GRAAARG frustration!

[SirPlindington]

Alright, children, gather round 'cos it's story time. A long, long time ago, when the universe was young and the First Life had yet to be brought into nascence by the Ancient Ones, I was playing Dishonored. It was the Flooded District bit, which I hate enough on its own, and I was going for a full pacifist run. I thought it was all going well, and I reached the end and breathed a sigh of relief (metaphorically, of course. I know you can't breath in the Mist-Which-Is-Known-As-Time). And then the little report box comes up. You know how it does. With my million eyes I gazed at the stars which made up my screen, and noted with a sadness that would bring about the genesis of thought and emotion as we know it that he little diamondy-doodad next to "Didn't kill anyone" wasn't checked. And now I have to play that whole damn level over again (Yes, I know, save early, save often, but I didn't so shut your face).

ANYWAY! Point being, Graaarg frustration! Tell me about all of your frustrating game experiences, or at least the ones that really stood out as being incredibly frustrating. I crave knowledge. I subsist on thought. Your words are like bread, and you tears are my butter. Vent, child. VENT.

 

[thesilentman]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

 

[ShinyCharizard]

The final world of Super Meat Boy. Holy shit you don't know true frustration until you try to get 100% on those levels.

 

[daveman247]

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Haha, you gotta be careful where you leave the sleeping bodies No high ledges, no rats.


I had a very similar experiance just today even. Im currently re-playing hitman absolution (shush i liked it) doing all of the challenges which i missed first time though. On a chapter called "attack of the saints" there is a challenge called "angel of death". On the second version of this challange you have to kill every single guard and target, no alerts and no suspicion/ bodies found.


I did it after about an hour and a halfs worth of play (the chapter is split into three levels.) No challenge pop. I definitely did it correctly.

Turns out you can use no checkpoints at all (even the autosaves at the beginning of each level.) So you have to kill about 50 people without getting spotted etc in one go, no mistakes otherwise back to the start of the chapter.

God damn it. Well a challenge is a challenge i guess XD

 

[daveman247]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

I'm guessing you are trying to do it solo? I tried that and gave up. Hired help, much easier.

 

[SirPlindington]

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Haha, you gotta be careful where you leave the sleeping bodies No high ledges, no rats.

Well, damn. That's probably it. I remember seeing someone falling off the top of a building after I hit them with a dart, but I thought I'd reloaded the save. Oh well. I'll be more careful next time.

 

[daveman247]

Well, damn. That's probably it. I remember seeing someone falling off the top of a building after I hit them with a dart, but I thought I'd reloaded the save. Oh well. I'll be more careful next time.

Yeah i did the same thing, but luckily realised soon after. I just starting hiding all the bodies in bins, in nice neat piles. Boy are they gonna be confused once they awake XD

 

[SirPlindington]

Well, damn. That's probably it. I remember seeing someone falling off the top of a building after I hit them with a dart, but I thought I'd reloaded the save. Oh well. I'll be more careful next time.

Yeah i did the same thing, but luckily realised soon after. I just starting hiding all the bodies in bins, in nice neat piles. Boy are they gonna be confused once they awake XD

I don't know about you, but I always find a bit of guilty joy in arranging the bodies in compromising positions. Just because. What do you do when the bins aren't around?

 

[thesilentman]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

I'm guessing you are trying to do it solo? I tried that and gave up. Hired help, much easier.

Yes, as my Internet is quite spotty and I quite like that feeling of when you beat a boss like that. Solo is how I roll. I've also been the unfortunate victim of organized troll attacks (for some asinine reason), so I just called it quits and went on an offline run.

 

[daveman247]

I don't know about you, but I always find a bit of guilty joy in arranging the bodies in compromising positions. Just because. What do you do when the bins aren't around?

Ha, i draw the line at that

eh, any dark corner will do. Or a VERY flat ledge on a roof. You can still get ghost/ pacifist and have bodies found. Just like in metal gear, the guards just figure they are "sleeping on the job". And kick them. You just have to hide yourself really.

 

[daveman247]

Yes, as my Internet is quite spotty and I quite like that feeling of when you beat a boss like that. Solo is how I roll. I've also been the unfortunate victim of organized troll attacks (for some asinine reason), so I just called it quits and went on an offline run.

Damn, bad luck. I've never had such problems with the game luckily. Everybody i hired to help did so very well

The only time I was trolled was when I was invading someone else game... can't really complain XD

 

[The Wykydtron]

Well when you get to the final boss in any character's story mode in BlazBlue CS:EX, you're hoping Hazama doesn't decide to drop his Unlimited verion on you.

"Restriction 666 released...."

Oh fuck off!

Such a cheap power up... His Heat bar fills up over time and being next to him drains your damn health bar without him even touching you. He gets more damage and maybe speed I assume as well.

Random supers by the AI are bullshit. Eternal Coils of the Dragon Serpent is NOT meant to be spammable!

Oh and pretty much anything that happens online. I'm just bad at every character and everyone else is actually decent. If I have to be against a Jin or Ragna then it's literally Training Mode Online where the dummy maybe moves a bit.

I just pick Hazama now because he's hilarious and better yet I never lose. Technically anyway. Hazama wins everything even when he loses, it's actually canon XD

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

Ah.

Welcome to the club.

Welcome to Dark Souls

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Enjoy.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

I'm guessing you are trying to do it solo? I tried that and gave up. Hired help, much easier.

Aye,

but solo is so much more rewarding once you wrap your ahead around the problem at hand and come up with a satisfying solution making you feel like a bad ass, all without handing you any bad ass points to allocate like some other games do. It's all about the gear and your mastery of every little subsystem involved.

That's why I love DOTA/LOL, and it's why I love Dark Souls.

You can go for 'easy mode' human helpers, at the risk of getting invaded. The option is always there. You can organically adapt your style or rethink your approach at any given point in the game. My rogue ended up with a ton of magic skills because I accidentally killed the poison dagger merchant and life was harsh. I wouldn't even know of what to call a magic wielding rogue. Spelldagger? It was fun to play, though!

Some decisions you'll have to stick with until new game plus. Some decisions you'll have to stick with for the rest of your player character tamagotchi number one. Go make another one, they're free. I love it.

 

[Ickorus]

Forest Hunter Covenant in Dark Souls is pretty rage-inducing at times, it's essentially where high level douchebags go to kill unsuspecting low-level Forest Hunter Covenanters.

And trust me, they're douchebags because they know full well that most of the people that will invade them will be low level newbies on their first run of the game who just joined the covenant.

 

[SweetShark]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

I think I am the only one I manage to defeat them with ONE try!!!
Of course I had the help of a Summon, but even then, it was a hard fight.........but I win in the end.

 

[endnuen]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

Look forward to bed of chaos then...
Single most frustrating thing in gaming history.

 

[Beat14]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

Look forward to bed of chaos then...
Single most frustrating thing in gaming history.

For the bed of chaos quit after you destroy each orb thing, when entering the game again you will spawn outside the fog gate with the orb you destroyed still destroyed (ofc). Saves so much time and probably so much rage.

Smough and Ornstein ain't to bad if you can move quick. Smough takes bleed damage. If you go against super Ornstein stay close/under him. Use the pillars to slow one of them down or both.

 

[endnuen]

I'm currently at Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls. Repeat after me children!

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Fuck those two. Okay, more Lightning Smough, but still. DAMN THOSE TWO BASTARDS!!

Look forward to bed of chaos then...
Single most frustrating thing in gaming history.

For the bed of chaos quit after you destroy each orb thing, when entering the game again you will spawn outside the fog gate with the orb you destroyed still destroyed (ofc). Saves so much time and probably so much rage.

Smough and Ornstein ain't to bad if you can move quick. Smough takes bleed damage. If you go against super Ornstein stay close/under him. Use the pillars to slow one of them down or both.

Oh I know. Sunk at least 80 hours into that game I believe. You can snipe the left twig after you slap the right, and just keep to the wall back and make a small jump. The tricky part is the middle, not getting slapped down the middle hole by the sweeping hands or roll off the small path you have to land on.. some times you kill it on the first try, other times it kills you 10 times in a row..
Also centipede demon, just annoying..

 

[Beat14]

Look forward to bed of chaos then...
Single most frustrating thing in gaming history.

For the bed of chaos quit after you destroy each orb thing, when entering the game again you will spawn outside the fog gate with the orb you destroyed still destroyed (ofc). Saves so much time and probably so much rage.

Smough and Ornstein ain't to bad if you can move quick. Smough takes bleed damage. If you go against super Ornstein stay close/under him. Use the pillars to slow one of them down or both.

Oh I know. Sunk at least 80 hours into that game I believe. You can snipe the left twig after you slap the right, and just keep to the wall back and make a small jump. The tricky part is the middle, not getting slapped down the middle hole by the sweeping hands or roll off the small path you have to land on.. some times you kill it on the first try, other times it kills you 10 times in a row..
Also centipede demon, just annoying..

I didn't know about that. The best I've ever done the bed of chaos was with one death, god know how many times I died on my worst run through. I normally don't find the last stage of the bed of chaos to bad, I've only ever died on it once. May just be luck, but I've killed the thing at least 4-5 times.

The most frustrating thing for me in dark souls was when I swapped to using a strength character for the first time after using 7 dex/dex+int builds. Can't stress how much I despise the dogs, the normal ones in the lower undead burg. I guess I rage so much because I know normally I don't have an issue with them. Impatience is a killer :d