Games that genuinely make you angry.
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Hmm...I would say Half Life, but that game doesn't make my angry. Just confused as to why people like it so much. I think it's a pile of crap that's directly ripped off of Goldeneye's gameplay.
Now, as for a game that actually makes me angry...that's a toughie. It takes a lot to get me hyped for a game; I'm rather cynical, and I tend not to get a game unless I know whether or not it got a good review by other people...
Around a year down the line.
I do buy some sequels faithfully mainly because I liked the prequel (Borderlands and Borderlands 2 for example). But I would have to say the game I hated would be Fable.
Fable just...it promised SO much, and it didn't deliver on ANY of it. Oh sure, on it's own, not a bad game (even if I could finish it and all the sidequests in six hours). But the fact it was such a let-down, and one that I paid $50 for just pissed me off when I first bought it. Then again, I was only upset 'cause I felt like I wasted my money; and due to the fact everyone else seemed to have the same problems, GameStop refused to give me a refund even though I turned it back in, same-day and even with the box and instruction manual still in pristine condition.
So now I here I sit with this charred, melted, acid-holed wreckage of a game. Admittedly, destroying it with a mixture of setting it on fire and using some acid on it was rather...liberating. Now if only it was Peter Molyneaux's face...
Now, as for a game that actually makes me angry...that's a toughie. It takes a lot to get me hyped for a game; I'm rather cynical, and I tend not to get a game unless I know whether or not it got a good review by other people...
Around a year down the line.
I do buy some sequels faithfully mainly because I liked the prequel (Borderlands and Borderlands 2 for example). But I would have to say the game I hated would be Fable.
Fable just...it promised SO much, and it didn't deliver on ANY of it. Oh sure, on it's own, not a bad game (even if I could finish it and all the sidequests in six hours). But the fact it was such a let-down, and one that I paid $50 for just pissed me off when I first bought it. Then again, I was only upset 'cause I felt like I wasted my money; and due to the fact everyone else seemed to have the same problems, GameStop refused to give me a refund even though I turned it back in, same-day and even with the box and instruction manual still in pristine condition.
So now I here I sit with this charred, melted, acid-holed wreckage of a game. Admittedly, destroying it with a mixture of setting it on fire and using some acid on it was rather...liberating. Now if only it was Peter Molyneaux's face...
I want to shit on any multiplayer game that isn't oriented to be either
A. Bunch of players team up to fight AI (a la Bulletstorm)
B. TF2
C. Ass Creed
So there,I've had my share of multiplayer in my CoD and Halo days. Mind you getting to skill 32 and only having 120+XP in Halo 3 was mostly not fun at all for me.
A. Bunch of players team up to fight AI (a la Bulletstorm)
B. TF2
C. Ass Creed
So there,I've had my share of multiplayer in my CoD and Halo days. Mind you getting to skill 32 and only having 120+XP in Halo 3 was mostly not fun at all for me.
Oh dead god, I remember that. So horribly, horribly rage inducing, especially as i had a habit of using freighters earlier on for the vast amount of guns.TLS14 said:
OT: N3: 99 nights. Voice acting. Baaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddddd.
Also, theres a damned giant frog guy to have to fight in several missions. His sword slash - which is a quick attack and he is invincible while doing so - takes off just over half a health bar. Generally you can't block because you are just coming out an attack and you are not invincible while attacking. Most of the time he blocks your attacks anyway.
And then with only a small chance of getting health, you have to kill a bunch more dudes and various goblins before fighting
Damned N3.
If you have a PSP, you should pick up P3 portable, I consider it the definitive version to own. Not only is there a whole second campaign as a female character, they fixed up so many things including the ability to have total control over all party members. Seriously that fact alone made it the definitive version for me, and led to me picking up the persona trilogy on PSP as they all have improvements over the originals. I do not have enough patience to wait for P4 Golden, I plan on picking up a Vita only because of that game's release.SpaceBat said:
LittleBigPlanet 2 is one of the most enjoyable experiences ever. Trying to beat each level without dying makes me want to destroy all the things.
Mostly the Witcher series.
Bad vo, bad facial animation, bad UI, poorly done combat, and most importantly a defined character who goes beyond being a mere marty stu.
Bloody hell I beat the first one, but after wiping over and over again I gave up and uninstalled.
And no its not THE BEST MOST WONDERFUL RPG EVER.
You can think that, but I just found it to be ripping off every other fantasy/fairy tale and adding grimderp.
I hated playing, and I find it laughable when people come running to its defense like its the second coming.
I know this is very YMMV but honestly I am pissed off that I lost friends over this simply for not liking it. "YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND IT MAN ITS TOO DEEP FOR YOU"
Bad vo, bad facial animation, bad UI, poorly done combat, and most importantly a defined character who goes beyond being a mere marty stu.
Bloody hell I beat the first one, but after wiping over and over again I gave up and uninstalled.
And no its not THE BEST MOST WONDERFUL RPG EVER.
You can think that, but I just found it to be ripping off every other fantasy/fairy tale and adding grimderp.
I hated playing, and I find it laughable when people come running to its defense like its the second coming.
I know this is very YMMV but honestly I am pissed off that I lost friends over this simply for not liking it. "YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND IT MAN ITS TOO DEEP FOR YOU"
Super Meat Boy is, without a doubt, the most fucking annoying game I've ever bought! The beginning couple of worlds weren't so bad and was actually very satisfying to complete but then, when you go to hell, the game goes; "looks like your having WAY to much fun there, lets take care of that with incredibly difficult, rage inducing levels. Lol, people will love this!" Fuck that game, fuck it hard!
World of Warcraft - Fucking kids and their dumbshit rogues and Blizzard's ineptitude or cowardice to properly balance the stupid class.
Super Mario 64 - Mario's voice + fire = tossed game cartridge every time. God I hate Mario now and I grew up with him being a video game icon.
Also, I did toss my PS3 controller trying to do the "Don't get cocky, kid" trophy on the original Dead Space. Once I got it it became one of those "My god, never again" kind of things though other than that one rough patch, I enjoyed the game thoroughly.
Super Mario 64 - Mario's voice + fire = tossed game cartridge every time. God I hate Mario now and I grew up with him being a video game icon.
Also, I did toss my PS3 controller trying to do the "Don't get cocky, kid" trophy on the original Dead Space. Once I got it it became one of those "My god, never again" kind of things though other than that one rough patch, I enjoyed the game thoroughly.
MW3. Because the campain is so. Fucking. Stupid. I just... It's so freakin' insane. The multiplayer is... alright, and the spec ops is pretty fun, but the campain... Jesus.
One mission, a guy i was supposed to be following got angry becasue I wasn't directly behind him, so he shouted the exact same line OVER AND OVER for 10 minutes straight, while i searched for intel. With the exact same inflection. It really started grating.
One mission, a guy i was supposed to be following got angry becasue I wasn't directly behind him, so he shouted the exact same line OVER AND OVER for 10 minutes straight, while i searched for intel. With the exact same inflection. It really started grating.
This, although the one game that really angers me is one I haven't played, and will never play. That would be Homefront. It just feels to me like the shooter genre is becoming the new refuge for jingoistic macho fantasies about grizzled one-man armies who happen to be experts with all guns, and less about actual team play and proficiency. Homefront is one of the more thematically egregious examples, but it's all over the Battlefield and CoD franchises, too.MMSouthpawVIII said:
I'm just sick and tired of shooting at natives of Genericistan, at Nazis, zombies or mean green mothers from outer space; and seeing that this is the best-selling genre in the market and the best franchises in said market? That just makes me want to hang my head.
As broken as it was, Brink was some welcomed relief from all that, and there's always Team Fortress 2.
Of course Binding of Isaac is possible with Eve. Whether you can complete the game is a combination of 2 things: How good you are at combatting enemies in a certain room and luck. You can have runs where you get so many good items that synergise well that turn you into a monster and other runs where you get total crap and barely pick up any keys so you have to skip locked rooms.lacktheknack said:
Super Street Fighter IV on the 3DS does annoy me when I fight cheap cunts online. Oh what's that? You've got 28000 BP and 4000 PP as Honda? Well I'm sure this guy won't abuse the Lite controls to spam his-**** **** **** FUCKING DICKHEAD COCKSUCKING FUCKWIT.
That's not as bad as most other fighting games however, as SF4 is pretty merciful on the combos and juggling. I played maybe 15 minutes of SF v Tekken with a friend and gave up on it. Combos are just a way of letting skilled and experienced players punish newbies.
Up until a recent patch fixed it, Battlefield 3 had an extremely bad rubberbanding problem that would cause your character to stop every few seconds while on foot and would shake the screen around while in an aircraft, making it impossible to properly aim at targets. The fact that it was happening for so many months, that I got no help from EA/DICE's tech support and that the same issue occured with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 drove me to just stop playing until it was fixed, months after it began.
And Mass Effect 3's ending pissed me off too. I've pretty much concluded that the indoctrination theory is the only way you can justify that mess of a conclusion to the story of Mass Effect, but that it's also not an ending. And when you ship a game that heavily focuses on story without an ending, your a fucking moron of a developer, no matter how artsy you were trying to be.
Oh, Duke Nukem Forever. Foolishly paid full price, even pre-ordered it on Steam, and they didn't have the common decency to give the suckers who forked out top dollar for it any kind of compensation for that turd of a game. If The Witcher 2 can give me it's DLC for free, why the fuck couldn't you Gearbox?
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, though only in retrospective as it works now. The game can be notoriously arsey to get working in Windows 7.
ORION: Dino Crisis and Magicka both share the "We may be a tiny small developer but that doesn't give us an excuse to treat our first customers as the game's beta testers" award. Loved Magicka, bought the DLC when it was on sale even though I haven't played the game in months, but the netcode was just absymal when it came out. Though this was quickly rectified by a very quick and steady stream of patches and updates, which ORION is doing as well.
Minecraft's lack of a built-in way to stop X-rayers. That shit kills any attempt to hide things on Miner Apocalypse.
League of Legends. Not the game, just the players. Well, some of them.
1. Mass Effect 3- I fucking hate fighting the last Marauder Shields on Insane difficulty before the beam. I mean I died and had to go through the cut-scene around 8 or 9 times until I checked on YouTube for a walk through.
2. Any fighting game multi-player. I am not good I get it but after practising for hours on end on SoulCalibur V I still get raped by a button masher I get annoyed like hell. Oh also Shao Kahn (sp?) in Mortal Kombat-the last one. His moves are so cheap I can barely et close enough to him before he hammer rapes me.
3. Indigo Prophecy's dodgy PC controls where you had to press the coloured buttons at the same time really quick to get through fights etc.
4.Wet- Biggest waste of my money ever!
2. Any fighting game multi-player. I am not good I get it but after practising for hours on end on SoulCalibur V I still get raped by a button masher I get annoyed like hell. Oh also Shao Kahn (sp?) in Mortal Kombat-the last one. His moves are so cheap I can barely et close enough to him before he hammer rapes me.
3. Indigo Prophecy's dodgy PC controls where you had to press the coloured buttons at the same time really quick to get through fights etc.
4.Wet- Biggest waste of my money ever!
Team fortress HATES me. It's the only possible explanation i can find.
A ping of 40 and a server latency of 34. In the middle of every battle, at the worst possible moment,I lag. It's just a stutter of 0.5 seconds but it's always in those 0.5 seconds that a crocket decides to head for my face, A spy appears, a heavy-medic combo happens, a sniper.
It all leads to my character standing around like a ponce and getting blown to bits.
It is so bad that it really isn't believable anymore. It all sounds like excuses but it's the sad, SAD, truth.
Fortunately it started subsiding now.
I can actually get somewhere without lagging at the worst possible moment.
A ping of 40 and a server latency of 34. In the middle of every battle, at the worst possible moment,I lag. It's just a stutter of 0.5 seconds but it's always in those 0.5 seconds that a crocket decides to head for my face, A spy appears, a heavy-medic combo happens, a sniper.
It all leads to my character standing around like a ponce and getting blown to bits.
It is so bad that it really isn't believable anymore. It all sounds like excuses but it's the sad, SAD, truth.
Fortunately it started subsiding now.
I can actually get somewhere without lagging at the worst possible moment.
The War of the Worlds game that came out on XBLA a few months ago got me pretty frustrated. I'm kind of a huge WOTW nerd, so the crapiness of this game was a massive disappointment to me. For the first half hour or so, I was enamored with the game, but as I played I realized the game was completely broken.
The controls were sluggish and your character had the reaction time of a sloth. Checkpoints only worked half the time. There were instant deaths that were completely unpredictable (for instance, a 12 foot wall that clearly provided cover would only protect you from the heat ray if you crouched down behind it. A twelve-foot wall only protected you if you crouched behind it). And if it wasn't hard enough, it was riddled with game-breaking glitches. It was supposed to be "Old-school hard", but if this game is their definition of hardcore, then call me a casual.
It nailed the atmosphere and theme of WOTW so well, the fact that the game itself was so broken was soul-crushing.
The controls were sluggish and your character had the reaction time of a sloth. Checkpoints only worked half the time. There were instant deaths that were completely unpredictable (for instance, a 12 foot wall that clearly provided cover would only protect you from the heat ray if you crouched down behind it. A twelve-foot wall only protected you if you crouched behind it). And if it wasn't hard enough, it was riddled with game-breaking glitches. It was supposed to be "Old-school hard", but if this game is their definition of hardcore, then call me a casual.
It nailed the atmosphere and theme of WOTW so well, the fact that the game itself was so broken was soul-crushing.
