Oh joy, it's *that* map again...

[Denizen]

I love TF2 but these maps I can always do without
(listed without the tiresome details and in no order):

All arena maps
2fort
doublecross
well (all variations)
badlands
fastlane
granary (all variations)
Yukon
Hydro (tc_ maps just stopped for a reason...)
badwater
hoodoo
junction

 

[tawmus]

AB, WSG, AV. I haven't played WoW in 3 years, still couldn't pay me to play those maps. After grinding to warlord (never made HWL) back in the old ranking system, solo, I feel ill just thinking about playing those maps.

 

[pendragon177]

Halo Reach: Sword Base. It mystifies me why this one is so popular, as the map itself is boring as hell. It's just a three story complex made entirely of rectangles and bridges. It's frustrating watching it win the map vote time after time, particularly if there are more interesting maps to choose from like Powerhouse.

Sorry OP, but I'm one of those people. I find Sword Base is quite a good level, with the two three-story complexes linked by bridges like some kind of block war situation. Running around the corridors can get samey I'll admit, but that's why you'll see most people playing that level with the jet-pack - the added mobility really changes the pace and feel of the level, not least of all because you're no longer dependent on the bottle-neck bridges.

Sticking with Reach, I can never get why people continually pick Reflection. I hate that level with a passion, not least of all because you always (and I mean always) have one person in every lobby who thinks that picking Active Camo, grabbing the Energy Sword as soon as the level starts and then sitting at the top of the cargo lift is the height of tactical cunning.

I agree with both of you about Sword Base. It's one of the few maps that make good use of the jet packs but its just too overplayed and always full of campers on the top floor at the green grav lift and the bottom floor of the air vent.

 

[Pariah87]

Atacama Desert and Nelson Bay. It's not that I hate them as such but it's got to a point now where if I join a game 8/10 it will be one of those two.

I very rarely play conquest, only rush, so I haven't played Panama Canal much but from my experience it's a great map. One round my APC lasted the whole game. Granted it may have been a shitty team I was up against but I just kept going round messing shit up/capturing flags, was a fun game.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Nuketown in BlOps.
Fuck that spawn camping, piece of shit map.

That one's okay for a one on one kind of battle. Which should prove how ludicrous it is.
Pipeline in Team Fortress 2. Once got into a stalemate so thick that as engie I got 62 kills in one life. It was the most boring streak I ever had. Needless to say I quit and found more mobile areas.

 

[MintyNinja]

Only seeing two mentions of AC:B, I must give my opinion.

Monteriggioni - Too many people stick to the rooftops. Nigh impossible to get a good kill.
San Donato - For the love of god stay away from the center! Your pursuer will always be there, waiting.
Florence - See San Donato.
Castel Gondalfo - Depending on those you play with. Runners ruin it.

The other maps I like. The new Pienza and Mont St. Michel are my favorites. But as an aside to anyone interested, I mainly play Advanced Wanted. So my experiences may vary from your own.

 

[Sulgoth]

Gotta say I love that map, but then... The server is a hardcore server and spawn camping is as likely to get you temp banned as it is to get you leet kills.

 

[Sulgoth]

Black Ops- Nuketown.

 

[Sulgoth]

Black Ops- Nuketown.

 

[standokan]

Sewers in Goldeneye, you can't see shit, it's like blindfoldedly running through a minefield with as your only form of melee, sprinkling blood.

 

[Jack Macaque]

Array in Black Ops, any map in MW2 except that last map pack that came out.

Oh, Wasteland in MW2, oh man, I HATE that map.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

I got sick of Final Destination on SSBB because it was played so often. That and it was too plain.

I never played SSBB, but this dispute about Final Destination always makes me laugh:


As for least favourite common maps, Bloc in Modern Warfare. That map should not exist...

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I hate 2fort as well. It's static and most of the time you have a couple engineers on each side just building up sentries and blocking off areas. I prefer the more dynamic maps where the battleline can change. Even hydro due the fact that once a point is taken the map switches. In 2fort once you capture the intel... you have to go back and get it again. Boring. Doesn't help that there are always servers of it running while I have trouble finding some of the other maps (where's my Hydro? I like that map...).

Warsong Gulch in WoW back when I played was similarly not one of my PvP maps that I'd play for similar reasons to 2fort. Of course it took even longer for you to get across the map, well at least before having a mount.

Terminal in MW2 earns my ire for one thing: domination. I've played too many games where my team gets stuck at the one spawn point where the other team just spawn camps you to death, and then again and again and again... Eventually killstreaks like helicopters and AC-130's come in and it becomes so annoying because you'll only ever make it out of the area 1 out of 4 or 5 times.

I've played Final Destination way too many times on both Melee and Brawl. They aren't the fairest and they're boring as fuck. If you want a straight up fighter pick up SSFIV.

Surprising Shipment can actually be quite fun for the fact that it can get so crazy. It's at this point you don't try to survive, you just try to kill as many people as possible. Me and my friends would play it alot on local and it was still pretty active. Then I got online... the madness is so thrilling!

 

[Paragon Fury]

Its not so much a particular map that I don't like; its just that I never like the maps other people like.

 

[Tupolev]

No Blood Gulch from the Halo games? seriously that map would not go away

At least Blood Gulch and Coagulation both play somewhat well, at least whenever you aren't being spawnkilled repeatedly.

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Hemorrhage in Reach is what bugs me; its layout makes snipers so much easier to conceal and defend than in its predecessors, despite giving them a far better view of the battlefield. Which is saying a lot. AND it's plagued by the spawn problems its predecessors had.
And, most of all, people always vote for it.

The crazy thing is that those same people who vote for it repeatedly seem to actually hate it once the game gets going. I've had several games of Invasion Slayer on Hemorrhage (note: horrible and unbalanced) where the type was voted for almost unanimously, and yet a ton of people from blue team started leaving when they realize that they'd just voted to be spawnsniped for 15 minutes. Thanks guys!

 

[zaiggs]

I think I'm going to have to join the hundreds of people saying Nuketown in Black Ops. SO many things wrong with that map. It's not terrible to play once, but I remember close to when the game came out it took me quite a while to get in a server that wasn't playing Nuketown repeatedly.

 

[FamoFunk]

Nuketown on BLOPS, again. But I don't care, I love little maps!

 

[The Funslinger]

Sticking with Reach, I can never get why people continually pick Reflection. I hate that level with a passion, not least of all because you always (and I mean always) have one person in every lobby who thinks that picking Active Camo, grabbing the Energy Sword as soon as the level starts and then sitting at the top of the cargo lift is the height of tactical cunning.

Not as bad as this, though, Invasion, my favorite map is the Spire. My friend used to hate it, and now he likes it. Whenever we play it together on matchmaking, he camps next to the Banshee spawn, takes it and spams for the rest of the match, while I actually fight, then compares his ridiculous +30 to my, for example, +8, and gives me his best troll face. As far as I'm concerned, knowing the spawn point of different weapons and such, then spamming/camping with that far superior weapon doesn't really constitute skill.

Reflection is grating on me though. I have done some painful matches on that hellhole.

 

[Zakarath]

Crossfire - only good gamemode on this is domination, and even that is barely balanced enough to be any fun.

Shipment - yeeeeeeah... 3x frag anyone?

CoD4 by the way, for those who never played it

Yeah, Crossfire was pretty stupid, even for domination, I'd say. As for Shipment: ARE YOU Kidding? It's hilarious too play shipment with 3x nades, Martyrdom, and only shotguns,aka, Shit blows Up! I play that once in a while with my friends over LAN; hilarity ensues.

But i guess it wouldn't be as fun online.

I think its pretty fun online. I haven't played CoD4 in a long time, so I might be remembering poorly, but The only gametype I've ever seen on it was headquarters, which as I recall was 6v6 in that tiny little map, and it was always a hilarious fragfest with everyone completely ignoring the objective and racking up kills. (And as it wasn't deathmatch, there was no kill limits. scores of 60-80 were very common for a 10-15 minute match.)

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

dustbowl in tf2 -__________-

Dustbowl itself I don't really mind. Dustbowl with fast respawn? Well done, you've just brutally murdered the game balance.