Gosh darn annoying parts of great games!

Alright, so I'm replaying Xenogears, and for some reason I kept hitting the option to go through a lengthy tutorial over and over. In my button mashing furvor to get through the walls of text I would accidently choose to hear the process again.

As I was just getting through the explanation for the third-time, I realized, this happens a lot, and it drives me crazy because more or less it's all my fault! Any of you just have annoying pieces to great games, or simply just stuff that drives you nuts in games?

Marsh cave FF1, NES. Painful isnt the right word for it, especially if you plan to keep all your characters the same level.

In virtually all RPGs, I HATE level grinding in order to be able to progress further in the game. I just find it incredibly tedious and boring, and it has even prompted me to quit some RPGs before finishing them.

Alright, so I'm replaying Xenogears, and for some reason I kept hitting the option to go through a lengthy tutorial over and over. In my button mashing furvor to get through the walls of text I would accidently choose to hear the process again.

As I was just getting through the explanation for the third-time, I realized, this happens a lot, and it drives me crazy because more or less it's all my fault! Any of you just have annoying pieces to great games, or simply just stuff that drives you nuts in games?

Samslayer

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Alright, so I'm replaying Xenogears, and for some reason I kept hitting the option to go through a lengthy tutorial over and over. In my button mashing furvor to get through the walls of text I would accidently choose to hear the process again.

As I was just getting through the explanation for the third-time, I realized, this happens a lot, and it drives me crazy because more or less it's all my fault! Any of you just have annoying pieces to great games, or simply just stuff that drives you nuts in games?

Amnesiac23

There have been times where I've actually mashed a button, had to go through a whole series of dialogue again, but rage quit before I got there.

[QUOTE="Amnesiac23"][QUOTE="Samslayer"]

Alright, so I'm replaying Xenogears, and for some reason I kept hitting the option to go through a lengthy tutorial over and over. In my button mashing furvor to get through the walls of text I would accidently choose to hear the process again.

As I was just getting through the explanation for the third-time, I realized, this happens a lot, and it drives me crazy because more or less it's all my fault! Any of you just have annoying pieces to great games, or simply just stuff that drives you nuts in games?

MAILER_DAEMON

[QUOTE="MAILER_DAEMON"][QUOTE="Amnesiac23"] This is a personal pet peeve of mine in that game as well. In fact some RPGs try to mix up the button arrangements. Instead of X being select/do everything button, O is that button. I HATE THAT. It will mess me up the entire length of the game lolAmnesiac23

I'm not exactly certain, but I remember changing the button layout for FFVII, can someone confirm that for me?

Final Fantasy X, love the hell out of that game but there are some cutscenes that make me cringe really hard. Not skippable either.

I know it's not a legacy game but in castlevania lords of shadow I hated those damned chupacabrasrilpas

haha me too!

Zelda: Ocarine of Time - Gaebora.

Seriously. F*ck that owl.

Any FFX boss.

Any FFX boss.

PetJel

What was so bad about the bosses?

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Any FFX boss.

Samslayer

What was so bad about the bosses?

[QUOTE="PetJel"]

Any FFX boss.

Samslayer

What was so bad about the bosses?

Was replaying Contra III on the SNES, and absolutely hate the top-down levels.

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[QUOTE="PetJel"]

Any FFX boss.

PetJel

What was so bad about the bosses?

Haha gotcha, I was just looking for a more in depth answer thanks!

Horrible escort quests...

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Horrible escort quests...

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Synthia

Oh man you are so right, escort quests can literally break games in my opinion!

the tower part in MGS1, annoying as hell

Horrible escort quests...

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Synthia

Genma Onimusha, the killer doll! I love that game but the effing foll that keep appearing at semi-random places really put me off.

Horrible escort quests...

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Synthia

I used to kill her so much. I think Ashley is RE4 is worse though.

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Horrible escort quests...

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Branmuffin316

I used to kill her so much. I think Ashley is RE4 is worse though.

It seems like in some escort portions, the more ability you have to control the escort the more frustrating it is. I'd actually like just "stay here" and "follow". Then you can just put them in a corner, finish out the stage and go get them, rinse and repeat.

Forced driving segments. Probably only one game I know of that is guilty of this and that is Half Life 2 and its accompanying episodes. Good god.

Valve has a fetish for car segments. It's too bad that they are so mediocre and drag on way too long. I couldn't even finish HL2 Ep 2 because of the final vehicle segment. I just threw my hands up in anger and said NO. NO NO NO.

So annoying!

Every single level after level one in Battletoads for NES.

My turn, Swimming in 3D or 2D, but mostly 3D games. I have only played on game series that had fully functional, controllable swimming of all 3D games without causing the court to be pissed. Swimming in most 3D games is badly controlled, slow paced, tedious, annoying, unfinished, or all 5Judgement-Law

A lot of terrible water levels crossed my mind when I read this thread title...

Also:

Level in Rayman 2 where you have to float around on a plum in lava propelling yourself backwards by shooting projectiles.

Anytime in StarFox Adventures where you have carry an explosive barrel. (I am playing this now and there's been at least three sections like this where I've figured out what to do and got frustrated trying to do it.)

Non Beat-em-up Battletoads levels.

Bonus levels in Sonic 2 when you play w/ Tails as your computer-controlled sidekick and he loses rings.

King Trode's voice in Dragon Quest VIII.

In general:

Unskippable cutscenes you are likely to watch more than once (often before boss battles). Similarly, skippable cutscenese where you can't rewatch if you accidentally skip.

For some reason it really bothers me if the main character in an RPG is not the strongest in combat. ("Hey, how come that guy's not in charge!")

Any FFX boss.

PetJel

I remember having trouble with a boss in that game and taking several tries to beat it ( I think it looked like a woman's head). I didn't mind having to retry so much as having to rewatch the same cutscene before the fight several times in a row. The ability to skip cutscenes seriously should have been standard by then.

How about the boss rush level in viewtiful Joe? All the levels up to that point had been great and epic in their own way.

^This.

I'll add:

• HL2 vehicle sections
• unskippable cutscenes
• Unskippable summons in RPGS
• Escort missions
• non Sonic levels in Sonic Adventure 2
• the green slime in Odin Sphere
• the driving test in Driver 1
• the remote controlled toy hlicopter level in GTA Vice City
• ridiculous random battle rates in rpgs
• The Library in Halo CE. More then 10 years old and that level is still terrible and annoying.

To contribute a bit more:

• -Unavoidable trainers in Pokemon games. Also having your Pokemon poisoned.
• -The last levels in any Driver game.
• -Ramming police in any driving game.
• -Aiming in GTA 3 / VC on the console.
• -Watching the often unskippable cutscenes over and over again upon loading a game in LA noire.
• -Wolves and trolls aggroing on you in Oblivion while riding around on your horse.
• -Friendly AI physically blocking you from moving past it / moving through a doorway / any similar situation in any game.
• -Anything in any game that has a timer counting down.
• -Having to continuously restock anything to continue playing like fuel or timer clocks in any game (unless it's some kind of sim game).
• -Enemy AI with rocket launchers in any GTA / Saints Row game 1hko'ing you.

Just read the post above me and I'm doing a MASSIVE +1 on the random battles while walking around in rpg's.

[QUOTE="Judgement-Law"]My turn, Swimming in 3D or 2D, but mostly 3D games. I have only played on game series that had fully functional, controllable swimming of all 3D games without causing the court to be pissed. Swimming in most 3D games is badly controlled, slow paced, tedious, annoying, unfinished, or all 5logicalfrank

A lot of terrible water levels crossed my mind when I read this thread title...

Also:

Level in Rayman 2 where you have to float around on a plum in lava propelling yourself backwards by shooting projectiles.

Anytime in StarFox Adventures where you have carry an explosive barrel. (I am playing this now and there's been at least three sections like this where I've figured out what to do and got frustrated trying to do it.)

Non Beat-em-up Battletoads levels.

Bonus levels in Sonic 2 when you play w/ Tails as your computer-controlled sidekick and he loses rings.

King Trode's voice in Dragon Quest VIII.

In general:

Unskippable cutscenes you are likely to watch more than once (often before boss battles). Similarly, skippable cutscenese where you can't rewatch if you accidentally skip.

For some reason it really bothers me if the main character in an RPG is not the strongest in combat. ("Hey, how come that guy's not in charge!")

missions in GTA IV where you have to hang out with your friends

"JUST LET ME SHOOT BAD GUYS PLEASE THANK YOU, this is GTA not the sims"

all the civilians in the world is not enough

"I'll just run in front of these guys shooting at eachother"

Jabu Jabu's belly ocarina of time

water temple in majora's mask

ALL GAMES:

Jumping puzzles.

Honestly I can't imagine anything more annoying in a video game than a jumping puzzle. I just started playing Turok 64 and thats all the first level is so far. And my goodness its driving me insane, good thing there is a cheat where I can just float anywhere I want.