What annoys you the most? (in games)

Lag, pure and simple.................................................................................................Lag

The conversation online. Though it's funny too.

I like lag. It gives me a chance to rethink my life and the choices I've made.

Loooooong load times and level grinding.

"Loooooong load times"

Frusturatingly repetitive gameplay, when a game is too repeptitive, I just wanna AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
That includes abuse of certain moves/attacks/weapons/etc. It just really annoys me, I try not to let it anger me though...

Idiots on XboxLive

Dieing.

Multiplayer Achievements.

Grinding, and small annoyance enemies that are not there to pose a challenge, but to be hard to hit and do chip damage. In the worst case, they stun you when they hit you. Those kinds of enemies simply are not fun to fight in any way.

uninspired direction

"Multiplayer Achievements."

"uninspired direction"

"Dieing."

"Crashes"

"Lag"

I can't just pick one thing:

1. I hate it when a game rewards time invested instead of skill.
2. Lag
3. Mic spammers
4. "Regenerating" health
   
5. Too much emphasis on single player in games that are better off just focusing on the multiplayer.
6. Adding a half-assed multiplayer mode to a game that should have stayed single player.
7. DLC that lacks value.
   
8. Content already on the disc but you have to pay to unlock.
9. Games that KNOW they will have a sequel before the first game has ever launched, and cut out features in the first version of the game because of "time constraints," and "save" it for the sequel.
10. Pre-Order bonuses from GameStop
    

Okay. I hate that load times haven't disappeared like they said they would this generation.

The Desert Scene.

Every game that had me placed in a Desert had me pissed off.  I hate desert scenes.  I don't understand why I hate them but developers always make them suck.

Why is that every desert scene made by different developers always suck?

Kids on xbox live.

Single player games that don't need multiplayer, having multiplayer. Especially when the multiplayer in question is poorly implemented. Shit drives me bananas!

"Idiots on XboxLive"

"I like lag. It gives me a chance to rethink my life and the choices I've made."

• lack of "save anywhere" feature or if that is impossible then poorly spaced save points
• Invisible walls
• Un-skippable cut scenes
  
• People who use exploits to cheat and think they are elite because they do
• Bad camera angles in platformers
• Anytime a game is edited for having too much sex, graphic violence or adult content
  

lag, long load times, poorly implemented QTE's (Prince of Persia), bad voice acting, bad story, glitches, etc. etc.

The lack of RPG servers on Halo, Half-Life DM and GTA

I would have to say games with bad directions. As in, games in which you find yourself completely lost due to ridiculously vague instructions of where to go next, or something to that effect. For example, from the podcast this week, it seems like Dark Athena has a fair bit of that. In saying that though, i havent played Dark Athena, but on the podcost i think they were saying that there's a point in the game where you are required to find a tool, and thats it. It's up to you to go and find the tool, which leaves you wandering around just guessing and hoping. I hate games like that lol

I can't believe nobody said underwater levels yet.

I really don't enjoy water levels. At all.