A game says f*** you

[Lightning Delight]

Dragon Age: Origins. Seriously. That game punishes exploration. There were a dozen times when I would be looting everything I could find, and I searched a gravestone and a god damn Revenant appeared. They would always be 10 levels higher than me, too. Or I would be walking through a cave and a dragon would just appear and eat my face.

And then there were a few times in Mass Effect where I had full health and full shields in the middle of a firefight, and an enemy sniper would kill me with one shot when I popped out of cover.

Why do you hate me, Bioware?

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Console ports for PC that have terrible mouse control. Is that really so hard to program?

 

[PeePantz]

OT: New Vegas's constant "you are free to roam anywhere you want, but if you deviate from the path we tell you for the first 20 hours we will fuck you up". Seriously, the road south there's a couple of powder gangers, every other conceivable directions there's scorpions and cazadores and deathclaws and everything else that will destroy you in less than 6 seconds.

I recently got that game and have been playing the proverbial "shit" out of it. I'm actually happy I got scared away from other paths because I just mopped up the lower half of the screen and funneled into the middle, finally hitting the Strip at a 20+ level. I am owning the strip and haven't even really scratched the game's main story line. In a way, the game forced me to be more creative in finding different paths all around, causing me to gobble up xp.

OT: Coincidentally, New Vegas has been giving me the biggest fuck yous with the bugs and all the crashing. Nothing like losing a couple hours from a corrupt save file a couple times while the game froze/crashed. After this happened twice, I now manually save after every single somewhat big happening. As great as this game is, it is constantly sneaking up on me and pissing in my ear.

 

[Chalacachaca]

The cliffracers in Morrowind are one of the biggest f*ck you's of all time (At least they are when you're beggining the game).

 

[Xooiid]

Alice: Madness Returns. The camera constantly flipping around and making my platforms unseeable/change my direction in mid jump. It's basically a giant middle finger, especially in the underwater level. See those stalagmites? That's nature's middle finger, laughing at you.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Assassins Creed 2 the game is amazingly easy all the way through and then you get to the bit with the guy on the boat...surrounded by guards and you have to kill him without being detected. This include as your about an inch away from stabbing him it goes 'NO THEY SAW YOU TRY AGAIN' -.-

 

[Dango]

Several Total War games.

Those times when everything is going great and you're expanding at such a great pace, killing everyone in your way...

And then that one huge army comes into view and decides to mess up all the progress you made.

...Or when Mongols arrive in Medieval 2.

 

[yankeefan19]

An iPod game I have called Gravity Guy, in which you run through a course without stopping while shifting gravity. There is a powerup you can get that turns on slow-mo, but you have to buy a pack of 5 for $.99. If you do badly while playing the game, it will give you a message saying "You seem to be having some trouble, would you like to use a slow-mo?" I didn't know about the cost at this point so I clicked "yes" and it sent me to the screen to buy packs of slow-mo. I could just imagine a trollface popping up at the transaction screen.

 

[mjc0961]

Every time Spirit Tracks asked me to do a stupid pan flute duet with one of those Lokomos assholes. You do it perfectly and the game just says "fuck you" by having the other guy decide you didn't play it right and thus you have to do it again. And again. And again. You know what, fuck you too Spirit Tracks.

Also, every second I played inFamous was a second it was giving me two middle fingers.

Console ports for PC that have terrible mouse control. Is that really so hard to program?

Ugh, yeah, I hate that too. They don't even program a full options menu. If you want to set the sensitivity properly and disable acceleration and whatever nasty assist shit they put in there, you have to quit the game and go rooting through an INI file. I mean come on developers, is it really that hard to spend an extra bit of time putting in a proper options menu for the PC version of your game? -_-

 

[cryogeist]

Terraria+corruption+blood moon is rising!= mother f*^ker

 

[godfist88]

In left 4 dead when I was caught by a smoker, then immediately slimed by a boomer, while being beat up by a tank.

Yikes, just Yikes.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Ninja Gaiden II could fill this thread all by itself with its "fuck you" moments.

 

[mjc0961]

Fallout 3's ending. Have you played it? Yes? Then you don't need an explanation of why.

Too true. I was so pissed when that ending came up. Thankfully Broken Steel came along and said "No shitty ending, fuck you" with a nice big retcon.

 

[godfist88]

Ninja Gaiden II could fill this thread all by itself with its "fuck you" moments.

Speaking of which, one time I was fighting the fire Demon boss, I refilled my health only to get insti-killed a second later.

 

[Ice Car]

Well, I guess if you mean INSANE ULTRA-DIFFICULTY stuff, then I guess seeing an insane difficulty spike when playing Unknown Modo on Tales of Vesperia. As if the bosses weren't already hard, though the recent ones were easier, Baitojoh gave me a hard time, unexpectedly.

Seriously, Yuri kept dying every second and all the combos I get on him fail because of the low staggering time on late bosses and the fact that he flies. I switched to Raven and had to spam Love Shot -> Rainsong -> Azure Heavens the whole match. And that match was a long time, he had fucking one million HP and killed in a few hits. Not only this, but he barely paid attention to Yuri/the AI and focused only on me, the player for the whole match, so Ihad Raven running all over the field. God damn, I fucking hate you Baitojoh.

 

[mjc0961]

Spoiler: Greatest literal example ever!

Oh god, I almost forgot about that. But yes, that's a great one. I really need to find a way to get my copy of the original You Don't Know Jack to work again, even if it is the censored version.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Stalker clear sky, got it the other day when the guide takes you to the second area its right in front of a military base which shoots on sight the machine gun kills you almost instantly as soon as you move and it was night so i could see where i was going but i couldnt seek past either. ragequit

xD, got off of playing Clear Sky 5 minutes ago and I COMPLETELY agree. It's possible to run past but the best way to deal with it is to go to the military area, go back, then go around and use the side-entrance to the Cordon.

Diablo 2: LoD. The very first time I was seriously playing through it. I walk into this "Oooh Spooky Tower that has a THING in it" I walk into the first room.

Two Thoughts: "Well this shouldn't be too hard, I mean the last mission was a cakewal-" then "HOLY SHIT" (A unique archer had spawned in my FIRST ROOM and insta-killed me along with this 15 friends). So I had to run all the way back to die again, then again.

Hah, good times, yeah Diablo 2 kinda eases you into it by making starter enemies on normal mode easy as pie, but once you start encountering unique enemies like Rakinishu or you play or you get farther it can get quite hectic. Still an awesome game though.

I've been feeling it occasionally in Spiral Knights, some enemies are just nearly impossible to deal with well. Teleporting alpha wolvers, huge crowds of robot knights in a crowded arena, devilites that attack with no hesitation...

 

[Thedayrecker]

Trying to get vehicles for the Chop Shop in Saints Row 2. They speed up when you press the use button, so you can't grab on. Not mention when they see you they try and run. It wouldn't be too bad if all cars behaved this way, but nope, only the cars you need.

 

[mikespoff]

Magicka.

Looked a lot more fun than it turned out to be...

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Assassins Creed 2 the game is amazingly easy all the way through and then you get to the bit with the guy on the boat...surrounded by guards and you have to kill him without being detected. This include as your about an inch away from stabbing him it goes 'NO THEY SAW YOU TRY AGAIN' -.-

...You're doing it wrong. You know why you got the Gun just before that mission? To use it ON that mission.

That's not the mission I mean...I mean the one in florence.

I did it eventually but it just seemed really hard compared to the other missions.