Terrible Parts in Great Games

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

God of War 1.

Hades.


That is all.

I'll agree the fight was hard as hell, but hades is so epic that he makes up for it.

Uh, not Hades in God of War 3, there's nothing wrong with it in that game. I meant GOW1 (I edited it to show as much).

 

[open trap]

Resource mining in Mass Effect 2. Also the mission on board the derelict reaper. Husk spam makes me rage.

I fixed it for you

 

[AMMO Kid]

The Fade in Dragon Age.
The Ammo Clips in Mass Effect 2(overheating weapons were better in the first game)
Some would think of the escorts in Dead Rising, but when you know how to do them it's not that bad...

EDIT: ...and Roman Bellic. Any questions?

 

[zHellas]

I'll list some from RPG's... why not?

- Dragon Age: The Fade portion of the Circle of Magi quest
- Mass Effect: Lunar Mission (DAMN YOU ROCKET DRONES!)
- Mass Effect 2: Fighting Praetorians
Edit: Some for Mass Effect I forgot...

- Mass Effect: Vehicle Sections not attached to the main quest
- Mass Effect 2: Probing pre-patch

I really agree on not liking The Fade portion of the Broken Circle quest.

Lunar Mission... How was that hard?

Fighting Praetorians... What the hell is a Praetorian?

I did like(or they didn't bother me at least) the vehicle sections.

What's the difference between pre-patch probing and post-patch probing?

 

[Hidan03]

God of War 1.

Hades.


That is all.

I'll agree the fight was hard as hell, but hades is so epic that he makes up for it.

Uh, not Hades in God of War 3, there's nothing wrong with it in that game. I meant GOW1 (I edited it to show as much).

sorry, missed the digit, but i'll agree with you. he looked like zerg from toy story, at least while he was distortde by flames.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

God of War III had some piss poor choices. The sex scene was appalling with the two maids simpering away and the rhythm/ music task was so out of place.
Not to mention his un-Kratos like concern for someone else(Pandora) coming from nowhere.

Uh, Ok. If you find lesbians appalling, then I don't see the point of trying to convince you otherwise(although the dialog was pretty bad, I definitely grant you that.) The rhythm game takes about 45 seconds to complete and is so minor, I don't see the point of complaining. It's one puzzle. It's not they integrated it into the entire game, so why fault a little creativity? Oh, and Pandora was a surrogate for Kratos's daughter. Did you really not pick up on that?

 

[oden636]

The rail-shooters in Jak 2 and 3...oh god the rail-shooters in Jak 2 and 3...

Personally I never got past that fucking skateboard thing in Jak 2.

haha i remember those. probably the thing that kept me most stuck on that game is that damn mini game where u have to hit the buttons on the controller. THAT MADE ME RAGE QUIT. The only way i did it was to pause the game everytime and see what they were...

In Infinite Undiscovery the part where u have to carry the unconcious girl and then later that damn forest with the teleporty wind >=S

Most driving parts in FPS are bad.

 

[KILLERTHING]

The library in Halo CE and Entanglement in Half life 2
I really dont know what it is about nova prospekt and entanglement i just dont like those levels

 

[DueAccident]

"Hey Niko, want to go see some big American titties?" - ARGH. The 'keep your friends happy' shit was infuriating. I just said forget that and by the end I was getting continual "hey Niko, we need to hang out" texts.

I didn't find the Fade that bad, but then I remembered the part where you have to go through endless different forms. That was awful..

 

[Der Kommissar]

I'm gonna go with the complete lack of armor in Planescape: Torment. The Nameless One tended to take tons of damage due to the fact that he never learned how to duck and thinks scars are perfectly serviceable armor, so why would you need anything else?

I am in middle of a second playthrough of this game and my... what you described here is a major problem in the whole game. My Dak'kon has a native AC of -6 (or Zerth armor) and STILL he gets his behind shredded in a most painful way even with all defensive spells on.

What makes it more absurd&ridiculous is that I leveled all characters to post-30 with a trainer, and I still take the beating (whereas, I hear, in Baldur's Gate the 8th level meant The godliest warrior status).

 

[Nomanslander]

The driving section in the first Gears game, actually now that I think of it....ALL driving sections...-_-

God of War 1.

Hades.


That is all.

I'll agree the fight was hard as hell, but hades is so epic that he makes up for it.

Uh, not Hades in God of War 3, there's nothing wrong with it in that game. I meant GOW1 (I edited it to show as much).

You're talking about those spiraling blade towers you have to climb with the horrible, and I do mean horrible hit detection...right? =P

 

[Flack]

the room with all the phase ticks in Singularity

 

[ThePorject]

The parts in COD World at War without zombies.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

The spinning spiked pillars of Hades in God of War.
Protecting the little sister in Bioshock. (I didn't mind it so much in the second one)
Losing your powers in Prototype. (and in any game for that matter)
Xen in Half-Life
The character models, and boring dialogue in Fallout 3. (Thank goodness for the skip button)
Waiting to rejoin in Team Fortress 2. (Although the servers I play on negate that, except in Arena of course.)
Escort Missions.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

The first level with the Flood(I think the one where you're in a swamp)in Halo: Combat Evolved. I don't remember why though.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

The Fade in Dragon Age: Origins, the one hiccup in an otherwise brilliant game. If you're not a magic user it's just so bloody difficult.

I don't know about non-magic users. However, having played the level as a Mage, I think it's one of the most briliant levels in any RPG I ever encountered (admittingly, though, I haven't played as many RPG's as I would want to =( ).

 

[deadguynotyetburied]

The speechcraft mini-game in Oblivion. It was a fun mini-game, but had absolutely nothing to do with speaking. Either that or the fact that chameleon makes it harder for YOU to see your character than your enemies. I could never tell when I'd been paralyzed, or fallen down.

 

[Lerxst]

Max Payne
Those dream sequence maze thingys.

Made me feel like tearing my eyeballs out, but a great game otherwise.

 

[ben---neb]

The vehicle sections in Half-Life 2.

Really? I thought they were quite well done and I enjoyed them very much.

What was it that got on your goat?

The controls are WAY too sensitive making it difficult to steer.

You crash into the slightest obstacle.

And it took a while before i got used to the fact that you control your head with the mouse and steer with the keyboard. It was especially annoying when

Spoiler: minor spoilers

you were being chased by ant lions and was expected to shot them with a laser canon.

That ment that everytime you wanted to shoot an ant lion to the side you don't see where you're heading.

There is no way of controlling you car when you use "Turbo".

This is a minor point but it's annoying and immersion breaking when you don't see the rest of Freeman's body. It makes you realise that you are just a flying camera.

But the pacing was excellent.

Not forgetting the impossible to kill choppers in the hoverboat level.

But that was fun! Dodging between dropped bombs, running for your life, surviving by the skin of your teeth. And then you get a gun and BOOM! You can take the bitches down.