Thread: Annoying Things in Games

I personally enjoy most videogames...but there are another majority of videogames I cannot tolerate, and that is because these 'annoying things' are included. In fact, I have 7 things that I find tediously annoying in Videogames. 7. Long Loading-times. I've seen lots of games deal with this for some times now. I know that a game might be heavy and that most files require long loading times, but sometimes this is beyond ridiculousness. One of the clearest examples to this is Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex, the PS2 version. Since this game was originally built on a CD-Rom and then ported to DVD ones don't ask me why or how the loading times sometimes exceed the 30 seconds to maybe 1 minute, something completely unbearable. 6. Same and simplistic Soundtrack. Music must be one of the most important aspects of CERTAIN videogames Games like Manhunt don't need it. However, every once in a while we stumble upon this videogames whose soundtrack is simply...boring and completely out of place. Some of you might disagree with me, but I find Duke Nukem 3D to have one of the most hideous soundtracks of all time. It is a shooting game, and most of the time you are hearing this cheesy and nonsensical music as you shoot aliens. Also, other videogames like Digimon World 4 which are dungeon based have the same repeated soundtrack with only a few notes changed that is really boring and plain. 5. Game-Saving Limitations. Just to be clear, Resident Evil doesn't fall into this category. Saving with ink-ribbon is perfectly fine. I hate games which have these really hard-to-get save-points which completely spoil the fun. Crash Bandicoot 1 suffered really harshly from this, as in order to get a password or to even save your progress you had to SUCCESFULLY complete a bonus round. On the other hand, I also hate games which simply allow you to press F2 and save without any risk or anything. Quake 1 and 2 had this, for example Along with most ID FPS games. This really feels like cheating, since you simply kill an enemy and you save, walk two steps and you save. It feels like cheating. 4. Unforgivable AI I hate games in which the AI is given unique advantages or simply inhuman capabilites such as super quick reflexes and global vision. I am not asking for Human-based AIs, but at least try to make them the least cheater you can. Jet Moto 2 suffered from an unique case which I believe is still unique to this day in which there was NO AI. In fact, the enemy vehicles were already pre-recorded by experts on the game and then set to race, resulting in absolutely perfect runs with zero to no mistakes. In case they fell, the car would warp to the position they were supposed to be as if they hadn't fallen. AND they had infinite turbo. 3. Poor plot. Most games just throw the player into an unknown world with a happy intro and reward us with a happy or sad ending, but there is practically nothing inbetween. This is pretty much the case of most old games like the Street Fighter Franchise, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal, Metal Slug and the list goes on. 2. Extreme Difficulty I hate those games in which you can only expect to do perfectly or else prepare to face the consequences. This reminds of one of my most hated games of all time, Battletoads and pretty much one of the games most people hates. In this game Regarded as one of the hardest games of all times along with Ghosts n' Ghouls you simply battle enemies in what seems as a simple beat-'em-up. But what awaits you is a stupidly difficult game in where you can't avoid dying and it simply keeps the game from being fun. 1. Poor Testing Ah, how to forget those games who were either rushed or simply had poor testers. It's not that I hate those games. Of course not. In fact, the game I'm going to put in as an example is actually a game I enjoy a lot. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was a victim of those poor beta testers. I'm not saying the game is unplayable, but the HUGE amount of glitches, game bugs, ways to corrupt your save-data and other kind of irreversible glitches is beyond human comprehension. From completely locking the game up, ruining story mode with a bug and even jumping into nothingness called 'blue hell', this game is a glitch-o-rama feast!