Insignificant things that make you RAGE in games

[Fenra]

I have 2 that may seem kind of contradictory, depends on the context I guess.

1) taking control of my character away from me, for example to make me walk down a corridor that I'm perfectly capable of doing myself then giving control back right after, I mean really what was the point, its immersion breaking!

2) Giving me control in so called "interactive" scenes which equate to me standing in a room watching characters talk to eachother, only being able to run in circles till the game lets me progress when it finaly decides to open the one door out, here an actual cutscene and taking control from me would work better.



also a smaller one which isnt so prevelant these days but being able to see the break in texture patterns on walls (basically where a texture looks like wallpaper that didnt quite match up right) or being able to see the texture repeat itself, like back in old WoW where if you got to a high point and looked down you could see the squares that the textures were arranged in. But this problem isnt so bad these days because of the budgets people put into thier art departments and the power of modern gaming systems.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Unrealistic detection in stealth games. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the worst offender of this. The only person who could see me was more than 30 feet away from anyone else and there were several walls between them, and shortly after he noticed me, he had an 8 inch blade rammed into his spleen. That should not mean that I have been detected, and have to sit through the annoyingly long loading screen for another try. The reason why I liked the first Assassin's Creed and AC2 was that if you really fuck up the stealth, there's still the opportunity to chase down and assassinate your target or just snipe him with the hidden pistol. At least in Metal Gear Solid games, the enemies had the decency to radio for back-up before bringing all their friends to help out.

 

[Hiigaran Exile]

What vexes me beyond all reason is when they mess up people's ranks in games. I recall in Nexus: the Jupiter Incident that this Cromwell bloke was sometimes a rear-admiral, or vice-admiral, or commodore whatever struck their fancy. Or in the later RUSE, where that whining little twit general whatshisface, who started off as a Major and ended up as a, well, a general, but he kept strutting about in a captain's uniform in the cut scenes for the entire game. I'm not even that much a stickler for military etiquette, but when they get it wrong it. just. gets. to. me.
... I need some herbal tea. Mustn?t think about it too much. That way lays madness.

 

[jono793]

When games include combat minigames or training arenas that can kill you, but then leave you with no health bar for the main game. One of the more annoying features of Yakuza 3.

 

[Sharalon]

Other people! Any multiplayer game makes me rage sooner or later. I think the worst ones are the co-op games like Left4Dead.

"Don't shoot me! Hey! That's my medkit! No, no, no.. DONT SHOOT THAT BOOMER! AHHH!!"

Stupid jerks...

 

[Sharalon]

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....

Haha! I never even got through that game becaouse of that. Got stuck on some stupid racing bit and i just shut off the console and didn't touch it for months.

 

[RipperjackAU]

Any multiplayer game makes me rage sooner or later. I think the worst ones are the co-op games like Left4Dead.

Indeed. Also being kicked out of a Left 4 Dead 2 match, just because you don't have a sub 100 ping.

Not EVERYBODY has like a T1 line to the internet... Elitist Jerks!

 

[McMarbles]

When I run into a stealth-based mission in a non-stealth-based game. I'm looking at you, Zelda series.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Forced helicopter and driving sequences that involve combat. A good example is from Black Ops. Seriously, I have no idea why I hate it, but I do.

 

[SuperToaster]

Long and unskipable cutscnes
And long respawn times

 

[MartianWarMachine]

The Khajiits in Oblivion. I cannot understand it. I really like cats, often more than I like people, but I just cannot STAND Khajiits! I mean, aren't they a human-cat hybrid? They should be my favourite race! But I really don't like them, and I don't even know why! That's my rage-inducing contribution to this thread.

 

[GeneWard]

any player in a multiplayer game on ANY format xX WhO hAs Th3iiR NaMe LiiKe ThIs Xx

 

[Gustertote]

There's a bit in Mass Effect 1 where you're going to get Liara from the mines, and just before the entrance there's a long-ass unskippable cutscene, where you're introduced to those wall-crawler Geth. It just so happens that the subsequent ambush is FUCKING hard, resulting in DYING LOTS and returning to a save point I had created mere millimeters from the cutscene trigger LOTS. Was even worse on insanity.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Fucked up hitboxes that make it pretty much entirely impossible to tell if your body is going to make contact with something. If anyone has played the World's Hardest Games on ArmorGames, then you know that something is up with the hitboxes in that game.

 

[Squarez]

Snip

Dude, you need to chill out a little bit. Yeah, it can be annoying having to wait sometimes. But on average you have about 80-odd years on this planet, waiting for a few seconds ain't gonna kill ya.

any player in a multiplayer game on ANY format xX WhO hAs Th3iiR NaMe LiiKe ThIs Xx

Oh God, this.

 

[TheSquashedOrange]

That PS move message that popped up whenever I started the KZ3 beta annoyed the hell out of me, I'm going to have to go with that. I'M NOT BUYING A MOVE, GET OVER IT SONY!!!

 

[putowtin]

has been said but online achievement, I don't play online, have no intention of playing online, yet I can't complete a game 100% unless I do, balls to that!

 

[kane.malakos]

When I run into a stealth-based mission in a non-stealth-based game. I'm looking at you, Zelda series.

I personally thought of Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. It's an awesome game, but there's one level where Kyle Katarn arbitrarily decides that he has to sneak past all of his enemies. Keep in mind these are the stormtroopers that you've been slaughtering like cattle and if one of them sees you you lose almost instantly.