In gaming there are always little things that annoy us. In this editorial I am going to take you through what is annoying to me and probably annoying to you in First Person Shooters. FPS's are indeed one of the most popular genres of gaming producing games like: Halo Combat Evolved, Killzone 2, Perfect Dark, Goldeneye 007, Metroid Prime, Medal of Honor and among the most recent popular of fans, Call of Duty. Not only is this genre also my favorite it's probably yours as well. Lets begin shall we?

Instant Health packs

This is probably the most humorous of all the little things that annoy me in shooters. That little itty bitty health pack that fixes you up like you just took a trip to the hospital. Did you get hit by a grenade launcher? Its all good, just drink this canteen from Medal of Honor and that giant hole in your leg is gone! Not only is this tottaly not realistic, its just flat out hilarious. Like they all say about B-games "It is so bad, its awesome."

Games like Medal of Honor, Project Snowblind, Goldeneye 007 and so forth live by this "All healing pack" method. These shooters mainly have this little annoyences because these games have the health bar present. That little bar that goes down until it is empty, or well in other words, youre dead.

The main reason this annoys me is because its so unrealistic and silly. Yes the game wouldn't be the same if they took it out but bare with me. Cant they at least show the guy drinking it or show him bandaging himself or herself?

Quick get to shore! That canteen up therewill save your life!

That one enemy that magically pops out of no where

Yes, I know you have all been through this extremely annoying aspect; the magicical alien, soldier, giant bug, or behemoth that magically just appears right behind you and kills you. This annoyance not only makes you not want to play, it just flat out ruins an experience for you making you feel you were cheated.

This little annoyance has occurred in most games such as; Call of Duty Modern Warfare, at times Killzone 2, the recent release of Singularity and the game with the most occurring annoyance Wolfenstein. These games are awesome, there is no lieng about that, its just the fact they sometimes make you feel cheated and unfair that brings down the amazing aspects of the game.

This annoyance really hits hard when you didn't save at a checkpoint and you die by the magical little enemy killing; thus ruining all that you worked for. Of course if you think about it, it is my fault, but still that is just flat out unfair.

It's to bad that enemy up ahead will be behind me in two seconds

Horrible voice acting

Of course this annoyance pertains to all genres but none more than shooters. If cortana from Halo was played by a truly horrible actress it would defiantly water down the experience. The fact FPS's are so tense is a main reason this annoyance defiantly pertains most to this genre. If you are in the middle of a firefight and your captain tells you to "keep firing!" and it sounds like he put on a fake Australian accent it will almost certainly ruin the intensity for you. This happened to me while playing Raven Squad, yes that game with possibly the worst voice acting ever. So incredibly bad in fact, I returned it 2 days after I borrowed it from my friend for the PC. The fact every time I shot and killed a target my character would yell "Man down!" Then in between missions it was unbearable as well, this game is just a true definition of horrible voice acting. Oh! I don't want to forget, the most hilarious and annoying part, every time the enemy shoots at you, he says "They're shooting me!" No duh man.

This annoyance is also present in Rogue Warrior, the most dirty mouthed game I have ever played, every time I shot my weapon he would cuss and say something tottaly obscene. This can be annoying at times, but in other times it is actually quite entertaining and hilarious.

But still overall, this annoyance defiantly can ruin an experience.

Sorry I cant hear you! My ears are bleeding from this games voice acting!

Guns that look powerful, but sadly are not

Not only is this annoying, it is a flat out tease. If a gun looks big and mighty and powerful it should be, right!? This is the ultimate tease for anyone who loves causing mass mayhem. This little annoyance occurred for me multiple times while I was playing Fallout 3, although this is a RPG it is part FPS as well, some guns I used looked giant and devastating. These guns sadly just didn't add up, they were punt in destruction and the ammo of the weapon lasted 2 seconds. Also when I would play Time splitters 2, some guns would look huge and put a grin on your face knowing it would blow everything up. Well it sadly didn't work out that way.

This annoyance is very aggravating and sometime makes you also feel like the devolpers were just trying to tick you off.

Too bad this gun isnt powerful, well wait, it might be.

Those are some of the things that annoy me, if you have anything to add please do so below, but remember friends, do it kindly. Thank you for reading as always.