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[Neonivek]

I hate people who also use numbers

"Hi I am Drizzit24uioy2523o56i2ioe4u5yu46345693690348"

[Gamerlord]

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.

I'm still waiting for KOTOR III. The only logical PC for it is HK-47, looking for his two masters.
*sigh*
A guy can dream, can't he?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

It totally has to be about Canderous kicking butt and chewing bubble gum.

[krisslanza]

It totally has to be about Canderous kicking butt and chewing bubble gum.

Only if he's all out of gum.

[Neonivek]

It totally has to be about Canderous kicking butt and chewing bubble gum.

Only if he's all out of gum.

As otherwise he will just stay home and have makeover montages.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Alright chaps, we've just made the best game ever. Everyone take a five minute victory break.

[Gamerlord]

It shall be called KOTOR III: Canderous and HK-47 Fuck Shit Up.

[kingfisher1112]

Niche games that are expensive as fuck.
I'm looking at you Matrix games.

[miauw62]

I hate people who also use numbers

"Hi I am Drizzit24uioy2523o56i2ioe4u5yu46345693690348"

>:c

[Glloyd]

Man, this thread is beautiful. I don't even know where to begin...

I Don't Know How to Describe This, But it Annoyed the Hell Outta Me.

Does anyone remember Mass Effect Two? And the relationship system? Well, my biggest pet peeve with that game (among many) was the fact that Miranda/Jack could be deeply in love with you a couple missions in-game (To the point where there was no dialogue options left until you headed off on the final mission) and the second you do the other's loyalty mission, they get peeved. Now, if you side with the opposite of your previous love interest in the ensuing (minor) fight, suddenly they hate you and won't speak with you. It makes no sense. So I guess a better title would be "Games that don't keep an accurate record of decisions etc."

Horrible Endings to An Epic Saga

Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3... How many hours did we sink in those series only to have lame endings? The one that really rankled was ME3, because after 60+ hours sunk into the series, ALL MY DECISIONS MEAN NOTHING. I mean, yes, it's hard to please everyone, but you think if you put that much time into making this series, that you'd at least give it a half decent ending.

Useless, USELESS Sequals

Games that don't need sequals being given successions of sequals. Condemned 2 Bloodshot anyone? Fable Three, you are on my shit list. Fable One was amazing, Fable 2 was still pretty good, despite its faults, and three was such a compendium of "Dammit Peter Molyneaux, WHYYY" that it was nearly unplayable. Which brings me to another one...

Useless Game Mechanics Which Companies Use To Hype a Game

Hype: "You'll be king and have full control of your nation!"

Reality: "Let's turn that orphanage into a brothel and then go fight monsters"

I wanted a game that turned me into a king. I fought hard, just to be the same character with the same power in a shittier outfit. (I have a lot of hate for Fable 3). Ya know, Bethesda did this too with V.A.T.S. I never used it, it was super annoying and pointless. You gave me a gun, now you want the game to shoot it for me. How braindead do you think I am?

Happy Endings

This is just a personal thing. You rarely see unhappy endings, or emotionally unsatisfying endings anymore. Endings which leave you empty, and in no way can be considered happy or glorious. I'm just sick of saving the galaxy, or being the hero. And I don't mean the main character dying, but everything still working out for the better (I'm looking at you Rockstar), I mean a downright depressing ending. As a kid, I always wanted Ganon(dorf) to beat Link, or Bowser to beat Mario. I just hated how it was predestined for the PC to win. It'd be even better if there were endings for games where you are not the hero, and everyone hates you for it. Or people just forget your name. I know, sounds depressing, but I think it's what some games need. I mean, think on Farcry 3's endings. Neither could be described as happy, and they're both decently written. Whatever problems you had with the game, I think you can agree with that. I loved both those endings, but my final problem is one I encountered hugely in Farcry 3...

Horrible Final Boss Fights

This is it, I've worked up to this. The final showdown... Aaaaaaaand I press 3 QTE's and it's done. Woo....

I played your crappy game, I paid for it and sunk hours into it. You've led up to this huge battle, and I want it to be satisfying enough to justify my commitment to this game. The end of the Witcher 2 got this right. Two Final Bosses, and the options to not kill either? Damn. A game after my own heart.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Boss fights are pretty much dead in modern gaming sadly. I remember some of the really outstanding stuff of yore like Gruntilda in Banjo Kazooie. Bosses that were thumb bleeding, controller snapping, lip tearing hard which would test all the skills you've had spent learning in the game.
Damn. Now I'm craving for a new action-adventure game in the vein of the old Rare games. Curse you nostalgia!

[miauw62]

Skyrim also has terrible boss fights.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Eliminating any mystery.
This is a problem not unique to gaming but I've found a large amount of games ruin a lot of interesting subjects by just spoiling all mystery. A prime example of this would likely be STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl where you learn the origins of the zone. It was rather underwhelming and it made the whole zone feel a lot less interesting and alien.
Another example would be The Reapers from Mass Effect. In the first game they were this mysterious all-powerful force with strange alien motives. In the later games you learn so much about them they just come across as saturday cartoon villains.
Valve used mystery to great effect in Half-Life 2 which helped build their universe. There were some many unexplored and mysterious elements in that series such as the infamous G-Man that fans still speculate about to this date. If Valve came out and just said "lol gman is gordan fereman dadd lol" it wouldn't have quite the same impact.

[Glloyd]

Can't believe I forgot this one...

Horrible Ports

Dragon Age 2, need I say more? DON'T TIE ME TO THE LIMITATIONS OF CONSOLES.

[Darkmere]

Valve used mystery to great effect in Half-Life 2 which helped build their universe. There were some many unexplored and mysterious elements in that series such as the infamous G-Man that fans still speculate about to this date. If Valve came out and just said "lol gman is gordan fereman dadd lol" it wouldn't have quite the same impact.

Speaking of...I use Text Wall!

Spoiler: It's super effective! (click to show/hide)

Poor plot pacing
I have a slightly dissenting opinion on that one, though it's limited because I'm just now playing Half-Life 2 for the first time (yeah, I did actually live under a rock for a few years, true story!). I wanted to get through 1 first, so I started there and got stuck on the first few levels where very little of relevance actually happens, and I'm getting the same feeling in 2 so far. You begin, get to see all this cool and interesting stuff, and then there's a long stretch of basically rail-straight filler puzzle sequences while the story is put on hold. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay is fun, but after a few minutes of crawling around a busted office, I really understand that the office is busted and things Must Be Set Right. In 2 I'm making my way through the airboat sequence, but that comes after you meet everyone and the big plot is set in motion. Right now, there's no plot, just Gordon running an obstacle course. I'm sure things pick up, though.

Compare some other (and admittedly, newer) games that had much better pacing mechanisms. Mass Effect 2 had you wake up in a lab, and several of the terminals would display logs about you, usually in a position for you to activate then hack a safe or datapad or something while they played. You got story and play at the same time, even if it was just minigames. Still, Bioshock and the audio journals did it best, as you could pick one up and have it playing while you continued exploring, and still get a very good (and grim) impression of Rapture along the way.

Contrast Wolfenstein (the Return to Castle Wolfenstein sequel-thing), which was terrible. There are individual missions and a city hub-level that you visit between missions, which also has combat encounters in it. The missions are good ole' Wolfenstein fare, except some of the hidden treasure confers gameplay benefits like medallion capacity upgrades. Now you're forced to choose... play a mission with its frantic plot-pace and risk missing out on something important, or play every mission like Mister Magoo, bumping into every wall and decoration looking for secrets while dark sun zombie guys swarm all over the map. OR you could play every mission twice in a row, but only back-to-back, because once you got back to the hub town, stuff you missed in the mission was lost forever. Bleh.