Game Hell: What gives you trouble?

[psychospacecow]

Most of the things that fall under Fake Difficulty.

Heavy Trial and Error based gameplay.  We all know the extreme examples.  It just boils down to repeating the same shit over and over again until you have the entire map memorized.

Escort or Protect Missions.  Yeah, those.  Usually what happens the first time around is...you start, and they get killed, just like that, either because of the AI, or because you weren't expecting them to die so easily.  So you gotta go back and do it again.

Luck-Based Missions.  Any semblance of skill is removed, so the RNG can keep you at that part of the game anywhere between a few minutes to several hours.

Shitty Controls and/or Physics.  If the game plays like shit or awkwardly, I play like shit or awkwardly.  It's a waterfall effect.

Lack of critical information to progress.  In other words, the game hasn't pointed out the goals in some way, so you're forced to exhaust every possibility until you get where you're supposed to be by chance.  Not by willfully exploring and looking at your surroundings in a clever way, but purely ending up in the right place because you happened to resort to bullshitting around until something worked.

Oh, you would absolutely hate Dragon Ball Xenoverse. All skill and item drops are randomized. Getting to special events within every single mission that allow you the chance to unlock some of those skills randomly are randomized with prerequisites tacked on. There are missions where you have to escort or protect someone who can die to a single combo. There are more infinite combos than characters. The only information certain items give is that they boost moves from "character", not detailing what specific moves. (Its even worse if you're just there for the game, not the series.) The stats for your character are greatly affected by your height and weight which you set at the very beginning and are NEVER explained. All hard numbers in the game were figured out about a month into release. There are missions where the AI like to combo ultimate attacks with 3 or more characters putting you into a lock. I still love that game though. Its the first steam game I've 100% achievemented.