Hated sections in games

20-10-2010 12:55pm

senordingdong wrote: »

Any bit within a shooter that suddenly shifts into a vehicle.

RE5 comes to mind.
Very annoying.

Afraid of the Dark (360) was horrible for this.

Gulliver · 20-10-2010 4:36pm

eddhorse wrote: »

This last boss?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVPgrIsIT8U

Looks tough alright

Now come on, I was a kid, I didn't think to use the Jitsu of Ikazuchi to prevent Shinobi from losing the power-up the first time he's hit. It takes a lot of time to kill him with regular shurikens. I also liked to use my Jitsus offensively.

Chaotic_Forces · 20-10-2010 11:10pm

Gulliver wrote: »

Now come on, I was a kid, I didn't think to use the Jitsu of Ikazuchi to prevent Shinobi from losing the power-up the first time he's hit. It takes a lot of time to kill him with regular shurikens. I also liked to use my Jitsus offensively.

It's trying to save the girlfriend too that it becomes a problem. At least in Shinobi 3 you had a better kind of "dodge" move. The downard kick can be used as a dodge sort of.

Worse than the last boss was the first level of stage 7... tried it the other day... "I'm at the edge... AH FU*K I MISSED THE JUMP!".

johnny_ultimate · 20-10-2010 11:18pm

The last boss of Sonic 4.

An exercise in frustration. Not fair in the slightest (especially when he starts jumping around the floor) but the final bit with the collapsing bridge was one of the most counter intuitive boss conclusions since the exploding one in Ninja Gaiden 2.

BlitzKrieg · 20-10-2010 11:35pm

An exercise in frustration. Not fair in the slightest (especially when he starts jumping around the floor) but the final bit with the collapsing bridge was one of the most counter intuitive boss conclusions since the exploding one in Ninja Gaiden 2.

you're kidding?

in first mode he's piss easy compared to his sonic 2 equivilent and in his hyper mode there is one really simple trick to beating him

dont use the auto lock attack. as it sends you flying across the screen, if you use the normal attack on him throughout the whole fight you can get in 3 hits where normally you only get one and he goes down really quickly

only bit that caught me initially off gaurd was the final bit you mentioned but it was incredible easy getting back to it the 2nd time and guessing the alternative.

johnny_ultimate · 20-10-2010 11:54pm

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

you're kidding?

in first mode he's piss easy compared to his sonic 2 equivilent and in his hyper mode there is one really simple trick to beating him
dont use the auto lock attack. as it sends you flying across the screen, if you use the normal attack on him throughout the whole fight you can get in 3 hits where normally you only get one and he goes down really quickly

only bit that caught me initially off gaurd was the final bit you mentioned but it was incredible easy getting back to it the 2nd time and guessing the alternative.

It might have caught me on a bad day, but the boss just frustrated me incredibly. There were just a handful of 'surprises' that were impossible to predict, especially that last bit. It was the bridge that got me tbh - I was just standing in the wrong place the first few times I got there, and insta death and back to a four or five minute long battle to get back there was just an irritant IMO! Again, I think it was a bad day, but it really stood out in a game I was up to that point enjoying a lot.

eddhorse · 21-10-2010 12:03am

Is Sonic 4 not just out ?

Anyways, cinematics that you cant skip ! Grrrrrrrrr

Also games that you kill everything on the level but are told you didnt do it properly ie you have to do it without anyone being alerted.
FFS they all died and i still have 100% health, gimme a medal !!

Health regeneration, doesnt happen in real life so Call of Duty its all LIES, LIES i tells ya !

Really hated Ravenholm in Half Life 2! Numerous times running out of ammo and looking for saw blades with the gravity gun, fantastic series though, now have Orange Box for the PS3.:D
This bit mainly , hated them damn black crabs too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-LkZpxfvs

Didnt know this though :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnU1EoBCUs8

Minstrel27 · 21-10-2010 12:50am

The zombie mutant nazi bunker **** from Uncharted pissed me off big time. Game tarnished.

Chaotic_Forces · 21-10-2010 1:43am

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The zombie mutant nazi bunker **** from Uncharted pissed me off big time. Game tarnished.

Because it's fu*king Nazi?!

J. Marston · 21-10-2010 2:07am

One thing that annoys me in games is where you have to protect a helpless character and escort them around.
Like in MGS2, the part where you hold that girl by the hand and drag her around.
(Shooting her in the face with the tranquiliser gun was fun though

)

Chaotic_Forces · 21-10-2010 4:08am

J. Marston wrote: »

One thing that annoys me in games is where you have to protect a helpless character and escort them around.
Like in MGS2, the part where you hold that girl by the hand and drag her around.
(Shooting her in the face with the tranquiliser gun was fun though )

So it's because it's a girl?

She was fu*king abused and drugged in the story

Kiith · 21-10-2010 8:50am

eddhorse wrote: »

Really hated Ravenholm in Half Life 2!

Hang on...is that i hated it, as in it was brilliant and scary, or hated it as in i hated it? Cause i didn't think it was possible to hate one of the best bits of one of the best games ever?

Frisbee · 21-10-2010 8:50am

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The zombie mutant nazi bunker **** from Uncharted pissed me off big time. Game tarnished.

+1, turned the game off about 5 minutes after getting into the bunker and have no intention of going back to finish it.

As already mentioned the library in Killzone 2 where you have to kill Radec.

Fighting Brock and Misty when you chose Charmander as your starter Pokemon :mad:

Ciaran500 · 21-10-2010 10:04am

eddhorse wrote: »

Really hated Ravenholm in Half Life 2! Numerous times running out of ammo and looking for saw blades with the gravity gun, fantastic series though, now have Orange Box for the PS3.:D

Like Kiith I don't get this? The idea was to run out of ammo and have to rely on your environment and they pulled it off fantastically...

Grayditch · 21-10-2010 10:16am

I thought that was an amazing part of the game.

21-10-2010 10:19am

Deleted User wrote: »

Afraid of the Dark (360) was horrible for this.

Afraid of the Dark? I mean Alone in the Dark.

AnCapaillMor · 21-10-2010 10:53am

Any sort of timed trap\puzzle in games. God Of War's spiked floor push the crate trap drove me bannana's.

Getting ULtima in FF7 and then having to earn 10,000 XP to unlock it, that was just mean.

ShiverinEskimo · 21-10-2010 11:10am

The Rhino in Enslaved.

Specifically when trying for the 'Matador' achievement. My fingers are bleeding this morning.

J. Marston · 21-10-2010 2:20pm

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

So it's because it's a girl?

She was fu*king abused and drugged in the story

Er.....what? Where did I say it's because it's a girl? Janey-mac

jaykhunter · 21-10-2010 2:52pm

J. Marston wrote: »

Er.....what? Where did I say it's because it's a girl? Janey-mac

Ya, you more than touched a nerve there lol. Would've been the exact same annoyance (or worse) if you had to do the same with a guy. Escort missions (i.e. keep someone else alive while you mow down the competition) are a pet peeve. Even the mighty Resi 4 was guilty of this.

The end set list of Guitar Hero 3 on Hard. It went from doable

Live in Japan

Slipknot: "Before I Forget"
Disturbed: "Stricken"
Queens of the Stone Age: "3’s and 7’s"
Muse: "Knights of Cydonia"

to downright a'rseholic "can't beat it" songs/sections

Battle for your Soul

Slayer: "Raining Blood"
Eric Johnson: "Cliffs of Dover"
Iron Maiden: "Number of the Beast"
Metallica: "One"

And the final boss, the Devil Went Down To Georgia.....had to play that one over 30 times to beat it :mad: but i finally did...but the sheer spite did take some of the joy out of it :pac:

Pdfile · 22-10-2010 6:45am

pretty much any FF... i cant play it for more then 30 seconds without destorying the tv controller etc.

its just a natural response to something so un-natural.

senordingdong · 22-10-2010 9:36am

Online co-op play....

landsleaving · 22-10-2010 1:49pm

senordingdong wrote: »

Online co-op play....

It's great if you know the person you're playing with to be fair.

When you don't though, I'd totally agree, this is what put me off Borderlands. Potentially a great game, but I didn't know anyone else playing it, so I'd just watch idiots running around like headless chickens, or experienced players getting all the loot while the extra powerful enemies they drew murderised me.

deandean · 22-10-2010 1:56pm

I hate the missiles in BattleZone.

micktrim · 22-10-2010 2:24pm

1st level of conflict desert storm on two player was crap for the second player as he had to wait in a prison cell for most of the level

in general though race missions or protecting NPC missions annoy me the most

Polar101 · 22-10-2010 5:28pm

Thief 1 - first level was amazing. Then the second level was some rubbish zombie level, I turned off the game and never played it again.

GTA Vice City on PC - it took me about 25 tries to get past the RC Helicopter mission. I'm a patient man, but I wanted to smash things after that. Passed it the first time on PS2.

GTA 4 - Any car chase mission where you have to restart from ridiculously far away any time you make a slight driving error (aka crash into a wall), and the person you're chasing gets away.

Any RTS game mission along the lines of "protect spot X for 30 minutes", because you know it'll be easy for 25 minutes, and then you get murdered in the end.. and usually you have to restart the whole thing, since you did something wrong.

Any RTS game where you fail because of poor pathfinding or rubbish AI.. usually involves units wandering outside defensive walls, or taking a fun sightseeing tour through the enemy base.

RolandIRL · 23-10-2010 7:07pm

Unlike everyone else apparently, i like the underwater sections of missions :eek: I prefer for it to be really hard and difficult though a few times i've almost threw the keyboard at the screen, especially on some of the Tomb Raider games

Protecting NPCs is one of my pet hates. they're just so stupid and deliberately run into the enemies fire just to piss you off :mad:
Also timed sections is annoying, especially when you're just a few seconds late, and have to do it all over again. No, you stupid developers...i don't want to spend an extra 10 mins going back, activating something, and then have to go to a location again :mad:

animaal · 24-10-2010 12:36pm

Those bloody somersaulting dwarves in Kung Fu Master...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 24-10-2010 5:46pm

Polar101 wrote: »

GTA 4 - any time you make a slight driving error (aka crash into a wall)

lol

funky penguin · 24-10-2010 8:02pm

Everytime Knights of the Old Republic I & II crashed. ie, every 2 seconds.

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