Worst vehicles in gaming

[Chunga the Great]

Helicopters (Battlefield series).

They are slow enough to take care of AA and to be hit by jets. Sometimes it's preferable to ram your jet into one than trying to use your guns in it. Missiles? Forget it. The helicopter recharges the flares too fast.

I don't hate piloting them, I hate having to fight them.

Now the VTOL in Crysis, on the other hand, handled abominably.

I have the be the only human to have found that VTOL sequence easy.

The choppers in BF2 where far better and far harder to kill. So yeah they had to balance that one out.

Did have little problem with VTOL but after figuring out that not driving over the Tornado it worked just fine.

Have to say GTA4, hardly any break power in any of the vehicle and you would slide across the street.

I fondly remember using an LMG (and nothing else!) to kill a chopper in the Vietnam expansion to BC2. My friend beat that though, by bringing one down with a pistol.

Those things were made out of paper.

Agreed. I'm glad they went back to the Battlefield 2 style helicopters although I do miss the AT4 from BC2

OT: The Mako. So. Fucking. Awful.

 

[Lugbzurg]

If you want to talk about turning don't hate on the Slick Star (It's my favorite). It can take corners nicely and get a full boost as well if you plan the turn ahead of time. You should be yelling at the Formula Star though that thing can turn 5deg. left or right in about 10 minutes (minimum). Also why would you want to STOP in a racing game?

It really shouldn't have to be so excessive with the effort to do something that's normally so split-second. Plus, you may want to stop to boost. Not to mention, there's plenty you do in that game besides racing. Let's not forget City Trial, and its various arena games.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I hated this PoS.

I always liked that craft. Although it was more the Civil Protection units that kept on rappelling in front of it and flat-lining that I enjoyed.

The ME2 Hammerhead on the other-hand was a wannabe tank with paper mache armour with a crap armament. The lack of save points didn't do it any favours either.

 

[daedalus9973]

The Mako was the go kart everyone wanted when they were little and it was perfect in the way that no matter what you did it never flipped. Nothing beats going all Dukes of Hazard in a car with a cannon on it

 

[ResonanceSD]

Anything you find in Crysis. Seriously, what the nutters.

 

[1nfinite_Cros5]

I actually quite like the vehicles from the Mass Effect games. They have their share of problems, but I'm glad I operated them. I'm not getting the hate for the Hammerhead. That thing was a blast to drive. Because it was so weak? Well, if you played quickly and smartly, you can actually avoid most projectiles.

Anyways, the worst vehicles are the ones where you can only turn by looking in a direction. Those controls are always balls. This is basic stuff: You look around your vehicle to check your surroundings because you are going fast, not to speed into the nearest enemy or wall. I was nearly turned off from the rest of the Gears of war 2 campaign, the only game in the series I actually enjoyed, because of its shitty look-to-turn handling.

Why did I have to drive AND fire the attached gun at the same time? Last I checked, I had 3 other buddies with me, one of which is a mechanic and is fixing the vehicle as it gets damaged, so he has an excuse, but what about the other two sitting on their lazy asses?

Long story short: Leave the turning controls on the left analog stick and accelerate/reverse with the shoulder buttons to, you know, simulate how driving really is!

 

[Dfskelleton]

Every vehicle in Deadly Premonition. Controlling York on foot was sort of clunky, but it was bearable. Driving, on the other hand, was like trying to control a block of lead on a trycicle. Not only that, but it had vehicle integrity and gas, of all things. So, if you bumped into too many things (which you will), or you drove for too long (which you will), then the vehicle ceases to work and the game scolds you and then the FBI remotely docks your pay for being a horrible driver.
Don't get me wrong; I love Deadly Premonition. It just has a LOT of technical flaws.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Triple ninja'd on the same page? Man, not my day.

The Dune Hopper was a neat idea (platforming with a car), but it was really wonky.

But ya, those were the worst vehicles I have ever driven in a game. I could be driving in a straight line on flat ground and then spin out of control without even touching the stick. I golded the solo-race in that game twice (because first time didn't save). After doing that, I'm cheating and glitching my orbs to avoid driving those wretched cars again. The zoomers weren't angels, but DAMN! And that is the #1 reason why I don't play Jak X.

Not to mention the vehicles made up a HUGE chunk of missions that could've been spent platforming (remember, this IS a platformer). Seriously, you get next to no platforming until the 1/3 point.

EDIT:
Captcha: Hands Down
Hands down indeed!

The neat idea was done better in Banjo N' Kazooie: Nuts N Bolts.

I had fun with them, but they were horrible. Some of them were never meant to be used, ever.

Indeed. I'm not the biggest Jak 3 fan for that reason as well as the way it repeated and over-used levels. One of my favorite franchises, but Jak 3 was the let down to me. Honestly though, PLAY JAK X. They got it right.

 

[repeating integers]

Helicopters (Battlefield series).

They are slow enough to take care of AA and to be hit by jets. Sometimes it's preferable to ram your jet into one than trying to use your guns in it. Missiles? Forget it. The helicopter recharges the flares too fast.

I don't hate piloting them, I hate having to fight them.

Well, an average player in a helicopter isn't so bad, but a good player is just unstoppable, especially as they can go back to the base and regenerate all the heli health.

I once took down a helicopter with the medic's light machine gun. He came straight at me firing rockets and I held my ground and unloaded into the cockpit. shot the pilot before he managed to hit me. That was awesome. EDIT: Oh no, my badass story has been ninja'd by another player. Now I don't feel as special

You see, you shot the pilot to death, not the helicopter. On both the occasions I mentioned, we were shooting the helicopter itself.

 

[evilneko]

I don't get some people's problems with the Saints Row 2 cars... some of them were bad, usually the ones on the extreme ends, but most were fine... and I was playing the PC port.

Re: Mako

*sigh* No one appreciates the work involved in that thing.

I guess this isn't a good time to say I cheered when the thing got smashed at the end...

 

[Reaper195]

Bare feet in Skyrim.

Re: Mako

*sigh* No one appreciates the work involved in that thing.

Agreed. I fuckin' loved the Mako. Yeah, it was unwieldy as hell, but it was a damn good truck to drive directly into one of those huge Geth things.

 

[The Funslinger]

Wait, the Mongoose in Halo? You didn't like that thing? I thought it was fun as hell. Rocket Race was excellent.

Agreed. And I'm relatively certain it was faster than the Warthog...

In any case, the very day I got Halo: Reach, me and some friends were fucking around on Forge World. Culminated in them in that thing that replaced the Hornet, with the manned chainguns. This fully manned gunship proceeded to chase me across Forge world while I was on a Mongoose. The bullets were kicking up dust around me. I was weaving, flipping and spinning off ledges, always landing wheels-down. I'd disappear through caves for a brief respite and they'd soar over and have to wait for me.

The Theatre Mode looked like something out of a movie. It was awesome. We'd do it again, but it would only ever feel like a shoddy attempt to repeat it.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Re: Mako

*sigh* No one appreciates the work involved in that thing.

I loved the Mako, as long as you drove it right everything was fine.

The Dodo on the other hand.

That thing could have a mind of its own.

 

[Soxafloppin]

The tank from Sly 2, basicaly you powered the left track with the left stick and the right track with the right stick, sounds simple but it really, really isnt.

And also everything from Jak 2 and 3.

Anyone who recognizes this image knows my pain.

That I do, that I do.

What was with that driving/shooting section before the final boss :|

Yea, I only recently rented out the Trilogy and played through all 3, they are that bad!

The tank from Sly 2, basicaly you powered the left track with the left stick and the right track with the right stick, sounds simple but it really, really isnt.

And also everything from Jak 2 and 3.

Anyone who recognizes this image knows my pain.

That I do, that I do.

What was with that driving/shooting section before the final boss :|

I adore the Jak games but can't remember the driving sections at all. I faintly remember nerd raging over a race but that's it.
Were they really that bad?

Yea, I rented out the Jak Trilogy and played through all 3 recently, the driving sections are horrible, great games though, fun characters too I'd like another entry in the series.

 

[Zeema]

the Jet's in BF3, maybe i just really suck but i end up either running away or crashing

 

[Surpheal]

I hate the Hellbender from Unreal Tournament 3. It's slow, has terrible weapons, is too big to fit through small gaps and only lightly armoured.

For me it would have to be a tie between either the Fury or the Nightshade.

The Fury was a poor excuse for an aircraft. It had poor armor, its beam weapon was a piece of shit when trying to kill something more heavily armored than a daisy, and its little dash move may save you from vehicle fire but not from a guided AVRiL rocket. Damn thing could be easily destroyed by a Raptor.

Then there is the Nightshade, a fun vehicle to play with but utterly useless. Sure it could go invisible at the cost of half its speed, sure it could lay down EMPs, spider mines, force fields, and slow-mo chambers, but the only real way to kill someone in that thing is by running them over while invisible. And its little beam turret thing was completely useless against any vehicle, plus you had to be right next to said enemy vehicle to hit it.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Anything in Banjo & Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, fucking hate that game

 

[OmegaAlucard777]

Re: Mako

*sigh* No one appreciates the work involved in that thing.

Agreed. I thought the Mako was incredibly fun, I drove it around bouncing off cliffs, driving up the most ridiculous mountains and it still made it across most objects and it was just plain.. fun.

The Mako was absolutley amazing. For the life of me I cannot understand how anyone could hate that thing. It was perfectly constructed.

First off, it's a BEAST of a machine. It take's more shots to the face than Jenna Jameson and still comes back for more.

Secondly, to anyone who says that the guns are inaccurate. Then I can only guess you don't zoom in with the gun at all. As long as you shoot the main gun in bursts, then Geth Rocket Troops and anything else drop like flies. The secondary fire more obliterates anything in its splash damage radius.

Thirdly, climbing mountians is a breeze. Now, it's not the Mako's fault you cannot go straight up. You just gotta look for patches on the side that are more defined then others. That's what you climb up. Hell, climbing mountians on Skyrim was exactly the same as climbing them on with the Mako. (Now, if only I had rocket launchers to take down Dragons, it would be just the same.)

Also, the only thing you should ram in the Mako is Geth Collosus' and Geth Armatures. (I believe I spelt one of the two wrong, oh well.) Everything else just quakes in fear. The only sad feeling I felt in the ending of ME3, was when I saw in the cutscene that the Earth forces were using Mako's.... I wanted one.

Then again, I love driving in Saint's Row 2 over Saint's Row The Third and some people hate that aswell. I guess I love "bad controls".

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Apparently the VTOL in Crysis handled so horribly they left it out of the console port intentionally.

 

[Marine Mike]

I know this proves I'm old... but anyone remember that damn jet ski from battletoads?