Dergonu

Agree to both of these. Some common routes are simply too long and filled with too much unnecessary stuff that doesn't help the plot at all. It feels like a lot of it is there just to make the game longer. 
And there is always that one char that is awesome, but doesn't get her own route. So annoying *sigh* 
(Akari in kono oozora ni, tsubasa o hirogete for instance) 

This thread is gold. I'm going to agree with Batman, this thread might be a favorite.
My short stops for a VN are exceedingly few. 
Yaoi. I'm a man, a biased man. I don't enjoy it.  As long as a man doesn't stick a phallic object into another man, we're all good.  Futa, free changing  hermaphroditic gender bending, gang bang.  They're all okay.
Utsuge/Nakige. These games really just grind me. Enjoying these in any respect in my opinion is akin to emotional masochism.

I so want to be called sempai... I need to talk my wife into it...

Lol, I guess this thread is also a nice place to expose people what weird vns and stuff in vns are out there. Japan is truly a wonderful place to come up with all sorts of fetishes and then when you get a hold of them..... wham... you are sucked in like a kid at a candy store.