Last week during our lovefest we had an important question: What games do game developers love? We got some great answers, but that was only half the equation. We also wanted to know what game devs hate most about games. What hang-ups or inconsistencies bother them most about gaming? We got some surprising responses from the people behind Kinect, Splosion Man, Minecraft, Journey and more. Take a look...

Honestly, I’m just tired of meat and mechanical input systems. Keyboard (invented 1801!) and mouse are for typing and pointing. It’s about time someone invented a new way for us to interface with our games. The Wiimote was a good start. PlaystationMove and Natal are interesting experiments. But what we really need is that skull-jack Neo was sporting in the “The Matrix”. So this is a gripe that applies to ALL games and their clunky input systems. I want to get jacked-in!!

I'm a completionist at heart. Maybe hoarder is a better word, but I like to explore every nook and cranny, seeking out all the hidden items in the world. Years of playing games has given me a pretty good sense of where I'm "supposed" to go. That big entrance way to the arena? No thanks, I'm going to check out the supply closet first. But every now and then, I'll get it wrong. The level designers dupe me and I end up triggering some irreversible boss fight or cutscene by going down the wrong corridor. Then the regret sets in. What did I miss? Is it worth reloading my save? And why is the boss fight in the supply closet anyway?

I have a love/hate relationship with open-world sanbox games. Whether it be Liberty City or Tamriel, I love to point my thumbsticks at the horizon and just start walking--come what may. What I hate is that this freedom always unlocks within me the deplorable urge to murderize every single thing that crosses my path. Sometimes I turn off Skyrim and I feel dirty. I didn’t have to spend 45 minutes shooting hundreds of arrows at a herd of wooly mammoths! They were just minding their own wooly business!

Uncharted 2 - Dr.Jones who kills. I love Uncharted 2. I love adventures in exotic places. I even love jumping around and climb like a monkey. But why are there 1000 Russians you have to kill? Sure I have a trigger finger, and I can kill some bad guys. But isn't there too many bad guys in this game? I like how Nathan Drake will throw out funny jokes here and there. But are you really in the mood to be funny when you just slaughtered 30 guys minutes ago? I recently saw Terminator 2 again. Arnold didn't kill anyone in the movie. Shooting in the knee actually takes skills. What if a typical modern day duck and shoot design turns into a slow-mo tricky shooting game, where you can shoot anywhere in the room but you can't kill anyone? It's a lot funnier to see enemy knocked out by a falling flower pot. And the level can have a lot more varieties based on the environment.

God of War 2 - Wild Architects. I enjoyed God of War series. But there's one thing that bothers me across the series. I got the idea that you have to go to different temples and shrines built for the gods and kill them. But if these are residence for the gods, I just think the architect who designed these temples are total idiots. Who would design an elevator where you have to push a heavy wooden stick around every time you need to go to the living room? Why is there doors that doesn't turn but you have to lift with your own strength? What are these building built for? Come on...

One of the things I love most about gaming is the social nature of it. Being able to play with other people, either on LIVE or in person, is the most fun gaming time for me. Even with traditionally one player campaigns, a friend or two and I will sit around taking turns, playing until you die, spending 14 hours straight trying to finish a game. So something that is super frustrating IMO, are games that require lengthy one hour tutorials to even know how to play the game.

Lots of times, one or two of us will join in the game after somebody else had started. It will be a game we all want to play together. But it often requires each of us starting up a new save game and playing through the entire tutorial a few times to get a basic understanding of the controls. Or sometimes all of us have to start the game from the beginning, forcing the person who had already played to replay a chunk of the game.

It is a shame that games today are so complicated from a controls standpoint that people cannot just jump in and have fun without reading a large amount of instructions. It prevents people who have already played a game from being able to enjoy playing with people who have not played before. It really makes gaming as a whole a lot less social. The joy of gaming comes from the mastery of the game – learning how to build upon basic controls in more sophisticated and skill based ways.

Probably when a character's talking to me and eventually they ask, "Do you want me to repeat that?" The answer is always no. Bonus points if the default is set to "yes" so that when you're pressing a button to skip through it as fast as possible, you accidentally agree to listen again. I'm looking at you, Legend of Zelda's owl dude!

I hate it that in Zelda you cant skip conversations fast enough, especially *NAVI NAVI*!

We'd like to thank the developers for their time and help with this feature, and for sharing their annoyances with gamers at large. We've got one more quote though, one we think is fitting to end with:

Dan Teasdale, Twisted Pixel - I hate Hate. I hate that a Week of Hate even exists. There's a classic Kurt Vonnegut quote that equates reviewers raging over a book to wearing a suit of armour in order to eat a banana split. It's true for games as well. If you don't like something, vote with your wallet and time instead of internet indignation.

And if you've still got some room in your hate hopper, check out 5 reasons to hate Metal Gear Solid and 5 reasons to hate Mass Effect.