Asklemmy

There's an indie platformer called Fallen Leaf that has really good reviews. In the opening cutscene you are told a story about how in the past the world was saved by sealing away a great evil underground. The first level of the game sees you exploring a cave that your main character didn't even want to be in, at the behest of his sister (IIRC).

Some ways into the cave your path is blocked by a talking bear who politely but firmly explains that it is dangerous ahead and no one may pass. If you attempt to get past them, they gently boop you back.

What the game clearly wants you to do is shoot a stalactite so that it falls on the bear. No, game, I don't think I'm going to murder this innocent bear just so that I can be the one who releases the ancient evil I will spend the rest of the game fighting against. I will just quit here while the world is still safe and the polite bear is unharmed, thanks.

Zelda Breath of the Wild: Weapon durability. Fuck I was so annoyed by that. Even the Master Sword with it's cooldown. That felt like a really disrespectful design choice for OG Zelda fans.

Will be the last Zelda game I (attempted to) play, although it pains me.

It's always at a point where the game suddenly requires a skill that isn't part of its usual gameplay. I played a crafting and exploration game that suddenly has a huge platforming element in the late game in a dungeon, and it was even timed! The rest of the game involved no platforming, and it wasn't even particularly difficult to do but I suck at platforming, never enjoyed it, and I especially did not need the stress of a timer in an otherwise relaxing game.

Another story rich game which was heavy on logistics suddenly turned into a shooter. No, thank you.

Another thing I hate is when I turn the difficulty down and the only option is to do it across the board so I may as well stop interacting with the game. I know I'm bad at fast-paced precision inputs. That doesn't mean I don't want cool puzzles to solve or complex systems.

I know, I know: "get good." I'm old. Shooting and platforming are not the skills I care to be developing at this stage of my life.

No Mans Sky. I just wanted to fly about and explore new planets. No! You must repair you ship first; find 30 jizz crystals. Ok, there’s some. To mine jizz crystals you need a shart hammer. To create a shart hammer you need 13 arse nuggets. To mine arse nuggets you need a piss laser etc etc etc
Let me fly dammit!

Fallout 4 - when I kept getting the notifications about my settlements getting attacked. I tried setting them up with rocket launcher turrets to protect them but that was just annoying.

The main storyline wasn't interesting enough to make me want to play it with the stupid grind of base building.

I grew up on Diablo 1 & 2. I could co-op with friends, the grind wasn't too bad, and the RNG table for loot was acceptable. Then Diablo 3 launched with a real money auction house, it made me realize that GAMETIME = MONEY and it just zapped all of the fun.

Satisfactory and copper powder. Fuck copper powder

Life is Strange

The entire premise is that the protagonist can turn back time, and make different decisions.

Except for cut-scenes. As soon as a cut-scene hits, suddenly its "You aren't able to rewind time right now", with no narrative explanation. Like, I get that you didn't want to program that part, but the entire premise is about rewinding time, to try different decisions. Now I'm stuck having made an arbitrary decision, because I thought I was going to be able to go back and pick differently.

The RC helicopter missions in Vice City.

Starfield. God awful pacing and dialog that made you go "oh please shut up". I went to neon and every vendor had a 5+ minute cutscene wah wah side quest story i couldn't give a shit about.

"Oh somebody fucked my robot and now im sad so let me explain that again with 20 paragraphs" -Shop Keeper I don't give a shit fuck about your dumb robo bitch i have 20 spacesuits i need to sell so i can fast travel again.

The fact they didn't bother to add a dialog box first to access a service or buy/sell goods before the vendor starts telling you their life story was enough to make me not play again.

Pick any part of NieR: Automata game play.. holy fuck absolutely maddenning..

I always really wanted to like The Witcher, but just 30 seconds with the shitty movement system makes me quit every time I try to give it another shot.

Every time I try to play a JRPG or some Japanese games in general and they do that thing where they explain the same story beat over and over again or go through gameplay mechanics insanely slowly. Then people say yeah but it gets better after 10 hours, I'm like who the hell has 10 hours to burn on such nonsense.

People complain about the new wolverine game that it plays itself, at least that one seems to have a story that moves on after it told you something.

There are so many popular games like this that I can only reasonably explain by assuming the people glazing them are children or mentally challenged, but then how do they sell by the millions?

Absolutely loved Dark Souls until I needed to get the lord soul from the catacombs. I dunno why but the catacombs pissed me off and I quit. Just so dark. Maybe I'll try again.

That goddam monkey level in SNES The Lion King

Realizing that enemies in Pillars of Eternity have level scaling.

Any time it feels like the physical action required to play the starts to feel like a chore just to interact with the game as designed. Like hold buttons to interact with common features or complex submenus where you need to navigate a 3+ button combo where you hold the first then the second then press the third to perform a common action.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ

Usually anything that requires hours of grinding to win. Specifically completive play in Pokemon requiring hours of breeding to get perfect IVs and palworld bosses that require multiple perfect pals in order have enough dps to compete in the time limit

In general, long cutscenes at the top are a huge deterrent. I booted up clair obscur again...and like....shit just let me play lol I think im finally in the gameplay of it all but I almost gave up again. Just feels like you wanted to make a movie. Do that. But let me play lol

RDR2: Last mission of the game. Crashed two-thirds through it. Gave up. Fuck that, I'm not redoing that shit.

Sleeping Dogs: After gaining freeroam and a couple main missions (the first stealth one where you're planting that listening device in a restaurant), got bored of the game. Feels like A worse GTA IV and Yakuza game. IDK I just didn't vibe with it.

Psychonauts 1: Last level (Circus). If you know, you know. It's awful.

Spyro: Reignited Trilogy: 100%ed 1 and 2. Gave up on 3 because it got boring and I hated the skateboarding levels.

It seems the trend is when games get boring/repetitive, or some bullshit mechanic/mission/event is involved.

Spec ops the line. White phosphorus.

Talking to literally anyone in Kingdoms of Amalur.

Each and every NPC is loaded with the most dull voice acting, and they drone on for the longest time about a bunch of worldbuilding muck thats just impossible to care about. I did not like a single character, and could not bring myself to care about saving the world from the mean elves as a result.They were right to wipe out the mortal races.

The game is Night in the Woods. It's a story about a depressed anthropomorphous cat who quit college and moved back in with her parents. You play day by day and each evening you can chose which of your friends you wanna hang out with.

If you hang out with a particular friend one night, you will visit the woods together. There, you have to play a game where you try to stab each other's fist with a knife. There are mechanics to stab and retract your fist to avoid getting stabbed. This is considered fun. There is no way to progress the game without stabbing your friend.

I'm sorry, I'm probably too old and soft for this, but no, I don't wanna stab my friends for fun with a knife.

There was an Arkham game (the first one, so Asylum?). I had to escape some locked rom under a timer.

I literally couldn't leave the room or find anything to interact with. I was swinging the camera around, kept pacing back and forth between locked doors and bars(?)

Eventually I ran out of time and the Jokes just said "boom!" On yhe screen and nothing else happened. I guess the timer was fake tension.

But anyway after spending three fucking minutes pacing in a single room for a single intractable I rather lost my taste for trying again

LoZ wind waker: the slow af nutshell

Caveblazers: The object of the game is a treasure at the end of the cave. When you finally get to the end, it turns out that the "treasure" is a harem of bikinied women. The final boss is this goblin guy who spends his days raping them, and then when you defeat the boss, the women move into YOUR cave so that YOU can do the same. This is a roguelike game that otherwise has no story and was pretty fun, but the ending is just awful. I can't find anybody else talking about how terrible it is except for one reviewer on YouTube, but the video disappeared years ago.

Persona 4: The whole game is about people accepting parts of themselves that they try to reject and becoming their "true self." EXCEPT for Kanji who is gay and Naoto who is trans. Their arcs are the reverse of everybody else, they are forced to reject their true self in order to conform with what the other characters want them to be like. There's a scene after Naoto's dungeon where the team forces them to detransition on the spot. Start acting like a woman NOW NOW NOW. When I heard that the character's voice actor change her voice to be more feminine in that scene, I quit the game. They force Naoto to say "I will never be a man." This is also, by the way, one of the most fiercely debated topics on the Internet, I've seen people online get more heated about the "Kanji gay Naoto trans" debate than any other topic.

I quit Silk Song when I got to the pogo insanity. That's not fun.

Force Unleashed, the "drop a star destroyer with force" part. It is frustrating to control, there are whole bunch of guides solely for that part, because of how frustrating it is. The worst part, it's pretty close to the end, so you are this close to finishing, but nope.

Darktide and Mechwarrior 5 because of size bloat. They started out at around 60Gb, and now they're over 90. I have a laptop. I can't just upgrade disk space. Please stop bloating the bloody games. Same with several other games that have been large from day one. Bummer, really.