Videogame Woes

Although most of my reviews are Toy related, I also am a gamer. Here's a list of stuff that games do that makes me grind my gears:

Forced Backtracking: I've spent most of the game going from Point A to Point B threading through enemies, bosses, an entire city, or continent in some cases just to be greeted by a "you need to go all the way back to the beginning to get the item or to do this mission, etc.
To mention some offenders from the top of My Mind:
Metal Gear Solid: Backtracking ALL the way to the Armory to get the PSG-1 needed to beat Sniper Wolf while Meryl lies there bleeding to death...


GTA Series: The "Help character X who is on the other side of the city" type of missions... Vice City's Death Row comes to mind...

JRPGs also LOVE to do this... before you get the airship that makes it easier to travel... I am forgetting the KING of Backtracking...


Escorting USELESS Morons/ AI PArtner is brain dead:
Do you have any idea how Many Times I wanted to Kill Emma in Metal Gear Solid 2 or Ashley in Resident Evil 4? A LOT... Let's say that whenever I play that game on PS2 I choose Mobster outfit for Leon, just to avoid dealing with Ashley... cause she gets the invulnerable Armor!
At least EVA was somewhat useful on Snake Eater... When she wasn't groaning out of hunger, shooting me in the back or moaning about a dog...

VAMP stole my chance to do that myself!!
but back to the rant... It seems that the AI of your partners is in permanent Moron mode... They see the enemy, they get between me and them so it makes it harder for me to protect them.
The GTA Games are full of these too... Have Partner, gets in the way of your bullets.

Moronic AI, love it on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force games... When they're my opponents, they seem to always pull the right cards to screw me over... When they are my partners they seem to always pull the right cards to screw me over... You read right... Tag Dueling, 3 against me...

SNK BOSS Syndrome:
Guess which company makes some cheap as hell bosses that it gets it's own term... SNK...

I already talked about Seth and a bit on Gill (who are Capcom bosses with a bit of SNK BOSS Syndrome)
Other Bosses can be SNK cheap, but have a kinda glaring weakness... Now I know and knowing is half the battle!

Nagging NPCs telling me what to do or for crap:
Obvious Navi Reference is obvious. This time I'm talking about the GTA IV NPCs pestering Niko to do stuff... Roman, Little Jacob, Packie, etc. Keep calling you at random times to go do menial stuff while I'm in the middle of a firefight or trying to dodge the cops... I don't mind it too much when I'm NOT in missions, but when I'm in missions it gets annoying... I guess making a Rosemary calling Raiden about April 30th reference comes to mind.

Getting hit sends me flyin' to my DOOM!!!!
Old School Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden come to mind here.


DUCK HUNT DOG!!

'Nuff said!