Video Game Pet Peeves

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Openworld/sandbox games in general.

I haven't got a clue what to do.

When something insane happens and no one else sees it.

I.E Persona 4. putting your head into a TV in the mall!

As someone who is heavily involved in modding and testing, non innovative games and their lazy as hell developers get me more than anything. (not to mention the fanboys that mindlessly buy them)

Hey, THERE you are blizzard!

One hit kill spells. They never work when you cast them and ALWAYS work when its cast on you.

I hate having to find too much stuff. Looking and looking before I can move on..annoying-frustrating-boring.

mario noises

Something TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard!

Well, except such games as Megaman 9(WiiWare, XLA, PSN) and Super Mario Galaxy 2(Wii), of course.

Also, enemies that kill you in one hit.

necessity to be in a 'guild' in order to play a significant portion of the game

-Short Story Mode(majority of FPS's from 2005 onwards)
-Inability to play multiplayer locally
-Inability to play co-op locally
-Inability to play with 4 players locally
-Unbalanced gameplay
-Tense moments where you get chased by something and have to run through cramped rooms locking and closing doors(Condemned 2 with the d*mned bear and Call of Cthulhu with the Deep Ones in the motel)
-Franchises that have become more about making money rather than catering to the playerbases's wishes(Call of Duty)
-Milking franchises too much(Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Tony Hawk.)
-Dumbing down a game to cater to the masses(Moster Hunter Tri)
-Releasing unfinished games(Kotor2)

-Escort missions where the AI decides they're Chuck Norris and runs into an angry mob
-Terrible voice acting/mispronunciations/characters saying their annoying "catch-phrase" every 5 seconds
-Impossible mini-games in the middle of the regular game that keep you from proceeding in the regular game
-Female characters not having the option to have less revealing clothes or always having a storyline that ends with love/marriage
-Stupid, weird controls and camera angles
-Long, unskippable cutscenes
-Getting to the end of a relatively difficult level, then getting to the boss who promptly kills you in one hit, forcing you all the way back to the beginning of the level because there's no save point near the boss
-Stupid, predictable enemy AI
-Friendly AI that must have been programmed by the enemy AI because it seems to go out of its way to make sure you fail
-graphics that bleed through/disappear through things that they shouldn't

-Voice acting that doesn't match subtitles

For example, in the Post-apocalypic cyberpunk point and click game "Beneath A Steel Sky" I asked Joey, my robot, to fix something for me. The subtitles indicate that he's supposed to say "do it yourself", but instead he told me "Do yourself." O_O.
Another example from the same game is when I tried giving a sandwich to a mechanic. While the subtitles say "Eew, no! It's covered in micro-organisms." He actually said micro-orgasms instead of micro-organisms O_O. BASS is a really messed up game apparently. I heard both lines within minutes of each other. Maybe it's just some messed up joke?

-Inappropriate accent for settings.
Beneath a Steel Sky is set in a Dystopic Cyberpunk version of Sydney. And yet, everyone seems to have either a cheesy American or British accent. There are a few people that sound a little bit Australian. The main character Robert Foster also speaks in an American accent although the subtitles indicate he's supposed to be British or something. For instance, he say "That's pretty cool" while the subtitles say "That's well smart." As if here British.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfFsYpoFI0&feature=related[/youtube]

-Inappropriate reaction to serious events.
Also from BASS, Robert almost gets killed by a security guard named Reich. But a camera terminal shoots Reich with a high-powered plasma blast that cuts him in half and leves him on the floor spurting blood. Robert doesn't seem distressed and jokes about the man being halved in front to him.

Really tricky jumpers, the most notorious of which being Mario, and to make things worse there are a lot of parts in Super Mario Bros. that require the most precise timing and distances of jumps. Spleeeeen.

Cut scenes that you CANNOT SKIP! I like to watch the cut scenes, but not every time!

Bad inventory systems. My main complaint about Resident Evil games, though I do like them.

Limited saves.

Rigid controls.

Characters that keep saying the same things over and over.

RPG's that take forever to level up, so you keep having to run back and forth, fighting 94902398402490328045 insects or rodents before anything new happens.

The wii.

The controls completely ruined the zelda series, so much it makes me want to cry.

- Regenerating health by hiding behind something! (most FPS console titles. A few PC titles.)
- MMO grinding (virtually every Asian MMO... Maple Story anyone?)
- uninspired boss fights (Naxxramas)
- not being able to save the game anywhere and anytime I want (GTA San Andreas)
- Horribly designed UI (EVE Online, Unreal Tournament 3, any game by DEREK SMART)
- Developers showing material at a convention but shipping a totally different game (Will Wright presenting Spore at GDC 2005)
- Cliched genres (how many more fantasy MMOs do we need?)
- DRM!! !! !! ! (Ubisoft!)