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Really bad sidequests and side dungeons that you still feel obliged to do, like in Oblivion.
Total War late games and sea battles.
Obvious spawning.
The bloody birds in resident evil 2, I almost shat myself
Cougar - ModeratorUnskippable cutscenes. Unforgivable, and really really annoying especially on repeat play-throughs (or when you die repeatedly on a difficult bit and have to watch the same scene over and over and over).
Final Fantasy summons. If I had a pound for every time I wandered off during a summon to do something else, I'd have several pounds.
The fact Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't out yet 😥
Oh and getting distracted watching the F1 qualifying while coming out of warp on Elite dangerous and flying into a sun.
When your 6 year old is giving you a thrashing at Mario Kart and takes pity on you "Dad, do you want me to wait for you?"
colour clash on sprites, waiting for xbox one to cold boot and then still wait for updates to apply before starting the game.
Games that require the internet to play, and demise of 4 player local games.
^apparently Goat Simulator has a local 4 player split screen mode, will be doing a play test in my time off I think. Once it stops hurting when I laugh.
Totally agree with the comments about Tomb Raider and Uncharted, to be honest it's not so much the waves of enemies I find annoying as the fact that usually you've just solved an ancient puzzle to open a tomb or crypt or something that hasn't been opened in thousands of years and the first thing that happens when you walk in is you start tripping over crates of supplies and ammo and the bad guys jump out and start shooting at you..?!? How did they get in there?
I think in the first Uncharted they at least tried to explain it by showing a big hole blown in the wall by 'looters' or something but seems like the later ones couldn't be bothered and just hoped you wouldn't notice as you were too busy killing your 8000th bad guy that morning...
Believe it or not, there's sort of a strategy/puzzle attribute to getting through the larger shoot outs in Uncharted. Once you get your head round that and start planning/thinking about them rather than trying to take on everyone at once you should enjoy them a little more. Patience pays dividends. 😉
Having played GTAV with you online in the past. I wouldn't say you were shit at shooting multiple waves of baddies there. you held your own pretty well.
Anything in games that needs upgrades (weapons, special powers, cars) does my head in!
A level playing field with basic weapons/cars I kick ass... Just can't be bothered powering up anything and tend to stick with one weapon/car leaving me at a distinct disadvantage.
Endless looting and collecting anything you're "meant to" read are my pet hates in stealth/FPS/3rdPS/RPG games.
I don't even pay attention to cut scenes when I play campaigns.
Really short attention span and memory problems mean I often get lost in games, or if I don't play every night I'll completely forget what the story/onjective is.
@H1ghland3r - So exactly the same as the Indiana Jones, James Bond, Star Wars films these games have been loosely based on? 😉
blame the Actionmovie/Meathead/teenage audience
Anyone old enough to remember The version of Elite that needed you to hold a plastic prism to the screen of your TV, to give you a page number to a word from the elite manual which you had to enter to start the game!
You either lost the plastic viewer or the manual or kept entering the wrong word, frustrating for such a great game
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Totally agree with the comments about Tomb Raider and Uncharted, to be honest it's not so much the waves of enemies I find annoying as the fact that usually you've just solved an ancient puzzle to open a tomb or crypt or something that hasn't been opened in thousands of years and the first thing that happens when you walk in is you start tripping over crates of supplies and ammo and the bad guys jump out and start shooting at you..?!? How did they get in there?
Either we're all shit at shooting things or there's a common theme here, because the above ^^ is EXACTLY what put me off Uncharted. It's like playing a movie, except Indiana Jones doesn't have to repeat bits a million times to move on to the next scene.
Ended up winding the difficulty down to "shooting fish in a barrel" level and even then it annoyed me.
DLC. Can't remember the last time my £40+ was enough to get the best bits of the game included.
Lickers that play Forza 6 online just to plough into me on the first corner because they're too retarded to play it properly
Either we're all shit at shooting things or there's a common theme here
The common theme is we're all middle aged blokes on a cycling forum.
13yr olds finish games like Uncharted in an evening. Whereas it takes me months.
Uncharted 3, too short. Looked amazing but not enough gameplay.
Shooting thousands of baddies. Seriously, why the f do they keep on coming after having seen thousands of their mates cut down?
Rainbow road on Mario Kart 64
[quote=richmars ]That UFO that appears in Space Invaders and bombs you.
Gets me every time.
The way the paddles don't reach the top of the screen
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Mario Kart on the Wii, fair enough have the silly wheel and motion sensor for a laugh, but no option to use old school buttons?
Invisible walls, solid doors and unresponsive scenery - it's easy to make a game look good, but if it's just a lot of pretty painted walls it destroys the illusion.
Rockstar not making the Story Mode DLC they promised in favour of endless tweeks for the online cash-cow.
Mario kart wii takes gamecube and classic controllers, fail.
I was more pissed off by the fact you cant just unlock everything by completing gp's but rather having to earn achievements, sone of which are near impossible thanks to the complete lack of anti cheat online.
P-Jay - Member - Block UserRockstar not making the Story Mode DLC they promised in favour of endless tweeks for the online cash-cow.
I bought it for the MP, why is online a cash-cow? You don't have to spend any more money on it (unless you're rubbish) 😉
Waves of enemies are so dull. Especially when they all seem to be magical bullet sponges who'll take a bullet to the head and 5 more in the chest but still keep going. Uncharted series are bad for this to the point where I really like the games but can get fed up of the waves of enemies sections then not play it again for months.
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P-Jay - Member - Block User
Rockstar not making the Story Mode DLC they promised in favour of endless tweeks for the online cash-cow.
I bought it for the MP, why is online a cash-cow? You don't have to spend any more money on it (unless you're rubbish)
Lots of players do though, $2m for a lot of the new stuff/cars - that's about 140 rounds of a decent missions worth - anyway, my point is they promised more story mode, but they've scraped it in favour of endless updates for SM.
Nudging the 16K RAM pack on the back of the ZX81 and the whole thing goes bye bye.
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The way women are portrayed. I'm no feminist but it is nonsense.
gravity-slave - Member
Trying to free up RAM with a boot disc and custom config.sys and autoexec.bat files.
There's little in life that gives me as much joy as creating a successful boot disk used to
The bloody birds in resident evil 2, I almost shat myself
These, and the dogs in the first one. Every time.
Online multiplayer action stuff I'm too old for. Join the game and within 10 seconds some kid has killed me. They also seem to have a tonne of shortcuts or hacks to do things quickly that I never understand.
Nope, you're just old 🙂
MMORPGs jumping the shark 3 expansions ago, but still being the biggest thing in gaming. Yes, WoW. I'm through with you.This time I mean it.
These, and the dogs in the first one. Every time.
I'm glad that wasn't just me. There's probably still a dent in my ceiling.
monster/enemy closets. Check this room, check that room walk forward get shot/slashed in the back. Also trigger points, stand here, nothing, take 1 step forward and all hell breaks lose.
Save anywhere is a bit cumbersome but for those of us with families and constant interruptions it's useful.
"hard" modes where they only massively increase the bad guys energy and attack. lazy.
coffeeking - MemberThe way women are portrayed. I'm no feminist but it is nonsense.
I think it tells you something, that it's so surprising when female characters are done well. I took a bit of pleasure from my female dwarf in dragon age, punching the world in the baws and only pausing to corrupt her innocent knight mate before returning to baw punching. And she didn't have wonderbra cleavage armour either.
females in jeopardy/revenge can be done well though... Like, Shadow of Mordor, yes you're avenging your dead wife and son but the backstory makes it work much better because it's basically entirely your fault, and it's also the knife they twist when they want you to do pretty awful stuff. It's still a cliche but you can use cliches.
When the Ripper gets replaced with the Lightning Gun...
After playing the first Gran Turismo; all of the sequels.
where the court leaves a ghost image on your TV screen
Games that require you to have the CD/DVD in the drive to play. Hence requiring cracking in order to play on my ultraportable.
coffeeking - Member
Hang on.. aren't you back after like.. hundreds of years away?
How are you mate? 🙂
in game purchases and those games that require buying figurines to unlock parts of the game you already paid for