Basically any game that requires you to replay large sections of the game if you die

So Gears get put down there for having too infrequent checkpoints in some cases as do every single jRPG. I just dont get why the cannot put in checkpoints!!!

Some of you may just say that I just want to get rid of the challenge of games.... well I do to some degree, but I just find replaying sections of the game that you have already beaten really frustrating

I agree with all but number 2 I enjoyed that in bioshock allowed me to explore more on how and what I wanted to do I thought it was great

Putting a bunch of unlockable stuff in a game focused on multiplayer. Who's ever taken SSBB over to a friend's house only to find all the cool characters locked away?

The real shame here is making the save data immovable. 

Unlocking stuff is half the fun.  Unlocking it repeatedly isn't.

Watch the zero punctuation review it is awesome

I think there is something to be said for unlocking those characters, but then again, I think it is mostly a party game, rather than a mostly single player game, with some MP on the side, so I would say they should just leave them all unlocked, or have a simple cheat code

I have watched that review.  He didn't like the game.  I was a little disappointed as most of his criticism came from the fact that he just didn't enjoy the core gameplay rather than actual flaws in design.

Again, if you could take your save data with you like you could for Melee, it wouldn't have been such a big deal.

mise,
i actually agree with everything you said. especially number 5 about rpg's. i think thats a great idea. actually number 1 i don't entirely agree with, but i agree that games that make you choose your character traits like bioware games could be done better.

Yeah, they could. It really annoys me, especially in D&D-based games which have 9 different alignments on 2 axes: Lawful->Chaotic and Good->Evil. When the game is built to acknowledge only two of those properly, it dampens the games immersion, becomes annoying and can actually hurt your progress if you're character is heavily dependent on his/her alignment. Ie. in Neverwinter Nights, the game is actively pushing you to become either Lawful Good or Chaotic Evil, at least in the official modules.

I can understand this design choice if you're playing something like Knights of the Old Republic where everything is sharply split between the Light/Dark sides of the force, but everywhere else it feels really out of place and redundant.

Retarded tutorials and cut scenes that can`t be skipped. I remember trying to show a friend how awesome Half Life is. He got bored after 20 minutes (still playing the intro).

God of War for the PSP also sucked. I spent almost an hour on the last boss. The problem is that I spent more time watching the fucking cut scene than fighting the boss. It is really hard to learn a boss pattern when you have to wait 2-3 minutes before fighting him again. I collected all the dark souls on Shadowman for the N64 but never finished the game. I gave up after watching the last boss intro for the 4th time. Later my save card killed itself and I lost everything (screw that game).

The biggest one for me has to be a HUGE problem with Half Life 2. It's a game where a huge draw is the fantastic interaction with the world because of the physics. Yet Gordon freeman is a floating camera.... URG! It's seriously awful. I thought shooters had moved way past this. If you look down there is just empty space. It's especially annoying as Dark messiah of might and magic is also built on the source engine and that game is great for immersion. You can look down and see yourself. See yourself climb ladders etc etc.

In half life 2 it's just so off putting being a floating hand hovering up a ladder etc. Or driving a car yet the steering wheel is just sitting there and no one is touching it. Completly ruins the immersion of the game for me. Also makes it incredibly hard to judge if you are at the edge of a platform or you can go further. It's ridiculous to be at the edge of a ledge look down and you are actually just floating because a small part of what they define as your character is still touching the ledge.

You don't have to see his face or talk but you should still be able to look down and see your body.


The other one is final boss fights that are completly different to the rest of the game. Playing a game for 10 hours then suddenly the last 5minutes having a completly different gameplay style is so annoying.