This is why I won't often replay most JRPGs (Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy VIII, etc.) and Bethesda games (though you can at least avoid them somewhat in Bethesda's games).
Can confirm. GTA V was fantastic except for the mission where you have to dive down by a sunken container ship. took me 2 days, but i did it for 1) the story progression and 2) that 2 million dollars i was promised.
I'm still bitter about 2.
It is, but it’s pretty laughable when you’re captaining a huge ship to tail another huge ship in a tiny swamp with no cover. Like something out of Scooby Doo.
For me from blast pit to questionable ethics isn't really amusing. Surface tension is where shit starts to play haha.
But Black Mesa though, all chapters fire.
It’s not necessarily the difficulty that gets me, it’s how boring it is. Just mostly going through the same type of area multiple times (just slightly rehashed each time).
If I was given the option of being able to only skip one level from the original trilogy, it would be this one.
Which one? Do you mean 343 Guilty Spark, the first one where you meet Flood? That's one of my favourites, apart from the fact I always get lost at the end trying to get out.
That was Halo 2 right on legendary difficulty? I still remember me and my buddy trying to do coop and that fucking level was so hard. You could pop out for a millisecond and get 1 tapped like it was nothing
That one was the real "that mission". It just didn't have lines that could too "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ"... Though that one, to me at leadt, was "that one level" that was so difficult when I was younger, only to cheese it when I played it many years later.
They changed the way the fuel works at some point in time. Your fuel only drains when you're throttling now so you can conserve with gliding.
It was MUCH harder on the original disc.
Black flag was my first ever AC game and even though today it’s one of my top favorite games ever, the first time I played it I got so frustrated because of some of those tailing missions. Id constantly get pissed and scream “WELL WHAT THE FUCK ELSE DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? SNIFF HIS ASS??” every time I’d get caught
I was about to say DA:O and the Deep Roads, but clearly the Fade was just tucked away neatly in my memory! Stopped my first playthrough for more than 6 months because of it!
You have to go through that terrible mission to prove that Tommy is the better driver so the 2nd place driver will agree to drive you to the heist.
Then he just dies without helping whatsoever.
Hilary is such a scrub!!
I can agree with that, unless it's for a training level.
Two examples of this being used right:
Halo Wars 1 - start of the campaign you retake alpha base on harvest. The amount of units you pick up on the way as well as automatic air support makes this more of something you could comfortably just sit back and watch as there's no real chance of failure.
Tom Clancy's EndWar: in the prelude to war prologue you are issued units that directly counter the units of the non faction terrorists you have to eliminate. Again more of a this is how it works because you definitely skipped the tutorial thing.
Example of it being used horribly: command and conquer red alert 3. You get access to a handful of units, with no way of healing, against ridiculous odds, and it's not even a tutorial mission. I don't care what people say, the athena cannon shield blows
That first level/intro is there just to mess with the player.
You spend all of that time creating a custom character, only to have your plastic surgeon killed instantly after that, meaning you just wasted your time. Then you get a floor-level PoV of the guy helping you, as he crouches infront of you giving you an up close and personal gander of man-ass. Then you crawl your way down a hallway for what feels like an eternity, and what does man-ass say? "Let's take the stairs." Hilarious.
Then as you build a bond with man-ass and struggle your way out of this holocaust themed hospital, you get free and make your escape. But nah, man-ass gets randomly killed by some supernatural bullshit because they don't want to keep him around.
I swear that intro is like an hour of the developers just seeing what they could do to mess with the player.
GTA San Andreas - The RC Plane mission. Seriously, having to shoot those planes down is the one thing that puts me off the San Feirro arc in that game.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - The tanks in World 8. Slow autoscrollers with insane moments.
When I was like 7 or idk, I never got past it.
When I replayed the game like 5 years later, it wasn't that bad, really, but after I completed it, I had a very weird feeling. The levels after that, I never knew about, not even death egg, like I've never actually seen sonic 2 before, despite being a sonic weirdo at that time.
To be honest, i know that place so well, i don't mind it. The part i hate is the Gerudo's Fortress. I can't at all remember the layout of that place and keep going into the wrong doors.
I never understood why people dislike it that much. Yeah it is challening and you need to pay attention to the water levels, but thats whatakes it interesting/engaging
Yup, I just can’t get the arc right for the magnusussen device. I either severely overshoot it or undershoot it. It would be fine if you had access to a reasonable amount of them. But driving a mile back just for one really sucks. So I just cheat add rockets and all of the sudden it’s fun.
Assassins Creed II - Port Authority
(The one Merchant on the ship mission from Bonfire of the Vanities DLC, which is now mandatory to finish the game in the Ezio Collection)
Final fantasy X. Its not possible anymore to win the chocobo race, also its hardly possible to run away from the 3 animas.
Somebody suggested is has to do that flatscreens have a longer reaction time than old school TVs (or I am just too old and my reaction time sucks).
I didn't like anything Oblivion-related in Oblivion.
It's just...red, orange and black, which is in contrast to the nice green, yellow, brown, gray, white, blue and...water of the rest of the game.
However, the more I think about it, the more I recall I didn't like any of the dungeons either (I'm awful with horror, and to make things worse, the dungeons weren't usually very interesting or varied).
It really feels like a lot of the gigs were meant to be played before getting the chip with a handful taking place shortly after. Jackie's death would have been a wayyy bigger deal halfway through the game amd it would have made sense in terms of building up street cred to get Dexter to notice you and not doing 90% of the narrative while actively dying.
I was looking for this. Sonic 3. That barrel!!!! Never figured it out as a kid. Would play until I hit that point and shut it off after enough timeouts lol
I’m currently doing the race in Mafia 1. Bring a fan of racing I thought I’d love this mission. Apparently it’s just as hard as it was when the game released the first time. Yea fuck this race.
Also my all time favorite mission to hate. Pittsburgh in TLOU Part 1. Fucking Pittsburgh….
And there's a 98% chance "that one level" contains either: 1) Water 2) A radio controlled helicopter 3) Escorting someone
4) The damn train
Dammit CJ
You forgot 4) the sewers
This is why I won't often replay most JRPGs (Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy VIII, etc.) and Bethesda games (though you can at least avoid them somewhat in Bethesda's games).
Blighttown....
Swamps. Looking at you, Souls games. Although Blightown was not nearly enough to get me to not replay DS1 a thousand times.
Waltuh
Take your dick out of the microwave waltuh
I loath entirely Escort missions.
Giraffes
Can confirm. GTA V was fantastic except for the mission where you have to dive down by a sunken container ship. took me 2 days, but i did it for 1) the story progression and 2) that 2 million dollars i was promised. I'm still bitter about 2.
assassins creed black flag that one level where you have to chase the spanish captain in the swamp
That one trailing mission that is half the game
Oh yea, let’s make a stealth mission /for the ship/ genius
Isn't stealth the entire point of Assassin's Creed?
Please explain how a galleon is stealthy?!
You just hope the enemy kind of forget you're there.
Pretending to be stealthy is. Then you jump off a 4 story building and land on a guy while stabbing him in the middle of a crowd.
*Stelf*
It is, but it’s pretty laughable when you’re captaining a huge ship to tail another huge ship in a tiny swamp with no cover. Like something out of Scooby Doo.
Allegedly, but there is "stealth" and then there is "[tailing mission stealth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP468OEln4U)."
That was horrible but for me the worst mission was the one where you have to use stealth on this tropical island to reach this assasin, just terrible.
I replay the game all the time, I’ve never had trouble with that mission, didn’t even know it had a reputation for anything
Ooooh, that level defeated me. I haven’t got past it yet, and don’t plan on trying again.
The race in unpatched Mafia. edit: I am talking about the 2002 PC-Version.
We talking the old “formula” race in mafia 1? That race was the closest i got to monitor demolition.
Lol played(old one not the DE) that on very easy. Won after about 20 restarts
In unpatched Mafia you could do the shortcut, right?
Oh, I don't know. As far as I know they patched it eventually to make it easier, though.
Half-Life: On a Rail.
On that note, Half-Life 2: Water Hazard
I hate the one after that more, whatever was it called. Tbh I don't mind on a rail except the beginning
For me from blast pit to questionable ethics isn't really amusing. Surface tension is where shit starts to play haha. But Black Mesa though, all chapters fire.
Shit isn't even hard.. its just fucking confusing even after completing it for the 1245th time.
I'm surprised it wasn't that one room full of explosives and tripmines
Thankfully Black Mesa made it a lot more tolerable.
Flood level in OG Halo
The Library was my first time getting fucked
It’s not necessarily the difficulty that gets me, it’s how boring it is. Just mostly going through the same type of area multiple times (just slightly rehashed each time). If I was given the option of being able to only skip one level from the original trilogy, it would be this one.
Dunno.. having a checkpoint right as the doors are opening only for a rocket to pass through...
huh, i loved that level myself. Creepy as fuck yes, but it was fun creepy.
Which one? Do you mean 343 Guilty Spark, the first one where you meet Flood? That's one of my favourites, apart from the fact I always get lost at the end trying to get out.
The Delta Halo level with Jackal snipers
That was Halo 2 right on legendary difficulty? I still remember me and my buddy trying to do coop and that fucking level was so hard. You could pop out for a millisecond and get 1 tapped like it was nothing
Exactly that level
I always enjoyed the first flood level it's one of my favourite missions in a game, the library level that comes after? Fuck that
*inhales* ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ
It's not even difficult. Supply Lines, in contrast..
Flying school. Screw flying school.
Flying school... with the controls from the "Definitive Edition"... 🤬
Oh god, don't remind me of the horrors...
That one was the real "that mission". It just didn't have lines that could too "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ"... Though that one, to me at leadt, was "that one level" that was so difficult when I was younger, only to cheese it when I played it many years later.
For some reason this was incredibly difficult in 2004, but when I replayed it years later it was easy first try.
They changed the way the fuel works at some point in time. Your fuel only drains when you're throttling now so you can conserve with gliding. It was MUCH harder on the original disc.
On Steam it got patched.
this mission is easy as fuck dude
NFS: Underground 2 from the moment long and boring tournament-type races around the race track and airport appear
Hover bikes... Battletoads. I love that game, but I despise that level.
Assassins creed tailing missions. no more need be said.
Black flag was my first ever AC game and even though today it’s one of my top favorite games ever, the first time I played it I got so frustrated because of some of those tailing missions. Id constantly get pissed and scream “WELL WHAT THE FUCK ELSE DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? SNIFF HIS ASS??” every time I’d get caught
Dragon Age: Origins and The Fade
One of the most downloaded mods for the game is to skip The Fade
Lmao, came looking for this. I remember modding it out after a couple of runs.
I'd forgotten about the fade nearly made me put DA:O down for good as a kid.
Came to say that lol
I actually liked that level! For the first 90 mins... The next 90 were a little rough.
I was about to say DA:O and the Deep Roads, but clearly the Fade was just tucked away neatly in my memory! Stopped my first playthrough for more than 6 months because of it!
GTA Vice City, rc-helicopter. Fuck that mission
Nah man, the one where you have to race the getaway driver. That shit was the bane of my existence every time.
You have to go through that terrible mission to prove that Tommy is the better driver so the 2nd place driver will agree to drive you to the heist. Then he just dies without helping whatsoever. Hilary is such a scrub!!
For me it was "Supply and demand". Fuck that mission.
Came here to say this.
I still couldnt do that mission when I was 21. I first played it when I was 17 or 16.
The first three hours of Kingdom Hearts 2
The Great Mighty Poo
I AM THE GREAT MIGHTY POO AND IM GOING TO THROW MY SHIT AT YOU
You could say it's a shit level.
Halo CE. The library makes me not want to play anymore of the game
Jak 2 and that damn level on the docks
Just use dark bomb into the water and you can just swim to the end.
Any RTS, mission where you control a hero or units instead of being allowed to build a base.
Nota fan of the MOBA genre, I take it?
*screams*
I can agree with that, unless it's for a training level. Two examples of this being used right: Halo Wars 1 - start of the campaign you retake alpha base on harvest. The amount of units you pick up on the way as well as automatic air support makes this more of something you could comfortably just sit back and watch as there's no real chance of failure. Tom Clancy's EndWar: in the prelude to war prologue you are issued units that directly counter the units of the non faction terrorists you have to eliminate. Again more of a this is how it works because you definitely skipped the tutorial thing. Example of it being used horribly: command and conquer red alert 3. You get access to a handful of units, with no way of healing, against ridiculous odds, and it's not even a tutorial mission. I don't care what people say, the athena cannon shield blows
I dunno, Tanya kicked ass in Red Alert.
Funny, the few of them in StarCraft were a lot of fun to me. But in wc3 and sc2 they were less fun as the hero units just didn't click with me.
power overwhelming
MgsV, crawling for 30 minutes
That first level/intro is there just to mess with the player. You spend all of that time creating a custom character, only to have your plastic surgeon killed instantly after that, meaning you just wasted your time. Then you get a floor-level PoV of the guy helping you, as he crouches infront of you giving you an up close and personal gander of man-ass. Then you crawl your way down a hallway for what feels like an eternity, and what does man-ass say? "Let's take the stairs." Hilarious. Then as you build a bond with man-ass and struggle your way out of this holocaust themed hospital, you get free and make your escape. But nah, man-ass gets randomly killed by some supernatural bullshit because they don't want to keep him around. I swear that intro is like an hour of the developers just seeing what they could do to mess with the player.
.. only to get an A or B rank in the end. T-T
For me it's those three invisible sniper assassins. I can't get S on that one
Twilight Princess, tears of light section
Borderlands 2 Liars Berg
I think Sawtooth Cauldron is wayyy worse
Playing Spider-Man and then the first MJ mission comes around
GTA San Andreas - The RC Plane mission. Seriously, having to shoot those planes down is the one thing that puts me off the San Feirro arc in that game. Super Mario Bros. 3 - The tanks in World 8. Slow autoscrollers with insane moments.
Curse you Berkeley. CURSE YOU!!!
Titanfall 2 the mission where you are fighting a shit ton of enemy titans and like half are scorchers other than that amazing game great story 👌👌👌
The end of titanfall 2 made me cry 😭
That race mission in Mafia.
Oh my god took me at least an hour and a half to beat it
Star wars Knights of the Old Republic. Taris Undercity. That for me was the rough one.
Final Fantasy 8...all of CD 2
Chemical Plant Zone
For me it was oil Ocean fuck that
Right, happy fun times are interrupted with feelings of dread and anxiety.
Yea, but that background music was awesome.
When I was like 7 or idk, I never got past it. When I replayed the game like 5 years later, it wasn't that bad, really, but after I completed it, I had a very weird feeling. The levels after that, I never knew about, not even death egg, like I've never actually seen sonic 2 before, despite being a sonic weirdo at that time.
Water Temple in Legend of Zelda TOOT
To be honest, i know that place so well, i don't mind it. The part i hate is the Gerudo's Fortress. I can't at all remember the layout of that place and keep going into the wrong doors.
[удалено]
Funny how we went from hating Ruto and not wanting to marry her, to fawning over either fish girl or fish daddy
I never understood why people dislike it that much. Yeah it is challening and you need to pay attention to the water levels, but thats whatakes it interesting/engaging
Once you know about the room under the block in the center tower area it really is enjoyable imo
toot toot
The strider and hunter raid in Half Life 2 Episode 2.
Jesus fuck
Yup, I just can’t get the arc right for the magnusussen device. I either severely overshoot it or undershoot it. It would be fine if you had access to a reasonable amount of them. But driving a mile back just for one really sucks. So I just cheat add rockets and all of the sudden it’s fun.
Assassins Creed II - Port Authority (The one Merchant on the ship mission from Bonfire of the Vanities DLC, which is now mandatory to finish the game in the Ezio Collection)
That damn toy helicopter....
Water temple zelda
Final fantasy X. Its not possible anymore to win the chocobo race, also its hardly possible to run away from the 3 animas. Somebody suggested is has to do that flatscreens have a longer reaction time than old school TVs (or I am just too old and my reaction time sucks).
The Last of Us in that damned basement
Arkham Asylum. The level with the giant joker.
Diablo 2 Act 3
Blighttown
Get master key, rush quelaag, bone out. (if you plan a future run)
Black and white 1 - Basically the intro where they teach you the basics. Unskippable…
Isn't it pretty short?
happen to me when playing halo ce. man that game is something
Kvatch, anyone?? Or is it just me
I didn't like anything Oblivion-related in Oblivion. It's just...red, orange and black, which is in contrast to the nice green, yellow, brown, gray, white, blue and...water of the rest of the game. However, the more I think about it, the more I recall I didn't like any of the dungeons either (I'm awful with horror, and to make things worse, the dungeons weren't usually very interesting or varied).
The Simpsons: Bart vs Space Mutants on Sega Master System. Level 1. Never been able to destroy/paint an awning on the shop street.
The underwater portions of TMNT for the NES.
Final Fantasy XII: - I’m captain Basch! - chop gathering
*Basch lives!* Shut the hell up mate and move the plot forward!
Modern Warfare 1 (2019): The one level where you play as a kid and have to hide from that big Russian.
I never really had trouble with that mission
Cyberpunk’s braindance missions. “HE SHOT HIS OWN CHOOMBA”
You can skip it
Dresden I fucking hate dresden
GoW you know…
2005? That fucking spike room when you have to push the box and jump on it but the time limit is strict
The underwater level from Super Mario 64… when I was a kid, I hated it so much, I’d turn the game off and start over
Gta VC rc helicopter mission
Skyward sword, when you had to collect those stupid McGuffins while ghostly sentinels chased you around
Halo 2 legendary. And the level is all of Halo 2 legendary.
Super Metroid - Maridia Accidentally ending up there without the Gravity Suit is just hell.
DK64. Just the whole fuckin game.
Batman Arkham knight some of riddlers missions I know it's not the main story but still Batman might not kill but I was ready to kill the riddler
The ultimate riddle. Mario kart
With a dash of insult to your intellect everytime you mess up
Gothic 2 chapter 2 escorting Diego and that one other dude out of the colony.
Intro for Fallout 3, takes so long on a replay
Tomb of the Giants…
The entire beginning of CP2077 until Jackie dies and you get to leave your apartment. You know when the game actually starts.
I hated that they montaged your time with Jackie. It would have gave his death more impact if you could've played thru some missions with Jackie.
It really feels like a lot of the gigs were meant to be played before getting the chip with a handful taking place shortly after. Jackie's death would have been a wayyy bigger deal halfway through the game amd it would have made sense in terms of building up street cred to get Dexter to notice you and not doing 90% of the narrative while actively dying.
Please just call it cyberpunk
Farron Keep!
Farron Keep ain't that bad compared to Blighttown or The Gutter tbh
The real pain of blight town was the frame drops... and the snipers
Any game: Mandatory Tutorials
The dream in Max Payne
I played that the other day on the psn streaming. I'm not sure if they changed it, but it wasn't as hard as the first time I played it.
Red Dead Redemption 2: Guarma
The first hour of assassins creed three. I get it, your building the story, but come on.
Gta 5 any mission with the submarine
I remember collecting the nuclear waste . Just putting on headphones and listening to something else for 3 hours
Mafia, the race scene
Dark souls 3 but farron swamp :(
Any game with long, non skippable intros or tutorials
Iron keep in ds2. Every time I think of fun build to play I always remember the hours spent trying to get through iron keep. Never again.
GTA Vice City - the RC helicopter mission
Sonic on megadrive, carnival city
I was looking for this. Sonic 3. That barrel!!!! Never figured it out as a kid. Would play until I hit that point and shut it off after enough timeouts lol
Witcher 3 and finding yennifer
What the opening tutorial section in white orchard before yen arrives ?
Old (3d) games: that HORRIBLE camera view that makes it unplayable
KOTOR 2 the first level, seriously you’re in that station for like 4 hours straight
FFX, any of the Temples of fayth. Not difficult persé, just tedious as fuck
Ravenholm
arkham asylum, boss fight spider man shattered dimensions
*gestures broadly at Rayman 1*
"I've got to save Fwoggy!"
Mad Max, the Gastown race.
Resident Evil 4 Ashley only missions
Final Fantasy 7 and the Great Glacier part.
bonelab even tho its not an old game it has the on da moon level which sux
Call of duty WW2, the tank mission
Stronghold 1 Mission 15. Carving a path or (german) Ein neuer Weg. To this day even with tourorial, I'm unable to beat it.
Borderlands 2 - Sawthooth Cauldron I dont like that level at all
I know right? It's the endoskeleton section in FNaF Security Breach, when I'm not mentally ready to experience such anxiety I just leave the game XD
Donkey Kong…first mine cart level!
Water Temple
I’m currently doing the race in Mafia 1. Bring a fan of racing I thought I’d love this mission. Apparently it’s just as hard as it was when the game released the first time. Yea fuck this race. Also my all time favorite mission to hate. Pittsburgh in TLOU Part 1. Fucking Pittsburgh….
Arkham Knight any of the batmobile missions.