"Pet hates"?

Do you mean Pet peeves?

Well if you mean pet hates, then I guess I hated the Dog in Duck Hunt.

1. Other Drivers go out of their way to hit you

2. Bad Spawn points for online games - Games like Rainbow Six Vegas where you can camp the spawn, or Call of Duty 4 where enemies can spawn right behind you randomly

3. Games where stealth isn't possible - no matter how slow you walk and even if they can't see you, somehow you always get detected and shot at. Unless its a game where stealth works like Metal Gear or Splinter Cell.

That's why I never put any skill points into them ;) Anyway, I'm not sure if I they're even meant to stay alive very long and on the other hand, I suppose they might actually stay alive for a while if you build the character correctly. Well, at least they did for a while when I created a character just for testing purposes.

And now back on the topic. There are probably too many things but one I've seen in this thread caught my eye more than the other. I really hate it when the AI breaks the rules.

Oh, and a strange name for a thread. Maybe it's just that English isn't my nativa language... But I really thought this was somehow going to be about pets in games.

- Absence of sufficient savepoints (the Blob, for one).
- Unfair difficulty (*cough Starfox Adventures Test of Fear cough*).
- Bad level design.
- Bad collision-detection. Related to that: water that doesn't respond to obstacles (i.e. water that looks like it keeps on flowing when it encounters walls etc., effectively flowing through them).
- Useless sidekicks and/or allies. What's the point of them helping you if they never help you?!
- Pop-ups. Arrgh, the bane of immersion.
- Bad lip synching (HOTD: Overkill, omg that's bad :p).
- Stuff that makes no sense. What, I can shoot, blow up, hack, smash and destroy rocks, boulders, barrels, tanks, enemies and trees, but to get through this plain, thin wooden door I need to get a key?

Well I could go on for quite some time. :p There's loads.

Grenade Launchers.
Martyrdom.
12 year old squeeky people online.
Lag.

When the company rapes you for every penny of your money by not giving you DLC for free when its already on the disc... is also high up there.

And another thing...

Level caps.

Good list. Ditto on all of those with reference to GTA:4 - and many apply to other games as well.

Mostly I hate it when the game changes the rules to suit the game, without any prior warning - be that making a target invulnerable, re-spawn where it suits the game, force you to fail, etc. That's just lazy game development IMHO. Keep it fair and keep it within player knowledge.

I also hate games that try and make things tougher/last longer by making foes unreasonably tough to kill. There's nothing stranger than having to fire 8 RPGs at a foe wearing basic armour to actually defeat them. Unless it's having to fire 8 RGPs at a cockroach to defeat them.

a enemy that you have to lose to but you don't know so you waist all of your Potions and Pheonix Downs

Lack of save points. I can get called away from a game at any time. Why can't I save at any time?

Secret Achievements: WTF? How do I earn them if I don't know what they are??