Bad bits in otherwise good games

[Alex W.]

Some of the tank bits in Arkham Knight were good fun. Mostly the Riddler ones.

 

I spent the final boss doing a 1990s style exploit where I find a bit of the map he can’t effectively attack me in and live there for about an hour. Slow, boring, incorrect, but it works.

[BossSaru]

The last levels in Advance War. A campaign which teaches you to think tactically, rewarding planning and strategy. And a final level where instead the game becomes a battle of attrition, whittling down a boss over many turns, relying on spamming rather than deep thought. Such a disappointing end to a fantastic game.

[linkster]

2 hours ago, Mr Do 71 said:

The Library level in Halo, and Cortana level in Halo 3. Basically I hate the Flood.

 

The hospital opening in The Phantom Pain.

The Flood are a fundamental part of Halo. I will never forget that first encounter. Don’t get the hate. 

[Marlew]

The speed run ending to The Witness. Worst section of any game I've ever played, takes everything it taught you the entire game and shafts it with its own frozen turd.

 

You would be correct to assume that I never completed this section. 

[Oh Danny Boy]

Almost every boss encounter in almost every game. Ever.

 

 

[JPickford]

When you die.

[Skull Commander]

The spikey rotating poles in the first God of War. 

The really lame Portal rip off level in the first Darksiders. 

[Jazz Glands]

Another shout for the Max Payne bloodLines. Also, the fucking drug sequences in the Far Cry games. 

[womblingfree]

Anything involving finding a pallet or ladder in TLOU after the first time.

[Stig]

The whole underwater/sewers section in Wolfesntein: The New Order is awful. Really hated that section, it was slow and tedious and the sub controlled like shit.

 

Also any tailing mission in all GTA games.

[Jazz Glands]

For that matter, any escort missions in any game ever...

[Jamie John]

The torture mission in GTAV. Edgy and ironic it may have been, but I can't say I enjoyed it. Trevor's character in general was just entirely unlikeable. You could argue that that was the point, but it's hard to invest in someone who you just wanted to be arrested.

 

The final boss in Dark Souls 2. What a let down. Especially after the hard as fuck DLC bosses, and Gwyn in the first game.

[kerraig UK]

The springboards in pacland if it wasn't a perfect stick

Vega on 20p

[BadgerFarmer]

8 hours ago, Stanshall said:

The speed run ending to The Witness. Worst section of any game I've ever played, takes everything it taught you the entire game and shafts it with its own frozen turd.

 

You would be correct to assume that I never completed this section. 

It was at least not necessary to complete the game, but it does feel at odds with everything else. Probably the only real misstep in an almost perfectly designed game.

 

5 hours ago, Jamie John said:

The torture mission in GTAV. Edgy and ironic it may have been, but I can't say I enjoyed it. Trevor's character in general was just entirely unlikeable. You could argue that that was the point, but it's hard to invest in someone who you just wanted to be arrested.

I stopped playing not long after Trevor appeared. That was more of a 'final straw' thing though - all the missions up to that point had been incredibly dull.

 

[GamesGamesGames]

Quiet's singing in MGSV. Can it missy.

[robdood]

10 minutes ago, GamesGamesGames said:

Quiet in MGSV. 

FTFY, etc

[robdood]

8 hours ago, womblingfree said:

Anything involving finding a pallet or ladder in TLOU after the first time.

Sometimes it's nice to have a breather from death and destruction.

 

/s

[MrPogo]

One off vehicle-based chase/escape shooting levels in a game where your character is otherwise on foot. They’re always shit and annoying and sometimes game breaking (like I still couldn’t get past the one a few levels into Star Wars Battlefront 2 after a dozen attempts, despite dialling it down to the easiest setting, so had to abandon it forever).

[Marlew]

1 hour ago, GamesGamesGames said:

Quiet's singing in MGSV. Can it missy.

 

And then, you reach a certain point and the quiet is heartbreaking.

 

For all the missteps in that game, Quiet made the most emotional impact on me. 

[GamesGamesGames]

3 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

 

And then, you reach a certain point and the quiet is heartbreaking.

 

For all the missteps in that game, Quiet made the most emotional impact on me. 

 

Full disclosure: I haven't reached that point.

[Kiwi Cake]

The turret bit in Dead Space.

 

No thx.

[BossSaru]

The investigation sections of the Ace Attorney games. Not that they are bad, per second. Just that they are not nearly as exciting and dramatic as the court-based parts of the game, and feel like filler in comparison.

[nakamura]

The 300+ championships in Horizon 2.

The ridiculous number of events in Horizon 3.

 

Any other game that artificially extends itself for perceived value .

 

 

[Broker]

12 hours ago, Mr Do 71 said:

The hospital opening in The Phantom Pain.

 

Wut

[Qazimod]

38 minutes ago, BossSaru said:

The investigation sections of the Ace Attorney games. Not that they are bad, per second. Just that they are not nearly as exciting and dramatic as the court-based parts of the game, and feel like filler in comparison.

 

Yeah... I kind of think that's why Psyche-Locks were introduced in 2 - to give the player that same feeling of breaking a witness.  There are some cool moments with evidence reveals though - one of my favourite bits comes from PW1's fifth chapter:

 

Spoiler

Finding Ema's fingerprints on the cloth scrap. It's a nice dramatic turn in an otherwise routine investigation  

 

[JoeK]

I’m going to assume that Okami is a wonderful game. 

 

I wouldn’t know however, because the unskippable intro sequence is so long and awful that I never progressed further in it.

 

the chattering ‘voices’ (and I use the term loosely) still haunt my dreams.

[Dudley]

10 hours ago, Oh Danny Boy said:

Almost every boss encounter in almost every game. Ever.

 

 

 

Yeah, there's several games I've ended up quitting that I was otherwise enjoying and doing fine in because I couldn't figure out the cheap trick required or it was a massive difficulty spike.

 

My answer was going to be "The stealth section in Shenmue" but I think I'll just go with "The stealth section in..."

[El Spatula]

27 minutes ago, JoeK said:

I’m going to assume that Okami is a wonderful game. 

 

I wouldn’t know however, because the unskippable intro sequence is so long and awful that I never progressed further in it.

 

the chattering ‘voices’ (and I use the term loosely) still haunt my dreams.

 

 

You can totally skip it in the HD versions!

[deKay]

13 hours ago, BitterToad said:

Literally any fucking Pipemania bit in any game ever that isn’t Pipemania.

 

in fact has there ever been a good hacking mini game ever? 

 

Fallout 3

[Pug]

14 hours ago, Mike1812 said:

The blood trail bit in Max Payne. So nearly perfect. 

 

Maaaan, I hated that.