"This Is Gonna Suck" Moments In Games

[spartandude]

Playing an Eastern European or Arabic faction in any medieval grand strategy game when the Mongols arrive.

Or more recently playing as Spain and then the Aztecs invade in Crusader Kings 2..... I had just united that empire, MY FIRST EMPIRE!, and then it came crashing down.

 

[Saltyk]

Final Fantasy Tactics has one where you main character Ramza has to take on Wiegraf - a guy with a half-doze OP attacks - by himself. It's so laughably lopsided that I initially thought that it was one of those battles you were supposed to lose. When the Game Over screen comes up instead of a cutscene, I realized this is going to suck. It doesn't help that it's just the introduction to an even larger, nastier battle.

On that note, any battle with Elmdore, Cecilia, and Lede. Or just Cecilia and Lede. Those two can stop or kill a character with one move and never miss. Luckily any one of those battles ends when you bring one of them, or at least Elmdore, down to critical HP, but the final battle is very tough if you want to learn Ultima AND steal all of Elmdore's gear. That's a fight you have to know about in advance just to stand a chance of stealing and learning Ultima. And it will likely still take an hour!

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Hehe.

Which leads me to the "This is Gonna Suck" moment in Armored Core For Answer. Occupation of Arteria Carpals.

I had read about that mission before doing it. And in that game the 2 on 1 NEXT fights were hard, so I was not excited about a 4 on 1, I say on 1 because Old King is useless, NEXT fight. I have no Idea how many time I attempted that mission I eventually won by using Reg 1.15 (Gives infinite energy) and Tank Treads that allowed any weapon as a back up weapon and went in with 4 Kojima Cannons 2 on the back 2 in my hands, and sniper rifles as my backup weapon. And then after all that i had about 1000 AP left, and the initial AP for that build was about 37000.

Jesus...I am not looking forward to that mission. I just started For Answer and Spirit of Motherwill was my oh crap moment. The Arms Forts up to that were easy so I just loaded up my heavy mech with grenades and Gatling guns. Then I saw the size of it, then the non-stop missile barrage started, then I ran out of ammo.

To ease it up. That mission is only available on a New Game+ if you pick the Extinction Ending Path. Although I agree with you there, after fighting the generic Arm's Forts, Spirit of Motherwill is an eye opener.

 

[Storm Dragon]

Quick saving right before you die in Jedi Academy. Wouldn't be nearly as bad if the checkpoints weren't so long apart.

I'll second this with just about any game. Quick saving right before you die in anything and realizing you don't have a save anywhere near where you were. Can't tell you how many times I decided to restart games because I got really far, screwed up, checked my saves, and found I'd be best off just doing a fresh start.

I've got a similar story. About a year ago I played Deus Ex for the first time, and I was badly injured in the level before you go to Paris. Both of my legs were crippled, forcing me to belly crawl along the ground in order to move. I didn't have any medkits, but I figured that there would be some in the area, so I saved the game when I arrived in Paris. There were, in fact, no medkits within my reach. Furthermore, I came to a point where it seemed that the only path forward required at least one functional leg. I still haven't gotten around to restarting the game.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Quick saving right before you die in Jedi Academy. Wouldn't be nearly as bad if the checkpoints weren't so long apart.

I'll second this with just about any game. Quick saving right before you die in anything and realizing you don't have a save anywhere near where you were. Can't tell you how many times I decided to restart games because I got really far, screwed up, checked my saves, and found I'd be best off just doing a fresh start.

I've got a similar story. About a year ago I played Deus Ex for the first time, and I was badly injured in the level before you go to Paris. Both of my legs were crippled, forcing me to belly crawl along the ground in order to move. I didn't have any medkits, but I figured that there would be some in the area, so I saved the game when I arrived in Paris. There were, in fact, no medkits within my reach. Furthermore, I came to a point where it seemed that the only path forward required at least one functional leg. I still haven't gotten around to restarting the game.

Oh Deus Ex... In Human Revolution I accidentally pissed off the Detroit PD, and the auto-saves were the only backup I had. Unfortunately it was overwritten as I went outside before loading the save. I had to restart the entire game lol.

 

[cojo965]

The Bosses in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I heard that they were tough and to be fair I did struggle with the first boss, until I learned that if you use the Typhoon upgrade they go down in 2 or 3 hits. Then I went and did something really stupid When my chip started glitching out, I got it fixed. Then when I got to the boss fight, the woman went and switched off all my augments. I had to fight the awful boss without my beloved Typhoon, I was like "this is gonna suck." To be fair, it was my first playthrough, I learned from my mistake for my second.

Oh God, lol. I accidentally made the right choice on my first playthrough because I couldn't find the clinic so I said, "fuck it," and moved on to the next mission without. Fight was still a pain though because I never ever found Typhoon useful.

 

[Mekanicum]

The damned Chernobyl level in Call of Duty 4, I wasn't even playing on Veteran and it still took me forever to get through. WHY WAS THAT HELICOPTER SO SLOW?!?!?!?!

 

[TheMigrantSoldier]

Chernobyl, dear god Chernobyl. The final stand with the helicopter was nearing my breaking point. The enemy bullets clipped through the Ferris wheel stage I was holing up in.

I knew Blighttown in Dark Souls wasn't going to be a pleasant experience. Choppy framerates on narrow bridges combined with ghouls, mosquitoes and freakin' toxic snipers was a hard pill to swallow. Then you trade it for the swamp. Hope you stocked up on moss!

 

[cahtush]

In Shadow Warrior (the reboot) when you were heading down the hole and draining the sludge.
I thought that the sludge was going to start rising again and you would have to escape up while fighting a bunch of enemies.
Luckily, Shadow Warrior being the wangtastic game it is, it doesn't do that.
So it's more of a "thought it was gonna suck but it actually didn't" moment.

 

[J.McMillen]

Final boss of Warkhammer 40k: Space Marine.

Barely got him on Easy/Normal, still haven't beat him on Hard.

Just...annoying as hell of a fight.

I've been on the fence about getting this game for a few months now...other than the final boss how is the single player campaign? I'm more than likely not going to touch the MP and that's what's kept me from buying this one.

It's not bad, but I'd try to pick it up cheap. I got my copy during one of the Steam sales.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Reversing Hollowing in Dark Souls.
Thanks to the fact that the online component has become a hive of scum and villainy, expecting some hacking/twinked up fucker to come in and one-shot you has become the rule rather than the exception. I say stick to co-op or play offline.
That or reaching the fog gate to Bed of Chaos. Seriously, fuck that boss.

dark souls is currently £4 on the 360 is it worth picking up? i've been looking for a new game to play but don't want to get another FPS/racing/ same crap over and over and it looks like dark souls can provide this but i have been told that it's punishing and can be hard for new comers to the series

OT: do you mean this is gonna suck as in this is going to be hard? Or this is gonna suck as in this is going to be a bad story part? for the first one someone has already mentioned it, the part in MGS where you fight rex..that was rather hard on the hardest difficulty, as for the second..i can't really remember as if i get to a bad part in a story i blank it out (if the story has been good so far and continues to be good after) or i just stop playing (if the story has been bad from the beginning)

Go for it, it's a great game. My advice is take it slow and keep your shield up. The rest you can learn in your own time.

 

[Sefa Lagaaia]

Pretty much whenever you are low on health and walk into a big round room with lots of pickups on the edge, shit's going down and you know it

 

[Pifflestick]

Killing Floor, wave 9 on suicidal difficulty, my whole team gets wiped early leaving me as the lone medic with my dual handcannons and weak as shite medic gun (this was long before they added stronger medic guns) and three fleshpounds barreling down on me. All I could do was backpedal and shoot and occasionally run like hell when the FPs got a hate stiffy for me, and yet I somehow survived the wave. I still have no idea how I did it, but it was a definite "Welp, this is gonna suck." moment until the very end.

 

[Zaydin]

Well, let's see. One such moment for me in XCOM was during a terror mission, and I moved a support trooper up. Said trooper exposed a Sectopod, a cyberdisc, drones supporting the two, and two chryssalids. I literally yelled out 'Oh f@%k!' when I stumbled across that. I then proceeded to reload my prior save so that I wouldn't have one of my best troopers turned into a red smear.

 

[teebeeohh]

whenever a game out a stupid time limit into an open area, be is underwater, cold or just a good old bomb, since i usually want to explore everything this sucks major balls.

 

[TheMann]

Escort missions. Every escort mission ever.

To really exemplify this:

Spoiler: Here, have some live action Goldeneye 64.

From the final mission of StarCraft 2: WoL - "Alert. Class twelve psionic waveform detected." In an absolutely brutal 30 minute long "hold the line" mission, this means that Kerrigan herself is coming to your base to wreck your shit.

 

[Shadow flame master]

XCOM, Dark Souls, Final Fantasy Tatics, yeah yeah that's all nice. So let me tell you about Dream Drop Distance.

So I'm playing as Riku and I'm in the World That Never Was and I come across a pipe-bridge that leads to a single circular platform. Beside the bridge's entrance is a save point and a shop, so obviously there's gonna be a fight on that platform on the other side of the bridge. I save the game like always and forward I go with brave mind.

Cue a cutscene that involves some some black coat wearing nightmare with glowing red eyes of doom, Riku striking his badass pose and the fight begins with the information bar saying: "Defeat the Anti Black Coat Nightmare". Simple stuff right? Fucking WRONG! The first thing that tipped me off that this fight was gonna suck was its attack patterns that always had some shadowy dark aura around them. Needless to say I was unprepared for the attacks but I managed to dodge and heal if I didn't. Them came the homing dark pillar that would zap me of almost all of my HP, turned them into HP orbs that the boss could pick, and left me wide open for the ABCN's devastating attacks.

Then, after a while, I beat him.

Then I watched a cutscene.

Then I fought Ansem Seeker of Darkness.

Twice.

With no save points what-so-ever.

When he popped up I knew I was fucked.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Doing Veteran runs on any Call of Duty game, but especially the ones where there's a timer. I hate timers.

Those are the worst! Especially if they also involve a tight corridor. That made Call of Duty 4's last level nearly impossible on veteran.

I actually just gave up entirely on completing that level on Veteran. A week straight and I never even came close. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had trouble with it.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Doing Veteran runs on any Call of Duty game, but especially the ones where there's a timer. I hate timers.

Those are the worst! Especially if they also involve a tight corridor. That made Call of Duty 4's last level nearly impossible on veteran.

I actually just gave up entirely on completing that level on Veteran. A week straight and I never even came close. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had trouble with it.

I remember I gave up when I first tried it, I didn't have enough time, and I was really sick so I was in no mood to keep trying. A few months later I finally got it, but I had to restart the level so I could get more time.

 

[StormDragonZ]

That moment in any Mega Man game in which you have to fight the robot masters you previous beat again in a gauntlet battle. I remember playing Mega Man 2 and saying to myself "Are you serious!?".

Another example is Okami with fighting True Orochi. If you think fighting him once was fun, now do it again, only far stronger!