Are you frustrated with the way things in games work? Does it make you want to pull your hair out? Describe these irritating game moments here!


One of the most frustrating game mechanics for me would be the fact that, if neither you or the enemy are using a power, you run into the enemy you get hurt but they don't. I'd understand it if they were using a power. The only time they get hurt is if you are using a power yet if neither of you are, they can just walk around freely & touch you to hurt you. Even if both of you are using a power & yours doesn't make you invulnerable for a short period, you still get hurt. I want to be able to hurt the enemy just as much as they hurt me when I touch them if neither of us are using powers. It just bugs me.

In some games where you go to grab/use items and it doesn't grab/use them the first time you press the button. (mind you this normally happens in games that aren't put together so well to start off with)

In some games where you are maybe scrolling through an item list in an RPG and let's say you're going to use a healing item but the stupid in-game cursor scrolls to darn fast and takes you forever to choose your item. Sometimes when you choose an item that hurts enemies you'll probably accidentally choose a party member instead of the enemy because of the stupid fast scrolling cursor that probably laughs at you when you make a mistake.

Another mechanic I'm not fond of is usually found in games with random encounters. You'll be trying to zip through the area & you keep getting stopped every step or if you want to hunt nothing appears. Better yet, when you try to run away from a battle, it never seems to let you run until you get hit at least once.

I hate games that don't let you take the exp from the last boss, i.e.: kingdom hearts and FFX

How about platform games, when an opponent shoots you or hurt you, you move back. It really is kind of annoying where you jumped from one platform to another, but you get knocked back and you fall down a pit.

As I have said before in a prevoius thread, I love the Megaman series for the classic NES series. Howewer, the only thing that I could ever hate about it is the difficulty. It was pretty much impossible to complete the game. I remember when I was playing Megaman and I wersed the yellow devil. I wanted to virtually kill him, lets just say.

Do I have to say it?
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Fine. T_T

Phil: GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S..
Sora: WILL. YOU. JUST. SHUT. UP. ALREADY!!!!
Donald: I'M TRYING TO CAST SOME MAGIC ON THIS THING!!
Goofy: Hyuck hyuck, wait, what were we doing again?

Yes, it's sometimes the sound that annoys me. Sometimes the sound is annoying and makes you want to mute the TV to make it shut up.

Thanks for bringing up that bad memory RedMageCole lol

I hate it when your in a town and you can't go into any of the buildings. It sort of takes away from the illusion of being in another world TT-TT. I also hate NPC's...they can be annoying as hell, like Phil^ I don't like it when camera angles are horrible, can turn a really fun game into a heart attack.

I hate easy games. Not like to the point where I'm only having fun if I can't seem to win, but I can't stand it when I don't even have to think in order to win. For instance, I went and beat the Elite 4 on Platinum... with absolutely no Pokemon stronger than level 50 something... can't remember exactly, but one third of my team was in the 40's. No lie. I was bugged, because I was hoping it would be harder than that, it was in D/P. Stupid Nintendo giving up on their crazy hard games.

I remember when the Elite Four pokemon started out at level 50 and progessivly got harder until you got to the champ who had pokemon at level 60 and up to 70 or something, those were the days

Cyrus seemed harder than the E4 in the 4th gen games. As for stupid cameras.......


GOTTA HATE 'EM ALL!!!

I could possibly deal with poor camera angles as long as I could rotate the camera. I hate not being able to rotate it. You'd never be able to see what was behind you & most likely be killed because of that.

I'm a big Call of Duty fan but one of the things that would erk me is when I'd be shooting a dude before hes shooting me with a higher rated gun yet somehow he kills me, or when some ones shooting at me and Im fully behind a non-penetrable barrier yet somehow die, thats just some of the stuff that would erk me, and yeah the freakn heartbeat sensor too, ughhhh!!!! REMOVE IT!!!!!!!!!------>

Originally posted by Zamiel

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Thanks for bringing up that bad memory RedMageCole lol

Your welcome.
(OH GOSH THE NOISE HAUNTS ME )

And JUSTREAL, STOP POSTING YOUR DARN EGG!!

When, in any Pokemon game, it takes 5 hours for a high level's experience bar to slide by when you've beaten something.
I mean come on, if I can turn off all attack sprites, why the crap does THIS slow me down? In a double battle, you'd never see any bars. They'd add it up instantly. But no. They have to make us be patient.
Harumph.

Games with Too few save points...

I hate it when, especially in rpg games.. many of the dungeons you run across have plenty of save points.. near teh begining, middle, and right around the boss encounter.

Some times the dungeons are so short you only need one save point in the middle.

But when you have been running around a dungeon exhausted physically for 5 hours straight trying to find a DAM save point so you can go to bed... Thats insane.

I also hate it when Im allowed to change camera angles, but some times the the game takes that away. I also hate lining up the camera and then having it ZOOM back to where it was so I miss that jump.

I finally, hate the varied times when sometimes, an enemy will see you and attack form off screen, the other times you need to walk up, or attack to get their f-ing attention. ((NOT a problem in the MGS games.. but in other ones.. yeah its a prick))

Pokemon game gripe: id like to be able to talk to people without having to fight them, better yet, id like to be able to refuse battles when my monsters are hurt.

Most games: This is Very pointless but I have a simple gripe about alot of modern day games.. id like to have an optional tutorial mode in more games. Or a training mode you can just access whenever you want to. Like in fighting games, id like to have the option to just pound ruthlessly against an unmoving opponent, but id also like to Be able to practice attacks in an order.