^This!

Putting those in a game is stupid pointless. Hit up the Google and it's "Oh, so that's what I need to do to get that"

Also, enemy AI that is able to target you with pin-point accuracy and inflict damage repeatedly with zero margin of error while they are so far away they are no more than the size of a pixel on the horizon. I mean, I know it's computer AI and all but... cut us some slack every now and then.

Pointless rpg elements in online multiplayers such as the Call of Duty franchise.

When a game is fairly good but the gaming community whines about it because it didn't exceed their ridiculously high expectations.

When you play online and your opponent is a spammer. Oh and lag, man lag really pisses me off.

The thing that pisses me off in Kingdom Hearts 1 is that you have to heal yourself ALL THE TIME quickly! DX Sometimes it gets TOO intense as well.

YES, also not just CoD, other shooters too. So many pretty meaningless numbers popping up on your screen and blocking your view;

KILL +10, ASSIST +5, REVENGE +20, GRENADE KILL +10, MULTIKILL +20, etc, etc

example:


(TBH though it works for BF3 because of the class system I just used the pic as an example, but for other shooters it's completely unneccesary)

Games designed in a way that allows competitive gamers to totally disregard the aesthetics and creative components in competitive multiplayer.

e.g. Warcraft III/Starcraft where instead of building a base that actually looks like a base, you have to use buildings like Lego blocks to block off your resources and so forth, making the base look absolutely ludicrous and utterly destroying any immersion in the creative elements of the game.
May as well just make all the models blank/gray 3D cubes that you slide around a blank 3D space. What's the point of giving them textures, voice quotes, sound effects and creative concepts if all you're going to do is use them as lifeless objects in a competition of APM or memorized manipulations?

This has to be my biggest pet peeve, since I'm inherently very competitive, but I can't stand it when games are dumbed down to simple button mashing or APM contests with total disregard for their immersive qualities.

The closest thing I've seen to remedy this so far is that Assassin's Creed III multiplayer mode, which actually punishes players for lacking creativity and wanting to play for the sake of fidgeting/APM.

If you want to compete at physical prowess, go play sports outside. The creative fantasy worlds within games should never be ignored, not even in the most heated of competitive play.

HIGH PING

UK localisations of games, I just hate UK voice acting for some reason

Invisible walls, mobs that re spawn to quick, dying, to many of the same side quest eg: fetch quest.

When the AI cheats and does instant, impossible blocks & kills.

For me there's a laundry list, but these are the ones that grind my gears the worst.

* Invisible Walls
* AI companions that get in your way or get killed often (I'm looking at your Lydia)
* Crappy controls
* When a game is ported to the PC from game consoles and its got a really clunky UI that doesn't work well with mouse & keyboard
* Mobs that can spam special attacks while you have to wait longer to use your own (FFXI is bad for this)
* Poor or non-existent quest tracking in a game

People who select servers in DoTA when they dont even speak the language, Russian/Brazillian Portuguese on the US servers. In a game thats entirely dependant on team cohesion and communication play on the servers where you can actually communicate. ARGH

People that sponge in multiplayer, It seems like they have too much health... I can spray entire clips in to them with no kill and they turn around and 1 hit me.

I really don't like move abusers in Tekken, the one's that drop you to low health by using the same move quickly that you can't counter.