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Space Plant from F-Zero X on master difficulty.
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CW_McGraw posted...

The Sewers before the Nosferatu base in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Even as someone who adores the game, the combat is very bad and this entire section is just hours of uninterrupted combat against these roaring knee high hellspawn. It's especially unrewarding since the game doles out experience points for completed quests, not for killing enemies, so there's just no payoff for fighting your way through. I'm replaying the game now and I intend to just noclip my way through this portion of the game.

Ugh, agreed. I love VtM Bloodlines, but I definitely noclip through the sewers.

Now I kinda wanna play that again...
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Advance Wars - Rivals AC

F-Zero GX - Story Mode, Chapter 5 VH

Shadow the Hedgehog - Central City

Sonic and Knuckles/S3&K - Sandopolis Zone, Act 2

Battletoads - Volkmire's Inferno / Terra Tubes

TMNT(NES) - The Dam / Locating the Technodrome

Diddy Kong Racing - Greenwood Village w/ Silver Coin Challenges

Dragon Age: Origins - The Fade

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Animal Antics, Squawks section

Fire Emblem 5 - Chapter 24x

Punch-Out!! Wii - Title Defense Soda Popinski
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ice cave
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I think most PS2 era levels were pretty bad in one way or another.
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Lord Juba Juba - The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
The Secret of Casino Delfino - Super Mario Sunshine
tone Cyclone Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy 2

Are the main comes coming to mind. Generally they weren't hard but I just couldn't master them. For the former and latter one it was even worse because I'm shit at memorizing
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Almost any underwater level.

Donkey Kong Country 3: the factory level in the snow world(protecting yourself from fireballs), and the lightning strikes level in the last world.
I was so afraid of those two levels when I was a little boy, that my sibling had to take care of both of them for me >_> .
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Underwater Manaan.
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took awhile to think about it, but those tow truck missions in gta4

in vice city, that mission where you gotta fly the remote RC to drop the bombs...whenever i make a new file on VC and plan to plow through it that mission always makes me take a break
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One of the Mute City tracks on the next to last cup in F-Zero GX... the one with all the jumps? Yeah, fuck, that track.
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Verdekal posted...

Underwater Manaan.

Oh god.

The version of KoTOR II I'm playing for some reason doesn't do the super-fast walk when you're in the space suit, and even that tiny amount of time you have to use it is unbearable.

I can't imagine having to do the entire level like that again.
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Roxborough4Ever posted...

in vice city, that mission where you gotta fly the remote RC to drop the bombs...whenever i make a new file on VC and plan to plow through it that mission always makes me take a break

It's like passing on a kidney stone on PC with a keyboard and mouse.
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Zelda Twilight Princess - The Desert Dungeon (forget what its called)
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CW_McGraw posted...

Roxborough4Ever posted...

in vice city, that mission where you gotta fly the remote RC to drop the bombs...whenever i make a new file on VC and plan to plow through it that mission always makes me take a break

It's like passing on a kidney stone on PC with a keyboard and mouse.

on that note, flight school in San Andreas with a mouse and keyboard
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Delirious_Beard posted...

a bunch of missions in jak 2

i don't think i've ever been more frustrated with a game than that one

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The tutorial level for the original Driver. LOL! I literally could never get past that part so I only played the cruise mode (or whatever it's called).
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My most hated ones are the scripted and not very challenging ones that are a complete slog which destroys any hope I have of a replay.

Like the Fade in Dragon Age.

You know it's bad when there are mods which let you skip it completely.

Else the speedbikes in battletoads.
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The Earthbound stage in Melee adventure mode.
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Waluigi7 posted...

The Earthbound stage in Melee adventure mode.

You are completely correct. Fuck Space Travelers.

On another note, Aparoid City in Star Fox Assault wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the fact that dying once before killing every ground hatcher will make you start the whole thing over. Not horrible by any means, but very annoying.
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Metal Gear Rising VR mission 17.

Literally played it for the first time mere days ago but I hate it so much.

This is the one where you can only use grenades and homing missiles and the last prt is two raptors and a gekko.
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I looked up an S Rank video on youtube and every single comment was about how much the commentor hated that level.
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RoadsterUFO posted...

Tubular

Agreed.

This post has gone unnoticed. That level is trash.
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

I loathe whenever I play through the first God of War and reach these two particular cylindrical columns of hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw29m0_bHIw

That's cake compared to the second phase of the final boss...
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SF_Okami posted...

Zelda Twilight Princess - The Desert Dungeon (forget what its called)

That was one of my favorites.

Also how could you list a dungeon from a 3D Zelda that isn't a water dungeon?
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

SF_Okami posted...

Zelda Twilight Princess - The Desert Dungeon (forget what its called)

That was one of my favorites.

Also how could you list a dungeon from a 3D Zelda that isn't a water dungeon?

Because the water dungeons are the best ones
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The forced cave scrolling levels in super mario world 1
The level before the last boss in dkc 1 actually the last 2 levels are hard
Any of the bramble levels in dkc2
The dancing games in oracle of seasons/ages as it's required in one of them and I can never beat it
The train parts in spirit tracks
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I is smart posted...

Zack_Attackv1 posted...

I loathe whenever I play through the first God of War and reach these two particular cylindrical columns of hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw29m0_bHIw

That's cake compared to the second phase of the final boss...

is that where the to of you share the life bar? because if so, that pissed me off so bad when I went through the game.

that and the pillars
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Really guys? Halo 3 - Cortana? Proper weapon use and ammo management will solve all your problems. I was far more infuriated trying to navigate than fight.

Halo 2.

Outskirts.

Jackal Sni*Beam Rifle'd*
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The poison river in Super Mario sunshine
Corona Mountain Blue Coins
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chill02 posted...

CW_McGraw posted...

Roxborough4Ever posted...

in vice city, that mission where you gotta fly the remote RC to drop the bombs...whenever i make a new file on VC and plan to plow through it that mission always makes me take a break

It's like passing on a kidney stone on PC with a keyboard and mouse.

on that note, flight school in San Andreas with a mouse and keyboard

its tough, but i find the planes easier then the helis
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Mannan underwater portion Kotor
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Why are we 135 posts in and I'm the only one that has mentioned Control from Goldeneye?

One of the Mute City tracks on the next to last cup in F-Zero GX... the one with all the jumps? Yeah, f***, that track.

lol, it never failed. If you were on Easy, Standard or even Hard, it was nbd but if you were on Master you would fly off the track and not be caught below like you're supposed to be. It's like they did it on purpose.
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DevsBro posted...

One of the Mute City tracks on the next to last cup in F-Zero GX... the one with all the jumps? Yeah, f***, that track.

lol, it never failed. If you were on Easy, Standard or even Hard, it was nbd but if you were on Master you would fly off the track and not be caught below like you're supposed to be. It's like they did it on purpose.

The trick to dealing with Mute City - Serial Gaps is to win big enough in the earlier tracks so that, as the last track, your standings in it will not influence whether you win or not. Big Blue - Drift Highway is a spicy meatball, but the remaining 3 are easy to the point that if you're having trouble with them then you really shouldn't be challenging Master difficulty in the first place. So, win 3 tracks for 300 points, then get a decent standing in Drift Highway, around 10th-15th is good enough(and if it's a problem you can always reset-scum considering it's the first track of the cup).

CPUs are normally very hard-pressed to garner more than 300 points so once you've done this, you can play it completely safe and tank to your heart's content and still go home with the gold, even on Master. Just make sure to kill AI Red Gazelle once or twice beforehand in the first three tracks since as the cup's MVP he can make a serious bid for getting 400+ points and raining on your parade if he gets lucky.
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