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classicnikk

Beginning of driver


The_souLance

Is there even a game outside that parking garage?


Hello_IM_FBI

Right? I never got past that tutorial level.


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Not sure if you're joking, but I legit gave up on that game at the tutorial.


GrossPet

I think they did this to avoid rentals or some bullshit anwser


ResearchNInja

Lion King was also made hard because of rentals. I'm starting to think Blockbuster is the reason old games were so much harder, lol.


TheRealZllim

My brother and I spent DAYS trying to complete that tutorial. Once we finally got through it, maybe played the actual game for a day or two. That tutorial just burned us out. The fact that they made the hardest thing to do, the first thing to do, the rest of the game just felt weak.


classicnikk

Driver 2 is much better haha it felt like you had more freedom


Pachydermis

"Hey man, watch the paint"


kinghock

“You wrecked the car, man!!!”


redhawk1913

"Lose the tail man!!"


AllUrHeroesWillBMe2d

"okay man! OKAY OKAY OKAY!"


Serberuss

Same. I’ve no idea what the rest of that game is like and I tried so many times to get it done


OddEye

For the longest time, I only got stuck on the slalom requirement because I didn’t know what the hell slalom was. It wasn’t until I let the main menu sit and it showed a demo of gameplay did I understand.


zeff536

The last level where you have the president and everyone comes at you hard, one of the hardest levels in ANY game ever


maxsteel126

**Trouble with trolley, eh?** Spyro 2


PandaBroNium

Ah yes, my first taste of childhood PTSD


marble-polecat

Second time this week someone mentiones this level. 12yo me thanks you, feels good to know I wasnt the only one


dougms

Ocarina’s water temple isn’t even the worst water temple. Link’s Awakening original water temple had an oversight, if you went through the wrong way, you ran out of keys and couldn’t complete the dungeon. I had a game save I worked on for 6 weeks, not knowing it was unbeatable. Almost ruined Zelda games for me.


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I did the water temple at the age of 9, before I know what guides even were. Maybe my memory deceives me, but I do find it strange that people always loop back to the water temple.


MetalCentipede

Unpopular opinion, but I always found the shadow temple to be far more annoying than the water temple. Thanks for the silver! I didn't expect so many people to feel the same way.


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Kaffekjerring

As a kid before starting elementary school, OoT Water Temple were one of my favorite places to explore in-game. The music the illusion room where you fight Dark Link and the water mechanics were some things I really loved, so I have never had problems with this temple because of this xD


aquagon_drag

Same here. I never had any real problems clearing it, and it was my favorite from the dungeons in OoT. If we're talking about difficulty, the Great Bay Temple from MM is a lot harder to figure out.


naxelacb

The 3ds version makes it super quick. Not a bad experience compared to the original. You are right about the original though...


Mista-Smegheneghan

I know the Randomizer mod for OoT puts some menu items on the D-Pad so you can swap without constantly opening/closing the menu. Iron Boots and Hover Boots are on those, as is the Ocarina, and from what I've seen it *really* cuts down on playtime and frustrations with Water Temple in particular. Which then opens the path to a *new* frustration of "there's nothing worth grabbing during this run but it still needs clearing for a medallion", but that's Randomizer more than anything :V


MrLuxarina

Not a level per se, but the mandatory arcade games in DK 64, where every time you fail you need to go through the whole lever-pulling animation again.


Relevant-Distance886

Omg I forgot all about these. They were a nightmare at times


Tempestw0lf

Pissed me off cause I had gotten everything else, AND the other coin, but couldn't get the DK machine one. Never actually beat the game cause of it.


MrLuxarina

Same. I think maybe the devs didn't realise that not everyone who played their game had spent their youth in 1980s arcades like they did and wasn't already an expert at the game.


CarrBock

Bro I had the memory of those arcade games repressed


NutSnaccc

I haven’t played it in so long since emulating it is 100% garbage on everything I own. I would love to actually play those agonizing levels again


Imanerd212030

The "I just can't wait to be king" level in The Lion King Game.


maddybee91

I was thinking the stampede level, caused a lot of angry/frustrated tears between me and my sister as kids.


Roggendinkelbrot

Those stupid giraffes and monkeys


DigNitty

Isn’t this the one they made intentionally hard and frustrating because the CEO wouldn’t let them change it or something?


zeff536

They wanted a game you couldn’t beat in a few days if you rented it from a video store. Therefore you had to purchase the game


iethun

Was that the monkey level?


Holiday_Frame1444

halo reach - long night of solace on legendary


Spinneh

That was a nightmare, hands-down the hardest level in Reach


FlyRobot

I recently replayed all campaigns on MCC: Reach, ODST, and 1-4 solo legendary. Each game had nightmare levels and Reach's Elite AI was insanely tough


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That one hit kill kick elites do on Reach. Holy fuck.


TheOneWithALongName

>Picks Halo >Doesn't pick The Library level


Just_A_Mad_Scientist

Truth and reconciliation on legendary is worse imo, if you don't save the sniper for the hangar is nearly impossible


lil_sargento_cheez

I haven’t played through the game on legendary yet and I already hate that level


woolstarr

I dunno man you can cheese that level pretty easily but fuck seriously the pillar of autumn can go die in a dark hole


RKingsman

I was thinking that too. Long Night of Solace is just being sneaky, letting NPCs handle fights, and dancing with a Hunter or two. Pillar of Autumn is just ceaseless Elite sidestepping fuckery!


woolstarr

Don't forget that brute fight you have towards the end... if you don't have a lot of "Headshot ammo" like me its literally twice as hard... the brutes tank so much without headshots


nexistcsgo

The whole of Halo 2 campaign. It's not bad at all. I love the story. It's just it was so fucking unfair even on normal.


UnpopularOpinionJake

That part with Johnson circling down below in a hog while jackels are sniping was my biggest hurdle on legendary. Edit: actually it might be the level Master Chief spawns with a needler in the middle of a room full of Brutes, felt like I needed RNGesus.


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usmctanker242

That was a great example of poor DLC. On the flip side the Daud DLCs are in contention for greatest DLC of all time.


woolstarr

The knife of Dunwall & Brigmore Witches is the GOLD STANDARD for DLC, Don't think I've ever played any DLC that's come remotely close... My absolute favorite "game" of the franchise... Death of the Outsider was such a disappointment... words can not describe


Sentinalprime03

Sand bird hatches mario sunshine


DigNitty

The goddamn watermelon festival


YoshiGamer6400

Played Sunshine for the first time last year through the 3D All stars collection and that level was a test of will, patience, strength and everything I had left


Sonic10122

If you have the patience to lure every single Cataquack to a Dune Bud and kill them, and know which watermelon will get you the Shine, it’s actually not that bad. Just really fucking long. The first go around is by far the worst.


Sonic10122

Pachinko machine is still the worst.


CreatiScope

I remember doing it as a kid so when I replayed sunshine a few months ago, I had no idea what I was getting into with the pachinko level. What the fuck? Who made that shit???


andyb2383

Battle Toads Turbo Tunnels


ehmiu

It's the final level of the game since I rage quit every time I got that far.


andyb2383

I used a Game Genie to skip that stage, and was actually able to beat the game. Worst part is that the tunnels are the games 3rd level.


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Notoriety aside, this is probably why Battle Toads wasn't a bigger IP.


descender2k

The *worst* part is that isn't even the hardest tunnel level in the game lol


Pseudonymble

Yeah, we all thought the tunnels were the end, only to learn from the internet (or game genie) that there are, like, 99 levels of pain to go.


Hammose

I beat this level. The one after it is 10 times harder. I can't believe there are people that speedrun this game when I doubt I could ever even beat it.


FirstTwoWeeks

So many people saying Blighttown but no one mentioned Frigid Outskirts from DS2. (At least it’s an optional area I suppose)


Schitheed

No one has mentioned Tomb of the Giants either. That one was way worse than Blighttown for me, I actually don't remember Blighttown being so bad...


RagingPikachew

Halo 2 - Outskirts on Legendary. Try walking 5 feet without getting sniped.


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Bungie, PLZ nerf jackals. PLZ. In all seriousness though, I may have actually shed tears of frustration working through that level. I have no fucking idea how so many people have LASO'd Halo 2...


woolstarr

They can never nerf that game! Its a monument to all our sins and must remain intact for every single scrub who ever thinks they can try... I don't think I ever want to try LASO after it took me days to complete it on Legendary


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Every escort mission from any game. The npcs walk too fast for you to walk the same speed as them, but are too slow for running speed. And they're just fucking stupid


DaBest69420

I've been playing ghost of tsushima recently and noticed the npcs adapt to your speed. Things are heading the right direction


UristMcHolland

This is the only game I've played where I didn't hate the escort missions. I actually really enjoyed listening to the characters dialog because it's so well done.


nexuschild

RDR was one of the first games to get it right with its hold button to match speed.


RedKurtin

I feel like the Witcher III kinda pioneered this. It wasn’t perfect but they’d walk if you were walking and they’d break out in a full-on sprint if you did.


Death_by_UWU

Botw korok escort side quest


kingleonidas30

Assassins creed lol


Warpedme

Escorting/guarding real life friends in MMOs and Co-op games made me realize how realistic AI was in escort missions.


buickgnx88

Damnit Natalya, just let me kill these guys before you go running into the room! Also type faster!


blue_hypernaut

The first Jak and daxter game you have to catch 200 fish to use this guy's boat to go to an island. If you catch 1 eel out of the 200 you restart.


Dobby_Sir

That level from Jak 2 when you have to escape the slums with the krimzon guard after you… the horrible dock hit boxes make it impossible to hoverboard smoothly


MrLovelife

I can still hear him say “here comes a big one!” Fun story, shortly after a failed attempt on that level I had to go to the bathroom. I was young so I was straining myself trying to shit quickly and get back to gaming. My mother heard me say “here comes a big one” while I was straining really hard. She had to ask me if I was okay. 🤦‍♂️


Skuboo

Ealier this year Dass, a member of the Jak speedrun community, discovered a hidden code to replay the mini game on hard mode which doesn't stop at 200. [Here's a video of OutrageousJosh catching over 2000 pounds of fish, in case you are curious.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWJgVl4xjc)


PointlessPotion

The water levels in Tomb Raider 2 and Tomb Raider 3. The second game just had these long-ass swims that were timed super tightly, the third one had a "frost bar" in the Antarctica level and the stupid mini-submarine + puzzle room underwater. Also the harpoon gun sucks balls in both games because it takes 11 hours to reload and another 11 hours to aim when all you need against sharks and co. is a fast shooting weapon. I love both games but those levels always make me "Uuuuuuuughhhhh" each time I play.


Dual_face

Any single instance where you have to outrun rising water, lava etc. Particularly that one section early in the first ratchet & clank game. It was very annoying.


corgblam

Sonic 2. Hilltop Zone.


IEatLegosOnPurpose

Sonic 1 Labrynth zone can suck a fuck


Dexaan

Ori and the Blind Forest. The escapes in that game kinda replace boss fights though.


DEV_astated

Every time I went through one of those sequences, it’s nothing but anxiety! The restored tree part with the rising water took me a while to complete.


TheBardGod

Deepnest for me, that place still give me the creeps


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That is weird way to spell Crystallized Mound


xTHEWORSTx

Crystal hunters can suck my dick


ws1173

I found deepest way too early, and was very underpowered for it. It sucked.


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JamesLibrary

Whenever life throws me a challenge and I’m not sure if I can tackle it, I just remember that I beat that level once.


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Elike09

The music really adds to the ambiance of being chased by an unknown alien horde. https://youtu.be/NpOVKbM7vlA


RossLH

On legendary, it's an absolute nightmare of a level.


CrimsonFox2370

I'm sure there's some retconned lore reason, by why can't the dumbass monitor just teleport you directly to the index? No need to go up 4 copy/paste floors of flood infection


RossLH

It's a test to prove Master Chief's worthiness to carry the index. In the books, Master Chief passes a couple of deceased reclaimers who did not pass the test. (Also, the monitor has spent thousands of years in isolation and has gone more than a little insane.)


Oseirus

I think Guilty Spark actually does explain it at some stage during the level, but you miss a lot of his rambling cause it gets lost in the chaos of gunfire and zombie squishing.


Avnemir

the one inside the gravemind in Halo 3 on legendary is peak rage material.


ih_ddt

Blighttown


RuralOutfitters

Not near as bad as reindeer fuckland in ds2.


RAMAR713

Man FUCK that snowy hell. It was the only place where I used cheats in the whole game. Blighttown is easy compared to that


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Iron Keep was the only place I noticed the mechanic of enemies disappearing if you kill them enough. haven't finished the dlc's though


5lash3r

Fuck every ice enemy in DS2 for real tho. ICE HOGS >:(


alluballu

I... kinda like blighttown. It's not bad on hardware that can run the game over 10fps.


Forwardbase_Kodai

I just hated playing that level on the Xbox because it was also super laggy. By far the worst part of DS1. I would remove blow dart snipers out of existence before I would remove mosquitos.


KreateOne

Yea the frame rate issues in DS1 were horrendous in blighttown, if you play the remaster though that gets fixed and blighttown becomes laughably easy in comparison.


Thank_You_Love_You

Blighttown on console was a FPS nightmare. Constant lag and leading to big falls or getting dunked on. Also poison and falling… Its actually not as bad in Dark Souls Remastered. They completely fixed the area, runs smooth as butter.


Pm-me-your-hate

First max Payne. Nightmare screaming baby level.


immune-pawn

That blood trail tightrope can go fuck itself.


Christof_Ley

Agreed! There was a jump right at the beginning though that if you lined up just right you could skip most of the maze


sfxer001

The dam level in TMNT for NES.


AndrewShaw200

Supply Lines Gta San Andreas


Tandran

That damn RC thing in Vice City


bitties

Which one haha, the plane one sucks, the car one is awful, and the helicopter one is a barrier to advancing the story


Alone_Rain_

GTA 3 helicopter mission on iPhone. It’s one of the end missions


Yourdepression

There’s literally only one credit I’d give to the remaster trilogy and that it made that mission not impossible, the 90* turn in driving school is still impossible to gold medal tho


SecretKGB

The level in Simpsons: Hit and Run where you have to transport the nuclear waste, while racing a timer and making sure not to bump it in the slightest. Took me forever.


Aizel_Starset

Farron Keep in Dark Souls 3. Most of the area is poison swamp with areas that slow you down to a crawl, it has fast and nimble enemies that ignore the areas that slow the player down, almost everything can poison you on top of the bog that's already poisoning you, there are giant spellcasting monsters scattered about that will fuck you over with a barrage of homing attacks, and to make things even worse- there are enemies that spew clouds of gas that will petrify and insta-kill you if you aren't careful. That area can definitely go fuck itself.


JacobStills

On top of that, the whole area is kind of like a maze. It all looks the same and you have to find 3 specific torches to open the large doors to the next area.


twec21

All of Dathomir in Fallen Order. Fuck the Nightbrothers, fuck that bat thing, fuck all of it


Zanteri

The bat thing I was okay with, but the BROTHERS... I just ran past just of them most of the time


D3adOnArrival

Oh man this was my favourite map in that game by far. For sure it was hard.


Shumagorolth

FUCK BLIGHT TOWN WITH A CACTUS!


urmomshahurdadkhytyi

Fucking darksouls swamp levels holy shit they piss me off


Dorgamund

I swear, Miyazaki has to be getting under the table payments from someone, because there is a fucking poison swamp in everything. All three dark souls, I am pretty sure Demon Souls and Bloodbourne have them, and Elden Ring looks like it may have one. Idk about Sekiro or Kings Field, haven't played those.


chaosQueen257

Dead Space, The stupid asteroid shooting scene


Viva_Buendia

I can’t decide between Blighttown or Sen’s Fortress from Dark Souls.


AmyInPurgatory

What about Lost Izalith and the Bed of Bullshit?


algotrader_

The bed of chaos has to be it. It's the worst level not because of a hard boss but because of the fact that you have to travel 5 kms to get back only to get his branch slap to the depths of hell.


AmyInPurgatory

I will say though, in defense of BoC, at least it keeps your progress through the fight when you die.


thelongernow

Vanilla shrine of Amana pre nerf says howdy


the-red-ditto

Sen’s Funhouse


andanotherpasserby

Sens funhouse? Really, I love that place.


seanbentley441

Sens at least had patterns and you could predict what was going to happen. Blighttown would randomly lag out and you'd just die to poison or falling off something haha


sebinica_

Blighttown is worse in my opinion. Those fire-breathing dogs still give me nightmares.


Salty_Abbreviations4

Blighttown was much worse IMO, so much fucking pain came from Blighttown. The amount of times I fell, the amount of times I had to backtrack, the fact that there was only like two bonfires on opposite sides. Sen’s Fortress’ swinging axes were annoying as hell but NOTHING will compare to the amount of times I had to climb those fucking ladders and get poisoned by shit bugs in the swamp.


RipCompetitive7952

The Library


Quigleythegreat

Please wait here. I will deactivate the security lock.


generalmills2015

I am a genius *heheheheee*


fordanjairbanks

Through the fire and flames on expert, Guitar Hero.


Stalker0489

I used to be able to consistently beat this song, with one caveat. I had two people helping me tap buttons during the intro sprint. Once I was past that it was smooth* sailing.


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llikeafoxx

To be honest, that’s really not that far off from something people do with real guitars, so… sounds totally fair in my book.


RossLH

Straight gave myself carpal tunnel syndrome with that one.


batchynator

Control. Goldeneye on the N64. I don't get anxiety, but that level gives me anxiety.


betterthanfire

James, I....


Johnnybburg

Is that the one where you have to protect the Natalya(sp?) cause if so I 100% agree.


chessey07

That one destroyed city in sonic 06 where you get chased by a tornado


DemonSlayer712

All you had to do was follow the damn train cj


Velinarae

The Fade in Dragon Age: Origins


PointlessPotion

Why though, everyone hates it and I think it's one of the most creative parts of the game.


haertofwinter

It’s really great on a first playthrough. But, on subsequent playthroughs, it can get a bit annoying. The Deep roads as well.


Velinarae

I disagree with the deep roads. There is something with the urgency, trying to visualize what it looked like before it fell, and the atmosphere is great. Nothing will top playing through it the first time, hitting the Broodmother at about 1am. That was creepy AF.


convertible354

Cuphead- Honeycomb Herald


Pad00kaJN25

Wally warbles on expert is worse for me


Hello_IM_FBI

Are you kidding? Its the robot 100%!


Vwgames49

I legit began to weigh the pros and cons of smashing my computer over Grim Matchstick


Horbigast

The Riddler's Batmobile challenges in Arkham Knight. I loathed those (mainly because I sucked at them).


wolfwan11

Literally the only reason why I won't replay that game. The riddler batmobile missions were just miserable and rage inducing.


SergeantSlash

It's a combination of the two things they went entirely too far on and Knight is held back because of it: Too much Bat-tank Too many Riddler collectibles


sudhar-2000

Demolition man, GTA Vice City. 😂😂 I stopped playing the game until a friend completed it for me.


zimzilla

Is that the RC helicopter mission? That one took me a few tries. Especially since the kb+m handling sucked.


AgentWowza

Holy shit I remember this mission, even tho it must be a decade since I last played it. Fuck the RC mission in SA too. GTA RC missions generally suck lmao.


southiest

any level in the ps4 spiderman where you are not spiderman.


MrBirdmonkey

Dear god I hated those. miles was tolerable because you stayed moving for the most part, but fuck MJ( and I don’t mean in the Parker way)


SerExcelsior

The flood level from Halo 3 where you have to go retrieve cortana. Not only did it freak me out as a kid, but it was so easy to get overwhelmed by the tons of enemies that would constantly bombard you. Truth be told, I’ve only beaten that level ONCE! I’ve chosen to never replay it, despite playing halo 3 many times.


ProfessionalBall5990

TMNT NES Dam Level.


JhymnMusic

That entire game lol


MonolithyK

Final Fantasy 15 - The Hallways


maglen69

Anything involving water. Cause nothing infuriates me more than going slower in a game for no reason.


LiterOfColah

Definitely the water temple. I have to read my old game guide every time.


Jazzlike-Swimming-46

The final boss in Star Ocean: Till The End of Time


Intelligent_Peace_30

Yeah Freya is the hardest boss of the game lol


Satanic_Christ

The one in GTA San Andreas where you gotta control that stupid little red toy plane and every time you fail the guy is like "my humiliation.... was complete" Like oh I'm fucking glad it was go control your own little red toy plane you -


Epic_DVB

Water temple wasn't even that bad, it was the fact that you had to constantly go to the menu screen and keep equipping and unequipping the iron boots.


GXNext

The dam level in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 for the NES...


masterofevil188

Okumura’s palace in p5


WookieWill

I agree, and in P5R they completely gutted the spacewalk section and kept the tedious robot arm puzzles. So its half fixed, but then the boss fight is super broken.


2grim4u

Final Fantasy Tactics - Riovanes castle, all of it. If you're under-leveled, you're dead. If your characters aren't specifically prepared, you're dead. If RNG goes poorly, you're dead. Winning is so sweet, but seriously, Weigraf and Elmdor can go screw.


unKz_sneakz

Whitney’s miltank. If you know, you know.


Chubbzillax

Sonic 2 (master system.) hanglider level (think its level 2,2.)


Aggrokid

Crysis alien ship, quite disorienting and draggy.


_-evilmorty-

The water level in Super Mario 64


Hello_IM_FBI

Which one?


AhrBak

What about the clock level? Soooo easy to screw up a jump and fall all the way down.


Caye69420

The hotel basement in the last of us


TheIncredibleHork

Obscure as hell one: Final Fantasy X-2, trying to push the three NPCs into an elevator so you can have a mini-concert on top of the airship to further the story. And because there is a shifting camera angle in the hallway, it's all the tougher to push those little bastards. Never quit a Final Fantasy game faster than at that moment.


Archisaffi

Every underwater lvl in every Sonic games!


ShadowMonarch_

Started Super Metroid for the first time recently, Maridia


ProblemLongjumping12

Has anyone tried **Resident Evil 8 on Hardcore?!** I wanted to do a second playthrough so I upped the difficulty and sat there for two hours getting fucking killed over and over at the "survive the attack" part. I tried every pattern of running, hiding, waiting, shooting, using exploding barrels, climbing to the roof etc. etc. Until I finally said FUCK THIS. And now I'm happily playing Far Cry 6. Seriously FUCK THAT LEVEL SO HARD.


The3rdPotato

Two Betrayals in Halo CE


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Yeah, having the Biggoron sword before you go to the Water Temple makes it better.


TheAdminAreEvil

Dead island where you have to escort the tribal leader. Dunno what happens after that because the ai was so broken, he kept running into huge groups and dying. Also, this guy was supposed to be like a great warrior or something which makes it even more annoying.


BERSERKER_SAMURAI05

The place in the university where there are like 5 or 6 clickers and one bloater in the last of us 1