1 - Achievements in Single Player.
At what point am I supposed to start caring that I killed 50 Martian blob creatures with Molotovs? I also do not need a bloody pinging noise and a little magic box showing me that I have completed a level, I know this has happened because I spent the last 30 or so minutes fully immersed and uninterrupted killing Nazis, I don't require a reward for that, it's just what I do.
2 - Payed DLC and regional pre order bonus'.
Once I buy a game, I should not have to spend more money ON THE SAME GAME, either make an expansion or release more content into the game as a way to get more people playing, not as a way to screw the player base.
By the same token if I buy a game I should be entitled to the same content as a gamer from say America or Australia *hint hint* Lionhead/Microsoft you ********, just because I had the cheek to be born and raised in England doesn't mean you have to lumber me with some B&Q bargain bin lump hammer whilst the Yanks and the Ozzies get unique and really quite interesting swords.
Can only think of one more but this is the big one, the kicker.
Motion Control.
**** OFF.
A few niggles that I really don't care too much about but that are far too common.
HUD's - Really annoy me, Metro 2033 went a bit of the way to curing this, instead of a list of tasks and a mini map you get a little clip board with a compass on it and a lighter if you can't see it. Even worse is when Devs think up some petty contrivance for why it's there, case and point F.E.A.R's "OH LOOK I HAVE MAGIC GLASSES!".
Regenerating Health - So those Nazis were firing rubber bullets were they? What's so wrong with the idea that getting shot is bad and you should do your best not to? What's so wrong with having to use a medkit or a bandage to stop your more precious bodily fluids and organs vacating the premises? Sitting in the corner waiting for a little red bar to fill up or (more commonly now) the screen to lose it's pretty red tint is not fun.
Magic Pockets - I'm carrying a Samurai Sword, a Desert Eagle, 2 Uzi's, an AK-47, a Sniper Rifle, 5 grenades, 4 Claymores and a Bazooka....where do I fit my lunch?
Voice Logs - OK so in Bioshock it worked because we started in a world we didn't know or understand and we needed something to explain that, however how exactly did every marine, scientist and worker manage to find the time to record there every thought and idea in AVP and does the fact they wear hearing strange noises or "thought something funny was going on" enlighten us to any new facts as to why there are dead bodies everywhere in a game about Aliens and Predators?
PS I've never actually played AVP, just using it as an example for the type of game where it's really rather silly.
HERE IS YOUR OBJECTIVE HERE IT IS RIGHT HERE HAVE YOU SEEN IT YET? GOOD HERE IT IS FOR ANOTHER 10 FLOW BREAKING IMMERSION SHATTERING SECONDS JUST TO BE SURE.
I think that one pretty much speaks for itself.
