We all enjoy praising and gushing over how much we love certain games, but is there anything within those games that you really dislike any time you feel like playing through it? Of course if it's your favorite then the positives heavily outweigh it, but think to any particular point in that game that you know you won't look forward to doing again. Or heck, is there even a certain mechanic in the game that despite being able to overlook it, you know it could have been done better? I'll use my two of my favorite games of all time for this example: GTA Vice City and Metal Gear Solid 3.
I'll admit in Vice City, there's a few mission that can get pretty annoying to play through. But by far the mission I dislike the most is Messing with the Man. I hate this mission, I genuinely hate it. This is the 2nd Mitch Baker mission where the only thing you have to do is cause as much mayhem as possible to fill up a gauge bar...within 2 minutes. You have to do A LOT of killing and car exploding to get that meter to fill up, which means the spawn rate of the people and cars is one of the biggest things working against you. Sometimes you may get lucky and there'll be plenty of people or cars to bring down, other times you might just find yourself running around hoping to run into literally anything! And obviously the more mayhem you cause, the more stars you earn so the more cops and agents w/ better weapons start to come after you, so having full health and armor is flat out required. And of course if you fail, all the stars remain there so your best bet would be to reload your save since you undoubtedly would have taken damage from your last attempt. But by far what ruins this mission is the time limit. If you're literally given just an extra 30 seconds AT LEAST, there'd be enough time to fill out that gauge all the way. I can't tell you the amount of times I've failed that mission simply b/c I did not have enough freaking time! Why does that time limit even have to be there? WHY!? In fact the last time I played through Vice City, I kid you not, I took me over an hour of attempts to beat the mission. You wanna know how I beat it? Cheat codes. I used the cheat code to spawn the rhino [tank] so I can destroy everything on contact so that meter can fill up in a timely manner. There was actually moment where I actually beat it w/o cheating, but I died b/c the stupid FBI was on me and they carry sub-machine guns, so I went down pretty quick when I tried to run to a save point. And to top it off, this may sound weird, but I generally don't like causing senseless chaos in GTA. Sure I may start light and get carried away over time, but flat out mowing people and blowing up everything in sight right off the bat? Not my style, but that's exactly what this mission requires. This mission honestly embodies that stereotype parents and politicians have w/ GTA, a game where you mindlessly kill everyone and everything without rhyme or reason. That's honestly not how I personally played GTA as a kid but this mission is the only one in Vice City that demands you cause as much senseless chaos as possible. And it deadass would not be that big of a deal if it wasn't for that FREAKING TIME LIMIT! I still do genuinely love Vice City, that'll never change, but geez what an awful, awful mission.
....oh yeah and as for MGS3. I don't like the torture scene, and that's mainly it. Snake in this game is my favorite video game character and it actually does hurt to see this happen when I play the game. But aside that sequence [ which I'm at least able to skip those cutscenes mind you], I love everything else abut MGS3.
yeah I didn't mean this to become a Vice City rant, but there lies the point. Is there anything in your favorite games that you're not a big fan of or even can't stand like this?
I'll admit in Vice City, there's a few mission that can get pretty annoying to play through. But by far the mission I dislike the most is Messing with the Man. I hate this mission, I genuinely hate it. This is the 2nd Mitch Baker mission where the only thing you have to do is cause as much mayhem as possible to fill up a gauge bar...within 2 minutes. You have to do A LOT of killing and car exploding to get that meter to fill up, which means the spawn rate of the people and cars is one of the biggest things working against you. Sometimes you may get lucky and there'll be plenty of people or cars to bring down, other times you might just find yourself running around hoping to run into literally anything! And obviously the more mayhem you cause, the more stars you earn so the more cops and agents w/ better weapons start to come after you, so having full health and armor is flat out required. And of course if you fail, all the stars remain there so your best bet would be to reload your save since you undoubtedly would have taken damage from your last attempt. But by far what ruins this mission is the time limit. If you're literally given just an extra 30 seconds AT LEAST, there'd be enough time to fill out that gauge all the way. I can't tell you the amount of times I've failed that mission simply b/c I did not have enough freaking time! Why does that time limit even have to be there? WHY!? In fact the last time I played through Vice City, I kid you not, I took me over an hour of attempts to beat the mission. You wanna know how I beat it? Cheat codes. I used the cheat code to spawn the rhino [tank] so I can destroy everything on contact so that meter can fill up in a timely manner. There was actually moment where I actually beat it w/o cheating, but I died b/c the stupid FBI was on me and they carry sub-machine guns, so I went down pretty quick when I tried to run to a save point. And to top it off, this may sound weird, but I generally don't like causing senseless chaos in GTA. Sure I may start light and get carried away over time, but flat out mowing people and blowing up everything in sight right off the bat? Not my style, but that's exactly what this mission requires. This mission honestly embodies that stereotype parents and politicians have w/ GTA, a game where you mindlessly kill everyone and everything without rhyme or reason. That's honestly not how I personally played GTA as a kid but this mission is the only one in Vice City that demands you cause as much senseless chaos as possible. And it deadass would not be that big of a deal if it wasn't for that FREAKING TIME LIMIT! I still do genuinely love Vice City, that'll never change, but geez what an awful, awful mission.
....oh yeah and as for MGS3. I don't like the torture scene, and that's mainly it. Snake in this game is my favorite video game character and it actually does hurt to see this happen when I play the game. But aside that sequence [ which I'm at least able to skip those cutscenes mind you], I love everything else abut MGS3.
yeah I didn't mean this to become a Vice City rant, but there lies the point. Is there anything in your favorite games that you're not a big fan of or even can't stand like this?
