Getting Tired...

[Cormeh]

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of games that have that "one section" to completely piss me off.

For example, two games I've been really, really enjoying the past few weeks have been Assassins Creed and CoD4. Not having a lot of time to play games or sit down and really get a decent handle on them, playing both in dribs and drabs has been fun, stress-free and somewhat relaxing.

However, both of these titles have erected a brick ****ing wall in front of me halfway through. Before I continue, spoilers are read at your own risk, so any of you tl;dr ****s can hold your moaning tongues.

CoD4, quite frankly, is one of the best FPS experiences of late, the missions are engaging, the combat is thrilling and the gameplay is solid. After a fair bit of failing and death on various missions, I reach Chernobyl and the subsequent wait for the evac chopper part. I CAN'T DO THIS BASTARDING BIT. I've tried everything, the claymores at startegic points, positioning myself at McMillan, the ferris wheel, the dodgems - all I get is an arse load of grenades thrown at me even after taking out entire platoons via sniper rifle.

Assassins Creed - this game can seriously go and take a good **** to itself. Seriously. I absolutely adore what AC gives us when it comes to free roaming and making a mark history by giving them an extra orifice, but it all ground to an absolute halt last night with the attempted assassination of Majd Addin.

This absolute cock can't be killed in a swordfight (As the game would happily have him dealt with, given the super-suspicious guards), but approaching him is a chore. Blend with the scholars; fine. Reach the execution platform; fine. Do so much as anything after that and everyone goes apeshit. Not to mention that failing this puts you to the back of a crowd to try again, where beggar women will block your path completely, or some ****ing retard guy will shove you for no reason causing uproar. So many tries at this have robbed any enjoyment from the task at hand, so **** you Assassins Creed for putting in such a shitty mission.

Boo-hoo rant rant. I'm pretty ****ed off right now because I don't have a lot of time to keep replaying the same god damn part of a game over and over and over ad nauseum.

So errr, yeah. Discuss or whatever.

 

[Narvi]

Just cheat to get past the sections you can't get past normally. Sheesh.

 

[Kyorisu]

CoD4, quite frankly, is one of the best FPS experiences of late, the missions are engaging, the combat is thrilling and the gameplay is solid. After a fair bit of failing and death on various missions, I reach Chernobyl and the subsequent wait for the evac chopper part. I CAN'T DO THIS BASTARDING BIT. I've tried everything, the claymores at startegic points, positioning myself at McMillan, the ferris wheel, the dodgems - all I get is an arse load of grenades thrown at me even after taking out entire platoons via sniper rifle.

Turn the difficulty down. COD is retarded when it comes to how ****ing precise the AI are with nades.

 

[Cormeh]

Just cheat to get past the sections you can't get past normally. Sheesh.

Why would I want to cheat? Sheesh.

Turn the difficulty down. COD is retarded when it comes to how ****ing precise the AI are with nades.

Well, I'm only playing on normal difficulty, and casual mode doesn't really offer as much on any of the earlier levels, so I've just left it. The grenades are a bit of a joke though.

 

[Dekstar]

Hehe my mate has a 360 and I did the Majd Addin mission. Some leper pushed me over and all the guards went after me. Ensue a 10 minute run around killing every guard except Majd. You have to do a stealth kill sure, but you can easily do that by just grabbing him, throwing him on the floor, then pressing X over his floored body.

 

[jimbo118]

that Cod4 mission pissed me off no end on veteran UNTIL i realised that the only way to complete it is to leave macmillan and cut off the spawn point off behind the pool, if you survive until the enemy choppers come, dash immediately to the areas behind the pool that all the soldiers come from, once you do this this no more will spawn.

They will however spawn from another building(where the second intel piece is) to the north east of the ferris wheel but not in great numbers, honestly dont worry about Macmillan, he never dies.

Logically you would think that you should defend the area infront of you and Macmillan but its virtually impossible on the harder difficulties so just rush their spawn once you hear the choppers circling. Once the building with the intel opens i just went inside it and killed any stray guard that came in, then just waited for the chopper.

I also rented AC this week, havent gotten to that mission i think, but yes the ****ing beggars and leapers/retards/drunks are so ****ing annoying.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah, the Majd Addin mission is a ****ing pain. Why they didn't put a save point after his speech is beyond me, but even worse I had to start back at the bureau every time I failed (which was alot). How hard would it have been to just give us a damn save anywhere?

Anyway, dekstar's right, the only way I could find to do it in the end was to literally kill off every single one of his guards and then assassinate him by throwing and daggering him on the ground. But jesus I wish the game wasn't so sensitive about blending - you let go of the A button for one second and you're spotted... like standing there praying is going to make you any less conspicuous ON THE STAGE DURING AN EXECUTION?

Assassin's Creed 2 has a loooong list of improvements to make. :|

(Oh yeah, and it gets better after that, so keep trying.)

Edit - Honestly though, the most frustrating part of Ass's Creed, despite the rest? The repetitive goddamn dialogue. Please sir, I haven't got any money! Who killed this person? I have everything you could ever possibly need! Terror follows in his wake - Al Saddin rrrrrrides to meet him!

I could go on.

 

[Narvi]

Why would I want to cheat? Sheesh.

Because you aren't having fun.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Magd Addin was a pissy mission. I was doing it at my friends' house so I missed half the dialog, then I just sort of ran up and assassinated him from the air.

 

[Krynn72]

I just hid behind the bumpercar structure in the cod4 mission. There only one way they can come around, and i just chill there and shoot em as they come. Once in awhile a grenade comes my why, but I can just sprint away, and sprint back without missing a beat.

 

[Emporius]

After a fair bit of failing and death on various missions, I reach Chernobyl and the subsequent wait for the evac chopper part. I CAN'T DO THIS BASTARDING BIT. I've tried everything, the claymores at startegic points, positioning myself at McMillan, the ferris wheel, the dodgems - all I get is an arse load of grenades thrown at me even after taking out entire platoons via sniper rifle.

First of all, I like to place the claymores where the cocnrete/asphalt begins, preferably near cars and funnel areas. The baddies love to hide behind the cars, especially on the right side, and the claymore detonation along with the resulting car explosion can deter these habits...permanently. Second, make sure that while you are fighting your way to that area you "borrow" an enemy's rifle in exchange for the silenced pistol you start with. you don't need that anymore. Finally, don't hide with McMillian. He's in a pretty shittastic position besides the evident highground. I get onto the ferris wheel platform and go prone on the forward right corner, in between the support beam and the railing. The bars on the railing prevent most grenades from entering as well as a surprising amount of bullets. While in this area keep an eye out for guys who sneak around the hut to the right. Should this happen, just whip out your machinegun and take care of him. Best of luck.

 

[Tagaziel]

After about an hour of cursing and hitting the desk with fists in great anger (playing on Hardened), I managed to pass this mission by crawling up in the hile behind that one tree near the Ferris Wheel and shooting only those that had a clear shot at me. Grenades were missing me almost all the time, and pretty much only the dogs and the occassional AI that smarted up and walked around the tree were a threat.

Still took a fair amount of tries, though.

 

[jimbo118]

Anyway, dekstar's right, the only way I could find to do it in the end was to literally kill off every single one of his guards and then assassinate him by throwing and daggering him on the ground. But jesus I wish the game wasn't so sensitive about blending - you let go of the A button for one second and you're spotted... like standing there praying is going to make you any less conspicuous ON THE STAGE DURING AN EXECUTION?

qft. Ubi's 'social stealth' system is really flawed in its execution.

I had a similar situation while riding on my horse through the kingdom. One time, i got close to the guards and i heard the meter 'beeping' so i pressed 'x' to slow down, i then stopped my horse as i wanted to get off, so i stopped, THEN let go of 'x' to prepare to dismount, well every ****ing guard in the area went bat shit insane once I stopped holding 'x' despite my horse NOT ****ING MOVING! ffs, however that got past testing is beyond me.

 

[Ravioli]

yeah the end of Chernobyl really pissed me off too, took ages to do.

 

[Emporius]

yeah the end of Chernobyl really pissed me off too, took ages to do.

Whole level I did first try

 

[Bad^Hat]

qft. Ubi's 'social stealth' system is really flawed in its execution.

I had a similar situation while riding on my horse through the kingdom. One time, i got close to the guards and i heard the meter 'beeping' so i pressed 'x' to slow down, i then stopped my horse as i wanted to get off, so i stopped, THEN let go of 'x' to prepare to dismount, well every ****ing guard in the area went bat shit insane once I stopped holding 'x' despite my horse NOT ****ING MOVING! ffs, however that got past testing is beyond me.

Yeah, that one really ****ing puzzled me. Got me for the first time when I was riding through a camp of them to get a flag. I stop to make a turn, let go of the blend button, and next thing I know both me and my horse are rolling on the ground. Buh?

Hmm. Anyone know how to do aerial assassinations, like use the dagger on the way down from a jump - by landing on them, I guess? I'm sure I've seen it done on demo videos, but I can never quite pull it off. It could make some assassinations (like the Magd Addin one, maybe) quite alot easier.

 

[Wanted Bob]

I think you hold down x when you have the hidden blade out and lock on and run off a ledge.

That assasination pissed me off too. I managed to do it on the first try cause I got lucky. Made it up to the platform, leper pushes me, everyone goes crazy. But when I got pushed I got bumped into the dude who fell off the ledge allowing me to assasinate him

 

[Unfocused]

I agree, the ending of that Pripyat mission was a bitch. Most of the time I stayed between the bumper cars and the radiation zone. Before that, however, I made sure that none of the soldiers from the choppers hit the ground alive.

I made a mistake of blowing up a bunch of baddies on C4, next to the pool (must've killed like 10 of them). Seemed like a logical thing to do, but in the game it only meant that a next wave spawned faster.

 

[VictimOfScience]

AC: tried to do a stealth kill by jumping off the ledge in the true AC marketing posters fashion but it totally didnt work (need to practice that) and then just knocked him down luckily, killed him, killed all of the guards, wanted to kill the rest of the human beings in that entire area, but then went back to the bureau fighting ANYONE who got in my way. Beating up those beggar women and lepers never felt so good!

CoD4: took only two tries on normal, just waited behind the ferris wheel and avoided most of the nades. Not too bad, but I imagine on a harder difficulty it must be a lousy b1tch.

But yes, I HATE when games have one part that is so ridiculously more difficult than any other part for some reason. Call me a gimp, but Uncharted had a place like that. In the catherdral towards the end of the game you have to jump from chandeliers and little ledges and tiny catwalks around one side of the church's upper levels and then all the way back around the other side. You fall down to the ground which is maybe 20-30 feet, you automatically die. RETARDED. I must have fallen to my death maybe 25-30 times. So frustrating!!! The rest of the game ruled though.

 

[Cormeh]

Ahahaha, oh wow.

I finally passed Chernobyl after a few attempts, using a wee bit from jimbo's method - cheers mate.

HOWEVER, on my natural high, I popped in Assassins Creed whereupon my 360 made a horrific screeching sound and then gave me the "unreadable disc" message. I took it out and had a look - it was scratched to hell.

Miscrosoft happily charged me ?56 for the pleasure of repair, seeing as I'm now out of warranty. I tell you, if this doesn't get fixed properly, I'm buying a PS3.

So aye - back to Mario!

 

[nurizeko]

CoD series is well known for the dumb blatantly constant spawning enemies.

As for AC, I watched a mate play (couldn't be arsed myself), looks nice, bu I'de get bored of it after an evening or two.

Still waiting for the game that makes me want o buy a 360.

 

[Asus]

I think I know what mission you are refering to in AC. I just climbed over the half-wall and quickly blended with the monks. Walked passed the drunk as I was blended and fought the main guy on the stage. When my brother did it he punched the drunk guy (didn't show weapons so no guards).

 

[jimbo118]

Just did this AC mission yesterday, blended with the scholars and got onstage, once i unblended though everyone went nuts even though i didnt do anything, so i had to engage in a huge fight with about 20 guards and Maj Adin, fighting is never difficult once you get the counter-attack ability really.

Honestly one of the biggest disappointments with Assassin's Creed so far( i have done 7 assassinations) is that you can't stealthily/silently infiltrate the target area, take out the target and leave the area innocuously. Lame.

 

[Gorgon]

Just cheat to get past the sections you can't get past normally. Sheesh.

what he said, i always use cheats on nearly impossible sections.