20 Gaming Moments That Insulted Your Intelligence

20. Excessive Puzzle Help - God of War Ragnarök

As universally acclaimed as God of War Ragnarök is, there was nevertheless considerable pushback against the game's extremely overzealous puzzle hint system.

Basically, if you entered a room and took more than 10 seconds to figure out what you need to do, Atreus would pipe up with a spot-on suggestion.

Naturally many found this impatient desire to help more annoying than useful, because it denied players the opportunity to figure things out for themselves, even proving intrusive enough to bother more casual-minded players.

It basically felt like Sony Santa Monica assumed that the average player is an absolute dum-dum with no desire to be challenged whatsoever, and to add insult to, well, insult, it took almost two years for them to patch in an option for reduced hints.

Would it have really been that hard to just include this option from the start, or better yet allow players to toggle hints with the press of a button?