In Daytona for the Dreamcast, just hold the thumbstick up at all times, even while steering. If you do this you' ll find the controls are really smooth.... much better than if you try tapping left or right (bad idea).

Bad storylines
followed by poor character development
followed by crappy dialogue

I only have a little niggle, and it' s with quite a few rpgs

" you picked up an herb"

It' s A Herb you grammarless freak! :P

Crappy unconvincing dialogue can really put a damper on things.
I want a game to have the classic scream of Noooooooooooooo!!!!!! and actually do a real good job of it.
That scream is so gold.

The biggest annoyence for me must be the repeditive appearence of creatures. You walk around for a long time and you fight the same guys. Then there is a plot change or somthing happens and boom, new monsters. Then you fight those over and over untill you get a new group. Diablo 2.... i also would love a game where creatures actualy get effected (not just HP) by a certain hit. Like if im carrying a 100lb mace and i smack somone with it, i want them to get knocked back or fall over or somthing.

Another thing that annoys me alot is trail and error games. I always hate it when I have to do something in a game and that it seems almost impossible to do it or when its based on having to much luck. For example Splinter Cell...its not that terrible but I hate it sometimes when events occure wich are heavily scripted and that the enemy always does the same thing, grow grenade at location and shoot and I have to walk into the room first before they even appear meaning I cant take decent cover and that the chance of being hit is 99%.

1) Bad camera angles and/or control.
2) Bad and/or no save point positioning
3) Poor AI with concern to AI-controlled NPC' s and/or enemies.

very noticable repetative movement or repeat movement. This goes for nearly all games as you can only have so many animations for hwo the character moves but still some movement with characters is just plain annoying to look at...and its very annoying when they use the same animations for different characters!

An example of annoying movement is how Nick Chang in True Crime walks when hes shooting his guns...it looks more like he friggin galloping around like a damn horse.