Most annoying thing in any video game?

[Shoqiyqa]

Definitely the wound-too-tight-for-New-Orleans guy playing Final Fantasy MCMLXXVI and screaming at it every time he got another random encounter ... with the music on full blast the whole time.

Oh. Wait. In a game? Hrm ... diseases. Oh dear, you're over level 6? Okay. As of now two in every three creatures you encounter will give you a disease that will immediately reduce your attributes. Carry, like, three tonnes of cure disease and restore attribute potions. Oh, you're a mage and can't carry three tonnes? Shit out of luck playing this game, then, aren't you?

 

[TaborMallory]

Does everyone hate quicktime events just because Yahtzee does too? I personally think quick time events are fun if implemented right.

My personal grudge against games is a shallow story.

 

[Emperorpeng]

ONE game in particular. ONE. It was Starfox Adventures or somesuch on the Gamecube (I was young):

1) There was one cutscene where you had a tug-o-war with a dinosaur and you had to press the "A" button to pull. Problem was, the game required you to press it with a frequency that was IMPOSSIBLE, so I had to use both hands on the SINGLE BUTTON.

2) Every time you picked up an item, ANY item, "do-Do-DO! Cutscene!". That must have added an hour to the game, at least.

 

[Ophiuchus]

"Please sir, can you spare a few coins? Just a few coins, that's all I'm asking... I'm poor and sick and hungry..."

I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

 

[mkg]

I hate when I play fighting games on hard and the computer counters / blocks everything you throw at them because obviously they have light speed reflexes so you have to stick to some cheap combo or move that you can hit them with to beat the game. Like in fight night where everytime I put my hands up they block their head and down the body and they will sit there and mirror your ass like they know what you're thinking. Dammit!

 

[The_Echo]

Does everyone hate quicktime events just because Yahtzee does too? I personally think quick time events are fun if implemented right.

My personal grudge against games is a shallow story.

Sometimes QTEs can get in the way of the game's natural flow, and some people might not have the reflexes for them.

 

[Internet Kraken]

ONE game in particular. ONE. It was Starfox Adventures or somesuch on the Gamecube (I was young):

1) There was one cutscene where you had a tug-o-war with a dinosaur and you had to press the "A" button to pull. Problem was, the game required you to press it with a frequency that was IMPOSSIBLE, so I had to use both hands on the SINGLE BUTTON.

I hate those things. The events in which you have to rapidly tap a button in order to proceed. What the hell is the point of them? Usually the game expects you to hit the button with unnatural speed. It's just so damn annoying.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Also, does anyone remember Golbat in Pokemon? He's in almost every damn cave and usually inflicts bogus status ailments like confusion and poison. Plus he has the speed to move before most of your Pokemon.

I fucking hate Golbat.

 

[Remleiz]

rescuing the blue hive in overlord 2, that was annoying, especially seeing as the blues cant fight and there's tonnes of elite soldiers everywhere, and you cant summon any of your browns reds or greens

 

[ajb924]

"Please sir, can you spare a few coins? Just a few coins, that's all I'm asking... I'm poor and sick and hungry..."

I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

I know! And when you punch them the guards get pissed... Same with the drunks that walk around hitting you...

 

[Deathsong17]

The difficulty in Imsominiac games. I love their games so much, but they're hard as hell, especially Ratchet and Clank, which has one difficulty setting, where the lowest, weakest enemys can take off 21 hitpoints. And they swarm you.

Also, FPSs without ironsights.

 

[Scobie]

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[antipunt]

cheap deaths; poor checkpoints. Grrr

 

[Nu-Hir]

I hate short games. I can't stand paying lots of money for a game that ends up being only 10 hours long. Game makers have the ability to make long, fleshed out games, but choose to make short games to make more money. See the .hack series. $160 for a 40 hour game? I'm calling schenanigans.

 

[Bobtowna]

The most annoying thing was in Starcraft when i first played the computer AUTOMATICALLY
knew where you were. there went years of my life trying to make good strageties.

Also Sticky from Fallout 3. Jesus...

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

"Your health is low, if you have any potions or food, use them now"

"Try to get your combat Multiplier even higher"

"Hey! Listen!"

 

[Slaingod]

Poorly mapped controls or control mapping that you cannot change.
Buggy games too, particularly for Xbox 360 achievements.
I hate it when I work for an achievement and I can't get it because the game is jacked up.

 

[Ophiuchus]

"Please sir, can you spare a few coins? Just a few coins, that's all I'm asking... I'm poor and sick and hungry..."

I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

I know! And when you punch them the guards get pissed... Same with the drunks that walk around hitting you...

Argh, yes, them too. It takes every ounce of self-restraint to avoid stabbing them.

While I'm on the subject, am I the only one who's curious to know why the beggars in the Holy Land circa 12th Century all have Yorkshire accents?

 

[ajb924]

"Please sir, can you spare a few coins? Just a few coins, that's all I'm asking... I'm poor and sick and hungry..."

I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

I know! And when you punch them the guards get pissed... Same with the drunks that walk around hitting you...

Argh, yes, them too. It takes every ounce of self-restraint to avoid stabbing them.

While I'm on the subject, am I the only one who's curious to know why the beggars in the Holy Land circa 12th Century all have Yorkshire accents?

To make them more annoying... I can't think of any other reason...