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[GhostWriter24]

Is this the worst mission of any game from the past 20 years? I nearly put my fist through a wall completing it and nearly quit the game entirely...

Is this the worst or was there another certain mission that makes your blood boil just thinking about it?

 

[Bob White]

 

[xxracerxx]

Do you mean San Andreas? Not Vice City.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

I usually get it in 2 or 3 goes.

Try doing it with a keyboard and mouse for ultimate gaming hell.

Do you mean San Andreas? Not Vice City.

He means Vice City too - level where you have to bomb the construction site for Avery.

 

[Evolution_1ne]

el oh el at anyone who tried to beat that mission while flying

get close, land plane, kill, fly away, shit was easy as pie

 

[Papercuts]

It's only stupid hard on the PS2 version IIRC, but it is quite hellish. Atleast it was optional. Err, the San Andreas one anyway.

 

[ponpo]

Academia 400AF in Final Fantasy XIII-2.

I've resisted the urge to replay the game like three times because I just don't want to experience that part again.

 

[Brazil]

Yes. It's the one mission in all of gaming that makes me rage every single time someone reminds me of it.

Fuck you Rockstar.

 

[rouken]

san andreas rc missions are far worse. at least in vice city you get to do it on one mission only if i remember correctly

 

[Sethos]

Yep, the San Andreas RC mission(s) was by far the worst. Holy shit that had me fuming.

 

[chickdigger802]

how's it on iOS

 

[def sim]

Were the toy helicopters also in San Andreas?

 

[reptilescorpio]

Ugh. This. So fucking irritating. Only think I hate about replaying the game.

 

[Mushroomer25]

It took me an hour or so, but not that bad with a PC gamepad.
I'm replaying Vice City on my phone with a MOGA ATM. Certainly not looking forward to how that's gonna go.

 

[Palette Swap]

I'd say I hate the SA RC missions more, if only because they went out of their way to make an actual follow up to a terrible idea.

 

[dreamfall]

how's it on iOS

NIGHTMARES, even thinking about it! Gah! *shudder*

I just beat it last month for the third time in my life on PC. It was pretty infuriating- took about six tries, and even then it felt like I got lucky chasing down one of those bikers.

Happy to have done it again though! Everything felt extremely clumsy!

 

[def sim]

I usually get it in 2 or 3 goes.

Try doing it with a keyboard and mouse for ultimate gaming hell.

Yeah, I'm going through Vice City on PC right now and it's clear this game was not made with KB/M in mind at all. Also, VC isn't as great as I remember. Very shallow game with a great soundtrack.

 

[grosvenor_92]

I remember not liking this mission but I didnt flat hate it. I think I actually hated the mission in vice city were you had to control a RC helicopter that was equipped with explosives more.

 

[firehawk12]

Fucking fuck, I hated these missions.

Wasn't it the David Cross character that gave you these missions as well?

 

[LQX]

That mission is why I stopped playing it for PS2 then I finally gave it another shot once the PC version was released. Still my favorite GTA in spite of that mission.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

san andreas rc missions are far worse. at least in vice city you get to do it on one mission only if i remember correctly

Vice city was worse. At least with the San Andreas missions they put you up high so you could learn in the air.

Vice City's RC mission was hell on Earth. And the plane mission when you're dropping flyers was somehow worse.

 

[Bear]

The Erol race in Jak 2 is one of the most infuriating missions I've ever come across. You have to beat it to progress, so I just gave up on the game after wasting several sittings on a shitty racer with cheap AI.

Years later, I picked up where I left off and eventually beat it, but it was probably the worst of the game's notorious difficulty spikes.

 

[Gorillaz]

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The only thing that comes close was that plane flyer mission in vice city that took me foreveeeer to even get the plane on the right course.

 

[adelante]

Played that mission on the Android version couple weeks ago, eh wasn't too bad

 

[fallagin]

Played that mission on the Android version couple weeks ago, eh wasn't too bad

There's gotta be some serious handholding for that to be possible.

 

[Polk]

Never had problems with Vice City mission, San Andreas on the other hand....

 

[King of the Potato People]

The last episode of Resident Evil: Revelations almost made me quit

Spoiler

basically a teleporting tyrant who creates ghosts to distract you

I didn't have any magnum bullets or rockets left. I only managed to defeat it after dying several times and just remembered where it would show up.

 

[iamvin22]

yup pretty much this.

 

[Nappuccino]

I don't remember it being that bad...

 

[madmook]

Never had problems with Vice City mission, San Andreas on the other hand....

Same for me. Because of Zero's RC mission I have never completed SA to this day, despite loving the hell out of 3 and VC.

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

The RC helicopter mission in Vice City was quite easy on PC.

 

[Pandamator]

The RC helicopter mission in Vice City was quite easy on PC.

... and on Android. Just did it yesterday.

 

[Incendiary]

That mission still gives me nightmares so many years later.

 

[matrix-cat]

I've always found the flying missions in GTA games really fun. I beat Supply Lines, the RC plane mission in San Andreas, on my first try, on the PS2 version (I heard they lowered the difficulty in the Xbox and PC ports). I always had trouble with random missions that everyone else breezed through and forgot about, though. There's one in SA called Interdiction that I struggled with for days; you just had to wait at a drop zone protecting a helicopter by shooting enemies down, and I must have failed it a dozen times.

 

[Zertez]

Not sure if I was lucky, but the rc mission in SA only took a couple of tries. The boat racing through the cannels missions in VC took me hours and I quit playing VC for a few weeks because of that mission.

 

[Kabouter]

Had no problems with the RC missions in any GTA game tbh, I don't know what people are doing that gives them such problems.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

yes construction site worst ever I had to watch a youtube of it being done and try to copy it, took many retries

 

[Clay Davis]

el oh el at anyone who tried to beat that mission while flying

get close, land plane, kill, fly away, shit was easy as pie

erm, no. that only worked for the first mission, the latter missions where you had to chase down vans was insanely difficult.

 

[Ventilaator]

The Vice City mission where you have to recruit a getaway driver was way worse for me. The plane thing felt like it was doable if I sucked less, while the driving one felt impossible without cheating.

 

[forknknife]

That is where I stopped playing vice city on PC but it was mostly due to my laptop not having enough keys. Or that's what I thought was the reason, my god, such crap.

 

[starchild excalibur]

I don't remember either of the missions mentioned, so I assume they weren't incredibly difficult for me. The one that did piss me the fuck off was the one in San Andreas where you have to chase the train and shoot all the people off before the train gets away.

That mission infuriated me. "All you had to do was catch the damn train, CJ!"


Maaaan, fuck you.

 

[Raziel]

I remember it being my first brief road block on my first playthrough, but nothing more than that.

 

[adelante]

There's gotta be some serious handholding for that to be possible.

Nope no assists as far as I'm concerned. Maybe the radius to drop each bomb is more forgiving so u dont need to be super precise (can't recall how it was on the PS2) but I had no problem flying my copter thru the levels in that building. Especially after u've tried that mission at least once to know exactly where the bombs needed to go (I started with the top and made my way down)

 

[Clay Davis]

The Vice City mission where you have to recruit a getaway driver was way worse for me. The plane thing felt like it was doable if I sucked less, while the driving one felt impossible without cheating.

what made this mission worse was that shooting out his tyres didn't appear to impact his handling of the vehicle. he was still as fast and as good as without having his tyres shot out. very annoying.

 

[Feature]

The one from vice city where you had to drop bombs somewhere and the one from san andreas with the RC plane were the only missions over all the GTAs that made me rage.

 

[Card Boy]

At least Vice City / San Andreas had variety in it's missions, GTA4 and LatD had none. Gay Tony brought back the variety.

 

[CecilRousso]

For me, the last mission in GTAIV is the absolutely worst I have played. I'm pretty sure that that Rockstar just threw together some shit without playtesting it with the mindset that almost none would reach that mission.

I remember Tim Schafer's tweets when he was trying to beat it. After numerous attempts he just tweeted: "Videogames are stupid and should never be made".

 

[brokenbeans]

The Vice City mission where you have to recruit a getaway driver was way worse for me. The plane thing felt like it was doable if I sucked less, while the driving one felt impossible without cheating.

Yep I had to park up a sports car round the corner and jump in as well.

 

[CassSept]

Never got far enough in SA, the game bored me out of my mind, but I remember the one in VC made me rage, big time.

Don't know about PS2 version, but it was impossible to control on keyboard.

 

[Blearth]

Beat it on my 2nd try on a fucking iPad.

Step your game up, son.