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* ''VideoGame/Contra4'' combines the two Platform/NintendoDS screens into one large screen. However, the gap between the two screens count as space, which means you can easily get ambushed by enemies and bullets coming out of the gap.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' is one of the sixth generation's[[note]]Dreamcast, [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]], Playstation 2, and UsefulNotes/XBox[[/note]] few good movie tie-ins, but sometimes -- with the [=GameCube=] version at least -- the camera gets stuck [[FemaleGaze pointing at Spidey's groin]], making navigation and combat impossible until you save and reload.

* ''VideoGame/Contra4'' combines the two UsefulNotes/NintendoDS screens into one large screen. However, the gap between the two screens count as space, which means you can easily get ambushed by enemies and bullets coming out of the gap.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}} 4'' combines the two UsefulNotes/NintendoDS screens into one large screen. However, the gap between the two screens count as space, which means you can easily get ambushed by enemies and bullets coming out of the gap.

* Creator/NaughtyDog is particularly fond of the "Character Runs Towards the Camera" Chase Scene. According to Andy Gavin on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o War Stories]] their entire reason was RuleOfCool and believing that some camera screw was worth it to not make a "Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}'s Ass Game" like other 3D platformers that kept the camera firmly behind the character and aimed at their ass, and because Crash had a highly animated sprite inspired by WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts and so they wanted you to see his expressive face and body language.

* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996'': The camera moves on a rail just behind your character. The problem? The camera never shows you how far the next jump is. As a result, you will have to take it on blind faith that you will find solid ground if you jump as far as you can in one of the four cardinal directions (forward, back, left, and right.) Don't even think about jumping diagonally, you'll only plummet to your doom.

** ''VideoGame/B3313'', being a megamix fangame of all ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' urban legends with a big focus on its beta version, has a camera that is a hazard in itself:
*** In Cold, Cold Crevasse, for example, the player must avoid the spin-glide from jumping on Spindrifts or else the camera will point straight upwards the whole time in what's a platforming course set over bottomless pits.
*** The "SGI Indy" stage is set on the motherboard used for Nintendo 64 game development, and most of its terrain functions as insta-killing quicksand. The camera in the level is always aimed at a low angle that blends platforms together and makes it very difficult to judge the distance for jumping between them.

** The rushing water scene in a level based on ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom The Temple of Doom]]'' also has the camera face the water -- if the water even catches up to you once, it [[MercyMode still lets you move on to the next part]], though getting to the end is required for OneHundredPercentCompletion.

* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' does this intentionally multiple times, arguably as part of the minimalist interface style. [[spoiler:Fighting the final boss in this manner tends to lead to at least one really unpleasant death scene]]
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'' has a Last Man Standing mechanic-if your health runs out and you have painkillers available, you have a few seconds before you die to kill the enemy that landed the fatal hit, which will instantly bring you back to full health. Unfortunately, sometimes the game will outright ''refuse'' to let you see the enemy you're supposed to kill, resulting in you running out of time and having to reload the last checkpoint.
** This is particularly egregious because a major point of the game design was touting how Max could shoot 360 degrees from virtually any position. The ''only time in the game it really matters'', the game decides to screw you over.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''. Sometimes, if your back is too close to a wall, your camera is filled with your character, making it impossible to aim in front of you. Since this game features some stealth elements, it is really difficult to stay out of sight, but yet land the necessary headshots while your Warframe's head fills 70% of the screen. Moving away from the object/wall puts you out in plain sight where you can be seen, and missing a shot will likely alert the enemy, ending your attempt a stealth mission. To avoid this, they could simply make your character transparent if the camera is forced too close because of a wall/object behind you.

* ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' took the camera to incredible levels of stupidity by turning it into a chase camera that initially sits slightly to the left of the car, which gives you the feeling you aren't driving straight. While the new camera was controllable so that you could shoot better (near full 360 degrees worth of in-car shooting), it also required you to maintain a very, very slight rightward pressure on the camera control stick to get the camera behind the car. That's ''real'' fun to do for longer than 30 seconds.
** The "in-car" camera in ''GTA IV'' also inexplicably filled a fourth to third of the screen with car hood, never mind that you'll never see your own hood while you're driving in real life (unless, of course, it's an old Caddy) because real car hoods are designed ''to avoid that''.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' had the "Helpful" camera change problem. While driving the camera focuses ''directly'' behind your vehicle, meaning you can't see what's in front of you on the road. There's a button you can hit to move it to a much more useful angle, but as soon as you let go of said button, the camera slides riiiiiight back into crap-town. Of course, you can drive in first person mode, but then you can't see anyone pulling up behind or to the side of you; it becomes incredibly difficult to extricate yourself from the kind of 46-point turn scenario that often comes up when trying to drive through alleyways, and over everything else; and of course not forgetting, the car ''inexplicably gets wider when you're in first person view''.
** You can use the right analogue stick to move the camera while driving (it does snap back, though) unless the car has hydraulics.
** In the PC port of both ''San Andreas'' and ''GTA IV'', it is possible to freely control the camera with the mouse, but as above if you stop moving the mouse for more than a second while driving, the camera refocuses to the back of the car.
** The camera also is much more of a dumb chase cam than in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', where it helpfully stayed behind the car to show you where you were going. In San Andreas, when you turn a sharp corner, the camera coyly fixates on the side of your car until you have already driven a little distance in the direction you can't see.
** The camera in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories VCS]]'', besides having the same chase-cam problem of San Andreas (the game being made in the same engine), also has an annoying programming oversight when it came to piloting helicopters, at least in the PSP version. When driving regular vehicles (cars, trucks, boats, etc), the up/down axis of the analog controls vertical movement of the camera, while in bikes it makes Vic lean forwards or backwards on them. However, in aircrafts, where said axis had to be used for the pitch movement, the camera nudge was NOT removed, so when you pitch a chopper up or down, the camera follows, which is really annoying since to make a helicopter go forward at high speeds you must turn its nose down constantly, i.e. looking at the ground all the time instead of forward.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' switches from a controllable camera to a fixed camera when you hit the stairs to Travis's motel room. The camera angle changes such that if you hold down the control stick, Travis will hit the stairs, the camera will change, and Travis will run down the stairs and away from the hotel. It takes a very quick touch to hit the stairs at top running speed and not go backwards a few times.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has a working camera most of the time, but it's lock-on is certainly not trustworthy. It has a habit of locking on everything you were not aiming, potentially fatally in the later missions, given the games NintendoHard nature. To make things worse, grappling {{Non Player Character}}s is basically the only way to restore health to anywhere near full. It's not uncommon to die because the game first locks into a faraway enemy, ignoring the duo playing tennis with you, and then further screws you over by giving you taxi while trying to grab the only nearby NPC.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' gets the driving camera right, but ''flying'' vehicles have it wrong. In a helicopter, the control scheme is that the turning keys have very little effect and it is actually the camera angle that exerts the most control over the heading of your chopper. Don't look at the building you're trying to avoid or it will act as a black hole and inexorably pull you towards it.
** Getting too close to an obstacle with your helo causes the camera to face the obstacle and consequently you drift towards said obstacle. Cue impacting the obstacle a few times and plummeting towards the ground in flames.
** The driving camera itself also has a tendency to go back to facing straight forward when you're trying to shoot things from within the car. ''The Third'' fixed this, where the camera's orientation while driving in cruise control can ''only'' be changed by the player moving the right analog stick/mouse/what have you, but at the same time if you keep it pointed in a specific direction it will stay aligned with the car in that manner while turning - helpful for shooting anyone chasing you in their own car.
* ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' is this way if you are in crowded areas. By default, the camera cannot clip through objects and can only zoom out at a limited distance. If your avatar is behind a wall, the camera will zoom in really close just to let player be able to see their avatar. While you can change the camera to be able to clip into objects, it may also create a problem where objects block your view and you can't see yourself.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', in the space phase, will sometimes, in the heat of battle, have the camera suddenly pull up.

* In any ''Franchise/StarWars'' video game featuring a flying level of snowspeeder on AT-AT combat (''VideoGame/RogueSquadron'', ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'', and ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'', to name a few), there's a good chance the normal rear third person view will switch to a side-on third person view the moment your tow cable is successfully attached. Good luck not crashing or breaking the cable immediately, much less successfully tangling up the AT-AT's legs enough to bring it to the ground.

!! Video Games:

** ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008'' occasionally has some poor angling for the third-person camera. However, the ability to switch to first person view almost any time as well as a lock-on function for melee combat help to alleviate this a little bit. However, the camera still likes to be dramatic and epic in certain scenes, so maintaining control of a car after a dramatic jump is a little addled.
* In the ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch]]'' PC game, one part of the forced tutorial level is to explain that when you're given a bad camera angle with the game's survival horror style camera, you should retreat to another area with a better camera angle.

* ''VideoGame/{{Observo}}'': The game is a love letter to 2000-era SurvivalHorror video games, and as such it utilizes fixed camera angles like them.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** VERY common in the classic games, thanks to the workaround of using pre-rendered backgrounds as still camera angles when the Playstation hardware wasn't powerful enough to render it in real time. The series predates ''Franchise/SilentHill'' in the use of TankControls, to make controlling characters be consistent no matter what the camera angle is. However, starting with ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', the consoles ''were'' able to render the backgrounds in real time, and the developers added effects like camera panning and zoom in one single angle, which looks nice on a tech demo but can screw with a player's perception of space. In the vast majority of cases it also serves to create tension since enemies are usually offscreen and come from BehindTheBlack; [[BrokenBase opinions on that are VERY mixed]]. The UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 port of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' had optional non-tank controls much like the aforementioned ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', which had the same unfortunate drawback of radically changing the player's course whenever camera angles would shift.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has some levels where [[RunOrDie your character is forced to run from something]], usually an [[ImplacableMan invincible enemy]] or an environmental hazard [[OutrunTheFireball such as an explosion]]. During those parts, the camera often changes angles instead of normally following behind your character. This usually isn't a problem, but the camera can abruptly change its position, meaning that during one part, pressing right makes your character run to the right, then the camera suddenly changes position, causing pressing right to make your character run left instead, right back into the thing you were trying to avoid, resulting in an instant death.
* The ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series does this ''intentionally'' on a few occasions; the weird camera angles just add another dimension to the general MindScrew. Beautifully creepy cinematography aside, most of the sequels keep this and compound it with difficult combat controls (which, again, is somewhat intended: most of the protagonists are not trained, effective fighters) to make many mook fights frustrating, item-expensive, or downright ''lethal'', as the camera aggressively moves every which way but towards oncoming enemies.
** Presumably to compensate for the limited camera control, the developers implemented the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' solution of TankControls. Starting on ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', a more movement-free option of controls with input related to the camera angle was added under the name "2D controls", while tank controls were kept as "3D controls"; the problem with 2D is that if the camera angle changes, and it will change [[NoticeThis when something important is nearby]], the slightest tilt of the analog stick in a different direction from what it was when the character entered the angle, they'll rocket off in an entirely unintended direction.
** It crosses over to ScrappyMechanic in ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' where the camera is prone to spontaneously jerk to different angles or abruptly lock into a FixedCamera perspective, and you only have about half a nano-second to react before Travis abruptly starts running in a different direction. It's actually difficult to escape certain areas where the camera locks because when the camera changes angles Travis abruptly runs ''straight back into the area'', and god help you if a Straightjacket or Carrion is making a beeline for you.
* Camera screwing is a staple in the modern horror game, but the ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'' games turn it into a core gameplay element. The more glitchy your literal handheld camera gets, the closer the titular [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman]] is [[RightBehindYou relative to your position]]. Not really surprising, [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets considering it's an adaptation]].

!!Non-Video Games:

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* This is basically the idea behind JitterCam, used in movies like ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''. Jerking the camera around and limiting what the audience can see increases the tension of the scene. In theory, at least.
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* Parodied in one of ''[[Series/XPlay Extended Play]]'''s funniest skits, where Adam Sessler struggles to operate in a world that suddenly has ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''-style camera angles and control problems. The scene where he tries to leave the bathroom is short, but brilliant.
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* Most episodes of WebVideo/JeepersMedia[='s=] ''Fail Toys'' plaster the screen with a variety of annotations, sometimes obstructing the screen the video plays on (including possible yellow text that appears under the annotations). Many annotations will include a "PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel" message.
* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': Also parodied by Spoony in his review of the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' video game, wherein he walks out of the bathroom to radically and inexplicably changing camera angles.
* CalebCity explains it pretty well in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyn0EJEx_2s "Games that have TRASH camera controls."]]
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* You will bring it on yourself in 1983 arcade game ''VideoGame/IRobot'': putting a camera as low as possible (making it harder to see the playfield) yields higher points.

* ''VideoGame/Robotron2084'' received a [=PS1=] remake titled ''Robotron X''. While the original ''Robotron'' was a single-screen game that showed the whole playfield, ''X'' employs a constantly-shifting offset overhead camera that goes out of its way to ''not'' show the entire field at any given time, a death sentence in an overheard shooter filled with fast-moving, constantly-respawning aggressive enemies. One of the reason its N64 port ''Robotron 64'' is considered a [[PolishedPort big improvement]] is that it pulls back the camera to display the entire playfield.

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* The exterior camera in ''VideoGame/HometownStory''. The player has no control over it and it has a thing for changing angles right in front of house doors so they are more or less facing them. A few houses have their ''back'' to the default camera angle of the map.
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* ''MLB 09: The Show'' has camera-dependent baserunning controls in the Road to the Show mode, leading to more than a few camera screws. The controls require you to move the left stick in the direction toward the destination base when you start running, but if the camera angle changes in the split second between when you decide to run (and therefore when you decide which direction to move the stick) and when you actually move the stick, you'll end up running in the wrong direction, usually leading to you being thrown out rather easily.
* ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' and especially its sequel, ''Toadstool Tour''. It doesn't affect gameplay, but frequently a shot will be totally obscured by a weird camera angle; you don't know what happened until the ball comes to a stop.
* The camera from the Waterskiing/waterboarding game in ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort'' qualifies. The camera often goes slower than the player character, which results in being often unable to get back in balance and, thus, gain no points. It becomes unnerving on Medium or Hard difficulty levels, where obstacles are added to the course and it's sometimes impossible to see them because of the camera. Yet it's on the SEA.
* Super NES basketball game ''Super Dunk Shot'' and soccer game ''Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer'' both used cameras that always panned behind whoever had the ball, as an attempt to show off Mode 7 technology. It only made gameplay confusing in the long run, especially when you were fighting for possession, as the camera swings along with the back of the player.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games occasionally take control of the camera when you're within a quest, usually to hint the player at where they're supposed to go. It's very useful...most of the times. In the PC version of ''Brotherhood'' towards the end of the game there are several spots where the camera goes to an angle that you're not at one of the 8 major spots (up, up/right, right, down/right, down, down/left, left, up/left) and using the WASD key mappings the jumps can be nearly impossible, particularly with your target shooting at you while you try to figure out the best way to get through your view disability. Fortunately, all of the spots encountered are in side quests, not necessary to completing the game.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has platforming sequences a la ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''. ''Timed'' platforming sequences in some cases. You may have got your moves down pat when freerunning over Venice (or even practicing aforementioned sequences before triggering the timer), but it's a whole 'nother ballgame when you try to do the same thing with a "helpful" camera screwing with your perspective every step of the way.
** To be fair, 99% of the time you have the control over the camera. It only moves during specific missions (most often the Assassin tombs), where you have to do platforming sequences. The way to go can be difficult to realize, and the camera moves always in a way to give you a clear view of where to aim your jump. The problem is basically the same as in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'': Player input is relative to the camera, not to Ezio. If the camera suddenly turns 90° and you are running forward, Ezio will pull a sharp turn that's not always intended or welcome. Can be a bit irritating...
* The initial release of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' also suffered from this trope. The first two ''MGS'' games utilized semi-fixed cameras that required the player to go into first-person in order to get a dynamic view of the surroundings. This wasn't a major problem, as these games took place in mostly indoor areas with plenty of obstacles, and the player was aided by nearly-blind guards and a radar that pin-pointed enemies' locations and directions. Cue ''[=MGS3=]'': Wide open outdoor areas, no radar, guards that can spot you from a good distance if you weren't wearing proper camouflage and lying down...and the same old camera system. This made the game initially difficult for many players, who were now forced to go into first-person view (which disables them from performing any action other than looking around and shooting) in order to track any off-screen enemies.
** ''Metal Gear Solid 3's'' special edition re-release, ''Subsistence'', mostly fixed this problem by adding a fully adjustable third-person camera (only camera screw moments is fighting "The Boss" at the end-game). This system was conserved and improved in the series' fourth game.
** The camera in ''Portable Ops'' was an abomination. On TUS, the big ''Metal Gear'' fansite, it actually won the poll for 'the hardest boss in the game'. There is a way of controlling the camera at the same time as moving, but it requires a technique many ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' fans have come to know as the "claw grip": curling your left hand into a C and operating the D-pad with the side of your left forefinger, which results in some nasty finger pain and is only possible if you have tiny hands. There was a button to lock the camera behind your soldier, but it was the same as the Aim button - so if they had a gun equipped, they'd point it. And if they were disguised with the Chameleon icon and pointed a gun, they'd immediately lose their protection and could be seen.
** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'' has its share as a consequence of the more cinematic approach to camera angles compared to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', which almost always had the camera top down(except for corner view and first person).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'', you can't look up or down manually without going into first person view, and it points straight down whenever you go near a ledge. It may have seemed practical on paper, but this is nothing that a fully controllable camera couldn't handle.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': This is a big problem in the [[spoiler:Yojimbo]] fight, since the camera occasionally shifts to primarily show the enemy's back. The issue is that it has significant tells that inform you whether it's going to use a harmless attack, a harmless attack that poisons you, or an incredibly dangerous attack that puts you on death's door. Since it also has an untargetable flunky, you need to ''immediately'' react to that third attack or risk being killed.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. If your characters have a wall behind them, the camera WILL be shunted into the air and point directly at the floor. Very frustrating if you're trying to look ahead, guys. Fortunately it's an RPG, so you won't instantly die from it.
** ''VideoGame/InfiniteUndiscovery'', on the other hand, has the [[spoiler:Vesplume Tower]], with castle perimeter areas that have fixed cameras and dogs that dash at one or more characters for what at the time is about 1/3 of their HP. These dogs come at you from an angle that WOULD allow you to see them coming, easily, if not for the fixed camera.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' can be frustrating at times due to the small rooms in some levels like Wonderland or Monstro causing the camera to spin everywhere at the slightest hint of movement. Thankfully this was fixed for the sequel.
** Also, there are several sections of exact jumping where the camera veers away from the walls and makes your life incredibly difficult. For example, the platforming sections in Deep Jungle and Wonderland.
** But that's not even the end of it -- the camera in general was poorly realized, with the controls given to the R2 and L2 buttons and the speed FAR too slow to keep up with athletic, bouncy Sora. Locking-on helps most of the time, but god help you if it's a fast opponent that likes jumping around like a maniac...
** There's a fairly simple workaround -- just hold the stick forward and steer with the camera-control buttons. It's not the ''best'' possible solution, but when combined with the target lock system it gets the job done.
** The remaster versions fixed some, but not all of this. Most notably, camera control was moved to the right thumbstick, instead of R2 and L2.
** The DS title ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2'' Days has an unskippable stealth sequence that starts you off with a fixed camera. You can turn off the target camera, but the way the other camera works means it is very difficult (at no fault of the player) to follow Pete without accidentally turning the camera in a completely different direction while attempting to move.

** Re:coded suffers the most from any Kingdom Hearts game. The platforming is even more eminent than in the original; combine that with the typical Kingdom Hearts camera syndrome and the fact that it's on the DS, and you have the most frustratingly {{Fake Difficult|y}} game in the series.
* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' on the field screen the camera will "stick" on obstacles and refuse to move. This makes discovering treasure chests quite a bit more annoying than it has to be, since swinging the camera away involves moving away from the walls. But moving away from the walls triggers enemy encounters - which leads to the other camera screw. The buttons that control the camera in the field screen switch to selecting commands in the combat screen. Sadly, the camera does not pull out enough to display the entire combat area, leaving some enemies off the screen - which becomes even more annoying when they use ranged attacks. Oh, and then there's the stealth section where you need to watch out for guards spotting you...
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', has a pretty bad camera, zooming in to the characters heads when they are under a doorway is one of the smaller issues.
** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' had a major problem with camera rotation that you couldn't fix with the in game settings no matter what. It had to do with the actual size of the room, so for some rooms, you'd move your mouse to the side of the screen and it would do a 1080 before you could remove it, and on others it took about a minute to do a full rotation.
** The behind-view cameras in both ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' games are abysmal. Your best hope at actual control is the overhead camera.
* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' loves combining this with rancor fights, locking the camera onto the rancor from a ground-level-Indiana-boulder perspective. The beasties have a large enough reach already before attempts to retreat run the player into stage walls and exploding flowers half the time.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 4}}'' was actually a step ''back'' from previous games that allowed you to rotate the camera at least in the horizontal axis. The camera in ''[=WA4=]'' is entirely fixed except for allowing you to zoom, which every so often makes for a frustrating bit of exploration. Thankfully it was fixed in ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 5}}'', replacing it with a fully 3D right-stick-controlled camera.

* It's naturally one of the many complaints of ''VideoGame/Quest64''.
* ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'' uses Camera Screw in the Haunted Mansion as a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' and its problematic fixed camera angles.
* In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', it was evidently decided that a horde of demons wasn't enough to deal with, and EverythingTryingToKillYou extends even to the CameraLockOn. Targeting the wrong enemy in some games is annoying, but targeting the wrong enemy in this game can be outright fatal, particularly in those segments where you're walking along a narrow ledge, a powerful enemy is just ahead, and your target lock decides it would rather pick the giant flying enemy far from the stage oh wait you were pressing forward weren't you whoops goodbye.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' improves on the lock on feature, but it still has a few moments of 'lock onto everything ''but'' the spider that's ripping your face off'. In addition, the camera occasionally bumps into scenery, causing it to spastically zoom in and out.
*** The fact there's no true first-person view and the fact you can only look up/down by about 60 or so degrees makes it particularly annoying to look down or up, say, a ladder before traversing may count as a CameraScrew. Also, when aiming a bow, instead of giving you a first-person perspective like any other game of this type would, it instead opts to give you an 'over the shoulder' view, and the arrow always hits slightly to the ''left'' of your crosshair and will oftentimes hit terrain two feet in front of your face rather than whatever you were shooting at in the distance.
*** Movement is relative to the camera, and the camera is also bound by physical objects in the game. This can mean that your walking direction can change suddenly just because the camera has bounced off a tree branch or a pillar. Anor Londo is a minor offender, but the Great Hollow and the tree in Ash Lake will do its damnedest to kill you.
*** In every game, fighting a giant enemy up close is a nightmare for the camera. You'll only see a portion of the boss at melee range, which makes it easy to get hit by attacks you don't see coming. It's especially disorienting starting from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', where enemies in general move faster and make wide swings, and the games developed a habit of turning off lock-on or locking onto a different part of an enemy and disorienting you when an enemy stands above you or moves a little too far away. [=FromSoft=] is ''really'' stubborn about zooming out the camera for whatever reason.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'''s Lumiose City is different from the rest of the game, with the camera following your character around with dodgy rotation making the city somewhat difficult to navigate.

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarZero'' has the most unreliable camera control on the fields. While navigating through the city is fine, the camera in the fields tends to follow its own rules. First, it adjusts itself REALLY slowly. Second, it can only be manually controlled by holding X and pressing L or R, unless you plan to "lock on" by holding L or "Snap to where/what I am looking, by tapping L. And Third and most nightmarish: It will almost ALWAYS locks itself IN FRONT of the character when you leave an area, effectively getting you back to the area you just left as soon as you enter a new one. Oh, and it doesn't have a "Boss Camera", so... Have fun.

* The first boss of ''VideoGame/BallRevamped Ball Revamped 4'' does this.
* In ''Disorientation'', this is the entire point of the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' has this too: the camera always switches back to Maxwell, the protagonist of the game if you leave the camera at a different place for a few seconds This is especially annoying, when you try to do something with your summoned items somewhere else on the level. Good luck combining three items (far from Maxwell) without constant frustration and anger...
** Fortunately, the second game resolves the camera issues nicely.

* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' has a strange example, one considered not even an example depending on who you ask, what with being completely music based, but a lot of people depend on view. (In fact one of the winning dialogues is something along the lines of "You have a good eye for distance."). [[ThatOneLevel Rhythm Rally 2]] makes the camera unwillingly fly around, with planets and such blocking the view.
* ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' has a special song unlocked during April Fool's day. It's the tutorial music, that is at level 1, but is in the [[HarderThanHard hardest difficulty slot]], usually reserved for song in the double digits. Turns out this is due to the camera becoming skewed along the way of the song, to the point of clipping thru the note area at times while dialouge from a character appears.
* Part of the inherent challenge of ''VideoGame/GrooveCoaster'' is precisely having to deal with choreographed, shifting camera angles.

* This is a frequent issue in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' where they pulled the "You have a FreeRotatingCamera, but only when we feel like it" schtick that pervades a lot of 3D games. Usually it lazily follows your character and you are free to rotate it around, zoom in, and zoom out, with the second analog stick, but sometimes it gets "stuck" and refuses to move in a direction for entirely arbitrary reasons and it decides to wrench around during platforming segments at the absolute last second -- long ''after'' you've already set the camera and lined your jump up.

* The ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi'' camera suffers from this when you're NOT locked onto your opponent

* This applies to the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games. Taking hits causes the camera to shake madly, making it impossible to aim accurately and allows the enemy to hand you your ass on a plate, especially on the highest difficulty. The AI actually takes advantage of this by [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard always managing to shoot you and throw off your aim just before you pull the trigger.]] This also applies in multiplayer, though post-''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games generally allow you to mitigate this somewhat by taking a perk that reduces the amount of flinching done when you get hit.
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' games change from first person to third person whenever you climb, which is fine for the sneaking parts of the game, but not so much for the shooter parts.
* In ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii'', the aim button will also act as a lock-on button, which prioritizes environmental hazards like explosive barrels over enemies. Great for when you charge into a room full of baddies and want to make a grand entrance. Not so great for when said baddies are aerating your skull from the complete opposite side of the room from the hazard that the game is so intent on you shooting down. Even less so when you're rescuing hostages that the enemies have decided to huddle around an explosive barrel.

* [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Naughty]] [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Dog]] is also particularly fond of the "Character Runs Towards the Camera" Chase Scene. According to Andy Gavin on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o War Stories]] their entire reason was RuleOfCool and believing that some camera screw was worth it to not make a "Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}'s Ass Game" like other 3D platformers that kept the camera firmly behind the character and aimed at their ass, and because Crash had a highly animated sprite inspired by WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts and so they wanted you to see his expressive face and body language.
* Semi-obscure game ''Starshot: Space Circus Fever'' had a horrible camera that seemed to actually be a small object following the player. It frequently got stuck behind objects (as in you go on without it, requring you to retrace your steps until it sorts itself out and follows you again.) and in actual fact ''cannot keep up with the player, requiring you to stop and let it catch up with you!'' (i.e. stop every minute or so and then zoom in again.) Very impractical for a platformer and highly irritating.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' suffers this problem greatly, even in the XBLA version which is actually worse in design since the N64 controller had C-buttons, meaning one press made the camera swing around a certain angle, whereas using the right analog stick on an Xbox 360 controller gives the illusion of being able to adjust to any number of degrees....which it does not, at all. Despite the camera controls being essentially ripped off from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', the camera will auto-adjust infrequently so, and....well just try to play Click Clock Wood and see if you can avoid falling because the camera suddenly cut to another angle and threw you off.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'' games managed to pull this off ahead of their time. Being 2D platformers, they couldn't go for wonky angles, so they instead decided to make the camera so claustrophobically close that Bubsy routinely jumps out of the player's view. Additionally, normally the camera positions itself to expose everything that Bubsy is facing, but when he starts moving quickly (which is pretty much every time he moves, being a post-[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] MascotWithAttitude), he immediately starts running against the edge of the screen and you can't see anything in front of you. The player is afforded a degree of "camera control," but it's unwieldy and can only be used while Bubsy is standing still. Pretty much every death in the game comes from the camera - either running or jumping into something you can't see.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996'' has this in spades. The camera moves on a rail just behind your character. The problem? The camera never shows you how far the next jump is. As a result, you will have to take it on blind faith that you will find solid ground if you jump as far as you can in one of the four cardinal directions (forward, back, left, and right.) Don't even think about jumping diagonally, you'll only plummet to your doom.
* ''VideoGame/{{Croc}}: Legend Of The Gobbos'' has this, combined with a poor turning mechanism. This is particularly frustrating when you are running away from bosses that chase you, or you are trying to make a specific jump. The occasional swimming sections with their poor controls and bad lighting suffer from this in particular.

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim 3D'' had a notoriously bad camera system, described by one reviewer as "on a kamikaze mission to destroy the game." It was all too happy about readjusting itself, it almost never defaulted to the angle you actually needed it to be in, the left and right rotation buttons barely caused it to inch at all, and worst of all, you couldn't even tilt it up and down. This may not have been such a problem were it not for the fact that vertical sections or long jumps downward aren't exactly an uncommon occurrence, forcing you to rely on blind guesses to land your jumps.
* In ''VideoGame/HeavenlyBodies'', it's easy to end up on a constantly rotating object and send the camera spinning around with you as it desperately tries to keep you in focus.
* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'' is extremely guilty of this. Even more annoying when you consider the excellent camera in all of the other games in the ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' series.
** Because the game was made for PSP initially, there's no up/down camera movement allowed. Even on the [=PS2=] version.
** Even compared to other PSP games, the camera is bad. Good luck shooting the target you wanted with its jerky, sticky camera controls.
* Unusually for a 2D platformer, ''VideoGame/{{Mari0}}'' has this in co-op mode, albeit as an obviously ''deliberate'' element. The screen scrolling stays with whoever is the farthest to the right, thus making it very difficult for anyone who falls behind to catch up without either dying (thus being able to respawn onscreen) or making quick and skillful use of portals.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'''s camera isn't so problematic during 2D segments, but the 3D segments have issues. Different sections of levels will switch between giving the player full control of the camera's rotation (albeit with it slowly turning in the direction you walk), having a fixed angle, or following the first setup but without the ability to control its rotation unless you walk in a certain direction. It's the last two options that get particularly-screwy, as the fixed angles are often not ideal for the specific level's scenario (the "run towards the camera" setup is common, and part of Splash Warfly's stage where the player has to fight a midboss has the camera point ''away'' from where the boss spawns and ensures that first-timers will be ambushed before they can realize what's going on) or is far too zoomed in (some sections of platforming in Wind Crowrang's stage are turned into blind jumps because of this), and the other setup is pretty much a crapshoot as far as trying to take in your surroundings goes. Snipe Anteater's stage has a screwy camera on-purpose whenever the stage's InterfaceScrew kicks in.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' loves to change the camera during tricky jumps, or tricky climbing sequences, or difficult [[LeParkour Parkour]] sessions. It also focuses on the Dahaka at one point, [[ScrappyLevel to the exclusion of knowing where you're going]]. This is mitigated by the controls: They usually move the prince relative to the screen (which, with the 3rd person camera, is normally equivalent to "relative to the prince"). However, when the perspective shifts to another angle, as long as you keep the move buttons pressed, you'll walk as if the shift never happened. Only when you release the button do the controls accommodate the new perspective -- so if you run in a straight line and the camera shifts to show that [[EldritchAbomination friendly guy in black]] with the [[CombatTentacles surplus of arms]] trying to [[ImplacableMan play catch with you]] and you keep the up-button pressed, you'll continue running in said straight line instead of doubling back and going straight towards your pursuer.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' suffers from this in several places, as is perhaps inevitable in a third person 3d platformer. In the most memorable instance, you have to run an obstacle course inside a moving air bubble at the bottom of a lake (long story). The camera is not only out of your control the whole time, but stays so far away you can sometimes hardly tell what you're doing. This is mostly due to the camera switching to the enemy's point of view (the player is being chased by a giant lungfish in this section) but still proves problematic.
** Later on, you face a boss fight where the room goes dark, and the boss has darkvision. You can then use your PsychicPowers to look through the boss's eyes, which means you control yourself from the perspective of a camera that keeps leaping between several spots, and you have to attack the camera. (It's optional, though, as you can also look for a small visual cue in the darkness and keep the camera under your own control.)
** By far the worst example however, is the final level, which may as well be called CameraScrew: The level. There are multiple jumps where the camera changes direction mid jump and a couple where [[LeapOfFaith you can't even see where you're trying to jump to]]. And occasionally, the camera gets stuck inside a solid object, forcing you to restart completely.
* The otherwise perfectly done camera in the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series will occasionally "helpfully" lock onto your next jump destination and refuse to let you look away. Useful for finding otherwise non-obvious jump platforms, but annoying if you just want to look around and explore before making the jump.

* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' usually has a FreeRotatingCamera... but there are a lot of platforming segments where camera control is wrenched away from you and locked to some arbitrary location. Presumably it's done to help, but all it accomplishes is [[ScrappyMechanic to annoy the piss out of you]] and make these segments much harder than they would be with a free camera.
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' uses all of the given examples... plus playing two-player shrinks the screen to irritatingly small, meaning apart from a few areas, its far more fun playing single player.
* Bad camera control is one of the (at times, overexaggerated) common complaints about the 3D ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games (and many other Sega games as well). Mostly fixed in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' and beyond.
** Several games also have the "run toward the camera" variant.
** This tends to go hand-in-hand with the difficult-to-work-with controls. The camera is set up to focus on Sonic from a particular view, but it never just "switches," instead, it transitions over to where it needs to be. Therefore, if, during a transition, you stop moving or face the wrong way, the camera gets stuck in that transition.

** It can be particularly frustrating in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', where the game taunts you by allowing you to move the camera to look, but then resetting it as soon as you move a muscle.

** This can even happen in the early, 2D games, where it is possible to run fast enough to outrun the camera. Because the level sections in which this can happen generally have no danger, instead of a problem it is a fondly remembered special effect. ''Sonic CD'', on the other hand, sends the camera some steps ahead of Sonic when he goes fast - but because of a glitch the game doesn't do that when he's spinning in midair, with awkward results.
** A multiplayer [[GameMod romhack]] of ''Sonic 2'' named ''Battle Race'' uses this trope as an actual mechanic, by making the camera focus on the leading player while the other player can lose points by letting their character fall out of view.
* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':
** ''VideoGame/SpyroEnterTheDragonfly'' has a camera that couldn't be readjusted unless you're standing still.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': The camera will not move more than an inch to the left or right in about half the areas you go to. You have (mostly) free rein in wide-open areas like the main part of the Valley of Avalar, but otherwise...
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Up until ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'', the games are known for having camera controls that felt far less refined than the rest of the game:
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' defined the 3D {{Platformer}} genre in the same way that ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' defined the 2D Platformer genre. It was a breakthrough in multiple ways, was the top selling game for the Nintendo 64, and is still considered to be one of the greatest games ever made. It ''also'' left the player with the idea that the "Lakitu Camera" was under the control of Bowser and was working hard to prevent you from finishing the game. The default camera angles were, to be blunt, not very good, and the worst part of it was that if you tried to manually move the camera, it would automatically readjust itself.
** The best touch: trying to cross a narrow bridge or sneak by an enemy? The more slowly and cautiously you move, the more erratic the camera gets. This is because when you move quickly the camera drifts farther back, and when you stop or slow down, it pulls tight -- but when it's in tight it can (and will) swing from one side of Mario to the other in an instant.
*** Also annoying is that the camera controls move the camera in about 30 degree shifts at a time and that they have a limit to how far around they go. Precision jump? More often than not, it's either between two "ticks" on the camera, or just outside the allowable angle.

** The camera in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' was much more intuitive, giving players decent camera angles more often than not. But strangely, it was less controllable than in Sunshine, and in fast-paced levels, it doesn't always keep up with Mario's pace. Even worse, it seems to be designed primarily with the more linear stages in mind. This makes it a royal pain in the ass in missions with more open gameplay such as the Purple Coins, as it often refuses to let the player look at corners or to the sides of the road, despite these being the locations of many of the coins. But at least it didn't automatically readjust itself once the player moved it like the camera in ''Super Mario 64''.
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', several of the Green Stars are placed in such a way that the camera is about as unhelpful as possible in letting you get them. Many of them are located out in space without anything on the screen to help you gauge exactly how far out they are or where they lie on the horizontal plane. And worst of all, in some cases, you have to jump toward the star from a spot where it's ''physically impossible to see it''. The Flipsville one, where you have to fall into the star via reverse gravity is worst of all, but one in Starshine Beach is also worth singling out; it lies just beneath an overhang in the middle of the ocean, and once you get to a spot where you can reach the star, it's in a place where you can no longer see it. Meanwhile, to get high enough to grab it, you have to leap out of the water with Yoshi's flutter jump and then dismount him in mid-air... again while you're not quite able to see exactly where above you the star is. Worst of all is possibly the third Green Star in Throwback Galaxy, where the camera is facing the opposite direction of the star, which is suspended in mid-air. Since the camera refuses to let you adjust it, your only option is to ''make blind leaps off an edge toward the camera.''

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' is generally seen as where the series finally nailed its camera controls... in single-player mode, at least. Multi-player is a different story, however, as the game has serious difficulty deciding which player it should be focusing on, which can easily result in players dropping out of the back of the camera area. The Captain Toad segments also suffer a little from the camera being zoomed a little too far out, though fortunately the developers picked up on this and implemented a more refined camera for ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker'' the following year.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'', to the point you're utterly frustrated and give up. Since the camera is centered behind your monkey, this often causes it to go into a carousel mode, because the sightliest tilt will cause it to move around, which is even more frustrating once you combine narrow paths with curves.
* ''VideoGame/ZackZero'' suffers from this; see some of the issues [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukoz-kpkdKc here]].

* ''VideoGame/AdventRising'' has both the lock-on "flick targeting" and camera control mapped to the same stick, with no way to turn the lock-on off or lower its sensitivity, leading to situations where your camera will flip a full 180 degrees to aim at someone not even bothering you in the midst of a platforming sequence.

** The game suffers from this in the APC vehicle pursuit side missions. Whenever you start pursuing, the APC vehicle calls reinforcements, which have to be taken out because they get in the way of you and the APC. As soon as you take one out, the camera decides to slow down and focus on the crashing vehicle and doesn't reposition itself. Even if it did, considering that this is a vehicular pursuit, you want the camera always pointing either forward or at the vehicle you're following. As soon as you crash one of the reinforcement vehicles, good luck not crashing yourself. Were you lining a pacifier shot at the APC, ready to shoot right before the crash? Tough luck, you have to line up your shot again.
** A minor case happens in the Cobra Tank fights (or the Cloudburst Tank battle). If you're discovered, the camera pulls back as you race away, which makes it harder to evade the enemies, as it becomes more difficult to notice where you can make turns without crashing into buildings.
* The otherwise good game ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' has a terrible camera that switches from full control to fixed often and at extremely inconvenient moments, among other things. In fact, at some point the camera will do pretty much everything that appears on this list as well as adding two extra difficulties:
** Moving the camera inside the player character's head, blocking the view and showing a rather disturbing inverted face at the same time.
** Making the "invert mouse axis" option change ''both axes together'', rather than allowing you to pick one and/or the other.
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
** The [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 N64]] [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness games]] made pretty much every jump towards a platform that's not so large you couldn't possibly miss it a complete leap of faith. Thankfully, the games are generous with the save points.
** The [=PS2=] game ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' has very few platforming sections, but all of them feature frustrating mid-jump camera moves. Fortunately, falling in these cases instantly sends you to the room's entrance, keeping the frustration factor from getting ''too'' high.
* The major complaint most have against ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' is a screwed-up camera system. Combining it with a very large world map and restlessly chasing enemies that can't be killed in one shot with either paint or thinner make things a lot harder.
* ''VideoGame/HardEdge'', an action-adventure game that was inspired by ''Resident Evil'', also features with the latter's signature static camera angles that can lead to some confusion with some of the game's environment.

** In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainDefiance'', the number of players who have torn their hair out during Raziel's sequences in Vorador's Mansion has become too large to count. What's worst about this is that one of the sequences of jumps takes a long climb and an inexplicable [[OneHitKill deadly mist]] has suddenly risen on the floors you'd just cleared a few minutes ago, making you do the whole thing again with every missed jump.

** In two-player mode in ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars'' and many of the sequels, the camera keeps both players in-frame at all times, and has a camera force field that prevents your character from leaving the frame area (instead of splitting the screen to focus on each character separately). If you manage to trick the force field, it will ''teleport'' you back into the frame, sometimes as a completely different character.

** The first ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' level from ''VideoGame/LEGOIndianaJones'', of course, has the scene where you run from a boulder in Indiana-Jones cam view. If you fail enough times however, [[MercyMode you can ride the boulder out]] in one of the most hilarious cutscenes ever.

* Clunky camera controls are one of the most common complaints about ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'', with the player character always facing the same direction as the camera. It's not as bad as in ''[[VideoGame/{{Bubsy}} Bubsy 3D]]'', but still pretty cumbersome.

* ''VideoGame/RememberMe'' is clearly designed to be played on controllers. When you hang in a ladder, the camera automatically fixates on a pre-designed viewpoint. You can glance around if you like, though. On a controller, this is easy: Just tilt a thumbstick towards the direction you want to look. However, on mouse, although you can move the mouse towards the intended direction, and the camera will move, the moment you lift up the mouse, or even slow down its movement, the camera will reset like a rubber band. The only way to take a long look in a direction when playing with mouse is to have a very large table and keep steadily moving the mouse towards the same direction. On a typical desktop setup this makes it impossible to enjoy artistic details they have hidden in the corners of some scenes, or to scout around for secrets.

* The ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series features several cases of Camera Screw:
** As a general rule, the camera gets worse as the series goes on (and, as ''Legend'' and ''Anniversary'' suggest, that doesn't seem to be changing much), starting off generally consistent and doing what it's supposed to by staying behind you in the first few games, then later on adding pointless, unchangeable[[note]]in the first three games, the camera can be reset with the look button, even when it does take an odd position[[/note]] angles that add nothing to the view except FakeDifficulty. Although there are moments in the games before that which spring something on you fast enough that you don't have time to stop and reset the camera, so you must make do with an odd angle.

* One level of ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'' intentionally screws with the camera by positioning it underneath the large sheet of ice Bomberman is walking on. As the camera looks up through the ice, the directions of "up" and "down" are essentially reversed from the player's perspective. But why should Bomberman be disoriented by where the camera is?

** The games frequently change the camera angle mid-jump, which makes some boss battles or platforming sections harder than intended. The key to your survival is that the game doesn't realign your controls until you land, so you need not jerk the controller around. The third fight with [[spoiler:Griffon]] in [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 the first game]] is nearly unwinnable on higher difficulties because of this.

** ''Devil May Cry 2'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' also contain some sections where the camera is so far away your character becomes a little figure almost indistinguishable from the similarly-colored objects in the environment, or is hidden by a foreground object. Fortunately, moving your character around reveals their position or shifts the camera to a nearer perspective.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' just loves to change camera angles during precision balance scenes. The game's EdgeGravity may or may not let you grab onto the beam as you fall from it.

** The previous 3D ''Ninja Gaiden'' game and its rereleases suffered from a poor camera as well. Perhaps most notably was the first version, in which you couldn't even control the camera with the right stick; rather, moving the right stick would instantly put you in first-person mode. This goes against what has become second nature to most gamers since the advent of the right stick, and the mistake of trying to correct the camera in the middle of a battle has led to many bloody deaths. Fortunately, this was corrected in later versions of the game. Unfortunately, the camera is still absolutely awful.
** ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' seems to be afflicted by camera problems as well, though not quite as severe. The fact that most enemies read the MookChivalry code this time also reduces the risk of a humiliating death.

* ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' is played from the perspective of the teenager [[KidWithTheRemoteControl remote-controlling]] a HumongousMecha... except when it decides to dramatically follow a missile or RocketPunch. Cool, yes, but I'd rather be able to see my robot and the enemy, thanks.

** The first ''VideoGame/SpiderManTheMovie'' game had a wretched camera system that completely spoiled the game for many, because it was ''totally'' non-reactive and controlled entirely by the user. This might be okay for certain situations, but when the player is being bombarded by enemy mooks and trying their hardest not to get blown to shreds, they typically don't have the time to make sure that the camera is positioned just right.
*** The [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2000 2000 action game]] also featured ''several'' Camera Screws, including a final chase scene in which Spidey is running away from a monstrous Doctor Octopus who has fused with the Carnage symbiote, going out-of-control AxCrazy. The camera is placed in front of Spidey and sometimes if you run up against a wall, you actually ''can't see it'' because it's behind the goddamn camera. Cue much on-the-spot jogging without actually moving forward, until the "Monster Ock" catches up and turns Spidey into mincemeat. Or, dodging the giant Mysterio while running around the lip of a circular pit... while the camera keeps turning perpendicular to the edge so the one thing you can't see is how close you've gotten to falling in.
* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfMightAndMagic''. Players often complain about its shabby camera controls, which often harvest more victims than the monsters themselves.

* The camera in ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}: Last of the [=MacLeods=]'' is all over the place, jumping to new angles multiple times in the same area.

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