GOD, I HATE [X] IN GAMES!

[GunstarHero]

I hate how the guards remain totally confident and cocky even when they're reduced to ONE. They should have implemented a 'Arkham Asylum' system, where they progressively panic the more their comrades die.

HA! Yeah, couldn't agree more. "We're gonna kick your ass!"

Well, I've killed 17 of your colleagues with my bare hands. They all had guns. You have no idea where I am, and I've stalked you through your entire patrol route. I don't need threats there buddy, I am one..

I think some sporadic responses in the AI would be awesome. Say, for example, when they reach a level of panic they try to flash/clear the room. Or they run in, scared as hell and try to empty their mag towards where they think you are. Or, indeed, try and run/hiding. ANYTHING would be better than standing there ineffectively taunting me!

 

[Ninjat_126]

I hate how the guards remain totally confident and cocky even when they're reduced to ONE. They should have implemented a 'Arkham Asylum' system, where they progressively panic the more their comrades die.

HA! Yeah, couldn't agree more. "We're gonna kick your ass!"

Well, I've killed 17 of your colleagues with my bare hands. They all had guns. You have no idea where I am, and I've stalked you through your entire patrol route. I don't need threats there buddy, I am one..

I think some sporadic responses in the AI would be awesome. Say, for example, when they reach a level of panic they try to flash/clear the room. Or they run in, scared as hell and try to empty their mag towards where they think you are. Or, indeed, try and run/hiding. ANYTHING would be better than standing there ineffectively taunting me!

The Darkness was possibly the WORST EXAMPLE EVER. You're some sort of evil, unkillable abomination wielding twin machine pistols, with snake-things growing out of your shoulders, an army of goblin things behind you and the ability to summon FREAKING BLACK HOLES.

And yet your enemies will stand there and taunt you while shooting their worthless bullets, even if it's pitch black and you have all the advantages.

 

[Soxafloppin]

A long unskippable Cut scene before a Boss fight, or something that's going to take a couple of tries :|

Also a character with cool abilities that only work in Cut scenes

 

[A Weakgeek]

Mee too! The classic megaman games were TONS better!

 

[Kraj]

Rat killing levels and escort quests where "situation X is hurried and desperate yet NPC Y decides to walk around as if taking a stroll in the park"
I'm looking directly at you WOW and Oblivion. -_-

Oh, but kudo's to oblivion where one of the two starter fighters guild quests involve DEFENDING rats from mountain lions.

tricky bastards... totally had me asking why I'd bought the game too....

 

[GunstarHero]

Also a character with cool abilities that only work in Cut scenes

Dog damn you, Mass Effect 2! Jack can blow things up by blinking at them in cutscenes, but in the actual game her best skill is running in front of the enemies guns, getting herself killed and not obeying any commands? Fffffffuuuuuuuuu!

*Ahem* I mean, I see your point.

 

[ilspooner]

Escort missions, especially on Oblivion, when you are a high level. "What the hell do you think you are doing!? WHY THE F**K ARE YOU ATTACKING THAT BEAR WITH YOUR F**KING FISTS! OH GREAT, NOW YOU ARE DEAD, AND I ONLY HAVE TO RESCUE YOU AGAIN! GRAHHHHHHHH" I think thats what my character would have said.

 

[GunstarHero]

WHY THE F**K ARE YOU ATTACKING THAT BEAR WITH YOUR F**KING FISTS!

Would you say it was a bad idea to fight with his..

*Puts helmet on*

'Bear' hands?

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa.. verily.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Checkpoint save system.

It's just annoying, why must I complete the same over and over again because some NPC got a lucky shot. I'm talking about you Crysis 2!
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This, especially when playing it on Super-soldier. I prefer to be able to save anywhere.

Also QTE's (unless they're a core part of gameplay) unlike Uncharted when the first QTE pops up randomly with no warning about half way through the game. It's almost impossible to be ready for it.

Also escort missions, there is one in World of Warcraft (or was not sure it's still there now all the area's have changed) in Un'Goro Crater to escort a Goblin back to the camp, it was annoying enough that the camp was quite a distance but to make it worse the fucking Goblin kept fainting every 10 seconds and you had to keep waking him up.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I'll sum up some of the nasty habits Crysis 2 picked up:
- partially taking control in cutscenes, so you still need to walk it just takes half a damn hour
- quick time events, f*ck you CoD for bringing this to the FPS genre, and whoever invented QTE's I will find you and feed you to my dog
- dumb AI, it's 2011 and yet we get triple A games where AI gets stuck
- cheating AI, sure invisibility gives you a way out but AI again quite clearly has x-ray sniper vision and you are their sole target when in range
- slow animations encumbering gameplay, I understand you want us to see all the pretty you put into the game but it is irritating as hell
- invisible walls, apparently games still can't do without
- save/load, really it's that hard to add those?

It's quite clear that graphics are not the ones in dire need of work.

 

[suitepee7]

well i've got a fair few pet hates.

1) not being able to install the game on my ps3. WHY WOULDN'T YOU LET ME CUT DOWN THE LOADING TIMES?! WHYYYYY?!!!
2) cheap deaths from mistakes. i'm looking at you dante's inferno. if you fall into the water/lava/whatever, you die instantly, no chance to jump out, just plain death. do what arkham asylum did, if you fall into a gas area, allow me to grapple out at no cost to me.
3) boring quick time events. button mashing is fine with me, rotating the analogue stick is fine by me, however killing a boss by pressing like, 3 buttons is boring. if you're gonna make me to a QTE, make it interesting.
4) games where there is no way to select level/backtrack. this mainly applies to when there are collectibles around. you then find out you missed one by like 10 minutes, and you've already saved your game and the bridge behind you is destroyed. great, i now have to play the whole fuckin game again, just for that one item >_>
5) as many people have said before, escort missions. they aren't fun, especially if the AI is a pile of wank.
6) forced vehicle sections. the amount of times i have not been able to complete the hardest difficulty because i can't do the one cocking vehicle section that is forced (i'm looking at you black ops, resi 5 and crysis).
7) also said before, unskippable cutscenes. in particular, long ones before a difficult section or one that you die a lot on. worst of all, cutscenes that are not skippable after you have completed the cocking game!
8) enemies in games that ALL know your exact location, after killing some far away guy silently. it's just bad design, for all the enemies to know your location after something like that.

i think i will add to this later, when i remember more. i'll be editing this post when i do xD

 

[Grond Strong]

The unability to save in the moment. I dislike the automatic quicksave feature. Well, not so much dislike... more like I think it should be used as a failsafe and not the sole mode of recording one's game. Dying on the same part over and over is fine, having to replay half the level just to get there is not.

Brilliant/Imbecile AI. How you can duck behind cover and hear them ask where you are only to peek out and get shot in the face from 50 yards away within a millisecond is beyond me. But who am I to say... they might just be great shots with great reflexes with short term memory loss...

Unsynchronized voices with the character models. Without it, it's like a bad puppet show.

Slow controls, I need to do what I need to do and I need to do it NOW!

 

[The Gnome King]

For some of us, it's the dreaded escort mission, for others it's a certain type of stage, such as sewer levels. For others it's annoying music that drones on repeatedly, or textures that resemble a zoomed in MSPaint image.

What makes you groan with dread when you realize it's in this up-until-this-point pretty good game?

For me, it's the aforementioned escort missions. Mostly because everyone you ever escort in a game has the self preservation instinct of a lemming made of C4, running naked through a fireworks factory... on fire.

I mean, I play a game for escapism, and escapism, to me, does not involve babysitting. It involves bazookas and lazers and ninjas and making things dead, en masse. Helping Scientist A get to Lab B just doesn't earn a spot on any of my to-do lists when I'm a super being of awesome firepower and/or magic/psychic abilities.

"Here, Science Guy, how about instead of following me to where you need to go, you just wait here until I've painted the walls along the way a nice shade of red, then you can just pop on over unopposed?"

So what makes you go "Uuuuuuuuuuuugggh... I HATE this..." in games most?

Buggy releases. Nothing ticks me off more than a crash or bug that renders quest X, Y, or Z impossible to complete.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

WHY THE F**K ARE YOU ATTACKING THAT BEAR WITH YOUR F**KING FISTS!

Would you say it was a bad idea to fight with his..

*Puts helmet on*

'Bear' hands?

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa.. verily.

+1 for valid resurrection of dead meme.

 

[GunstarHero]

Support thine users. I hate seeing PS3 users getting the short end of the stick when it comes to patches and DLC. Bethesda seems to be really bad about that, what with both of their Fallout games having horrible PS3 support.

And finally...please...for the love of god please...DO NOT FUCKING HAVE THE GAME SAY "PRESS START TO CONTINUE" ON A PLATFORM THAT DOES NOT NORMALLY HAVE A START BUTTON! AEIUTYGJSETIDKGI6TJHIYKHJYKHJYH

1. Yeah, but PS3 online service is free. Gratis. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Is it fair to get a free service, and expect the same as those who pay for a service? Patches I'll readily agree should be released at the exact same time, since no group should have the preferential right to a game that actually works, but as far as advanced exclusives on DLC go.. I don't feel guilty that the sub I pay for gets me something. If not dedicated servers, then at least a jump on the good stuff!

2. What consoles do that? If you mean PC then fair enough, but what's wrong with it a. as a novelty 'throwback' to when all consoles pretty much did, or b. being used as a general term to mean 'press the button that indicates you are ready to start'? If you mean iPhone or something.. Well, I've never noticed it doing that (usually 'touch to start') and definitely not enough to rage!

 

[Legendsmith]

Fixed Camera timed stealth escort missions on a fixed scrolling stage.
Also when the devs try to hide bad AI behind your AI teammates being invincible.

 

[Zantos]

Loading screens that go on for hours (and the elevators were no better!)

I could come up with a long list of other things but I think I can just umbrella them all under Stupid AI. Walking infront of you when firing and blaming you for shooting them, getting stuck against a wall, etc.,etc.