Each online game must have micro transactions. Yeah fuck this except fortnite fortnite is cool like the ultimate crossover in humankind

And single player games having micro transactions for cosmetics i would rather point a 12 gauge to the lead dev

1080p 60fps *

*1080p60fps can only be reached using Performance level DLSS/FSR

Moms that repeatedly have sex with your opponents

Sports games with their shitty gacha online dynasty dream team give us your money mode that turns it into an rpg

Reading reviews/watching gameplay videos and forming your opinion off of that instead of just playing the game and seeing for yourself if you like it.

Everything having to be some enormous “open world.” A little bit of exploration is fun, but when I don’t even know where to go to continue the main story because I get 14 interwoven side quests just on my way to start the first main quest, it’s too fucking much.

My personal favorite game that strikes a good balance between open world and on-rails is the original Mass Effect trilogy. Enough exploration and side questing to make the game feel big, but not so much that I’m too overwhelmed to even bother playing it - I don’t play for 3 hours and feel like I accomplished nothing but making some stat numbers bigger. I don’t need every single NPC to give me their own stupid quest - sometimes I just want to interact with them to make the game feel more alive.

Season passes

Sad dad “cinematic” games. Walking for ages while some npc dumps a ton of exposition on you.

Mtx… obviously.

iF iT dOeSn’T afFecT gAmEPlAy tHeN wHaT iS tHe pRoBLeM? (Paid cosmetics)

Forced Walking Sections

Stamina Bars for Running and Climbing

Can’t Loot while on a Mount

Trophies locked behind forced multiple playthrus

Live Service Models

Silent Main Protagonists

Awful Inventory Management (Don’t put a 1000 items in your game and then only give me 20 slots)

Unshared Progress in Coop Games

Silly Rituals or Hoops to Jump thru to invite friends to my party. Forget immersion… just let me invite from my damn friends list.

Battle royale and battle pass

Don’t make me pay for the full game, and then have in-app purchases. In fact, I won’t play a lot of games if they have that, or I just go without those gems or passes.

Don’t release DLCs that are a bonus to the collector’s edition that just give you like 3 outfits and sometimes of the same category (like swimsuits).

Don’t re-release an old game and call it “Special” on the new platform and then not fix some of the tedious mechanics that the newer games have fixed.

Battle Passes.

Microtransactions