10 WORST Mini Games Absolutely Crucial To Complete The Game
9. Hacking - BioShock
The hacking mini-game in BioShock commits two cardinal sins: it's infuriatingly frequent and intensely tedious all at once.
Hacking in BioShock is envisioned through a series of Pipe Dream-esque plumbing tile puzzles, which, while amusing the first few times you do it, quickly become an agonising chore that never lets up.
Thankfully there are barely any mandatory hacking sequences in the game (even if they're strongly encouraged), and so by game's end players were surely skipping every non-essential hack possible - especially as some later hacks are near-impossible if you lack the correct equipment.
Mercifully, BioShock 2 streamlined hacking into a far more straightforward and less time-consuming QTE-style mini-game, before Bioshock Infinite ditched it completely.