Roll and move. Skip your turn.

Exponentially growing requirements that out pace rewards. I don’t want to spend 10 hours grinding just to level up.

Not the worst, but I’m annoyed by invisible walls. Just give me a reason why I can’t be there.

A multiplayer game that pits you against lousy AI bots with human looking names for your first "games’ so you feel like you know how to play and makes the game seem fair and fun.

Then after you’re comfortable, you get pitted against a lobby of 12-year-olds who haven’t seen daylight since birth who annihilate you and curse you out on coms.

Lootboxes

One of the worst game mechanics ever found in a game was where the enemy got harder as you gained levels. The same enemy. It basically defeated the value of having more levels. I think it was Oblivion Skyrim where I found this, particularly annoying.

“Here’s a rare weapon dropped by this boss! But wait, you need to be at least level 30 to use it, and you’re still on level 2.”

I went out of my way to repeatedly grind and kill this late game boss during early game, just give me my reward for not following the stupid linear progression

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Achievements.

I want to enjoy the game, not artificial milestones for bragging rights.

Health as a resource

Puzzles that are entirely music based with no visual cues.

They’re bad enough for me as just a guy with no rhythm or note recognition, but also just fuck deaf people I guess?

press ▲ to jump. shit button. it’s x.

Stat/EXP loss on death.

Unskippable cut scenes, especially before a boss. I want to play on hard difficulty, which means I WILL die to bosses. Do not force me to watch that shit 5+ times or I’m out like trout.

Any game that forces snap to center cameras. No one should ever have to fight against the controls in a game.

(Looking at you No Man’s Sky)

Fragile world-spanning deliveries.

Silksong has me screaming over them, 10 - 20 minutes of walking and one too many smacks at the end ruins it. And then there’s the one that’s also timed!

But to be fair, most of Silksong gets me yelling at the TV on the regular! I love it and hate it!