Most Annoying/Inconvenient Situations In Gaming?

[Tripodicus]

Whilst playing a large variety of games I have concluded that games are out to annoy me.
In playing a large amount of games I thought I'd share what I find most annoying about certain games then ask your opinion on what games/aspects annoy you the most?

1. The AI on Left for Dead
You ask them to turn off their lights, so instead they practically kick witches in the face for the LOLZ.
You're shooting an enemy quite happily until 'DO NOT SHOOT ME' They think it's a good idea to play chicken with my bullets.
You're doing a timed thing where it's best to have a team on your side, however they're all more interested in pissing on witches and then begging for my help as some hormonal adolescent ***** rips their stomaches out infront of me.

2. Dead Rising.
OTIS, I wish there was an option at the beginning of this game when Otis offers you the walkie talkie, Sure you can accept his walkie talkie and then get more phonecalls then late night casino tv shows in the middle of Los Vegas whilst it's a cold night. Or an option where he gets that shitty yellow buzzing piece of arse and shoves it up his backside!, SERIOUSLY, every 3 to 5 seconds he's phoning you asking you if he should dye his autumn brown hair with a subttle hint of caramel whilst you're having your balls blown off by some hispanic sisternapping SOUPERNONCE.


3. GTA IV
Again with the phonecalls?
IS YOUR COUSIN THAT MUCH OF A SOCIAL RETARD THAT UNLESS YOU TREAT HIM TO A HAPPY MEAL EVERY OTHER DAY YOU'RE CROSSED OFF OF HIS CHRISTMAS CARD LIST? You'd think since they're from a War-torn country, Just seeing eachother anually with all limbs still intact would make their day.
Jeez.

4. Most Online Multiplayers
WHEN THEY LIE TO YOU.


I Still do enjoy these games however, I just want to know your opinions?

 

[eggy32]

Unskippable tutorials. Unskippable cutscenes. Un-pauseable cutscenes.

 

[xHipaboo420x]

You could disable the random phone calls in GTA4, y'know...

Agreed on the Dead Rising and L4D2 points though.

I hate it when you catch fire as an Alien in AvP. Right at the start of the Temple mission (i.e. the first one) there's just SO MUCH FIRE EVERYWHERE and it's impossible to put out; you just watch yourself burn to death.

 

[LightspeedJack]

Tottally agreed on the GTA one, why do rockstar think you want GTA to be a virtual life, it's an action game, stop adding in boring bullshit like playing cards with your cousin (I don't even like seeing family in real life let alone in games).

 

[Enigma6667]

Quick-Time Events in games that never even had Quick Time Events to begin with or gave you the notion that QTEs were a core gameplay mechanic (I'm looking at YOU Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Jericho by Clive Barker!)

 

[Marter]

The most annoying situation I can think of is when I get a phone call in real life during an un-pausable cutscene. I then either miss the cutscene, or I restart, potentially losing hours of data.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Suddenly taking away any & all weapons/powers right after you've become dependent on them.


ESCORT MISSIONS.

 

[socialmenace42]

Oblivion, where the NPCs take your spells and arrows to be projectiles which will end the world if they hit their target and must therefore jump in the way.

Players on Online FPS that get pissed off at you for being an opportunist example: You round a corner, kill a guy who just happened to call in a supply crate so what do you do? take it of course. Regardless of the fact that he would have done the same, he actually sends you a message to tell you that you are a Tw*t

And finally any devil may cry game because you just know that you're going to see each level again in reverse order...

 

[Lord Kodous]

Running out of ammo during multiplayer matches.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

I guess that part in MMORPGs (well, WoW at least) where you reach the level cap and do dungeons for gear and achievements. And everyone else on your random group has been doing it for months already and it annoys them that you don't have your finely-tuned build with a specific timed-click sequence to deal the most DPS possible. And they call you names because of it.

Also, in any MMO - people who treat other players like they were NPCs.

 

[Misterian]

Getting stuck in the world gynometry.

ever had your foot stuck in a pile of rubble in Fallout 3? I have.

 

[Woodsey]

Metro 2033 is pissing me off at the minute.

The decent ammo is used as currency, and the shit ammo isn't worth talking about - problem is, in half of the situations the dev's put you in you're encountering waves of enemies at regular intervals, so you'll just keep shooting forever unless you move on quick enough.

I've got no money or ammo permanently.

 

[Tripodicus]

Getting stuck in the world gynometry.

ever had your foot stuck in a pile of rubble in Fallout 3? I have.

Hopped a fence in Old Olney trying to escape a deathclaw to land in a litte ditch which i couldn't excape from.

 

[Ravariel]

Suddenly taking away any & all weapons/powers right after you've become dependent on them.


ESCORT MISSIONS.

This. So very much this.

 

[robakerson]

I just had a truly frustrating moment the other day that caused me to lose about 1.5 hours of gameplay.

I was playing an SRPG (similar in gameplay to final fantasy tactics or disgaea), which started to throw battle after battle at me, with no save point in between. Meaning, if you lose battle 3, you have to replay battles 1 & 2 to get back to it again (battles usually take 0.5-1 hour).

In one section I had to to 2 battles in a row, with no save, and the "victory condition" for the second battle was to 'save' 2 NPCs that were on the opposite side of the map and surrounded by enemies. To 'save' them in this game means you have to clear the entire map and they can't die (despite your party's numerous resurrection abilities). Also, my party was surrounded by enemies to start with.

The allied AI never moves from their starting spot and they have no healing. One of them dies after turn 3 or 4. Meaning, you have to dash to the opposite end of the map, taking damage the whole way (in this game if 2 or 3 enemies are within attack range, you're dead in one turn), and somehow destroy 4 enemies before turning around and wiping the map clean.


That's my most recent annoyance. I could get started on the old days of EQ1 but there's not enough space on the internet to list all the things I found annoying with that game.

(EDIT: the SRPG I was talking about is called Valkyrie Profile for the DS)

 

[DarkHourPrince]

Obsessive grinding/leveling because you have to UNLOCK your weapons/armor before you can equip them. The License Board in FF12 was one of the stupidest inventions EVER created.

And let's not forget how much it all costs way late in the game. And grinding is the ONLY way to earn money.

Persona did it right. XII DID IT HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY WRONG.