FINAL FANTASY XII
ZODIAC SPEAR
At the end of the game when you allow yourself to look at gameFAQs.com to see what you’ve missed, you’ll find that there were four treasure chests you weren’t supposed to open. Open them and you won’t get the most powerful weapon in the game. Would have been nice if someone had bloody mentioned this at the start!

GRAND THEFT AUTO
HIDDEN PACKAGES
GTA 3 and GTA Vice City had 100 of these little things to find, San Andreas had 150! Try to get them all without the help of a map and it could take you years, even with a map it takes a good weekend to get them all. Sure, you get some nice rewards but God is it dull, boring and frustrating. Wonder if there will be any in IV?

ROGUE GALAXY
INSECTRONS
When travelling the galaxy and visiting distant planets to defeat monsters while hunting for a lost civilisation you might get bored, so why not collect a few insects and make them fight. It takes patience, time and a bit of luck, and what do you get for completing it? Just a couple of extra costumes. Oh. Wow. That’s great.

DARK CHRONICLE
FISHING
You can fish in Dark Chronicle and it’s almost as dull as real fishing. But it doesn’t end when you land your fish, you then get to train your fish to race, make it more aggressive and then wonder why you’ve spent so much time building it up when you try to breed it and some rubbish fish is created.

KINGDOM HEARTS II
MAGIC CARPET
Want to unlock that special ending? Didn’t know it was easier to get it by completing the game on hard? Yeah, us neither, and so came many, many nights of going over that damn Magic Carpet side quest. It took so long and we never figured out how we did it. I think we must have fluked it.

MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE
THE COMIC MISSIONS
Been bored to death playing with four characters on screen in the story mode? Well, why not make it more annoying by completing each character’s solo comic missions? Don’t. They’re boring, arduous tasks and all you get for completing all of them is a seriously nerfed Silver Surfer to play through the main game with.

TEKKEN 5
DEVIL WITHIN
Not many people liked Tekken Force in Tekken 4 and this is even worse. Guide Jin Kazama through the blandest corridors ever, while beating up clones with an incredibly reduced moves list. You can do this to unlock Devil Jin in the main game, but it’s much better just to play 200 matches than wade through this tripe.

DEVIL MAY CRY
SECRET MISSION ONE
Your objective: ‘Defeat the Sin Scissors by hitting its weak point.’ So begins the most confusing secret mission in the game. For a start, what weak spot? It has a weak spot? Weak spots are supposed to glow so you know where they are. Turns out that its face is the weak spot and all you have to do is get a good shot in.

BURNOUT DOMINATOR
SIGNATURE SHORTCUTS
They’re easy to spot thanks to their yellow and black chevrons. In fact, you’ll be whizzing past them and thinking, “Ooh, there’s one”. The problem is, you need to perform a takedown to open them and there are never any bloody cars around when you race past them. Forget it, it’s just for a few extra points anyway.

TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2
THE MONEY
One of the innovations Tony 2 had over Tony 1 was the money scattered around. You don’t have to collect it all to finish the game but if you want 100 per cent completion then you have to track down the tiny floating cash icons. This is made even more annoying because there’s no right stick on the old PSone pad.