Sucky Minigames Thread

[Zilla]

ROLLLLGOAALLLLLL!!!!!

And Mario Party 5+

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Zilla

ROLLLLGOAALLLLLL!!!!!

Rollgoal was awesome! Simple little use of the Wiimote but fun!

[Kerensky287]

Remember in Zelda: Ocarina of Time, where you had the chicken-finding minigame at Lon Lon Ranch? Basically, there was a whole crowd of chickens, and then the guy in charge of the game threw 3 "special" ones into the crowd... but they're indistinguishable from regular chickens. You have a small time limit to find all the special chickens.

The only way to win the game that isn't based on pure luck is to just throw all the regular chickens into a small corner so that the special ones will be all on their own in the playing field. I'm not a huge fan of games where the only reliable way to win is to cheat.

...Well, except for the card game, Cheat. But that's not a minigame.

[Incendius]

See, I don't get why everyone hates the FF9 card game, I mean its not anything particularly special, but its not horrible. It was charming it its own way, and I sorta liked it. It wasn't even that hard to understand.

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

Waterbowl, or whatever that horseshit sport's name was in FFX. It would have been more interesting if everyone involved had just drowned.

[Ugainius]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

RC Plane mission in GTA: San Andreas.

I would express anger but I know my keyboard would shatter with my latent psychic abilities being unlocked in the sheer rage that level put into me.

I cried.

I was like fourteen at the time but damn was that fucking hard.

Also the weapon ranges in Mercenaries 2. Mainly the pistol one. Oh sure the other ones aren't too bad but that damn pistol range with it's constant one second offs and missing the last target so you have gone just beyond the sandbags and need to waste precious time getting back into position and GOD DAMN WHAT THE FUCK HOW DOES A TARGET TAKE ONLY HALF DAMAGE!?!

Got it in the end though.

[bluestarultor]

I hated the card game in FF9, but then I also hated it in FF8, where at least the cards could be turned into useful items with Card Mod. The fact that FF9 had a choke point which REQUIRED you to not only play it, but win a tournament, was really what made me fully relinquish my file to Phantom7, where we'd just been sharing previously. If I wanted to obsess over a card game, I could have kept playing Pokemon and Magic.

Also, FF7 was full of bad to halfway-okay mini games, ALL of which were relevant to the plot. Sub game was easy enough, Bike game was passable on my 98 machine (XP made it go REALLY fast!), but that Snowboarding game resulted in me knocking over entire forests and wiping out on every turn because the handling was bad. At least for computer. Maybe an analog stick would have mitigated some of the inability to go dead center to whatever angle you wanted, rather than having to try and zig-zag, and I'm betting having the L and R buttons was a much better setup than the numpad for sharp turns, but overall it was like putting an elephant on a unicycle and then trying to give it directions at the last second in downtown Chicago with one-word commands. It's just a blessing that it actually doesn't matter during the game how badly you do.


Edit:

In response to Wrex, I really didn't mind Blitzball, as it was based less on any real amount of skill and more on choosing options wisely to optimize your team placement and enable you to get through enemy defenses. Sort of more like coaching a game than playing it as a player, only your yelling to your team is audible over everything else and they listen. You COULD do the manual mode, once you really got the rules down, but the auto mode was specifically put in place and put as the default so that you wouldn't be penalized too much for not knowing basically the rules of soccer as done by a D&D sheet.

[Zilla]

The chest game in OoT: Okay/fun until you get the lens of truth, then it's just criminal.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Deathosaurus Wrecks

Waterbowl, or whatever that horseshit sport's name was in FFX. It would have been more interesting if everyone involved had just drowned.

I loved Blitzball. I must have spent dozens of hours on it and unlocked tons of stuff. Once you get the right people on your team you can start winning like crazy. And it's worth playing at least 1 league for attack reels at the very least.

Originally Posted by Ugainius

Also the weapon ranges in Mercenaries 2. Mainly the pistol one. Oh sure the other ones aren't too bad but that damn pistol range with it's constant one second offs and missing the last target so you have gone just beyond the sandbags and need to waste precious time getting back into position and GOD DAMN WHAT THE FUCK HOW DOES A TARGET TAKE ONLY HALF DAMAGE!?!

Got it in the end though.

What?!! The pistol one was the easiest of the lot. I did each level of that first time without even trying. The grenade launcher one though... with its "lets hide the targets behind indestructable walls" bit was a bastard. Also the airstrike challenge, mainly because Mischa is sometimes completely off target for no reason and you hit absolutely nothing.

[Fortune Zero]

I, too, would like to recommend the FFIX card game... because not only was it necessary to do at one point in the game--unlike in FFVIII--but also unlike FFVIII, the card game in IX was useless. You hear me? Useless.

You could conjure up all sorts of stupid crap from the FFVIII card game. Hell, you could have almost every character's final weapon on disc one if you played your cards right (hur hur).

FFIX, though? Not only is the game less fun and more complicated, and forced on you at one point, but aside from the tournament itself and the Alleyway Jack crap, you really can't get anything out of it. You're playing the game like a madman for one end result that's not really that impressive, while in FFVIII, it could make your game a crapton easier (not that you'd actuall need to make FFVIII easier...).