Things in video games that are infuriating

[PlasmaFrog]

I'll start...

Platformers that have a locking screen that scrolls up during jumping puzzles. And if you fall, you die, even if there originally was a platform just a couple of spaces below that would save you from such a fall.

 

[PlasmaFrog]

My friend, I believe you mean "things in video games that are infuriating."

On that notes, the thing that pisses me off the most in video games is arbitrary mechanics and plot ideas. No, I did not beat Far Cry 2, but while I played what I did the only thing I could think was "why the hell was malaria a necessary addition to the game?"

Other things include bad checkpoints, uneven difficulty, microstuttering, and screen tearing. Yes, those last two are technical problems, and they are absolutely evil. I hate it when either happens. I can stand bad load times, pop-in textures, horrible graphics, etc., but I hate screen tearing and microstuttering.

Noted. I've had a lot of grammar-fails this week.

 

[Veylon]

Plot idiocy annoys me to no end. If they are going to go to the effort of hiring animators and actors to bring a scene to life, would it kill them to put five minutes into making sure it isn't a dumb scene?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Fixed Camera Angles. Just use the second analog stick!

 

[Smallfry]

What annoys me to no extent? Is it this outdated lives system? Nope. Is it shallow character development? Nope.

It's the fans.

 

[Blue Hero]

In Call of Duty when you're playing search and destroy, everyone else is dead, bomb is planted, you go to defuse, and there are weapons scattered around the bomb site. You go to defuse but you pick up a different weapon instead.

 

[Amanda Diamond]

Lies. I find it very infuriating when video game developers lie about their games molding to a player's decisions when they don't. I'm looking at you Fable and Dragon Age 2.

 

[Gotham Soul]

When you step back and look at recently released video games and realize that a majority of them are first person shooters, based in the same time period with the same general plot points and the same general multiplayer mechanics, then realizing that your culture is stagnating and that you didn't even realize it until now.

 

[agentorange98]

Limited running and not giving auto run, any game where you don't run indeffinately when you push the stick forward all the way, that drives me fucking insane

 

[Phlakes]

What annoys me to no extent? Is it this outdated lives system? Nope. Is it shallow character development? Nope.

It's the fans.

Things in video games that are infuriating

OT: Aside from escort missions, when a game gives you a mission objective and one little message in the corner of the screen telling you what you're doing. Even in open world games, it just comes down to "run to the objective marker and kill anything in your way". I've stopped paying attention to what's going on because I don't have to anymore.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Escort missions where your escortee isn't controllable or doesn't stay with you and dies and dies and fucking dies.
Explody barrels that take half a assault rifle clip to explode.
RTS games where your units decide that there is only on way to go somewhere and the 1st units IQ drops to a negative 1000 and it goes to glitchy animation loop while every single other unit fucking stops.
Delayed melee damage, (it's in Dawn of War II :the last stand mostly)when an enemy starts a special attack and you see it and run away while you are all ready miles away the enemy finishes it's attack but you still take fucking damage.

 

[BamWam]

Games that have a crappy PC save system (Fallout 3) where if you have 2 or more saves then you need to sift through so many files just to find the one you want. Also games where the enemy always knows where you are. In Just Cause 2 the militia always know what vehicle you're in even if you swap multiple times. And pretty games that know they're pretty. Okay, I know you're nice looking, stop making the camera focus on the prettyness! (Battlefield 3) And finally, multiplayer-focussed games with single-player. If you claim that the best part of your game is multiplayer (CoD) then how about you do this really crazy thing: make it an online game. Then if you do have a storyline (or lack thereof) make it co-op so we don't have to put up with bullshit AI.

 

[Vuliev]

Sluggish/sticky controls in platformers. Most recently cropped up when I grabbed Sonic Generations, and by god is control of Sonic lightyears worse than it was in Sonic 2/ Sonic 3 + Knuckles. Seriously, I found myself immediately falling into glorious muscle memory, but was promptly met with "Oh, Sonic is just gonna glide off the edge without registering your perfectly-timed jump. Oh, Sonic has thirty times the inertia he does in the old Genesis games. Guess what? Sonic now has to get up after a hit, instead of being immediately able to start running after landing." Before I turned the graphics down, I'd almost say it could be my laptop struggling with the graphics, but once I pulled off a stable FPS, the awful control remained.

 

[LordFisheh]

I can't see why after so many years developers are still utterly incompetent at providing decent save functions.

1) Have quicksave. That means no menus, pausing, just hit a button, maybe cause a second or two of lag, and save. I'm sick of scrolling through menus every time I don't want to lose half an hour of gameplay if I die.

2) Have autosaves. Proper autosaves that happen frequently, and before areas of intense combat. And for the love of God put them after boss cutscenes, not before.

 

[krazykidd]

When every time you save the save file goes to the top of the list. Also when the very first is the auto-save . A) auto-save isn't necessary in any game . If you are dumb enough to not save , you should suffer the consequence . B) the autosave file at the top can be overwritten by a manual save , but that manual save can be overwriten by the next auto-save is a terrible idea. C) when every new same goes to the top of the list , it becomes confuwing in where you want to save , what the hell happenes to save slots? That was perfect . If i want to save in slot 4 the save should fucking stay there .

On a unrelated, related note . Why in the world would you allow only one fucking save file? What the hell? If i have a brother that wants to start his own game why must it override mine!

 

[Erttheking]

Games with no regenerating health, especially if you are nearly dead when you get a checkpoint.