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Marks on 28 February 2012
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1. Games where there is in game dialogue (to do with the story) but while the dialogue is going on it only lets your character slowly walk around, you have to wait until your guy shuts the fuck up so you can start moving full speed.

Worst offender: Gears of War (the slow walking scenes where Marcus is on the comm with other people)


2. Also games where if you fail/die and you have to reload the last checkpoint, but at the start each time you fail you have to rewatch all or part of the cutscene and you can't skip it. I don't want to have to watch a boring ass cutscene 100 times because one part of the game is hard and I keep dying.

Worst offender: Splinter Cell Conviction, I also think Rainbow Six Vegas does this. So essentially Tom Clancy games seem to be the worst offenders.


3. Pointless real-time action scenes. Like where a button (X, Y, B, A, etc.) pops up on the screen and you either have to press it or mash it quickly. Now these are cool in some games like God of War, but some games I've played they just have you do it for menial tasks like opening doors or moving objects.

Worst offenders: Can't think of too many, but I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. I'm pretty sure Batman Arkham Asylum had some of these, among many other games.


4. In online games, where you have a lobby full of people and the game won't begin until half (or in some cases) every person has hit a "ready up" button.

Worst offenders: NHL 12. Luckily in the mode I play there is a 1 minute 30 second timer so the game will start when time runs out even if everyone hasn't hit "ready", but still the fact that 11 people can have hit ready but 1 fucking douchebag hasn't hit ready so we all have to wait 90 seconds just pisses me the fuck off.


5. Online games where someone can pause it and it pauses everyone.

Worst offenders: Saints Row series and again NHL 12 (or just sports games in general). I can see why developers have them for sports games, but it's still annoying as shit when someone pauses the game and slows it down (again, 1 douchebag can pause it and it effects all other 11 people)....but in Saints Row its just pointless and fucking stupid to have it pause when your online co-op buddy pauses it to go take a shit.