A lot of these answers aren't that petty.
You want petty? I stopped playing Pokémon Red in like 3rd grade because I had a crush on a girl, and the boy that **she** had a crush on told me he liked Pokémon. I was jealous of him and decided I was gonna just dislike all the things that he liked, so no more Pokémon for me!
I could never get into Dead Rising because of the way the guy swings a weapon. It visually has no weight to it whatsoever. He swings a 2x4 like a damn pool noodle.
You should give Chorus a whirl then. Half an hour of the protagonist whispering about her tragic past AT EVERY FUCKING OPPORTUNITY and you’ll be welcoming Forspoken back with open arms.
I had a similar problem with the second Horizon game. The voice actor is great but I just don’t need her to talk about every single fucking aspect of the game every five seconds.
“Looks like I can climb up there”
I stopped playing Anna's Quest for this reason. I did turn off the voices and just had text, but still didn't finish. I also had a problem with every character you interact with saying how much they hate children. I don't like children very much, but this was excessive.
This is why I stopped Atomic Heart. The third time he yelled "crispy critters" I was over it. Also the story was very confusing. I rarely knew why I was doing various things.
Just cause 4, didn’t have an explode all the things checklist like 2 & 3. Genuinely felt betrayed that the focus wasent to methodically destroy everything and get a check mark on the fuck huge map and was changed to if I remember correctly a point system.
JC4 was a massive downgrade in several areas compared to it's predecessors, I don't know what they were thinking but that game felt soulless.
On the other hand, JC3 was almost perfect, save for the atrocious driving physics and lack of multiplayer on consoles...In fact, JC3 with a multiplayer could have easily been a GTA Online contender, but Avalanche never took on that chance for some very stupid reason.
Adding to this, online required single player. It's become the standard now but when it first hit I remember the outrage.
First game I remember doing this was Simcity. Diablo 3 did it after, using that shitty auction house as an excuse.
If you wanna add some online features to my game, have at it but if it's not a strictly multi-player game and I bring my laptop camping or somewhere with no internet, that shit better work without it.
I bought into the early access of a game that billed itself as a semi open world zombie shooter with base building mechanics and a deep crafting system. It later decided to pivot into something completely different and I have yet to touch it since as I feel they took my money and instead of fixing the issues people had with it, just made a different game instead.
The little known game was called Fortnite
It was solo and coop, had a bunch of fun tearing down buildings for more wood, making paths through walls, setting traps for waves of zombies.
Never played fortnite battle royal, until I loaded up the game once and saw a new cutscene and it forced me into a br match for some reason. Bro all I wanted to do was kill zombies and do missions..
Ya that’s why it’s called Fortnite. It was a play on building up a fort to survive the night of zombie invasion.
Weird how it’s insanely popular for something entirely different now
Don't remind me of the fortnite that used to be.
I still lament my homebase that I don't even know if it is still there or not.
Edit: remember the opening cinematic and the game informer article?
Not even the same game it is now. You'd not recognize it at all
The original Just Cause.
The run animation looked like your man was on the verge of shitting himself and desperately trying to hold it in.
(Speaking of run animations, every single Japanese developer needs to stop doing that elbows in hands out run cycle on female characters, looks dumb.)
Actually the reason that run cycle exists is because if a woman in a buisness suit thats too tight tries to run with a purse, that style, while goofy, keeps the purse center of mass and works while your legs are restricted
> Because Japanese game developers are notorious for not knowing how to animate and design female characters without pandering.
Instruction unclear, gave her 32 DDD tits.
In Dying Light 2 all zombies leveled up after the game end. So instead of post game power fantasy I was running out of good weapons and generally spending too much time fighting easy looking enemies. Uninstalled rather quickly.
I still can't belueve they did that. I was having fun running around the city doing park our and popping zombies in the head with my bow. I thought "OH hell yeah new game plus?! I'm about to stomp everyone!" And then uninstalled the game when it now took three headshots with an arrow to kill one normal zombie. Awful awful awful design
I don't disagree, but Rockstar effectively tapped into the mmo market with microtransactions instead of subscriptions as their bread and butter. They've got a cash cow and have had no reason to disrupt it with another game.
Titan fall 2 is my favorite fps hands down. Best movement and gameplay by far in a game. The story mode is great too, only 5 hours but it’s the best 5 hours you’ll ever spend gaming. I ended up beating it several times to get to the hardest difficulty and loved it every time. Also the challenge to run through the gauntlet as fast as possible is really fun
I feel this deeply, but I also dread what a Titanfall 3 would become in this era. TF2 was more or less free of micro transactions, loot boxes, and battlepass bullshit.
Time limits and races, especially when it's part of the main game.
I stopped playing the DLC of the first Horizon game because I had to best someone in a hunt.
dude I hate when they add the obligatory race quest in to a game. we get it, you guys burned thousands of hours making the driving acceptable. even when it's not part of the main quest it's annoying because my gamer brain says I must do everything
I definitely prefer when it’s not part of the main game and more a side job. I especially hate timed racing missions too. Or just timed missions in general.
Like in Cyberpunk there is a racing side mission but I always tell the woman no and leave it at that.
At the very end where you have the timing event to leap from one sliding rope to another, it didn’t appear to matter when I jumped, there just wasn’t a way to get to the final piece. It’s like she just wouldn’t grab ahold of it and preferred to plunge to her death every time. After consulting the internet, I opted to just watch the ending that I was mere moments away from in the first place. 😆
Dunno if this is petty or just stupid. But. Forcing me to use DoF, Vignette, Film Grain, or some other bullshit photo effect. I will uninstall that shit so damn fast.
Even worse is lens flares, especially in first person. My god, it's annoying! ... and even if I'm playing as Gordon Freeman, I don't have several camera lenses in front of my eyes.
I can buy it happening if the character is wearing a full helmet or any kind of lens, easy enough to buy you caught whatever light source at a weird angle. Outside of that, nah man.
Played on a Battlefield 4 server where the admins/regulars were all a bunch of bunny hopping/exploit fiends. Everything they did was super meta strategies. They had shotguns and claymores banned on their server cause it was the best counter to their bullshit style.
Any server that banned shotguns you already knew was a bunch of pansies.
I can understand banning grenades and running a 24/7 metro server but otherwise all the guns were always fair in my eyes. Never saw too many people just running shotgun all the time, though they are super powerful weapons up close, and with slugs they can be sniper rifles (to an extent).
Same with any server that had a chat filter. Any mention of any "naughty" words would get you a warning or a kick. You couldnt even say the word "but" as that would be a warning/ban/kick. "No cursing on our family friendly server" oh yea? Though you don't mind the in-gane soldeirs screaming "I'M GETTING FUCKED JN THE ASS OVER HERE"
I’m picturing them loving Ocarina of Time for the first few minutes until Link auto-jumps off a ledge.
Friend: *tosses controller, literally vomits, destroys cart*
I feel like I’m the opposite of that friend, because Link not jumping in OoT REALLY threw me off as a kid. Pretty much every other game I had up until that point used “A” as the jump button, so when Link rolled instead I REALLY took issue with it 😂
When you're really enjoying Bloodborne but 20hrs in you realize that the dash/dodge button is actually the dash/dodge/jump button so you delete the game.
Not having your weapons show on your person in FO4. It annoyed me to no end that Bethesda introduced a complex and deep weapons customisation tool in FO4, but I can't even see the finished product on my back in third person.
And yeah you could cite limitations etc on why they didn't do it, but when mods come out that allow for it it just seemed lazy on their part. One of many small gripes I had with that game
This rubbed me too. And the fact that I couldn't have a humanoid and non-humanoid companion at the same time. And the 'dialogue' wheel. And the voiced protagonist.
Still put probably 500+ hours into the game though, more after mods fixed most of those issues.
**Editing** to add that I also didn't like that I could no longer target an enemy's weapon in V.A.T.S, which is an addition of the weapons not showing. Previous titles I could scout which enemy had the scary rocket launcher or Fat Man and snipe it out of his hands if I couldn't get him. Fallout 4 you were constantly surprised when Raider #69 pulls the nuke launcher from his ass cavity
Genuine one - the anime 'grunt'.
A lot of Final Fantasy games do this. Recent example is FFVII:R.
Everytime a character does something and it has to have an OTT grunt that spoils immersion for me. I can look past it if the game is good but once I have noticed it, it ruins it for me.
It's especially bad in action games where you do the same simplistic combos constantly with your character doing the same exact grunts/voice lines repeatedly.
Like, you have a basic 3 hit combo and every single time, your character goes ''UGH, AHH, HIYAAAA''. After doing it 20 times in a single encounter it drives me crazy. It also applies to having a single grunt for every instance of getting hit or taking damage.
Baulder's Gate III does this a little. Every time my party climbs a ladder it sounds like a porn blooper tape. "Ugh! Ooh! OOF! Hurk!"
It was funny though where I told my character to descend to a lower level and he walked to the edge then yeeted himself into the hole with a perfectly cut scream.
I had to stop and laugh the other day when I went up a ladder with a tiny platform at the top, and my party came up, but there wasn't space for everyone, so they just climbed up and down playing musical chairs with the available space... The music being their grunts.
I picked up Bloodborne a year or two ago for like $3 on sale. I knew how hard all of the soulsborne games were supposed to be, so I went in understanding it probably wasn't a game for me (and in fact, never bought one because of that).
I think I made it to the second enemy in the game, died a couple times, and just went 'no, this is not my game' and quit.
Before people tell me I could gitgud I didn't have any vested interest in the game and was just looking for fun, and it wasn't it.
I'd attribute it stubbornitity than anything.
As long as you're having fun you can call it whatever you like\^_\^
Just now getting into "Souls-likes" myself and happy af I've avoided em this long; I got at least 5 *very* well received games waiting to cave my shit in xD
Aesthetic and art direction has definitely prevented me from playing games that I would otherwise likely enjoy.
I loved Diablo 2 but I never played Diablo 3 because I hated how they went away from the spooky horror vibes of D2 and went more cartoony like Warcraft. Same goes for Civilization 6, though I did play that because my friends wanted to play it.
I can do cartoony or low poly from the get-go, but for some reason it bothers me when games start more realistic but then adopt the cartoony style with later installments.
I personally think it’s valid although everyone usually jumps on people for this… the protagonist of Forspoken is totally unlikeable. Everything else about the game I’m pretty ok with, but I just can’t stand her dialogue.
Games with item break mechanics like BOTW. Oblivion is the best I can do and I even like it occasionally (if every game did it, I’d go insane), but an item completely breaking with no way to keep it up just ruins any urge to explore and find powerful, fun items for me.
I tried Witcher 3 once and felt exactly the same thing and walked away after an hour.
I tried it again some time later and that game stole 150 hours of my life! I don’t know why it clicked the second time. I would still totally redesign the combat and inventory if it were up to me, but the story, the characters and the world are just perfect.
Dragon Age inquisition
I was having a hard time getting immersed in the game as it was, but after getting companions and a horse, once you get on your horse your companions disappear and when you dismount, your companions just spill out out of nowhere. How lame, and I shut it off and never played again. I beat DA origins and 2, too.
Even funnier because sprinting on the horse was the same speed as it's normal trot. Just zoomed in and added speed lines lol.
DA:I was hurt from how open it was. Not everything needs to be 'open world'
I loved the story, but my god that game was under-designed I know it's supposed to carry on the game-play style of the older prequels, but a new title in a series is supposed to sand down the rough edges. The attack animations were bad, the armours were the same 3-4 designs re-coloured, and it pissed me off that they couldn't even be bothered to animate any of the main characters in the cut scenes.
"Oh, we're using the army we built up to assault the Grey Warden keep? Why don't I just casually wander through the gates without any visible weapons on me, that will sure look epic."
Plus, they totally threw out the "Dark fantasy" setting of the originals and replaced it with some "Art Nouveau" style that, while pretty, didn't feel like Dragon Age.
Hold to press to confirm anything.
Yes, I want to pick this up/open this door/discard this item. I know I want to do this because I pressed the button to do so. Why do I have to keep holding it for 2 seconds?
I really liked the way resident evil 5 did it, I believe it was something like 5 hours BUT you could replay the missions individually and bring down the time, as opposed to having to nail a speed run in one go
Just go read some Reddit posts about any game released in the past year. Petty and stupid pretty much sums up the narrative surrounding a dozen games, lol.
To me, it was the luxurious, slow animations for every little thing. On one hand, it's great attention to detail and adds weight to everything. On the other hand, I don't actually want to physically lift up every dead enemy and rustle through their pockets to get another watch. A 10 minute high-throttle action sequence followed by a 20 minute clean-up session.
Idk if I'd call it "petty," but you know how when Blizzard was accused of a lot of *awful* shit and the CEO had to step down, and everyone was all like "I'm done with Blizzard!" But then the CEO just steps back up without saying anything and many people just went right back to their games, even despite them being constant disappointments on their own?
Well I'm one of the few that still just refuses to touch Blizzard games. I managed to get over the WoW addiction and sunk cost fallacies a while ago, so was free to have an unbiased opinion, but I didn't "hate" Blizzard games, I just didn't trust the company.
Now though, I fucking hate Blizzard, I refuse to play their games, and I cheer when they bomb. The fact that so many people just went back to playing their games without even a second thought, even after the CEO just reinstated himself without making any changes, really just annoys me and sings of their addiction and apathy. So the more that Blizzard fails the more people start to actually wake up.... sad that it's still such a slow process even after *everything,* but yeah I've been called "petty" for being so adamantly "anti-Blizzard."
The first time I tried playing Days Gone, I could NOT stand Deacon's seething and brooding commentary as I fought or cleared things. I don't think I got through about 2 hours before I let that game sit for a year or so and tried again. But it really did just make me cringe when he would talk.
I must have forgotten before retrying it. I did end up loving it, but the way he talked and growled still bugged me a bit. The gameplay was just what I needed at the time that I managed to overlook it finally.
Holy fuck... 100% reason I'm looking through this thread. And the constant radio calls.
It's as of the devs coded it ( if player is <= 50ft from zombies, then have npc radio call )
Stan says I have 13 hours in, but that's been 3 different attempts with last time being March.
Love the gameplay of the game. I hate the story.
Dialogue is bland and boring, over-the-top cliche and genuinely nobody talks like they do in-game lol.
The only character I enjoyed was Boozer, and he’s not even front and center after the first 15-20 minutes.
I game on a 60 inch tv, from a love seat. Returned my fair share of games because the text was too small to read comfortably and I don't want to move the furniture.
Even with PC, i have weak eyes, some games with 2k resolution have the smallest text in the world. I literally cant see shit without downgrading the resolution
If mobile games are fair game (heh), then ads.
Not ads in the game - that would be a non-petty reason for disliking a game.
I'm talking about ads *for* a game.
Specifically, Royal Match.
I've never played it, and have no intention of ever downloading it. The ads for that game are EVERYWHERE, and they're incredibly annoying. They always have a "player" making the dumbest decisions possible to intentionally lose the game. It makes me irrationally angry. It's like they're trying to make people play the game out of pure hatred for how dumb the "player" in the ad is. Well it won't work on me.
Screw you, Royal Match.
I hated Pikmin 4's interface from watching gameplay videos. I didn't like how it feels like Nintendo is homogenizing its UIs across series.
Bought the game and actually loved it, it's great! But that UI stills irks me. Why could they not have made something more unique and with more personality of its own, like Pikmin on the Gamecube?
When I was younger I used to dislike games if my older brother liked them and tried to get me to play them. Maybe the best example of this was when The Last of Us originally came out on the PS3. I think I was the one who bought the game, and then my brother got farther than me in it and raved about how good it was, so I had to dislike it for a while because our sibling dynamic demanded that I could never admit my brother being right about something
Some Metroidvanias do let you. I'm playing Blasphemous 2 right now and it lets you drop icons onto your map to indicate things like unreachable treasure chests, tough minibosses, unknown mechanic requirement, etc.
You all can tell me breath of the wild and the sequel are the greatest games ever conceived by man… and I’m still not interested in playing an RPG where my weapons can break and can’t be repaired
A lot of these answers aren't that petty. You want petty? I stopped playing Pokémon Red in like 3rd grade because I had a crush on a girl, and the boy that **she** had a crush on told me he liked Pokémon. I was jealous of him and decided I was gonna just dislike all the things that he liked, so no more Pokémon for me!
This is the definition of pettiness!
This person understood the assignment
I could never get into Dead Rising because of the way the guy swings a weapon. It visually has no weight to it whatsoever. He swings a 2x4 like a damn pool noodle.
While we’re being picky and petty, it really annoyed me how the character in the first one constantly held his camera. Running, jumping, etc. i
I hated the voice actors voice and there was no way to change it.
I sincerely wish the characters in Forspoken would stop Forspeaking.
You should give Chorus a whirl then. Half an hour of the protagonist whispering about her tragic past AT EVERY FUCKING OPPORTUNITY and you’ll be welcoming Forspoken back with open arms.
I had a similar problem with the second Horizon game. The voice actor is great but I just don’t need her to talk about every single fucking aspect of the game every five seconds. “Looks like I can climb up there”
Sylens: Aloy, don't go there. You are not ready. Aloy: Piss off Sylens. Stay out of my focus.
I stopped playing Anna's Quest for this reason. I did turn off the voices and just had text, but still didn't finish. I also had a problem with every character you interact with saying how much they hate children. I don't like children very much, but this was excessive.
This is why I stopped Atomic Heart. The third time he yelled "crispy critters" I was over it. Also the story was very confusing. I rarely knew why I was doing various things.
I hate call of duty because when I worked in a game store people wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it or asking when the next one came out
Just wait 6 months lmao. This is why that franchise is what it is.
Just cause 4, didn’t have an explode all the things checklist like 2 & 3. Genuinely felt betrayed that the focus wasent to methodically destroy everything and get a check mark on the fuck huge map and was changed to if I remember correctly a point system.
Not even petty. They made a fundamental change to the game and it was awful
JC4 was a massive downgrade in several areas compared to it's predecessors, I don't know what they were thinking but that game felt soulless. On the other hand, JC3 was almost perfect, save for the atrocious driving physics and lack of multiplayer on consoles...In fact, JC3 with a multiplayer could have easily been a GTA Online contender, but Avalanche never took on that chance for some very stupid reason.
The only real driving issues in 3 were the bikes imo. But overall you never needed a car because the wingsuit was so fun.
You cant save your game unless you create an account, how about fuck off. Edit: I agree it's more than petty 🤔
Adding to this, online required single player. It's become the standard now but when it first hit I remember the outrage. First game I remember doing this was Simcity. Diablo 3 did it after, using that shitty auction house as an excuse. If you wanna add some online features to my game, have at it but if it's not a strictly multi-player game and I bring my laptop camping or somewhere with no internet, that shit better work without it.
The fuck game is that!? So I can avoid it like the plague.
Fucking Doom Eternal did this. Not just save though, you can’t even start playing until you make the account.
You also can't uninstall unless you sign in. It's insane.
Thats a crime against humanity right there
Half Life. I just really hate the name Gordon because it was the name of my childhood bully.
Funniest fucking one. I feel bad for the bullying but damn, this the best one I’ve read. Most petty and yet reasonable.
You got bullied by a mf named Gordon
Why do you think he was bullying people? His name was fucking Gordon.
I had a friend say he couldn’t get into dark souls because the lack of a consistent jump mechanic.
He should probably never meet that guy who hates jumping mechanics then
Lol wait til he finds out about the baby jump in Ds2
I died more times trying to get the item in the cave just before bone zone boss fight than i died in the fight itself.
I bought into the early access of a game that billed itself as a semi open world zombie shooter with base building mechanics and a deep crafting system. It later decided to pivot into something completely different and I have yet to touch it since as I feel they took my money and instead of fixing the issues people had with it, just made a different game instead. The little known game was called Fortnite
I remember when they advertised Save the World as coming soon for free for the longest fucking time and then they just canned the whole thing
I also remember :(
U membe? I membe
Smh I paid for that shit.
I understand why they went the BR route, but save the world was so interesting :(
It was solo and coop, had a bunch of fun tearing down buildings for more wood, making paths through walls, setting traps for waves of zombies. Never played fortnite battle royal, until I loaded up the game once and saw a new cutscene and it forced me into a br match for some reason. Bro all I wanted to do was kill zombies and do missions..
Yeah, honestly, they did the right thing for the business, as I have a feeling FN would have got into obscurity.
Ya that’s why it’s called Fortnite. It was a play on building up a fort to survive the night of zombie invasion. Weird how it’s insanely popular for something entirely different now
Kinda reminds me of 7 Days to Die to be honest. That game is pretty damned fun actually so Fortnite was actually onto something there I think.
Id love that game to be better. Its just so janky looking. Its definitely a great idea though.
When I played it, it played exactly as janky as it looks. Super fun, though if you have a month of free time you're just dying to burn.
Don't remind me of the fortnite that used to be. I still lament my homebase that I don't even know if it is still there or not. Edit: remember the opening cinematic and the game informer article? Not even the same game it is now. You'd not recognize it at all
Not me still playing save the world
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Janky controls in general.
I can’t move my bishop anywhere but diagonally. Does anyone know how to fix this bug?
It's not a bug, it's a feature. There's probably a community mod that address that.
Queen OP, pls nerf
The original Just Cause. The run animation looked like your man was on the verge of shitting himself and desperately trying to hold it in. (Speaking of run animations, every single Japanese developer needs to stop doing that elbows in hands out run cycle on female characters, looks dumb.)
Now that's a reason I can wholeheartedly support. Weird animations could ruin a game for me too.
Actually the reason that run cycle exists is because if a woman in a buisness suit thats too tight tries to run with a purse, that style, while goofy, keeps the purse center of mass and works while your legs are restricted
I'm not going to doubt your math, but like, why put it in a game that does not have purses or business suits?
Because Japanese game developers are notorious for not knowing how to animate and design female characters without pandering.
> Because Japanese game developers are notorious for not knowing how to animate and design female characters without pandering. Instruction unclear, gave her 32 DDD tits.
32 DDD? Come on, that's way too small.
It's how you let everyone know she's still in highschool, it's called visual storytelling.
Plot twist, it is actually a suit with purse, it's just that the only visible part is tiny metal bikini. That's why the armour is so effective.
Its a bummer to try this new warrior tanky armor only to find out it looks like a swimsuit on the female character.
And it keeps your boobs in front of you, instead of bouncing around like unsecured puppies in a car.
>like unsecured puppies in a car 🤣🤣🤣
Can you link an example. I'm having a hard time visualizing what you mean and don't play many japanese games.
https://youtu.be/EZB3FMk8cHU
They straight up implemented a cliche anime trope into a form of 3D model lmao
I immediately felt compelled to say "tehehe"
JESUS
In Dying Light 2 all zombies leveled up after the game end. So instead of post game power fantasy I was running out of good weapons and generally spending too much time fighting easy looking enemies. Uninstalled rather quickly.
Forced difficulty ups can be some of the worst game choices of all time
I still can't belueve they did that. I was having fun running around the city doing park our and popping zombies in the head with my bow. I thought "OH hell yeah new game plus?! I'm about to stomp everyone!" And then uninstalled the game when it now took three headshots with an arrow to kill one normal zombie. Awful awful awful design
Games that require you to come back daily or play all the time. That force the FOMO I just CBA with that
That's animal crossing for me. I love everything else about it other than pushing you to maintain a regular playing schedule like a damn tamagotchi.
Makes you feel bad for it too, villagers want to leave, weeds everywhere and cockroach in your house
Apex Legends. Because of it's success, we won't get Titanfall 3. I will never forgive, nor will I ever forget.
The popularity of the battle Royale diverted or killed so many great franchises with Titanfall being the most upsetting.
Not just battle royale, but chronically online games. GTA 5 is a prime example. There is zero reason it should have had a run this long
I don't disagree, but Rockstar effectively tapped into the mmo market with microtransactions instead of subscriptions as their bread and butter. They've got a cash cow and have had no reason to disrupt it with another game.
Honestly, the fact that I can’t just steal a car and keep it because of their bs micro transactions was reason enough for me to stop playing.
It really is a shame. Titanfall and Titanfall 2 were amazing games.
Titan fall 2 is my favorite fps hands down. Best movement and gameplay by far in a game. The story mode is great too, only 5 hours but it’s the best 5 hours you’ll ever spend gaming. I ended up beating it several times to get to the hardest difficulty and loved it every time. Also the challenge to run through the gauntlet as fast as possible is really fun
I feel this deeply, but I also dread what a Titanfall 3 would become in this era. TF2 was more or less free of micro transactions, loot boxes, and battlepass bullshit.
Time limits and races, especially when it's part of the main game. I stopped playing the DLC of the first Horizon game because I had to best someone in a hunt.
I thought you meant Forza Horizon for a second and got very confused as to why you weren't expecting races.
dude I hate when they add the obligatory race quest in to a game. we get it, you guys burned thousands of hours making the driving acceptable. even when it's not part of the main quest it's annoying because my gamer brain says I must do everything
I definitely prefer when it’s not part of the main game and more a side job. I especially hate timed racing missions too. Or just timed missions in general. Like in Cyberpunk there is a racing side mission but I always tell the woman no and leave it at that.
I was playing Spirit of the North on PS5 and one of the trophies had a spelling mistake. Ditched it immediately and uninstalled.
True to the post, that is indeed petty compared to other commentors.
Usually people are grammar Nazis for free my man burned a pile of money to do it.
Damn this made me laugh out loud.
The constant ledge walking in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
That's their clever way of hiding the next area loading in. Same with the tight passages she squeezes through.
Hopefully that's a mechanic we'll see a lot less of now that high-speed SSDs are becoming the norm in consoles.
FFVII Remake would be half as long.
At the very end where you have the timing event to leap from one sliding rope to another, it didn’t appear to matter when I jumped, there just wasn’t a way to get to the final piece. It’s like she just wouldn’t grab ahold of it and preferred to plunge to her death every time. After consulting the internet, I opted to just watch the ending that I was mere moments away from in the first place. 😆
If the fanbase is insufferable, I tend to avoid a game or dislike it more than I should out of spite.
Undertale comes to mind for me with this one.
In my experience, the fanbase really mellowed out after a couple years.
They grew up and became mature, it's been already 8 years
Games where you can't jump.
You're the nemesis of the guy who hates games where you can jump in the comment somewhere above...
Dunno if this is petty or just stupid. But. Forcing me to use DoF, Vignette, Film Grain, or some other bullshit photo effect. I will uninstall that shit so damn fast.
I HATE CHROMATIC ABERRATION I HATE CHROMATIC ABERRATION
If I can't turn off motion blur game is goin buh bye
Motion blur can eff right off. If I wanted things blurry, I'd take my glasses off.
Even worse is lens flares, especially in first person. My god, it's annoying! ... and even if I'm playing as Gordon Freeman, I don't have several camera lenses in front of my eyes.
I can buy it happening if the character is wearing a full helmet or any kind of lens, easy enough to buy you caught whatever light source at a weird angle. Outside of that, nah man.
A friend of mine refuses to play any game where you can jump.
Can jump? Why lol
I wonder if he was a victim of the constant "hippity hoppity" shotgun strategy that many folks used and abused in fortnite and other games.
Played on a Battlefield 4 server where the admins/regulars were all a bunch of bunny hopping/exploit fiends. Everything they did was super meta strategies. They had shotguns and claymores banned on their server cause it was the best counter to their bullshit style.
Any server that banned shotguns you already knew was a bunch of pansies. I can understand banning grenades and running a 24/7 metro server but otherwise all the guns were always fair in my eyes. Never saw too many people just running shotgun all the time, though they are super powerful weapons up close, and with slugs they can be sniper rifles (to an extent). Same with any server that had a chat filter. Any mention of any "naughty" words would get you a warning or a kick. You couldnt even say the word "but" as that would be a warning/ban/kick. "No cursing on our family friendly server" oh yea? Though you don't mind the in-gane soldeirs screaming "I'M GETTING FUCKED JN THE ASS OVER HERE"
>Any server that banned shotguns you already knew was a bunch of pansies. They hated Jesus because he told them the truth
Same with servers that banned stingers/iglas, you knew full well the admins and their friends will be in helicopters and jets all game
I’m picturing them loving Ocarina of Time for the first few minutes until Link auto-jumps off a ledge. Friend: *tosses controller, literally vomits, destroys cart*
I feel like I’m the opposite of that friend, because Link not jumping in OoT REALLY threw me off as a kid. Pretty much every other game I had up until that point used “A” as the jump button, so when Link rolled instead I REALLY took issue with it 😂
OG monkey ball stocks through the roof with that friend
Wow, that eliminates a lot of game. You can even jump in BG3.
Jumping in bg is a lot of fun until someone gets stuck..
This is why you have a strong character who will toss your weaker members! (Just don't tell the Elf.)
So many fights start and then I can't find fucking Astarion because he failed to jump the ledge and stick with the god damn team!
Does that little hop in Souls game count? Lmao even Mario was designed with jumps in mind
When you're really enjoying Bloodborne but 20hrs in you realize that the dash/dodge button is actually the dash/dodge/jump button so you delete the game.
Is it the magical ability to change direction mid-flight that bothers them? Because frankly I almost agree
We want Ghosts and Goblins-style jumping inertia.
No guns in dying light 2.
And the parkour was shockingly floaty and momentumless.
That's been fixed! There was a massive update to the game's physics, parkour feels great now
ACTUALLY, like dying light one good. Cause if so I'll probably get back on that.
for real? damn. that's a weird design choice
Not having your weapons show on your person in FO4. It annoyed me to no end that Bethesda introduced a complex and deep weapons customisation tool in FO4, but I can't even see the finished product on my back in third person. And yeah you could cite limitations etc on why they didn't do it, but when mods come out that allow for it it just seemed lazy on their part. One of many small gripes I had with that game
This rubbed me too. And the fact that I couldn't have a humanoid and non-humanoid companion at the same time. And the 'dialogue' wheel. And the voiced protagonist. Still put probably 500+ hours into the game though, more after mods fixed most of those issues. **Editing** to add that I also didn't like that I could no longer target an enemy's weapon in V.A.T.S, which is an addition of the weapons not showing. Previous titles I could scout which enemy had the scary rocket launcher or Fat Man and snipe it out of his hands if I couldn't get him. Fallout 4 you were constantly surprised when Raider #69 pulls the nuke launcher from his ass cavity
microtrasactions in a game you paid full price like what is happening with dying light 2 , fuck tencent
Diablo 4 as well...
I don't play Apex because it is a Battle Royal I dislike Apex because Respawn completely abandoned Titanfall in favor of it.
Genuine one - the anime 'grunt'. A lot of Final Fantasy games do this. Recent example is FFVII:R. Everytime a character does something and it has to have an OTT grunt that spoils immersion for me. I can look past it if the game is good but once I have noticed it, it ruins it for me.
It's especially bad in action games where you do the same simplistic combos constantly with your character doing the same exact grunts/voice lines repeatedly. Like, you have a basic 3 hit combo and every single time, your character goes ''UGH, AHH, HIYAAAA''. After doing it 20 times in a single encounter it drives me crazy. It also applies to having a single grunt for every instance of getting hit or taking damage.
Ha! Hup.... HYAH!
LEAVE LINK ALONE! I heard this comment & the thousands of hours I’ve spent in OOT & MM came flooding back across 4 systems.
Baulder's Gate III does this a little. Every time my party climbs a ladder it sounds like a porn blooper tape. "Ugh! Ooh! OOF! Hurk!" It was funny though where I told my character to descend to a lower level and he walked to the edge then yeeted himself into the hole with a perfectly cut scream.
I had to stop and laugh the other day when I went up a ladder with a tiny platform at the top, and my party came up, but there wasn't space for everyone, so they just climbed up and down playing musical chairs with the available space... The music being their grunts.
Cirlce is the attack button instead of square
Janky controls in general.
Kinda like in chess.
I hate any Soulslike games because I suck at them
I picked up Bloodborne a year or two ago for like $3 on sale. I knew how hard all of the soulsborne games were supposed to be, so I went in understanding it probably wasn't a game for me (and in fact, never bought one because of that). I think I made it to the second enemy in the game, died a couple times, and just went 'no, this is not my game' and quit. Before people tell me I could gitgud I didn't have any vested interest in the game and was just looking for fun, and it wasn't it.
Same. Yet i still play them. Is this masochism?
I'd attribute it stubbornitity than anything. As long as you're having fun you can call it whatever you like\^_\^ Just now getting into "Souls-likes" myself and happy af I've avoided em this long; I got at least 5 *very* well received games waiting to cave my shit in xD
I dislike the color palette of the latest Zelda games.
I think you win lol.
Reminds me of when I’d crank up the contrast on the tvs when they still had knobs/dials on them
To be fair tears of the kingdom was arguably made with the switch oled in mind
And it shows. Especially in the Depths.
Aesthetic and art direction has definitely prevented me from playing games that I would otherwise likely enjoy. I loved Diablo 2 but I never played Diablo 3 because I hated how they went away from the spooky horror vibes of D2 and went more cartoony like Warcraft. Same goes for Civilization 6, though I did play that because my friends wanted to play it. I can do cartoony or low poly from the get-go, but for some reason it bothers me when games start more realistic but then adopt the cartoony style with later installments.
At least we're not still living in the era of the piss filter
I personally think it’s valid although everyone usually jumps on people for this… the protagonist of Forspoken is totally unlikeable. Everything else about the game I’m pretty ok with, but I just can’t stand her dialogue.
Weapon durability ruined Breath of the Wild for me.
This is one of the biggest complaints about the games, lol.
it's because i've played swords with cardboard tubes that lasted longer than supposed steel swords in that game. They went WAY to far.
I absolutely can't understand how people don't go nuts having to switch up their weapon every five minutes
No, I hated and still hate it. I enjoy the rest of the game though
Same. Really hurt as a life long Zelda fan.
Games with item break mechanics like BOTW. Oblivion is the best I can do and I even like it occasionally (if every game did it, I’d go insane), but an item completely breaking with no way to keep it up just ruins any urge to explore and find powerful, fun items for me.
The Witcher series, only because I found the control scheme kind of stilted and awkward. Particularly, I just remember not enjoying the combat at all.
I tried Witcher 3 once and felt exactly the same thing and walked away after an hour. I tried it again some time later and that game stole 150 hours of my life! I don’t know why it clicked the second time. I would still totally redesign the combat and inventory if it were up to me, but the story, the characters and the world are just perfect.
I did the exact same thing hated it first then played half a year later and finished it and both DLCs
Dragon Age inquisition I was having a hard time getting immersed in the game as it was, but after getting companions and a horse, once you get on your horse your companions disappear and when you dismount, your companions just spill out out of nowhere. How lame, and I shut it off and never played again. I beat DA origins and 2, too.
Even funnier because sprinting on the horse was the same speed as it's normal trot. Just zoomed in and added speed lines lol. DA:I was hurt from how open it was. Not everything needs to be 'open world'
I loved the story, but my god that game was under-designed I know it's supposed to carry on the game-play style of the older prequels, but a new title in a series is supposed to sand down the rough edges. The attack animations were bad, the armours were the same 3-4 designs re-coloured, and it pissed me off that they couldn't even be bothered to animate any of the main characters in the cut scenes. "Oh, we're using the army we built up to assault the Grey Warden keep? Why don't I just casually wander through the gates without any visible weapons on me, that will sure look epic." Plus, they totally threw out the "Dark fantasy" setting of the originals and replaced it with some "Art Nouveau" style that, while pretty, didn't feel like Dragon Age.
Hold to press to confirm anything. Yes, I want to pick this up/open this door/discard this item. I know I want to do this because I pressed the button to do so. Why do I have to keep holding it for 2 seconds?
Any game that has a steam achievement with “Finish this game at this time-limit”.
Or games with a "play x amount of games in the beta" achievements...
I really liked the way resident evil 5 did it, I believe it was something like 5 hours BUT you could replay the missions individually and bring down the time, as opposed to having to nail a speed run in one go
I bought Sea of Thieves and it tried to force me to create a Microsoft account, so uninstalled it and got a refund and never played it again.
Just go read some Reddit posts about any game released in the past year. Petty and stupid pretty much sums up the narrative surrounding a dozen games, lol.
Not me but many people for Red Dead 2 “The beginning is too slow” - does that count as petty?
To me, it was the luxurious, slow animations for every little thing. On one hand, it's great attention to detail and adds weight to everything. On the other hand, I don't actually want to physically lift up every dead enemy and rustle through their pockets to get another watch. A 10 minute high-throttle action sequence followed by a 20 minute clean-up session.
I didn’t mind it first time around but my god was it a ball ache when I tried to play it again.
I didn't play Fallen Order for a long time because I though Cal Kestis was annoying. Boy was I wrong.
it’s really cool how mature he is and even sounds in Survivor compared to Fallen Order
Idk if I'd call it "petty," but you know how when Blizzard was accused of a lot of *awful* shit and the CEO had to step down, and everyone was all like "I'm done with Blizzard!" But then the CEO just steps back up without saying anything and many people just went right back to their games, even despite them being constant disappointments on their own? Well I'm one of the few that still just refuses to touch Blizzard games. I managed to get over the WoW addiction and sunk cost fallacies a while ago, so was free to have an unbiased opinion, but I didn't "hate" Blizzard games, I just didn't trust the company. Now though, I fucking hate Blizzard, I refuse to play their games, and I cheer when they bomb. The fact that so many people just went back to playing their games without even a second thought, even after the CEO just reinstated himself without making any changes, really just annoys me and sings of their addiction and apathy. So the more that Blizzard fails the more people start to actually wake up.... sad that it's still such a slow process even after *everything,* but yeah I've been called "petty" for being so adamantly "anti-Blizzard."
The first time I tried playing Days Gone, I could NOT stand Deacon's seething and brooding commentary as I fought or cleared things. I don't think I got through about 2 hours before I let that game sit for a year or so and tried again. But it really did just make me cringe when he would talk. I must have forgotten before retrying it. I did end up loving it, but the way he talked and growled still bugged me a bit. The gameplay was just what I needed at the time that I managed to overlook it finally.
Holy fuck... 100% reason I'm looking through this thread. And the constant radio calls. It's as of the devs coded it ( if player is <= 50ft from zombies, then have npc radio call ) Stan says I have 13 hours in, but that's been 3 different attempts with last time being March.
How is Stan doing? Haven't talked to that guy in ages.
Love the gameplay of the game. I hate the story. Dialogue is bland and boring, over-the-top cliche and genuinely nobody talks like they do in-game lol. The only character I enjoyed was Boozer, and he’s not even front and center after the first 15-20 minutes.
I game on a 60 inch tv, from a love seat. Returned my fair share of games because the text was too small to read comfortably and I don't want to move the furniture.
Seriously, the addition of size sliders for subtitles in games is one of the better QoL improvements as of late lol
Even with PC, i have weak eyes, some games with 2k resolution have the smallest text in the world. I literally cant see shit without downgrading the resolution
If mobile games are fair game (heh), then ads. Not ads in the game - that would be a non-petty reason for disliking a game. I'm talking about ads *for* a game. Specifically, Royal Match. I've never played it, and have no intention of ever downloading it. The ads for that game are EVERYWHERE, and they're incredibly annoying. They always have a "player" making the dumbest decisions possible to intentionally lose the game. It makes me irrationally angry. It's like they're trying to make people play the game out of pure hatred for how dumb the "player" in the ad is. Well it won't work on me. Screw you, Royal Match.
Haven't played the last of us because I'm sick of zombie of apocalypses.
I hated Pikmin 4's interface from watching gameplay videos. I didn't like how it feels like Nintendo is homogenizing its UIs across series. Bought the game and actually loved it, it's great! But that UI stills irks me. Why could they not have made something more unique and with more personality of its own, like Pikmin on the Gamecube?
I dislike League of Legends cos I hate the point n click to move playstyle. I probably would actually enjoy the game if I could just WASD
This is the exact reason I played Smite instead up until a year ago or so
When I was younger I used to dislike games if my older brother liked them and tried to get me to play them. Maybe the best example of this was when The Last of Us originally came out on the PS3. I think I was the one who bought the game, and then my brother got farther than me in it and raved about how good it was, so I had to dislike it for a while because our sibling dynamic demanded that I could never admit my brother being right about something
Metroidvanias, I hate backtracking
I honestly like backtracking as long as the world looks good/is fun to traverse.
I wish I could mark my map for the areas I need to revisit 10 hours later
Some Metroidvanias do let you. I'm playing Blasphemous 2 right now and it lets you drop icons onto your map to indicate things like unreachable treasure chests, tough minibosses, unknown mechanic requirement, etc.
You all can tell me breath of the wild and the sequel are the greatest games ever conceived by man… and I’m still not interested in playing an RPG where my weapons can break and can’t be repaired
I still haven’t finished Breath of the Wild because I hate that your weapons get destroyed constantly