What aspect of gameplay is your biggest pet peeve?

Quick time events.

Dungeons.

Boring cut scenes with no relevance.

Forced tutorials.

One thing is in games, when you touch an enemy you take damage. I'm not talking about games like Mario, where you are supposed to avoid enemies, I am talking about games like Rogue Legacy, where the enemies have their own attacks, but you running into them still hurts you. Another thing is when the sides of spikes hurt you.

Games with crappy levelling mechanics, where the character you roll at the start may not be the character you wish to play as further down the line. Yes Morrowind, that means you.

Forced intros/logos

Grinding and Padding

Hand holding, extreme linearity, movement restrictions (if you go out of predefined boundaries and don't return in 10 seconds, game over), checkpoint based saving, unskippable cutscenes and intros/logos.

I really hate forced "action" missions in stealth games. It's OK if shooting your way through is an option, but if it's the ONLY option for that said mission or level, it's freaking infuriating.

Bad level design

Checkpoint autosaves. No question about it. The idea of having to repeat something just because I couldn't play 5 minutes longer to get to the next checkpoint infuriates me to no end (especially because some of these checkpoints are only temporary for that game session in case you die, but if you actually quit the game because you had some other obligation then it makes you restart all the way at the beginning of the stage).

A game's playability goes up ENOURMOUSLY if I can save anywhere anytime and resume at that exact point. Bound by Flame for instance is just about the best game this year because of that, because no minute spent on it is ever wasted unlike other games that still save like they run on systems with minute amounts of physical memory barely able to contain a checkpoint save (like back in the PSX days).

Something like Shadowrun Returns NOT having anytime anywhere saves is absolutely unforgivable because it's not some AAA console port.

Backtracking.
I don't mind when you get that ah-ah moment realizing that now you can go over that one ledge you saw earlier 'cause you found a new item/skill.
What I don't like is when you are forced to go back for some random silly reason just because they needed to squeeze 20-25% extra hours of gameplay.

Similar: delaying new relevant stuff in the game on purpose. Like Alan Wake: it could easily have been one of my favorite games ever, but instead they put 3 hours of useless corridor levels in which you just do stuff you already did, waiting for the next relevant event/situation.

Bad controls input and no options to change it.

• Characters forced into your party.
• Cut-scenes you can't skip
• Instant-death objects

Linear levels, repetitive levels, bad controls, boring cut scenes without skipping options, dumb AI.

Escort missions kill me every time.

Forced stealth missions drive me batty as well. If I want to play stealthily, I already would, or I'd play a stealth game.

akward and wonky animations.

incredibly awful graphics (i mean depths of fear kind of uglies.)

A.I doing stupid shit that breaks inmersion.

• Insta deaths definitely!!
• Grinding if its super super huge, like some of those korean RPG games i've played.
• Any game that makes me play it twice to get the real ending just feels like a dog move.

Question markers, especially in newer RPG and shit, find a object and there's a huge marker above it.

Games that play out like action movies, call of duty etc, why can unscripted gameplay be mastered?

Fetch quests. They are boring.