You can also slaughter your horses for food.

Oh yes, i did have a horse. It's "mount and blade" after all I never got around to buying that game though. Might do it at some point... we'll see.

Another flaw I hate, your entire party shares an inventory. Even if two characters happen to be five hundred miles apart, they can both access the same items. It's like there's a worm hole between their backpacks. Which would be a great way to get out of a bad situation. Just hop into your backpack, slip through this weird worm hole thingy, jump out of your friends backpack, then reach though and pull your own backpack after you. Now I want to see that happen in a game.

Well there's World of Warcraft. Access your soulbound epics instantly from any banker in the world!

EDIT: Also, the Final Fantasy games. Like in IX, when your party is broken up around the world, but Princess Garnet can access the potions Zidane just bought on another continent.

Yes, but is it really a gameplay flaw to have an inventory that everyone can access? Sure, it doesn't make sense.

Oh, and my opinion on FFXII seems to have changed after playing it for 40 hours. Now that I have some Espers and Quickenings, big boss battles are kind of the opposite. I spam so much with this super powerful stuff it almost doesn't matter, like the GF's in FFVIII (my least favorite of the FF's). However, overall, I'm enjoying the game.

FFVI (or 3 depending on preference/location ) also does that.
But I don't think it has a negative impact on gameplay, because the easier inventory management is well worth the loss of realism.

A good solution imo is an "equiped inventory" (sort of like in Mount&blade), where you have your gear + any items you may want to use during a battle is. This inventory is limited and imposes penalties if you have to much (ie, a guy in full plate is slower than someone in leather armor), and the "real inventory" should be very big or unlimited (and possibly shared, centered around the party leader). Gah, i remember playing morrowind/oblivion/daggerfall and having to run to the store back and forth from a dungeon in order to sell all the loot. That is not fun. It's not even challenging. Also, if you decided to carry things with you, your stamina dropped really fast (esp. in morrowind), which meant you could not really carry any loot on you from an earlier dungeon when going to the next.

I would do it

These tank-schoots-five-minutes-at-soldier-to-kill-him-situations in C&C were always driving me mad...

Yeah, that always bugged me, too. Fortunately, Company of Heroes was released .

Well, C&C is hardly a deep simulation. One could argue that they are simulating the typical case for a tank (tank vs. tank warfare, which is what all (or at least a large majority of them) are built for). If i recall correctly, C&C did not support several weapons on a single unit (so no MG), so i think they did the right thing. Weren't there smaller tanks/jeeps/something that were better vs. infantry?

Anyway, it's a really old game and you don't see this that often nowadays anyway

Very true. This bothers me as well.

On that same note, when gameplay makes sense it's easier for the player to prepare for the future. If it doesn't make sense, you don't know how to best prepare and could either come up or short or waste resources.

I absolutely agree 100%. I'm generally a cautious player so when something springs out of nowhere and destroys me without warning it's annoying. Learning by dying should never be intended.

Here's another one that bothers me a lot: Sometimes, things that are only there to automate mind-numbing or tasks are hilariously expensive. An example is "X Beyond The Frontier", where things like the docking autopilot, or the time-thingy that allowed for faster travelling, are annoyingly expensive, yet they have no advantage at all inside the gameplay logic - they just make the interface less tedious.
Non-optional tutorials are a no-no as well: The only reason I never re-played Black & White is that you have to go through the full tutorial a second time, with your controls limited and no way to skip the cutscenes or any other part of the tutorial.