Poll: What do you hate more

[danosaurus]

Baby-sitting - You know the one, you've gotta get little Timmy to safety and he gets stuck behind walls, runs out in the middle of firefights, falls off a cliff etc.

Defence Task - Here's a pistol and a box of paperclips, now we're going to go this way for 5 minutes and you need to defend this highly volatile fuel tank from the incoming horde of Laser-Nazi-Zombies.

Grinding - Need that super awesome Shield of +12 Perpetual Extravagance? Vendors price is 5,000,000 Gold. Get out in the fields and start grinding.

Dark-room Flashlight Task - Yep, it's a haunted warehouse. No electricity in there. Here's a flashlight, we need you to go in and find the Aphid of Redemption and extract him safely. Those batteries will run out in 5 minutes by the way.

Red Key, Blue Key, Green Key - Find Key. Open Door. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Waiting in the Lobby - Refer To Xbox Live.

Ill-conceived Driving section in an FPS - Wow, this car handles like a cereal box balanced on 4 oranges. Oh wow, i just drove straight through that tree - Best Collision detection ever!

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Timed Missions - Feeling too free? Tired of taking your time to explore and admire a scenario. Then the Timed mission is the one for you (And YES this is inclusive of the underwater segments in Sonic the Hedgehog - does anyone else still receive those wonderful nightmares involving that bloodcurdling timer music?)

 

[Audemas]

Baby sitting for me unless the AI actually cooperates.

 

[Lieju]

Most of those can be good, if they are done well, but in my experience, most baby-sitting tasks are annoying.

 

[Nazulu]

Out of those I would say baby sitting. I remember I had to do alot of missions in WOW that envolved protecting NPC's and they couldn't help themselves but walk into the most dangerous areas. I know it's part of the challenge but I still find it annoying.

 

[JC175]

Definitely grinding. I despise grind, no matter how annoying baby sitting missions can be.

 

[Lord RPGs]

Defense. I can stop bad guys approaching to melee range in games, but you can't stop bullets/arrows/lasers/spells in mid-air. Barring if it's those lousy lasers/spells/arrows that seem to move really slow for some reason.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Baby sitting. There is no reason it can't work other than the fact that companion AI is perpetually set to "unusually stupid ketchup packet".

The rest of the scenarios I've seen done well or been entertained by in the past. The best I've seen any secourt/babysitting mission do is not annoy me, and that's hardly a high mark.

Also, waiting in a lobby can be a pain in the ass as well. I believe it was R6: Vegas 2 that had the system I found most annoying: after every game it boots you back to the menu and you start the process all over again. I understand WHY they did it, but it still pissed me off enough to keep me from playing for more than an hour or so.

 

[13lackfriday]

I can't decide.
I think you've honestly picked the 7 things in this world that I hate most.

 

[GRoXERs]

Grinding.

Dear god, grinding. It's not enjoyable, it just isn't. I don't want to do the same thing over and over and over again. I'd rather just enjoy the challenge of trying to beat things while underpowered.
For example, in The Final Fantasy Legend (an old Game Boy game that has nothing to do with the Final Fantasy series except that it was also published by Square, I got to (and killed) the final boss Creator dude with only a naked Human fighter wielding multiple saws (not the gun, but rather the woodworking implement) with an incredibly low attack, but who was fast as hell. I dropped everyone else after the first two worlds and ran around OHKOing all the bosses with my saws. It was hilarious.

Spoiler: It only worked because

there was a glitch in the code that meant that a saw had a 75% chance of OHKOing anything with a higher defense than the character wielding it (it was supposed to work the other way around, OHKOing anything with a LOWER defense), so by abstaining from armor I ensured that my character had 1 defense and thus could OHKO anything.

With much saving and reloading, hilarity ensued.

 

[Compatriot Block]

Baby-sitting - You know the one, you've gotta get little Timmy to safety and he gets stuck behind walls, runs out in the middle of firefights, falls off a cliff etc.

Grinding - Need that super awesome Shield of +12 Perpetual Extravagance? Vendors price is 5,000,000 Gold. Get out in the fields and start grinding.

Dark-room Flashlight Task - Yep, it's a haunted warehouse. No electricity in there. Here's a flashlight, we need you to go in and find the Aphid of Redemption and extract him safely. Those batteries will run out in 5 minutes by the way.

Red Key, Blue Key, Green Key - Find Key. Open Door. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Waiting in the Lobby - Refer To Xbox Live.

Ill-conceived Driving section in an FPS - Wow, this car handles like a cereal box balance on 4 oranges. Oh wow, i just drove straight through that tree - Best Collision detection ever!

Yes.

Yes?

Anyways, I vote Red Key, Blue Key, Green Key. I haaaaaate backtracking.

 

[ironmace2.0]

Baby sitting your basicly doing that for resident evil 5 24/7 it's argg I dont have words to describe my anger!

 

[dadou_gamer]

Well.. I hate the baby sitting tasks. It's just boring!! I love doing it in real life but not in video games! Absolutly different!

 

[DeadRow]

baby-sitting/escort missions/quests. In non-MMOs they are epically stupid who run head long into the enemy. In MMOs they will walk to the exit and cause massive yawns.

 

[zauxz]

You should add timed missions.

I vote for defence.

 

[IamQ]

Definetly babysitting! I hated the mission in Jak 2 when you gotta escort your younger self, who can't do jackshit, and walks like a freaking snail.

 

[Inco]

You should add the 'Instant kill maze run'
for example the worm in Gears2, the bats in Gears 1, Fans (any game), That giant thing that kills you in one hit in Half life.. Etc, Etc.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Baby-sitting - You know the one, you've gotta get little Timmy to safety and he gets stuck behind walls, runs out in the middle of firefights, falls off a cliff etc.

Grinding - Need that super awesome Shield of +12 Perpetual Extravagance? Vendors price is 5,000,000 Gold. Get out in the fields and start grinding.

Dark-room Flashlight Task - Yep, it's a haunted warehouse. No electricity in there. Here's a flashlight, we need you to go in and find the Aphid of Redemption and extract him safely. Those batteries will run out in 5 minutes by the way.

Red Key, Blue Key, Green Key - Find Key. Open Door. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Waiting in the Lobby - Refer To Xbox Live.

Ill-conceived Driving section in an FPS - Wow, this car handles like a cereal box balance on 4 oranges. Oh wow, i just drove straight through that tree - Best Collision detection ever!

Yes.

Maybe.

 

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Ill-conceived Driving section in an FPS - Wow, this car handles like a cereal box balance on 4 oranges. Oh wow, i just drove straight through that tree - Best Collision detection ever!

so you ment big mother truckers lol

 

[Flying Dagger]

defence tasks like in HL2...
i was so tight with ammo i actually stacked up six boxes to climb onto the ceiling to hide and let my turrets kill the enemies...

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

All of the above.
I had to say 'waiting in the lobby' though because I reckon I've spent half my time doing that in some games and you just simply don't do anything. At least babysitting keeps you occupied for a few hundred hours.