I couldn't agree more, though you still have to admit it is an incredible game. well, because I was bored, I began playing Gears on Insane by myself (and beat it yesterday solo). I got stuck on that exact same part for a little while myself. the Theron Guards hit me with the Torque Bow from over 200 Feet away. also, a little later I got stuck on Act 4- Entrenched, which consisted of a Boomer who could glitch into the room I'm in and hit me dead in one strike of his hand, but also could kill me with a Boomshot through the wall to explode me to bits. and following him, a few too many Theron Guards who are so good with the Torque Bow that they could repeatedly hit me with the Torque Bow arrows during a SWAT Turn which takes a total of 1 second to complete and only exposed me for .5 seconds at most. And I can't even count how many times it took to beat RAAM... he repeatedly took 10 Torque Bow shots, all four of my grenades and over three clips of my Lancer while he sent his Kryll after me all in stride. it made no sense.

But I must again say, even with the incredibly accurate A.I.(at least on Insane) and unskippable sequences which do without a doubt get tedious, it still is an excellent achievement in video games.

Ugh...don't get me started on that scene...I absouletely hated that part of the game. On Hardcore, I can't count the number of times and errant torque bow arrow would strike me, killing me instantly, forcing me to go through that entire cutscene again...

Your best bet is to co op that part. Even on Insane, it was a hell of a lot easier tackling it with a friend.

Another game that annoyed me, with its terrible checkpoint placement is Perfect Dark Zero. Every time I think of all the times I died on the bridge section near the end of the game because of that terrible checkpoint, I just wanna break my copy of the game.

Agh, I hated that part! I have no idea they made you listen to that damn conversation every time you started the checkpoint.

You have no idea how many times I had to sit through that. At least the save points aren't as badly spread as in Ninja Gaiden, though.

Funny thing after posting this, I beat the part. And why is ally AI so stupid? I've told Dom to regroup countless times and he'll run ahead and get killed/downed Same for the others That's one of the problems I had at the part (they are downed and I have no back up)

And I find going toe-to-toe with Boomers to be a bad idea...I was hiding behind some cover and that sucker was circling around on me. I was in a room with one way out so that didn't help either when there was no other cover in the room and he was blocking my only exit. And he fakes you too. When he says "Boom" and doesn't fire, I roll out of the way, and then he fires

@ dead-flag-blues:

Ninja Gaiden didn't seem that aggravating to me for some odd reason like it did to so many others. I've heard people complain about Alma but I only died maybe 2-3 times by her hand my first time through the game.