Annoying things in video games [Plus a puzzle! Yay]

Long respawn time for a game that frequently kills you unfairly.

Invisible walls....(At least make a real wall or a mountain).They take away the atmosphere and pretty much make you understand that you are not in real life :P

Putting badly made stealth missions into game that completelly doesn't need it (or its just stupid to act stealth).

Offtopic: I hate when game ends before it even drops all trading cards xD

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I don't mind checkpoints in some genres - for example in brawler/smasher saving in the middle of a fight with horde of enemies jumping at you atm, or in platformer in a middle of a jump - these saves would be useless, and if you accidentally quicksave in wrong moment you'd be screwed.

Thing that annoy me:

• Jumpscares in some games. Ofc not all - there are some games that rely mostly on them and it's ok. But I hate it when game features a dark and heavy atmosphere, which would be enough in itself, but feels the need to add unnecessary jump-scare which usually totally destroys my immersion.
• Mandatory AI partners if you choose to play a single-player mode. I get that coop may be a lot of fun. I get that there are games that may work only in coop. But then there are also games that would be awesome single player experience, but devs decide to add coop option - which would be fine, if it wouldn't force you to deal with stupid morinic AI if you decide to play singleplayer. AI that will get stuck at walls, run right into enemies, screw platforming and break experience that would be great otherwise. I'm looking at you Resident Evil 5 and 6...
• Controller lagging. I won't count how many platformers with awesome artstyle, clever mechanics and well thought level design I droped because of this simple reason. You may make the most beautiful, most awesome, most innovative platformer ever - but if your controls will not be maximally-responsive it all won't matter as it will simply not be fun to play anymore.
• Hardware-heavy or problematic in other ways DRM - how long does it has to take until publishers finally stop punishing people who decided to buy their games? Things like denuvo, which makes game itself run worse or requiring better system specs just to run DRM, things like Always Online DRM proving to be disaster every single time EA releases it in new game. Things like UPlay losing your game stats, scores, progress and you having to earn them back, because they gotta be stored on their service, as you're not trusted to keep them yourself...

Is there any possible a typo on Q1?

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The illusion of choice (hey TellTale). Especially when it's so painfully obvious that taking a different route woudn't change anything.

As for the saves, I can tolerate that in linear games, but how retarded can you be to apply that in a open-world game (yes, Mafia II)?!

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Bump for thanks for puzzle and gibaways!

Lazy level design:
Unjumpable 0.5m-1m high obstacle, therefore have to do a lenghty detour. EG: Dark Souls 2, Resident Evil series

When you have to follow someone, and if you go normal speed you're too slow, if you run you're too fast.

also, invisible walls.

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Completely agree with you. All that things broke inmersion.

quicktime events and bad camera angles

Bump for solved, thanks!

Solved.

Anyway, top of the list has to be unskippable cutscenes, then bad camera angles. I also hate it when something in a game relies entirely on RNG.

Slow movement: when playing Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, the character run too slow, like he's take a jog on that big castle @@
I rarely get annoyed, but it's sooo annoying @@

Agree with you, especially on quicktime events. Luckly I have a wired mouse else it would fly away every time I try to catch it in a hurry while I'm lying down on my chair! D:

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Missions/quests where you have to collect 10 dragon poop so the NPC can have a dinner.

Invisible walls.

Remember that one room in the very beginning of the map that you couldn't open? Great, cuz you need to go back there to press a button to open a broken wooden door.

when you get stuck somewhere and you have to load the save file to leave the place.

When you leave the game without saving and your 4 hours progress is now lost?

And last and most certainly least, rude people.