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What do you hate more: sewer levels, underwater levels or desert levels?
- Thread starter Uncle at Nintendo
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Banjo-Kazooie's Gobi's Valley is the other big exception.
Yeah, I think this should replace deserts. Deserts have never been annoying to me. Poisonous swamps though so annoying, doubly so if they slow down your movement.
Is it terribly hipster of me if I say I like all three of those?
SWAMP/snow levels on the other hand, where you get stuck in the mud/snow and get slowed down to a crawl are the bane of my existence. I literally traded RDR2 in because it began with a snow level and I did not want to wait 10 hours for the game to stop offending me to my core.
SWAMP/snow levels on the other hand, where you get stuck in the mud/snow and get slowed down to a crawl are the bane of my existence. I literally traded RDR2 in because it began with a snow level and I did not want to wait 10 hours for the game to stop offending me to my core.
Under water levels generally involved half assed mechanics change up. A few times they are good (I like the one in MGS2 for example) but usually they are clunky and sluggish, not very fun.
A lot of desert areas are quite interesting actually. Makes the developer design more creatively otherwise you get a very barren feel to them. Especially games that take place mostly in desert like Shadow of the Colossus and Journey.
Sewer levels are just whatever most of the time.. unless they have you slowly going through the water. That's only slightly better than most under water missions.
Sousl games made me hate poisonous swamps.
A lot of desert areas are quite interesting actually. Makes the developer design more creatively otherwise you get a very barren feel to them. Especially games that take place mostly in desert like Shadow of the Colossus and Journey.
Sewer levels are just whatever most of the time.. unless they have you slowly going through the water. That's only slightly better than most under water missions.
Sousl games made me hate poisonous swamps.
I'm gonna argue Bottom of the Well from Ocarina of Time is an exceptional freaky sewer
underwater typically also means worse controls,slower movement,and the lower visibility often makes the UI feel worse as well
so it's a pretty obvious choice and not a remotely close one either
so it's a pretty obvious choice and not a remotely close one either
Really struggling to think of a sewer I enjoyed. Maybe Garamsythe Waterway from Final Fantasy XII because of the secret boss in there, I dunno.
Underwater cuz they usually make me the most anxious, especially if they're dark and spooky. Poor controls just make it worse.
Visually.... probably sewers? Deserts can be extremely bland af, but some of them can be super beautiful. Sewers are sewers.
Visually.... probably sewers? Deserts can be extremely bland af, but some of them can be super beautiful. Sewers are sewers.
Yeah, sewers are generally terrible levels for me. Really hard to do anything interesting from an art direction standpoint there. Underwater levels suffer due to controls.
Desert levels.... I'm not sure how many I could name outside of the ones in Uncharted 3, which I hated. But I hated that entire game, so it's not really the desert's fault.
Desert levels.... I'm not sure how many I could name outside of the ones in Uncharted 3, which I hated. But I hated that entire game, so it's not really the desert's fault.
Water Temple is the 2nd best temple in the game though
Underwater I dislike the most and Ocarina of Time is the reason.
Of these, I definitely dislike sewers the most, especially in RPGs. That said, I think I dislike oil rig levels even more.
I wish I knew the first RPG/JRPG to say "hey let's have a sewer level. Let's make it ugly as fuck and a total maze that all looks the same" so I could find the creator and punch them.
So, sewer.
So, sewer.
Sewer levels seem to always get the bad design end of the stick. That's my vote.
Desert levels I tend to love if done right. But there's a fair few badly done ones.
Which's a shame, because the well done ones are amazing. Mad Max was basically one gigantic well done desert level.
Desert levels I tend to love if done right. But there's a fair few badly done ones.
Which's a shame, because the well done ones are amazing. Mad Max was basically one gigantic well done desert level.
Not even close. I'd take that giant fish' belly over that temple.
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