Gaming pet peeves

I have a lot of downright hates, but that's a topic for another time.

I do agree, forced checkpoints/save points annoy the hell out of me. Like I need to go out somewhere or do something, just let me save.

Bullet sponges get to me too. This is mostly seen in Fallout 4 where I just gave up and turned the difficulty down. The radiated enemies have led to me just giving up a couple of times.
Regardless, bullet sponges are a waste of my time. I've got better things to do that spend 20 minutes trying to kill one enemy.

One that's in Phantom Pain, just let me start a new save file without deleting the old one...
Even Peace Walker allows for multiple saves. It just makes the game easier to play whenever I want to go through the whole series again...

 

Games where the main story completely conflicts with the open world game design because of their urgency. Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Skyrim and the first Red Dead Redemption are the immediate examples that come to mind. It's extremely vexing, because it either breaks your engagement with the story or breaks your engagement with the world.

New Vegas and Red Dead Redemption 2 are good examples of the opposite, where the openworld gameplay is perfectly blended with the main quest.

 

Other people's opinions. I'm always right. They're always wrong. They should just shut up already and listen to me!

Spoiler: Actual annoyances

I hate games that hold your hand too much. Teaching me the basics of a game is fine. Leading me everywhere and constantly reminding me of shit or to go do something is a pain in the ass. Adding a bunch of systems to make the game easier is also annoying. Like having everything highlighted. Some games need a slight highlight around items that you can interact with, sure. But plenty do not need to highlight the sharp pointy stick that I don't care about because I'm well past the first levels of the game.

Also, DRM and/or forced online connections for singleplayer aspects. Of course. I don't want it. I don't need it. I paid for it, let me have it.

Being opposed to modding efforts and communities. Also refusing to sell games that are ancient and then being upset that people pirate the things you refuse to sell. Looking at you Nintendo.

 

Witcher 3 is guilty of this too. Clear out all of Valen for 6 months then go stumble up to the Bloody Baron's doorstep. It always makes the game feel bloated and unfocused despite the story telling you should be making it your top priority. Ironically I think Fallout 1 had a hand in poisoning the well for having time limits unfortunately even if it worked there.

 

The open world meme. All it does it waste your time. Very rarely is an open world ever needed. It's almost always just padding. Why yes I would love to spend 70% of gameplay doing literally nothing just trying to get to actual content. Ridiculous.

 

Uninterruptible gameplay animations.
Amazed it's still so pervasive. Sometimes it's deliberate in the design, but I feel taking away control of the character from the player like that at any point other than death is a very bad idea. I will stop playing games sometimes because of it.

 

Gameplay Cutscene dissonance when the only way for the story to progress is for your character to become a moron or otherwise incompetent enough that something effects them in a way that while you were in control would have never happened.

 

Reminds me of the baseball part in Bioshock Infinite. The player could have tossed the ball themselves... it is a FPS after all.

 

I love that video as much as I hate Bioshock Infinite. Someone sent it to me after I ranted about Infinite being bad. Matthew helped me hate it more.

 

I think those are called turret sections and that is a peeve of a lot of people.

 

I was being facetious. but still, people really do hate turret sections.

 

Forced stealth in a action game and forced action in stealth game.

 

Skill check mini games in RPGs really annoy me. The lockpicking/hacking mini games of Fallout 3/New Vegas/4/Skyrim, the hacking mini games of Mass Effect 2, and so on. If I have a high enough skill just let my character do it, don’t make me play some bullshit every time.

Oh yeah, and I think voiced protagonists are almost always a bad thing, in any genre of video game.

 

Either i'm remembering it wrong, but i believe you can actually deny you're the one sent the package to the Divide. Meaning you can choose to not have that whole thing be a part of your character's background.