The Worst Missions In Every Grand Theft Auto

[@GoodGoga]

The worst SA mission is Photo Opportunity, bar none. A long-ass drive in the worst-handling car in the game, and 30 seconds of using a camera (a gimmick just like the extinguisher). If you flip (and you will flip), you are stuck in the middle of nowhere. If you don't flip and finish the mission - you are still stuck in the middle of nowhere. Boring, annoying, long, offers literally nothing interesting gameplay-wise.

Very difficult not to resort to cars fly and other cheats when I was younger

[@troymartin4260]

It's also annoying that Cesar drops you off in the middle of nowhere and says "we better split up!" Like they did something more action packed than just taking pictures

[@aeronyx]

I'm surprised Photo Opportunity didn't make it since it has obvious gameplay flaws, but Burning Desire made it for what can be described as mostly skill issue.

[@Walkerman606]

Not the worst imo, but can definitely understand why people would say it.

[@jackthurman2642]

21:31 "oog lock" 🤣 You said that so casually that I forgot that's what Lazlow calls him in his interview with him. I was shook 🤣

[@OhNotThat]

100% correct. oog lock is jeffrey's name.

[@dundun8640]

Is that a Joshimuz reference?

[@MarcusCollins69]

@@dundun8640well no, in a GTA commerical, Lazlow Jones calls O.G loc, ogg lock, and thus O.G loc says" Ogg lock?! it's O.G loc Baby O.G Lo. you hear me playa?

[@jackthurman2642]

@@dundun8640 I don't know who that is

[@dundun8640]

gta sa speedrunner who calls OG Loc Ogg Lock i dont know i started watching him in November@@jackthurman2642

[@lexus8018]

Gta online could fill 2 videos like this.

[@elitejx4218]

Frl like they are so bad

[@dannybigballs2785]

All of the fooligan missions was just cringe

[@tropicalstorm24]

Hopefully it's a supercut. Don't feel like watching a 12 hour long video

[@nv_boredom.at.its.finest]

Every single Doomsday mission, from set ups to finales would be an episode in itself

[@virtuelegamer19]

Almost everyone of them

[@Matt16006]

Kinda surprised about the Burning Desire pick. Sure it's by no means the best mission, navigating through the house isn't very fun, but I never had any issues with the first part of the mission. I think having to set the house on fire is a pretty unique and cool objective. For me the worst in SA were: - Photo Opportunity (Pretty much just a LONG-ass drive where you're forced to use a car that is very prone to flipping) - 555 We Tip (Boring as hell, extremely annoying if you damage the car and have to restart) - Robbing Uncle Sam (Long and boring, using the forklift is a hassle) - Freefall (Worst one for me. Turning the plane around can be REALLY frustrating and finicky. Always a pain)

[@lorenzoreigada9681]

yeah the dodo can't keep up with the jet in freefall, its really annoying

[@TheCFD_Dude]

Fun fact, Photo Opportunity was a much bigger mission where CJ and Ceasar fly a heli over the diner further east on the highway. In fact, to this day if you fly a heli over Ceasar's car before you pick him up while miles in the air, you can see a giant red corona surrounding him showing you where to land. But that's why it seems like CJ and Ceasar are yelling the in cutscene, cus the mission was completely reworked into a boring cutscene only mission.

[@tevinfw]

Yeah. Robbing Uncle Sam is the only one I hate.

[@JustTheButler71]

​​@TheCFD_Dude wasn't Madd Dogg's final mission (where you chase OG Loc throughout LS with a Go Kart & Hoverfloats) originally gonna use a helicopter since the characters are shouting on the drive to Loc

[@TheCFD_Dude]

@@JustTheButler71 actually havent heard of that one. But I got one more for you since I havent heard of that one. There's a feature that's currently half broken in the release version of the game, even in on the PS2. It was impounded cars. The game will actually store your last used car at the LS impound lot, but because of camera mechanic that despawns cars when you look away from them, entering the ls impound garage while not looking torwards your car at all times will despawn it. So most people dont even know impound is a working (semi working at least) feature introduced in GTA SA, not GTA V. Also there is a cut impound mission for Ceasar that woulda taken place right after the frst race that woulda gave a tutorial on the impound system.

[@abluecar5375]

"Ambulance missions have no story" Ah yes, as if every other side missions in other 3D GTA games have a story

[@Waluigiisbest99]

shouldn't have even included those into this, i would have gone with "Escort Service" or "Expresso 2 Go" or "Rigged to Blow" or "Sayonara Savatore" or "Under Surveillance" and even "Grand Theft Aero"

[@johanoberg1157]

they do

[@voiceunderthecovers]

@@johanoberg1157No they don’t. aside from in San Andreas with the optional missions.

[@jadedheartsz]

I get what he's saying about not wanting to include side activities.

[@MarcusCollins69]

@@Waluigiisbest99sayonara salvatore isn't even hard

[@Jontage99]

For GTA IV I'd throw in Pegorino's Pride. There's the lengthy driving sections at the start and end, where you can't take any other car. And for first-time players it's not made very clear that blowing up the Pavanos' car prematurely will destroy Jimmy's tribute and fail the mission, which is made more brutal by the lack of checkpoints. Actions Speak Louder Than Words also earns a mention for its long, boring tailing section where you drive up the whole length of the island. At least Pegorino's Pride has dialogue to spice up its monotonous parts.

[@Walkerman606]

Pegorino's Pride gets a pass because the dialogue on the drive when Pegorino absolutely lays into Pete and Marco verbally is absolutely hilarious. I don't actually mind Actions Speak Louder Than Words, but do get the point, because as much as IV is my favourite (narrowly ahead of Vice City,) if it has one fault, it's there's too many tailing missions. They aren't hard, but they do drag.

[@itsyvonblitz6819]

@@Walkerman606 Now that you mention it, there are a lot of tailing missions. It's interesting that the (arguably) best entry in both the Grand Theft Auto franchise and the Assassin Creed franchise, both happen to be the IVth games out of the numbered games in their respective franchises.

[@abluecar5375]

Heavily disagree with your take on Burning Desire Sure the premise was a bit weird with CJ being selective on just saving Denise (What about the other innocent people in the apartment? or heck maybe they had other girls aside from Denise there too) But the gameplay isn't that bad, it's just a mission to reintroduce the molotov and also introduce the fire extinguisher, I never find it hard to throw the molotov through the windows and I can always kill any Vagos trying to stop me So really, I feel like you're just having a skill issue moment there, the mission is far from being the worst

[@jamiemaloney1552]

The trick to G-Spotlight is to ditch the bike once you've made the first jump and do the mission with a helicopter.

[@MeeMeeCandy777]

Learned this from Josh and Hugo One, but I never did it, not even Rainbomizer.

[@poramadison]

As a 100% speedrunner for Vice City, I hate that I actually have to do it the right way cause the helicopter method was a so fun & quick 😂

[@LedZedd]

That's straight up not even a hard or frustrating mission tho

[@anshulrai198]

​@@LedZeddikr? Pretty much just a skill issue rn lmao

[@poramadison]

@@LedZedd it’s not hard but just knowing I have to do it the right way to get those stunt jumps done for 100% bothers me a little knowing I could get it done quicker with a helicopter

[@baronvg]

I think Father/Son is a fun mission. It’s early in the story and seems to be the mission that wins people over during playthroughs as to if GTA V will be a good game to continue. Edit: And this is coming from someone who has played all the games since the first one back in the late 90s on PC.

[@danielcornwall1585]

You CAN just do that Vice City mission with a helicopter. The game asks you to do it on motorcycle, but they never put in a mechanic forcing you to.

[@troymartin4260]

For me, the worst mission in Vice City was definitely The Driver. The premise hardly makes any sense. Hilary won't be your driver unless you can prove you're a better driver than him, and it ends up being a useless mission anyway because Hillary ends up getting capped

[@MeeMeeCandy777]

I don't hate Hillary at all.

[@blissfulinsomniac5711]

Agreed. It seems like he can only be beaten by complete chance.

[@ivratsdargy955]

The premise would have made 1000% more sense if it was treated like a checkpoint/tailing mission where you just have to keep up with him, and his reason was something like "I don't work for chumps"

[@troymartin4260]

@@ivratsdargy955 and if he didn't die before he could even be of any use

[@martinrosendahl9134]

That's the beauty of it! The hardest mission has no pay off in the game. I think they did it on purpose to piss people off.

[@frizzyrascal1493]

G Spotlight was one of the most fun missions and hilarious. It‘s not even difficult or unfair.

[@tonyshum5569]

it's very clear this KZbinr guy is completely unaware that you can, if you wish, just steal a helicopter and cheese the mission, the mission is not tied to the bike whatsoever

[@McGeezle]

I never had a problem with wrong side of the tracks even as a child. What is actually wrong with people?

[@thegekkoguy189]

Same, you just can’t hug the train. It’s not a hard concept to figure out, even when I was a kid. Never failed it.

[@tedgrove7775]

Same reason why everyone hates Whitney from Pokemon Gold/Silver. It's mass groupthink lol

[@NaughtiusMaximmus]

I think it's just people not wanting to disagree with the mob mentality. In reality, this mission ain't half-bad

[@MetalHead1800]

Lol why did you call OG Lock, Oglock.

[@Gunny426HemiPlymouth]

So you'd ask, its also funny.

[@junginys]

Probably a subtle reference to Lazlow calling OG Loc "Oglock" in an interview on WCTR and Loc raging about it - and its also funny.

[@MetalHead1800]

@@junginys Lol I didn't know that, that's pretty funny.

[@Tool30301]

"Its O. G. Loc! Its O. G. Loc! Ya hear me playa!"- Og Lock

[@lmaoborghini5243]

Don’t forget for the paramedic mission for GTA 3 if you pissed off the mafia by this point, then it’s near impossible to do the mission at the first island since they will 2 shot your ambulance with their shotguns

[@toastking1649]

I always fail the Yoga mission because I just don't wanna do it

[@Face742]

Espresso-2-go is probably the most frustrating mission from gta 3 for me, it does have the excuse of it being late game but playing it on anything but the definitive edition is brutal because of the lack of ingame map and no check points indicating where the stalls are under a short time to make any errors. The only way to beat it is trial and error and having 2nd hand knowledge of where the stalls are

[@PalladinPoker]

I finally played through all of GTA 3 recently (as a kid Sayonara Salvatore stumped me). Espresso-2-Go was an easy first clear. Grand Theft Aero was tough without Sniper/Grenade/Rocket abuse, Rigged To Blow and Kingdom Come took a few tries too as did some rampage-like missions.

[@jaydenfisherncfc]

Exactly, I was thinking that mission was going to be on here. That’s got to be the worst, I swear it doesn’t even tell you where to go

[@Arkiasis]

Also the biggest issue for this is Saint Marks. Once you're off of Portland the mafia hates you, and in GTA 3 gangs that hate you attack you on sight, the Mafia is especially bad since they carry shotguns which are so OP in GTA 3 they can blow a car up in 2 hits. So it's very common that you drive into Saint Marks and get blown up instantly from someone double tapping you. It's why if you should always finish the island specific things like police and fire before you finish the island.

[@kappa9806]

N.O.E is one of my favourite missions just because I can fly very well but I admit it's very hard to control the plane when a tree appears, so I can understand why it's so hated.

[@Fancyether]

Eye in the sky in one of the only gta missions i dread replaying

[@chrise8275]

Tips before I playing “Burning Desire”. 1. Do all the firefighter missions, this will make CJ fireproof. This mission will be available after the first mission. 2. Spray all 100 LS Gang Tags, This will make some weapons spawn at the Johnson house which includes Molotov cocktails. This will be available to do after the mission “Tagging Up Turf”.

[@izzylee64]

27:00 the fuel drains only when X is held down. Tapping X or just gliding helps you preserve fuel. Knowing that makes it easy to finish the mission with like half fuel left. Being a better pilot or just having a better route is likely why it's not as hard for you now.

[@ArcyGoldenSnowTV]

Louie's death was very sad and overwhelming because she was a civilian to all this, she deserved a happy ending

[@frodope]

Hating the Haters in GTA 4. Mission is a cool concept on paper but that fucking scooter handling made it brutal

[@antoinebaron3862]

if you play on pc. i can give three reasons as to why it's so bad. 1- Playing at a high framerate (it can make the physics engine go crazy and the handling of most vehicles feel too light or too bouncy. Note that the game was designed to run at 30fps). 2- Not having fusionfix installed with its option to remove a famous bug for bikes in GTA IV where the back end swerves and does a complete 180 everytime you make a turn. 3- Playing with WASD instead of an analog stick (Again GTA IV was designed for analog controls, it is actually why many pc players complain about the handling which simply isnt tailored for a keyboard. Pressing D is like pushing your stick to the far right, and A to the far left. There is no in between, thus making many vehicles feel terrible to handle, especially SUVs and Motorbikes.)

[@SoAaron_]

You can kill the guy early with an Assault Rifle as he tries to escape

[@BDozer666]

@@antoinebaron3862 Even with keyboard, motorcycles aren't hard to drive. Like, faggio is the slowest and best handling bike, it's impossible to spin (unless you are playing unpatched above 60 FPS).

[@Walkerman606]

I just grab another vehicle, but even then knocking him off is a pain in the ass. Almost always pass first time, it just drags on.

[@titovich2153]

another gta youtuber who hasn't played chinatown wars, what a surprise

[@chrise8275]

Some other missions that I would add (In my personal opinion). 1. GTA 3: Express-2-Go. 2. LCS: Snappy Dresser (Always had a problem with taking the right picture). 3. GTA 4: Paper Trail and Catch The Wave.

[@ardent9422]

The misson for Avery where you fly the little helicopters to blow up the building, that one was a nightmare for me.

[@F1wgp7]

From memory gta 3 and vice city had fold out maps on the inside cover.

[@288gto7]

Yeah but i played with pirated cd and got none of that

[@frizzyrascal1493]

Yes, they did. Still, not including a map in III’s gameplay was such a mistake. Missions like Expresso 2 Go were so annoying and you probably had to restart it multiple times.

[@denis2381]

​@@frizzyrascal1493stop harassing me

[@Eviltower101]

After replaying San Andreas recently I was surprised by how much I actually *liked* the zero missions. The rooftop one was boring, but the plane and helicopter missions I had a bunch of fun.

[@KiwiBay2.0]

I played every GTA, and I'd have to say my least favorite mission is GTA 5 Epsilon, where you have to run for 5 miles in the desert. It's not a required mission, but it takes about 40 minutes of constantly tapping the sprint button.

[@mcmahon31619]

Supply lines became easier due to an update. In the original version the fuel was always going down. While now, fuel only goes down when you're pressing the gas button. If you let go of the gas button and just Glide you're not using any fuel

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

Honestly the flight school missions take the cake as the worst for me in GTASA Honorable mentions go to the Catalina quad chase mission, almost every mission with racing, the mission where you gotta plant evidence in the district attorney’s ride, and Freefall. I like the end of Freefall where you have a gunfight in the plane but getting into the plane was a terrible process.

[@Songwritersbehindthecurtain]

The definitive edition for San Andreas there is less fuel but the armor is still bad according to KZbin channel the professional.

[@justsomeguy747]

I think that all of these missions are possible to pas on first try regardless of difficulty . You just need to come with a good strategy, which is usually classical moving and shooting. The RC flying missions aren’t that bad just require patience but yeah they’re not interesting. I think Grand Theft Aero, Light My Pyre, The Portland Chainsaw Masquerade and Burning Desire are all great, interesting missions. Burning Desire is the first mission for Tenpenny’s unit. TPCM consists of killing the only tangible LCS antagonist. GTA is a turning point and has many characters involved. N.O.E is pretty cool too. Light My Pyre can be a pain but do your best to shoot the cartel’s cars while riding alongside them preferably with the bike. As for it being very hard I think it’s the way it should be. Armando is Vic’s most powerful enemy, and the brothers destroyed his bearer bonds so of course he’d attack at full force. I think that Armando is the VC saga’s most powerful antagonist and I find killing him quite satisfying, especially with the heavy machine gun, but Louise dying makes you angry and sad so it’s impactful to say the least.

[@rinkkalex]

Scouting the port makes me quit almost every GTA 5 playthrough.

[@TheJayson8899]

Attention span of a newt?

[@rinkkalex]

@@TheJayson8899 No, I can sit in front of my computer for 8 hours and play GTA SA start to finish, I just particularly dislike those missions, that whole heist ark is just dull as shit and leads nowhere. I get why it's there but god it's boring.

[@tonyshum5569]

my first ever GTA V playthrough I hated scouting the port, but the promise of big money on a cool heist was enough of an incentive, the betrayal of getting Jack shit from the heist made that crap mission much worse on every subsequential playthrough, from the second playthrough forward scouting the port is just: Fail on purpose thrice, skip checkpoint, continue failing more, skip checkpoint, repeat failure some more, skip mission.

[@TheMrFancyKiwi]

Kinda surprised The Driver in Vice City didn't get a mention.

[@EmpireGamingWynter]

For me in GTA 3 its one of the missions before the last one where you have to go out near the airport and shoot a helicopter down and steal its contents Not a bad idea for a mission in any other game but with the janky controls, it takes me forever

[@NeoKokoro20]

Supply Lines was even worse in the original PS2 release of San Andreas, where the fuel gauge acted more as a timer, meaning if you let go of the acceleration button to glide, it'll still go down. The gauge was smaller too. The mission, while still one of the worst in the game, was at least manageable in the later releases.

[@CptnWolfe]

I feel like you should've mentioned the fact that Have a Heart is one of the few missions that you can lose the bodies from the trunk. It doesn't count as a fail, but it doesn't count as a victory either, as you call Elizabeta and tell her you lost the bodies, where she tells you that you missed out on a payday

[@Altezza1999]

The Driver always seems to go forgotten.

[@mr.andrew7820]

Yeah doesn't even make sense story wise and It's all pointless since Hilary dies in the Job

[@jadedheartsz]

Surprised Espresso 2 Go wasn't on the list as it's a pain in the ass if you're no good at memorizing stuff like me as all of the locations you have to hit don't get marked on the map until you're fairly close to them and even if you can memorize where they are actually finding the most efficient route to destroy them all before the time limit expires is another story entirely as you have to deal with a crapton of enemies trying to kill you so unless you use a guide to show you the best order to do them in(or have a bulletproof car)this mission is an uphill battle.

[@tjones9097]

Gta V’s worst mission should have been eye in the sky. It’s a boring mission that you’re forced to play, and you can’t move to the next area until you’ve scanned everyone in the first area. It adds little to the plot, and depending on your choice near the end, you have to deal with a 3 star wanted level. At least surveying the score had purpose in the story.

[@lolurgay]

Never had a problem with Burning Desire mostly because one of the 1st things I always do when I play SA is the firefighter missions lmao and even that is not that bad tbh

[@lukethomas6900]

I still remember Auntie Poulet's missions being an absolute nightmare for me when playing Vice City as a kid. Went through a few busted controllers as a result lol.

[@JaQuezstarr16]

What always pissed me off about Ransom is that if Gordon is ”babysitting” Gracie the whole time, why couldn’t he take the picture?

[@Tmack034]

In the almost 20 years of playing San Andreas, I have only successfully completed supply lines once. It makes N.O.E feel like a tutorial mission.

[@bobboman]

supply lines was made much easier in later editions, i think i passed it twice over the years on the launch PS2 version, and by the time it came out on the xbox 360 it was painfully easy the fuel meter on supply lines decreased even on gliding, which basically left you screwed if you didn't plan your route perfectly

Supply Lines becomes easier over time, but in every playthrough I can never easily do it first time. Still legitimately one of the hardest. Original PS2 version on the controller, that is

[@Jimy_duracell]

You really think I'm just gonna sit and watch 1 hour of GTA missions? Well, you're damn right

[@TheRageLivesOn]

after playing it twice recently, the worst mission in San Andreas for me is 100% Snail Trail. it makes you tail a train all the way from SF to LS with literally nothing happening the whole way there, then doing a long and boring "spook-o-meter" tail all the way to the pier just to snipe 2 people. and then you're in the middle of LS so now you have to drive all the way back to SF to do more missions

[@-10]

funny, you can skip the entire drive by entering the train. but the game doesn't tell you this.

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@-10well that would have been nice to know 😂

[@adisor906]

Soo with Supply Lines: the difference at least for the classic versions of SA is between the PS2 version and the subsequent ones. In the PS2 version the fuel is depleted automatically (the gauge act more as a timer if anything else) while in the PC and Xbox version the fuel depletes only if you push the acceleration button so what most people would do is that they would glide for a lot of the mission . :)

[@jaredrobinson7071]

As soon as you said grand theft aero, my eye twitched.

[@skottlee8959]

It's refreshing to watch a gta video by a legit nerd instead of ai or voice actors reading engrish scripts over stolen clips.

[@SoAaron_]

Is this a diss against Gaming Investigators - Hubson?

[@gunbladelad7772]

For G-Spotlight I only ever do the first jump in the motorbike then switch to the VCN news chopper and simply fly around the checkpoints - they register if you fly low over them - just land the helicopter and get out to drop the stairs at the 2 mission checkpoints

[@nfullenwider]

Hey man, I'm also taking care of a sick kitty so I know what you're going through. Sending my love to Mr. Peepers, and strength to you. You've got a really good heart.

[@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247]

That “your toast, burnt toast” line, was that a “Buttercream Gang” reference? Lol

[@kiratherenegade1561]

S.A.M, Espresso-2-Go, Bait, Exchange, any Mafia rampage post shotguns introduction.

[@lukeward7408]

The zero missions on the original hardware are all really bad but I think air raid is the best. Air raid - in my opinion its only hard if you arent good with the games manual aiming. Supply Lines - Very warranted in the hate it gets. Terrible controls mixed with an unfair time limit (Fuel) makes for a terrible mission. New Model Army - I love the dialogue from 99% of this game but omg every bit of dialogue during this mission is so hard to listen to. Oh yeah, the mission is also so damn boring and you literally achieve nothing.

[@jadedheartsz]

I played Boomshine Blowout on the PSP and it sucked on there too, hell it might actually be worse on there due to the PSP's more limited control options.

Just a little off-topic, but i have to say it "Kingdom Come", Catalina has to be sickest, most maniac mofo in the whole series to come up with a trap like that 😳😳😳😳

[@Maxwel_Rodrigues]

I'm playing the PS2 version of GTA III for the first time and man, the camera and shooting controls is very arcaic, and as some of other early PS2 games the right analog sticj is useless. I spend 1h alone just to complete Kingdom Come, but other missions that requires gun combat was a torture as well, like "Bomb da Base" or "Arms Shortage". But the car handling is pretty fine in my opinion. As a Driver 1 e 2 fan, the GTA III missions "car-centric" is a lot of fun.

[@Walkerman606]

III: Expresso-2-Go! Vice City: Bombs Away San Andreas: Supply Lines LCS: Sicilian Gambit VCS: High Wire IV: If The Price Is Right (only if you deal, otherwise No Way On The Subway.) Lost and Damned: End Of Chapter BOGT: Sexy Time V: Did Somebody Say Yoga

[@jjmfrees]

I’ve never done G-Spotlight on the bike. I ride the bike up the elevator, drive through the window, and d land on the next building to trigger the markers; after that info get a helicopter and collect the rest of the checkpoints.

[@NailStrafer]

13:31 IIRC, G Spotlight actually can be completed with a helicopter. You can tag all the rooftop checkpoints with a helicopter instead of using the bike.

[@doctorrobert1339]

Some odd choices here to be honest. A bit surprised you didn't mention that for Supply Lines, the fuel was increased for the PC version of SA, since just like with NOE and the draw distance, this mission was more frustrating on the Ps2 because it would run out too fast.

[@thebestwingsfan]

Burning Desire is trivial if you get the fireproof power from completing all 12 levels of the firefighter side mission which is the shortest and easiest of the vehicle side missions.

[@suprnova5849]

For GTA IV there is one thing that is missing, on this GTA’s final mission where you are required to spam the run button to climb up on a helicopter, it is tied to FPS making it impossible to complete if you are running the game higher than 50 fps due to console limitations at the time, on PC this can kind of be worked around on older versions of windows, however, windows 10 and up won’t allow you to manually change the frames through task manager anymore so you need to download software in order to do the mission either a frame rate limiter or macro, on new gen consoles however frames cannot be manipulated at all making it virtually impossible unless you have insane mashing as they never changed the code… 😂

[@jeffreymoses7131]

That yoga mission in gta v causes me physical pain

[@LPA_]

Burning Desire is a very unexpected choice for San Andreas, I never really had a problem with it. I'm very surprised you didn't include Photo Opportunity. That is the only mission I audibly GROAN everytime I have to replay it. Cesar's car flips over so easily that you're forced to drive slowly in a mission that already takes way too long. And just to really rub your face in the massive pile of dogshit that this mission is, after you finish it, Cesar leaves you in Angel Pine and you have to drive all the way back to San Fierro.

[@herrmajestat]

After several retries of New Model Army, I discovered the easiest way is to take out all the tanks and obstacles ahead of Zero before removing the first one. Then it’s smooth sailing.

[@skottlee8959]

That's how I do it too. I had a rough time with all the zero missions as a kid

[@Zachoholic]

Another awful thing about GTA 3 paramedic is that you have to do it as early as possible in the story. If you don't, you have all the rival gangs shooting at you, which makes not blowing up the ambulance pretty much impossible (without resorting to glitches or cheats). Also, for GTA SA, I would choose Photo Opportunity as the worst mission. You have to drive from San Fierro to Badlands to Angel Pine, and then all the way back to SF in order to continue the main story. And if you fail because as a first timer you don't know who you have to take pictures of (or miss the face shot that's required to pass the mission) then you either have to reload a save and drive that whole way again, or you have to drive all the way back to SF to restart the mission. Awful mission design, and while it's important story wise, it's super boring. Snail Trail is almost as bad and even more boring (mission wise and story wise) but at least you can skip the drive if you're fast enough to catch the train.

[@Skylar_T]

For me: GTA 3: Expresso 2 Go and S.A.M Vice City: Death Row, The Driver, Copland and the RC plane mission for Auntie Poulet. San Andreas: All of Zeros Missions, N.O.E, Photo Opportunity, Cop Wheels. Liberty City Stories: Love on the rocks, The Shoreside Redemption, The Sicilian Gambit, for a final mission, this was kinda lame. Vice City Stories: Jive Drive, Boomshine Blowout, High Wire, The Exchange, Light My Pyre GTA 4: I actually didn't find any mission in this game or the DLCs to be terrible. GTA 5: Scouting the Port and Did someone say Yoga immediately comes to mind.

[@ThePlake0815]

Counter-argument FOR the ambulance mission: all odd-jobs in GTA's show the escalating difficulty of the game's missions in general. Starting with Taxi, which is the easiest (could start it, deliver one passenger and get another taxi to start again). Then Noodle delivery, which does not have as many levels, but requires to finish them all in one go. Then Fire Truck, which requires to watch out for the (biggest?) health pool of the service vehicle, as it cannot be repaired. Previous last to hardest is Ambulance, which not only requires you to (by now) know the map, but also watching out for your service vehicle's health, AND also know most (if not all) bribe pick-up locations. The hardest is definitally Vigilante, as it adds the issue of havig stocked up on Uzi or Rifle ammunition to effectively finish all 12 missions (yes: you CAN simply switch into another cop car, unlike with ambulance). All that prepares you for the escalating difficulty of the story missions, imo.

[@jadedheartsz]

I'm shocked Unfriendly Competition wasn't on this list as that one was so bad it actually forced me to use cheats to beat it, like I seriously don't get how you're supposed to survive being shot from all sides in the swimming pool with almost no cover without using cheats, and even with cheats it was still a pain cause after the pool ambush you have to chase after two more drug dealers on ATVs which don't exactly handle well with the games controls. Speaking of which White Lies is also a huge pain because it forces you to drive the Hovercraft which has to have hands down the absolute WORST controls of ANY vehicle in the entire GTA series, it's way too easy for it to go wildly out of control and you've got a strict time limit to pickup all of the drugs and it goes on for way too long, i'll even take Light My Pyre over that one as at least interesting stuff actually happens there but White Lies is just irritating and not remotely fun.

[@NomaGang]

The fact that Ik u we’re gonna put wrong side of the tracks and then it’s the first one made me giggle

[@BDozer666]

Escuela Of The Streets didn't make the GTA IV list? I'd replace Dust Off with it. You have to follow a slowly driving car on a route that doesn't make any sense while listening to Manny.

[@adamlach6572]

G. Spotlight after taking bike to the elevator can be completed by flying helicopters to every roof and barely touching pink markers

[@Stan_man]

I don't remember ever running out on fuel in Supply lines mission, not cd, digital or DE version. Always have well over half after final target.

[@GoodGoga]

Demolition Man in VC is hurt by bugs/porting. On different patches and platforms the time goes by differently. That's what's responsible for the meme.

[@MarcusCollins69]

22:52 IS THAT THE GREEN SABRE!!

[@Alec_Reaper]

Where's gta 1, London and 2?

[@reggiejames8626]

I respect the effort put into this video. I personally would have left side missions that aren’t mandatory for story completion on a separate list but all the missions you discussed were solid nominees nonetheless. A nominee for me in Vice City would have definitely been The Driver. The rubber banding was ridiculous. No matter how good you drive, Hilary King is always outmatching you as it is heavily scripted. His vehicle takes no damage so you can’t play dirty because doing so only damages your own vehicle. This one may have regrettably been tougher for me than other people but maybe I just sucked. In my defense I was probably 11 or 12 when I played it.

[@Berserkerenergy]

This might sounds crazy but i enjoyed all Missions on this list actually. (I'm either wierd or i play these Games so much that i got used to them)

[@TylerSane5]

Same I've played so much of the HD games with free aim and beat every mission without dying so I can actually still have a challenge lol. But I love almost all missions.

[@Berserkerenergy]

@@TylerSane5 That's Exactly the Same Thing with me That's so Cool.

[@Vonnietrionday]

This man pronunced OG Loc as Ogg Lock😭😭

[@o.w.n.1327]

The Demolition man mission has given me, my family, my friends and my entire nation a PTSD. If you ask a normal dude on the street and talk to him about 'the helicopter mission from vice city' bad memories that have been forgotten for so long will reopen.

[@mr_noobx3009]

horrible horrible choices

[@manarail7126]

agreed.

[@Anonymous-hf8nx]

Disagreed.

[@RedHead97]

The part where u are surrounded in a parking lot and need to snipe all people in "The Exchange" in VCS also took me dozens of tries. ended up doing this part with a rocket launcher.

[@Skylar_T]

I hated that mission, ended up using a rocket launcher too.

[@jadedheartsz]

I actually did manage to beat Light My Pyre without a tank, not sure how, I think I used the bike.

[@wilegfass]

Funny thing about San Andreas and wrong side of the tracks is I’m pretty sure in my first run through I beat it on my first try. Then I saw online it was supposed to be really hard so I started a new game and could *not* beat it for an inordinate amount of tries. Even though I was much better. For me personally, the mandatory flight missions were the worst as I could not beat them and needed someone else to do so for me. Maybe it was the PS2 controllers, but I was stuck!

[@scottvincent184]

I actually played GTA VC Stories on the PSP back in the day, and that final mission was easier than a year or 2 later when I played it on the re-release for PS2. Rockstar really took their time back then to taylor make something perfect for whatever gaming system they would develop for, I miss that about the company 😔

[@Kazuma_Drake]

for Photo Shoot you can kill all the gang members and engagw in a shoot out and Niko calls Playboy saying I killed everyone and you pass

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

Gang car Roundup in GTA 3is tedious back and fourth between Portland and Staunton

[@Waluigiisbest99]

uh... where is "Escort Service" from 3? that shit was really annoying with how bad the ai in 3 is, i remember after the long ass time it took to escort the truck through the underground tunnels of LC all the way too Shoreside, the damn ai just bugged out and turned too early from where the parking lot was and would ram into the wall... this happened 5 TIMES that i had to restart before it finally worked, The bad ai, the damage meter and the Columbians just further add to the frustration of that one. And escort missions in the old GTA games were just awful in general.

[@252pq3]

Haha I love how O.G. Loc turns into "Aug lock" at 21:32

[@mjolden]

I think it goes without saying that GTA 3 is an especially frustrating game overall, considering that you can’t go anywhere on the map without a gang member shooting at you.

[@DHCNetwork06]

How's Up Up and Away not on this list? That mission was terrible. 1. You have to go to the fuel depot and find a way to get inside. 2. You have to fight through guards with M4s, and they have an advantage. 3. You have to shoot down Hunters with a minigun turret. 4. You have to fly the Leviathan and use the magnet crane to pick up the truck. 5. Fly to the abandoned airstrip while the truck is swinging around. 6. Place the truck in the marker and land the helicopter.

[@NotKnafo]

i remember playing gta3 for the first time being surprised that the fire fighter and vigilantly missions are different from the other gta titles then checked the paramedic and... its the exact same, disappointment

[@negobranclim8640]

not related to the vid but damn does lcs theme slap

[@chec138]

Absolutely agree on the paramedic mission in gta 3, as someone who 100%ed this game i genuinely hated this mission from the bottom of my heart, especially when the pacients would dive straight into the ambulance, usually failing the mission, took me like 6-7 hours to finally do it

[@CrashHeadroom]

Weirdly, never had a problem with the VC RC plane bombing mission :S HOWEVER, used to hate the construction site one because the builders swarm you and take ya HP away in seconds :/, and the blades chopping at them ALSO hurts the damn thing, and every single one of them has a death wish, running RIGHT at them. So I often find myself having to attempt it twice :/. I could be wrong, but I have a theory on the yoga minigame as well. There are alot of yoga points in the map, and a lot of them seem to be on high places, I mean A LOT. I think they were to do with Mike's cut Alien DLC, something connected with it... because yeah as it stands, it has 0 point in the game as it stands but could have been linked to that ((as it's also linked to the mission where you get drugged, and? see aliens)).

[@dj12699]

In both GTA 3 AND Vice City, I've failed Paramedic missions on late levels due to the peds running into my back wheel which apparently kills them. It's very annoying.

[@xaldyn9996]

I remember cheesing that Vice City Motorcycle mission back in the day with a helicopter. As long as the Heli was low enough the checkpoints counted. Disclaimer, this was 15 plus years ago, some details may be wrong, also cant remember if it was the Pc version or PS2

[@martinrosendahl9134]

The jeep mission near Leone's Mansion in GTA3 is downright impossible.. I think I tried it over 100+ times - never completed it. Only GTA mission I ever gave up on. Though some of these gave me a few extra grey hairs for sure...

[@frizzyrascal1493]

That‘s a simple one. The Patriot is one of the most OP cars in the game. You can literally drive up a hill at a 70 degree angle. Watch a video and copy exactly that. Once you get a hang of it, it‘s easier.