"Fuck this" moments

[tucci]

Heart of the Reich on Veteran

 

[yourbeliefs]

Most recently was playing Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES on my cell phone, and almost throwing my phone against the wall while I was playing while working out at the gym. I had just lost a bullshit game to the Rams where my 2nd best receiver went down and then had to play against the Saints who ran a bunch of bullshit plays to build a big lead early. I rallied back and got to within a score, but then there was a late pick off and I just said "Fuck This" out loud in the gym and shut off the game before it could record the loss.

 

[Unia]

The tail end of Psychonauts, on PC. Holy. Crap. Theres a part where you have to race up these rotating bits of free-floating climbable mesh things to escape from the ever-rising waters below. Cause, ya know, gypsy curses and whatnot. Water bad.

I don't know if it was me, the controls, or if Raz just had enough of being someones puppet and decided he was going to commit suicide. Repeatedly. It took me probably 30+ tries to successfully complete that bit, and then the final boss was a cakewalk.

I feel your pain. I failed so many times I started to wonder if I was going the wrong way, even tried to hitch a ride with "daddy" more than once. Only thing that made me do it in the end was my friend who really wanted to see the ending

Edit: it was hardly easier on PS2, to me at least.

 

[Eldarion]

Persona 3's last boss

Spoiler

Nyx's Avatar

To anyone who haven't played it - Boss has 14 phases, starting out doing nothing, then every turn changing his abilities and resists/drains/nulls. Every turn you must change your allies' Tactics to make sure they won't waste time attacking an enemy and by an accident healing him, changing your Persona to a different one that can Resist the enemy's attack AND still manage to damage him... While each form has only 1k or so, 13 of them make up for a total of 13k health. The last one, the Death Form, is the most assholish of all bosses I've ever seen. This is what happens:

1. Besides being able to attack twice a turn (he does it every other form, too...), he can get 3 attacks if he exploits your teammate's weakness. And since there is no way you can have a full team with no weaknesses... He does it often.
2. He is Strong against everything you throw at him (except for Almighty spells, but they either auto-miss or, like Megido/la/laon, they cost a lot more SP than it's worth using on a single enemy), so every attack deals 30-40 damage at best, and you can't lower his resistance in any way.
3. He can use about 90% of the skills in the game except for Fusion spells and healing spells. Meaning that you can't really protect yourself against his assault. Oh, and he loves using party-wide instant-kill spells. If you are really unlucky, you might lose your whole team except for yourself in 1 round.
4. He LOVES using his special skill, a barrier that reflects every single type of damage back onto the attacker for 2 turns, during which you can only heal yourself and prepare for another attack.
5. ... And he can do it over and over again. This means that the last 10 minutes of the battle are like this: Attack him once with everyone, he puts up the barrier and attacks you once, you heal yourself as best as you can and set allies to Stand By, he attacks you twice, you heal yourself again, he drops his barrier and attacks you once, you heal yourself, set allies to Full Assault and attack him once, HE PUTS IT UP AGAIN, attacks... over and over again.
6. When he's about to be defeated, he starts using one of the most powerful attacks that leaves your team at 1/4 of health and randomly inflicts a status ailment.

...The only reason I didn't throw the controller out the window was because I was saving up every single healing item, including 10x Soma (restores HP/SP of your party to full), so every 3-4 forms I used a Soma and used two at the last form. And 30 Revival Beads.

Never again.

Loved this boss fight. Also, when death appears in a level of Tartarus when you spend to much time on a floor he can catch you and fight the party. I beat him too. Awesome boss fights.

 

[Proteus214]

Dying to something dumb in one of the really difficult and extremely LONG boss encounters in the FFXIII endgame. More than 10 minutes into a fight and my party gets wiped because something really random happens or my medic decides to be completely retarded at a critical moment. God I hate the healer AI in that game sometimes.

 

[LolCam]

When I was playing Diamond, I finally couldn't take the inane amounts of grind I had to contend with, and gave up. I mean, did the Gen IV games increase the experience needed to level up, or what?

No, you just need to level grind SMART, like don't leave the first little grass patch until you're at level 10 or 11.

That and get a decent, well rounded team. Which basically means start with the fire monkey or else you'll have NO good fire pokemon for the ENTIRE game.

 

[Abedeus]

Loved this boss fight. Also, when death appears in a level of Tartarus when you spend to much time on a floor he can catch you and fight the party. I beat him too. Awesome boss fights.

Yeaaah, I liked the fight too... until he started using Midnight Gown (the barrier skill) EVERY DAMN TURN. It's NOT FUN BOSS FIGHT when you can't do anything for 75% of the battle.

 

[li-ion]

Modern Warfare 2 co-op: pretty much every time a juggernaut shows up.

Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines: pre-patch fights at the end. The framerate was so bad that I could literally draw the image quicker than it was refreshed.

X-Com - Ufo defense: attacking an alien base was always something that resulted in bite-marks on my table. You send your best squad with the best possible equipment, then some random alien comes along and mind controls one of your soldiers to throw some grenades into your squad. And the missions where half the squad gets killed before leaving the transport, because some aliens stand right behind it. Too far away to be seen by your soldiers, naturally, but well in range for the aliens to shoot them one by one. I still remember one mission where my whole squad was wiped out, without even one of them being able to leave the Skyranger.

 

[sleepbox]

Pub stompers. Period.

 

[SamuelT]

God of War: Chains of Olympus

Fucking challenges. And everytime you died in one of those (Kill 36 sunwarriors, aka the choppâhs, without getting hit.) you'd see that fat screen YOU DIED.

*PSPsnap*

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Two spring to mind: the favela level in MW2

Modern Warfare 2 Veteran Mode. I peek my head out for more than 2 seconds, BAM I die.

Edit: Oh yeah, the Favela level in MW2. It was hard on normal, but veteran? Forget 'bout it.

THIS!!! I completed it last night on Veteran. It was the closest I have ever come to controller-snapping fury in my life. I got stuck on one particualr bit and I had to do it over and over and over again until I thought my eyeballs were starting to bleed...
Seriously, this is the only game I've ever played that has had this effect on me. That fucking favela will haunt me for years.

Did you ever own cods 4 or 5? if you did you would know that the Favela level (although rediculously hard) matches up to the easiest level on cod 5 and a normal one on cod 4 on veteran. Cod 5. Shudder. Im not saying that level was easy but cod 6 by comparison was stupidly easy on veteran. It was like hardened on cods 4 and 5.

getting my head blasted into vapour from sticking my head out is fair enough but heres what its like in cover.

"GRENADA, GREN-GREN-GREN-GRE-G-G-G-G-G-G-G" "clink clink clink clink clink BOOM" As 5 grenades land next to you. WHO THROWS FIVE GRENADES! Then throws an extra 3 for good measure when i move to avoid them. Then makes the AI block my path. Fuck that game. Just fuck it. It was made by caffine addicted humming birds who think everyone has the same reactions they do and have no concept of the word overkill.

Also heres cod difficulty changes:

Normal: Enemies shoot you and your friends with average accuracy and focus. grenades sometimes, uncooked.
Hardened: Enemies shoot you and friends near you with good accuracy and determination, grenades very occasionally cooked but frequent.
Veteran: Enemies shoot you and ONLY you with a do or die attitude a spartan would have been jealous of. They watch your cover with unatural focus until you appear then blast you with pinpoint accuracy. Teammates shot at when your in cover. Grenades thrown with every breath in or out.

 

[Dedae]

Most recently, the Elevator Titan fight in Batman Arkham Asylum. A tiny little room, a titan and more enemies than I can run around and fight. Died like 40 times before I beat it. I think what got me really angry was that the rest of the game was so good and that was the first time I wasn't having fun.

Took the words out of my mouth. I played on Hard too, I think I went over 50 retries. Although, now I'm having an easier time beating it after I learned how to abuse the AI.

Haha, exactly. I got so immersed into the rest of the game, but for that fight, I was running the enemies around in circles and taking advantage of all of every mechanical flaw I could.

I seem to only get angry at games I really like. I don't think I ever got mad at a game I already hated to begin with.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Just now.

37-4 on Wasteland.

Some **** ends the game right as we're about to win at 7400 points.

 

[Varun Garuda Maharaj]

Mission: The snow storm in GTA4

 

[Icehearted]

Gothic 3.
I actually spent 3 days looking for a fix for a glitch wherein a character I was supposed to meet up with was not present later on in the game. I had to put in a console command to summon myself to him only to find him strolling around in the middle of a forest and I had to escort him (I shit you not) for about 4 hours as he strolled very slowly to the spot where I was supposed to have met him, mind you prior to completing a quest I'd actually already completed anyway, only to watch him sit down and try telling me to complete the quest I'd finished days before, and he refused to open the dialogue I needed in order to continue because the quest was not repeatable. I then had to look for another way to get him to open the appropriate dialogue, again it required some deep digging, and finally got him to do what he was supposed to do. By then I hated the game, and I hated Piranha Bytes for actually charging money for this turd.

 

[Darth Pope]

Some of the sections where KOTOR II just out of the blue decides to make you play a solo section as a character you never use. God damned Atton...

 

[Hitman Grant]

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe... Me against a friend... me TRYING to do combo's of moves and them mashing on X... beating me into a corner by doing sweet fuck all...

FUCK THAT MOMENT!

 

[major28]

10 minutes into anygame that is heavy on the puzzles and ff7 where u had to find that key to enter the sleeping forest did not have a clue where that was and was trying to beat the game without gfaqs nad that ended there

 

[major28]

Two spring to mind: the favela level in MW2, and bringing down the Star Destroyer in Force Unleashed.

fuck that part of the game my thumbs were bleeding by the time i beet that part

 

[Schreck157]

Croatia in Command and Conqueror 3. The game was a cake walk even on the harder difficulties, but then you get sent to Europe and *bam* the game decides that it wants to bend you over a chair till your spine resembles a horseshoe. To this day I can't beat it, even tried it on easy.