Tali'Zorah
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The level with the Native American family in Beyond Two Souls was about twice as long as every other level if my memory serves me correctly
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Really long levels
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wild wild rice
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Xenogears:
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Yep. Quit the game at some point in here and never went back.
semiconscious
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great answer! let us never forget!
...most recently: yes, the last palace
the cruise ship
BLUElightCory
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The original OoT Water Temple.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Optional dungeon Abyss from wild arms 3
100 floor of pure pain, and at the end of it, you are welcomed by superboss. Lovely
100 floor of pure pain, and at the end of it, you are welcomed by superboss. Lovely
I couldn't finish de Blob and Yoshi's Island DS because the levels were too long and boring. It sucks for de Blob since I loved the music and overall aesthetic.
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation is the least fun out of the three campaigns because too many of the levels arbitrarily waste your time. Screw the frozen town and screw the elevator. It's like the game was trying to be a crappy dungeon crawler.
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation is the least fun out of the three campaigns because too many of the levels arbitrarily waste your time. Screw the frozen town and screw the elevator. It's like the game was trying to be a crappy dungeon crawler.
megaStryke
Banned
This right here. The obscene length really soured me on the overall game.
QuixoticNeutral
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Came here to say this. W101 is a brilliant game, but it's exhausting, especially when it's your first run and you don't know the combo mechanics well enough to output a lot of damage and slash through the encounters quickly (I'm thinking of the rival fights with Vorkken here). I regularly took breaks between missions as several of them were half an hour long, with little to no downtime in the action—and on top of that, the chapters were capped with a multi-phase boss fight that might take about ten minutes on the first attempt.
If you think of the traversal from one save station to the next as a "level", Metroid Prime's segment from the entrance of the Phazon Mines to the Central Dynamo is an absolute marathon—certainly the hardest segment in the whole game for me the first time through, when I didn't know what I was in for and also hadn't collected many power-ups. It's as much of a stamina test as you'll find anywhere in the series besides the NES original, and you can't afford to let the encounters chip away at you faster than you can replenish your health.
I guess if you can nail the jumps it isn't too bad, but all the backtracking from the falling nearly killed me.
Elfforkusu
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snowsabre93
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Every time I think about playing HL2 again, the thought of the airboat section deters me.
Thewonandonly
Junior Member
Now I wouldn't say they all dragged but the one that really dragged was the damn space palace. Still don't understand the puzzles and just started guessing
brickarts295
Member
I played this 2 weeks ago for the first time. The hell was that all about? Had to basically lower the difficulty to even finish the damn level and the fucking Guilty Spark taunting me all the way was not helping
Thewonandonly
Junior Member
Haha right I'm playing through it now and I'm like fuuuuuuck there a slog compared to just how stylish 5's are....
Valkerionseven
Member
Xenogears:
Yeah, its probably the longest dungeon in the game but its also one of the more frustrating thanks to the freaking platforming areas and high encounter rate. It was annoyingly long the first time through, second time it was ok enough.
My answers, the bosses/optional HNM`s in Final Fantasy XI...
The bosses here took way too long, MMO or not, holy crap. Talking hours for some of these. Not to mention certain ones only spawn once a week... and have a window to spawn as 3-5 days....
Then there was this bastard.
I suggust you look this story up if you have not heard it. This happened a little after I quit the game and was a pretty big (yeah glad I got out when I did moment)
From Yoshi's Island
Can't accuse them of false advertising at least.
DieGo2SHAE
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I seem to remember a motorcycle level in Bayonetta 1 that went on for goddamn forever
I've only played two Palaces of P5 so take this with a grain of salt, but they seem to be about the same length as the dungeons in P4G. Some of those took quite a long time, but have the extra factor of being randomly generated and therefore much less interesting, ft. a less complex battle system. P5 is a big improvement IMO. Also, you sure don't have to finish the dungeons in one day, so it's not like it's a whole 4 hours straight thing.
Durrzerker
Banned
Darksiders II had a buncha really obnoxiously long dungeons.
How About No
Member
All the levels in Duke Nukem Zero Hour for the N64 were really long
And no checkpoints
And no checkpoints
Triforce141
Member
Kid Icarus Uprising, Chapters 13 and 19, especially Chapter 13 on Intensity 9.0 runs with how it's essentially 2 levels by itself and Arlon being able to take out out in no time at all. 19 isn't that bad, still long, but at least the dialogue makes up for it a bit.
And most levels in Sonic 06 outside of Sonic's desert level, each with multiple long load times in between sections and annoying gimmicks like mach speed sections, vehicles, ball puzzles, beat em ups, treasure hunting with no radar, etc.
Could be worse, imagine having to
And most levels in Sonic 06 outside of Sonic's desert level, each with multiple long load times in between sections and annoying gimmicks like mach speed sections, vehicles, ball puzzles, beat em ups, treasure hunting with no radar, etc.
great answer! let us never forget!
most recently: yes, the last palacein persona 5. both over-long, & painfully dull, period...the cruise ship
Could be worse, imagine having to
go through the entirety of Mementos at the end of the game if you ignored it until then
Phrozenflame500
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Everything about Tartarus in Persona 3
PotionBleue
Member
It's cool how the game itself makes fun of the abnormally long level (The Lightning Chariot):
CEJames
Member
Zesteria is worse.
Another to add is the extra dungeon Gladsheim for your 2nd playthrough of Tales of Symphonia 2
-Randomized 10 floors with no map so you can't use a guide
-Save points on only Floor 3 & 6
-Need to leave? Start back over from Floor 1
-And enemies are essentially the strongest in the game so long fights to pad the time even more
The Deus dungeon in Xenogears was ridiculous if I remember correctly. I don't think the dungeon would be that long if the battle encounter rate didn't feel so high.
You're conserving fuel while fighting, fight ends, take a step or two and yet another fight starts. And then it's a maze so all the fighting makes you forget where to go. The save point took forever to find, and if you continue the next day you forgot where you were the day before...such a frustrating level.
You're conserving fuel while fighting, fight ends, take a step or two and yet another fight starts. And then it's a maze so all the fighting makes you forget where to go. The save point took forever to find, and if you continue the next day you forgot where you were the day before...such a frustrating level.
The Xtortionist
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The fucking top-down flying stage from Adventures of Batman and Robin on Genesis.
Music was dope though
Music was dope though
Well this is exactly why I clicked this thread, lol
As much as I look forward to FFXII HD, going through here again is... oi
yeah, assault on the control room rules. never wanted it to end.
YI is one of my favorite ever games, and this is the only level in the game I don't like. The fact that it's a snails pace auto scroll level doesn't help.From Yoshi's Island
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
There was a thread like this three years ago.
The first Persona 5 dungeon feels as long as an end game Persona 4 dungeon. Yeah Persona 4's dungeon are uglier and randomly generated, but I would take that over spending over four hours in a single dungeon. I don't play the Persona games for the battle system, since it's just a weaker version of Pokemon's. And yeah, you don't need to finish the dungeon in a day, but you're basically punished if you don't since you have less time to max out your social links then.
If there's a Persona 6, they need to cut down the length of the dungeons. It isn't fun.
encephalon
Member
The tower of babel is actually probably one of the shorter dungeons in the game.
Dangansona
Member
The only dungeon I've felt drag is the 5th one, but that part of the game is the weakest overall for a number of reasons.
Granted maybe I'll end up saying that about this last one too. Overall I enjoy them though and don't mind their length.
Granted maybe I'll end up saying that about this last one too. Overall I enjoy them though and don't mind their length.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Bioshock and it's sequel both have extremely long levels.
The dungeons in the first game, especially the last one, are much longer.
The dungeons in the first game, especially the last one, are much longer.
Alice: The Madness Returns had some extraordinarily long levels that could have seriously used some trimming down. I think I remember the third level in the game being the biggest offender. You were climbing a mountain I think and the level's look and theme was Japanese oriented, if I remember correctly. That one really felt like a journey, because I remember that level took close to 3 hours to complete.