Turret fucking sections.

The person who thought that was a fun idea should die slowly.

Wildly over-using the same assets

RNG and Forced Encounters. Being a damage sponge based on randomized combat mechanics doesn't gel with me. If it's a relatively easy game and/or uses other ways to mitigate that damage i.e. Cover-Based movement, the gel will gel with me a bit more.



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Like nearly every single MMO out there

Skyforge I'm looking right at you. God that game is grindy and pay to win.

Probably games that are really just movies, Hollywood, comics or manga or something in disguise... all those things can be fine by themselves but unless there is a serious investment in trying to make an actual "video game" the result is normally blah.

On the other hand, there are lots of games that simply have those influences but are also sort of interesting games at the same time and those can be a lot of fun.

I think pet peeve in general is really like 'cross-fertilization' the attempt to make one media like another or something by just stapling two disparate things together.

But how many Michael Bay movies have been turned into games?

RNG.

RNG, RNG and more RNG.

Had a game in World of Warships today, me in the Nagato battleship and a Nürnberg cruiser pops out at 14km range, perfectly broadside. Easiest shot to make and a Nagato volley of eight 410mm AP shells will rip any cruiser apart like putting the blueprints through a paper shredder.

So what happens is first volley, perfectly aimed for the midships citadel: shells go everywhere and fall short in the water or sail straight over the target, only two shells connect and do minimal overpenetration damage.
K, shit RNG roll, can happen ... 32 seconds later my guns are reloaded, Nürnberg is now 12km away, aim at the midships citadel again, shoot: *hnnnnng* same as before ... by now that lucky SOB set me on fire with HE hits (something which is also RNG dependant and German cruisers don't have good fire chances, go figure).
Another 32 seconds for the reload later and I'm already pissed off enough that I joked about uninstalling the game to my division mate in TS if this Nürnberg survives the next volley: 10km away, again aim for the midship citadel ... boom, triple citadel penetration -> cruiser deleted (which is an average damage volley considering the target, angle (full broadside ffs) and range).

That ship, sailing broadside on to a battleship at optimal firing distance (and I very much know how to aim!) had absolutely ZERO right to live for those 64 seconds, yet RNG decides to save the newbie who's dumb enough to give THE perfect target to shoot at and in the meantime grants him the opportunity to do quite a bit of damage to a ship that can nuke him two and a half times over in a single volley.

RNG range from everything missing to instant-death even within optimal firing range.
The game is addictively fun to play, but RNG screwing you over like that when you do everything right and the enemy everything wrong and you STILL can't punish him for that because lolRNG is hairpullingly frustrating.


I absolutely loath it when games get choked full with RNG.

The two main things that annoy me about games nowadays are (1) crafting systems, and (2) quest overload. I get annoyed with being encouraged to collect every random butterfly or flower petal just on the offhand chance that I'll be able to combine those things with a lead pipe plus the lint on my belly button to create an item upgrade. Also, I tend to get overwhelmed when I look at my journal and see about 20 uncompleted quests, or if every time I complete a quest, three new ones pop up to replace it; just makes it more difficult to feel like I'm making real progress in the game.

Crafting is great. Just most games do it horribly.