nilpferdkoenig said:
GTA IV has been pissing me off lately, I have to do some missions over a dozen time before even getting a hang of what the hell is happening.
Agreed. The Snow Storm mission has been making me scream up my lungs in rage. It doesn't matter how meticulously or carefully I pick off the cops, or if I run through guns blazing, I'm always betrayed by the cover system sticking me to the wall and ignoring the fact that there are two shotgun toting cops blasting my face off. Trying it without using cover, though, is a joke - I just get blasted to pieces in the first place.
I know the thread title only calls for one game, but I enjoy hearing your guys other stories and perhaps you'll like mine:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Anything on Intense and most stuff on Very Hard. It's a joke; one hit and you're cooked, and in some levels (in SSE mode) where the screen is almost completely filled by enemies, it's not a game any more, it's inhuman (see also Boss Battles, Classic, All-star/Survival/whatever it's called). These things, along with the event matches (well, some of them), have reduced me to a sputtering, curse-slinging idiot a few times too many.
GTA's in general piss me off when you fail them, I hate the in-mission (read: unskippable) cross-town driving that's 10 minutes of... well, I wouldn't even call it foreplay, just piss-wasting time. I understand it's a huge and massive city and they want us to see all of it - and rightly so - but there has to be a better way.
COD4: I haven't finished it yet (my poor PC can't handle it, so I had to stop playing), but the Broadcast mission near the start of the game where the baddies just keep streaming in - I thought there might be a Doom 3 style terrorist closet or something and probably died over 25 times between bullshit grenades and the nearly endless stream of bad guys.
Super Mario Galaxy pissed me off with the Dreadnaught purple coins mission and a few others. For the most part, wasn't too hard but there were some stars that were absolute nut-kickers.
That's all from recent memory, but I'm sure Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Tooie (especially the wretched button-mashing race goals), Counter Strike Source or 1.6 (I just get raped), and various other games throughout the years have pissed me off plenty.