The Most Annoying And Most Satisfying Levels Of This Generation

Design and rhythm are integral to making you feel interested in a particular game. If a level is cleverly design, you’ll play it and enjoy it. If not, you will probably slam the controller somewhere and swear not to play that game ever again. This is not a matter of difficulty, but of creativity and wittiness from the developers.

[gypsygib]

I like the articles idea, but disagree completely with the list. I think any level in Halo 3 where your constantly fighting the flood is the most annoying

[SnuggleBandit]

i disagree too, mainly with the statement about the no russian mission. It completely made me sick to my stomach

[Aphe]

I disagree with his comment about that as well. The purpose of the mission was to show you how evil the guy was, and it would have probably affected a lot of people the way that it did with you z-hayden, to make you feel sick about it. It did with me anyway.

[kneon]

I found the "no russian" level highly annoying because it wouldn't let me kill the terrorists.

[presto717]

I just cannot stand that level. I would have preferred the final world to be something bright like Boletaria or the Shrine of storms not that freaking dark swamp with Depraved ones and plague babies trying to kill you.

That sh*t is creepy. Not to mention hard as f*ck.

Selen Vinland = Impossible (without cheap arrow tactic)

[AKS]

Most finish 1-4 last. World 5 isn't difficult with a Faith build and the Adjudicator's Shield. The only thing that's really tough are those awful trolls. Use arrows and stealth to take them out easily. BP trolls are vicious if you are fighting pure melee, though.

BP Selen is the toughest BP in the game, so yes, she's hard. I took her out legitimately with Very Large Swords and pole arms without too much trouble. Lure her to a patch of land where you have a chance to move around.

[Bits-N-Kibbles]

If Demon's Souls did not make the list I would call the list FUBAR. No doubt this was one of the hardest worlds. I just picked it up again today and I'm on my second time around, now just noticed that all enemies are harder to kill and take more of my health. It's like all my weapons don't do sh*t. Addicting though.

[BannedForNineYears]

Well said.
Agreed.

[xabmol]

I just kept her pinned down with my Dragon Bone Smasher. Love that weapon!

[meatnormous]

I love hearing people complain about that level.

[darkequitus]

I agree with Halo 3. I hate anything flood in those game. Got too frustrated to complete that on Legendary, so I dropped back down to Heroic.

I could also mention numerous level in COD:5 on veteran. Trying to kill the sniper and constantly setting shot the soon I move.

3 leaf clover was a great mission.
Locomotion had a few cheap deaths, but after COD:5, it was not that bad
Maybe I was lucky but I managed to save everyone on the ME2 suicide mission - with two saves on the final decision re the elusive man

Army of two:40th Day on contract had too long a gap between certain checkpoints

[ThdeGreatestOne]

Locomotion wasn't even that hard, beat it on Hard and it wasn't even that hard. I'll tell you what game was hard, each level was frustrating on the highest difficulty and that was Call of Duty: World at War, stupid grenade spams and 2 hit kills, it was so bullshit. Some levels in LittleBigPlanet are hard too and frustrating.

[huzzaahh]

I beat Uncharted 2 on Crushing and I had minimal difficulty on all of the levels.
Locomotion was a cakewalk compared to World at War on Veteran, as you said.

[Angrychinchilla]

Plus, he lists "a million helicopters firing missiles at you"

...There was one helicopter in that level :P

That level was satisfying for me if anything on crushing.

[BannedForNineYears]

Uncharted 2 was easy on crushing. -_-
Train level was easy.

[FENDR]

where is the killzone 2 ending. getting to radec was a bitch

[presto717]

There is also that part where you have to hold Helghan Square and like 3 big guys show up. On Elite I was like WTF?!!

Or the part you have to push the convoy forward across the bridge. It took me days just to get to the freaking checkpoint alive.

Everything is so hard on Elite. Right now I'm stuck at the final act after coming so far.

[AKS]

On Elite, the end is of course brutally hard.

Although far less challenging by comparison, just from an annoyance factor I greatly disliked that bit where you're on that cart on Elite. Nowhere to go.

[presto717]

Its counter intuitive, but the trick is to engage the helghast BEFORE the cart starts moving. You'll need good accuracy to headshot them before they find cover. If you dont kill off a substantial number by the time the cart starts moving then you're pretty much f#%^ed.

But not being able to move, and being shot from multiple directions makes the screen turn black and white very quickly.

I love that game.

[Aphe]

Three Leaf Clover is probably one of the best missions I've played in any GTA game, maybe because I'm a big fan of Heat, but yeah it was satisfying.

[nnotdead]

to bad its one of the few good missions in the game

[Snowb420]

It was by far my favorite mission in GTA IV. Possibly my favorite in any GTA.

[Handhelds_FTW]

The article author didn't play Ninjabread Man, as each stage on that game is "annoying".

[Kakihara]

Buh ??? Zuh ???? mwuh ??? Uncharted 2 train level as one of the most annoying levels this generation ??? Wha ???

I'd expect it to be either 1 or 2 on the list of most satisfying but it blows my mind to think anybody found that level annoying. I mean even if you liked it but just found it a little difficult, I still don't get that. The ease of all but the very last few levels was one of the only flaws I could find with Uncharted 2. Whenever I put Uncharted 2 on for a quick twenty minute play through that's the level I skip straight to.

[huzzaahh]

Uncharted 2 is one of the easiest games (on its highest difficulty setting compared to other games on highest difficulty) I've played. I had next to no difficulty in any of the levels, and I beat Lazarovic on my first try on Crushing.

[ReBurn]

...giving us the finger.

I found the locomotion in Uncharted 2 to be very frustrating. I thought maybe it was just because I'm getting old or something.

[Dacapn]

The Ultimate Heist. I'm so glad that mission made it on the list. That was my favorite mission in Oblivion bar none.

And yes, the valley of defilement....what a bastardly level. Poison is everywhere, it's a wide open dark swamp, and if you follow the yellow brick road, you'll meet an angry woman with a meat cleaver.

[kneon]

Locomotion is one of my favorite levels, I often go back and play it on crushing. I love how the train movement throws off your aim. That guy at the end though is a PITA.

[despair]

i personally thought the suicide mission in ME2 was a big letdown. After all with no guide or really not much thought and planet mining (which sucked ass) I was maxed out on the normandy and easily chose who to do what without any trouble and little contemplating. I mean sending a non tech person to do a tech job is just stupid right?

Also why not do the loyalty missions beforehand since they give xp anyway.Not exactly most satisfying in my book. That goes to 90% of Demon's souls(damn the valley of defilement)

[asdr3wsfas]

To be fair, in most RPGs people don't complete every side quest before beating the game. If you did this for Oblivion or Fallout it would take forever. So it makes sense some people would skip loyalty quests and it would hurt you in the end.

Planet mining sucked dude, I can also see people skipping the upgrades cause of that.

SPOILERS

Also, the other suicide mission choices are harder. If you take the big guns with you to the last boss the defensive support holding the line is worse off. A lot of the difficulty comes when you have to sacrifice your default party.

I team with Miranda and Garrus/Grunt, squad two ate one of my regulars. To hold the line I swapped Miranda/Grunt for a squishy character. Don't forget the loyalty conflicts in game can eliminate some choices, in most cases you fight at the end with a party you would never use in game.

It wasn't good enough to top the list, but it was a fun last level. The preparation beats "open X oblivion gates."

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Does The Devil Went Down to Georgia on Expert count? Through the Fire and Flames? Lol.

Where is Just Cause 2? The entire game is one satisfying mission after the other. It's so addicting!

[asdr3wsfas]

Why wouldn't they? It's a video game.

DDR and Guitar Hero are some of the most popular videogames overall but looking at these sites you would think they didn't exist.

Having a bunch of extremely narrow-minded losers define what video games are hurts everyone.

[RatchetandClank]

The uncharted level gave such a rush. How can you play no russian and not feel bad, game or no game those are innocent people.

[nikoado]

Oh, the water temple...shudders. Sometimes I have dreams about changing into those darn boots while Zelda's Lullaby plays in the background. Awesome game otherwise.

I disagree with Uncharted 2 train level though. The only real problem there, on crushing difficulty,is the damn boss.
I eventually got some good shots in, knocked off his helmet, spammed nades, then cqc'd him to death. Took a fair few tries though.
Uncharted 2's last boss was more annoying imo.

[iamgoatman]

The most annoying mission ever has to be the final boss in Golden Axe. The guy had the ability to use every characters magic powers, then would constantly spam them, along with 2 invincible skeletons.

You'd be lucky to hit him a few times before all your lives and continues where gone.

[Tex117]

5-2 Valley of Defilment. UGH, that was a difficult level.

Valkeria Chronicle desert level? Might as well have been the whole game. Delightful