Little Details That Piss You Off

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

You know what pisses me off in shooters? When a gun model clearly has rounds attached to it but I'm somehow out of ammo. *****! I CAN SEE UNSPENT BULLETS ON YOUR GUN! USE THEM!

Oh yeah, that shits me off as well. In a similar vein, I love the Monster Hunter series to bits.... but the whole having to sheathe your weapon before using a whetstone. Like you have your longsword out ALREADY, and you sheathe it, just to unsheathe it again and use what is obviously treated as just some miracle stone and likely a bit of spittle.

Just get the goddamn whetstones out while the sword is still in your hands! I think this annoys me more given it's directly related to gameplay. Tiny problems, but they're apparent in many hunts when you could have saved a second. That second matters, damnit.

I also think shooters would play better if you had proper mags for weapons (as a direct, similar twist on your example). Encourage more aggressive, accurate weapons use.

 

[Saulkar]

When the shells are ejected out of the left of the gun into my freaking face? Who thought that was a good idea?!

 

[FalloutJack]

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I didn't like No Country either, or Eva. Funnily enough, I AM fine with 2001.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Whenever you get a character to fire a LMG from a crouching or standing stance they proceed to hold it one-handed, tilt the weapon to one side (think "gangsta style" but tilted outwards instead of inwards) and hold their other arm out to the side as if for balance before firing.

This in a game where every other firing stance and animation is grounded and sensible.

It drives me fucking nuts. Actually discourages me from playing the game.

I've never played Silent Storm (though now I'm interested, if it's anything like XCOM or Jagged Alliance), so I don't really know exactly what it looks like... but from the way you describe it, it almost sounds like they're trying to reference 80's action movies like Rambo and Commando.

Spoiler

On the subject of firearm inaccuracies, it drives me nuts when games seemingly have no idea how ammunition works.

Two different rifles firing the same round shouldn't deal significantly different amounts of damage to the target. More on that point, it really irritates me when I'm playing a game like, say... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where a 5.56x45mm weapon like the L86 LSW or AUG HBAR somehow deals more damage than the 7.62x51mm M-240.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

It doesn't really piss me off, but I hate it when writers or directors completely forgot about the bodies of people that died on the show/movie/game.

For example, Han Solo. His son stabs him to death, and he falls into an endless chasm. Very moving, but when you imagine Han's body hitting the floor and probably liquefying on impact... Yuck.

 

[sageoftruth]

I'll speak for my roommate on this one.

In fighting games, he can't seem to overlook frame cancelling. One moment a character is throwing a punch, and then without pulling it back, he's doing a hadouken. He claims that he might give fighting games a chance if they actually made the frames flow together, perhaps by making Ken or Ryu use his free hand to launch the hadouken. *Shrug

 

[darkcalling]

In games it's silent protagonists. If everyone is speaking in text bubbles like old school Final Fantasy that's one thing.

But if everyone else is speaking and the player character isn't? (looking at you every major bethesda game from morrowind up to skyrim) I consider that lazy.

The only thing worse is when characters have voices but all they speak is gibberish with text box translations like Okami. That was a BIG part of why I never finished it. Why not just use the Text boxes?

In movies it when a story is being adapted from another source and particular characters are changed to the point that they don't resemble the original character in the slightest. I'm not talking about Idris Elba playing Heimdall or Zendaya maybe playing Mary Jane. It's not skin color I'm concerned with so much as the characters themselves.

In the comics Ra's Al Ghul is a 600 year old warrior and Eco-terrorist who discovered Batman's identity on his own and wants to wipe out a large chunk of the population to save the planet from humanity. In Batman Begins it turns out that Ra's is just a title and instead of Ken Watanabe (who I thought actually looked REALLY good as Ra's) we end up with Batman fighting Liam Neeson (who I like but was terrible as a replacement IMO) because no, there are no Lazarus pits keeping him alive It's just a string of cultists keeping the name alive. because realism, in a movie about a rich playboy who dresses like a bat and uses similarly bat-shaped gadgets to fight crime. I had the same kid of problems with Bane. Both the stupid musclehead version from Batman & Robin and the venomless BRITISH guy in The Dark Knight Rises. He's a major Latino character there's no need for him to be a white guy.

How did Chris Nolan get three chances at Batman and only make ONE that didn't make me hate him?

 

[Blitsie]

Inspired by Ezekiel, characters being changed from how they were originally written. Happening a lot in comic movies, though I am against it in all cases in all directions. (Turning white characters black, turning black characters white, male into female, female into male, etc, all of it)

Spoiler: Speaking of that, it looks like Marvel is on a mission to change their original characters lately if I'm not mistaken?

So far its been, what; Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and some other dude with a bird flying costume I think that's been switched?

It kinda annoys me really, not in the "oh man it sucks Iron Man is a woman now" way, but more in the "why are they messing with characters who were alright in the first place?" way. I mean, just create a new hero if you want to because taking an original character and changing him/her up like this just screams "I'm too insecure to fully create something new here so I'll just try bank off this existing successful character" to me.

Unless its what the writer really wants to do, that's alright then. But from my semi-educated perspective it seems that's not the case.

But that rant aside; lately what's absolutely bugging the LIVING HELL out of me is the absolute butt-fuckingly terrible trigger control characters have in movies and series. And its made all the worse by the fact that they usually have some sort of military background or experience with firearms to explain why they can shoot multiple targets like its nothing, yet they flail their firearm about the place with one in the chamber, finger on the trigger, pointing both friend, foe and themselves alike like its the goddamn wild west.

Its like, Jesus man, finger off the trigger until you identified the target and need to shoot. Its not rocket science.
But yeah haha, that's my current pet peeve with movies and so.

 

[Thaluikhain]

But that rant aside; lately what's absolutely bugging the LIVING HELL out of me is the absolute butt-fuckingly terrible trigger control characters have in movies and series. And its made all the worse by the fact that they usually have some sort of military background or experience with firearms to explain why they can shoot multiple targets like its nothing, yet they flail their firearm about the place with one in the chamber, finger on the trigger, pointing both friend, foe and themselves alike like its the goddamn wild west.

Its like, Jesus man, finger off the trigger until you identified the target and need to shoot. Its not rocket science.
But yeah haha, that's my current pet peeve with movies and so.

Oh yeah...trigger and muzzle discipline are rubbish.

Especially annoying in that getting trigger discipline right involves extending one single finger about an inch. It's about the easiest thing you could possibly do ever.

Oh...also about firearms...you know that bit in Watchman where there's a fire in a high rise in the middle of a city and they fight it by knocking down a water tower? By firing a few hundred rounds from a minigun at one of the supports? Don't ever do this in a populated area.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

When writers on TV shows don't know anything about computers/technology, but try to fake it anyway. I was watching an episode of NCIS the other day and it was fucking painful. Never mind the part where McGee is admiring his hot new love interest for holding the "high scores" in all the MMOs, they talk about the suspect monitoring the victim through the "game ports." Unless he was monitoring him through the port we used to use to connect joysticks to our computers, there's no such thing! What made it worse is it's the supposedly tech savvy "geeky" people like McGee that are the ones spouting this nonsense.
Then there's the general fact that NCIS doesn't seem to have any sort of password policy which means anyone could wander in and access very sensitive data on active cases whenever they wanted.

 

[EMWISE94]

Most common in japanese media, the visual shorthand of showing character strength by busting up terrain, because that never means shit! Oh sure, this character just farted it that general direction and now all the land in said direction is hellscape, but the moment they use said fart on their opponent, just scratches and bruises... bullshit I say.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

I don't even know what that means.

One thing that really bugs me is costuming. So many films spend so much time making their clothes look like they're period, and then they do nothing to make it look like these clothes were ever worn by their characters. It's really tough to get drawn into a western where some mangy tracker with dirt on his face is wearing fresh leather.

I'm refering to the habit of so-called Art films to linger on shots of no importance for so long that the film may as well be a slide show, be it shit floating in space or some fuckwit standing in a room.

What can I tell you, not every movie can be about a giant lizard thrashing Tokyo.

 

[pookie101]

When you make a character exactly the way you want in games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, ect. but they turn out somewhat differently once the game freaken starts >:/ like seriously?! I worked 2+ hours on them and you guys lie to me on how they looked in my character creation menu.

this annoys me as well. not to mention a character who you have spent hours working on to be perfect then has the creepiest smile and lip synch animation

 

[blipblop]

one thing games never get right is the steering of a motorcycle and doesent make a decent counter steering animation

 

[Blitsie]

Oh...also about firearms...you know that bit in Watchman where there's a fire in a high rise in the middle of a city and they fight it by knocking down a water tower? By firing a few hundred rounds from a minigun at one of the supports? Don't ever do this in a populated area.

Hahahaha, I guess it kinda adds to the whole "Who watches the Watchmen?" theme eh No wonder they outlawed superheroes in it, and Nite Owl is supposed to be the second smartest one of the Watchmen too.

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

Women being rakes in films is a big one. Especially new mothers with flat chests and 0% body fat. I dunno when Hollywood became afraid of boobies but its annoying and needs to stop.

People refering to a singluar die as dice. Its been happening more frequently on the wargaming boards I visit.

The whole ironic 80s revival thing. Looking at you, Kung Fury, you piece of shit.

Cluttered phone home screens and notifications bars. My phone has a clock, web browser and Whatapp icon and the notification bar is preferably hidden when not actually having notifications or has just the battery level and reception if not.

I actually thought of something else when I came to post but I've forgotten what it was.

 

[twistedmic]

Cluttered phone home screens and notifications bars. My phone has a clock, web browser and Whatapp icon and the notification bar is preferably hidden when not actually having notifications or has just the battery level and reception if not.

I've seen home screens and desktops absolutely jam-packed with icons and folders. So, while annoying, it does happen.

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, around here, let's go with people talking Gamergate in the R&P forums when that's clearly Game Industry and therefore does not belong in that forum. We made GI specifically because putting those debates in Religions & Politics was a MISTAKE.

 

[Parasondox]

The strange pronunciation of the word "Asperger". IT'S NOT "ASS-BURGERS"!! THERE IS NO FUCKING "B" OR "U" IN THE DAMN WORD!!

Sorry, sorry. Lost my cool there. It just gets too me at times. Like "Specific", it's not pronounced "Pacific". That's the ocean.