Sections in games you love that you hate
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Hong Kong in Deus Ex, loved it and hated it, not sure why. Maybe because it was pretty open-ended but the music got irritating.
Practically all combat in Mass Effect 2, its just the same thing over and over again, least the rest of it was pretty damn good.
Vehicle sections in Gear of War 2.
Retreading parts of games, particularly in Dead Space, damn awesome game otherwise though.
Practically all combat in Mass Effect 2, its just the same thing over and over again, least the rest of it was pretty damn good.
Vehicle sections in Gear of War 2.
Retreading parts of games, particularly in Dead Space, damn awesome game otherwise though.
Pokemon - In any of the main franchise entries, playing tedious games at the Game Corner to get enough coins for one of the prizes.
Penumbra: Overture - I loved this game until I got stuck because I absolutely could not kill a spider with the terrible combat.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - I'm playing through this right now, and while it's mostly fun combat, Patrick Stewart, and acceptable puzzles, I really hated the super picky flowing blood puzzle.
Katamari games - levels where you are punished for picking something up or hitting water, such as the campfire level or the budget level. I find Katamari to be a relaxing game, otherwise.
Penumbra: Overture - I loved this game until I got stuck because I absolutely could not kill a spider with the terrible combat.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - I'm playing through this right now, and while it's mostly fun combat, Patrick Stewart, and acceptable puzzles, I really hated the super picky flowing blood puzzle.
Katamari games - levels where you are punished for picking something up or hitting water, such as the campfire level or the budget level. I find Katamari to be a relaxing game, otherwise.
Agreed. I might have been okay with them if I didn't have to drastically alter my mouse/controller sensitivity during that section to make it playable.Catfood220 said:
Teh Island.RE4.i mean.Cmon.Ok,just oslve this light puzzle aaaanndnd...yeah,into this room,eewww,there some weird thing on the table.Anyway..oh,a keycard.....wait...what?AAAAHHHHHSAAAJDKOPGKP[KOG[OSGRG.
Play the game.Youll understand. -.-
Play the game.Youll understand. -.-
Off the top of my head:
The tear-gathering sections in Twilight Princess. Not totally unredeemable, but it just felt like a chore after half way through the second one.
Any instance in which Scions are present in Mass Effect 2. Most notable is the instance near the end of Horizon, in which there are two present and nowhere to hide. It seems like if BioWare wanted an enemy that could kill me in two hits, they shouldn't have also let it's attacks go through FUCKING COVER.
Everything after saving the Tibetan village in Uncharted 2. The game stops being fun for me at that point; it feels like I have to contend with way too much, even when I stratagize and use stealth to my best ability.
Trying to catch an abra in Pokemon Blue: "Stop teliporting away, asshole!"
"Leon!! HEEEEELP!!!"
The tear-gathering sections in Twilight Princess. Not totally unredeemable, but it just felt like a chore after half way through the second one.
Any instance in which Scions are present in Mass Effect 2. Most notable is the instance near the end of Horizon, in which there are two present and nowhere to hide. It seems like if BioWare wanted an enemy that could kill me in two hits, they shouldn't have also let it's attacks go through FUCKING COVER.
Everything after saving the Tibetan village in Uncharted 2. The game stops being fun for me at that point; it feels like I have to contend with way too much, even when I stratagize and use stealth to my best ability.
Trying to catch an abra in Pokemon Blue: "Stop teliporting away, asshole!"
"Leon!! HEEEEELP!!!"
Getting the parts for the Big Daddy suit in Bioshock and then doing the Little Sister escort mission just sucked, but the worst has to be finding all of the Triforce shards in Zelda:Wind Waker I have several friends who never beat the game because of how long and annoying that part was.
The fucking Watermelon Festival from Super Mario Sunshine. Jesus, the physics in that level are just fucking terrible. And then you have to watch out for those waddlers.
The first trip to Forsaken Fortress in Wind Waker. Forced stealth segments are kind of an established tradition in 3D Zelda games at this point, but I still hate them.
how DARE you be level-headed in the face of my tirade, i demand that you act wildly irrational and insult me for my opinion, as is your duty.Megacherv said:
I've been playing Trauma Center: Second Opinion lately, and I have one word; TRITI.
FFFFFFFUUUUU
seriously, that GUILT is just so aggravating, it makes me want to stab Nurse Angie in the face with my damn scalpel.
FFFFFFFUUUUU
seriously, that GUILT is just so aggravating, it makes me want to stab Nurse Angie in the face with my damn scalpel.
Tales of Symphonia is among the best games on the Gamecube, both wonderfully representing and subverting JRPG tropes and conventions, with a fun combat system to boot. It also has the Ymir Forest, an obtuse, frustrating maze with an obtuse, frustrating puzzle.
While I largely like it better than many Zelda fans, the bug-hunts in Twilight Princess were terrible. The opening in the village was also boring, and felt too much like a meh-ish fantasy title instead of a Zelda game. Actually, come to think of it, the first 3rd or so of Twilight Princess felt like a poor fantasy game pretending to be a Zelda game (other than the Goron Mines, that was great).
Oh, and even though I absolutely adore MGS3, knocking out the Major and taking his clothing is pretty much impossible, unless you somehow manage to kill all the guards that aren't him or just wait for him to conveniently waltz into the un-guarded locker room for your CQCing pleasure.
While I largely like it better than many Zelda fans, the bug-hunts in Twilight Princess were terrible. The opening in the village was also boring, and felt too much like a meh-ish fantasy title instead of a Zelda game. Actually, come to think of it, the first 3rd or so of Twilight Princess felt like a poor fantasy game pretending to be a Zelda game (other than the Goron Mines, that was great).
Oh, and even though I absolutely adore MGS3, knocking out the Major and taking his clothing is pretty much impossible, unless you somehow manage to kill all the guards that aren't him or just wait for him to conveniently waltz into the un-guarded locker room for your CQCing pleasure.
"The Mission in dragon age: origins that takes place in the fade (Broken circle, So much going back and forth"
Took my answer right off the bat.. lol.
Took my answer right off the bat.. lol.
Quite a few segments in Jedi Outcast infuriate me:
Key puzzles. Why the hell do I need a key to open a door when I have a lightsaber? can't I just slice through the door and move on?
The snipers on Nar Shaada. They have eagle vision, can one-shot you, and their disruptor shots CAN'T BE BLOCKED BY YOUR LIGHTSABER.
Jump puzzles with insta-kill punishment for mistakes. I'm sick of these things, where the slightest mishap sends you plummeting down a bottomless pit.
Finally, the forced stealth segment on the Doomgiver. After smashing through legions of Stormtroopers, bounty hunters and Reborn (not to mention all the enemies he's killed in previous games), Kyle suddenly turns into a pansy and says some bullshit about there being "too many" Imperials to take in a fight? He's a pretty powerful Jedi by now, there's no reason for this. There's very little margin for error, and if you're caught it's an automatic failure.
Just let me kill things with my lightsaber, dammit!
Key puzzles. Why the hell do I need a key to open a door when I have a lightsaber? can't I just slice through the door and move on?
The snipers on Nar Shaada. They have eagle vision, can one-shot you, and their disruptor shots CAN'T BE BLOCKED BY YOUR LIGHTSABER.
Jump puzzles with insta-kill punishment for mistakes. I'm sick of these things, where the slightest mishap sends you plummeting down a bottomless pit.
Finally, the forced stealth segment on the Doomgiver. After smashing through legions of Stormtroopers, bounty hunters and Reborn (not to mention all the enemies he's killed in previous games), Kyle suddenly turns into a pansy and says some bullshit about there being "too many" Imperials to take in a fight? He's a pretty powerful Jedi by now, there's no reason for this. There's very little margin for error, and if you're caught it's an automatic failure.
Just let me kill things with my lightsaber, dammit!