I’ll add to this. Unskippable end credits on games that require you to play it multiple times. Xenoverse 2’s credits is around 8 minutes long and if you turn off the game you have to watch it all over again.
It’s not going to make me appreciate the team, it’s just gonna piss me off and make me feel held captive. If i wanted to look I’ll stay.
I love devs and the work they do, but we really need a better way to do but at this point. Entire villages work on games these days… I think there are actually shorter memorials out there.
If the end credits was just lots of photos of all the people who worked on the game, a mix of them in their everyday life but also working on the game, the odd team night out etc I think people would be far more likely to watch than an endless list of whit names on a black screen.
If I was one of the devs I’d also much rather see a photo of myself on the credit than my name, particularly if you had a very common name.
The ones that do this the most have the audacity to make the credits pitch black with nothing going on outside of the occasional cutscene picture in the corner.
If it’s something cinematic going on in the background I’ll gladly pick out some names. But I noticed indie games are starting to do this more which sucks.
We all have, and I think it's funny because a lot of the younger generations are playing original kh now and apparently that's where a lot of them find out what kind of gamer they are lmao 🤣🤣
Having to work out the Mega Death mechanics without any sort of hint or guide was not a fun experience. Only found out Zombie avoids it purely by accident.
Seymour Flux wasn't too bad. It got easier once I figured out he could be poisoned+silenced.
Other comments have named my pet peeves so I'll add making the unlockable outfits look like dogshit and putting the better looking ones in the microtransaction store. Irks me even more when it is a single player game.
Games that haven’t updated their “free” in game cosmetic store in years but their premium macro transaction store receives regular updates. Darktide for example.
Holy smokes I read the comment and immediately thought about Darktide but here you are
It's unreal how 95% of unlockable cosmetics look so awful yet for some reason paid stuff finally looks good, it's like the creators of these cosmetics are actually talented but follow some greedy psycho
Darktide is the worst about it because the base outfits suck and they seem to have forgotten that it's not a free to play game. If they chargef a couple bucks per outfit I wouldn't mind but they want league of legends prices on a game they charge for.
It only annoys me when the game isnt free. If its a free to play game, I get it. You arent forced to buy and can still enjoy the game without playing.
I think Call Of Duty is actually great in this regard. Warzone is free, tons of unlockable cosmetics that still look good but the really awesome stuff is locked behing a paywall.
What I hate is that the new weapons are always the best/meta weapons and if you buy a cosmetic pack or skips for the season pass, you unlock them quicker.
Everything that gives anyone an advantage at multiplayer just by paying for it. Even unlocking it sooner is bullshit.
Menu system. When I'm at the bottom of a menu and hit down it should go to the top of the menu. I shouldn't have to scroll all the way up to get to the top again. It's a minor gripe, but it is annoying.
If I hit down too many times and it goes to the top of the menu, then hitting up from the top should take me to the bottom. If it's got rollover at the end, it needs to roll back from the start, too. Been playing a lot of Palworld. Fun game. But if I scroll too far down my crafting list, boom, I'm back at the top and now have to scroll down through the whole thing again.
There should also be some way to make gear that isn't useful for your build into gear or resources that ARE useful. It bugged the crap out of me when I was playing Elden Ring and found a really cool sword that wasn't going to do anything at all for my mage build.
"But you can sell it!"
For what, 100 souls? I need 150k souls to level up. gtfoh.
Oh don't get me wrong. I apriciate tutorials and would never skip them on a first playthrough. But I like replaying games a lot. And on subsequent playthroughs unskipable tutorials, while not a deal breaker, get annoying.
I don't even care if the tutorial is skipable, just don't make it boring.
For example , if it's a platformer, have an obstacle course that the game will walk you through if you need it, but you can just rush through if you know what you're doing.
It fucking sucks when the tutorial insists you perform every action before allowing you proceed. "Move by using WASD - give it a shot. Okay, now use your mouse to look around. Great! Try jumping by pressing your space bar." and it just goes on and on.
That's probably useful to people who have never played video games before, but I think there should be a separate tutorial for video game veterans that skips the genre conventions and goes straight to the unique mechanics.
Came here to say this. The Last of Us Part 1 is a fucking chore to replay because the whole tutorial takes so long and you do nothing for so much of it.
Games (especially adventure games) that lock you out of past explored areas. As a recovering completionist, it still irks me to no end when a game sends you into the next area and makes it so you have no way of going back besides either a completely new replay or a chapter select
That's why I stopped playing Crisol: theater of idols. You can't fucking lock me out of collectibles or clearing the map, especially if you have a trophy that requires to do so.
I hate classic RE3 for this reason. I love RE1 and 2, and those were basically 3D Metroidvanias. You could explore stuff you left behind. I left unexplored stuff behind in RE3 assuming the same, and the game just locked me out of that.
Same happened with Code Veronica disc 2. Now I've accepted it, but I would never not be pissed at them for doing this after the gems that RE1 and 2 were.
I played Destiny off and on from Beta of D1 until the end of D2, though I really fell off around shadowkeep. Couldn’t fucking explain an iota of Destinys story. Why? Because for 90% of the games life it was mostly told through cards you unlock and read a description of the grimoire. Gee I hope you were playing in August 6th 2022 because if not OH WELL THAT CUTSCENE WILL NEVER PLAY AGAIN
My biggest pet peeve with overwatch is the amount of story and lore they have in cinematics, character dialogue and shit but blizzard is far too focused on trying to develop some gameplay loop and content for the pve mode when what they should do is a classic: a goddamn story mode.
The omnic war stuff, reinhardt's arc from glory to duty, the drama between Hanzo and Genji, how Genji met Mercy or Zenyatta, the arc that made Reaper go bad, etc. They got so much material they COULD make all kinds of campaigns and charge us for each one and we'd eat that shit up.
Like seriously, is anyone really asking for a pve mode with customizable builds over a good campaign about literally anything I said? Not to mention it gives them the excuse to make different games too (imagine young Winston's campaign growing up playing like a Mario game or even Portal).
They also marketed the 2nd game, which killed the first, as a necessity because they were not only going to change the format, but they were also going to add PvE
They neglected an extremely popular game for YEARS, changed the format to something no one asked for, and then decided that PvE was way too much work.
They know that we know that they changed it to change monetization. It only took them until marvel rivals for them to stop moving at a snails pace, but the game's community had died down tremendously by then, or moved on to better game.
When they put game instructions or hints to read up on the screen during crazy inopportune times. I find it difficult to read the instructions on the screen while I'm fighting 50 ninjas.
No hard save.
And this one keeps me from playing a lot of online games. I can't play a game if I can't pause it whenever I want.
Edit: I just read that back and understand how it sounds. Yes, I'm old.
As a dad in my 40s, having a game i can pause at any given moment with no prior warning (even in cutscenes) opens up my gaming time. I'll play the shit out of your game if I can do it in 10 minute sections after work before the kids go to bed.
Yep. I only really play single-player games these days, but even then I've played a few games that wouldn't pause when I hit escape. Just... why?!
Add in games that make it difficult to save. I want to save whenever I feel like it. I don't want to have to find a bed to end the day or anything like that.
Absolutely! Hate when that happens. Or when you beat the bosses ass but then the cut scene hits and your character has the intelligence of a box gets there shit pushed in and for some reason has the starter weapon and armor equipped in every cutscene.
This, but it also pisses me off when bosses have an exaggerated stun animation that is supposed to be a window where you can do damage to them and the entire fight is just doing timed stuns so you can chip away at their giant hp bar.
This is why I love the Soulsborne games. When you do enough damage to a boss and break their poise, you get a satisfying bassy BOOM noise and a window to do a visceral attack to do more damage, so it really feels as if you're beating the breaks off someone.
In GTA V the player has to do a tedious, unskippable early side mission with a tow truck, which then spawns multiple optional missions where the player helps their friend out with the tow truck.
This establishes that the character has access to a tow truck.
When a heist later in the game requires a tow truck… they have to steal a different tow truck, rendering the above setup pointless.
The whole point of the latter mission is to destroy the week, so you get the flame thrower to obliterate it. The combine actually harvests things, ie spits out squares of harvested whatever-you-ran-over. So the weed would be bailed up and ready to throw on a truck, not destroyed.
I would love rewindable cutscenes. As an author and avid reader, being able to go back and look at details in video games, just like I do with books, tv shows, and movies, would be awesome.
Slow forced walking segments while npcs talk at you. I'd rather it just be a skipable cutscene or a loading screen. I dont wanna hold my left stick down for 10min as I get an exposition dump
Bonus points if the NPC's speed is slower than your running speed but faster than your walking speed.
Double bonus points if the NPC pauses and stops talking if you get too far away from them, so you're forced to spend the whole time stopping and starting to try and awkwardly keep pace with them.
I loved Stalker for this. Met a guy who was like "follow me" and I expected him to do that awkward half-jog that you can't do yourself. He sprinted away and I nearly lost him until I caught up to him lol
This is the absolute worst design trend that needs to go. It's especially frustrating since the games that typically have these sections already have an abundance of long ass cutscenes, which is where that dialogue should have been spoken, and it ruins replay value. It ironically makes me feel less immersed in a game because it strips me of my agency.
Another Crab's Treasure did it's NG+ difficulty spike amazingly well. New enemy varieties and enemy placements. They never felt like dmg sponges and the new enemy placements and boss moves made the game feel fresh and exciting all over again!
A game shows clever design, interesting worlds, starts to pull you in...
Then the trailer goes DECKBUILDER ROGUELITE INFINITELY REPLAYABLE.
No, I don't want to pick 1 card out of 3. No, I don't want the game to be horribly balanced because 'you can just die and try again'. I want meaningful, author-crafted worlds that give a sense of accomplishment as you explore them.
When one game does really well so the rest of the industry just starts making those. Call of duty eventually became so obsessed with the battle royale and open map that it destroyed the franchise and story to the new games
Black Flags treasure maps were some of the worst. Half of them looked like they were drawn by a 5 year old. Some were so bad I actually had to look up where exactly it was supposed to be.
Fable 3. The previews for that game had Molyneux sating the map was like an RTS, you can see the characters in the world going about their lives. The example he gave was you could see your wife leave the house and go next door and you could then catch her cheating on you
What we actually got was this terrible cartoon version of a map that you couldnt actually use to navigate around the cities because they didnt make sense
My biggest pet peeve is when your trying to 100% a game and they hide stuff you can only get in a crappy luck based mini game or just a unfun mini game, so it take hours just to get it
And when you make one bad choice and it locks you into a certain ending, you break one questline or make one mistake and now suddenly you get the bad ending, or you have to replay a game multiple times doing the same thing to get the best ending, you should always be able to get true ending in first playthrough
1: Any game that doesn't allow you to manually sheathe your wepons!!
Dunno why but drives me mad!
2: A game breaker for me, any game that doesn't allow you to edit your control scheme!!
I honestly think that no game should be allowed to release without editable controls, it's crazy to me how many actually still release without being able to adjust the control scheme!
It's different for that era when graphics weren't that advanced enough to pull that artwork off. But nowadays, when even indie titles can insert that artwork into their own game, it feels lazy. Especially if they're not trying to play homage to the classic era of games.
over encumbered/full inventory. it just means i spend more time deciding what to drop or crawling towards a merchant/chest than actually playing. it also keeps me from going deeper into dungeons or too far away from towns.
and there's so many ways to adjust it. if picking up everything and selling it would give you too much money reduce sell cost, if having too many potions is a problem make it so the game doesn't pause when inventory is open and so on.
like, i know i don't have to hit take all every corpse/chest i loot. but i will anyway lol. there's definitely a ratio that is fairly delicate to make it work.
I know one, ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) that made it so everything was a number rather than weight, weapons? 1, materials 1, then they made it so weapons etc sold for a very cheap price, so you couldn't just loot and sell.
Unfortunately they swiftly figured out a way to ruin this, by adding alot more things you'll need as time went by, there was a bank which let you store stuff, not alot, solution? Pay to temporarily increase space, plus another paid option that let you store gathered materials
Edit: irritation I've got there is they made a problem, there's kinda a solution, but for a price
Games with an action you see a LOT but no way to skip.
I'm playing FF7 Rebirth right now. It's excellent. I wish it didn't take so long to start the Chadley battles and that I didn't have to wait 30 seconds after each battle for my team to do their victory poses. I also wish I didn't have to wait 30 seconds after every world Intel event (there's hundreds) for the game to pop up a notice that I just did a thing, which I was purposefully trying to do. Probably wasting a combined couple hours across the whole playtime just waiting for notifications to go away. And they can't be skipped.
Worst part of the game by far. I don't even so much mind Chadley talking or doing the scans myself but don't stop my gameplay so he can talk. He can talk in my ear while I'm moving.
Pretty specific but games where you can’t pick up dropped enemy weapons and instead have to wait to pick up the scripted pickup version of that weapon.
Also, the significant rise in sacrificing one skill or attribute to gain another. Or the forced trade off with skills. I want it all. As much of it as I can have.
RPGs that have long or redundant tutorials. We gotta start adding a “i’m familiar with the system/gameplay” option to games. Yes, i’m aware fire is weak against water, and believe it or not, i did know that a well timed block lets me counter.
Unless there’s new feature or something unique in a sequel, i think i understand things.
Escort quests in general, but specifically where they jog faster than your walk speed but slower than the default run speed. At this point, it's clearly intentional and don't you dare tell me otherwise, someone -made- it that way
I do love pixel art and I think that there’s an audience for it, but it does kind of feel like a lot of games have solely relied on that artstyle rather than focusing on good gameplay or any other design aspect.
When the character costumization in the previous game is far superior to the one after it.
The fact that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet only allowed the player to wear a school uniform and a few other pre-created outfits, instead of being able to mix and match a lot of stuff, still annoys me.
Or Sims 3 allowing one to give outfits any type of color and texture you want, only for not being an option in the 4th game.
My pet peeve is like in Assassin's creed or something similar you have like 10 enemies in a group trying to kill you, you kill the first 6 or 7 and the remaining enemies are still trying to kill you, always feel surely at some point they should start running away
It should be illegal for a boss to use healing magic.
So what if I healed 19 times in the first 10 minutes of the fight, you (the boss) healing that 1 time and restoring like more than 50-60% of your health is a crime against humanity! And im calling my god damned congressman. 😤😤😤😤
I mean, let him heal (some), but at least put finite number of mana or healing consumables on him, so he won't be able to do it consecutively 10 times.
I hate it when I have to constantly manage scarce resources during boss battle, and at the same time boss can just spam shit using his infinite magic/heal/whatever pool.
I've never been into rts games/top-down perspective games. I made an exception for the wasteland franchise once because I'm a massive post-apocalyptic game fan and it's built in a way where it's surprisingly accessible to people who don't really interact with the genre. I'll see games that have really cool cover art, the characters look awesome, the description sounds amazing, and then I'll see that It's one of those and I'll immediately lose interest.
Open world game where you can go anywhere and do anything...... but the only thing there is to do is run around and swing your weapon and jump...... and that's it.
That one game that has the most epic trailer ever but the game itself is half ass baked and lies to you about the promised content that was gonna be in the game or throw it behind a paywall
Pop up tutorials for fucking sure, I'm sick of the game flow being hyjacked by infomercials, either create a dedicated training level or let fuckers find out on their own
I know it's needed in some games, but long ass prologues that's immediately followed by a tutorial pisses me of now that I barely have time to play games. I just tried Cyberpunk 2077 after being in my library for a while and I don't have the patience anymore.
Then I tried Sifu. Immediately, I'm in it, punching people. If I played Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 today I would've dropped them immediately.
the majority of the time, I go for 100%, so i hate when games do this.
Bad requirements include:
crap that has no impact on game. You have to learn different fighting styles for 100%, but there's virtually no hand-to-hand combat in the game
Obvious padding. yeah, you should have to beat this very tedious and uninteresting side mission that was only added to pad out game time
spend a long time to complete something only for the reward to be terrible, useless, or non-existant
How the actual f was I supposed to find this without a guide? a collectable hidden in the most obscure place you can think of
Missables. Would have loved to get 100%, but once I left this area, they won't let me go back for this specific thing. Hope you enjoy playing the whole game again
Beat this time/get this high score, but the controls are really bad and make it way harder than necessary
When games massively over-do it with the amount of pointless/junk items you can pick up.
Can't be used, crafted or sold, just to weigh you down.
The amount of hours you can spend overall sorting your inventory can be painful.
Missable content/points of no return that aren’t obvious in the slightest. Makes me want to quit the game right then and there.
Even worse if it’s a game where you can get and do almost everything outside of a few key things that you can just permanently miss in very not obvious ways
I got several. None of these are actual deal breakers, but stuff that irks me and could honestly do without:
No pause. I got a family, sometimes i gotta move.
Losing my shit on death. I know souls popularized this mechanic, and I love the Souls games, but it doesn't need to be in freaking everything now.
Lack of optimization. If you're going to release a game on console and PC, it needs to be properly optimized to perform on the former. Nothing pulls you out of the immersion like a frame rate dip or screen tearing. A smooth gameplay experience is far more important than a few extra light rays in a special effect.
Oh! Here's a good one. Real time in-game effects. Night/Day cycles or events tied to actual time. Most people only have specific times of the day they can play. Locking out content because I have to work or whatever is bs.
Highly doubt it, because back in those days your expectations of possible gameplay were limited.
Now? This could either be 3rd person rpg with graphics/visuals of RDR2/WITCHER3/Cyberpunk or straight up 2000 pixel turn-based strategy game which is also top down without zooming in feature.
You forgot to tickle this one unrelated character’s balls before doing a part of the main quest so now this other character’s quest line is forever broken.
Characters having a 2 minute conversation with sn NPC during gameplay in an area that you can pass through in 30 seconds. The conversation then ends as Soon as you leave the area, cutting it of and making you miss plot information.
So the next time characters start talking, you stand still, only for the conversation to be short and the area you pass through longer ... so there is an awkward silence as you walk slongside the NPC.
I can honestly give games alot of slack but nothing getting on my nerves more than slow text you cant skip. Then your there button mashing to speed it up only to have the text end in you pressing the button to replay everything again.
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u/Kreeper125 2d ago
Unskippable cutscene for a tough boss. After the second time dying I'm tired of watching it over and over