I just got GRID 2 from the summer sale, and it seems great so far, but I was really annoyed that they make you watch the intro and actually get into the game before you have the ability to change any of the options. GRID 2 has a lovely intro, but you have to watch it in a crappy little window and without 2D Surround enabled, then quickly pause the moment they let you and fix your settings before the race starts. I remember Need for Speed Undercover did the same thing, where they had a lovely ocean view intro thing, but you had to watch it full screen on low graphics settings at 480p. I know it's a small complaint and that I'm a spoiled brat for mentioning it, but it's just always been a little pet peeve of mine.

What video game pet peeves do you all have?

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First result on Google.

But yeah, unskippable intros are horrific.

1 decade ago
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Ah nice, good to know. I was actually more annoyed that, on the title screen when you first play the game, there's no options menu to go to, so you have to jump into the game with your display not right. I don't mind the intro scene really; I just mind that I had no choice but to watch it in a window.

1 decade ago
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Regenerating health in modern shooters. Thanks CoD!

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Any game that takes away my control for no good reason greatly annoys me. If I want to jump around and stand on someone's head during a long-winded exposition dump, who are you to stop my fun?!

Also scripted sequences of gameplay that differ drastically from the mechanics of the bulk of the game. Why can't people develop a game in such a way that a decent set of consistent mechanics work throughout? Apparently developers would rather switch to quick time events and '1 dimensional side to side dodging while sliding down a cliff' sequences.

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American morals and sensoring...

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+1

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Forced tutorials. "Press W to walk, press Esc to open the menu."

F*** off.

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You should play Blood Dragon lol

1 decade ago
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Best tutorial ever

1 decade ago
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Is this sarcasm or is it awesome?

1 decade ago
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It is actually awesome.

1 decade ago
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Day 1 DLC. GIVE US THE FULL DAMN GAME, DON'T MAKE US BUY ANY MORE THAN WE DID

Always Online DRM. Once those servers shut down, that game can never be played again. Ever.

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i hate all the advertising before your game even starts, for the type of audio/video codecs they use/ what engine all that.

only the unskippable ones ive seen in a few games, i have no problem with them getting credit, but... put it in the credits..

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When the camera up/down controls are reversed as default. Stupid game devs.

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PC games requiring CD/DVD in the drive. Yeah, I copied pretty much entire contents of the disc on my HDD, it's absolutely necessary. Even worse if it insists on the disc drive with the earliest letter.

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And to think, up until last year I absolutely loved that concept. Although I still love the concept of physical copies, having to root around for the game disc in large stacks does get frustrating

1 decade ago
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Escort quests where the NPC is too slow/fast or braindead.

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Bioshock Infinite.

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Any unskippable cutscene ever. Since I go for full completion, 99% of the time I need more than 1 playtrough. The exposition or whatever is nice and all but ONLY THE FIRST TIME... -.-

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I hate when you can't pause cutscenes. Sometimes something comes up and I think "Oh, let's see if I can pause!" "Skip" "Dammit -.-"

Why can't we have the nice "Pause, click insert button to skip" that I've seen in a few games?

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Well, the only games I can think of that actually have both pause-able and skippable cutscenes are the Assassin's Creed games... except when you "skip" on them you get slapped with a loading screen that itself can last several seconds... it's a step in the right direction, but still needs work. ^_^

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The only one I can think of is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I'm curious about other games that include that.

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I know I've had games that you can do it in, but they were all on console and it's been a long time since I've played any consoles so I can't really remember any of them.

1 decade ago
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Ratchet and Clank had pausable cutscenes.

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Long, unskippable cutscenes that you have to watch over and over when you fail something and get dumped back to a checkpoint.

Also, autosave only (Yes, that includes you, Batman Arkham games... great games, but fuck that autosave system).

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MANY things. Unskippable cutscenes, as well as long BORING ones. Long cutscenes themselves don't annoy me, though. Slow movement in big areas. Horndog events.

1 decade ago
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Horndog? Do you mean corndog? Because I'd love corndogs in more video games.

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Horndog. As in... Well, a lot of sex scenes. I could be hypocritical because I like Mass Effect, but it didn't force the sex scenes.

EDIT: Well, a lot of games tend to have sex scenes, from what I've seen. 18+ games, I suppose.

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Not enough...

1 decade ago
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When the main character isn't an elephant and I have to boycott it because of Elephant equality in video games. I'm looking at you GTA!

1 decade ago
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I have a game just for you. Clicky

1 decade ago
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wow! from the creators of Dirt 3 true?

1 decade ago
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No quicksaves in games that beg the player to experiment.

Example: Hitman: Absolution.

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inability to redefine controls, unskipable cutscenes, poor UI, unbalanced gameplay, frustrating difficulty, bad camera angles, 3rd person shooters with the character blocking your vision... to name a few

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Games that tell me how to do the simplest of things.

Poor FOV

Escort missions.

Most DLC

Regenerating health

Bad DRM

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Random-difficulty mechanics. I can get how in SOME games it can be fun or challenging, but I don't play most games for a challenge, I play most games to have fun. Random-difficulty just... Annoys the hell out of me.

1 decade ago
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Limited Savegame functionality. It's just a really annoying way to artificially increase the difficulty.

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