Greentext

Binary morality system where you can only choose between being a normal person or a mass murdering psychopath. Then your decision has no consequences.

Although it has a PC version nothing can be configured.

Menus use a virtual mouse cursor even though you're playing with a controller.

Every single shelf, cupboard, sack, discolored patch of dirt, hollow tree, etc. Is lootable. 99.9% of the loot is useless. The remaining 0.1% is key to solving several quests and/or the best stuff in the game.

Gameplay heavily based on dodging and careful movement, but you can only dodge by double tapping movement keys or the stick

Pointless inventory management and crafting.

Everything has durability

• DLCs out-the-ass Paradox-style.
• Escort quests/missions where the NPCs move at a speed between the player's walk speed and run speed.

Why are they starting with "starting the game"?

They forgot to start with a kernel-level anticheat and a pointless, slow to load "need an account, always online" launcher.

Equipment can be upgraded, but only through an enormous amount of tedious grind for tiny incremental improvements.

By halfway through the upgrade tree, all the equipment is overpowered and will make any boss fight trivial, including the final boss of the game. All additional upgrades are meaningless.

You don't get to see the real ending unless you fully upgrade all the equipment.

Driving mechanic where you steer where you look, making it impossible to drive straight while looking around or behind you.

"boost me up"?

A currency system where the game has a normal currency that you can earn via tasks but that currency is artificially nerfed because there is an additional “premium” currency that is only available either in extremely paltry amounts that have to be saved over months of grinding or spending actual cash. Also there’s a ton of stuff that can only be purchased with large amounts of premium currency

A subscription for basic services like multiplayer or a song catalog even though you just paid $70 for the game

High paced action game that suddenly grinds to a halt for a forced stealth section that was clearly tacked on and poorly designed

> escort mission with walk-and-talk exposition dump
> keep close to the escort target or the radio will yell at you
> faster than walking
> slower than running

Huge amounts of foreshadowing, but the story is already very predictable.

Motion controls.

Very long unskippable cutscenes before all bosses.

Hitboxes that make no sense whatsoever.

Voice Actors that really want to be somewhere else. (perhaps with full bladders?)

All cutscenes are slideshows.

A huge open world, with massive Travel distances and no fast travelling, and theres nothing to explore.

• Escort Section where the person you're escorting moves at a slower pace than you do, forcing you to jog, walk, jog all the time.

• Want to quit the game? Sure go into the menu, click Quit Session -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Game menu -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Unskippable game title intro -> sub menu with Quit Game, Continue Game, New Game -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Desktop

• Lonely? Don't worry, the main character is never going to shut up and will comment on every single thing with lines that won't get old at all.
• Yeah, you can play with your friend... After hours of gameplay, once you both have this super special item and only for certain, boring ass missions.
• You need an account, and we have no native sign up so we're going to open up a completely different window while you try to drag your mouse awkwardly with the controller. Yes, the cancel button is very close to the confirm, no there's no confirmation, and yes you'll have to start this shit from scratch.
• Escort missions, but the escort won't get out of the fucking way, and your shots can kill them.
• Currency systems that are just currencies within currencies, within currencies.
• The items are easy enough to see, but you have to be in just the right location to pick it up.
• There's a save screen, but nothing actually pauses.
• I know 99% of games use similar buttons for different functions, but what if we switch it up, just for giggles? Let's make "jump" the R1 button!
• You can drive, but it's on ice physics. And, yes, there will be a chase sequence that's going to take you a very, very long time.

Don't forget a save point right before the unskippable cutscene and overly difficult boss fight, so you get to watch it over again every time you die.

You guys are forgetting an annoying encumberance system where in order to pick up the heavy object (example: plate mail) you have to drop a light weight object (example: ring) because you are out of item slots.

Need an account to begin the game even though it’s single player.

After logging in the game updates and requires a restart. Even though you updated outside of the game.

The menu is a convoluted mess with lots of areas all having notification icons.

Lots of DLC with adverts for the DLC menu.

Instead of walking/moving with a your joysticks, you use them to point a fucking mouse cursor and click on the ground where you want to go, like that shitty walking dead game on playstation

Rarity tiers but every weapon is the same boring shit.

If singleplayer:

A complex transmog system that has gacha style of different 'currencies' (shit tier crafting ingredients) and layers of abstraction, some of which functionally require being subbed to a battlepass which allows you to purchase some necessary key items to the transmog process only after you've done all your monotonous dailies for 3 weeks without missing a single one.

If multiplayer:

'Radiant' style quests revolving around escorting a low health, brain dead at path finding npc, which walks slower than your run speed but faster than your walk speed, through a PvP combat zone, who frequently has random mental breakdowns and must be reassured everything will be alright through a 22 step dialog tree process, which is largely randomized everytime, in order to keep them moving.

You and the npc can be killed during conversation segments, which you cannot exit from at whim, you must complete the dialog tree successfully to regain control of your character and exit the 'cinematic dialog' mode.

MHW was a game desperately in need of a paper manual.

Flashing up pages full of text during the tutorial is flat out obnoxious.