Best in-game mini-games

[triggrhappy94]

I was playing New Vegas earlier today, when I got to a computer that needed to be hacked and I noticed something: the hacking mini-game has gotten a lot harder. So I was forced to disifer the password using some graph paper and a pencil, because guessing and rebooting the terminal was getting me no where. That was when I fully apreicated that mini-game; its still a pain to do, but I get it. Kind of sounds stupid but there some stragety to it, when you're not just guessing

That prompted me to start a thread about in-game mini-games. The good ones. Also I said "in-game", because I want the ones in a game, not the ones from a game made up entirely of mini-games

 

[Zenode]

Dead Ops arcade in Black Ops is pretty awesome
and that one in Starcraft 2 which i forget the name of.....

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Nazi Zombeh's.. Easily...

I mean they aren't just zombeh's... They're NAZI Zombeh's!!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The hacking in New Vegas is clever but I hate the way it slows the game down. Still, it's satisfying to solve them.

 

[Souplex]

Mine would have to be BethOut (New Vegas, and 3) era hacking. Not sure how it worked in the old fallouts, but 10 to 1 odds it was just a skillcheck.
Also, if it counts the space mission in Reach.

 

[EHKOS]

....Mario Party >.>

I liked the Dead Space asteroid thing.

 

[triggrhappy94]

....Mario Party >.>

I liked the Dead Space asteroid thing.

I'm not sure about everyone else but that part was hard

 

[SimuLord]

Hacking in 3 and NV is about on the same level. I found neither to be more difficult than the other. (and of course with 100 Science skill it's a simplistic affair...just get rid of at least one dud and the minigame cannot be failed.) And maybe it's just me but I very rarely had to close and restart the minigame more than once.

As for my all-time favorite minigame? I really liked the way Oblivion did lockpicking. Really required a steady hand, especially at low levels of Security skill.