1Up - Top 5 Hates in Games

1UP  posts their view of the 5 most annoying things in games today. Obviously console-focused, it still brings up a few frustrations found in pc games as well, such as the irritating cutscene and the even more irritating save point:

1. Unskippable Cut-scenes

Cut-scenes are fine, no problems there. I'd much rather actually be playing a game 99 percent of the time, but sometimes I don't mind wasting a minute to go "oooooh, airships." And then there are the times that I just plain ...don't want to. Maybe I already played through this thing once. Maybe the voice acting is embarrassing to the point that I want to mute the TV on the off-chance anyone nearby might suspect that I'm enjoying it. Maybe I just wanted to play the game more..I can appreciate that making little movies to pepper through the game probably cost a lot of money and effort...but making it impossible to just skip the things isn't by any means going to increase my enjoyment..Bonus points for anyone who actually puts an unskippable scene right after a checkpoint.

 2. Save Points

Which brings us to this. Nobody should ever be faced with the prospect of saying "right after I get to a save point" when someone is calling you to bed. Actually, you deserve whatever happens if you ever actually say that, but the temptation shouldn't exist. In the age of hard drives there aren't many sound technological reasons why I can't save my game at any time. It's even possible to do it without screwing up the difficulty. Not every game is going to be as good when faced with the quicksave-quickload abuse that got me through Half-Life, but you can have the option of a less-permanent quicksave that's wiped after you load it, leaving me to rely on actual save points for making progress.