Whats yourr favorite minigame in an rpg?

[Damned Registrations]

I know I'll probably get nailed to a tree for this, but frankly, I thought the two minigames of Fallout 3 (lockpicking and decryption) were probably better than any others I've run across.

Lockpicking wasn't bad but decryption always felt like a loss of time for me. Pick the first word. Look at the second word, count the common letters. It's not it. Repeat. Finally you find a word that might be the right answer. No, it's not it. Repeat but compare to both checked words this time. Repeat.. repeat... repe...

It's tedious, repetitive even at the first time (and there are probably at least 100 terminals in the game), doesn't challenge you mentally and you always win.

It's even worse than that. You can find 'duds' in the info between brackets or quotes or something like that among the gibberish. Every one you pick out deletes one of the wrong answers. Now you have no reason to ever fail, even if you never cancel and start over.