What turns you off games?

[MoNKeyYy]

No one thing usually turns me off a game, it has to a combination of several small things. For example, I can forgive bad controls if it's still fun. I can forgive bad graphics if it's still entertaining. I can forgive bad writing if the story is still good. I can forgive bad story if the gameplay is excellent. I can forgive one shitty level if the rest are decent. It's the rest of the stuff combined that'll bug me.

Oh, the exception is a stupid samey bullshit cash in that makes no attempt to be unique at all and has no purpose other than to make money. Those piss me off from the get go.

 

[stinger503]

Horrible save/checkpoint systems. Bad stories. Respawning enemies. Bugs. No explanation of my objectives and bs choices (Either kill your teammate or you don't get to complete some missions!) Looking at you Fallout Vegas...

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Linearity.

Exploring is the name of my game.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Poor controls and poor tutorials.

*Go-Go Gadget: Rant8

My recent experience was the APB: Reloaded Beta. It was God awful. The tutorial didn't explain the controls, except through walls of text and everything else is just so poorly designed. There's barely any structure at all to the game! Just some things that you can do to buy new clothes, and the game doesn't even have the decency to tell you where to change your clothes. Also, the controller mapping is horrendous. Clicking the right stick to reload, or hitting RB to aim is all fine and dandy, but B to shoot? You're telling me that I can only shoot if I take my thumb off the right stick which I need to aim? Fuck you, APB, and fuck how half the actions must can't be done on a controller (such as driving). It plays like a horrible port.

 

[Deathlisk]

Incendiary shurikens in Ninja gaiden 2.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Really, the difficulty goes from "you can do it, though it may be a challenge here and there" to "If you played NG1 just skip to this one, there may be some retarded bosses; but it ain't that bad" to "**** you!" I didn't get further than that because I started to feel a deep hatred for my xbox.....

 

[radiopools]

Forced vehicle missions. Make it a choice.

Also escort missions. Forget that stuff!

 

[SouthpawFencer]

Games sacrificing gameplay for style or plotline. I didn't even CONSIDER purchasing Kane and Lynch: Dog Days once I saw gameplay footage featuring the "shaky cam" style.

Sloppy/imprecise controls. Few things tick me off like getting killed because I was trying to jump over a chest high wall and the game thought I wanted my character to have marital relations with the wall instead.

Sacrificing/shortchanging single-player to focus on multiplayer.

Cutscenes where a bad guy shows up and does something while you're forced to stand there like an idiot and not shoot/stab/punch him in the face. I make an exception if there's a REASON why you're unable to act (stunned by an explosion, paralyzed by a spell, you're under a flag of truce, etc). This goes double when one of your teammates gets killed while you're sitting on your thumb.

Spoiler

Oddly enough, I had no problem with the Virmire dilemma in Mass Effect

Bad checkpoint/save systems.

Enemies that can kill you by repeatedly stun-locking you.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Bad controls

 

[LFC Scouser]

When the game tells you to do a bunch of stuff unrelated to the plot but forces you to do it anyway.

 

[Sir Boss]

Fanboys
Realism
Hype
bland characters
uninteresting story
simple game mechanics

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

"Streamlining"
That one word automatically kills any interest I had in that game.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

FF style turn based combat. I understand why some people like it but I really don't.

 

[Norris IV]

Quite a few tbh but one of my biggest is nudity, its just childish and i can't get the thought out of my head that some perverted 40 yr old

 

[Biodeamon]

time limits

escape the building under 2 minutes or we`ll blow your ass up to kingdom come!

 

[Sudenak]

Anything involving random gratuitously dressed women ._. It's not a selling point for me that the female forgot that belts are not acceptable to wear as the only article of clothing duck-taped over your nipples. Seriously. I can even stomach QTEs more than that .____.

 

[swenson]

Anything involving random gratuitously dressed women ._. It's not a selling point for me that the female forgot that belts are not acceptable to wear as the only article of clothing duck-taped over your nipples. Seriously. I can even stomach QTEs more than that .____.

Agreed. That's a big one for me.

On the other side of things, any game that takes its MANLINESS far too seriously turns me off as well. This is why I don't play most shooters, as they're all about muscle-bound men with gravely voices shooting ludicrously large guns that are obviously compensating for something. I like my games to have a little more nuance than that!

 

[swenson]

(accidental double post)