The 17 worst things about video games

From unskippable cut scenes to escort missions, here are the video game features we'd like to see banished to digital purgatory

Video games are incredible. Just think: 40 years ago, we were batting a square white ball between two digital planks, and now we have whole gigantic universes to explore. But of course, we're human beings and so still cannot be completely satisfied.

While riding across the beautiful landscapes of Witcher 3, or guiding Nathan Drake through another improbable architectural marvel built by poorly educated 18th century pirates with little access to construction resources, sometimes there are things that don't quite work. Sometimes, there are things that drive us crazy with frustration.