Type of levels you hate?

Robsweezie

what kinds of level design can you not stand in gaming? I hate the escort type missions or ''defense'' ones where you've a health bar for an NPC or a building/vehicle and you're protecting it from a **** ton of enemies respawning in waves.

willmunny1990

Anything to do with water.

Kiith

Ant695

Robsweezie wrote: »

what kinds of level design can you not stand in gaming? I hate the escort type missions or ''defense'' ones where you've a health bar for an NPC or a building/vehicle and you're protecting it from a **** ton of enemies respawning in waves.

I'm with you on that especially when they are worse than useless and just stand getting hit/shot. It isn't as bad when they take part and actively defend themselves though.

kunst nugget

Any difficult level that has an unskippable cut scene at the beginning of it that you have to keep sitting through everytime you have to restart it. And those parts of the boss battles in God of War where you have to do the button combinations to finish them off.

Potatoeman

Escort missions.

Creamy Goodness

races in non racing games, stop trying to make it happen! Arkham Knight I'm looking at you!

callaway92

Randomly insterted zombie/monster levels into a game i.e the Uncharted games.

Retr0gamer

Forced stealth sections should all die in an inferno. Leave your crappy level design in 1999.

Aimead

“I need you to go fetch X number of item Y.”

Unimaginative, repetitious, lazy and boring.

ShadowHearth

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Anything to do with water.

This.


I love Monster Hunter 3 ultimate, but there is a special place in hell for a person who said: Lets make it underwater theme! Everyone loves underwater sections!

Corvo

There was never a level in a sewer that I enjoyed.

Links234

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Anything to do with water.

Oh god I hate water levels... there was entire zones in World of Warcraft that was like all underwater, and you could get to the edge and look down into this nothingness. It actually made me feel nausious.

Skerries

timed missions that forces me to retry it again and again and again.....

The_Valeyard

Dream or nightmare levels.

Skerries

Corvo wrote: »

There was never a level in a sewer that I enjoyed.

did you ever play TMNT?

Essien

+1 for water levels.

This immediately popped into my head when I saw the title :pac:

willmunny1990

Essien wrote: »

+1 for water levels.

This immediately popped into my head when I saw the title :pac:

This.

It was sonic that put me off water levels in the first placer.

The_Valeyard

willmunny1990 wrote: »

This.

It was sonic that put me off water levels in the first placer.

*shivers*

The sound it made when you were about to run out of air!!

dreamers75

Any level that changes the entire core gameplay for one level.

3rd person in an FPS.
2dish in a 3d game.
Forced stealth in pure FPS games.

Antar Bolaeisk

kunst nugget wrote: »

Any difficult level that has an unskippable cut scene at the beginning of it that you have to keep sitting through everytime you have to restart it. And those parts of the boss battles in God of War where you have to do the button combinations to finish them off.

Bonus points if it loads you in three paces before the cut-scene starts.

Penn

"Hey, you know the way you've spent the whole game so far getting used to the controls, levelling up, gaining equipment etc? Well here's a level that completely disregards all of that!"

Osmosis Jones

Quick time events. They're incredibly unenjoyable and don't make cutscenes any more interactive.

ShadowHearth

Skerries wrote: »

did you ever play TMNT?

Mother of god!!!

Robsweezie

kunst nugget wrote:

Any difficult level that has an unskippable cut scene at the beginning of it that you have to keep sitting through everytime you have to restart it. And those parts of the boss battles in God of War where you have to do the button combinations to finish them off.

Kingdom.****ing.hearts

I hate when you're cruising through the game when suddenly the difficulty spikes up for the sake of it.

Robsweezie

And another thing, multiple variations of the same boss fight. You beat them once, they run/ fly off only to return in their second more powerful form, then their third, and it goes on.

Eggonyerface

Came in to post anything under water but I was beaten to it. Arrrrrgh

Xenji

The Chemical Plant zone in Sonic 2 has always been my most hated level of any game, water and the possibility of drowning while timing jumps, never a good mix.

LFC CONNAUGHTON

Robsweezie wrote: »

And another thing, multiple variations of the same boss fight. You beat them once, they run/ fly off only to return in their second more powerful form, then their third, and it goes on.

This happened against Ras al Ghul in Arkham City and what made it worse was the cutscenes in between that ruined the flow of the fight.

briany

Ant695 wrote: »

I'm with you on that especially when they are worse than useless and just stand getting hit/shot. It isn't as bad when they take part and actively defend themselves though.

Once in a while they're too good, and you just end up feeling like the clueless NPC, standing around while business is taken care of.

super_furry

Stealth levels in a game that isnt stealth focused. They're almost always bad

CastorTroy

Escort missions. Games based around escorting, like Ico, are grand but I'll never forget escorting Socrates in Spartan Total Warrior "Spartan, help me!" The words haunt me to this day. I would be killing bad guys and he would run on to activate the next ones off screen. And if I managed to get ahead of him to kill the bad guys, ones would randomly appear back with him and kill him.

I don't mind water levels too much as long as there is at least some control and the camera doesn't go all crazy on you. Besides, as I've said before, one of my proudest achievements was finishing the Water Temple without

the Blue Tunic.

Tower defense can be a pain as well as having to win a race to proceed

Oafley Jones

We'll just take all your weapons for the next bit because we're out of original ideas.

degrassinoel

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Dream or nightmare levels.

Max Payne and Mass Effect 3 did those extremely well, but overall yeah they generally suck

Robert ninja

degrassinoel wrote: »

Max Payne and Mass Effect 3 did those extremely well, but overall yeah they generally suck

And technically, 90% of Hitman: Contract's levels are dreams :eek:

Penn

Oafley Jones wrote: »

We'll just take all your weapons for the next bit because we're out of original ideas.

Or similar, you start the game fully powered up, then after the first level, get all your weapons/abilities taken away from you and have to get them back throughout the rest of the game.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I hate when platformers eventually end up in a level that looks like hell- lava etc. its totally depressing.

Ant695

degrassinoel wrote: »

Max Payne and Mass Effect 3 did those extremely well, but overall yeah they generally suck

As did scarecrow levels in Arkham Asylum.

Also I hate in racing games where the first race is a pretty decent car then you win and buy your own car and go from really fast to slow as **** all of a sudden. Like you should just have a normal slow car right from the start if that's what they're gonna do.

the groutch

Auto-scrollers, especially the Murder Wall/Wall Of Death in Kid Chameleon.

Zillah

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I hate when platformers eventually end up in a level that looks like hell- lava etc. its totally depressing.

I kind of like it. You aint in Kansas anymore, Mario!

kunst nugget

Levels where you're sliding down a wall or floating down a river and you have to enjoy various objects.

Robsweezie

i found the helicopter missions in GTA 5 to be a pain in the hole.

hidinginthebush

I hate the first level that has crept into nearly every game where you have to go through some sort of tutorial to learn how the controller works, even though the buttons are pretty much the same for every game you pick up.

elekid

Darkness levels. Not being able to see what you're doing just isn't fun.

Aimead

elekid wrote: »

Darkness levels. Not being able to see what you're doing just isn't fun.

Especially when you have a shoite monitor or laptop screen.

CastorTroy

Penn wrote: »

Or similar, you start the game fully powered up, then after the first level, get all your weapons/abilities taken away from you and have to get them back throughout the rest of the game.

So you wouldn't like the Metroid games. Brilliant games.

bur

Drift events in racing games.

Penn

CastorTroy wrote: »

So you wouldn't like the Metroid games. Brilliant games.

Never played them. I have still liked games where that has happened, it's just annoying when it does happen.

Aimead

Penn wrote: »

Never played them. I have still liked games where that has happened, it's just annoying when it does happen.

I remember one of the Tomb Raider games where you could choose the order in which you completed three of the levels. I had left that Military one until last, and as a result lost the stockpile I had built. That was annoying.

Penn

Aimead wrote: »

I remember one of the Tomb Raider games where you could choose the order in which you completed three of the levels. I had left that Military one until last, and as a result lost the stockpile I had built. That was annoying.

The main ones that come to mind are some of the Assassin's Creed games. The first one, you start as a Master Assassin with all equipment, but then it's all taken away form you and you have to earn it all back. Similar enough in AC Brotherhood & Revelations, where you start with equipment/abilities you earned in a previous game, then it's taken away from you.

Ant695

Penn wrote: »

The main ones that come to mind are some of the Assassin's Creed games. The first one, you start as a Master Assassin with all equipment, but then it's all taken away form you and you have to earn it all back. Similar enough in AC Brotherhood & Revelations, where you start with equipment/abilities you earned in a previous game, then it's taken away from you.

My biggest problem with the AC games were the defence missions where you had yo stand on a roof and order your soldiers to attack specific areas. Hated those.