Is there a game that pissed you off so much that you stopped playing it?

[blood77]

Final Fantasy Tactics.

I got stuck fighting a boss that was really effective against my character late in the game and I had made my character the tank. So I had to restart the game, change my birthday to something else,and for good measure made him a long range character instead of front line.

 

[Whobajube]

Never stopped playing because the game actually pissed me off... but I have stopped playing games because I, or someone else, did something incredibly stupid that pissed me off. Playing an RPG or an Adventure type of game, making some good progress, getting pretty far in the game, and somebody trips on the cord, or accidentally touches the console the wrong way (more for oldschool N64 SNES days) and the game freezes, leaving me to re-do all the stuff I just did. Sometimes it'll be a couple hours without saving, and I just don't have the stomach to do it all again right then, so I'll usually put it down and forget about it for a few months... it has taught me that I should save more often though... haha

 

[Shadow Tyrant]

Megaman X: Command Mission. Got to a big fat green dude, got my ass kicked for two or three hours, then decided the game wasn't all that great to begin with. Tried to start a new file a few years later, and that lasted all of five hours before I gave up again.
Jak 2 pissed me off for a while, too. I stopped playing for months before I finally went out and bought the strategy guide. Still took me hours to get past that level.

 

[ProjectileVomit]

Combat Arms. For the first few weeks I was able to tolerate renting the weapon with in game currency, although I am quite annoyed by the high cost just to rent 1 wepon. Afterwards the company released a patch, allowing for more weapons and stuff to be obtained through REAL money. And you RENT in game item with REAL money. This is Maple Story all over again.
So I was like, "Fuck that, Im going to play Counter Strike"

 

[EnglishMuffin]

Farcry and Oblivion.

 

[Pudgyboi]

At the moment, I'm holding off playing Final fantasy II on my PsP.. I don't know. I really don't like the who no level thing, not to say that it's not a good game or anything.

Also.. Dragon Quest VII for PS2. Game is just so long.. and I'm kinda lost.

 

[EzraPound]

- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - The levels are monotonous to the point where once you've played one, you've essentially beaten the game.

- Conker: Live and Uncut - Though I loved the original CBFD, I had kind of forgotten how frustrating the single-player is at times, and it's low ebbs prevented me from replaying it in its entirety.

- Morrowind - The lustre wears off long before the missions do. 'Nuff said.

- GTA: Vice City - It's just an easier rehash of GTAIII, and generally felt baseless.

- Ultimate Spider-Man - It's stupidly difficult at times, and moreoverly insufferable as it makes you replay the same boss fights over and over without establishing ckeckpoints within them. On a wholly separate note: this game would've been alot better if the glass ceiling for web-swinging wasn't HALF of Spider-Man 2's.

- Ninja Gaiden Black - Fuck. This. Shit.

- Mega Man 8 - I played this on the heels of the earlier MM iterations, and noticed that it's a) alot less user-friendly than previous Mega Mans, which might reflect the thinning of the 2D audience, and b) incredibly cheap; as in you have to memorize levels cheap (IMO this was always the problem with Mega Man to an extent, it's just expounded on here).

- Blast Corps. - The difficulty ramps up so quickly in this game, I'd pretty much describe its gameplay as broken.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Beyond Good and Evil: I got stuck in a game-stopping glitch. Congratulations, Ubisoft, I now no longer care how good your game is, because if you can't hire some decent programmers to fix game-halting glitches (and they've proven they can't in more than one game,) I have no desire to ever finish your buggy game.

Kinetica: Because it was crap.

Star Ocean 3: Because it was bland beyond belief.

Dragon Quest VIII: Because it seems to eat my life and give me nothing in return. The only reward I get for grinding for hours is the ability to move about 20 feet before I have to start the process all over again.

Jak 3: Because it was super crap. And super hard crap, as well. And this is coming from the guy who beat DMD mode of DMC3: SE, V-Rated difficulty in Viewtiful Joe, and Normal Mode in God Hand (currently in the middle of an Easy Mode KMS run.)

 

[Phantom6]

Tales of Phantasia. Derris Emblem. If you've played the game, that should be enough said. If you haven't, click on the spoiler box for a rant...

(There are no actual spoilers in there, by the way.)

Spoiler

There is a point late in the game where you receive an apparently useless item called the Derris Emblem. It does literally nothing and takes up an accessory equipment slot, which are extremely valuable in this game. So, of course you would think that it makes sense to do with it what you do for all useless accessories: sell it. Then you get to the final dungeon, where you encounter an unavoidable trap that teleports your party to the prison (which is annoying as hell to get out of, by the way). The only way to pass through said trap unaffected is to have every member in your party equip a Derris Emblem. Your party has 6 members.

Therefore you must pass through the trap with your main character, collect the 4 Derris Emblems past the trap, return to get your party, all the while encountering random final dungeon strength monsters with 1 person in your party, only to realize that 4 + 1 = 5, not 6. You have to battle random monsters, so that you can run into the enemy that drops the Derris Emblem what seems like 1% of the time (don't know the exact rate, but that's what it felt like to me). I was lucky enough to get one to replace the one I sold relatively early, but it took me about 40 encounters with said enemy (and no second Derris Emblem drop) that I finally just gave it up.

Oh, and the "best" part? There is no indication whatsoever that you're supposed to use the Derris Emblem to get through the trap. The game expects you to simply find this out through trial and error, which would probably mean falling into the trap about 20 times while changing completely pointless settings. Yes, really. I guessed it when I got the drop from the random enemy, but of course that left the problem of extremely annoying 1-person-party encounters that were far too strong for a 1 person party to reasonably handle, and the fact that 6 =/= 5...

 

[Cheesus333]

Condemned 2. while a good idea IN THEORY, the execution and presentation was so poor I just can't play it.

You know what they say, Syphonz: "If you can't beat 'em - join 'em!"

For me it would be Metroid prime 2. I got stuck in the Torvus Bog first save room, with two Grenchlers outside. I had no missiles and no beam ammo. I. Hate. Grenchlers.

That or Spyro, A Hero's Tail. I completed the game, but my save data was 'corrupt' (to me that meant it gambled, drank and hired strippers) so it refused to acknowledge my awesomosity.

 

[Killerbunny001]

Oblivion - because scaling monsters to your own level has to be one of the dumbest ideas in history

Mercs 2 - because it was too repetitive and the characters were designed by a 7 year old

Mass Effect - Because the side quests won the "things that suck the most in the hole universe" award

San Andreas - Nothing really wrong with the game, just that the campaign was longer that my interest in the game.

EDIT : I forgot Devil May Cry 4 - reaaaaaalllllly retarded game, played for about 5 minutes before starting cursing the developers and uninstalling the damn thing.

 

[philios82]

Resident Evil 4 for the PC - The graphics and the controls.

World of Warcraft - The other players. Way too many acronyms and abbreviations that don't make any sense for a new player, one guy I was fighting with asked me after a battle: 'U min', What? turns out he meant 'do you mine?'. How much effort does it take to type the letter e. Oh yeah and the creepy guy who followed me round for half an hour killing enemies that I was targeting and asking me wierd questions. I logged off and never went back.

 

[Mr. Moose]

Oh god, I remember the worst one. First venture into Metroid Prime, the recent one on the Wii (corruption I think?). Enjoying a fair degree, then next missions were essentially: now back track and collected a dozen batteries from all the levels you just visited.

No. Game ejected, never touched since.

I never saw the appeal of the Prime series, there isn't any dialogue, and a good 75% of the game involves backtracking.

 

[rossatdi]

Oh god, I remember the worst one. First venture into Metroid Prime, the recent one on the Wii (corruption I think?). Enjoying a fair degree, then next missions were essentially: now back track and collected a dozen batteries from all the levels you just visited.

No. Game ejected, never touched since.

I never saw the appeal of the Prime series, there isn't any dialogue, and a good 75% of the game involves backtracking.

Made the tragic mistake of trusting an ign reviewer. Must have been a nintendo fanboy.

 

[Archereus]

wow this is hilarious, i never knew so many people hated so much in my life hahahaha, probably the game that pisses me off the most is, i just thought about it, any sports game when you loosing very badly, and WOW when the Horde are powning my face on the battlefield

 

[cailun]

Pretty sure there are a few for me.

#1: Star Wars Online - tried it for about 30 minutes before I just said "nope!" and walked away forever.

#2: D&D Online (yeah, yeah, another MMO) - I love the concept of the game, the look of it, and they did an excellent job from all I did play; but the fact is that I like to be able to play SOLO when/if I can't find a bunch of friends to play every time I log in. I completely understand that it's supposed to be like a D&D experience where you need to have a bunch of friends sitting around and working together to accomplish whatever quest you have placed in front of you at the tavern, but the reality of a video game is that not everyone can actually be on at the same time. It's not convenient, even if you just want to log in unexpectedly to mess around.

#3: Devil May Cry 3 - first of this series I'd ever played. My friends had gotten all hyped up over it, so I figured I had to pick it up. As much as I enjoy a good hack-n-slash, this was just too damn ridiculous for me to get past the first 10 minutes of gameplay. Thankfully the store wasn't far for the return.

#4: Rayman: Raving Rabids - really?

#5: Halo 2 - this one I'm definitely NOT proud of in the least! My brother and I stayed up all night and finished the first Halo on Normal Co-op as soon as we got it. We both played solo games on the higher difficulty levels whenever we weren't playing the multiplayer and running each other over in Warthogs. I was really excited for the 2nd one! For some reason I can't explain, and won't even try to, I only played it for a few days, mostly the multiplayer, and haven't picked it up since for more than 10 minutes to a time.

#6: Seaman - possibly the worst game purchase I've ever made.

and #7 (cause it feels like a good stopping point): Shenmue 2 - this one also isn't about hate. The problem came when I found the plinko-like games. I spent all my time and money playing these just to make more and more cash. I don't think I got past the point where I found the 4 boards set up next to each other, each with some really nice odds. Play the easy odds till you get some cash built up; move to the next one up until you either lose enough so you have to play the first one again or you can move on to the higher odds; continue. It was fun, but after playing just that part for about a month I realized that I hadn't seen the Sun in a while.

 

[SargentToughie]

That's actually happened to me more than a few times

Boss battles are the worst culprate of things like that

 

[Mr. Moose]

Oh god, I remember the worst one. First venture into Metroid Prime, the recent one on the Wii (corruption I think?). Enjoying a fair degree, then next missions were essentially: now back track and collected a dozen batteries from all the levels you just visited.

No. Game ejected, never touched since.

I never saw the appeal of the Prime series, there isn't any dialogue, and a good 75% of the game involves backtracking.

Made the tragic mistake of trusting an ign reviewer. Must have been a nintendo fanboy.

Who, me?
I got Prime and Echoes at the same time at gamestop.
Prime was all backtracking, and Echoes was exactly the same, just this time they made you do it in the Dark World.

 

[Archereus]

Pretty sure there are a few for me.

#1: Star Wars Online - tried it for about 30 minutes before I just said "nope!" and walked away forever.

#2: D&D Online (yeah, yeah, another MMO) - I love the concept of the game, the look of it, and they did an excellent job from all I did play; but the fact is that I like to be able to play SOLO when/if I can't find a bunch of friends to play every time I log in. I completely understand that it's supposed to be like a D&D experience where you need to have a bunch of friends sitting around and working together to accomplish whatever quest you have placed in front of you at the tavern, but the reality of a video game is that not everyone can actually be on at the same time or even if you just want to log in unexpectedly to mess around.

#3: Devil May Cry 3 - first of this series I'd ever played. My friends had gotten all hyped up over it, so I figured I had to pick it up. As much as I enjoy a good hack-n-slash, this was just too damn ridiculous for me to get past the first 10 minutes of gameplay. Thankfully the store wasn't far for the return.

#4: Rayman: Raving Rabids - really?

#5: Halo 2: this one I'm definitely NOT proud of in the least! My brother and I stayed up all night and finished the first Halo on Normal Co-op as soon as we got it. We both played solo games on the higher difficulty levels whenever we weren't playing the multiplayer and running each other over in Warthogs. I was really excited for the 2nd one! For some reason I can't explain, and won't even try to, I only played it for a few days, mostly the multiplayer, and haven't picked it up since for more than 10 minutes to a time.

#6: Seaman - possibly the worst game purchase I've ever made.

and #7 (cause it feels like a good stopping point): Shenmue 2 - this one also isn't about hate. The problem came when I found the plinko-like games. I spent all my time and money playing these just to make more and more cash. I don't think I got past the point where I found the 4 boards set up next to each other, each with some really nice odds. Play the easy odds till you get some cash built up; move to the next one up until you either lose enough so you have to play the first one again or you can move on to the higher odds; continue. It was fun, but after playing just that part for about a month I realized that I hadn't seen the Sun in a while.

thats alot of hate

but you guys wanna know one game you cannot hate no matter how hard you try We Love Catamari, i bet you any thing there isnt a single person in the world who played it and hated it, we all strangely love the game