Games you want to replay until you remember "that one part."

[Thaius]

Bioshock. Personally, I think Bioshock is a masterpiece, and one of gaming's greatest triumphs. I'm perfectly willing to forgive its gameplay weaknesses since pretty much everything else about it is brilliant, and the gameplay as a whole is fine. But once I start playing it again, I can only get a couple hours in before I remember, "Oh, right; I spend most of the time on contrived fetch quests."

Again, brilliant masterpiece of interactive narrative, but dang the missions get annoying.

Agreed. That's why I use the New Game+ feature. If you do that, you can skip a good chunk of Medical (since you don't need to search for Incinerate or Telekinesis), and you can skip the Farmer's Market entirely if you have enough components left over from your previous play.

Speeds things up immensely.

There's a new game plus??

...I somehow totally missed that. Guess what game will be back in my 360 soon!

Oh... there's a very good reason you missed it: You don't have it.

It's part of the PS3-exclusive DLC that came out shortly after Bioshock was released on PS3.

Sorry to burst your bubble. Didn't realize you were playing the 360 version.

...I am disappoint. You got my hopes up.

Yeah, I got it before the PS3 version existed, and also hate using the PS3 controller for shooters. So yeah... sad day. Oh well.

 

[Jdb]

Monster Hunter Tri's online multiplayer. I still play single player and local multiplayer, but I will not touch the online mode.

I had a level 70 character. I had fun with the lower levels, but the game becomes a grind after level 30. I stuck it out until I unlocked the final monsters though. Problem is I forged their equipment after only one weekend! Wow! One month of grinding and my reward is two monsters that don't even last a week? No thank you! Back to single player!

 

[Rutnier Nodarse]

Skyrim, because I don't enjoy running inside a room and a 8-Legged Bug with overgrown teeth, multiple eyes and a unrealistic growth hormone falling on my character easily killing him with two hits and the sight is just (UNBEARABLE).

 

[Smeggs]

Kingdom Hearts, the Alice in Wonderland level. That level actually makes me nautious sometimes from all the running around and the way the camera sometimes gets stuck on things in the forest, also the map is kind of confusing and annoying to navigate if it's been a while.

KH2 also because of the slow goddamn Roxas bit at the start where I have to grind for literal money that has no purpose outside the intro. And Atlanitca *shudders* Swim this way...

Kanto Pokemon games for Mt. Moon the Rock Tunnel where you need Flash. Long ass cave, so many Zubats and Geodude. The Johto pokemon games because of the stupid fetch quest at the start. Go to Mr. Pokemon's house, go back, then go back up that way to first gym, way too much talking at the beginning.

Mass Effect 2-Always the first two levels. Unskippable cutscene, into character creator, into escape Cerberus station, into go save that Quarian. The whole time between you cannot access your better weaponry, and then of course there's the shitload of talking. I really do like the conversation in the series, but sometimes I just want to kill shit.

 

[Jaysoon]

Resident evil 5 the stupid section with the boat where you have to get sections for the door.

 

[imagremlin]

Wind Waker. Until I remember fetch-the-maps-in-order-to-fetch-the-triforce-pieces quest.

This, in fact I started playing WW a few weeks back and just yesterday went through that part. Just as awful as you remember.

 

[Raddra]

Valkyria chronicles chapter 7.

Whoever designed that.. urgh. Killed the game for me. After several hours of trying I gave up.

I really want to play that game, but that mission just killed the game.

 

[Aj Byrne]

Any Mario RPG
The beginnings are filled with tedium and grind

 

[k0n9]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Any mission where you fly a plane, especially Learning to Fly, N.O.E and Supply Lines.

 

[urahara75]

The entire castle section of Resident Evil 4 makes me just go "Do I really want to replay this?" I love RE4, it's one of my favorite games, but I hate the entire Castle chapter.

The acts Leon spends in the castle/estate are actually fairly easygoing for me; be it normal or professional difficulty, money, treasure, new weapons, and idiot mook-fodder abound.

If I have to dislike anything about this place, it would be the garden maze... goddammit I. HATE. THAT. GARDEN. MAZE!! Well, to be truthful I loathe any and all of the RE franchise puzzle areas that just-so-happen in, or around, gardens/greenhouses/zoos/parks/etc., Why, you ask? Primarily because Capcom always, without fail, puts enemies in these areas that take advantage of the "irritatingly" obstructive/useless camera angles, agoraphobe-happy area design, being able to travel outside of the designated walkway paths, and (also, without fail) using jump-scares to full effect. To me this is Capcom's RE dev teams teabagging me personally, over and over again.

I personally can't stand the fifth/final chapter, particularly the miniboss gauntlet that begins with the Regenerators/Iron Maiden(s). You go from armored militia ganados to J.J. to Regenerators to more armored ganados & Iron Maiden(s) to experiment U3 to Krauser (fuck Krauser with a lead pipe). It would be bearable if only you'd find/loot more ammo worth a damn and could down these guys without using a third (minimum) of your entire ammo stock each encounter. And this is just playing on the "normal" difficulty; without a few near-maxed modded weapons, or even one/two of the broken ones, the final chapter on Professional difficulty is almost certainly just a "bragging rights"-type of playthrough exercise.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

Shenmue.

I'm having a blast up until I get here...


I still rage at coming in second day after day.

 

[sumanoskae]

I keep saying I'll give Dragon Age II another chance, but then I start playing and remember that it starts off way worse then it ends up.

 

[Bobbity]

Most Bioware games are afflicted with this, actually.

I went back and played KotOR recently, and that wasn't actually so bad. About the worst bit was the underwater area on Manaan, but that was over pretty quick, leaving me free to get on with enjoying the game.

KotOR 2, while not technically Bioware, has had me trying to get back into it a few times, only to give up at some point during the first level. Fuck, but that was just bloody awful.

Jade Empire is pretty pain free to, to be honest. Old Tien's landing is a tad repetitive, but there's nothing to really kill the fun.

Mass Effect is pretty good, but the mind control thing on that planet and that abandoned mine on that other planet, and the overrun facility on the... Yeah. Mass Effect did world and characters really well, but it had this obsession with lifeless, deserted areas, which can get very tedious very quickly.

Dragon Age: Origins has some kick ass plot moments that it's worth playing the game again for, until you hit either the Fade, or the Deep Roads. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the quests, while awesome, can get tedious if you've done them before, and the desire to skip them builds. I've always wanted to get a second character through the game, but out of maybe five alternate files, I couldn't get a single one all the way through to the Landsmeet. It doesn't help that you're always feeling like you're missing stuff because of your origin, either.

Mass Effect 2 is actually pretty good in this regard. A couple of loyalty missions I wanted to skip, but nothing major.

As for DA2? Well, it's that bit between the start and the end. Seriously, I've never had the desire to go back and play that again.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I've been playing through Cursed Crusade on Nightmare

Spoiler: Cursed Crusade Spoilers

Chapter 4 fight with de Flandre, fuck him in the face.

For an older game, Wild 9, the hoverbike missions, the controls are kind of annoying nowadays and I suck at it now.

 

[Master Kuja]

Demon's Souls.
Remember Valley of Defilement.

Dark Souls.
Remember Blight Town.

VTM: Bloodlines.
Remember the Sewer level.

Dragon Age Origins.
Fuck the Fade, seriously. Not hard, just tedious.

Oh and any Halo game that involves the Flood.
Not because they scare me or anything, but because they're so boring to fight. Every time I encounter the Flood in those games it's just...Yeah, brilliant, can we hurry this along so I can get back to the semi-enjoyable bits please?

 

[silent-treatment]

a couple of weeks ago I would have brought up "learning to fly" from GTA: SA but I was replaying it the other day and I just breezed through it so...

Jak 2 that one mission where you are stuck on the series of bridges with unlimited guards coming at you.

 

[Furycrab]

Mass Effect 1, the first city bit with the elevators of doom.

 

[bliebblob]

ffx-2: first I remember the class system and how it was pretty fun. Than I remember THE REST of the game...

Any mmo when I want to try a different character class. Trying something new? Great idea! Re-leveling from level 1? Noooo thank you, it was already boring when I didn't know the story.
MMO pro tip: no matter how badly you want to explore this brave new world, try every class before you really take off. Re-doing 40 levels of content takes much longer.