I recall two recent offenders in that particular category.
First instance is X-Com which I bought some weeks ago and directly breezed through the normal difficulty level. So I thought, let's go with Classic and, of course, Ironman mode because that's at least a challenge and every previous game this year was just so piss easy.
Well, I shouldn't have done that.
After trying and failing about 10 times with varying degrees of "Fuck this game!" I finally got to a round where everything worked out properly. I rarely had people die, could cope with the new threats fairly easy and had the panic levels sufficiently under control and only lost only one country throughout the entire game until the end of month three. At some point, though, the game decided to be a huge fucking dick and managed to wipe out my entire squad of four trainees I wanted to give some XP to and had in training for the last ten missions, and two of my four colonels that I put in for backup. In the first three rounds of the combat, mind you.
It took me a day to continue that particular round, but I did manage to beat it subsequently. I have not touched it ever since.
Second recent instance is FTL. In fact, this game alone featured so many instances that I can't really recall any specific one, it's always exactly the thing that shouldn't happen has to happen that makes you want to punch a baby seal. Like being short on hull while everything else is pretty good and you just need to get to a damned shop and, of course, you are confronted with a rocket-slinging mantis ship, or having only one or two crew-members and suddenly get four mantis warriors beamed aboard that rip them apart, or not hitting that god-awful weapon system after shooting at it for the fifth bloody time and meanwhile getting blown full of holes, or a first hit, breaking the door system and then two others that just so happen to spawn an inferno in three different areas of your ship......I lost at least five years of my life because of my blood pressure reaching critical levels while playing this game. I still beat it on normal, but the thing I will remember most about this game will always be my recurring yells of "FUCK THIS GAME!".
First instance is X-Com which I bought some weeks ago and directly breezed through the normal difficulty level. So I thought, let's go with Classic and, of course, Ironman mode because that's at least a challenge and every previous game this year was just so piss easy.
Well, I shouldn't have done that.
After trying and failing about 10 times with varying degrees of "Fuck this game!" I finally got to a round where everything worked out properly. I rarely had people die, could cope with the new threats fairly easy and had the panic levels sufficiently under control and only lost only one country throughout the entire game until the end of month three. At some point, though, the game decided to be a huge fucking dick and managed to wipe out my entire squad of four trainees I wanted to give some XP to and had in training for the last ten missions, and two of my four colonels that I put in for backup. In the first three rounds of the combat, mind you.
It took me a day to continue that particular round, but I did manage to beat it subsequently. I have not touched it ever since.
Second recent instance is FTL. In fact, this game alone featured so many instances that I can't really recall any specific one, it's always exactly the thing that shouldn't happen has to happen that makes you want to punch a baby seal. Like being short on hull while everything else is pretty good and you just need to get to a damned shop and, of course, you are confronted with a rocket-slinging mantis ship, or having only one or two crew-members and suddenly get four mantis warriors beamed aboard that rip them apart, or not hitting that god-awful weapon system after shooting at it for the fifth bloody time and meanwhile getting blown full of holes, or a first hit, breaking the door system and then two others that just so happen to spawn an inferno in three different areas of your ship......I lost at least five years of my life because of my blood pressure reaching critical levels while playing this game. I still beat it on normal, but the thing I will remember most about this game will always be my recurring yells of "FUCK THIS GAME!".
