Top Ten Things I Hate in Video Games 

I hate those bosses that regain all their HP after you got them down to about a quarter of their original health (I'm looking at you Final Fantasy-series).. Some even do it TWICE

For me...No Post-Game. By that I mean, no matter how many times you finish the main campaign, you always start off just before the final mission. A lot of games I love do this, and it still annoys me. It sort of kills the satisfaction of saving the world if I don't get to see it afterwards until the sequel.

I hate Time Limits. Part of the reason I just can't get into Majora's Mask.

Have you seen the last time Zelda tried a non-silent protagonist?…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. we don't speak its name!

I absolutely hate, HATE escort missions

You hate luck-based gameplay? You'd have an aneurism playing XCOM.

14:43 I want a game where your assistant companion helper person says this whenever you get into an ice level: "Oh s**t. It's an ice level. Put on your f**king spiked shoes or else you'll be sliding around like a fat guy walking on a surface covered in lubricants."

when it comes to invisible walls i like it more when the devs make a reason with the environment for not being able to go somewhere rather then just placing an invisable wall or having an npc say "you can't go there" (which to me is more annoying then invisible walls.)

I hate Autosave I'm not talking where it's like two or three times in a level (evenly paced so you don't lose too much progress or have to repeat too much if you do die) I'm talking that special kind of autosave that feels the need to remind you every time it decides to save that it's saving. It stops the game just to say "hey you can continue where you left off" but then when it resumes...yeah...accidental death from cheep shot?

I really hate Bosses with a shitlpad of HP. It isn't a boss fight anymore. It's a chore.

I would much prefer Fallout 4 having a silent protagonist.

respawning enemies, overpowered weapons in multiplayer, and those glitches that makes enemies go inside the wall or rock

Silent protagonists are designed to make the player feel as if they are the characters they play, and not just puppeteers. In Half-Life, you ARE Gordon Freeman, not just playing as Gordon Freeman. The makers of Doom directly state that the main character is silent because YOU are the main character, and you can't really speak to someone who doesn't exist, right?

My 10 hated video game moments (in no particular order) > Loading Screens > Escorts Missions > Terrible AI > Overpowered/Overused multiplayer weapons and equipment > Cash currency in a paid game (I'm looking at you, EA) > Shit servers for multiplayer (*cough* EA *cough*) > Hand-holding (extensive tutorials etc) > Invisible Walls > Unfair matching (Fifa, RPG PvP etc) > And finally, DAY 1 FUCKING DLC.

Things I hate about multiplayer games: 1-10:hackers

D.L.C Micro transaction Pay for online play Short game that i payed 69 buck (canada) Milking .... to be short most of new gen games ;)

Random battles. ****ing, random battles. I seriously hate that shit.

I do admit, Ice levels in games are pretty brutal. The fact that you cant sustain your place for more than 3 seconds absolutely piss me off. And don't even get me started about The Legend of Zelda: The WindWaker for GC (Now for WiiU). That ice island. Bleh.

A couple of mine would have to be: ~The day DLC's took over the "unlocking part" of the gaming industry. ~ I'm tired of 3 stage bosses ~ Constant reminders through out the game... How to play the game... ~ Escort missions.... ~ Games with no purpose/story and no sense of adventure. For me those are one of the key factors in a good game.

i like the silent protagonist - you can identify much better if you can think for yoruself what you would say rather than having some lousy dialogue that makes you hate the character you are supposed to help. So if the character aint silent i want at least 3 - 5 dialogue options to choose from. -invisible walls can actually be covered in a way that they look like natural barriers. having actually invisible barriers is frustrating

You're not alone, mate, I hate it when the game has bad lighting.

Luck has to be number one. Single player games might work in your favor but in multiplayer games that give your enemies luck is just pure frustration.

My no. 1 pet peeve in video games: Unskippable tutorials and opening scenes. After the 400th Pokemon game released, I don't need to be told how to catch a fucking Pokemon! Just let me skip it. And sometimes I just want to replay my favorite games without sitting through a 20 min opening cutscene.

To avoid invisible walls, at least with water, I'd add a swimming energy meter, and when you run out, you drown. So, with no invisible walls, you can't reach the edge because you'll drown before you get there.

Yeah.... Speaking of Left 4 Dead 2, I'd rather play with Artificial Intelligence company, rather than through quickplay with company that absolutely LACKS intelligence.

Re: silent protagonist. A lot of Japanese games have silent protagonists because it serves as a shell for you, the player, to fill in.

Why aren't there QuickTime events on this list

Games SHOULD be about gameplay. That's why it's a game, not a book. Darkness, though...UGH I can't agree more on that. I need to see things. It's even worse in portable games, when you're outside in the sun...

Technically speaking, Minecraft isn't endless. That said, the worlds are so freaking huge (60 billion square metres [1 block = 1 square meter]), this fact is usually ignored.

Luck is such a bitch. I'm almost giving up playing Mario Kart 8 competitively because of how much MORE luck based it is compared to older MK games.

19:33 Snorlax: "Draw me like one of your french girls"

For the invisible wall thing. Some mountains or walls would look nicer than empty space for some games...

I don't really have a problem with Mario Party; if the entire game is based around luck, I don't see much of a problem. What you see on the tin is what you get. But when it's just a mechanic in a game, like the other two examples, then it becomes a problem for me.

mmm.. Arguement on Pyro: Just running at them in a frontal assault and firing up your weapon along the way is a good way to get dominated and killed before you could do anything. So really there _IS_ some strategy for Pyro, which is usually ambush and guerrilla tactics.

Invisible walls are not necessary. It is much better to have visible walls, like limited stamina that prevents you from swimming too far out to sea, mountain ranges and hill-sides too steep to climb etc. My pet peeves are: 1. "passive" story telling. If I can't change or in any way impact the story, then fuck off. Shove your unskippable cut scenes and endless unskippable monologues where the sun doesn't shine. 2. Games that prevent me from selecting the desired difficulty setting on the first playthrough. 3. Regenerating health. It encourages camping behind crotch-high walls and picking off enemies one by one, ducking down occasionally to go into foetal positon and suck your thumb to get your health back. To get the desired difficulty in a game with regenerating health game it is necessary to making enemies do enough burst damage to kill the player quickly; which ends up feeling random, cheap and luck-based. Without regenerating health you encourage the player to take risks (because being a coward is an even bigger risk), to go in guns blazing; you know, fun? You can have difficulty without making enemies do cheap amounts of burst damage that can kill you in fractions of a second. 4. Mechanics that take control away from the player and does things the player cannot do. Quick time events are the most obvious transgressor here, but there are many more, such as long-winded "kill moves"/"take down moves", unskippable climbing, opening etc. animations. This is the most effective way to kill immersion apart from cut-scenes. It is often not possible to do away with these entirely, but they should be minimized and shortened as much as possible. Consider opening doors in a classic like doom, you just press a button and the door slides open without locking the player in place and spending 5 seconds playing a door opening animation. 5. Top tier graphics. Yup, I really mean it. Good graphics means giant teams of hundreds of people, it means huge budgets that have to be recouped by making the most dumbed down possible game that can be played by rolling your face on the keyboard. Good graphics also often means that you must be consistent and sacrifice gameplay for the sake of maintaining nice, consistent animations; you can't leave things unshown. This has a tendency to bog down the gameplay with QTEs, unskippable animations etc. Excellent graphics also often look worse than good graphics. There are a couple of reasons behind this. The uncanny valley effect happens very easily, e.g. when animations are just a bit off on very realistic models. Good graphics does not imply good art; artistry is so much more important than technically advanced rendering; the most realistic pine tree in the world is still just a pine tree, the most realistic beach is still just where dirt meets water, we've all seen these things and they're not interesting or eye-catching; you can make the worlds most technically advanced brown FPS, with really realistic dirt, generic military NPCs and it will look unappealing and uninteresting. A game that uses more of available horse-power can't push enough frames for it too look good; essentially the first thing I do is drop the resolution until the game plays rock solid at 120 FPS; because that plays and feels excellent and that's what's important. If that means I have to go all the way down to 720p, so be it, but it's going to look like a ****ing console game at that resolution; even if you use deferred rendering with hundreds of light sources, ambient occlusion, whatever, there's just not enough pixels there for it to look good. If you optimize for 30 or 60 FPS on high end hardware at 1080p you're making the game look worse than it could with less props, less lights, less open environments and so on.

Invisible walls should be replaced by kill zones, walk into an off limits cave, a bear eats you.

for number 9: Rocket jumping using enemy rockets, deflecting enemy rockets, airblasting snipers out of the way so they miss their target, airblasting enemies into the line of fire, etc...

I acctualy like Ice physics....

15:23 100 hour version of that somebody

the reason why many games are dark and gritty and muted shades of blue n brown (looking at you, call of duty) is because it masks bad lighting physics that would make the game lag more otherwise, from what I've heard.

The blue shell is dodgeable, at least in the game cube version, It takes some serious bullshit skill maneuver though, and no the maneuver does not make you lose first generally

Toon link slipping on ice cracks me up every time xD

Silent protagonists give me a sense of loneliness and desolation, so Samus and Wander, who are alone, can be silent, but Mario, Link, Kirby, Crash Bandicoot and Crono aren't, so they have to talk. And silent protagonists are to me even less immersive than talking protagonists because I use video games as interactive books

Critical hits are bullshit but hey, I was the last soldier standing in arena mode and got 2 crits on the enemy team while they were capping the point. 5 people that put so much effort into eliminating my team got murdered by my 2 crit rockets. To me, that was hilarious. To the enemy team, it was a good enough reason to vote me off the server.

2:01 I AM CRYING OMFG

I would prefered it if Tidus never talked...or if we just played as Yuna since she really is the main character when you really think about it. Also, YES! I hate bad lighting too!

I hate it when in some boss fights they have minions helping them fight you and they just get in the way. Also when a enemy (boss or not) knocks you down and keeps attacking you and you just lay there and can't do anything about it.

9:08 what makes this boss possible is at the outside of the arena. Where you can restock, heal up, and save your progress all at once

Know who sucks with tutorials? Mario and Luigi Dream Team

GAH! WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK MARIO IS A SILENT PROTAGONIST, HE IS NOT, HE HAS A VOICE AND EVEN DIALOUGE!!! guh... Sorry, i just see mario used as an example of a silent protagonist so often when he isn't one. He used to be, but he isn't now.

Also, I give credit to you for showing Major Ocelot at the end of this list: despite being just the first boss his battle was so intense that he made me think I was thrown in a real war, fighting for my life.

That invisible wall thing in mario sunshine where you were always looked so interesting to go down there!

Luck is a tricky subject. In most games you can make your chances higher, and critical hits are pretty satisfying when the happen. BUT....XCOM....how many times have i missed with 99% chance....that's bullshit

I respectfully disagree with your first point. I personally connect with a main character with either a mask or one that shuts the hell up. The main character should be a personification of the player. His/her thoughts (and actions mind you) are the player's thoughts and actions. This is why I like Link as a character. :P You see where I'm going with this. On the other hand, characters that HAVE character can be a nice change of pace. Duke Nukem is a great example. What he says defines him and makes him interesting. The risk are players who find his personality repulsive, which is why it's ultimately better to stick with a silent protagonist.

I have a new number 1 for you. People who host drop-in drop-out co-op games, get you and presumably other people to beat them for you, then kick you out and steal the loot. I have specifically encountered this several times in Borderlands 2, although I'm sure it happens in other games

There's one game that makes flamethrowers useful at long range: Shadow Warrior. They stuck a GRENADE LAUNCHER to it.

Wait wait wait...brainless flamethrower? No. You gotta plan your ambushes, get behind people, know the map so you can move around and not get murderized. So, flamethrowers themselves might be a bit brainless, what with not really aiming, but the tactics to use one well, ain't. :p 2 years late comment, sue me.

15:20 O....M....G XD Perfect, just amazing

The whole thing about flamethrowers is not having range... They're not sniper rifles. Don't expect them to be. Everything has a pro and a con.

The thing about the 1-hit KO moves in Pokemon is they always seem to work for the AI, but never seem to work for you.

I agree about luck but I don't like most of your examples

AAnd here's Link.

about that crit chance in TF2, that makes me wonder, why is it that whenever i get killed by another player, it's always because of a crit shot. i mean, everytime they get a "random" crit and i just blow up.

in assassins creed 1 water really sucks cause it can kill you , Altair regrets missing swim meet all those times

Quick time events are the worst for me

Well Link can never talk.....never....but that doesn't mean everyone else in the gamer can't talk!

5:45 Me “It is important that you do not have to be in the cue.”

Jak and Daxter - Silent Protagonist Jak 2:Renegade - Suddenly learnt how to speak This always confused me xD

I remember a 1 hit kill move on FFX agents Yunalesca kick her ass till she enters 3rd form and then she'll try to fuck you with mega death, only 3 things can conter this bitch move, 1 summon an Aeon, 2 use zombie on a party member or 3 use Auto-Life, I just summon an aeon to take the shot then I kick her ass

I agree with number 10, except in the Fable games. Number 9, it depends on the player's preference. Number 8, there's nothing we can do it about. I agree with everything else. Do extremely low drop-rate items count in number 1 though? That's what I really fucking hate in games. Like items with drop-rate of 12/255 or so. Oh, and unadjustable camera angles too.

i quite like the random crits in tf2 actually as its really funny to see someone in front of you get vaporized by a crit rocket as you follow them around a corner

3:30 Zombie: its cool man I'll wait Leon: thanks

What about "press X to not die"?

I have a Strange Flamethrower in TF2 and I love to piss off F2Pers with it. I can see why people would hate you to do so.

Dat Opening music in the background, LOVE IT, young Xehanort theme from kingdom hearts, gotta love it.

I get the silent protagonist thing, but if the hero talks, it feels less like you're the hero, and more like you're watching someone else's adventure

Silent protagonists are often the winners of "best character" awards because people like vanilla heroes. People love Gordon Freeman specifically because he has no real personality and so we can imprint on him. This is common in other media, though. Harry Potter, Bella Swan, and Frodo are all pretty much the least interesting characters in their respective stories (though the competition's pretty close with Twilight). Games just remove one more barricade between us and the self-insert fanfiction we really want.

I... I find luck-based games entertaining, though....

I got freaked out when you showed the first clip of the guy slipping on ice, because that looks almost exactly like the video I had one of my friends record of me on my phone. Random info, but interesting.

Invisible walls can be really frustrating, I had to revise my entire strategy in Valkyria Chronicles once, because my tank couldn't pass a space that was clearly large enough

whats the intro song? i think i heard it before somehwere.

How about the "because we are friends" cliche?

I LOVE the Final Fantasy X boss music at 7:43 . Pretty much ALL the main bosses are SOOOO overpowered. -_-

+rabbidluigi I can see where you're coming from, that's y I put my brightness all the way up.

I hate pyros in TF 2 so much...

WHAT ABOUT LAG

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you should have added button mashing.

the biggest thing i hate in video games is in first person games when the fov is shit and it makes me sick. it literally can ruin games like metro 2033.

You know what I hate? Cutscene Incompetence. I see this in numerous games, where you absolutely kick ass in gameplay, and the moment you get done beating a boss, he easily defeats you in a cutscene and goes about his business. The most recent example is the Witcher 2, holy hell, the Witcher 2. If you fight Letho, you can end up beating this guy without taking a single hit (I did it with ease), but the moment the fight ends, he casts a spell on you that makes normal people stagger backwards... and it stuns you for about two minutes. Then he just walks away easily. This happens in A LOT of games, where the main character just stands there and gets owned by a boss instead of actually beating them up, or just watches with a stupid expression while something horrible happens. Hell, this happens ALL THE TIME in Bethesda games, the most glaring example being in Fallout 3 in Project Purity. And yes, this is a spoiler. So, you just killed about 30 troopers in power armor and took their guns, without even slowing down. You get back to your father who is being held hostage by literally 3 people.... and you are forced to stand still while he decides to kill himself and them for no apparent reason, mostly because you could just walk up and press the VATS button, and all of them would die before they could even raise their guns. This is EVERYWHERE and I fucking hate it.

For the sake of the argument, if flamethrowers had realistic range in a video game, it would be about 20-30 feet, which for a constant damage weapon would be ridiculous. Thats why it's range is super short. Same thing applies to shotguns to a lesser extent; their range is much larger then what video games portray them as for balance reasons.

what about escort missions?

luck it rhymes with duck and also buck but u another word for it F***!

Haha the part with Ice Physics made me immediately think of Crash Bandicoot. :)

Pokémon does the whole silent protagonist deal too, but it's pretty clear that the protagonist actually responds and it's actually possible to figure out what your little person is saying and if you want to be creative, you can figure out your own dialouge.

Your argument about silent protagonist is just... whaaat?! I think we need more of them. I don't like when all I'm doing is controlling some character that's not a presentation of me but a character in a plot and a story and setting that I only guide him/her trough and giving the protagonist a voice makes me feel an outsider even more.

2 things i dislike 1 stealth it always felt too slow for my liking it's not always annoying but there are some cases like the last of us that kinda tested me particularly once i got to david he will not give you weapons except for your switchblade and simply running up to him and slashing for a bit won't work you have to take him stealthily get caught and it's game over especially when he gets his machete out i like having a plan b like in the case of dishonored or arkham asylum or crysis 2 2 moral choice this would make sense on paper but paper dissolves in water and goes see through when you rub grease on it the problem lies not just in the flawed concept of either going all one way or all the other but the fact that our choices have consequences the beauty of the horrible things we do is knowing they're consequence free

Silent Protagonists can be a tad annoying sometimes. Like, in Wizard101 and Pirate101 literally don’t even give you dialogue options. They have a narrator talk about your player’s response or have NPCs immediately respond after asking you something. It breaks the immersion for me.

Here are other ones... Always Online for non-MMO games Bad camera control Lack of customization and/or mod support Super linear gameplay, lack of exploration, or options Hand holding and lack of player decision making, game basically makes decisions for you Lack of freedom...can't do this, can't do that. I also hate super dark games, I usually resort to using the settings to get maximum brightness. I'm sure there's more, I just don't have time to think of them all.