What is your biggest gaming pet peeves?

[AkiddoRBTwentySix]

(pet peeve, meaning: something that a particular person finds especially annoying.)

What are your biggest pet peeves you have ever experienced while you're gaming, if so, how much does it annoy you?

 

[InstantNoodles]

Probably long loading screens! Or having too many loading screens!

 

[Xara]

^^ same or if the game starts lagging - i have no patience for that lmaoo

 

[Weiss Schnee]

Frame drops! I wanna pull my hair when the framerate of any game goes below 30.

 

[AkiddoRBTwentySix]

^^ same or if the game starts lagging - i have no patience for that lmaoo

Me too! Gran Turismo 4 on PCSX2 is soooo slow on my laptop that I just give it up entirely lmao

 

[Romaki]

I don't know what I hate more; timed mission or missions without checkpoints. I just hate replaying entire missions after failing for one reason.

 

[Alienfish]

- Tutorials that are harder than the actual game and unnecessary but you need to do them to start the actual game.
- Annoying music so you have to play with sound off (looking at you AC NL)
- Bad saving/checkpoints that doesn't work (Borderlands 2 **** you)
- Long loading times (NH does it really take 5 minutes just to load the save bruh)

 

[AkiddoRBTwentySix]

- Tutorials that are harder than the actual game and unnecessary but you need to do them to start the actual game.
- Annoying music so you have to play with sound off (looking at you AC NL)
- Bad saving/checkpoints that doesn't work (Borderlands 2 **** you)
- Long loading times (NH does it really take 5 minutes just to load the save bruh)

I actually feel you with the AC:NL soundtrack. It is mellow but can be repetitive. Good thing Nintendo implemented the MOST IMPORTANT THING in POCKET CAMP, SO IMPORTANT A CONSOLE OF THEIRS WAS NAMED AFTER IT: The music on/off switch LMAOOOO

 

[Alienfish]

I actually feel you with the AC:NL soundtrack. It is mellow but can be repetitive. Good thing Nintendo implemented the MOST IMPORTANT THING in POCKET CAMP, SO IMPORTANT A CONSOLE OF THEIRS WAS NAMED AFTER IT: The music on/off switch LMAOOOO

Yeah also they basically took one beat from the Casablanca movie which is.. good in its context but not in that game(NL). And yeah I always play PC with sounds off because I play a lot in public and couldn't care less for it anyway lol.

 

[LuchaSloth]

Token stealth missions that feel out of place and completely take you out of the normal flow of the game. "You've spent the past 30 hours running wherever you want with full freedom. Now...sneak past these 45 enemies with no checkpoints." I mean...why?

 

[Alienfish]

Token stealth missions that feel out of place and completely take you out of the normal flow of the game. "You've spent the past 30 hours running wherever you want with full freedom. Now...sneak past these 45 enemies with no checkpoints." I mean...why?

Yeah, stealth games/missions in general annoy me, I hate that playstyle.

 

[Luxsama]

Biggest pet peeve is when the game has barely started and one person has already accepted defeat

 

[Shellzilla_515]

My biggest pet peeve is anything to do with battery life. My controller low on batteries? It disrupts me enjoying the games I play. My handhelds low on batteries? I have to play conservatively if I'm outside. But the biggest offender is when I'm being reminded that my batteries are low in The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. Yes Fi, I can see that my batteries are dying. I can see the battery icon down at the corner. You don't have to tell me every time I start up the game.

 

[xTech]

Escort missions have been annoying as hell in pretty much every game i've played with them in. You have to slow to a crawl pace when escorting them, half of them are too aggressive and die straight away because they're stupid, and the other half run all the way back at any little sign of conflict. Honestly, I don't even know how you would make these more fun, but why does almost every game I play have to include them? Please just stop using these game developers, there is no point using them as filler if most people would rather just not have to play them at all.

 

[Vonny]

Mute protagonists, excessive dialog and poop jokes

 

[AkiddoRBTwentySix]

Mute protagonists, excessive dialog and poop jokes

Damn, so you hate Claude from GTA 3? Shame (sarcasm)

 

[xSuperMario64x]

My biggest pet peeve consists of two similar issues:
1. When certain content in a game is locked behind a paywall or lootbox, even if it's purely cosmetic.
2. When there's no "unlockable content" in a game, everything is just handed to you or, again, locked behind a paywall.

In my recent experience one game that is guilty of this is Mario Kart 8. It seemed like when I started the game there wasn't anything to unlock, everything was already available at the start. And then ofc there was the DLC which unlocked Mirror Mode (why the hell would they put mirror mode in with DLC anyways??), 200cc and other drivers/courses. I think that's a big part of why I really don't like that game. I loved Mario Kart Wii because there was a sense of motivation and reward in unlocking all the characters and cups. That's non-existent in MK8 and as such I felt no need to play Grand Prix, which in turn made the overall game experience quite bland.

 

[Neb]

Instant game overs in JRPGs. Nothing irks me more when I can use revives on other party members, but I can't on the protagonist. This is especially aggravating when the game over is from an insta-kill attack. *cough* Persona series *cough*.

 

[Captain-Cake]

I honestly can't stand lag or not being able to skip through certain animations. for example crafting in nh, really wish we could make certain amounts of items and and skip through the whole crafting sound animation entirely!

 

[therandompuppy]

My biggest gaming pet peeve has to be annoying Long loading screens