Insignificant things that make you RAGE in games

[GavmatexD]

When a game has impossible multiplayer achievements keeping me from getting 100% completion on it. Like a fighter that demands I attain the maximum rank when I have to fight freaks who play the game at a professional level to do so, a platformer with scoreboards that demands I get the top score in a level or a game like Gran Theft Auto IV that demands I kill a game developer in multiplayer. Do you know the ODDS of me running into a game developer? Then I have to kill them? Everyone will be trying to kill them. It's even worse when it's a single-player centric game like GTA IV and I have this multiplayer elephant in the room.

ive killed a developer twice xD

 

[GavmatexD]

Doors that have no purpose and dont open atol.

 

[Merkavar]

When a game has impossible multiplayer achievements keeping me from getting 100% completion on it. Like a fighter that demands I attain the maximum rank when I have to fight freaks who play the game at a professional level to do so

so impossible for you? what is the point of achivments if you can get them all easily?

OT: shooters that have clips instead of ammo. i like to reload after every kill so i hate games that if you reload with 12 bullets in the clip they are lost. its more realistic but i normally end up wasting half my ammo

 

[repeating integers]

A checkpoint before a cutscene but not after one.

That might not be insignificant, actually. Because it is really fucking annoying.

I remember this problem with the fight with Matriarch Benezia in ME1. I despised the fight after a while - you had to repeat that conversation with her momentarily-not-evil self every time you died. It being a Bioware conversation, you couldn't skip it. I also started noticing flaws in the voice acting after a while.

OT: Lack of checkpoints. Funnily enough, this is also a problem I have with ME1 (doesn't stop it from being an awesome game). Having to restart a Mako mission from the beginning because I was having too much fun to remember to save was annoying.

 

[Merkavar]

A checkpoint before a cutscene but not after one.

That might not be insignificant, actually. Because it is really fucking annoying.

I remember this problem with the fight with Matriarch Benezia in ME1.

in witcher their was a long cutscene just before an annoying boss. lucky they were skipable cutscenes.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Getting headshotted or backstabbed as a Scout in TF2.

Getting backstabbed as a Pyro in TF2.

 

[Ghengis John]

When a game has impossible multiplayer achievements keeping me from getting 100% completion on it. Like a fighter that demands I attain the maximum rank when I have to fight freaks who play the game at a professional level to do so

so impossible for you? what is the point of achivments if you can get them all easily?

Who said anything about easy? There's a difference between a reasonable and an unreasonable expectation when presenting a challenge. Happily for me, the vast majority of people who've responded to my post have been understanding of that. I attained an 'A' rank in Dead or Alive 4 for example and achievement tracker tells us that only 7% of people ever attain that rank. Now, there is an S and an SS rank on top of that. I think attaining a rank just shy of the top 5% of players is quite respectable enough. There's nothing lazy, easy or unskilled about attaining such a feat as being better than 93% of the other players in the world, especially when it can only be attained by beating people stronger than you are. Perhaps you did better? I doubt it and the odds are strongly in my favor on that. But DOA is not alone in this respect. A difficult single-player achievement is another animal, the only thing you're relying upon is your own skill and through effort you can eventually expect to get there. But multiplayer achievements may never be attainable as there is no limit to how much better your opponent can be no matter how much time you invest. It may just be they have a natural talent you lack. And when a spectacular high-level loss can undo days of wins, well good luck. Even if only 7% of people could complete a single-player achievement (and I'd like to know which one that was) they wouldn't have the top 3% actively working against them in their bid to enter the top 1.4%. Of course ultimately it doesn't matter what you think, the question was what makes me rage in games and this will still get my blood boiling no matter what you say.

 

[Tipsythegza]

I hate it when games have such long starting up sequences, in which they show the logos of every company that was involved in making the game. At least let me skip, damn it!

I completely agree, they act like i forgot who i bought the product from.

 

[MuppeTeN]

Perfect timing for games like MvsC3, Street Fighter. I hate that if a fail for 1/4567 of a sec. I fail it :S
No checkpoint and limited saves( Dead Space 2 Hardcore Moda).

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Stairs... I hate how I tend to levitate up them instead of actually walking up them. In newer games though they've fixed this. It always bugged me for some reason. Anyone else?

 

[sunshine73]

The Wii

When enemies can tank like 500 rounds to the face but you die if you get shot once in the leg... Its Bullshit!!!

Sports Games: When it is impossible to score no MATTER WHAT! This is for Hockey! Since when Can i throw 70 shots on goal and not get a SINGLE goal!!! and on basketball, if I touch a guy its a foul, but if my opponent runs into me hard enouggh for the controller to vibrate and gets nothingg I find myself Screaming WTF!!! HAAAAAAX!!! and im not even online...

 

[Smooth Operator]

Unconventional default control set up, really ticks me off when some games assign things to random buttons.

Settings excluded from ingame options, I mean seriously 10 years ago all of this was fleshed out and if you make me exit the game to get video/controler setting then you are one lazy as*hole of a developer.

Unskippable cut-scenes, howmany damn times must we repeat this until everyone understands.

 

[sunshine73]

OHHHH! I also hate it when games (JAK III Was SOOOO guilty of this) decide to throw in some racingg sequence. I want to shoot shit, not race, and not only do i have to race, but I have to always hit checkpoints, and If I miss em, I have to go back. I spent more time racing then anything else on that game and I HATED it. I broke like 3 controllers beating that game....

 

[antidark777]

Player killers, specifically in Red dead redemption.

I know theres a friendly free roam now, but that still doesn't stop douchebags killing your horse when your just minding your own business.