A fly in the ointment

[Ady]

Nothing in life is entirely perfect, not even your favourite games. As such even the best games have the occasional lapse, the one stage, level or section that spoils it ever so slightly.

What I'm interested in, then is that fly in the proverbial ointment. List some good games and the parts you felt weren't up to the quality of the rest of the title.

For example, I thought the Shadow Temple was OOT's weakest level. Not only did it look crap (a mish-mash of brown and green), but it was annoying in places.

Over to you...

[cinabar]

Timesplitters 2

The Hong Kong level.... IMO not fun, just annoying

[Hidden Character]

Wet-Dry World on Mario 64. Tedious and characterless.

[metal_mutley]

I'm really enjoying the control and the level design on Yoshi's Island. However, the first bonus level on world 1 has screwed things up, because I keep dying 'unfairly'. The rest of the game has been perfect, so this is something of a let down for me.

Could just be that I suck though?

[lordcookie]

Half Life: The last couple of levels

Goldeneye: Tank level

[srgbilco]

Half Life: The last couple of levels

Goldeneye: Tank level

I have to second the Goldeneye one. Also the tank boss fight in MGS. Maybe I just don't like tanks?

[C']

As mentioned in a previous thread, the Library level in Halo. Went from feeling like I was playing one of the greatest and most engrossing FPS titles in years, to back to playing Doom 10 years ago. Not fun.

[badgerpie]

Library level in Halo.

I quite enjoyed some of the other levels with the flood, proving (to me) that there was a place for them, but the library was tedium personified.

[badgerpie]

C'

I 'C' you just beat me to it.

[Keith]

JSR+F: Half pipes

Would've been fine if they had done them differently, but the way they were it was just tedious, especially when you had to jump to something above them...

[Ady]

Wet-Dry World on Mario 64. Tedious and characterless.

Wasn't it just? Little imagination appeared to go into either the level or enemy designs.

[Geoff D]

I've said it before & I'll say it again - the closing stages of Zelda:Wind Waker:

The Triforce collection at the tail end of the game - to me felt like an artificial (and not much fun) extension of the coda; almost as if there had been some panic that the game wasn't long enough.

I've spoilered it in case peeps aren't there yet

[chosen_one666]

The Xen sections in Half Life. Brilliant game, spoiled somewhat by these annoying levels near the end.

[Lebowski]

the bits in zelda mm were you had to roll around as a Goron especialy the last one fiddeley and anoying. totaly spoiled the end of the game for me spent hours getting through this Arghhhhhhh. one slip and your back at the begining of a long anoying section Monkey ball has nothing on this.

[beecee]

Library level in Halo.

I quite enjoyed some of the other levels with the flood, proving (to me) that there was a place for them, but the library was tedium personified.

what he said!