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[Ameablable]

Dialogue "Options".
This one has been around for a while, but giving the player completely meaningless dialogue choices. For instance, E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy offers the player this gem of a choice:
1) This is a great honor, but your time is up. [Kill them all]
2) The Secreta salutes you, vermin. [Kill them all]
3) Did you really think I would become one of you? [Kill them all]
Wow, what engaging roleplay. Even when it's not explicit it's masked very poorly. If any particular piece of player input is completely meaningless, can't we just skip it altogether instead of insulting my intelligence?

"Good morning, [your name]!  Are you ready to go visit Professor [tree]?"
>no
"Ha ha!  You must be joking!  Are you ready to go visit Professor [tree]?"
>no
"Ha ha!  You must be joking!  Are you ready to go visit Professor [tree]?"
>no
"Ha ha!  You must be joking!  Are you ready to go visit Professor [tree]?"
>no
etc...

In the first two Golden Sun games there was that same illusion of choice with you only being able to say yes or no.

but the third had events where you hit a certain emoticon (there was like 5) for whatever your opinion on the matter is and you get different dialogue for whatever one you picked. now i liked that one.

[Orangebottle]

Retcon Sequels:
I'm looking at you, Mass Effect 2. Why would a universe that had discovered essentially unlimited ammo switch back to magazines and clips?

Bad Sequels:
Don't just rush shit out the door to make money, damnit. A bad sequel is one that not only fails to look like the original game, but fails to improve on it as well. Dragon Age 2 comes to mind.

Ah, hell, let's just say it.
EA:
Fuck you. You killed Bioware.

[nenjin]

Every game, ever. Not being able to map your mouse thumb buttons.

There is absolutely no excuse for this anymore, in any PC game. I don't care if it's TBS, Pong or a Roguelike, if your game can read input for your mouse, it should be able to read your thumb buttons.

[Xantalos]

Retcon Sequels:
I'm looking at you, Mass Effect 2. Why would a universe that had discovered essentially unlimited ammo switch back to magazines and clips?

Bad Sequels:
Don't just rush shit out the door to make money, damnit. A bad sequel is one that not only fails to look like the original game, but fails to improve on it as well. Dragon Age 2 comes to mind.

Ah, hell, let's just say it.
EA:
Fuck you. You killed Bioware.

Yes. Yes all of this.

[Levi]

I hate pretty much any game with microtransactions.  Money should never mix with gameplay.  Other than that, I'm pretty tolerant.

[Gamerlord]

Rewards that actually downgrade you
I was just thinking about this because I was playing Battlefront II recently, which doles out special weapons for certain tasks, usually getting X kills in Y amount of time. In some maps, there's a lot of open space where it can be really fun to play as the sniper. The sniper, IIRC, gets their special weapon after getting several headshots in one life.

The sniper's special weapon sucks. It has a bright purple beam that makes it even easier to see where shots are coming from in a game where everybody uses glowsticks for ammunition, and it has a drastically reduced range so that the beam just stops in midair before reaching your target. Because this weapon is forced upon me after getting so many headshots, I have to deliberately avoid getting headshots to remain anything resembling effective in large maps like Kashyyyk. It's no-win.

Yes, I HATED that freaking rifle!

[Leonon]

Terrible Maps
Not the maps that you run around on, the maps that give you a top down view of those maps. This is a pet peeve of mine for IRL maps too.

Here's a list of things maps should not do: show things that aren't there, don't show things that are there, show things as being somewhere that they aren't, have paths be hard to discern from background art, have where the map shows you and where you are be different, make it hard to discern height difference, or have isometric views that hide things behind taller things.

See Skyrim's in game map for a great example of what not to do.

A very special place goes to maps of planets where the map is rectangular while the planet is supposed to be spherical. They don't cause the problems that the above issues cause but they're kind of like having characters with no hand animations pick things up by touching them with their open hands.

[NobodyPro]

Digital Double Wrapping
I already have to log in to steam to play the game, don't force me to run Uplay or log in to GFWL too. I still haven't played Blood Dragon because one of the two DRM wraps always fails (the one that starts with U).

[mastahcheese]

Rewards that actually downgrade you
I was just thinking about this because I was playing Battlefront II recently, which doles out special weapons for certain tasks, usually getting X kills in Y amount of time. In some maps, there's a lot of open space where it can be really fun to play as the sniper. The sniper, IIRC, gets their special weapon after getting several headshots in one life.

The sniper's special weapon sucks. It has a bright purple beam that makes it even easier to see where shots are coming from in a game where everybody uses glowsticks for ammunition, and it has a drastically reduced range so that the beam just stops in midair before reaching your target. Because this weapon is forced upon me after getting so many headshots, I have to deliberately avoid getting headshots to remain anything resembling effective in large maps like Kashyyyk. It's no-win.

Yes, I HATED that freaking rifle!

You all may hate me for saying this, but that was actually one of my favorite weapons that the sniper got.
Of course, you don't actually equip it until you switch away from the starting sniper rifle, and I never used my pistol as a sniper, so for me it was basically just free ammo.
Yes, the range was pitiful, but once you got used to the ability it had to pierce through multiple targets, and figured out how to use it properly, (Pro tip, the beam lasts for a bit, so use a sweeping motion when you fire, don't hold your aim in one spot.) it actually became pretty nice.

But yes, I hated it at first, too.

[Xantalos]

Rewards that actually downgrade you
I was just thinking about this because I was playing Battlefront II recently, which doles out special weapons for certain tasks, usually getting X kills in Y amount of time. In some maps, there's a lot of open space where it can be really fun to play as the sniper. The sniper, IIRC, gets their special weapon after getting several headshots in one life.

The sniper's special weapon sucks. It has a bright purple beam that makes it even easier to see where shots are coming from in a game where everybody uses glowsticks for ammunition, and it has a drastically reduced range so that the beam just stops in midair before reaching your target. Because this weapon is forced upon me after getting so many headshots, I have to deliberately avoid getting headshots to remain anything resembling effective in large maps like Kashyyyk. It's no-win.

Yes, I HATED that freaking rifle!

You all may hate me for saying this, but that was actually one of my favorite weapons that the sniper got.
Of course, you don't actually equip it until you switch away from the starting sniper rifle, and I never used my pistol as a sniper, so for me it was basically just free ammo.
Yes, the range was pitiful, but once you got used to the ability it had to pierce through multiple targets, and figured out how to use it properly, (Pro tip, the beam lasts for a bit, so use a sweeping motion when you fire, don't hold your aim in one spot.) it actually became pretty nice.

But yes, I hated it at first, too.

I remember that rifle. It was odd. To get it you hd to be a headshot master, but to use it effectively (since it was basically an OHK) you had to aim for the torso, which took a while to adjust.

[mastahcheese]

Rewards that actually downgrade you
I was just thinking about this because I was playing Battlefront II recently, which doles out special weapons for certain tasks, usually getting X kills in Y amount of time. In some maps, there's a lot of open space where it can be really fun to play as the sniper. The sniper, IIRC, gets their special weapon after getting several headshots in one life.

The sniper's special weapon sucks. It has a bright purple beam that makes it even easier to see where shots are coming from in a game where everybody uses glowsticks for ammunition, and it has a drastically reduced range so that the beam just stops in midair before reaching your target. Because this weapon is forced upon me after getting so many headshots, I have to deliberately avoid getting headshots to remain anything resembling effective in large maps like Kashyyyk. It's no-win.

Yes, I HATED that freaking rifle!

You all may hate me for saying this, but that was actually one of my favorite weapons that the sniper got.
Of course, you don't actually equip it until you switch away from the starting sniper rifle, and I never used my pistol as a sniper, so for me it was basically just free ammo.
Yes, the range was pitiful, but once you got used to the ability it had to pierce through multiple targets, and figured out how to use it properly, (Pro tip, the beam lasts for a bit, so use a sweeping motion when you fire, don't hold your aim in one spot.) it actually became pretty nice.

But yes, I hated it at first, too.

I remember that rifle. It was odd. To get it you hd to be a headshot master, but to use it effectively (since it was basically an OHK) you had to aim for the torso, which took a while to adjust.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that part. It is so freaking awkward.
I need to reinstall that game.

[itisnotlogical]

Battlefront and BFII are the kind of game that you have to reinstall as soon as somebody mentions it.

Reboots that are called the same thing as the original
Do I even need to talk about why this is annoying?

Games with great potential that are released unfinished
Looking at you, KOTOR II. You were taking Star Wars in directions that even the first KOTOR didn't want to go! You made me excited about PC RPGs again! But at the same time, you had more holes than Cheerios in a strainer. Even being a dumb wide-eyed young gamer recently introduced to GRORIUS PC MASTER RACE, I knew something was up with the Peragus II sequence.

As time goes on and it becomes less and less likely that this game will ever be truly finished, I still have to hope. Even if EA has to be the one to do it.

Speaking of which, I'm not going to be happy if Battlefront 3 is an EA Origin exclusive.

[alexandertnt]

Forced Matchmaking
I have absolutely no issue with matchmaking itself (infact it is sometimes a nice way to "just play" a game). But when it is the *only* option, then that bugs me.

P2P multiplayer setups
Endless connection issues, unstable, quirky, difficult to debug. I miss the good-ol days of the server.

[Darkmere]

I can throw in a couple that I think are new.

Mandatory Spoilers
Things that drastically affect gameplay that you have to figure out either through trial and error, or reading a guide. Revenge of the Titans is the worst, but I sort-of ruined a builder world in Terraria by activating hardmode because I had avoided spoilers for it. Now it's all overrun. Also, a few missions in Heroes of Might and Magic V I wouldn't have figured out on my own easily without a guide. And that leads me to:

Repetition via RNG
Again, Heroes V comes to mind. Have a build you want to try for your hero? Hope the dice say you can. Got to mission 3 of a campaign without destructive magic? Re-roll and pray, because you must have it for X or Y. As a sub-set, having loot that is both rare and drops from a rarely occurring enemy. 1 in 100,000 chance to get a Golden MacGuffin from the only warbling Mookasaurus in the game that takes 15 minutes to get to? TitanQuest, and Borderlands (1) I'm looking at you.

Also:
"Bragging Rights" rewards.
It can be something pointless, like a king's crown and cape outfit, or something awesome like the +5 Nuclear Sword of From Orbit... if I have to kill the ultimate bonus boss to get it (and hence, kill what I would have needed to use it ON) it's useless.

Last-act Party Member
AKA Eleventh Hour Ranger. Legion in Mass Effect 2, for instance. Want the best ending? get him absolutely last, do his two missions, endgame. Worst example would be Himi from Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, who actually asks who the villain is during the last fight. Just... wow.

[krisslanza]

Not sure if this REALLY counts but it is certainly a peeve of mine.

People not using actual names in MMOs

This always bugs me to no end. When I see characters named like "Icanhealyou" or "Dub Step" or something, it makes me die a little on the inside. Especially if the game has no unique names (Anything made by Cryptic) or lets you use two words (GW/GW2/FFXIV), there is NO REASON to not make up a bloody name and not look like some smartass trying to make a 'silly' name.