What is the worst forced-stealth section in a game you've ever played?

[Rei no Otaku]

All of them.

If I had to pick one then Lords of Shadow 2. Absolutely abysmal and made me just drop the game rather than finish that section.

 

[CaptainK]

ACIV Black Flag's ship stealth missions. You basically have to sail slowly, following behind at a certain distance. You have to veer away from watchtowers but it's otherwise a single path. There's no real thinking behind it.

 

[Ruisu]

The first time doing the ones in Spider-Man, I was fine, it was even kinda entertaining.

But every time I replay it it just shows how absurdly linear they are and at that point they become a chore since you don't really get anything out of it.
The actual stealth sections playing as Spider-Man are much better since you get the freedom to just approach it as you like, so it's super weird how they made these ones with MJ and Miles so bad.

 

[Le Dude]

Stealth sections in most games are absolutely awful if a game isn't designed around stealth. What makes developers think it's a good idea to invent some rudimentary stealth mechanics to pad out the game? It's just a bad idea to extend the length of the game. Either the game already includes stealth mechanics as a fundamental part of the experience, or the stealth mechanics won't be fleshed out enough to actually be meaningful.

The ones in Zelda: Breath of the Wild are pretty bad and completely unrelated to the game.

I mean:

Spoiler: stealth!

Outside of the stealth sections those ninja have to pray they do not encounter Link as he is usually able to mince them in 2 seconds. Then, magically, in the ninja den they insta-kill you...

Worst part of the game (and the DLC!) and it feels heavily forced.

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I brute forced my way through that part, lol.

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2 all the stealth sections.

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One and done.

It's probably the worst section I've played in any game. Not just stealth. Any section.

 

[Agni Kai]

I personally can't stand stealth sections in FPS games. A Wolfenstein game does this and it was just simply annoying to me.

I also dislike the stealth sections in Gravity Rush 2. A game all about free movement and interacting with gravity restricting your movements.

 

[Strangelove_77]

Spider-Man's stealth sections aren't really bad. They're very lenient and fast to get through. I guess a lot of people mention it because it's the game we've all played recently.

For me it's the stealth Batmobile sections in Arkham Knight. I get Batman being stealthy but the Batmobile too? Nobody wanted that shit.

 

[Stef]

Stealth sections in most games are absolutely awful if a game isn't designed around stealth. What makes developers think it's a good idea to invent some rudimentary stealth mechanics to pad out the game? It's just a bad idea to extend the length of the game. Either the game already includes stealth mechanics as a fundamental part of the experience, or the stealth mechanics won't be fleshed out enough to actually be meaningful.

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The stupid part in forced stealth in Breath of the Wild is that the game ALREADY provides good means to stealth-approach most of situations, so sections just based on this (like you "attault" that-certain-building) would have worked WAY better than the awful stealth sections.

 

[daninthemix]

The order 1886. The context made no sense and the stealth was half baked.

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Yeah that sucked. And the stupid werewolf QTEs sucked as well.

 

[Harbinger00]

Ship Stealth- AC Black Flag. You had to stealth through enemy waters in your big ass pirate ship.
That whole mission was a pain.

 

[SoundCheck]

Every superhero game that take away your powers to do stupid grounded missions for the sake of variety.

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Another vote for Lords of Shadow 2.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days has some bad ones too. They're really short but they still are pretty bad.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Spider-Man's stealth sections aren't really bad. They're very lenient and fast to get through. I guess a lot of people mention it because it's the game we've all played recently.

For me it's the stealth Batmobile sections in Arkham Knight. I get Batman being stealthy but the Batmobile too? Nobody wanted that shit.

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Spider-Man's friends' stealth sections are bad though, even compared to the stealth tank battles in Arkham Knight. AK never having instant game over moments when you're caught make them inherently better. You can actually flee, and then attack the targets which is also just more engaging.

SM's aren't that lenient, especially the later ones. I remember the penthouse sequence being trapped in a hallway because the guards didn't go back to their normal routes. I was either blazing through those sections with a trial and error approach, or waiting for boring patrols with nothing else to do

These sequences are probably as easy as one another, but one of them has gameplay that feels somewhat related to the core game (attacking though stealth) and i'll Take that every time

 

[Sagroth]

It's hard for me to pick a worst one, because I hate them all so goddamn much. But here's a few:

-Gerudo Fortress in OoT
-Yiga Clan Hideout in BotW
-Miles/MJ in Spider-Man
-Tailing missions in Assassin's Creed games.

Stealth sections in action games are like water levels in platformers. They're shit, everyone knows they're shit, and they need to go away forever.

 

[Lagamorph]

The one that always sticks in my mind was in the Sherry & Jake campaign of Resident Evil 6. I just remember hating it so much and being so frustrated by how bad it was.

 

[The Third Heat]

All of them. I hate stealth sections in every game I play. They're never well thought out, usually clunky, and almost always a serious buzzkill. Talk about a pace-killer.

But Zelda stealth sections stick out to me immediately. Not the worst, I don't think, but definitely not cool because of how much I love Zelda games. Gerudo Fortress, Yiga Clan, the garden in OoT... Please stop making me sneak around.

 

[Joezie]

The alternating stealth missions at Frog Forest and Egg Fleet in Sonic Heroes.

 

[BizzyBum]

Surprised no mentions of Astral Chain yet.

Definitely the worst parts of the game for me.

 

[Wireframe]

Personally the crisis core base infiltration.

 

[dancingphlower]

I don't think they've ever been done well, honestly. I remember particularly hating the ones at the beginning of Wind Waker and Uncharted 2, though. Yiga Clan in BOTW was pretty bad too.

 

[Ravelle]

Spiderman

I decided to do a second run and just gave up when I hit the first Miles section.

Some games handle a change of pace well, this drops the ball hard though lol

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Spider-Man's Mary Jane moments, like we're in the year 2018 and we're still having stealth sections with fail sates f you get caught?

I also never liked Assasin's creeds eavesdrop moments.

 

[Gacha Santa Alter]

The first level of Infinite Undiscovery. Not only did it suck, but it had nothing to do with the JRPG gameplay of the rest of the game, and it was right at the beginning. Probably scared so many players away.

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There was a stealth section there? It's been a while, the only thing I remember about that part was how on the hardest difficulty setting, the very first fight in the game against the two nameless guards was also by far the toughest.

On-topic, the entire game was arse but there's a special place in hell for Cait Sith's sections in Dirge of Cerberus.

 

[ArgyleReptile]

The Hulk Movie tie in game. It's mostly hilarious though, because if you get caught, you lose because you Hulk out.

 

[Sheng Long]

The part in Tony Hawk's Underground where you have to sneak outta Moscow after Eric Sparrow gets you kicked off the team for hijacking a tank.

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Wth lol. That sounds both ludicrous and incredible at the same time.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Surprised no mentions of Astral Chain yet.

Definitely the worst parts of the game for me.

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I dropped this game a level after getting the punchy ability ... I don't remember any stealth sequences. This does not make me want to pick it back up

 

[Ferrs]

Gravity Rush 2. Putting stealth sections in that kind of game is criminal.

 

[Tryptobphan]

I'm going to chime in and say Spider-Man as well. Those were annoying sections of an otherwise great game.

 

[Zelda]

Any game where you have to follow someone without them detecting you. Never fun and always feels broken.

 

[spman2099]

I feel like the stealth sections in Spider-Man and Gravity Rush 2 are receiving an undue amount of criticism here. Did either game have good stealth missions? Absolutely not. However, the mechanics worked, the implementation was just okay. Now, the stealth in something like Uncharted 3 is TRULY awful. Like, impressively so. Thankfully the game doesn't force you to use it (you fight once you fail the stealth component). Still, really awful. Similarly, BotW's stealth sections are just so, so bad. There aren't many of them, but they are incredibly tedious. And unlike in Uncharted, there is at least one mission that forces you to use those mechanics. BotW's stealth sections are probably the worst we have seen this generation.

 

[Uthred]

I'd say Spider-Man because the last stealth mission where you actually have all the gadgets was fun. They all should have been like that.

 

[DazzlerIE]

I just finished the campaign of the latest COD and there's a really boring stealth section where you're guiding an individual through an embassy filled with terrorists. It's not egregiously bad, moreso boring.

Stealth sections suck

 

[Castform]

I still haven't played most of Wind Waker due to the forced stealth section at the start of the game, so I'll say that one.

 

[Canucked]

I still haven't played most of Wind Waker due to the forced stealth section at the start of the game, so I'll say that one.

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Wind Waker for me too.

 

[EloKa]

That one FFXV chapter was really bad. The order 1886 also had one terrible stealth level.

 

[PanzerKraken]

Battlefield games also have pretty bad stealth, like the AI system is not meant for that at all.

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This, and Battlefield V was full of stealth in the war stories. It's awful

 

[Pancracio17]

Gravity Rush 3 should abandon all stealth sections when it gets inevitably made.


Also the Spiderman stealth sections suck dick, they should also get removed in the sequel.

 

[Viale]

Spider-Man ain't bad. It wad overblown then and it's overblown now.

Gravity rush 2. Now that had some terrible stealth sequences. Yiga hideout was also meh. I've heard that you can freeze them if you upgrade stasis which I imagine makes it notably better.

 

[Big G]

Probably the Zero Suit portion of Metroid: Zero Mission. It's the worst part (and arguably only bad part) about that game.

 

[Deleted member 13560]

Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2 all the stealth sections.

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Came here to exclaim this. I uninstalled the game. I need to go back and force my way through it because I really enjoyed the combat.

 

[Pyramid Head]

One and done.

It's probably the worst section I've played in any game. Not just stealth. Any section.

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We talking that garden, with the leaves, and that bullshit demon who flies out and insta-kills you if you step on them? The game tries to explain it by telling you he's so powerful, you couldn't possibly take him on, then you have a boss fight against him and kill him in the next section.
Bullshit shitty game.

 

[Daxter01]

Indigo Prophecy is untouchable in this category

 

[Three 6 Mafia]

The part in Tony Hawk's Underground where you have to sneak outta Moscow after Eric Sparrow gets you kicked off the team for hijacking a tank.

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My man!

The first THUG game is a masterpiece

 

[fhqwhgads]

Gravity Rush 2 is super weird for it since the first game had a single forced stealth section that lasted like 5 minutes, then in the sequel they decide this tiny portion of the game should be a prominent recurring thing. As much as I adore the series, holy shit the stealth sections are really really bad.

 

[Chewie]

Someone should rename the thread to include Spiderman and Gravity Rush 2 in its title.

(yeah, I would say either of those two in recent memory)

 

[GongagaSOLDIER]

The ones in Zelda: Breath of the Wild are pretty bad and completely unrelated to the game.

I mean:

Spoiler: stealth!

Outside of the stealth sections those ninja have to pray they do not encounter Link as he is usually able to mince them in 2 seconds. Then, magically, in the ninja den they insta-kill you...

Worst part of the game (and the DLC!) and it feels heavily forced.

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Yeah this - in a game lauded for its free approach to world discovery and exploration, this section sticks out like a sore thumb. It isn't the worst it's just narratively poor.

 

[Shroki]

It's interesting, because I think the best & worst examples of stealth in non-stealth games are both from the best superhero games.

The best is Batman: Arkham Asylum and it's sequels. You get to feel like a horror movie monster. You get to flex your creativity in how to dispatch people. It's one of those things about those games that totally nails being Batman.

The worst is Spider-Man. Spider-Man is so fun to play that getting shunted into a normie is doubling annoying, but the fact that there are 3 (4?) or those missions in the game really rubs salt in the wound.

 

[SkekesisVR]

Ship Stealth- AC Black Flag. You had to stealth through enemy waters in your big ass pirate ship.
That whole mission was a pain.

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This was my immediate thought when I saw the thread title. It's like the epitome of worst Assassin Creed stealth missions., which are already really bad. It's the same broken stealth formula of stay close but not too close, but now with clunky controls where its more difficult to steer your character / speed up/ stop. And all the vertical traversal taken out. I almost stopped playing

 

[George Romero]

Shadow of Rome for Ps2, Awful Stealth segments

 

[Invisible Cities]

Wind walker and BotW for me. Just totally half-baked and jarring.

 

[BizzyBum]

I dropped this game a level after getting the punchy ability ... I don't remember any stealth sequences. This does not make me want to pick it back up

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There's only a couple. A minor hiccup in an otherwise great game. I wouldn't let it deter you from playing it more.