Video game pet peeves

1. Unskippable or forced interaction cutscenes (like the walking/talking you described)

2. When a game has 50 different moves or weapons yet one move/weapon is so much clearly better than all the others in all situations you just spam it the whole game, rendering the other options irrelevant.

3. When a game includes some gimmick level or section that isn't the main playstyle, and it almost always has horrible controls. Some non-driving game will have some sort of car race level or some non-platforming game will put some random platforming section in it. If you want to include this variety into your game, that's fine, but the controls and camera need to be good for it, otherwise it's always terrible.

4. Oppressive help and handholding. Every single level or mission there's blinking arrows all over the place telling you exactly where to go, what to do. Oh you've been at a puzzle for 15 seconds? Better start giving you hints. If you put this shite into your game you better damn well have an option to turn it off.

5. Ridiculously too frequent checkpoints. If you have a checkpoint every 2 seconds, it renders health and death and pretty much all stakes in the game irrelevant.

6. Decorative doors/buildings. I understand that in a city or town or something you're going to probably have to include some filler buildings with decorative doors, but the buildings you can actually enter need to be distinct from the ones you cannot in a not subtle way.

7. Trophies or achievements that are just mindless grinds. "Get 1,000 headshots", "Open 5,000 chests" or some crap. Obviously nobody is making anyone pursue these things, but real achievements are drown out by these shite ones.

Games with stupid long intro tutorials

I've said it here before, but it's grinding for me. If the combat isn't fun in and of itself, I'm not going to mindlessly do it so I can unlock the spell I need to beat the boss at the end of the dungeon. The game should be balanced so that's not necessary.

The funny thing is that some of my favorite games from when I was younger (often JRPG's) have this, but I simply had more time and patience then, I guess. Now, I immediately quit and move on to something else.

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Oppressive help and handholding.

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And this. Pretty sure this is why I never get very far in Skyward Sword every time I attempt to give it another shot. There's no way to mute Fi.

1. Ridiculously long intro. I'll figure it out, let me play the game.

2. Too much story/dialog. Story is a major pet peeve of mine. I don't care about story. I want to play the game, not watch a movie.

3. Related to #2 - un-skippable cut scenes/dialog. Not a chance I'm playing these games.

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Why do video game make you follow someone and they walk/run at half the speed you do?

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Been playing FFXV, and this is one of the biggest problems with the game.

Any quests or missions with a fricking race or time limit in it. If I wanted a racing game I’d fricking buy one.

Yeah, came here to bitch about fixed save points. Early FF games were always the worst about this.

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Games that don’t have manual saves

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Spyro Reignited Trilogy did this. Annoyed the shite out of me. I don't get the point.

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2K at least has a sold roster building base and normally has a good, relevant soundtrack

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The thing is you used to be able to import music on 2k too but they got rid of that option. I spent hours jamming out to my own music playing 2k11.

Actually that might have just been a function of having my 360 connected to the same network as my computer, now that I think about it. Probably wasn't a feature of the game.