The Worst Part of the Best Game

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Hurr Durr Derp

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Hello Escapists

I think we can all agree that no game is perfect. Some games might get close to your idea of a perfect game, but there will always be some parts that could've been better, or even just plain suck.

I want you to look at your favourite game and for once don't think about the many reasons you love it so. In stead, pick out the worst part of it. Name at least one thing you really don't like, which is keeping it from being "the perfect game". Also explain why it's so bad.

My favourite game of all time, as I've mentioned before, is Jagged Alliance 2. My least favourite part of it is the character Ira. Why? Not because she's almost useless. There are worse characters than her, and at least her suckage is a good excuse to dump her in the first town you conquer and have her train militia or whatever rather than having her tag along with your rag-tag band of mercenaries. The reason I hate her immediately becomes clear the very first time you meet her: In a game that's known to be full of awesome and often funny voice acting, her voice fucking sucks. The moment she opens her mouth to emotionlessly and mechanically force out the words "She is evil. A driven *****." in her annoying voice, the entire character is ruined. I don't know who did Ira's voice acting, and I don't want to know. All I know is that it's one of the worst voices, both in the way she sounds and the way she delivers her lines, in videogame history.

Coincidentally, bad voice acting is also one of the main reasons why my other favourite game, Silent Storm, doesn't take the #1 spot on my list. That and those damn Panzerkleins.
 
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It isn't my favorite game, but it's one I just got done finishing. KOTOR 2.

Despite it's rushed finished which Obsidian couldn't really help, the game made me want to kill it by making the character control weaker party members. The final bit on Nar Shadda isn't the Jek Jek Tarr as Mira was so hard I just wanted it to end the whole time.
 
FactualSquirrel

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That it wasn't popular enough, so may never get a sequel.

Applies to a lot of people's favourite games.

Well with mine, at least.
 
Jenova65

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Hubilub said:
That it ended.

Applies with everyone's favorite game!
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I think you just summed it up perfectly. I hate finishing my fave games :'-(
 
Simalacrum

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My favourite game is Timesplitters 2. The only thing wrong about it that I can think of is that it doesn't work with my PS3... and my PS2 was stolen -.-

...Ok, that isn't a proper example! (frankly, I can't think of anything wrong with that game)

Assassin's Creed II - loved the game, hated no replay!
 
Dok Zombie

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The boat bit in Half-Life 2. Not my favourite game really, but it went on for far too long and really slowed the game down.

Or, the disappointment I felt in Bioshock when I became the Big Daddy, I was so excited and the end result felt so tacked on, he still had normal arms and weapons, just with a fish-eye filter on the screen. But Bioshock 2 looks like its sorted it out.
 
Trendkill6

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I love Metal Gear Solid, but after playing the newer games in the series it's hard to play the first because the combat just isn't as good.
Mainly because I can't switch to first person and manual aim.
 
Axeli

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Pretty much any otherwise great RPG with the usual sidequest hell.

Pointless padding is pointless padding. If I spend half the game doing something trivial and boring that does not add anything meaningful to the game, then it probably shouldn't be there.

If there's one aspect in which JRPGs consistently outshine WRPGs, it's this. The sidequests tend to be something small you can do along the main plot, the longer ones are usually left to the end game and often focus on further exploring the stories of the characters (rather than helping out a random NPC with something pointless).
 
bartholen_v1legacy

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The last level of Bioshock. You only need two words: ESCORT MISSION. Although the game didn't punish you in any way for letting the Little Sisters die, it was still asinine, arbitrary and especially because of the reduced sight the Bid daddy helmet made.

Half-Life 2 is a great game, but the motor boat section fairly early in the game just fucking sucks. I barely knew where I was going and why I was supposed to care, and it was so overly long and boring it ruined itself completely.

I can, however, think of one game I simply have no criticism about: Chrono Trigger (if you haven't played it, shame on you!). The only complain I can think of that it ended, but I've played it about five times, and spent over 40 hours alone on my best save. And even the ending was simply perfect: the story ended, and I felt no need for a sequel.
 
Heart of Darkness

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Final Fantasy II (SNES)--The Moon. Just...the Moon. I hate those Behemoth sub-bosses that never actually disappear.

Pikmin 2--I was disappointed with the lack of a co-op campaign mode. But it pales in comparison to the Scrappy Level [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneLevel?from=Main.ScrappyLevel] that is the Submerged Castle. Holy shit, that place is scary...
 
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In all the Metroid Prime's, the freaking Backtracking!
I despised it.
i would get to one place only to find i need an item to advance so i would waste about 20 min getting it, then my ship would tell me i nee another item in order to get the next item in the area....and of course at the end of the game;s you had to find all 12 freaking artifacts/Keys/Fuel Cells if you hadn't already.
Its one of the few things i hate about Metroid Prime.
Well, all Metroid's in general suffer from this.
 
Optimus Hagrid

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That weird geyser place in Sam and Max: Hit the Road almost ruined the game for me. I feel nauseous just thinking about it.

Simalacrum said:
My favourite game is Timesplitters 2. The only thing wrong about it that I can think of is that it doesn't work with my PS3... and my PS2 was stolen -.-

...Ok, that isn't a proper example! (frankly, I can't think of anything wrong with that game)
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Eh there were a lot of hard bit and th last mission was a bit lame, but you are right, Timesplitters 2 is a classic.
 
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