04-11-2013, 08:25 AM
I'm going to start with everyone's favourite. Brink.
Now, I'm not going to lie, I tried to like Brink, I saw it's flaws, but it wasn't that bad, the game deserved more than a 6 from IGN in my opinion, it's not GOTY material, but it's not that bad, 7.5/10 is what I'd give it.
That was until, I came to level Shipyard. The worst level of any FPS video game ever.
It starts out simple, go and repair the crane. With a 10 minute time limit, now, on my team, we have a team of about 5, and 3 of us are engineers, so we can all repair the crane, it's easy because of the spawns, and the fact the repair percentage goes down very slowly.
Then comes the next part. You start off very far away from the objective, and have to run about half a mile to get to it. Once you do, it is a very enclosed space, with no way of camping, no way of hiding, and literally you can't do anything. You get to the objective, start hacking, and then die, your teammates die, because their AI is terrible, and can't do anything, and you can't attack while hacking.
Now, this wouldn't be bad, if not for a few more reasons. You are now the worst class ever, you're not a engineer, you're some sort of hacker, who has terrible weapons and abilities, as opposed to a medic that can heal, or any other class. Another problem is the other team. They spawn about 10 feet away from the objective. So, you kill them, start hacking, and BAM, you're dead because they spawn so damn close. Then, because engineers can undo hacking, and 3 of them are on the other team, when you die, they rush over to unhack your work, and your team can't help because they're dead, you can't do anything because your team dies early, and even if you did get to hack the machine. YOU DIE ABOUT 10 SECONDS AFTER BECAUSE OF THE RETARDED SPAWNS.
Other games have made me angry, but this is just full blown retarded.
So, all in all, the level is impossible without help.
Now, I'm not going to lie, I tried to like Brink, I saw it's flaws, but it wasn't that bad, the game deserved more than a 6 from IGN in my opinion, it's not GOTY material, but it's not that bad, 7.5/10 is what I'd give it.
That was until, I came to level Shipyard. The worst level of any FPS video game ever.
It starts out simple, go and repair the crane. With a 10 minute time limit, now, on my team, we have a team of about 5, and 3 of us are engineers, so we can all repair the crane, it's easy because of the spawns, and the fact the repair percentage goes down very slowly.
Then comes the next part. You start off very far away from the objective, and have to run about half a mile to get to it. Once you do, it is a very enclosed space, with no way of camping, no way of hiding, and literally you can't do anything. You get to the objective, start hacking, and then die, your teammates die, because their AI is terrible, and can't do anything, and you can't attack while hacking.
Now, this wouldn't be bad, if not for a few more reasons. You are now the worst class ever, you're not a engineer, you're some sort of hacker, who has terrible weapons and abilities, as opposed to a medic that can heal, or any other class. Another problem is the other team. They spawn about 10 feet away from the objective. So, you kill them, start hacking, and BAM, you're dead because they spawn so damn close. Then, because engineers can undo hacking, and 3 of them are on the other team, when you die, they rush over to unhack your work, and your team can't help because they're dead, you can't do anything because your team dies early, and even if you did get to hack the machine. YOU DIE ABOUT 10 SECONDS AFTER BECAUSE OF THE RETARDED SPAWNS.
Other games have made me angry, but this is just full blown retarded.
So, all in all, the level is impossible without help.