Things that annoy you in games you like

[Massaca]

Unskippable cutscenes/cinematics. Recently did 6-and-some-extra-parts runs of Dishonored and whilst they aren't long at all it still would have been nice to be able to skip the boat rides and the intro for The Flooded District. Crysis 2 sticks out in my mind for this too. Sometimes I just want to jump straight to the gameplay >_<

absurdly high encounter rates in jRPGs

i said absurdly high, as in, 1 encounter every 3 steps high.

I haven't played many jRPGs but that one level in FF13-2, Academia I think it was, was just downright stupid for this. Pretty much constant battles with groups of 3-6, lasting like 10-ish seconds  then a couple steps and you're in another. And worthless rewards.

[FamilyTeam]

Well, I think some of you might agree with me in this, but, well, getting "Busted" in GTA, any of the games.
It makes absolutely no sense that you can get arrested in the game. In fact, in GTAIII, it even makes no sense in the context of the story!
If you're this crazed sadistic genocidal maniac going around in a tank blowing up the entire city and a cop pulls you out of the tank and tries to arrest you, why the hell wouldn't you resist arrest? You're pretty much never unarmed, and all he's doing is pointing a gun to your head, which yeah, IRL it's pretty threatening, but in the older 3D GTA games, you can get blown up between 3 large cars and you'll likely survive, so you getting shot in the head means nothing.
In the HD GTA games, you can resist arrest, but only on foot. If a cop pulls you out of your car, for whatever reason, you can't. I have no idea why the series still even has this feature other than tradition.

[PhoenixMaiden]

If I had one thing that annoyed me in video games I guess it would be the owl in legend of Zelda. I hate having to press a button a lot and then ending up listening to him again and again. X_X Another thing is super spammy characters in fighting games(I'm looking at you deidara, lord raptor, and blanka )

[NovaSnow]

Fire Emblem, mostly concerning the new games and Supports, I definitely feel like they need to expand it more other than just texts and menus, it doesn't really feel like a part of the game, and there are some things about characters you will never know until you GRIND for it, which is a pretty big letdown for a game about Unique characters. Also enemies that spawn instantly and move on the same turn, bleh...

[Kaisou]

Final Fantasy X: After like 7-9 years, I finally got the Saturn Sigil. But I'm not here to celebrate success, no. I'm here to say that the butterfly minigame has got to be the worst thing I have ever tried to do in that game.
"Oh, Imma just sneak past these two red butterflies~"
*RKO'ed by a red butterfly*
"SON OF A BI--"
Not only that, but Blitzball. It's only okay when you look past the bullshit. Because in Blitzball, 10 EN - 16 AT = 7 EN left over. It works in reverse too, 31 SH - 21 BL = 0 SH left over, so your shot gets blocked. Happened to me around 10 times too many before. I get the whole randomization thing, but damn, that's too big of a random gap IMO.
Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship 2011: How the hell does this dude start off with a Lightning Vortex in his first hand for the 8th game in a row. Why do I draw all 10 of my spells in a row. Why. And I actually enjoy playing the game because it allows me to figure out how to Synchro Summon and how to Fortune Lady deck.
Smash Bros Wii U: A physical problem is that the controllers at the library have broken analog sticks. An annoying thing I have with this game is that I I can't get the hang of defensive tactics, and items are the bane of my gameplay. Ever since Event 41 in Brawl, I have hated items more than I hate United We Stand from Yu-Gi-Oh. The items are the only reason I keep taking 200%+ damage within the first 10 seconds of battle. I prefer no items on any stage that doesn't make it impossible to fight so that I only take 50%+ within that amount of time (I'm an aggro Peach/Zelda/Rosalina player, 1/2/3, so I get smacked around in free-for-alls a lot with barely any defense options).
Mario Kart 8: My CPU teammates all kept attacking me one time. Got hit with 10 bombs in a row all from my own team. One CPU threw a bomb at the wall at Toad Harbor and perfectly hit himself in the face with it.
Harvest Moon DS Cute: Screw the 60 Harvest Sprites requirement. I'm only at 47 so far. Also, the fact that it doesn't really have anything new besides the Touch Screen menu, but I'm still gonna play it.
Dynasty Warriors 4: The lock-on. I prefer moving with my attacks rather than being locked in a single direction when I make a combo.
Dynasty Warriors 5: Heavy 4th weapons for most of the women. Gotta have my OP Qiao sisters, y'know, and the heavy fans are just... No. Sticking with 3rd level signature weapons, thank you.

[Ghaleon]

I can go on forever but the golden sun series has a really sweet combat system with interesting builds... But its wasted (especially in the 3rd game) because the enemies are just way too easy.

Also a pain how sol sanctum is the coolest bgm ever and you hear it early on thinking the games music is gonna own but it never really lives up to how it started... Kinda like the fortress of doom bgm in lufia.

[inaba]

World of Warships: Carriers

[draganuv15]

There's an explanation in P3, if the protag falls in battle

Spoiler:

Thanatos breaks free and begins The Fall immediately. This is valid even after Thanatos is already out of your body because by that point the protag is the only one that can stop The Fall (World Arcana, anyone?)

Persona 4 though? Nope, no explanation given.

I think the explanation for Persona 4 was

Spoiler:

when you let someone die you basically lost all will to solve the case due to fucking up, which would in term doom the world to being overrun by shadows. Then when you're chasing after Adachi if you fail to find him then the shadows invade as you're helpless to stop them because you can't use your persona outside of the TV. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Something that annoys me in RPGs are long, convoluted labyrinths that have mechanics that constantly change the floor layout/where you can access and you basically have to constantly change things to reach the exit. Top it all off with a shit encounter rate and no reason to go back and you basically have my experience with Touhou no Meikyuu floors 10 - 12

[Tsuken Yasashi]

The AI Rubber Banding themselves.  No matter how much I try my best to stay ahead in the game, be it in technological advancement for my nation, or having the life lead in a fighting game, the AI *somehow* catches up with you and goes beyond that.  Its like they are A.I. Stus!

[Ghaleon]

World of Warships: Carriers

I still never played warships even though I was interested... are they basically the artillery of world of tanks? I actually don't mind artillery in WoT..but I know that 90% of the fans do.

The AI Rubber Banding themselves.  No matter how much I try my best to stay ahead in the game, be it in technological advancement for my nation, or having the life lead in a fighting game, the AI *somehow* catches up with you and goes beyond that.  Its like they are A.I. Stus!

That's something that not only happens in many games, but many genres even! But yeah I really that too. On mondays I goto a disability home to keep this one guy company, and he likes to play videogames, so alot of the time he asks me to help him with a game or to take turns or to play and have him watch or something. Anyway, I don't really care for his taste in games very much but it still beats my previous volunteer work in a sound studio.

But anyway he was making me play a ps3 racing game "motorstorm apocalypse".. and dear god do they rubber band hard in that game. In one attempt I attempted this stage in 3:15 and ended up in 4th place, and I didn't even wipe out or skid out or anything near the end. I simply wasn't able to nitro for a little bit because another opponent bumped my rear and by the time I got to stabalize (it didn't really do much trouble, just made me do a little 20 degree zigzag thing without even going off track), the enemy was then in the way preventing me from using a nitro well (which basically cost me at most 1 or 2 seconds total)... But in the same race on the same difficulty, I managed to get first place with a time of 3:50 because despite doing horrible, I had a pretty clean run at the last 15 seconds or so and rubber banding ftw.

I seriously don't know how game devs release games where it's so OBVIOUS and say to themselves "yeah.. this is good, let's release this!".

[Ionasal kkll Solciel]

Yeah, Motorstorm Apocalypse is pretty terrible in that regard, especially if you have to go for the collectibles too.

New one: in rhythm games, completely arbitrary placement for beats that may or may not be on the actual beat or half-beat. Like, say, the dissonant piano at the start of Crystal Prism in IA/VT Colorful. That vid's the Normal mode, so it isn't too bad, but it's kind of rough to do on Hard, and I just can't tell how "on the beat" it actually is, so I have to sightread it every time.

[Kyo Tanaka]

Games shoving down unwanted objectives down your throat. ie. Puzzles in action game (Resident Evil, God of War, etc.)

Games kicking you into the field, expecting you to know what to do immediately. (no tutorials, no clear objectives start of the game.)

Online games expecting you to pour hours into the game to be able to do the fun stuff, while expecting you to not get burnt out before then. (Many free MMOs in my experience. A good community is hard to find!)

Games with a big social world/area with no form of communication outside of emotes in the game. (Destiny. not sure if that's changed)

That's all I can really think of. Though lately I have not explored a lot of games, aside from freebies.

[Uruwi]

Crappy FPS in Minecraft. I swear it makes me lazy.

And creepers.

(My brother and) I also used to play Wizard101. You had to be careful when traveling or else you'd get into a long-winded mob fight that you probably wouldn't win.

[Ghaleon]

Oh... the debt heaven series. I like it. But most of the games tend to reward the player for completing missions in as few turns as possible and such. That in itself isn't too bad...the problem is the game also has hidden treasures that you can only discover by randomly moving and ending your movement on certain squares thru each stage... Some items may have a clue as to their location, but these are normally cryptic or incomplete, and more importantly, only a select few items have such clues, far more have no clues at all..

So the game is tugging you in both directions.. one saying hurry hurry rush rush for the best score/points.. and the other saying to move around and land on every square to get all the treasures... wtf?!

[CF7]

MC is dead = automatic game over in SMT games. Other characters are dead, you can revive them just fine, but if MC dies then screw you, even if your other party members know a revive skill/have a revive item on hand. Enemy demons decide to gang up on the leader? Game over. Leader got hit with Hama/Mudo? Game over.
It's arbitrary, nonsensical and if RNG hates you? We are SO terribly sorry about your lost progress. And it's even worse in boss battles, because you have to watch (or hopefully skip) that pre-battle cutscene all over again.

[Ghaleon]

oh yeah, I hate that. Lots of games have this but I can't recall any in specific atm. But I suspect ogre battle was one of them. Basically if you had some members of a unit die, you could revive them in a town with such a service, if your unit's leader dies, they automatically ignore all orders, flee to your capital, and revive the leader there with some morale loss. But if your MC dies at all, even if you still have your capitol, and a town with a rez and revive consumeables.. insta game over!

[Abraham Lincoln]

Main party LVL99 LVL99 LVL99
The rest LVL12 LVL22 LVL36 LVL21 LVL48

Every time

As a Kantai Collection player, I feel your pain.

[Tamer Anode/Cathode]

MC is dead = automatic game over in SMT games. Other characters are dead, you can revive them just fine, but if MC dies then screw you, even if your other party members know a revive skill/have a revive item on hand. Enemy demons decide to gang up on the leader? Game over. Leader got hit with Hama/Mudo? Game over.

This was at its absolute worst in Strange Journey where a certain boss had an attack that inflicted status effects completely at random on your party. One of these effects was Stone. This was treated as instant death if it proc'd on your MC.

[Ghaleon]

Trails in the sky. Great game, story, combat mechanics...
But most dungeons have extremely minimal numbers of monster types. Often just 2-3 rifferent kinds. Ugh.
Lots of rpgs hwve this problem ai realise

[Your Everyday NEET]

Important items that can be lost forever.

In Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC, there are a certain books that gives you ultimate weapon for either Estelle or Joshua that can only be obtained by doing certain things at certain time. You can only fuck up the first two, what's that? Missed the third one? Bye, bye ultimate weapon.

In Xenogears, there are three important items at the very first village that can be traded for kick-ass equipment... At the very last town. After passing through the first dungeon, the village went BOOM along with the items.

At least modern JRPG finally let go of that bullshit and it's replaced with... DLC. That's right, want to get ultimate weapon from the get-go? Sure, just give us your 1.25$ (According to IF, they still cool though)