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[Bohandas]

What's even worse for me is games where you can't pause.

Yeah. Those piss me off too.

[blazing glory]

Being unable to make your whole appearance match a single piece of armor you're wearing.

It irritates me a lot.

It's all well and good if you have tons of "varied loot" but no one (well some people do but we don't talk about them.) wants to be the great Rainbow Knight, wearing silk pants and plated boots with a bone breastplate while also wearing an artifact turtle shell helmet.

[Lossmar]

Being unable to make your whole appearance match a single piece of armor you're wearing.

It irritates me a lot.

It's all well and good if you have tons of "varied loot" but no one (well some people do but we don't talk about them.) wants to be the great Rainbow Knight, wearing silk pants and plated boots with a bone breastplate while also wearing an artifact turtle shell helmet.

A little offsoot of that :

I hate when best ( in term of abilities/attributes ) gear looks worse than some middle or even low level gear and the game lacks any system of crafting things that look certain way and have high end qualities.

And :

Gaming reviewers Pet Peeves -

I hate when someone talking about game, applies the same Earth standarts for nudity, sex etc to any fictional universe and makes it into a game flaw.

[SealyStar]

I hate when someone talking about game, applies the same Earth standarts for nudity, sex etc to any fictional universe and makes it into a game flaw.

Examples of this happening?

I can think of it happening a few times with things other than sex/nudity: the epic and ongoing SJW rage over the lack of black people in a certain popular RPG series inspired by the history of a country with almost literally no black people, and the epic but flash-in-the-pan SJW rage over a tombstone in Obsidian's Original IP Donut Steel RPG.

[Graknorke]

Sniper rifles in shooters. Any, really. They're not particularly counterable (since you don't know about the shooter 'til you're dead), and they're not that fun to play unless you like point and click adventures. On top of that more is when they're effective at every range, so long as RoF isn't a problem.

[Neonivek]

Sniper rifles in shooters. Any, really. They're not particularly counterable (since you don't know about the shooter 'til you're dead), and they're not that fun to play unless you like point and click adventures. On top of that more is when they're effective at every range, so long as RoF isn't a problem.

It is kind of funny because I remember an old flash cartoon about one of the Time Splitters games where there was a complaint about the characters running so fast it makes snipers useless... but then another character chimes in and says "Well thank god, finally they will have to get out from their crows nest and actually play"

[itisnotlogical]

Vehicles make great anti-sniper weapons, at least in the Halo series. Tanks were especially good for busting snipers in maps like Blood Gulch and Sidewinder, where the tank could hit the wall behind the sniper's cover and still take them out with splash damage. Snipers were still devastating, just not in a way that couldn't be countered.

[Neonivek]

Vehicles make great anti-sniper weapons, at least in the Halo series. Tanks were especially good for busting snipers in maps like Blood Gulch and Sidewinder, where the tank could hit the wall behind the sniper's cover and still take them out with splash damage. Snipers were still devastating, just not in a way that couldn't be countered.

Depends on the Halo game. Halo 1 Vehicles sometimes bordered on outright useless.

Though it is funny you say that. Given that in real life snipers are often the counter for vehicles.

[Shadowlord]

In 3 and up, sniper rifles are mostly useless on tanks - but you can do serious damage with rocket launchers (especially the lock-on ones).

In Red Orchestra 2's MP, snipers seem pretty effective, but so are machine gunners in the same place (if not more effective since there are generally swarms of troops, and they don't have to reload as often as the snipers, as long as they practice fire discipline).

That does have tanks, and anti-tank rifles, but when I tried navigating one, it was ridiculously hard to figure out how to get anywhere or see around the tank, unless I stuck my head out the hatch... (There was one tiny window on the left, and a viewing scope in front, and that was it)

[Neonivek]

It is always weird when games make guns every bit as good as they are supposed to be.

Shotguns and machine guns often get SUPER depowered from their real life counterpart. Shotguns by having 1/10th the range they do in real life. Machine guns by having insane scatter, minimized range, and having their caliber changed to the lowest possible setting.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah, that was something I learned the hard way when playing ARMA 1 aka Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. Combat in that game happens at insane ranges compared to regular FPS games. Often times, my target in that game was just a tall bunch of green pixels on a hillside. And they can still hit you just fine with machine guns, or even their assault rifle.

One of the things I liked about the Resistance expansion was that it forced close-range combat - which meant that you needed planning, patience, and a lot of plain shooting skill to make it through some of the missions. One mission had you attack a convoy that passed through a valley: tanks, APCs with mounted machine guns, and trucks full of soldiers... less than 200 meters from your hiding spot. You have maybe 30 seconds once your cover is blown, or you're toast. Very tense, very difficult mission... but very satisfying.

[Lossmar]

Sniper rifles in shooters. Any, really. They're not particularly counterable (since you don't know about the shooter 'til you're dead), and they're not that fun to play unless you like point and click adventures. On top of that more is when they're effective at every range, so long as RoF isn't a problem.

They are very much counterable ( if a game is properly designed ). Smoke grenades, flanking, supressing fire, artillery, vehicles, teamwork, countersniping etc.

Examples of this happening?

Each and every critic of Final Fantasy X-2 and girls uniforms for example.
Applying Earth standarts for nudity and revealing clothing to a fictional universe as Spira is just stupid.

I can think of it happening a few times with things other than sex/nudity: the epic and ongoing SJW rage over the lack of black people in a certain popular RPG series inspired by the history of a country with almost literally no black people,

Whats the name of RPG ??
And you can always count on SJW to provide some epic butthurt.
But that being said, lack of black people is pretty stupid - its not some magical creature, its just human with certain melatonine count so if universe resembles Earth in any way ( round planet, equatorial inhabited regions etc ) it should have black people in some form.

[Culise]

Examples of this happening?

Each and every critic of Final Fantasy X-2 and girls uniforms for example.
Applying Earth standarts for nudity and revealing clothing to a fictional universe as Spira is just stupid.

Ooh, I've got a meta one of my own, since we're apparently critiquing critics instead of games now.  Critics who tar anyone who happens to disagree with them with a wide brush consisting purely of personal insults, because they cannot accept the possibility that character designers may, from a purely Doylist perspective, have distinctly...cruder reasons for tarting things up that other people may not appreciate, or may consider to detract from the remainder of the story or gameplay.

I can think of it happening a few times with things other than sex/nudity: the epic and ongoing SJW rage over the lack of black people in a certain popular RPG series inspired by the history of a country with almost literally no black people,

Whats the name of RPG ??
And you can always count on SJW to provide some epic butthurt.
But that being said, lack of black people is pretty stupid - its not some magical creature, its just human with certain melatonine count so if universe resembles Earth in any way ( round planet, equatorial inhabited regions etc ) it should have black people in some form.

But to use your own argument, you cannot automatically assume that the "humans" of a fictional world are actually the humans of Earth, or that they have the same corresponding melanin distributions in the particular setting.  Given that the literally most recent book I read was a Culture novel, that's particularly pertinent to me at the moment. 

[miauw62]

Sniper rifles in shooters. Any, really. They're not particularly counterable (since you don't know about the shooter 'til you're dead), and they're not that fun to play unless you like point and click adventures. On top of that more is when they're effective at every range, so long as RoF isn't a problem.

Even in TF2 where snipers don't do much damage unless they're zoomed in and charged, snipers are literally the most powerful class (in Highlander, where you need one of each class anyway. In 6s some teams STILL run a sniper almost all the time.)

[Bohandas]

Vehicles make great anti-sniper weapons, at least in the Halo series.

In most other games though vehicles are useless exploding props that present as much of a danger as the sniper themself