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[Shadowlord]

4xs where the AI defaults to genocidal

I do want to fight wars in my 4x games, but I'd also like to actually build a damned nation, not a fucking assembly line for more combat units.  Building a military is fun, but it shouldn't be the be-all end-all of a game that promises the 4 'Xs'.  I want to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and then eXterminate, not desperately micromanage my military complex so I don't get roflstomped the second I make contact with another empire.

The ai is playing a 4x, too, but they think the four 'Xs' are eXterminate, exTerminate, extErminate, and exterminAte
This is what happens when you let daleks write your AI code

[Cyroth]

Not strictly a gaming peeve, but I run into it mostly when looking up gaming stuff so I'm going to complain about it anyways.

Landing Pages.

Whats the bloody point of those things?

If I visit a website as a new prospective buyer I already have a very rough idea of what the product is, so flashing "this is FPS game, haz gunz pewpewpew register here and gib money kthx" isn't going to make me look at it more favorably or tell me something I disn't already know. The kind of information I look for is usually not on those pages (e.g. a description of the character classes in an MMORPG).
Plus most of them look like they've been designed by an intern. An incompetent intern who is also half-chimpanzee and who just copied some boring newsletter design because he is also lazy.
That is not likely to make me buy a game or subscription.

If I'm already a player/customer/whatever then this is an extra click (and extra loading time if I'm on my slow ass phone) I have to do before I get to where I want to go.
Especially if it is one of those really annoying landing pages that only have a register button but no log-in or skip-to-main-page buttons (with those then showing up on the register page), which means I have to do even more clicks and suffer even more loading time.
"Bonus" points if there are also unreasonably loud sound effects on it.

I don't see a single advantage to having one of those.

[Iceblaster]

Even more points if it has an ad that follows the top of bottom of the browser, not the page. So you end up having 10% of the screen cut off by the ad. EVEN MORE POINTS if the ad doesn't resize on mobile, leading to you being unable to zoom in on something.

[CABL]

Flunky Bosses aka Bosses with stupid, irritating, rage-inducing minions.

I admit that I don't know many flunky bosses outside Dark Souls trilogy. But as much as I love Dark Souls games, FromSoft can't do good Flunky Bosses.

Spoiler: Dark Souls 1-3 spoilers (click to show/hide)

Capra Demon: Deal with dogs, then try winning. Meh boss.
Nito: If you have Divine (or Silver Knight Halberd, if your character is DEX-based) weapon, you'll have no problem at all. Even if you don't have one, Nito tends to "kill" his own dead friends with his dark magic shockwave attack. Meh boss.
Duke's Dear Freja: Stop chasing after me, you stupid spiders! Let me kill your stupid queen. Bad boss, but I kinda dig giant spiders.
Rotten Cursed Greatwood: First phase of this awful boss features Hollow village idiots, which worship this tree. Nuff said.
High Lord Wolnir: Nito 2.0, but much less sucky. Passable, even somewhat enjoyable boss.

Terraria has only like 2 bosses with annoying minions, EoC and BoC. But they are a joke compared to Flunky Bosses of DkS.

[Neonivek]

You would probably hate Freedom Force! (though I think the sequel is far superior to the first... shame it is the last)... because almost all bosses are flunky bosses.

Then again, given you can knock around bosses in that game like they ain't no thang... It is usually the bosses that ARN'T Flunky Bosses that are the dumb ones... because they have to give them cheapo abilities (Giant Bosses, just forget melee)

[CABL]

You would probably hate Freedom Force! (though I think the sequel is far superior to the first... shame it is the last)... because almost all bosses are flunky bosses.

Then again, given you can knock around bosses in that game like they ain't no thang... It is usually the bosses that ARN'T Flunky Bosses that are the dumb ones... because they have to give them cheapo abilities (Giant Bosses, just forget melee)

I've heard about Freedom Force, but I'm not really into superhero stuff. I watched The Dark Knight trilogy and played Arkham trilogy, though.

[Neonivek]

Storywise it probably won't appeal to you.

Gameplay wise there might be something there. A Real Time pause game where maneuvering and clever tactics are rewarded... and if you play on hard (and no higher... Trust me don't play on harder modes then hard... they become a chore) you HAVE to do it constantly to get anywhere.

[George_Chickens]

I really dislike, for lack of a better word, "co-op bait". What I mean by this is when a single player campaign is obviously designed for co-operative replayability rather than to be a decent single player campaign. Common features include random loot drops, and open, non-linear but barely designed levels.

Shadow Warrior 2 was a huge disappointment for me, because of this. Still fun, though.

[itisnotlogical]

That's my beef with Diablo 2, especially as compared to Diablo 1. D1 had spaces that were kinda generic due to random generation, but still fun to explore. D2 has huge aimless overworld with the dungeons randomly put all over the place.

[itisnotlogical]

Repetitive ambient chatter. Holy shit. I'm playing the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas, and I think I can list all of God's random quotes from memory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"That Pip-Boy... maybe I'll tear it off your arm, wear it around my neck."
"We almost escaped... then that idiot's hunger screwed it all up!"
"I can't believe the idiot swallowed his own collar!"
"Air tastes like copper... or Old World gold."
"It's your own fault you're here. Couldn't leave well enough alone."

The three other companions from the DLC have a similarly limited number of ambient lines. A limited number of lines wouldn't be so bad, except they play another one almost as soon as the last one's finished. Dean Domino even interrupts his own lines to deliver more, very frequently.

One of the companions is mute. They subtitle her expressions and pantomimes, so even in that case you're not free of it.

[Darkmere]

I think they turned the frequency of DLC dialogue up just because your time with them is limited. Not really an excuse, though.

I used to keep a save game right after Follows Chalk said the bottlecaps jingle line ten too many times. I'd load it and just murder the shit out of him for catharsis whenever I had a bad day.

[itisnotlogical]

If I had infinite power over the legal system, some laws I would pass regarding games:

- All games must have a "skip to gameplay" button that can be pressed as soon as the program is loaded
- No animated menu transitions that last longer than a second
- The settings menu, particularly graphics options, must always always always always always fucking always be accessible, no goddamn exceptions.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Add 'no stupid splash screens that no one gives a shit about like Speedtree etc.' and a mandatory subtitle option and I'm right there with you.

[Darkmere]

Can we throw in a hefty fine for unskippable cutscenes? Triple fine if the cutscene is right after a save point and right before a boss fight.

[Tawa]

Add one to the fine multiplier for every minute of the cutscene's length.