Worst Minigame EVER!

[Tartarga]

The poker in Red Dead Redemption. Why don't I ever get any good hands? I always end up failing the cheating thing to so eventually all the players end up dead.

 

[Blue2]

Kingdom Hearts Air ship game, It's one thing to find a way to get to go, but a ship mini-game every time you go different worlds. I rather have a 20 min loading screen. Honesty, I stop playing because of that mini-game.

 

[GiantRaven]

I have to say, though, the lockpicking minigame was more frustrating.

Really? The lockpicking minigame in Oblivion is probably the best use of lockpicking I've ever seen in a game. Much better than that trial and error rubbish in the Fallout games.

 

[Adamc-mh]

The hacking in fallout, terrible...

 

[Not PvP Flagged]

Any mini game that is pure luck

Edit
Actually I'm going with 'Chance Time' from the Mario Party series, I always get fucked in that

 

[Soviet Heavy]

There's also the gambling game in New Vegas with the insane rules. I forget the name.

 

[ZeroMachine]

'Would you like to play a game of lucky hit?'

I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY!

I actually loved playing Lucky Hit, it's just running the stand that made me hate it.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Blitzball. Dear god, Blitzball from FFX. I hated that game. Just thinking about it makes me mad and frustrated.

 

[mjc0961]

What, in your opinion is the worst minigame ever put into an otherwise good game? I love Okami, it looks stunning and plays great. But then, you reach the digging minigame.

How I loath this stupid sequence. You have to protect some moron NPC from wandering into the death traps, and you're also on a timer, and the NPCs don't know how to turn around and just wait for you to make a safe path. Its infuriating.

So what is the worst minigame you've ever played?

And the damn Wii controls aren't coded well, so you do the symbol for a wind gust and it drops a bomb in there. And then you run out of ink trying to get the right symbol, so you have to wait for the ink to regen and the idiot you're escorting either falls into a death trap or you run out of time and have to start over. The digging mini-game is the straw that broke the camel's back for me when it came to Okami. I wouldn't have cared if it was optional, but it was mandatory to continue with the game, and after raging harder than I've ever raged at any game before, I tossed the disc in the trash*. If I had to review Okami in one sentence, that sentence would be this: An otherwise mediocre game brought down to the shit level because of some mandatory obnoxious mini-game.

The second game that came to mind was 3D Dot Game Heroes. Not one, but THREE awful mini-games. Thankfully, you only have to tangle with them if you want 100% completion. You never have to touch them if all you care about is just beating the main quest.

And an honorable mention to Star Fox Adventures, which I recently played and wanted to chuck out the window at the mandatory "test of strength AKA mash the hell out of the A button" mini-game. And then they basically did it again later for nearly an entire "level". You ride around on the backs of some dinosaurs and mash A to fire bolts at incoming enemies and their launchers. You do that twice, and then you get to do it again for the boss fight. And of course, like all Rare games, the aiming set-up is shit and gets in your way, making the challenge more tedious than it should be. Rare, this is the shit why I can't take you all that seriously as a developer. You guys can put forth some good levels and gameplay elements when you want to, but then you get fucking lazy and put in this uncreative, boring button mashing shit and/or awful aiming mechanics and then I want to take every game of yours I own and burn them in a giant pile.

*[small]Okay, I pulled it out of the trash shortly after, but only so I could sell it. Not to play it again, heavens no.[/small]

 

[SereneMidnight]

The Tales of Draspi minigame in Tales of Vesperia. There's no achievement that goes with it (Except a title), so what's the point?

 

[DustyDrB]

There's also the gambling game in New Vegas with the insane rules. I forget the name.

Caravan. Yeah, I had that guy in Goodsprings tell me the rules over and over and I still don't know how to play it (and I've played through New Vegas three times). I tried to learn by trial and error, but that didn't help either.

I gotta say, though, that I'm just horrible at card games period. I still don't know how Poker works.

 

[scorptatious]

Blitzball from FFX.

I don't mean to offend anyone who enjoyed this mini-game, but let me say this:

Spoiler

I'm glad they made it so you didn't have to win that mandatory match.

 

[Sentient6]

There's also the gambling game in New Vegas with the insane rules. I forget the name.

Caravan. Yeah, I had that guy in Goodsprings tell me the rules over and over and I still don't know how to play it (and I've played through New Vegas three times). I tried to learn by trial and error, but that didn't help either.

I just never bothered with it, tbh. I got the rules from the guy in Goodsprings, tried to read them, said "fuck it, I'll learn as I go", tried an actual game and then just gave up on it. Never played Caravan again.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Computer Hacking in Fallout (3 and NV). Thankfully it's completely unnecessary most of the times as you can just nick the password from someone's back pocket anyway. God I love Fallout.

 

[scorptatious]

All of the minigames from the first Mario Party that required rapid control stick rotations, simply because it caused millions of players to suffer from palm blisters.

The worst part was that many families sued Nintendo for suffering from those injuries. And they won thousands of dollars, plus a free glove to play those kind of games with.

Why is that the worst part? My family wasn't one of those families. When I got my palm blister, they grounded me for playing too many video games. >_>

 

[the spud]

the chocobo treasure hunts in ff9. it takes hours to find a single chocograph, and you feel obligated to do the stupid game because it nets you the best equipment.

 

[JamesBr]

The sliding lock puzzle in silent hill 5 held me up for hours before I gave up and looked online, I nearly ragequit. Oh and the card game in Final Fantasy 9. Not that it wasn't fun, it was just insultingly pointless. At least the card game in 8 gave you hard to get items, in 9 you play for its own sake.

 

[plugav]

I have to say, though, the lockpicking minigame was more frustrating.

Really? The lockpicking minigame in Oblivion is probably the best use of lockpicking I've ever seen in a game. Much better than that trial and error rubbish in the Fallout games.

Don't get me wrong, it was pretty good, but I used it a lot more often than the persuasion minigame and it cost me precious lockpicks (well, that or the time I needed to quickload).

 

[the_tramp]

Blitzball in FFX was enjoyable up to the point in which you got Jecht's Shot 2. That was a game breaker.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

"Launching probe"
Gah...I hated that part of Mass Effect 2...

Though it was fun probing Uranus. "Really, Commander?"

That was one of the only upsides.

I think this is my response. They could have made this so much better. I pretty much ignored it for three quarters of the game, which resulted in two of my squad (Thane and Legion) dying because I didn't buy the proper upgrades.