Broken Sections in great games

[Xvito]

There's a really, really hard part in Jak II: Renegade.
You've got to fight your way through some docks, the ground you're on is really narrow all around you there's water (if you fall into the water; a robot comes and kills you instantly). Enemy dropships are coming in constantly and if you get to close to them; they shoot you (you die in four shots... On normal difficulty!!(there's no easy, only normal and "Hero")), So you have to wait in front of every dropship until all of the soldiers have come out, while you're constantly being fired at from all directions (you die in four shots... FOUR!!).

Basically it comes down to luck if you manage not to get hit four times, because the AI fires randomly, but always near you! The rest of the game, although hard, is a blast to play so it's not to annoying.

That's almost as hard as Halo 2 on Legendary (without any cheap tricks of course, otherwise Halo 2 is a piece of cake).

 

[cuddly_tomato]

That bit in Gears of war 2 had me biting my own tongue in frustration, also the eighth level in Halo 3, makes me twitch just thinking about it.

'Cortana', right? I know exactly what you mean.

And yeah, that bit in Gears 2 pissed me off to no end as well - one of the reason for my near-rabid hatred of those bloody reavers. [>>]

Yeah, by the time I reached the end I was to pissed off with Bungie to even be glad I'd found her, "Chief, you found me"
"yeah yeah whatever lets just get the hell out of this mess of a level"

Is that the level that appears to be taking place inside somebodies still-living anus?

 

[SmilingKitsune]

That bit in Gears of war 2 had me biting my own tongue in frustration, also the eighth level in Halo 3, makes me twitch just thinking about it.

'Cortana', right? I know exactly what you mean.

And yeah, that bit in Gears 2 pissed me off to no end as well - one of the reason for my near-rabid hatred of those bloody reavers. [>>]

Yeah, by the time I reached the end I was to pissed off with Bungie to even be glad I'd found her, "Chief, you found me"
"yeah yeah whatever lets just get the hell out of this mess of a level"

Is that the level that appears to be taking place inside somebodies still-living anus?

Yep, the one where you very slowly make your way through mushy corridors, and the doors look uncomfortably like anuses.

 

[JokerGrin]

Water Temple.
Nuff said.

Thank you. I knew someone would get there sooner.

That's really all I can think of. All the games that I think are great tend not to have broken sections.

 

[Abedeus]

Every stealth section in a non stealth game.

Ever.

Beyond Good and Evil.

Didn't finish the game because I couldn't get past a super-annoying stealth section. No matter how many times I've tried, I couldn't make it. Either by stealth OR by force.

 

[Internet Kraken]

The monkey maze in Earthbound.

That stupid maze is so god damn annoying. You have to constantly go around giving the monkeys all the random crap they want while incredibly annoying music plays in the background. Then when you finally get to the end of the stupid maze you come across a giant pencil. So if you don't have the pencil eraser you have no choice but to exit the maze, call Escargo Express, have them deliver the damn eraser to you, and then you have to go all the way back to the end.

I want to punch whoever thought it was a good idea to put that in the game.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

In Morrowind when you have to go get the one ashlander leader a wife.

God I hate.....

You know what, anytime in a game where you have to escort someone who can't fight worth a crap.

 

[timmytom1]

The final boss fight in re5 it took 10 minutes and nerarly all my ammo for that bloody button prompt to show up

 

[timmytom1]

Almost forgot the truck in kane and lynch If it wasn`t for the hitman series there`d be blood around them offices

 

[MiracleOfSound]

In Morrowind when you have to go get the one ashlander leader a wife.

God I hate.....

You know what, anytime in a game where you have to escort someone who can't fight worth a crap.

Oooh same in oblivion... especially when thier combat technique is to run into your weapon swings repeatedly then get pissed off and attack you instead of the fucking fire belching demon imps...

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Metroid Prime 3's most evil moment for me is very unusual in that it's about 1/4 through the game.
I speak of the dreaded (at least by me) 'Turret Battle' in the Bryyo jungle. Pirates spawn in impossibly fast, most activating their Hypermode the moment they arrive. A single brush from their shots interrupts the 5-second process of Grappling the cover plate on the turret bottom or the 4-second process of locating the ammo cartridge you have to blast. Once you get one, the turret is inaccessible for another short period in which at least one more Hypermode Pirate is sure to arrive to give you grief. Did I mention you can only have 4 energy tanks at that point in the game? And that there's several draining skirmishes with Hypermode Pirates and an unskippable cutscene between it and the last save point? And that once you manage to somehow, impossibly win the battle, it is STILL impossible to reach said Save Point or ANY Save Point until you fight yet ANOTHER turret battle (admittedly nowhere near as hard as the first one but still tough)? Finally, if you die on the second turret battle you restart at the beginning of the first!

MP3 is a seriously fun game, but there were a few areas where the Hypermode gimmick just got obnoxious.

 

[Arayis]

The bit in the Castle with Nero in DMC 4 where you have to use your arm thing to grab across the roof, but the roof has spikes and Nero fails at aiming and every single time you fall down you have to fight freakin monsters before you can go up just to fall again! woo!

 

[Pimppeter2]

The fake moon landing on Area 51, it was gay

The flamethrower level on WaW, it was wayyyyy to dark

 

[Citrus]

The Little Sister escort mission in Bioshock.

I dunno if I'd call it "broken" so much "horrible".

 

[Arachon]

The end of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the game was broken, so you couldn't get past a door at the end of the game (just before you finish it), so it was impossible to finish. The developers released a patch, which didn't fix the problem, then went bankrupt, luckily a fan patch was released.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Going back to the 4 bit era. Jet Set Willy for C64, the game no matter how many times it was patched was still unbeatable due to bugs in programming

 

[SithLibrarian]

God of War- The spinning blade colums

WTF? I climbed all the way up this stupid broken puzzle only to have a blade clip kratos's shoelace and send him plummet all the way back to the bottom... great.

Five tries later: Finally got past that stupid column, oh wait.. what's this up ahead... ANOTHER ONE??? [switches off game]

RAGE QUIT!!
ARGHH !
that stupid column thing almost made me as angry at the Gods as Kratos was, if they put that stupid column thing in God of War 3 then i'm gonna go on a rampage through the French countryside shouting SPARTA! then i'll kill my wife and child, and swear alligiance to RETREAD, the God of Repetive frustating shit.

And RETREAD will burn marshmellow PS3 shoulder triggers into my arms that I'll fling at people, to no fucking avail though in terms of hurting them cos cramp and carpal tunnel syndrome will set into my hands before i've managed to get out of my fucking barn*

*or house, where ever the fuck I live.

Those bladed columns made me cry.

 

[Isalan]

I'm gonna have to go for the fact I keep crashing all the time in Rivet City in Fallout 3. I ain't got my 360 hooked up to the wireless yet (technical issues) so I can't download the patch either, which sucks ass cos its a fabulous game.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

There's a totally lame level in Urban Chaos: Riot Response where you have to protect two civilians on opposite sides of a train. While the level is totally cool to look at and unique in concept, the enemies can appear pretty much out of nowhere next to a civilian, and then YOU have to trek ALL THE WAY back to the train car where they're at, by which time the OTHER civilian is being shot. Seriously, you need two people to finish this stupid mission.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Did anyone else have problems with the runestones scattered around the countryside in Oblivion? Every time I activated one the game crashed.