[Koir]

Half Life 2: Not so much "annoying", but more "expecting the player to know how to pass areas never seen before". Episode 1 and 2 are the biggest offenders.

Episode 1 was the small courtyard that had Combine troops, two antlion spawn points, and an antlion guard the size of a double-decker bus. The Combine shoot at the antlions and you. The antlions attack you and the Combine, and continually spawn. The antlion guard uses you as a chew toy. What a massive clusterbleep.

Episode 2, base defense. The part where you have to keep the huge Striders away from the base with nothing more than a jeep, sticky bombs, and a smile. Oh, and you have to know exactly where the striders spawn in, the best way to get to them, and how to exactly target them with the sticky bombs. Most of my enjoyment fell apart like the building you start at, along with the bomb spawning point. It's great that you know how to make buildings blow up, Valve. Mind doing it in a way that doesn't make the player feel like a guy whose cat mistook his cereal bowl for a litterbox?