I Fucking Hate This Bit - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

I'm currently playing Mario Sunshine because I cleared the other two on the cart and 3D World isn't out for a while.

Ricco Harbour might be one of the most hateful locations every committed to a Mario game. The thin catwalks, the gusts of cloud to blow you off so you begin your slow ascent again.
It's a horrible little level and I want to know how it got through Q&A under the auspices of fun.

And then you pull a squad's writhing tentacles out. Twice.

Bob

Reg from memory the whole game sucks

davyK

I think that's where I packed it in.

I fucking hate water levels.

poprock

The whole game is a fucking water level. My ex-wife was obsessed with it and I think it’s the only game she ever completed.

nick_md

regmcfly wrote:

I'm currently playing Mario Sunshine because I cleared the other two on the cart and 3D World isn't out for a while.

Ricco Harbour might be one of the most hateful locations every committed to a Mario game. The thin catwalks, the gusts of cloud to blow you off so you begin your slow ascent again.
It's a horrible little level and I want to know how it got through Q&A under the auspices of fun.

And then you pull a squad's writhing tentacles out. Twice.

As ever, QA undoubtedly raised this and it was waived by some wanker producer.

nick_md

I will fight every battle for QA :flex:

nick_md

Producers have a hard time too.

davyK

The cleaning thing didn't do it for me either. I remember wondering what the fuss was with de Blob too and it's painting gameplay which was really the same thing. Bloody tedious.

My heart sank in Banjo Kazooie when world 2 was a dockside setting. That was the end of that for me too.

I didn't mind the Mario64 and Mario Galaxy levels though.

nick_md

Dire Dire Docks tho lads.

(I've never played Sunshine)

regmcfly

I have now cleared it of all the things there are to do so it is onto the Theme Park one which is marginally better except the hellscape that is the roller coaster

Bob

davyK wrote:

The cleaning thing didn't do it for me either. I remember wondering what the fuss was with de Blob too and it's painting gameplay which was really the same thing. Bloody tedious.

My heart sank in Banjo Kazooie when world 2 was a dockside setting. That was the end of that for me too.

I didn't mind the Mario64 and Mario Galaxy levels though.

deBlob 2 was brilliant though

davyK

Was de Blob 2 good? I had it and it languished in my pile of shame.....

ShabbyMcCrabby

superflyninja wrote:

Bits in games where you need to mash the button REALLY fast in a QTE. Im shit at doing that and its simply not fun.

This was done quite well in A Way Out when it had you doing it versus the other player you were co-oping with. The cramping was real but I wasn't gonna give up!

Blue Swirl

I've been doing Sunshine via 3D All Stars, as it's probably the only 3D Mario I haven't completed.

I think it's bugged to the point of being incompletable. I'm at a point where Shadow Mario is meant to turn up and trigger the next bit of story progression, but he isn't. The game keeps zooming in on a particular level when I return to the harbour, but I've 100%ed that one.

I second what Reg said. Who the fuck at Nintendo thought that a series of 'mess up once and you have to do it all again' platforming sequences would be improved by those cloud cunts who blow you off narrow ledges?

Blue Swirl

As well as check points after cutscenes, I think all games need a 'previously on' feature. There should always be a quick plot summary up to where you've got to in the menus somewhere. I had to dig out a guide for the Luigi's Mansion remake on 3DS recently because I'd been distracted by Doom Eternal and could not remember for the life of me what I was currently doing.

Unlike LM 2 and 3 where E. Gadd will not shut the fuck up about what he thinks you should be doing right now, in the original he's the exact opposite.

superflyninja

I dont know how common this is in general, but there was an early mission in GTA V where you had to drive AND shoot at a guy on a boat (which was on a trailer). The controls made it fuckky hard. Hated that bit.

LivDiv

superflyninja wrote:

I dont know how common this is in general, but there was an early mission in GTA V where you had to drive AND shoot at a guy on a boat (which was on a trailer). The controls made it fuckky hard. Hated that bit.

I found that one hard at launch but easy the two times I have done it since.
I'm not sure if they patched it or I was missing something first time.

superflyninja

LivDiv wrote:

superflyninja wrote:

I dont know how common this is in general, but there was an early mission in GTA V where you had to drive AND shoot at a guy on a boat (which was on a trailer). The controls made it fuckky hard. Hated that bit.

I found that one hard at launch but easy the two times I have done it since. I'm not sure if they patched it or I was missing something first time.

Yeah Ive found it awful difficult, not tried in a long time though.

regmcfly

Completed the Sand Bird in Sunshine on my second go with all blue coins today.

Either my Fucking Hating That Bit was ramped up with time passing or they made it easier on the 3D All Stars collection.

davyK

Some (actually all but one) of the boss fights in Monkey Ball Banana Blitz are exercises in frustration. Too much randomness that can result in life loss etc. Annoying as fuck and almost break the game.

Time_on_my_hands

superflyninja wrote:

I dont know how common this is in general, but there was an early mission in GTA V where you had to drive AND shoot at a guy on a boat (which was on a trailer). The controls made it fuckky hard. Hated that bit.

R* games have always had shit controls - it's why I don't bother with them any more.

poprock

Table Tennis had great controls.

Moot_Geeza

Terrible front end though. I bought that for multiplayer and you started off with two characters iirc. Waste of money in the end because I never fancied playing he AI, it did seem like a good game though.

Bob

Time_on_my_hands wrote:

superflyninja wrote:

I dont know how common this is in general, but there was an early mission in GTA V where you had to drive AND shoot at a guy on a boat (which was on a trailer). The controls made it fuckky hard. Hated that bit.

R* games have always had shit controls - it's why I don't bother with them any more.

Yes indeed went back to gta v on last gen (it debuted on ps3 right?) and its virtually unplayable. As is RDR2 I mean who thought it was a good idea to have fifteen billion different Button combos just to ride a horse ?

Diluted Dante

Probably the same one who came up with the aim down sights controls for MGS 4.

LivDiv

The other day I played that Breakdown game that is currently on GwG.
Now that has terrible and bizarre controls.

It is worth downloading to see just how far we have come.

MattyJ

Collectables in games like Uncharted. What is it actually adding to have some random vase or whatever? Who gives a fuck about them? Beyond it just being a trophy to get.

Moot_Geeza

Yeah, I'm not a fan of thinking I've found the right way to go when in fact I've blundered into a worthless collectible dead end.

nick_md

I hate when a button skips a cutscene without a warning/double press, because I have a weird button-tourettes that means I have to try the button to see if skips or not. With a warning I'm like ok, that'll skip if I press again.

regmcfly

MattyJ wrote:

Collectables in games like Uncharted. What is it actually adding to have some random vase or whatever? Who gives a fuck about them? Beyond it just being a trophy to get.

Yes. YES.

I have a penchant for collecting things in an open world game, but in one where when you go past it , it's gone really does my head in. I think the first time I got frustrated with it was the flasks in Alan Wake.

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