Negative turning point for your favorite video game.

[RuralGamer]

Fallout: New Vegas. The point when it started experiencing crashes no greater than ten minutes apart. The patch does not help in anyway that I can see at all.

Erm, yeah that is as annoying as the crashing on the Pitt DLC for Fallout 3; which was so bad at first, they pulled it from Xbox Marketplace for a day - it was like trying to crawl through broken glass because of the crashing.

I found towards the end of New Vegas, I found it crashed practically every time a loading screen appeared.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Fallout 3: New Vegas: "The game is a non-starter. Seriously, it keeps glitching dead after the first mission."-A friend of mine.

Fallout: New Vegas, not Fallout 3: New Vegas.

 

[Blitzwarp]

The realization that bioshock's final boss could be killed in under 20 seconds.

Yep, this was it for me as well. I'd kept all of my best weapons, hoarded EVE and my Medkits through the last level, and then it was just pitiful how easily the dude went down. =| I still love the game, but it was such an anticlimax.

 

[RuralGamer]

Hrmmmm... It was situational and a result of my lack of experiences with RPGs, but my first playthrough of Knights of the Old Republic was stopped cold when I went to Korriban first. A level 7 Jedi with Force Stun as his only crowd control does not do well against the multiple terentatek in the final tomb.

I made some foolish choices, but I was also a bit upset that I was apparently supposed to know about those sorts of mechanics despite being a noob to the genre.

That fight was such a pain for me aswell because I died so many times I ended up coming back later to do it... then along came the the helpful friend who told me "Oh, you can just sneak or run past them and pull that there leaver and they both die.... Wha??????????????? NOWHERE is that even hinted at earlier in the game!

On the subject of KOTOR, KOTOR 2 is probably my main one, especially because the game should have stopped after the fight with Nihlus; the Trayus Academy at the end was a tedious slog from one room full of Sith to the next. Oh and of course that was followed by a pitifully easy fight with Sion (Force Crush, let him drop and start standing up, repeat) and an unfair fight vs Traya; if you sank all your attributes into being better at the Force, you were wasting time because she is practically immune to anything you throw at her. And then she attacks you with the floating lightsabers so you have to run away and get them in 1v1 fights, else they carve you up.

 

[Sacman]

Deus Ex... the only part I didn't like was the catacombs... too linear...<.<

 

[xchurchx]

Dragon Age last dlc witch hunt
They promissed to answer so many questions and well
all they did was make me annoyed that i had spent £5 on it

 

[purf]

Assassin's Creed.
I found it breathtakingly beautiful, all of it. Brilliant combat, yaddayadda, whatagreatgame!
Until, from one second to the other*, I had that intense fit of utter boredom that I jumped down from the tower I was sitting on, quit the game and never came back.

*not exactly like this, but do you know these graphs that some reviews use to illustrate the fun/motivation throughout the course of a game? Mine pretty much looked like one amplitude of a square wave.

edit: oh, yeah, and also this:

Mirror's Edge after

Spoiler

the fight with Celeste.

Keep your gunfights out of my parkour ventilation shaft and elevator simulator, thanks.

(fixed

 

[Trogdor1138]

I have a favourite series and a favourite game that isn't a series. So I'll go over both.

Another World: I love the whole game inside out and can finish it in 15 minutes. But the Cave bit where you have to flood it etc. does occasionally get on my nerves, but still, it's designed really well.

Metal gear Solid series:

MGS1: Probably the bit where you have to change the keys temperature.

MGS2: I was a little "eh" when the plot decided to be very vague and confusing intentionally for the hell of it. But I didn't mind it so much, I guess gameplay wise would be when you have to Swim through that one floor of the game.

MGS3: It takes a little while to really get going, but that's also a good thing as it gets more exciting as it goes. Also the bit where you have to go through the Cave after the Ocelot battle.

MGS4: ... Can't really think of anything. I actually loved all 5 acts of the game. Oh, but the Naomi Trail sequence did annoy me a bit last time.

 

[Shiv595]

Gears of War 2, when Kai kills himself. There's no real fallout or effect on the game, it's kinda just forgotten.

 

[Kyrian007]

What was the moment where you realized that there was a flaw (maybe fatal) with your (perhaps) favorite game? Mine was the ending to Borderlands. Shame.

That long, wow. I was already bored with the quests before getting out of Fyrestone. Quest 1: fetch quest. Quest 2: assassinate someone or a monster. Rest of the game... repeat 1 then 2 50 or 60 more times, turn borderlands into Lovecraft... the end. Only fun because it's the only fps with a splitscreen since Perfect Dark n64. Kept searching for that better gun in each category, never got a better one in each than the ones I had 1/2 way thru the 1st playthru. Really, no reward at all for finishing those later fetch quests? Thanks game.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

What was the moment where you realized that there was a flaw (maybe fatal) with your (perhaps) favorite game? Mine was the ending to Borderlands. Shame.

Here's a full list of 'em [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XenSyndrome]

What was the moment where you realized that there was a flaw (maybe fatal) with your (perhaps) favorite game? Mine was the ending to Borderlands. Shame.

That long, wow. I was already bored with the quests before getting out of Fyrestone. Quest 1: fetch quest. Quest 2: assassinate someone or a monster. Rest of the game... repeat 1 then 2 50 or 60 more times, turn borderlands into Lovecraft... the end. Only fun because it's the only fps with a splitscreen since Perfect Dark n64. Kept searching for that better gun in each category, never got a better one in each than the ones I had 1/2 way thru the 1st playthru. Really, no reward at all for finishing those later fetch quests? Thanks game.

You say that as if every RPG isn't like that.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

The final reveal of ME2

Spoiler

It just comes out of nowhere and nobody questions it. Why are the antithesis of life all of a sudden made out of bio-goop? Dead reapers obviously aren't one time events , you find another dead one on the IFF quest. So then why are they all the same shape in the final cutscene? I can understand needing to jury rig a new reaper since Sovereign died but why shaped like a human?

 

[JemothSkarii]

Disgaea 2: When your chasing Etna for a nail and realize there hasn't been one good grinding level so your 10 levels lower than everyone else. Except for Adell, but he doesn't count since the main character is ALWAYS OP'ed.
Eternal Sonata: That castle just after you get the archer chick and you find you're lost and low on healing items.
Star Ocean: The Last Hope: You realise there is just about no healing items and the first boss is kinda hard.
FFXIII: Barthandelus,

Spoiler

The second time, with the laser spam and debuffs, luckily people have given me advice, so

I hope to remedy that soon

 

[Moeez]

The NEVERHOOD (1996) mouse puzzle. I gave up on the game after this, and never finished it for 10 years! Now I can go finish it thanks to the help of FAQs and the brilliance of Youtube!

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8079/neverhoodmousepuzzleine.png

READ DEAD REVOLVER (2004), General Diego's level with the cannons and the Spanish Civil War. Almost impossible and not a fun level at all!

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8815/rdrgeneraldiegolevel.jpg

Most last bosses or last portions of the game are NEGATIVE TURNING POINTS, so I'll just list them: BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM, PROTOTYPE, and INDIGO PROPHECY.

 

[Kyrian007]

What was the moment where you realized that there was a flaw (maybe fatal) with your (perhaps) favorite game? Mine was the ending to Borderlands. Shame.

Here's a full list of 'em [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XenSyndrome]

What was the moment where you realized that there was a flaw (maybe fatal) with your (perhaps) favorite game? Mine was the ending to Borderlands. Shame.

That long, wow. I was already bored with the quests before getting out of Fyrestone. Quest 1: fetch quest. Quest 2: assassinate someone or a monster. Rest of the game... repeat 1 then 2 50 or 60 more times, turn borderlands into Lovecraft... the end. Only fun because it's the only fps with a splitscreen since Perfect Dark n64. Kept searching for that better gun in each category, never got a better one in each than the ones I had 1/2 way thru the 1st playthru. Really, no reward at all for finishing those later fetch quests? Thanks game.

You say that as if every RPG isn't like that.

Calling Borderlands an RPG makes me laugh. It's a FPS, that used a few clumsy elements to try and mask the fact that its just another FPS.

 

[DELETETHISACCOUNT]

Hi I'm new. Now that I got that out of the way...

for me Bioshock's entire last bit (the fetch quests, escorting the Little Sister, and the boss) were not very good at all. The rest of the game is fantastic, but I was mostly annoyed by all the tedium that went into the final act of the game.

Also, Metroid Prime had that whole fetch quest that you had to complete before gaining access to the final boss that brought the game to a screeeeeeetching halt.

Oh and the triforce chart search in Wind Waker.

 

[noodles loves you]

I've mentioned this moment in many threads but the absolute blue balls of an ending for Beyond Good & Evil kinda put a dampener on it. but then when the very end of a game is the negative turning point... well, you've got a great game

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The realization that bioshock's final boss could be killed in under 20 seconds.

I replace the title Bioshock with, Fable 2.

Other than that I always groan during the Halo games when The Flood are unleashed.

In Fable 2 and 3 when the adventure/story slows down and it turns into lame mini games and a real estate game to make money.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post. It's the whole captcha thing. I am not a bot...

This is especially true of Fable 3 in whoch you must grind money for a particular good ending.

 

[Triangulon]

Xen. I didn't think it was that bad but it was a tarnish on the otherwise sheen of perfection I felt Half-life was.

 

[SD-Fiend]

soulsilver the most awseome part (the slots) was replaced by some lonely man and a card flip game