell, followed by a continuing small damage spell in room with no health. That shit's unfair and liable to get you deleted.

 

[blankedboy]

Any time, ANY TIME you have to do something, anything, three times to solve a damn something/anything.

I do not care the genre, the number of times you have to do something three times in a row to win, SICKENS ME.

It is to the point that it honestly destroys immersion for me. Because no where else, in the world, do you have to do something exactly three times to save the day, every time. In a video game though? It's a damn gaming foundation for whatever screwed up reasons.

Your avatar's perfect for that post :3

Me, I'm jumping on the escort mission bandwagon. It's the most annoying thing ever, especially in games like Morrowind where I walk faster than my escort runs. That's bullshit.
And when I pull up the console and change their speed to 800 it makes me feel kinda guilty.

 

[goldendriger]

Um...Gamewise? pointless, sucky, overrated games (Minecraft springs to mind) but if we're talking in-game problems? i guess-
Bullshit Instakill moves, least in KH they had the decency to leave you at 1HP

Being FORCED to team up and the other guy doesnt pull his weight and is just a huge target,

and maybe this is just me, but i HATE not having a clear destination on a map, like having a map, with 5 floors and saying "Right, go to the libary" and not knowing even which floor its on annoys me.

 

[claymoreguy18]

I have a couple like not being able to control the walking/running speed of a character, or at least doing something while walking like rolling,sprinting,etc. My other would have to be escort missions with a useless npc like the first dead rising, I really hated those retards.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much most JRPG that place save spot in limited areas, confusing plot and completed battle that require more than grinding your character to defeat the boss (using special tatics etc).

 

[The Lugz]

Quicktime events that require my fingers to move faster than is physically possible.

Quicktime events

just period. < !

it's like a cinematic that randomly pauses and flashes an un-pause key at you to make sure you're watching.. jeez just stab him all-ready and make it re-playable later if i want to see it again..

also achievements, hate them, any multi-player experience that has achievements should be burned in hell.
i want to play the game not the stuffing, nuf said.