Type of levels you hate?

CiDeRmAn

Spirit Levels.
All my shelves are crooked as a result.

pablomakaveli

Robsweezie wrote: »

I hated the mission structure of the GTAs on the ps2. Fail a mission, go all the way back to big smokes house to initiate it. Fail it again, back to big smoke. and no autosave meaning you cant just go back to the start of said mission.

The last mission in San Andreas was a nightmare for that. It was really long for a GTA mission and you failed at any point and back to the start.

um7y1h83ge06nx

I did indeed sell Megaman X, checked last night. It's actually selling for quite a bit now on eBay, even bare carts are going for decent money.

Great game.

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

TL;DR More games need opening tutorial levels where you split a Metal Gear Ray in two.

While I largely agree that tutorials should be subtle and organic wherever possible, MGS: Revengance is a good example of a game that at least in one instance could have used a little more guidance. Having a very early boss depend on a very specific and reasonably advanced parry move is in theory a clever piece of tutorial design (make sure the player is aware of what they're doing before letting them move on), but the game could have been just a little more explicit that that was the case. Even a gentle reminder or unobtrusive prompt some time before the fight, since at that point the player is still adjusting to the various game systems. As it is in execution, it doesn't quite work.

Gregk961 wrote: »

Obviously an extremely common one but any dark dungeon lit by torchlight. Nobody has ever thought "wow im having great fun out here in this colourful world, but what I really need now is a brown dungeon to amble through". Absolute filler, can have hours of gameplay in virtually the same place and seems to escape criticism in any critically successful game. Skyrim was an immense game but some of those dungeons made me want to self harm.

Playing Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin at the moment, and it struck me how well the pitch black, torchlit Gutter level works there with the necessary technology backing it up. It genuinely feels like you need your torch to help guide the way, and the darkness usually does hide something dangerous or troublesome. It didn't come across as well in the original version, but with the more dynamic, moody lighting of the SotFS upgrade, it's a beautifully handled level.

strelok

Retr0gamer wrote: »

. Game devs, nobody is 'playing' your game to see your crappy aspirations of being a hollywood director.

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TerrorFirmer

I loathe games that shoe horn in stealth missions in otherwise action orientated games.

Speaking of stealth, remember some of the spy missions in Command and Conquer: Red Alert....spend 20 minutes painstakingly guiding the spy through the enemy base, only for him to be eaten by a dog at the very end. Beyond infuriating, hated those missions.

Robsweezie

I remember the stealth mission in AMY was a pain as well. That whole game was just off.

Irish Halo

Very much an old platformer problem, but slippy slidey ice worlds. No platformer was complete at one time without an obligatory "subtle suspension of friction and addition of penguins and icicles" level.

Paramite Pie

A lot of complaints about water levels I see.... As awkward as Tomb Raider's 'tank' controls were to master on land, the water sections were often the most fun and straight forward to control.

I do hate insta-death water though in other games. And underwater mazes.

In fact, any maze levels. *shudder*

ShadowHearth

Playing Bloodborne and it reminded me one of my other Pet hates in video games. The parts of games where enemies respawn, I mean not in a way of "darksouls", but in a way that you in the area and damn crap respawns right away if you leave screen or on timer.

laochra tintreach

Escort missions usually ending with me killing the target, you'd swear I was working with the enemies and any level that involves the undead is just horrible, getting overwhelmed by all kinds of nasty enemies.

martyos121

Bit of a niche one, but on-foot levels of driving focused games are the worst. Driver 3, Wheelman, Pursuit Force etc.

This also goes the other way as I absolutely despise the driving mechanics in the likes of Halo, Borderlands and so on. Just get rid of the vehicles!

CliCliW

I can remember not being able to beat Shifting Sand Land in Mario 64 for years. As a result I hate Desert Levels.

Underwater levels are a given at this stage I think :P

And last but not least: Pokemon has given me a massive dislike of Cave levels.

SeantheMan

FPS or shooters in general when you character has to use a mounted turret gun, maybe it's on top of a hill....and 100 enemies run out. Maybe atop a temple or building or whatever.....and it usually has infinite ammo...and is pointless.
Or similarly they may be riding in a chopper, or boat or on some vehicle or animal....and the level continues on...but you have to sit on your stupid turret and spray everything that moves.

Robsweezie

SeantheMan wrote:

FPS or shooters in general when you character has to use a mounted turret gun, maybe it's on top of a hill....and 100 enemies run out. Maybe atop a temple or building or whatever.....and it usually has infinite ammo...and is pointless. Or similarly they may be riding in a chopper, or boat or on some vehicle or animal....and the level continues on...but you have to sit on your stupid turret and spray everything that moves.

SeantheMan wrote:

FPS or shooters in general when you character has to use a mounted turret gun, maybe it's on top of a hill....and 100 enemies run out. Maybe atop a temple or building or whatever.....and it usually has infinite ammo...and is pointless. Or similarly they may be riding in a chopper, or boat or on some vehicle or animal....and the level continues on...but you have to sit on your stupid turret and spray everything that moves.

SeantheMan wrote:

FPS or shooters in general when you character has to use a mounted turret gun, maybe it's on top of a hill....and 100 enemies run out. Maybe atop a temple or building or whatever.....and it usually has infinite ammo...and is pointless. Or similarly they may be riding in a chopper, or boat or on some vehicle or animal....and the level continues on...but you have to sit on your stupid turret and spray everything that moves.

Was playing red dead redemption yesterday and exactly that happened :-o