Well, one actually a gaming one:
Side-quest craziness in WRPGs. Holy cow, can I enter one town or city without being thrown a bunch of trivial tasks at me? It's in no way fun, and serves only to distract me from the actual plot, which I'm hoping isn't actaullly a short piece of unintresting crap that you're trying to cover like this.
JRPGs have had it pretty much right for a long time, most sidequests taking place once you can already reach the final boss, making it optional to dwell deeper into game world rather than a half mandatory exp/money grind. I get's especially annoying when the game is pretty much only about side-quests. Quickly drowns any real intrest I had in the story or the game's world.
I like how in Dragon Age how Morrigan keeps complaining about the player going out their way and wasting time doing punch of odd jobs. I wish there was the answer "Lady, it sucks for me too, but I have to get the exp from somewhere". Incidentally, the first few hours of DA me pretty much realize the overall silliness and annoyance of the whole side-quest concept.
They give JRPGs crap for using too much cutscenes to show the story, but for the love of god, at least they stick with their story, rather than jumping around through a hundred bland fetch quests like an ADHD ridden monkey.
