Bad Levels in Gaming History - Volume Four

SuperPhillip Central writes, "Level design has always been a feature of games that we've marveled at. There's a big difference between a level that is frustrating due to challenge and a level that is frustrating due to design. Now, we aren't going to pretend that we are masters of creating excellent levels. No, we're very much not. However, we believe we've had enough experience playing games that we can weed out the good levels from those that are bad. This series of articles talks about the latter, where we focus on those levels that either poorly designed, frustrating for all of the wrong reasons, or just boring in general. (We have a series of articles dedicated to great levels anyway.) After we've exhausted our picks for this newest edition of Bad Levels in Gaming History, help us come up with some more levels for future installments and your reasoning as to why your chosen levels are so bad."

[erictaylorkid]

O God, Air's Rock Arghhh. I remember that godforsaken land.

[Phil32]

It's a place that makes me think twice about replaying The Lost Age.

[Bestgammerever]

It was sooooooooooooo hard 4 u but me easy

[Derekvinyard13]

I loved that call of duty mission

[Master-H]

That mission on veteran was brutal tho, i hid behind that bump cars tracks for daaayzz

[Derekvinyard13]

lmao same good times

[Phil32]

I definitely see how it was fun for some. This is just a subjective list anyway, so it's not as if we're trying to pass off our choices as cold, hard facts.

[AnEwGuY]

There's a very simple exploit to the end of that mission...and you'll hardly take a single hit, if done right.

[micx]

One of the more memorable missions in CoD.

[HeavenlySnipes]

That mission and the one where you have 2 minutes to go down a hill while an army of enemies are coming up the hill were two of the hardest levels of gaming I've ever played.

On veteran especially when the AI can headshot you from across the map

[Derekvinyard13]

True, real fun tho, almost throwing my controller across the room

[AnEwGuY]

I can't believe that after all this time, everyone doesn't know the exploit for breezing through the end of 'One Shot, One Kill', even on Veteran.

[Hicken]

Good job bragging about how you can supposedly do it, but never actually explaining it.

Surely that would have been an easy thing to do?

[Harmy666]

"Bad levels", or just hard?