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Post by Old Man Rupee on Jan 25, 2005 8:49:34 GMT -5
SPOILERS SPOILERS OK, so you're playing the best game in your collection, you're having a great laugh, but then you come across a level or an area or a task that's less than fun. This weird phenomenon has popped up (for me at least) in quite a few games: Paper Mario 2 - The entire Excess Express detective bit. You just run from one part of the train to the other and talk to the dull characters. I mean, seaching for a pot of soup? Come on! (Haven't got far enough to see if you have to do it all again on the way back yet, hope not) Pikmin 2 - Building up your army of Piks. I hate this bit, but I have to do it every time I emerge from a difficult cave where I've lost quite a few troops. Then its time to search for and harvest flowers and weak enemies, before waiting for the next day until the pellets regenerate again. Those are just a few examples, has anyone else noticed this sort of thing happening? P.S. Don't get me wrong, still in love with Nintendo  |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jan 25, 2005 9:57:24 GMT -5
Paper Mario 2 - The entire Excess Express detective bit. You just run from one part of the train to the other and talk to the dull characters. I mean, seaching for a pot of soup? Come on! (Haven't got far enough to see if you have to do it all again on the way back yet, hope not) Really? I loved that part of the game!  You don't have to do it again on the way back, though. Hm, I can't really remember any boring stuff in games myself... |
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Post by Old Man Rupee on Jan 25, 2005 10:38:07 GMT -5
Another example: the massive amounts of sailing in bland oceans in Zelda: Wind Waker. I literally left the room for a while during a particularily long journey, and nothing had happened to Link when I got back, other than the fact that he had bumped into an island and stopped.
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Post by Ace_ETP on Jan 25, 2005 16:00:44 GMT -5
I experience that in Pikmin everytime. I have started it from scratch three times and never finished it. I always gather up hundreds of Pikmin and then, in my amazing stupidity, I walk over a puddle of water and lose half of the darned creatures. Usually this pathetic event that keeps repeating itself ends with me realizing that I haven't saved since I had three Pikmin.  |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 25, 2005 18:10:04 GMT -5
Raising an army of Pikmin was never the best bit. That's why when I completed it recently I was often seen with no more than around 30 in tow. Too many innocent Pikmin would die. But then save every day and there's not usually a problem. As for Paper Mario, Nintyboy, I suggest you hold your tongue. That chapter starts slowly, but it does it for a reason. You get to know everyone on the train, they build their characters, you take a little pit-stop, then... well... let's just say the chapter gets a LOT cooler. It's like the fighting ring. Endless enemy battles should have been dull as anything, but it was divided up JUST right. It's the same with a lot of boring bits of games. Searching the Safari Zone for a rare Pokémon is boring, especially when they always run away, but when you do catch one you feel so pleased with yourself. The sailing bits in TWW were a bit much, though... but they were pretty enough, and gave me a chance to work on my C-Stick camera skills  |
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Post by missingno.is back? on Jan 25, 2005 18:36:26 GMT -5
Working for Nook and being unable to buy anything or do anything fun until he let you on your own in Animal Crossing.
I can't name how many times I've replayed it... to find an item I need in his store while I was working for him.
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Post by Old Man Rupee on Jan 26, 2005 16:25:45 GMT -5
BIG SPOILERS
OK, so the train boss was pretty cool (and tough), but when you actually get to Poshley Heights, its such an anti-climax! They could have done a really cool in-and-out-of-pictures dungeon in that museum place, but I just walked straight past those ghosts and nabbed the star!
Oh, but the Peach bit was so great! And the Bowser-Rawk Hawk confruntation! Hilarious!!!
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 26, 2005 16:41:19 GMT -5
Bowser's bits are the most laugh-out-loud sections in the game. The whole "underwater level" sequence was the biggest laugh I've had since... Luigi in M&L: Superstar Saga, I suppose Poshley Heights isn't over yet... you'll see |
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Post by Andronicus on Jan 27, 2005 5:58:59 GMT -5
The Peach side-story... I found it a bit too high in the "creeped me out" facor - I mean, if I was a kid, then I'd be scarred (not scared "Argh!", but scarred - to have scars ;D ) right now.
I find the coin hunting in SMS to be boring...
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jan 27, 2005 14:42:49 GMT -5
I find the coin hunting in SMS to be boring... Oh, you're so right about that... I almost forgot how boring (and frustating) that could be... |
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Post by Old Man Rupee on Jan 30, 2005 4:43:04 GMT -5
Luigi's Mansion: E. Gadd's training room. Its been a while since I picked this game up, but as I recall it, at the beginning of the game E.Gadd makes you play his weird little training game (ghosts coming out of pipes) but I was rubbish at it, so he made me do it over and over until I got it right (or did I just imagine all that? Can't recall)
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 30, 2005 7:29:36 GMT -5
There is a training room, but you don't HAVE to complete it before you start the game. You can just get on with good ol' ghost hunting.
Boring-est bit of Pokemon Colosseum is fighting the same guys over and over because no-one else will battle you more than once. This is why the game could have done with some long grass... even if it didn't let you catch anything.
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 31, 2005 8:23:29 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of the Triforce-hunting part of TWW... and FSA's Village of the Blue Maiden was a little tedious, especially when all my friends decided to have a game of 'take the chickens into the house and smack 'em up' while I was outside trying to figure out what we were supposed to do.
Apart from that, I can't think of anything...
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 31, 2005 11:22:32 GMT -5
Haha, you might not have liked it, but it sounds like a huge laugh from your friends' point of view. Hehehe... I love cucco attacks.
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 31, 2005 16:43:19 GMT -5
Haha, you might not have liked it, but it sounds like a huge laugh from your friends' point of view. Hehehe... I love cucco attacks. It was funny the first time. But they started doing it A LOT. There was one thing that made me laugh every time, though... one of my friends took to carrying a Cucco everywhere he went. If anyone else got on his nerves, be would walk up to them and hit them over them head with it, knocking them out for a few seconds. ;D |
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