Place you hate to visit in games

[haloman13]

Agreed those things where BOOOOORING, btw im new at place whats that sound coming from the basement? I meant the deep roads I tried to quote the first guy....

 

[Biosophilogical]

I take back what I said earlier about not minding the realm of Oblivion very much. I've just been going through a crap ton of gates for each city so they will help defend Bruma at the finale and I AM SICK OF IT! Not only is it not a challenge, it's so tedious. The same routine over and over again. All the hallways have the same name and I fight the same enemies. This place sucks.

Get yourself an invisibility spell and if you have a half-way decent intelligence score you will regnerate more mana then it costs. Then you just invisible your way through, going from point A to point B without all the killing in between.

OT: I don't mind the Dragon Age fade, the free skill points are nice, and the forms give enough versatility to manage the solo aspect, but when you've done it as many times as I have, it really just comes down to luck (does the golem actually hit this time, do I get knocked down by my own fireball, do I get hit hit by every bad spell possible in two seconds flat?) and patience (because I am repeating the same tactics over and over each time, so it comes down to me having the resolve to play through the entire thing).

 

[Sexy Devil]

The Deep Roads, in Dragon Age: Origins.

The game pulls the the drag chutes, and you have to deal with a long dungeon crawl, facing multiple bosses and huge mobs of enemies guarding ostensibly nothing but side rooms. There's maybe a handful of useful items down there, and unless you packed enough health poultices (or Cthulu save you, didn't bring Wynne along) you were dead. Worst bit is they don't tell you how damn huge it is.

Place killed my Noble Dwarf Warrior Warden, and that wasn't even past the first real boss. And the fight at the end is hair tearingly miserable, even if you came ready for either bosses particular brand of ass hattery, its probably the least fun bit of a great game.

I thought it was fun in a terrifying kind of way for like the first hour, but you're right. It drags on way too long, there's way too little resources to get you through it unless you knew how huge it was going to be beforehand and cleaned out every shop you could find before going in. Not to mention the Broodmother; found her much worse than the final boss.

However, my personal worst is in Uncharted 2. You know that moment in the Monastery where the bridge has collapsed behind you, and you walk through that dark hall to emerge in a courtyard? Hated that. It was completely unforgiving - it had enemies that would sometimes one-shot you, they came from every damn direction, and if you did end up dying then you were sent back to the beginning of the firefight.

 

[infohippie]

The Deep Roads, in Dragon Age: Origins.

The game pulls the the drag chutes, and you have to deal with a long dungeon crawl, facing multiple bosses and huge mobs of enemies guarding ostensibly nothing but side rooms. There's maybe a handful of useful items down there, and unless you packed enough health poultices (or Cthulu save you, didn't bring Wynne along) you were dead. Worst bit is they don't tell you how damn huge it is.

Place killed my Noble Dwarf Warrior Warden, and that wasn't even past the first real boss. And the fight at the end is hair tearingly miserable, even if you came ready for either bosses particular brand of ass hattery, its probably the least fun bit of a great game.

I thought it was fun in a terrifying kind of way for like the first hour, but you're right. It drags on way too long, there's way too little resources to get you through it unless you knew how huge it was going to be beforehand and cleaned out every shop you could find before going in. Not to mention the Broodmother; found her much worse than the final boss.

I don't get all the Deep Roads hate, other than the relatively boring first couple parts, the Deep Roads was my favourite place. I also tend to go for character builds that require minimal input of consumables, so by that time I was hardly ever using potions and I never used poisons at all. And I found the Broodmother incredibly easy since she can't move out of the way of spells and her tentacles come up in a limited area - just stack an ice storm and an inferno on top of her, and stay back to fight the adds. If she's still alive when the AoE spells run out, stack 'em again.

 

[T1tan45]

Dragon Age: Origins- The Fade is my most hated, then it's the Deep roads.
Pokemon Red/Blue- Lavender town, the music freaked me out!
Final Fantasy XIII- The Titan trials, either I'm just bad at the game, or that last mission is suppose to take a long time!

 

[captaincabbage]

sewers, they are almost universally boring

I think I could potentially one-up you on this matter, as my personal choice is the universal "Industrial District".

at least the industrial districts can be open, sewer levels are required to be in small confined spaces that are also usually dark

I don't really mind Sewer levels to be honest, it's the subway levels I really hate. At least in a sewer there's no place for the enemies to hide.

WRONG they can HIDE. i know a few memorable cases where orks where hanging from the ceiling and hiding in the water.

lol what's with the caps? I'm not calling you wrong or a liar or anything. I'm really thinking more of games like L4D and such.

 

[skittlepie345]

The Fade in Dragon Age: Origins was fun the first time, but made me want to kill myself in all my replays.

Since everyone's saying they hate the fade... If you're on the PC get the mod which let's you skip to all your companions dreams, and then to the boss, which is all the important parts anyways. And it doesn't really feel like cheating if you've done the Fade normally before. I could probably find a link...

And the Fade in Dragon Age 2 I didn't find all that difficult.

Anywho, on a slightly different note, cult towns. Like the one in Oblivion where you have to save the Argonian girl in Hack-something, and when you go to Haven to find Brother Genitivi, are the two off of my head. I am so freaked out by cult towns that every time I play DA:O I have to constantly tell myself that this is a major quest that I have to do. As for Oblivion, I tried it once, got freaked out by the shopkeeper, and left. I haven't tried it since.

Seriously though, the second I entered the Haven area I knew there was a cult there, the guard telling me to leave confirmed it. I was able to deal with it at first, but after the creepy singing boy, I got my brother to play it through for me, because it's easier when I watch other people do it, and I can't control my characters efficiently when every new thing about the town made me want to cry more. It's not less horrifying though, I had nightmares for weeks on that shit...

By the way, since then I have managed to play the entire Urn quest line by myself every time after the first. It's just that I couldn't do it when there were still surprises I hadn't known about.

Edit 1: Duh nuh na na! Found it!
After getting through your nightmare, you use the pedestal they add to take you to your friend's nightmare's, then it's Sloth Demon, and you're done! And it adds all the codex entries you would have gotten, so YAY!

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Everywhere in Dragon Age 2

So those 3 other places besides Kirkwall?

Oblivion the dark caves, I wold just climb over them or swim in lava if I had too, and any dungeon or cave that had zombies or another scary monster.

This. I made every attempt to never enter a cave while in Oblivion. I've swam through more than my fair share of lava rivers in that endeavor.

4 you forgot the mines where the on of 2 dragons live

I totally did. And I always thought it was weird that in a game called Dragon Age, there is like maybe 2 or 3 times you actually ever see a dragon at all.

 

[CaptainTrilby]

Welgaia in Tales of Symphonia. Everytime I go back to replay the game, I hate the series of plain, white rooms with shitty sliding puzzles and no minimap to tell you were to go. Also, there are hundreds of plain, robotic enemies and it is just a shitty area.

 

[IamQ]

The ice/snow area of Uncharted 2, when you platform with Tenzin. Uncharted's platforming isn't that fun, because it's not very free, and during that entire time, the only time you get to shoot, it's

Spoiler

at those guys in gorilla(ish) costumes that can't be killed.

 

[Jake Hardy]

The Shadow Temple of Ocarina of Time. It literally took me 6 years to work up the courage to even go in there. AND THE FUCKING MUSIC! Excuse me, i need to go cry in a corner now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd6s4aE8wLc

 

[redisforever]

Sewers in Stalker. They are at least different to most sewers, but just make me shit my pants.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

]Get yourself an invisibility spell and if you have a half-way decent intelligence score you will regnerate more mana then it costs. Then you just invisible your way through, going from point A to point B without all the killing in between.

That's exactly what I started doing once I found a decent spell. By the time the spell wears off all the mana I spent has regenerated. After that I just merrily sprinted past everyone and it was great.

 

[Silva]

I personally really dislike backtracking to the same levels as I have been. Even if they're in a new mode, like a "dark world" or back in time, they're mostly too similar or different not to justify making a totally different and new area. It's cheap game design.

Water levels are also often poorly designed and made more frustrating than they should be. If a game ever has a water level with puzzles in it that isn't stupidly confusing in one place or another, the designer deserves a medal for revolutionising gaming.

For me, any time I had to enter an Oblivion gate, I REFUSED to enter those awful NetherTunnels or caves or whatever they were called in order to get to the main tower. I did it early on in the game and got near-hopelessly lost and vowed never to do it again. They suck and they take forever. I've even resorted to swimming through lava to avoid going through the tunnels and this is often a much, much faster way to complete a Gate.

These sections were a pain to me as well, until I made my best character, and figured out this tactic:

Firstly, have high Aerobatics. Any physical class character should be able to get this if you level them for a while and do lots of jumping.

Secondly, get a 100% Fire Resistance Ring. These do appear in certain areas in the game, including one in an Oblivion Gate area, I believe.

Third, get a piece of equipment or bless it with Water Walking.

With this combination, you can pretty much hack the Oblivion Gate sections by running across lava without getting hurt or having to swim, then, get this, leaping up the side of the towers by tapping jump continuously while moving at their walls, skipping several levels, then finish the tower, grab the sigil and get out.

Interestingly, one of the Elder Scrolls unofficial Wikis tells me that Fire Resistance doesn't make you immune to lava, but it worked for me just fine. Either way, running across quickly works well enough.

 

[Sexy Devil]

I don't get all the Deep Roads hate, other than the relatively boring first couple parts, the Deep Roads was my favourite place. I also tend to go for character builds that require minimal input of consumables, so by that time I was hardly ever using potions and I never used poisons at all. And I found the Broodmother incredibly easy since she can't move out of the way of spells and her tentacles come up in a limited area - just stack an ice storm and an inferno on top of her, and stay back to fight the adds. If she's still alive when the AoE spells run out, stack 'em again.

Well I've just got the random urge to play it again, so maybe I'm just bad and I'll like it more if I think more...strategically.

 

[Code_Red]

But I'll go for the single worst place in gaming history, Atlantica in Kingdom Hearts II, the boss battle was almost fun but everything is ruined by these three words
Swim. This. Way.
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It feels like my soul is being slowly sliced apart by paper-cuts.

I completely agree. I loved Kingdom Hearts II, but that place was soul-crushingly tedious, and the musical numbers didn't help. At all. One of the few places in games where I've muted my TV while playing through it.

 

[Nathaniel Patasky]

Caves and Dungeons, anywhere underground. Cough, Fallout 3, Cough.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

These sections were a pain to me as well, until I made my best character, and figured out this tactic:

Firstly, have high Aerobatics. Any physical class character should be able to get this if you level them for a while and do lots of jumping.

Secondly, get a 100% Fire Resistance Ring. These do appear in certain areas in the game, including one in an Oblivion Gate area, I believe.

Third, get a piece of equipment or bless it with Water Walking.

With this combination, you can pretty much hack the Oblivion Gate sections by running across lava without getting hurt or having to swim, then, get this, leaping up the side of the towers by tapping jump continuously while moving at their walls, skipping several levels, then finish the tower, grab the sigil and get out.

Interestingly, one of the Elder Scrolls unofficial Wikis tells me that Fire Resistance doesn't make you immune to lava, but it worked for me just fine. Either way, running across quickly works well enough.

I guess I just decided to go Beast Mode on Oblivion. Fuck your lava I say! It cannot defeat me! Although it was close a few times. But I finally beat it yesterday, so I don't have to worry about it anymore!

 

[Caedus]

Ravenholm isn't that scary. Unless you try and go for the achievement. Then you feel naked... D:

Oh and that last dungeon in Final Fantasy IV on DS. It's f'ing brutal! ><

 

[AlexKasper]

The Fade in Dragon Age Origins, I just found it so dull.
Also Noveria in Mass Effect, I didn't really enjoy that section of the game.