most of the time we love playing games
but sometimes that love turns to hate
what did you do to her welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
most annoying things in gaming it’s
gonna be a bumper for this list we’re
looking at game mechanics that are
unfair unnecessarily hard or just
downright badly made these are the kinds
of things that would completely turn a
player off prompting them to put the
game down out of frustration number 10
random encounters
everyone loves a good RPG you get to
explore huge worlds party up with some
awesome characters and solve brain
tickling puzzles but what’s the one
thing that constantly gets in the way of
all that you guessed it the random
encounter this was fine when technology
limited what you could show and do but
since it’s no longer 1995 there’s really
no excuse for this
here at WatchMojo we consider RPGs that
don’t have this trope to be better RPGs
am i right Chrono Trigger number nine
invisible walls
exploring big beautiful open worlds is
something that gamers live for but it’s
not always easy sometimes there are
roadblocks closed gates broken bridges
or some type of bad guy that gets in
your way and sometimes there’s just a
wall of nothing some game developers
can’t think of a good enough reason to
impede your progress so they drop some
invisible walls around an area to keep
you from wandering off how come you
can’t just walk away cuz you just can’t
brilliant number eight rubber-banding
when you’re playing a game and competing
against the cpu you’d expect things to
be fair but sometimes a game has a mind
of its own
you see this a lot in racing games that
adjust the speed of the cars either
slowing them down to give you a chance
at first place or speeding them up to
keep you on your toes as you try to stay
in first place
and don’t even get us started on those
damn blue turtle shells number 7
abstract objectives while a lot of
players don’t like games to hold their
hands the exact opposite can be just as
annoying not knowing what the heck
you’re supposed to do next
a good game leaves an adequate trail of
breadcrumbs for the players to follow a
bad game leaves no crumbs at all leaving
the player running to an online guide or
backtracking endlessly a good challenge
is great and so is a nonlinear game
world across the river and then head
north you’ll see it just past the Falls
but there’s a happy medium between being
led by the nose and being hopelessly
lost for hours number 6
unskipable cutscenesthat’s nice mild and
we hit the switch together and then I
felt everything the worst offenders are
cutscenes placed right before a tough
boss fight ones that replay after every
failed attempt or just cutscenes that
drag on we’re looking at you Metal Gear
Solid 4 again we lose his blood it could
get intense
number 5 poor in-game camera
good running around detailed 3d world’s
is super exciting unless the camera
hates you some games have such shoddily
controlled cameras you’ll barely be able
to experience the thrilling 3d world of
your choice without wanting to rip your
hair out nothing’s quite as frustrating
as getting killed not because of an
enemy but because the camera decided to
swing around and not show you that gap
in the floor thanks a lot game number 4
day 1 dlc pre-order bonuses how many of
us just channel let’s be honest
games are expensive sometimes you bought
the full retail version of a game and
you think you’d have all the content
available to you except not really
enter things like day 1 dlc and
pre-order bonuses to get you to pay for
the game before it’s released or in
other words by our game now before the
reviews or your friends convince you
that it sucks pre-order now and
supercharge your loadout with the
advanced Garson all while developers
claim that this is always superfluous
content that wouldn’t be included anyway
that response begs the question well why
wasn’t it included number 3 lag and
framerate issues the bane of every
online gamer is lag
well that and annoying homophobic and/or
sexist vulgar twelve-year-olds but
that’s another story
console gamers have to deal with this
too in the form of framerate issues or
just flat-out crashing while modern
consoles are getting a bit better at
this every year there’s a couple of
games that chug like college freshmen
when the particle effects start to fly
owners of the old n64 can attest to this
problem just try playing – rock – and
you’ll see what I mean
number 2 escort missions you okay Leon
what’s gonna happen to us
video games often take place in
dangerous life-threatening landscapes
and let’s face it it’s challenging
enough to keep yourself alive then some
games like to saddle you with the added
responsibility of keeping someone else
alive and just that alone can suck the
fun right out of it we should keep
moving you don’t think there’s any hope
do you this can be even more grating
when the NPC in question has horrible AI
get ready to rinse and repeat that same
mission over and over and over nobody
needs this kind of stress in their life
before we reveal our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
number one long low times
sometimes what makes or breaks a game is
the ratio of time spent playing versus
time spent waiting
yep according to our viewers the most up
voted annoyance was long low times
whether you want to get to the next part
of the story start playing that next
level just get from one location to the
next for when you die and the game has
to load up the level again it’s all bad
it almost hurts when a game makes you
want to pull out your phone and play a
few rounds of tetris while you’re
waiting you know you’ve got a problem
I’ve got a fever
and the only cure is more dead angels do
you agree with our list
are there other gaming issues you want
to vent about for more cathartic toptenz
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com thanks for watching be
sure to check out these other great
watch mojo videos
but sometimes that love turns to hate
what did you do to her welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
most annoying things in gaming it’s
gonna be a bumper for this list we’re
looking at game mechanics that are
unfair unnecessarily hard or just
downright badly made these are the kinds
of things that would completely turn a
player off prompting them to put the
game down out of frustration number 10
random encounters
everyone loves a good RPG you get to
explore huge worlds party up with some
awesome characters and solve brain
tickling puzzles but what’s the one
thing that constantly gets in the way of
all that you guessed it the random
encounter this was fine when technology
limited what you could show and do but
since it’s no longer 1995 there’s really
no excuse for this
here at WatchMojo we consider RPGs that
don’t have this trope to be better RPGs
am i right Chrono Trigger number nine
invisible walls
exploring big beautiful open worlds is
something that gamers live for but it’s
not always easy sometimes there are
roadblocks closed gates broken bridges
or some type of bad guy that gets in
your way and sometimes there’s just a
wall of nothing some game developers
can’t think of a good enough reason to
impede your progress so they drop some
invisible walls around an area to keep
you from wandering off how come you
can’t just walk away cuz you just can’t
brilliant number eight rubber-banding
when you’re playing a game and competing
against the cpu you’d expect things to
be fair but sometimes a game has a mind
of its own
you see this a lot in racing games that
adjust the speed of the cars either
slowing them down to give you a chance
at first place or speeding them up to
keep you on your toes as you try to stay
in first place
and don’t even get us started on those
damn blue turtle shells number 7
abstract objectives while a lot of
players don’t like games to hold their
hands the exact opposite can be just as
annoying not knowing what the heck
you’re supposed to do next
a good game leaves an adequate trail of
breadcrumbs for the players to follow a
bad game leaves no crumbs at all leaving
the player running to an online guide or
backtracking endlessly a good challenge
is great and so is a nonlinear game
world across the river and then head
north you’ll see it just past the Falls
but there’s a happy medium between being
led by the nose and being hopelessly
lost for hours number 6
unskipable cutscenesthat’s nice mild and
we hit the switch together and then I
felt everything the worst offenders are
cutscenes placed right before a tough
boss fight ones that replay after every
failed attempt or just cutscenes that
drag on we’re looking at you Metal Gear
Solid 4 again we lose his blood it could
get intense
number 5 poor in-game camera
good running around detailed 3d world’s
is super exciting unless the camera
hates you some games have such shoddily
controlled cameras you’ll barely be able
to experience the thrilling 3d world of
your choice without wanting to rip your
hair out nothing’s quite as frustrating
as getting killed not because of an
enemy but because the camera decided to
swing around and not show you that gap
in the floor thanks a lot game number 4
day 1 dlc pre-order bonuses how many of
us just channel let’s be honest
games are expensive sometimes you bought
the full retail version of a game and
you think you’d have all the content
available to you except not really
enter things like day 1 dlc and
pre-order bonuses to get you to pay for
the game before it’s released or in
other words by our game now before the
reviews or your friends convince you
that it sucks pre-order now and
supercharge your loadout with the
advanced Garson all while developers
claim that this is always superfluous
content that wouldn’t be included anyway
that response begs the question well why
wasn’t it included number 3 lag and
framerate issues the bane of every
online gamer is lag
well that and annoying homophobic and/or
sexist vulgar twelve-year-olds but
that’s another story
console gamers have to deal with this
too in the form of framerate issues or
just flat-out crashing while modern
consoles are getting a bit better at
this every year there’s a couple of
games that chug like college freshmen
when the particle effects start to fly
owners of the old n64 can attest to this
problem just try playing – rock – and
you’ll see what I mean
number 2 escort missions you okay Leon
what’s gonna happen to us
video games often take place in
dangerous life-threatening landscapes
and let’s face it it’s challenging
enough to keep yourself alive then some
games like to saddle you with the added
responsibility of keeping someone else
alive and just that alone can suck the
fun right out of it we should keep
moving you don’t think there’s any hope
do you this can be even more grating
when the NPC in question has horrible AI
get ready to rinse and repeat that same
mission over and over and over nobody
needs this kind of stress in their life
before we reveal our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
number one long low times
sometimes what makes or breaks a game is
the ratio of time spent playing versus
time spent waiting
yep according to our viewers the most up
voted annoyance was long low times
whether you want to get to the next part
of the story start playing that next
level just get from one location to the
next for when you die and the game has
to load up the level again it’s all bad
it almost hurts when a game makes you
want to pull out your phone and play a
few rounds of tetris while you’re
waiting you know you’ve got a problem
I’ve got a fever
and the only cure is more dead angels do
you agree with our list
are there other gaming issues you want
to vent about for more cathartic toptenz
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com thanks for watching be
sure to check out these other great
watch mojo videos
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