zelda ocarina of time: the camera was sooooooooooooo annoying.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Everything comes down to the number of ships you have. And, (I'm not sure if a new version has changed this) the AI would mega spam fighters and bombers. I saw 95 fighter squads and 65 bomber squads in a fleet once. Also a lack of real diplomacy. Another annoying is how you can't play as "your race" For example, you can't play as the entire TEC faction. You have to fight other parts of it (Tandem Corp, for example). I also wish there was a campaign. (What were you thinking, Ironclad?)

Medival II Total War: The battles are very repititive and don't really demand any tactical skill. The AI is also bad and very predictable (uses the same formation, etc.)

Crysis: Disappearing bodies, and the fact that it makes my computer overheat.

Galactic Civilizations II: Always falling behind in tech and military and social production. Also the tough but good AI.

X3 Terran Conflict: Click-fest UI, bad AI and autopilot, just to name a few, even though the game is quite good. What really annoys me is the fact that the developer, Egosoft, doesn't do anything about it.

Mount & Blade: The game crashing when there are too many bodies on the battlefield, too few quests, and last gen graphics. No real story. Other than that, the game is amazing. Best true medieval (not fantasy) combat game.

Assasin's Creed: Very repetitive!

gears of war 2: way op melee 1 hit brings you to a near down and stuns you when a pistol shot to the head does hardly any and the lagg

These really aren't so much "hates" as they are laments:

Birth of the Federation:  Poor AI, especially in the later game.  An over-abundance of bugs -- the game should've received another 3-6 months of beta-testing before it was released.  Diplomacy partially broken.  Some ships and minor races are either too powerful or too weak.

Medieval Total War:  Poor diplomacy; factions often-times backstab me (and each other) for no real reason.  Unrealistic army movement.  The naval & trade portions of the game are....wonky.  Even allowing for some naturally being easier/harder than others, many factions are seriously unbalanced.  Strategic AI is often lacking -- I've seen too many instances where a small faction attacks a larger one (and often times with few or no significant allies to help it out).  Half the generals' traits in the game are randomly assigned and often contradict each other; i.e., you'll see a general who's a "Good Runner" yet is also "Brave Beyond Belief".  Spears and archers are nerfed, especially when compared to Shogun Total War. 

Galactic Civilizations 2:  The lack of proper borders -- with the exception of trade treaties and alliances, it drives me up the wall to see another race's ships passing through my "territory" without so much as a "by-your-leave"!  Economics; still too confusing and not transparent enough.  No tactical battles.  No large fleets -- either ships should cost fewer logistic points, logistic techs should *dramatically* increase the amount of logistic points allowed in fleets, or both. 

Call of Duty World at War - unrealistic damage compared to caliber of the bullet

                                       Attack dogs that run up walls

                                       nooby hip fire headshot jump kills

WOW - dwarves, gnomes, Death Knights & Twinks (FOR THE HORDE!)

X3 the threat - Great game but hated the fact that I had to wait for at least 2 patches before it ran smoothly on my pc.

                      Game was exactly the same they just made tweaks to graphics to make it run smooth.

Farcry - the batlle against Crow in chopper on the sinking ship

Long Live the OAK

star trek legacy - nuff said.  i had such high hopes for this game.

any game with a boss that can only be killed in one very specific way.

any game that the UI design took a big back seat to the rest of the game.  the UI has to be smooth and simiple.  i think SINS has a great UI.  everything is very clear and easy to understand.  in contrast, Sword of the Stars is overly complex.

ah here is a great one for the old schoolers...

Battletech: Cresent Hawks Inception
you can only have 3 mechs in your lance even if you have 4 pilots.  the end game puzzle is insanely complex.

Some people like salt, but don't like getting wet. I'm one of the anti-RT"S" "old gaurd" (even though I actually heard of the genre very recently). It just saddens me to see a great game idea like Sins ruined by this fad.

No worries. The ball is on a string and is attached to the cup!

None. As I said, I'm rather new to PC gaming in general.... you're saying that the other RT"S"s (or RT4xs, or whatever) are even worse than Sins?

• Well, I usually play while doing 2 or 3 other things at the same time (watching TV, eating various foods, filling out homework, etc.) and as such only am at the controls every two or three seconds or so.
• Plus, I have a laptop with a tiny, badly-calibrated touchpad, and take maybe three seconds just to get the cursor across the screen.
• I prefer to take my time to decide stuff and think through every possible solution five or six "moves" in advance.
• I also like to take my time to enjoy and appreciate the graphics and environment.
• I just don't like the rushed environment. If I want action, I go play a console FPS, but I ususally play strategy games to relax.

While I understand that some people like RT"S"s, I am not one of them, and the ratio of RT to TB is skewed much too far to the former, IMHO. I have seriously considered creating a sins mod for GC2, but the environments are not really that compatible.

You have to keep building ships and researching things in order to keep up with the other factions. You also have to make sure your ships are attacking the right thing. I once had three Kol Battleships attack a single flak frigate.

Look at all the clicking!  

As RTS games go, Sins is about as slow as it gets. The only one I can think of that even compares is Supreme Commander. You should try Red Alert 2 and 3. Especially 2, where some people actually had trouble clicking on units because they moved so fast.

C&C3: Going for incredibly generic gameplay and virtually identical sides.

Red Alert 3: Actually managed to make the story even more campy than RA2.

Demigod: High player turnover due to lack of features and content. High bandwidth requirements makes lag common.

SupCom: Early game units becoming completely useless.

Sins: Processor intensive.

Phoenix Rising: Slow Galactic map. Yeah, it's mod. And yes, I know the engine was never built to handle 10,000 units at once.

Call of Duty: Infinitely respawning enemies until you cross a certain unknown, invisible line.

Universe at War: Can only tech a small portion of the max, abnormal game exit crashes.

Defcon: AI always attacks ASAP, leaves nothing in reserve for strategy.

World in Conflict: I want larger maps and more units.

Advance Wars: Some maps can easily lead to stalemates due to unit cap. Day 226 win, 5 hours after starting it.

Tribes 2: 'Skiing' down hills encouraged by devs.

Shattered Suns: Well, okay. I've no love for this game. If it had come out a decade before it did, it would have been less than mediocre.

Science-Fiction Games:

A bit of a nuisance to me is how often I see psionics. It seems like every other sci-fi-themed game has a psychic somewhere. Granted, when they're implemented well, they can be a good thing, but most of the time...it really just seems to me like an excuse to have magic in a game that would have otherwise had none or very little, which would have made it that much more believable.

Civilization (In General):

Combat is decided by an arbitrary "strength" system that can have results that make no sense whatsoever. For instance, I've seen a tank lose to 1800s-quality grenadiers (Both stat-wise and sanity-wise, it didn't make any sense either), a squad of paratroopers lose to conquistadors (Once more, no sense made in game terms, either), and numerous other stupid events. This could have easily been fixed for both balance and realism if units had armor types and had expenses tied to how advanced they were.

Also bad is that units don't mean anything when stacked. You can't have units fight together and units can't defend together. Considering how simple the game's combat is, I really doubt this would mean much in terms of system requirements unless you had eighteen million units going at it at once. And if this would be too conducive to stalemates, a simple limit to units in a particular tile could be added - honestly, that should have been there in the first place.

Dead Space:

Melee attacks were mostly useless. Granted, I know you shouldn't be able to just beat down anything in your path, but they not only didn't do much to begin with, they also put you in a more vulnerable position without sending your target back enough to keep it from coming right back to slash your intestines out. The stomp had some use in breaking crates or squishing the odd infant, but you still ended up taking more damage trying to step on a legless necromorph than you'd probably end up dishing out to it. Although, there is definitely a special kind of satisfaction to be had in killing a swarmer or divider part in mid-air with a melee attack.

The flamethrower was also significantly underpowered compared to the rest of the weapons. Regardless of how cool it looks fully-upgraded, the thing can put you in some serious trouble in tougher engagements.

This is mostly a nitpick, but a lot of the game's technology is effectively magic. But, again, this is just a nitpick, as they implemented it very well into the game's atmosphere and background feeling.

Portal:

The internet community ended up turning just about every phrase out of GlaDOS into a meme in some way. I've never seen one die faster than "the cake is a lie". Please, people, just cut it out. The funny factor died a long time ago.