Games that genuinely make you angry.

[gigastar]

Well, when you get hit by thier arrows they cause a rediculous ammount of knockback even on block. Given that youre walking across narrow walkways where getting touched means instant death by fall damage, its one part people really dont like having to go through more times than is nessesary.

I got an easy solution to that. Equip shield, walk up to knight, laugh as he falls off the ledge.

Odd, one time when i tried that he kept shooting arrows until i was close enough to poke him with my spear, in which case he was still shooting at me.

I know that they change weapons, its just that sometimes they seem to not feel like it.

Speaking of which the times when they changed weapon and ended with me having to poke them to death vastly outnumber the times that they made a fatal backhop.

 

[gigastar]

Well, when you get hit by thier arrows they cause a rediculous ammount of knockback even on block. Given that youre walking across narrow walkways where getting touched means instant death by fall damage, its one part people really dont like having to go through more times than is nessesary.

I got an easy solution to that. Equip shield, walk up to knight, laugh as he falls off the ledge.

Odd, one time when i tried that he kept shooting arrows until i was close enough to poke him with my spear, in which case he was still shooting at me.

I know that they change weapons, its just that sometimes they seem to not feel like it.

Speaking of which the times when they changed weapon and ended with me having to poke them to death vastly outnumber the times that they made a fatal backhop.

You need a big enough shield so it will knock his attacks back. Plus it also helps if you give him a little nudge with it as well.

Im aware of that, ever since greatshields got buffed i use the Eagle Shield, which also happens to be the first greatshield available in the game, the lightest greatshield in the game and the lowest strength requirement of any greatshield so far all at once.

Anyway its pretty effective, but it still doesnt ward off all of the knockback, so i make do on the approach by rolling under the arrows, then when i rach the ledge the sniper on the left is blocked from view by a buttress and its pretty much a straight path to the one on the right.

All in all though, that section could have been worse. And Smough + Ornsiten and Dark Sun Gwyndolin are definitely worse than they are.

 

[Nicolle]

Jak 3 and Jak X are much better than Jak 2... Jak X is mostly racing.

 

[sageoftruth]

Fallout 2 seems perfect for this thread, not because of the game quality, but the constant probabilities can make it pretty rage-inducing when an enemy scores two critical hits on you or when you miss an important attack when your character has a 95% chance of hitting. Now how rarely it happens, it always feels like it shouldn't have happened when it does.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Uncharted 3 Multiplayer.

Fuck any person that does that cheap "Run at someone firing an Uzi and then hit them once for an instant kill" move.

Also fuck anybody that:

-Starts jumping and rolling around when you shoot at them making it mind-numbingly hard to hit them
-Jump-shoots with the shotgun or rocket launcher
-Uses any of the skeleton skins

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Morrowind

Journal


Holy sh*t how i loathe it, it is damn near impossible to use at times and other times it keeps finished quests in the active quest list

And i can never find my way to the dude with the X
Sometimes it just does not have the info and other times it is so vague that it is useless

So i run around in circles like i am lost IRL on a foreign island
Which is kind of amusing

 

[Matt Dellar]

Hammerfall. Not because it's a bad game, but because it's so unfair and there's no way to backtrack or play custom matches.

The thing that really irks me about is the hammerball mode. It's essentially basketball with horizontal, slightly larger hoops, and the players are steampunk flying mechs with hammers. Now, it starts off okay in the campaign mode when you play against a single opponent, but then you have to play against two. One can effectively check your movement and the other can happily slide the ball into your goal. One of them starts up near where the ball drops while you start a lot farther away.

Also, in duel matches, you lose honor for hitting a disarmed opponent. Well, that's a bit stupid when "has stupidly overpowered gun, but no melee weapon" counts as disarmed. Also, enemies almost never pick up their weapons after you disarm them unless you guide them down to it. Then there are maps with infinite holes in the bottom where enemies can lose their weapons, then sit around just under your weapon's range, not letting the match end.

Glitches in the campaign mode can and will break the game, not letting you progress or, in bad cases, not even get a second into the level before the AI kills itself and forces a restart, complete with unskippable cutscene.

It's frustrating. Extremely so. The worst part is, it's actually a really fun game with unique mechanics that could have been many times better.

 

[laggyteabag]

Call of Duty - Not because its a bad game, its just how successful it is compared to other, better games, even though very little changes.

Dead Rising - Every mission is on a timer, and it gets repetitive.

 

[devilofthemist]

Did I make my point yet?

ehh not quite mate, maybe try a bit harder

 

[Generalissimo]

modern warfare 2, the whole "no russian" guff offended me very literally, when playing it at a friends, i can put my actions in a simple list:

1. start mission,.
2. makarov starts genocide
3. turn off game
4. walk home
5. drink 2 bottles of WKD and go to bed early....06:40M

IT OFFENDED ME THAT ***ING BADLY.

 

[SuperSamio64]

Red Dead Revolver, when I was trying to beat Mr. Black. Son of a *****.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I don't think there's really any one game in particular that makes me RAAAAGE, but there are definitely sections of otherwise decent or good games that make me pretty angry.

The first one that jumped to mind was Call of Duty: Black Ops. It was my first time playing the game, I was on Veteran difficulty, and I was on the mission where you're hopping from rooftop to rooftop in China. At the very end of that level you're climbing down a fire escape, slide down an awning or something, then end up on the ground with your sidearm in front of you and seven or eight enemies in front of you. You have to crawl forward to grab your sidearm, then take out all the enemies to move on. There's no cover, you have no access to grenades or other weapons. If you miss or fail to kill one of the enemies and have to reload, you're almost certainly dead and have to do the whole thing over again. Success at that part on Veteran difficulty seems to be as much about luck as it is about skill. Pissed me right the hell off.

 

[Niishke]

Hitogata Happa [http://store.steampowered.com/app/92210/]

I pre-ordered Hitogata Happa on Steam because I'm one of those incorrigible freaks that actually likes arcade shooters. It was allegedly very well received in Japan and I was looking forward to some games that aren't cheap Geometry Wars cash-ins from western indie developers.

Everything about it was so infuriatingly terrible that I couldn't even physically control my anger. The gameplay was impossibly obtuse, even with the game's PDF instruction manual available for download, and the parts I did understand were retarded. Nothing in the manual seemed to correspond to anything that was happening in the game. The controls were horrible, the hit detection was weird and the game was so impossible even on the easiest difficulty setting that I couldn't even finish the first level.

At first I tried to enjoy it. Then I tried to understand it. Then I kept playing purely out of spite. I wasn't going to let this horrific shitpile beat me. I would make myself enjoy it if it was the last thing I ever did.

Two hours later I had to uninstall the game and step away from my computer for the rest of the day because I was starting to rage-cry and I had cuts on my hands from furiously pounding at anything in arm's reach.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Demons' Souls: "Oh, Herp, I'm a super hardcore game! You HAVE to play me! Being hard is FUN! Derp!"

I might be good at pattern recognition, that shit is just fucking unfair. You have to memorize every inch of every corner of every level and know which enemies are where at ALL FUCKING TIMES to be able to get ahead.

Oh, and you used up your Turpentine on the big knight fellas in the first level? You can't beat Phalanx for shit? Well, FUUUUCK YOOOOOU, player, for being some sort of casual try-hard piece of human excrement; we only accept the hardest of the hardcore, here.

And I bought the Collector's Edition, for chrissakes. I have the soundtrack, the freaking strategy guide, I've watched three Let's Plays, and I still suck donkey balls. There's hard and then there's "Made By and For Stereotypical Over-Achieving Asian Gamers".

In contrast, I can get ahead in Dark Souls just fine.

I mean, Demons' Souls has been out for, what, two years now? I HAVEN'T FINISHED THE FIRST LEVEL YET!

/me curls into a little ball and wails

Sid Meier's Pirates: sure, the initial difficulty levels make for a nice, casual challenge. Ramp things up a little, however, and sword fights become next-to-impossible.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution: so you got suckered into changing your chip and your augmentations are all wonky, now. To make matters worse, you have to face down Jaron Namir. Got the preorder mission pack? Awesome, you earn a cumbersome rocket launcher that takes up half of your vanilla inventory's space! Three rockets to the Israeli's face and he's down. Better yet, Typhoon his ass and call it a day!

Oh, but you *didn't* get the rocket launcher? Well, fuck you, then, because you'll have to spend the next twenty minutes to a half hour jerking around in the hopes of getting some kind of decent bead on him. Think you can mêlée him? Well, yeah, you can; but your window of opportunity is more narrow than Callista Flockheart's waistline.

It's feasible, but you'll die a lot just to get your strategy into shape.

Batman Arkham City: the Joker and his snipers.

The Joker and his snipers.

THE. JOKER. AND. HIS. SNIPERS.

/me slips his head inside a cardboard box and screams

And finally...

Team Fortress 2: I don't have any problems with the game itself; it's all impeccably balanced. Vanilla players will hold their own against someone with a berjillion unlocks just fine.

Nope, my one big beef is with mic-spammers. I don't care how awesome "The Big Lebowski" was, I don't want to hear overly loud Jeff Bridges or John Goodman quotes while I'm trying to line up a shot.

For God's sake, people, have a shred of decency, here! Some of us are trying to be decent team assets, circle-jerking around spray-painting trollfaces wasn't in my plans!

 

[I-Protest-I]

Bulletstorm, purely because I can sense greatness but it's somewhere deep down past the dick and fart jokes.

Oh and pressing A to jump over an obstacle when you run with that button so I end up mashing it 5 times just to go over a 2 foot wall.

 

[vrbtny]

Fire Emblem.... Just fucking Fire Emblem!!

Trying to play through a whole campaign without loosing a single character just takes so much..... anger to contain.....

ARGGGGGGGGGGGg

 

[DirgeNovak]

Demon's Souls, Final Fantasy XIII, Onimusha 1 and several other games in which the excessive difficulty is only caused by the game exploting shit controls. I mentioned Onimusha because that one pissed me off enough to eject the disc and shatter it on a wall.

There's also, to a lesser extent, L.A. Noire, or more specifically that bit in which the game forces you to charge one of two suspects even though you know for a fact that none of them is guilty. And the end of the homicide section, in which you learn that

Spoiler

none of the people you arrested while in homicide were actually guilty. Fuck. You.

I basically bought the game for the homicide desk cases, and they pull that shit?! I'm fucking glad Bondi went out of business.

 

[EvilMaggot]

Everyone said Darksouls is awesome... so i reckoned.. hmm should try Demon's Souls first... got to the black knight with the insanely long polearm.. killed me 5 times.. havent played it since thats 1½ month ago.. it pissed me off soooo much those games are not for me ^^

 

[Tomeran]

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.
The developers must've been smoking funny stuff when they designed that crap, not to mention its sequel. Worst part though is that it soiled OP:Flashpoints good name.
The massive letdown when I noticed that the new game held -nothing- on the older title can almost be compared to the ME3 ending "wtf is this?!-IgottapinchmyselfsoIcangetoutof thisnightmareOHGODITSNOTWORKINGIMNOTDREAMINGAAARGH!"-scenario.

 

[Woodsey]

modern warfare 2, the whole "no russian" guff offended me very literally, when playing it at a friends, i can put my actions in a simple list:

1. start mission,.
2. makarov starts genocide
3. turn off game
4. walk home
5. drink 2 bottles of WKD and go to bed early....06:40M

IT OFFENDED ME THAT ***ING BADLY.

Indeed, someone drinking WKD is ludicrously offensi- ...Oh. Why did that offend you, exactly?

Deus Ex: Human Revolution: so you got suckered into changing your chip and your augmentations are all wonky, now. To make matters worse, you have to face down Jaron Namir. Got the preorder mission pack? Awesome, you earn a cumbersome rocket launcher that takes up half of your vanilla inventory's space! Three rockets to the Israeli's face and he's down. Better yet, Typhoon his ass and call it a day!

Oh, but you *didn't* get the rocket launcher? Well, fuck you, then, because you'll have to spend the next twenty minutes to a half hour jerking around in the hopes of getting some kind of decent bead on him. Think you can mêlée him? Well, yeah, you can; but your window of opportunity is more narrow than Callista Flockheart's waistline.

There are, at least, Gatling guns and laser rifles around the room and just before. But yeah, he does require a bit of luck to defeat.