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Post by aka Cthulhu on Oct 1, 2017 13:04:43 GMT -5
'You must trail this guy, and don't let him see you or it's game over!' Never need to do that one ever again "Enjoy this mandatory stealth section in a game that never featured the mechanic before or will again after this part!" Yeah, I'm fine with these in games based on stealth... but they are always thrown into games that are pretty much the antithesis of it, and are not enjoyable. Likewise. Stealth games I can be pretty decent at. On the other hand, if the game is not a stealth game, and I gotta stealth it up, my instincts pretty much are "destroy things like you usually do!" Not quite a scenario, I think, but video games that force you to mash buttons - like that torture scene in Metal Gear Solid. I'm horrible at tapping a button, and getting more horrible as I get older since my joints ache. Tapping a button is not something I can do, especially when the game suddenly demands it. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 1, 2017 13:06:21 GMT -5
Lose all your weapons and try to survive with only a knife against heavily armed guards, missions
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Post by ERON on Oct 1, 2017 14:06:42 GMT -5
Scrolling stages in platform games, especially the "outrun the water/lava/etc." variety
Racing or shooting stages in beat 'em ups
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Post by Mid-Carder on Oct 1, 2017 14:15:26 GMT -5
Generally missions having to protect someone, when they're useless. Like, I can take out all these guys on my own no problem but could you maybe try and defend yourself a bit, or at the very least not stand directly in the middle of their gunfire?
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Post by mizerable on Oct 1, 2017 14:24:12 GMT -5
GTA: Vice City and that f***ing toy helicopter mission. It was so horrible that I had to find a save that someone did to ease the pain of anyone who had to suffer through that bullshit. I never finished that game because of the boat mission towards the end where you have to jump through the rings (I think? Been awhile). The RC Helicopter bombing isn't too bad. The way to do it is work from top down, meaning go all the way to the top and believe me, it's much easier. Stick to the staircase and watch the map for which blip is on that floor. The boat challenge for Umberto is ridiculously difficult though. You have to be so precise in order to beat it. If you miss just one checkpoint, you may as well reset. The Driver mission was a pain too, until I learned to just start the race with a 2 star wanted level, which Hillary is not prepared for. Speaking of GTA missions, I'm really not a fan of anything timed. San Andreas is notorious for giving just enough time to finish something. The gang wars were pretty flawed too. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 14:24:36 GMT -5
If it hasn't yet been mentioned, isolated swimming segments in games where that's otherwise not a thing.
I get that I have finite oxygen and all that, but when you have me trying to traverse an underwater path that's convieniently just about as long as I can hold my breath whilst fighting both clunky mechanics that were not designed to handle this sort of thing and garbage camera angles that were also not meant to handle this sort of thing, I get a little miffed.
This is of course compounded by them sometimes placing these after a lengthy unskippable cutscene or otherwise between available savepoints.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 1, 2017 14:32:35 GMT -5
The worst part about mandatory stealth sections in games that more often that not, the character required to stealth is one that can easily lay waste to what is usually generic guards.
Your character is easily capable of slaying hordes of demons or is able to lay waste to dozens of skilled enemies in a single blow, but generic guard with line of sight? That's too much!
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 1, 2017 15:21:37 GMT -5
"Follow this guy and don't fall behind or you fail" missions.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 1, 2017 15:36:47 GMT -5
Running pointless errands to retrieve irrelevant objects.
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Post by Chiral on Oct 1, 2017 16:32:39 GMT -5
"Follow me for this story section! I'll walk faster than you walk, but slower than you run! Have fun keeping up!"
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Post by Fundertaker on Oct 1, 2017 16:43:10 GMT -5
"Follow me for this story section! I'll walk faster than you walk, but slower than you run! Have fun keeping up!" aka: The Bethesda Build-Up Technique |
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 1, 2017 17:12:05 GMT -5
I found the RC mission and boat missions in VC not too bad. The "rescue Lance at the junkyard" mission though? I'm getting angry just thinking about it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 19:08:27 GMT -5
I found the RC mission and boat missions in VC not too bad. The "rescue Lance at the junkyard" mission though? I'm getting angry just thinking about it. I stop at the mall destruction mission. The difficulty is insane in Vice City. |
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Oct 1, 2017 20:29:17 GMT -5
RC Mission ins San Andreas are much, much worse.
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Post by facethatrunstheplace on Oct 1, 2017 21:41:10 GMT -5
Missions in which you have to shoot from a moving vehicle.
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Oct 1, 2017 21:53:10 GMT -5
RPG's arbitrarily splitting your party in half and forcing you to use a team of shit-asses.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Oct 1, 2017 22:49:36 GMT -5
Running pointless errands to retrieve irrelevant objects. For Example; Life is Strange {Spoiler} FIND FIVE BOTTLES! |
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Post by Ash Kingston on Oct 1, 2017 23:04:32 GMT -5
"Follow me for this story section! I'll walk faster than you walk, but slower than you run! Have fun keeping up!" Ugh, that bloody tour of Shattrath City, or the similar tour of the Caverns of Time back during The Burning Crusade. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 23:10:00 GMT -5
RPG's arbitrarily splitting your party in half and forcing you to use a team of shit-asses. I support this one because it usually works to where Team B is comprised almost entirely of all the annoying, awful characters the game knows you wouldn't want to use who are levels and levels beneath what they need to be to be effective. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 23:12:29 GMT -5
Running pointless errands to retrieve irrelevant objects. Damn. Hit Girl coming at video games... |
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