Segments in your favorite games that you absolutely dread having to go through.

[Mistilteinn]

Lost Izalith and Blighttown in Dark Souls are two of the most annoying areas for me. They're easy to get through (I always pick up the Rusted Iron Ring for Blighttown) and while I like looking up in Blighttown since you can see the sky (and it keeps the framerate a bit smoother), the poison is a pain. But there's nothing redeeming about the lava pit in Lost Izalith. Seriously, did anyone not think to drop the contrast on that lava? It's more offensive to the eyes than neon green and neon yellow.

Still, nothing bothers me more than the Nino Ruins in Megaman Legends 2. Between the constant changing of water levels, how your speed gets cut to around 25% speed when underwater, further combined with the lowered framerate, water-simulating wavy screen-filter, and how when you get hit your falling animation lasts for-freaking-ever, just makes this an awful, awful level. Add that to the fact that if you want to make all the weapons, you'll need to be really good with jetisonning yourself off of platforms with the Hydro-skates (while underwater) to get some of the materials, and you also have to go back there later and break down a bunch of walls (alternating water levels again).

To make matters worse, you can go through this crap again in an optional dungeon...IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FRIGGIN' DESERT! I get what they were trying to do--give you that feeling of being underwater--but, ugh. It's just too tedious for me. Plus, after I'm out of those dungeons, I'm so used to everything moving so damn slowly that the game feels like it's playing in some turbo-mode once I'm out of those dungeons.

 

[TheLycanKing144]

The Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. It's just so time consuming and too much backtracking, not fun at all. I also dislike the Neibhelhim Mansion in FF7 (my favorite game) because I want to get Vincent but I have to find all the numbers and put them in the safe again yadda yadda yadda.....

 

[excalipoor]

Irenicus' Dungeon at the beginning of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. It gets old fast when you run through it a dozen times or two. It doesn't help that I'm anal retentive enough to kill all enemies, disarm all traps, and loot everything but the kitchen sink. Every time.

There's a mod to skip the whole dungeon, but who knows how many points of experience I might miss using it?

Fucking Midgar at the beginning of Final Fantasy VII.
Ultimecia's Castle in Final Fantasy VIII.

Man, you crazy!

 

[bificommander]

I'm ambivilent on the opening of Twilight Princess. On the one hand, it sets a nice mood and has some fun interaction with the kids and other character. On the other hand, neither the stuff you need to do, the mechanics you learn, nor the characters end up mattering much to the plot.

Mechanics wise in that game, I can't comprehend why they made a big deal about not being allowed to switch between wolf and human where people can see you. Why don't I just explain the transformation to my friends, so I don't have to slog all the way around them? The thing is, it never ends up mattering. You'd think they're setting up a plot point where someone does see you and freaks out but that never happens. And there's never a gameplay section where you can't transform just because everywhere there's someone who sees you. I can always walk away from people, transform, and go back, but it's just such busywork.

Levelwise, I dislike the Yeti's house. There isn't a single enemy that isn't annoying (hit-and-run respawning ghost wolves, insta-freeze billiart balls with eyes, stun-lock-arific spear spammers and the freezebreath monsters that leave 5 billiart balls when they die). And it's... just so silly. Zelda games always have some silly stuff in them, but the dungeons tend to be relatively serious. There's some really good dark cutscenes and plot points in that game, but the Snow dungeon always reminds me that nothing really comes of it in the entire plot.

 

[porous_shield]

Persona 4: the Void Quest. The retro feel of the level does nothing for me and that floor that changes your direction is very annoying, and also Rise, in her obnoxious voice, saying "sempai" every five seconds.

Demon's Souls: Valley of Defilement. The giants are so hard to kill on anything higher than New Game+, can't roll or move fast in the swamp which is constantly poisoning you, and plague rats are so annoying.

Contra 3: That overhead level.

Motorstorm: Buggy Byway! Racing on a narrow cliff with 11 other vehicles that are exactly like yours. In that race their are two chosen cars that will come in 1st and 2nd and then a pack of five suicide cars whose sole goal in their artificial lives is to make you crash. Instead of just slamming you into you so you'll crash, they'll guide you into objects, or off cliffs, with no instinct for self preservation whatsoever. On top of that, they'll pass you and then slam on the brakes when you're behind them to slow you down. If you pass them, they'll speed up and start their suicide tactics. Being in first place gets the adrenaline pumping since it has the effect of having cars coming from all directions, and flying over you, to single mindedly make your life miserable. Mind you, they do this in every race but the problems with the AI come to a head with that race in particular because of its narrow design and is hardest level in the game.

 

[EyeReaper]

Most fighting game final bosses usually apply, especially when you are playing as a character you aren't very good with them, but you want to see the ending, you know? That Kasumi clone from DOA 4 is my personal un-favorite, and that big dragony guy from tekken...6?

 

[Hades]

The sewers and the lightning and shadow temples from my favorite game, Tales of Symphonia are places i hate going through. The first two have way to many backtracking and the shadow temple is an escord mission with terrible AI

From Dragon age origins i hate the fade and Orthan taig. The fade is just boring filler and Orthan taigh, far to many spiders!

 

[rob_simple]

I just played through Metroid Prime again. I remembered how much I hate the first pirate base in Phenandra after the power cuts out, but I'd completely forgotten how bad the Phazon Mines are, and all the bullshit pirates you can only kill with one weapon.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Jacob's loyatly mission. Not because of the story, or because I have any problem with Jacob, or the environment, but THE FUCKING MUSIC Seriously, I have no problem with Jacob as a character, and I love the game's music overall, but Jacob's fucking theme song is the most horrible, grating, annoying sound I have ever heard, and nauseatingly repetitive.

 

[L4Y Duke]

As much as I enjoy Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, I dread the two heli missions.

 

[hazabaza1]

- Your fight against "It" in Resident Evil 4.

Which one is that? The thing in the cargo container thingys that fall into the pit once you beat it? I really enjoyed that fight.

Yeah, that one.

I suppose I enjoy it for the tense, claustrophobic sequence that it is, but I can't help but feel particularly overwhelmed whenever I get in that general area. Knowing I have to deal with that bastard.

And what's worse is that the fight with Krauser follows hot on its heels. Playing that on Professional was fucking brutal.

Been a while since I played RE4 and even then I only played on Normal. I need to get it on PSN sometime, that game is damn fun.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

The fade sections in DA:O every time I think about them I cringe. They pissed me off in DA2 aswell. Something about the fade just annoys the crap out of me.

I'd say the water temple but they have fixed it on the 3ds. Just the simple change of being able to put the iron boots on and off with one button improves it vastly.

 

[TallanKhan]

Ok lets see now...

The chameleon sections in Resistance 2, so irritating that if your not looking in exactly the right direction then your skewered.

Not really a section but the QTE for hyjacking in Mercs.2, especially the end - A series of Quick Time Events is not a suitable final boss!

And to this day that damn level in Super Mario Bros 3 where you get chased by the sun!

 

[eggy32]

Curst Prison in Planescape: Torment.

Up to this point, combat has been rare and fairly easy when it does show up. The focus has been on dialogue and character interaction, with nary a dungeon to be seen other than a couple of small ones in Sigil. Now, however, you need to break into a prison, and the only way in is past dozens of hard-hitting, damage sponge guards. It's absolutely appalling, and almost made me give up on the game because it was so dull. What really baffles me is that the Black Isle guys showed they could do good combat encounters with Icewind Dale, and yet Curst Prison is one of the worst dungeons I've ever played.

I must agree. I really want to play through the game again and this is one of the factors that's making me not want to. It took me a long long time to do it the first time. I'll probably play it again and just put the difficulty on easy.

OT: The part in Metro 2033 with the blobs. I can't remember what they're called. I never finished it before I traded it in and I'd love to finish it. I just don't want to have to deal with that section again.

 

[IrenIvy]

Six floating faces boss (?) fight in "Darksiders 2". It is just long and tedious.

 

[codeg]

Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of my favorite games but I absolutely hate the sewer section with Killer Croc.

 

[Fijiman]

Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3. I hate that place.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Replaying most of the missions in the beginning of Saint's Row games. Most of them are showing you how to do minigames -- minigames which usually are "Drive here while doing this/in this amount of time" or "Kill everything". It may sound tolerable, but it's atrociously boring when you are forced to only do certain amounts of driving or certain amounts of mindless killing (that instantly are reset at the completion of the game) for maybe fifteen missions.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Lets have a looksy...

The Dromedary escort in Tachyon: The Fringe. Huge escort mission when you have, say, the space equivalent of a Spitfire, and your enemies, which outnumber you 20-1, use F-22s.

Significant portions of Taris in KotOR. Actually, make that basically all of Peragus in the sequel as well.

Everything in Mass Effect from finishing character creation to finally being let out into the universe.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3. I hate that place.

I sorta like the feel of that place. It can take you around ten minutes if you do the morally evil path and do all of Braun's demands (which I still find funny) or you can get it over with almost immediately by pulling the failsafe.

Certainly not as bad as Vault 101.