That little thing that ruins (or almost ruins) a great game

[Robocop2]

Not being able to skip a cutscene takes the cake for me. Not being able to skip it the first time is fine. There's a story being told and I would like to hear it. But if I die and have to watch it over and over and over I'm likely to stop playing the game. This ruined Mass Effect for me

I'll second that. Another thing that always bugs me is on so many games with QTE's that the button prompts obscure the action. For example in GOW 1/2 you have this huge button right in the middle of the screen. Granted its slightly translucent but it is ridiculously distracting when I feel like I'm looking around a button to see what violent act I'm in the middle of comitting. GOW 3 did a fine job of fixing that problem though.

[somesortofrobot]

The spike glitch in Sonic 1. Ughh.

[kupomogli]

Been playing Breath of Fire and it reminded me of something I hate more than anything. Not being able to progress because you didn't talk to some fuckwad in some random town and the game not even letting you know you can't progress, yet you're told you have to go North by someone in the town you just left. Thus leaving you wander around some forest for 2 hours, wandering how the hell you're supposed to go North when there are trees in the way.

Oh so I need a saw?! How about having one of the characters say HEY WE CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER BECAUSE OF ALL THESE FUCKING TREES, LETS CUT THEM DOWN SOMEHOW!

I recently got to the end of BoF again. Make sure you keep one of those W.Ant for endgame. Finding another White Deer to kill in order to get a W.Ant took me about an hour of luck, even when staying at places animals regularly came.

[bacteria]

Gradius games- You get your ship powered up and if you die, you start back at a checkpoint with a ship that's too slow and underpowered to stand up to the shit thrown at you in the middle of the stage.

Yes, QFT

Pain in the butt - I like Gradius games, but suck at them - make your ship invincible and the game is boring, battle through most of a stage, get to the boss stage, lose a life; game changes from being a good skill level to bloody impossible, and no fun. :frustrated: