Games that genuinely make you angry.
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Dead Rising. Love the idea, HATE the game. Everything is timed. Frank can't take a hit at all near the beginning (never got very far at all)
Dead Island. Love the game but I nearly rage quit like 3 times and might give up on the Ryder White dlc altogether. The game is clearly designed for multiplayer and I don't begrudge them that. But if the game CAN be played in Single-Player then it should be rebalanced for Single-Player. There are the exact same number of zombies with one person as there are with 4 according to my friend who has played it multiplayer.
Crackdown 2. Looked like fun. Big colorful city to stomp around in. Superpowered cop as a player character. Not a shred of plot or direction. bored to tears. Haven't played it in almost a year.
Dead Island. Love the game but I nearly rage quit like 3 times and might give up on the Ryder White dlc altogether. The game is clearly designed for multiplayer and I don't begrudge them that. But if the game CAN be played in Single-Player then it should be rebalanced for Single-Player. There are the exact same number of zombies with one person as there are with 4 according to my friend who has played it multiplayer.
Crackdown 2. Looked like fun. Big colorful city to stomp around in. Superpowered cop as a player character. Not a shred of plot or direction. bored to tears. Haven't played it in almost a year.
League of Legends. There isn't a single game I get through without raging.
I often wonder why I still play it.
I often wonder why I still play it.
Think you missed a couple of games there...DigitalAtlas said:
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I hear you man, I hear you...
(hand on shoulder and man-tears)
(EDIT: Unless you're a chick - that's cool too)
Mindjack; because it serves as an unpleasant reminder that the game industry will still spit out stinking piles of shit and think we will enjoy it.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
I was expecting it to have the same sense of humour and ridiculousness of Bad Company 1. It failed terribly in that respect. Campaign was pretty dull, too. It initiated me into the camp of disliking EA, and I frown at DICE for forgetting that humour is nice, too, you know.
I was expecting it to have the same sense of humour and ridiculousness of Bad Company 1. It failed terribly in that respect. Campaign was pretty dull, too. It initiated me into the camp of disliking EA, and I frown at DICE for forgetting that humour is nice, too, you know.
League of Legends can make me truly rage like nothing else. But that's because of my teammates. 70% of the time, my teammate is an immature piece of shit that can't play in team if his life depended on it and that flames the whole game.
It's not the game itself that makes me angry, it's the other people.
It's not the game itself that makes me angry, it's the other people.
FFX- I wanted to punch Tidus in the face every time he spoke. Plus, some of the sidequests were so terrible. I got to the very end, started trying to get all the best weapons and gave up. I had better things to do than dodge lighting 100 billion times, play that stupid Blitzball...thing...and win an impossible chocobo race.
Saints Row 2 and 3- Now, I love these games, but every now and then, they throw a very frustrating mission at you with multiple parts and if you mess up near the end, you have to start all over. Also, helicopter missions. HATE.
Finally, ME3 multiplayer when you get that upload data mission on wave 10, and you have to hold up in the one spot in the WHOLE DAMN MAP that is impossible to defend. This is especially frustrating when I get put with terrible players who have a habit of dying right away and leaving me alone to finish a mission.
Saints Row 2 and 3- Now, I love these games, but every now and then, they throw a very frustrating mission at you with multiple parts and if you mess up near the end, you have to start all over. Also, helicopter missions. HATE.
Finally, ME3 multiplayer when you get that upload data mission on wave 10, and you have to hold up in the one spot in the WHOLE DAMN MAP that is impossible to defend. This is especially frustrating when I get put with terrible players who have a habit of dying right away and leaving me alone to finish a mission.
Mother. Fucking. Skullgirls.
Why, you may ask? Is it because the game is fucking terrible?
Not in the slightest. Which is precisely my problem with it. Why must a game be so fun to play, and yet have matchmaking that is so goddamn terrible? Considering that I arrived at the Skullgirls online scene a fair bit later than the (seeming) majority of players, most everyone is much more highly ranked than myself.
This would actually provide me with a good experience if the game let me fucking play those guys. But no, I can only fight people at my tier, who are so goddamn few in number, I've waited upwards of half and hour waiting for a match before getting frustrated and moving on to Third Strike.
And on the rare occasion I actually get a match, it'll usually be with:
(a) someone far better than me, someone likely unfortunate enough to have had enough unlucky matches to get knocked down a tier, comes along and brutalizes me so thoroughly I don't actually learn anything, which knocks me down the tiers even further, limiting the matches I can participate in even more in the process.
(b) someone far worse than me comes along and poses no threat whatsoever, and I learn nothing.
(c) someone with what was supposed to be a pretty goddamn fantastic ping turns up, and yet the match lags so fucking much that actually playing is so goddamn difficult that I can't do anything.
In short, Skullgirls pisses me off for being so much fun while having the second worst online component I've ever played.
First worst was Mortal Kombat, but at least my friends would actually feel like playing that one on occasion, so the online wasn't an issue.
Why, you may ask? Is it because the game is fucking terrible?
Not in the slightest. Which is precisely my problem with it. Why must a game be so fun to play, and yet have matchmaking that is so goddamn terrible? Considering that I arrived at the Skullgirls online scene a fair bit later than the (seeming) majority of players, most everyone is much more highly ranked than myself.
This would actually provide me with a good experience if the game let me fucking play those guys. But no, I can only fight people at my tier, who are so goddamn few in number, I've waited upwards of half and hour waiting for a match before getting frustrated and moving on to Third Strike.
And on the rare occasion I actually get a match, it'll usually be with:
(a) someone far better than me, someone likely unfortunate enough to have had enough unlucky matches to get knocked down a tier, comes along and brutalizes me so thoroughly I don't actually learn anything, which knocks me down the tiers even further, limiting the matches I can participate in even more in the process.
(b) someone far worse than me comes along and poses no threat whatsoever, and I learn nothing.
(c) someone with what was supposed to be a pretty goddamn fantastic ping turns up, and yet the match lags so fucking much that actually playing is so goddamn difficult that I can't do anything.
In short, Skullgirls pisses me off for being so much fun while having the second worst online component I've ever played.
First worst was Mortal Kombat, but at least my friends would actually feel like playing that one on occasion, so the online wasn't an issue.
Actually, this was a thread about games that make you "genuinely angry" because they're bad, but mostly here all I'm seeing is rage-quitting.
What gives?
Here's my 2c:
KOTOR 2: What. The. Fuck.
Some wonderful ideas, nice setup, interesting story and then PTTHHHHHHHHHHHHT.
Starcraft : 15 years and a sequel later and they're STILL CHARGING 20 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR IT.
There's the closest thing to my rage-quit right there. I won't buy your stupid game.
What gives?
Here's my 2c:
KOTOR 2: What. The. Fuck.
Some wonderful ideas, nice setup, interesting story and then PTTHHHHHHHHHHHHT.
Starcraft : 15 years and a sequel later and they're STILL CHARGING 20 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR IT.
There's the closest thing to my rage-quit right there. I won't buy your stupid game.
Nearly gritted my teeth into oblivion to the tune of Dark Soul.
I was SO close to loving Mass Effect 3 but couldn't quite manage it, Mordin
way too early apart from anything else and then...well I didn't actually mind the ending so much as huge bloody non-sequitur with the illusive man right before it and the gaudy horrific effing cut scene right after it.
(mods, if complaining about ME3's ending now warrants an insta-ban; please spare me, I had no idea)
Saying WOW used to make me angry is slightly disingenuous as it wasn't the game so much as the people who inhabited it...
I was SO close to loving Mass Effect 3 but couldn't quite manage it, Mordin
dies
(mods, if complaining about ME3's ending now warrants an insta-ban; please spare me, I had no idea)
Saying WOW used to make me angry is slightly disingenuous as it wasn't the game so much as the people who inhabited it...
DotA/LoL any MOBA game, really.
You're at the mercy of other people; if your team sucks there is nothing you can do.
If your team doesn't suck, you can STILL fail due to competing egos and inter-team bickering.
And even if you do win, is it really worthwhile having people ***** at you the whole time, or fuck, even AFTER the game has ended?
Then lets move into wildly inconsistent gameplay whose difficulty swings between soul-crushing, "I Wanna Be the Guy" (not exaggerating one bit there. It really can be that difficult in places, and I've beat IWBTG.) and tedious.
Gate Stage 2 can suck my left nut, and Nightmare Mother can suck my right.
And the fucking Nightmare Effects...I want to strangle whoever thought it'd be a great idea to create an effect that shrouds 3/4ths of the screen in blackness in an already grieftastic platformer. Dumb luck is NOT legitimate difficulty, Capcom.
You're at the mercy of other people; if your team sucks there is nothing you can do.
If your team doesn't suck, you can STILL fail due to competing egos and inter-team bickering.
And even if you do win, is it really worthwhile having people ***** at you the whole time, or fuck, even AFTER the game has ended?
Yeah. Lets start off with a hasty retcon of X5's ending, because, it's not as though that was meant to conclude a series or something.DigitalAtlas said:
Then lets move into wildly inconsistent gameplay whose difficulty swings between soul-crushing, "I Wanna Be the Guy" (not exaggerating one bit there. It really can be that difficult in places, and I've beat IWBTG.) and tedious.
Gate Stage 2 can suck my left nut, and Nightmare Mother can suck my right.
And the fucking Nightmare Effects...I want to strangle whoever thought it'd be a great idea to create an effect that shrouds 3/4ths of the screen in blackness in an already grieftastic platformer. Dumb luck is NOT legitimate difficulty, Capcom.
I can't play fighting/ 1v1 games. Just can't. Especially Soul Calibur.
If people fucking chastise you in a game when you're new for using random button mashing and combo/grapple spam to win, but then you get beaten by people who do the same thing after you've taught yourself the correct combos, there's something fundamentally flawed with that game.
I just can't play 1v1. I get too frustrated and pissed off when the level of skill/cheap ass combo spam is so different between myself and another player, which makes the game lose all of its appeal to actually play.
However, my friends do ask me to create their characters whenever they want a new one, because I'm extremely meticulous on every detail of character creation when it exists. At least that part is enjoyable.
If people fucking chastise you in a game when you're new for using random button mashing and combo/grapple spam to win, but then you get beaten by people who do the same thing after you've taught yourself the correct combos, there's something fundamentally flawed with that game.
I just can't play 1v1. I get too frustrated and pissed off when the level of skill/cheap ass combo spam is so different between myself and another player, which makes the game lose all of its appeal to actually play.
However, my friends do ask me to create their characters whenever they want a new one, because I'm extremely meticulous on every detail of character creation when it exists. At least that part is enjoyable.
Deadly Premonition.
Fucking. Q. T. E. S.
Honestly, rocking the stick back and forth to run? Why can't I control myself? Then wouldn't it be more scary, as it's up to me and not a sub-parly designed pre-determined path? And... that fucking end boss. As a challenge, I used the machine-gun (as I think you do minimun damage with it, anyway, save the revolver, which doesn't do that much, anyway). God, what a fucking chore. I won't spoil anything, but it's so fucking hard to hit that son-of-a-***** doll of his.
Pokemon: Heart Gold.
I was using a LVL 92 Togekiss with Shadow Ball, Metrenome, Aura Sphere, and Fly on the new-game+ final boss... honestly - 11-levels above his highest level, and it was still really fucking hard. Eventually, I gave up and just spammed Aura Sphere, continually. And not even that worked out. Fuck you, Red.
Oblivion.
I'm two rooms away, I've closed and barricaded the door, and I've tooken all my clothes off to minimize sound, and I decide to take some food from the inn room. I take one (ONE) blackberry.
"STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM - YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW!"
Honstly, the stealth in that game is so... awful. It was alot better in Skyrim, and Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Honestly, that game was like a massive kick in the balls. Sure, afterwards, they apologized and got you a milkshake, but a kick in the balls is still a kick in the balls.
And Persona 4.
I remembered Persona 3 being very easy, because its combat system was unforgiving, but it was also very unforgiving to the enemies. Both of you would be scrambling on the floor like 2-turtles who are aiming to kill each other on their backs. Persona 3's combat system was designed to be a dick to both sides. But in Persona 4, you need to hit an enemy twice to Dizzy it with an attack that its weak to. This alters the system quite alot, and enemies in every odd dungeon in that game just didn't give enough experience. I'd find myself going to a previous dungeon to grind, and coming out more succesful.
Fucking. Q. T. E. S.
Honestly, rocking the stick back and forth to run? Why can't I control myself? Then wouldn't it be more scary, as it's up to me and not a sub-parly designed pre-determined path? And... that fucking end boss. As a challenge, I used the machine-gun (as I think you do minimun damage with it, anyway, save the revolver, which doesn't do that much, anyway). God, what a fucking chore. I won't spoil anything, but it's so fucking hard to hit that son-of-a-***** doll of his.
Pokemon: Heart Gold.
I was using a LVL 92 Togekiss with Shadow Ball, Metrenome, Aura Sphere, and Fly on the new-game+ final boss... honestly - 11-levels above his highest level, and it was still really fucking hard. Eventually, I gave up and just spammed Aura Sphere, continually. And not even that worked out. Fuck you, Red.
Oblivion.
I'm two rooms away, I've closed and barricaded the door, and I've tooken all my clothes off to minimize sound, and I decide to take some food from the inn room. I take one (ONE) blackberry.
"STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM - YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW!"
Honstly, the stealth in that game is so... awful. It was alot better in Skyrim, and Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Honestly, that game was like a massive kick in the balls. Sure, afterwards, they apologized and got you a milkshake, but a kick in the balls is still a kick in the balls.
And Persona 4.
I remembered Persona 3 being very easy, because its combat system was unforgiving, but it was also very unforgiving to the enemies. Both of you would be scrambling on the floor like 2-turtles who are aiming to kill each other on their backs. Persona 3's combat system was designed to be a dick to both sides. But in Persona 4, you need to hit an enemy twice to Dizzy it with an attack that its weak to. This alters the system quite alot, and enemies in every odd dungeon in that game just didn't give enough experience. I'd find myself going to a previous dungeon to grind, and coming out more succesful.
