NOTE: Do NOT add missions from Grand Theft Auto Online here. This is restricted to the single-player campaign missions only! The Online missions can be found here.
Some of the missions in Grand Theft Auto V are easy, while others are hair-tearingly frustrating!
- "Mr. Philips" - Though redeemed by the fact that you get to play as everyone's favourite badass psychopath, Trevor Philips, for the first time, if you're not sharp on your gunplay, this mission can become a real pain, as it's very easy to get flanked by the Lost M.C. and have your health drained rapidly, even with your special ability activated.
- Consensus seems to indicate "Driller" falls into this category, at least for those looking for "gold" standing. Made more frustrating by the fact video walkthroughs no longer seem to work as the AI guards appear to have been reprogrammed so the timing no longer works out.
- "Legal Trouble", where Molly takes away Michael's film, and it is your job to chase her down into the airport, getting a three-star wanted level and witnessing Molly getting brutally killed in a plane turbine in the process just to reclaim it. The chase is a bit crazy, but losing the cops afterwards in the airport is what really makes this one a hair yanker, especially since there's also helicopters chasing you. It's somewhat easier to shake the cops off if you take the Shamal plane provided in the hangar, but the plane's durability isn't the best, and you'll have to weave around cops in the runway, not to mention the fact that you still have to evade the police helicopters that may sometimes spawn in front of you. It is made even more frustrating once you find out the whole mission was pointless, as Solomon expected this to happen and kept a digital copy, but didn't realize Michael was unaware.
- "Scouting the Port" is an interesting example. It's not a hard mission (it's actually one of the easiest), but it's boring, due to it involving absolutely no action on top of being pretty lengthy (to give you an idea of just how long of a haul you're in for, the Gold time limit is twenty minutes). All you do is regular longshoremen work while planning for a heist to keep your cover. Later on the heist turned out pointless as what they're stealing would have gotten everyone killed.
- "Did Somebody Say Yoga?", where a large portion of the level consists of you having to fiddle around with the controls in very specific combinations in order to perform exercises. It's not hard to do, but if you fail at any point during a set, you have to do that entire set all over again. Mess up three times, and you fail the mission. Oh, and the whole time, you have to put up with the annoying chatter of Amanda and Fabien as they comment on your physique. At least the same mission makes up for it somewhat by having one of the most awesomely hilarious drug-addled hallucination sequences in video game history.
