Far Cry - in the secret base where you're supposed to rescue what's her name. Towards the very end of the level, you find yourself at the bottom of a large, cavernous lab. You're told the only way to proceed further is to flood the lab so you can reach a ventilation shaft in the ceiling. (Of course! Makes perfect sense.)
So I would hit the button, wait the eternity for the water to rise to the ceiling, take an even longer eternity sloooooowly climbing through the shaft, until I would drop down into a hallway guarded by one of the mutants with rocket launchers. And die. A lot. After about 20 tries, I figured I'd just run past the mutant - great, except then I had to confront the mutants that could leap 300 yards and kill you in one hit. The last save point was just before hitting the button to flood the lab, so I had to go through the entire process over and over again (which must have taken a minute and a half each time), just to be killed again and again. Finally, as if by some miracle, I made it past the leaping mutants, and opened the door to the next room. There I saw what's her name...and three more leaping mutants, who ignore her and take me out in seconds...sending me right back to the beginning, again.
I swore until I was blue in the face.
It must have taken me 75 tries to get past that part. I replayed Far Cry a year later, and I made sure to have a rocket launcher with me, just for that level. That time it only took maybe 5 attempts.
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