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Are there any specific game mechanics or design choices in games that truly annoy you every time they are in a game?

 

Some of mine:

 

-Bosses that heal

-Bosses that have multiple phases but the next phase starts when the whole health bar is depleted

-Co-op centric games that have long Solo player only intros (making every first sesh with friends just everyone playing alone)

-Degrading weapons / inventory weight caps in games that are not Survival games

 

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Not giving me the option to fully customize controls to my liking.

 

Permanently missable stuff.

 

Hard difficulties that rely on inflating enemy health/damage values.

 

Unskippable cutscenes.

 

Not having multiple save slots.

 

Bullshit RNG.

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escort/bodyguard missions

 

slow ass walking people you have to follow and adjust the speed by toggling run/walk

 

everything with a fucking timer 

 

convoluted level design and backtracking (jedi fallen order)

 

jehurey

 

puzzles that are otherwordly like the one in SH3 with "hard riddle" difficulty: fucking nobody ever solved that 

the book sorting 

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I agree with everything said, so far.

 

I’ll add:

 

unavoidable puzzle hand-holding ala god of war. I got so annoyed with the NPCs blurting out the solutions, right at the start of the puzzles. 
 

long and/or hard walkbacks to difficult bosses. Elden Ring fixed this issue with save points just before each battle.   
 

Ubisoft-style maps, full of points of reference. Also filler fetch quests. 

 

 

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Having to keep pressing a button to exhaust dialogue then hearing repeated dialogue because you aren't sure if it was over 

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18 minutes ago, Playstation Tablet said:

Not enough horror games with action and guns. Too many walking simulators and stealth games. 

 

not enough stranding genre games :D 

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5 hours ago, bhytre said:

a little pile of rubble and some broomsticks are blocking your path, you must take a long detour now :TJ:

Dark Souls 2 has the worst example of this. "Nope, can't climb over this 2 ft. high pile of rocks. Go kill four demi-gods in order to proceed".

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