@ faemir:

Yeah, Bioshock minigame made me want to cry.

When I first tried Wii, I was excited about it. The controller seemed new and innovative. But yeah, it is kinda like that.

@ Zel:

Yeah, you are right. It was rather pointless. I was merely pointing out there was some method to this madness. But it was a stupid waste of time nevertheless.

@ Luke Maciak:
I knew this already, but let’s be honest for a minute, who does that ? I tried. It’s even more time consuming than making three random guesses until finally you get lucky and discover the word or a good number of letters for a safe last attempt. If you could not quit and attempt again, then I would agree with you, the game requires method, including tediously searching gibberish for patterns if you’re going to fail. As it is, it’s just faster to attempt over and over.

@ Zel:

There is a skill check but I maxed out Tali’s decryption skill pretty early on so I barely noticed.

The Fallout 3 hacking game actually had a method – the game just doesn’t mention it. You need to look for the patterns of bracketed symbols (like {$#–*&} and etc…). For every pattern you find, one word would be removed from the list. Some would also give you an extra guess.

So the method was to go through the list, highlight each bracket to see if it has a match (the game would find the closing bracket and highlight the whole pattern for you then). Knock off all the brackets to remove enough words, Have two guesses, then log out and start over if you didn’t get in. 80% of time this would remove enough words to give you a rather high probability of guessing the password on the first try.

Bioshock has the worst minigame imo.

And try playing a wii, the controller itself feels like one of these minigames ._.

Isn’t there some sort of skill check, as if you don’t have the necessary points in Security you can’t even attempt the mini-game ? Same system Oblivion and Fallout 3 had if I remember right. The mini-game is just there to waste the player’s time.

At least ME’s frogger is fast and easy (not so much in the hardest difficulty though), whereas Fallout 3’s hacking game was one of pure luck and random input.