Worst break of game flow ever.

[Halfang]

the 20-25 seconds of waiting in left 4 dead every time you're killed in vs mode as the infected

God, this.

I know right why can't they, at the very least, cut the timer in half?

Have you thought on trying to keep the game BALANCED and winnable for either side?

Yes, during attacks I would reduce the timer, but ffs don't RUSH BOOMER RUSH SMOKER RUSH RUSH RUSH everything!

Instead of left4dead it would be rush4zerg, or something like that

 

[Baldry]

i apoligie almighty yahtzee but it had to be PoP THE 1ST one when u have to run thourgh all those doors AND IF U GET ONE WRONG BACK TO THE BEGINING AGAIN OMG! HOW FECKING ANNOYING

 

[NeedAUserName]

I think Oblivion/Fallout 3's choice when you leave the training area, when you are asked if you want to change anything about your character...

 

[JokerGrin]

I was really annoyed in Far Cry when the Trigen appear. I was having an absolute blast up to that point. Much more satisfying shooting PEOPLE for some reason.

 

[new_age_reject]

Surely everyone who has played the Fallout series can remember this one. I can't remember which Fallout it was, but you were to defend some people from some mutants and were given the option to:

-Train them to fight
-Protect them yourself
-Do nothing
-Repair some robots and let them help defend the people

When you choose the robots option, you go to the junkyard and everyone keeps repeating "Are you going to show us how to fix the robots?" over and over again, and the robots never spawn on the map for you to fix. All you could do was restore a save (or in the case of my 2nd mate, put a slave collar on Red lol). This was across all platforms too, it happened to another mate months after the 1st time.... Major effin break of game flow! XD

Oh god this, pissed me off so bad!

I was really annoyed in Far Cry when the Trigen appear. I was having an absolute blast up to that point. Much more satisfying shooting PEOPLE for some reason.

I stopped playing at that point.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Surely everyone who has played the Fallout series can remember this one. I can't remember which Fallout it was, but you were to defend some people from some mutants and were given the option to:

-Train them to fight
-Protect them yourself
-Do nothing
-Repair some robots and let them help defend the people

When you choose the robots option, you go to the junkyard and everyone keeps repeating "Are you going to show us how to fix the robots?" over and over again, and the robots never spawn on the map for you to fix. All you could do was restore a save (or in the case of my 2nd mate, put a slave collar on Red lol). This was across all platforms too, it happened to another mate months after the 1st time.... Major effin break of game flow! XD

You can't remember which Fallout? Oh come on really.
Anyway I agree with you, unfortunatly there are a lot of flow breaks surrounding Big Town.
The maijor one apart from this is the fact that every one wears shitty clothing and the town is crapped up even after you fix the robots or whatnot.
I spent about 3 days altering this so it rivaled megaton using the G.E.C.K.

Yes yes I know that I simply didn't have to do this but Bethesda could at least have made the town a bit more freindly even if the people there just became a bit more positive.

 

[Liverandbacon]

Far Cry 2's guard posts. Why oh why do they respawn so quickly? I'm driving about getting to my objective, but oh no, I need to stop and snipe every 10 yards. If I just drive on through, I get shredded to pieces (hardest difficulty setting). I ended up planning out a route that would take me around as many guard posts as possible by driving off road, whenever I wanted to get anywhere.

KOTOR's underwater suit bit. Ugh, that was so slow I had to stop playing halfway through, and go back a few hours later, because the boredom got to me.

The Mass Effect elevators weren't a problem for me. Perhaps it's because my PC has a nice hard drive or something, but the elevator rides were very quick. Definitely not the interminable abominations others have described.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

delivery missions in Mercenaries 2. yeah, i'm happy the guys and girls at Pandemic created a physics engine, but that doesn't mean my cargo has to come tumbling out of my goddamned car anytime i drive faster than 10mph.
restarting a delivery quest isn't fun when you have to do it 15 times in a row.

It's like bungie chords or other methods of securing cargo don't exist in the Mercenaries 2 universe.

For me, I'd say Earthseige had some huge flow breaking missions. As you advance through the game you are placed at increasingly impossible odds but given better and better gear. Then, late in the game you're suddenly given a misson to scout a series of points without dying under a short time limit. This means your usual ultra-heavy HERC with loads of firepower and armor just wasn't going to cut it and instead I had to rely on a HERC that I hadn't used since the earliest missions. What the hell was I doing "sneaking" about in a giant fighting robot tank thingie while other giant robot tank thingies were trying to kill me? But, otherwise, Earthseige was AWESOME.

 

[ssgt splatter]

the 20-25 seconds of waiting in left 4 dead every time you're killed in vs mode as the infected

God, this.

I know right why can't they, at the very least, cut the timer in half?

Have you thought on trying to keep the game BALANCED and winnable for either side?

Yes, during attacks I would reduce the timer, but ffs don't RUSH BOOMER RUSH SMOKER RUSH RUSH RUSH everything!

Instead of left4dead it would be rush4zerg, or something like that

well still it's a little annoying

 

[trombone2007]

Any single cut-scene in Lost Planet, it was like the developers took single plot, cut it up into little bits, then re-arranged it for shits and giggles.

 

[Jonny The Kay]

The darn elevators in Mirror's Edge always broke my flow and pissed me off

Holy crap those pissed me off

 

[KeithA45]

i'm agreeing with yahtzee on left 4 dead versus as the infected when yuo die... and die you will it takes like 30 seconds to respawn and all you can do is watch as the survivors get ever closer to the safe room...

Agreed. That's why I never play versus anymore

 

[Skarvey]

assassinations in Assassin's Creed. I JUST FREAKIN' CUT YOUR NECK, SHUT UUUPPPPPPPP! also, beggar women and dying on contact with water. way to go, Ubi, I sold your game within a 3 days of buying it.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

Nova Prospekt in Half-life 2, I spebt more than half of the time in that level roaming the same hallway 5o times trying to find the damn door.

 

[Red Right Hand]

LAG IN MULTIPLAYER!!! Nothing makes me more angry and makes me stop playing than this!

 

[sneak_copter]

The tank missions in the Call of Duty games. They aren't fun, and controlling them is a chore. I just want to get them over with so i can get back to the real gameplay.

/thread

You win.

 

[Ace of Spades]

MGS4. I'd be so bad at gameplay after I'd been sitting in a cutscene-induced trance for an hour.

 

[Valiance]

Red Faction 2 had a stupid Mech scene, a stupid Submarine scene, and some other bullshit that broke actual gameplay.