Poor game design choices

Hotline Miami 2 requires you to quit to the main menu to adjust mouse sensitivity. The entire process, including starting the game again, takes about five minutes. That was about 50% of why I asked for a refund.

Locking a game at a certain fps, aspect ratio, or fov.

The game I am playing now (Spec Ops: The Line) is good, but they have the aspect ratio and fov locked so I have to play with black bars and a small fov.

Edit: I also hate when a game doesn't let you rebind certain keys. They will let you rebind most of them, but for some reason there may be 1 or 2 they lock to certain keys. In that situation I have to resort to using autohotkey and rebinding my keyboard or mouse outside of the game.

Playing Valkyria Chronicles now. Everything has a confirmation window. "Do you want to issue an order?" "Do you want to enter this menu?" "Do you want to continue the story? Are you sure you want to continue the story?" "Do you want to go back to HQ? Are you choosing HQ? Do you want to confirm you want to go to HQ? [Yes, gods fucking damn it, I want to go to that menu finally!]" "Want to load a game? Please enter the command main menu, then select the second main menu, then go to the third main menu, then select Load, then select the save game, then please confirm you selected the save game." "Want to load a game from story mode? Please select main menu, pease select Title Screen, please confirm your selection, please confirm you want to go to Title Screen. Please start the game, please select Load, please select save game, pelase confirm loading save game, please confirm continuing the story."
Great game, but I press the left mouse button about four times as much to confirm something than to shoot a damn weapon.

Literally all of GTA V Online.

It includes what you said about waiting 30 seconds for shit to load back into the main menu, along with more baffling design choices such as not merging multiple lobbies across sessions for the same event, checking for how full a job is after you've already been loaded out of session, kicking all players back to free roam instead of a lobby when a job is failed/one person leaves, etc.

NPCs with the wrong speed; if you walk they leave you behind, if you run you leave them behind.

NPCs who are too easy to manipulate (mostly in RPGs)

Holding hands; not letting just go and discover s**t on your own, constantly throwing info at you, like constant reminders through radio what to do or tutorial hint flashing at you if you just explore the room instead of using the obviously usable object to proceed.

Not progessing the story itself, but a side story instead forced on you: "I have to go there to open that door, but in order for me to be able to do it, I first have to get the key from a dude who only gives you the key if you do a totally irrelevant side-quest that has little to no to do with the main story, but hey, gotta get the key.

Cut sceenes during combat.
Autosave BEFORE long cutsceenes/loadings.
Pre order/DLC's that makes the game easier.. Yes i'm looking at you Tomb Raider!
Slow walk when over emcumbered/drunk in games.. Yeah the game is so much harder because it takes me 5x as long to move from a to b...
Not being able to esc out of intro videos...

• Unskippable cut-scenes, intros and what not
• Being unable to use mouse to browse the menu
• Being unable to rebind keys, even in games that have only a couple of keys (I don't care if your game only has controls for moving left-right and jump, let me rebind!)
• Not being able to save WHENEVER you want, fuck your checkpoint-save systems
• When a game shows you gamepad icons even when you play with a keyboard
• Running depleting stamina very fast. Even fat people can run longer than some athletic protagonists of certain games for fucks sake.
• Not being able to pause during cutscenes, especially in games with long cutscenes
• Multiple actions under one key. I understand why they do that for consoles, but this is PC and my keyboard has a lot of keys so there is no need to bind multiple actions to a single one
• Cutscenes that don't add anything meaningful to the game and are not useful in any way but instead just end up being complete time-wasters

One thing I have in mind is the voice acting for player character in Fallout 4.

Unskippable and unpauseable cinematics, scripts and dialogues.

Also always on-line for singleplayer experience

All random things and in no particular order

1. The super-tedious and bafflingly unintuitive menu interface of the Borderlands series. Like..WTF????

2. Placing Assassin's Creed 3 in Colonial America and thinking people would like it.

3. Not making the sailing and sea fighting an integral part of the game-play...also in Assassin's Creed 3.

4. The trading route system of making money in AC 3 (starting to see pattern here, Ubisoft)

5. The shitty chariot ride in Prince of Persia The Two Thrones.

6. Turning The Prince into some kind of miserable emo fuck-wit in Prince of Persia Warrior Within

7. ALL quick-time events EVER, in ANY video game that has EVER used them.

8. Giving a character the ability to become untargetable in a PvP game (looking at you, Riot).

9. Passing off a contextual gimmick as a legit game-play mechanic, like the shooting of glass to make sand fall on your enemies in Spec Ops: The Line..

10. Interesting mechanics that would constitute as the game''s selling points if not for them being severely underused. An example of this is the memory altering thing from Remember Me. Not to mention all the toys you use once and then discard for the rest of the game in the Call of Duty series.

11. Games that force you to play tedious levels before getting to the stuff one actually enjoys. Like how in Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Kyle doesn't have his Jedi powers and light-saber for 5 levels and thus the game at that point is just a boring, mediocre, generic FPS.

12. The Devil May Cry series not having a fucking mouse support for the controls. The newer one doesn't count cause it was made by Ninja Theory, not Capcom.

13. The voice recognition interaction from Binary Domain not working as it should or...you know, AT ALL!!!!!

14. Really cool things that you can't unlock until well past half the game, like the Orc mind control in Shadow of Mordor.

Unrealistic loot (I'm a loot whore) on aRPGs. Yep, that insect kept this "Epic Sword of Doom" in its belly all that time, lucky you.
Though I'm still giddy when I get them.

-Unskippable cut-scenes

-Quick Time events

-Instant death because of failed QTE

-No proper PC Port (ffs Why Does Fable Anniversary don't allow me to use the frekin' mouse in the menu, as the 10 years old on have this support)

-The "Real Life segments of all Assassin's Creed, (for god sake I want to play an assassin not this idiot in his office -I'M LOOKING AT YOU BLACK FLAG)

-Open world just to follow the trend (The Crew and other Ubisoft Games mostly)

-The So called "Cinematic look" with stupid Black Bars on Screen (The Order/The Evil Within)

Not a game design choice but whatever

HD Remaster for last generation Game ... Lazy cash grab

Assassin's Creed's "Exitception".

Exit Animus?
Yes.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Exit Animus cutscene
Exit to menu?
Yes.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Exiting to menu
Exit game?
Yes.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Game closes
Freezes
assassinscreed.exe has stopped working.

Alt-tab Mad Max, close window :D

oh yeah, boring upgrade systems

Loads of loadingscreens. I recently played Just Cause 3, but most loadingscreens would take a while for me. In some story missions though, you go in get a loading screen, watch a (sometimes very short) cutscene, get another loading screen, get to the objective, another loading screen, another cut scene etc. It totally breaks the immersion and it's kind of really annoying. Now I get that it sometimes is just needed, but this much?

Same with Dragon Age Inquisition (I'm playing it now for the first time). I had to go somewhere and had to load into a tavern. Then I got out (guess what, a loadingscreen) and had to get into a building that was about 5 seconds walking. Had to load again. Really makes me annoyed, especially since most interiors are just accesible without loading (so just part from the world)

Cutscenes every 2 minutes of gameplay.
Skippable or not, that is the thing that kills gameplay the most. I love the H'n'S gameplay in DMC and Killer is Dead, for instance, but I really can't stand so many cutscenes...

letting Peter Molineux design a game?

Looting 5-10 bullets of on enemy, while he can fire for days if left alive.

1. Boss reskins, Where you just slightly change the enemy model and Bam, new boss
   This is more related to consoles that have games with Multiple bosses, Boss Rush, or just hunting games

2. No Death penalty

3. Maze like levels

4. FPS games with QTE´s

5. when you must follow/listen to a character but you cant walk at the same speed

6. Devils third putting bats has an hazzard

7. No feedback to the player, that's most greenlight games right there

8. wobbling camera, that try to simulate human movement

9. Short stamina bars

10. Everything in Sonic 2006

The thing that i hate the most is unnecesary complex mechanics or shitty hitboxs, unskippable cutscenes are also annoying, having to go for the same route over and over again, for example, i am playing Fable and i kinda hate the fact that i have to go for the same route back and forth, over and over and kill monsters when i go and when i come, that's a lil annoying.

Real old school. Masters of Orion 1 & 2 are classics. MOO3 on the other hand was so over complex you would need more than 3 seashells to get rid of this turd.

I dislike most escort missions, very few games did it well, most of those being focused on escorting another character around, like Ico.

While lots of people hated a game called Vampire Rain (a rather difficult stealth game that didn't let people act like Solid Snake, resulting in it being the world game ever according to many), that game had a lovely method for the escort mission. The useless bastard hides from enemies, and your only job is to make sure enemies won't find him, by giving you a generous timer to take them out.

No built-in skins for Minesweeper :'(