Most annoying thing in any video game?

[Nu-Hir]

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?

Don't you mean why do people in Yorkshire have Holy Land circa 12th Century accents?

 

[Slaingod]

"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?

Yeah, I just stabbed the shit out of them. I thought about the voices too. "Why are all the British beggars coming to the Middle-east to beg for money?" Then I'd punch'em in the head and run.

 

[hopeneverdies]

1410 posts in less than a month, christ...

Anyway, I say the most annoying thing in a game is when they sacrifice a decent storyline/campaign because they spend too much time on making the multiplayer big to boost sales.

Gears of War 2, Halo 2 and 3 being my examples.

That kills games for me, I don't care how good your multiplayer is, if I want to do single player, I had better damn well like it. If not, that game can be lit on fire for all I care.

And if Bioshock 2's single player sucks, we'll know why.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

fetching quests where the area you are getting something from exists purely for that one item. Sorry if I want my games to have a little story and believability to them. Fallout 3 tried hard to solve this problem but it still had some parts on the map that you go to once cause a quest tells you to and you never see the point in going back again. I'm talking about you Minefield!

Well Minefield also had the Sniper which you capture for the Slavers.

You capture him for a quest? I always just kill him and take his gun. He shot my dog, god dammit.

 

[jj90]

stupid controls, difficulty levels that are totally easy then so hard you could mine for diamonds in them. (silly metaphor i know lol) also repetitive games like DMC 4

 

[Lopunny]

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.

omg YES! that cutscene! I absolutely hated that! at least it didn't do it when you picked up scarabs

 

[snowhusky]

Quick Time Events.

 

[Photon987]

A poster on good old /v/ kindly compiled all of the greatest annoyances into one misery-inducing idea. I think he hit the nail on the head.

A first-person, timed underwater escort level with stealth. There are no checkpoints, added momentum to your controls, and constant environmental hazards that kill you in one hit. When you or your escort are caught by one of these hazards, there is a long animation with slow, brooding music as the screen turns red and you slowly surrender.

If you move too far ahead, your escort gets lost. You have two movement speeds, the escort swims at a speed between them. There are also awkward camera controls that irrationally zoom in on unimportant objects, and random artsy angles which show nothing at all. Every few moments, you must stop to use a breathing apparatus. The timer, which starts 3 minutes before the level begins, is 10 minutes long. When the timer reaches 7 minutes it begins beeping every second. The beeping is in the sound of a bicycle horn.

There is a seemingly unimportant plot item near the start that you aren't told about until near the end of the level. You use this item to fight a boss you have previously defeated.

 

[Jinoru]

Crappy save systems where I can't save anywhere I want before my annoying family flips the switch on the circuit breaker.

 

[dodo1331]

When the camera focuses on the main (usually male) character's lower behind.

Seriously.

 

[Xerosch]

"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.

Damn beggars... I hated them too. But they pale in comparison to my Nemesis: Forced racing sections in ANY game.

 

[GrinningManiac]

There are things that annoy me like crashes or bugs, but the one thing they put there DELIBERATLY that annoys me most is repetetive bosses.

You all know the drill, a boss with a sequence of moves, attacks and occasional minion-spawns. Then, after some stimuli has been achevied, a weak point is revealed, which, when attacked, hurts him.

Great, that was kinda fun, dodging all that stuff.

REPEAT

REPEAT

REPEAT

DIE

RINSE AND REPEAT

"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.

Damn beggars... I hated them too. But they pale in comparison to my Nemesis: Forced racing sections in ANY game.

I dunno which game you're talking about, but I had that with Assassins Creed. Then I realised that, being the Medieval Era, guards didn't give a shit if you had a fistfight. So I just wallop them when they bug me, and they run away screaming

 

[Crimson King]

The Cherubs from Doom 3.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

puzzles and the hardest difficulty. *cough* *cough* VETERAN! *Cough*

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I think THIS guy is the worst part of any game.

I fucking hate you Tingle!!!

 

[Snotnarok]

Water levels where you move slow, have platform jumping, slow sleep inducing music plays, need to leave the place to get an upgrade to proceed further.

Megaman Legends 2 had one of these (I haven't played it in a while, you might not have to leave but eh)

 

[ajb924]

I think THIS guy is the worst part of any game.

I fucking hate you Tingle!!!

I was waiting for that... Surprised it took so long!

 

[Lordmarkus]

Black screen bug in World at war. I have never got to play that game properly because every mission information before the level is black for 5 minutes, before the sound starts to hack for another minute and finally the information starts. Aftar that, gameplay runs smooth as a spring river.

 

[dragonburner]

Bad controls, stupid characters/ story

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I think THIS guy is the worst part of any game.

I fucking hate you Tingle!!!

I was waiting for that... Surprised it took so long!

Yeah, a lot of people have forgotten the ridiculousness that is Tingle. I'm trying to bring the hate back