Times when you felt your game was being a dick?

[kronus2036]

Anytime you're forcefully stripped of something in a game. Be it a gameplay mechanic like gadgets, weapons, or powers. It's like the game sees you doing these awesome things with something it has given you and decides you don't deserve them anymore. Then it ups the enemies/obstacles and gloats while you explode trying to reclaim the things you have lost. Dick move Game, dick move.

 

[Andantil]

This one time in fallout 3 I was out of ammo for all my decent guns and ran into a group of 20 super mutants with miniguns. All of them had miniguns. All I had was a pistol.

 

[breadlord]

I would say in KH2 i had to smash a giant crate up a hill. So I thought it would be easy, because I've done it before on a lower level.

So i'm smashing it up as fast as i can, and to get credit for it, it HAD to be lower than 14 seconds. I was always higher. I could never figure it out. (I strive for achievements on a personal ego level.) So i try again. Higher than 14. I had no idea what the fuck was wrong. So i try again, in which i fuck up. For the next 5 times. Then i got it up, but my character had to fucking move slow, and got 14.07 seconds. I raged. This happened more than 20 times later. Either 14.0X or i completely fuck up because I just had to be one degree off of it flying forward where instead pushed back down the hill.

Here's the kicker, if i hadn't said it yet, it was a hill. So the cart fucking slid down the hill. But the area with the garage, wasn't sloped, and I raged when I only had one hit left and I was a few steps away from the entry all because the fucking cart didn't roll to me to save that .06 of a second.

I now have a giant crack on my controller, and a broken X button because of that hour. (It works fine.)

Also, it has huge particle effects. Most of the times that i fucking died, was because of the fact that i couldn't see what was going on. (Nothing like in KH1, which was better.)

But overall, it was a good game, no doubt.

 

[randomsix]

Any time when "The computer is a cheating bastard." Especially in the burnout series.

 

[lasherman]

Assassin's Creed 2. At the very last mission where you have to kill the Pope, (yes, THE Pope. Totally awesome, right?), you spend like ten minutes just whacking away at this fat bastard with your sword while four clones of yourself stood around and pretended to be helping, and just as you finally take him down, the game goes "You know what? Fuck you!", and takes control, and pushes you into a cinematic where this 300 pound slob knocks you down, steals your magic... thingy, stabs you in the gut, and runs away as you pass out on the floor!

Of course, you wake up only a few minutes later in perfect health and have to chase down His Holyness and fight him AGAIN. Only now, you have to use your bare hands and beat him into a pulp with your fists.

And then, after all that, once you beat him AGAIN, (Which you will, because he is just as strong as any generic enemy you've fought before, only with about 50 times as much health,) the great and powerful assassin (and don't forget that he IS an assassin) Ezio decides that there has been enough death today or whatever, and decides to let him live.

Just like that, you leave him on the floor, right in front of you, blubbering in the folds of his fat, and walk away. After spending the entire game killing hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent guards and foot soldiers that were only doing their jobs and trying to stop you from killing politicians and nobility, you let the man who wanted TO CONQUER GOD HIMSELF LIVE!

It's a good thing for Ubisoft that they decided to put this crap at the very end, because if this happened during an earlier mission I would have just quit the game right there and then.

 

[e2density]

Left 4 Dead 1 AI Director on Expert...
Seriously, the game is simply biased against you when they spawn three Smokers and a Hunter and your whole team is pinned within the first five minutes of the level...

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Left 4 Dead 2... there is a scene on the second to last part on Dark Carnival where you have to get into the auditorium. Yeah, on Expert when there are zombies on every side of you and about a hundred hordes it is impossible. Absolutely no way to do it.

 

[MastrChieaf]

Ninja Giaden (the original one)

Level 6-2
Does any one remember when there is a platform about 4 or 5 bits big and theres an enemy standing on it, and a never ending supply of bats that keep respawning? Well I do that was so cheap. The bats would respawn faster than you could attack them,and you could not attack the guy standing on the platform because it was to small and he would just knock you back. The only way I found out to get past that was to trigger a glitch. Its where you stand on the left where you can just barely see the guy and sometimes he will just disapeer but only if your really lucky. For me that was the hardest part of the game and it had nothing to do with challenge the game was just cheating right there.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

"Enemy AC-130 in the air!"

 

[MastrChieaf]

Also I believe that street Fighter 2 (maybe 3 cant remember right now).
But Guiles flash kick in that game is the ultimate anti-air defense. Now whenever your using Guile there is a 3-4 sec delay between doing the combo and it coming out. Just so that he cant deflect every attack and become a unstoppable powerhouse. But that does not apply to the game. The game dosent have to time it like you do,it can just pull out the move any time that it wants,making it very hard to get any air moves in on him.

 

[Apathetic_cynicism]

Remember Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes?
Remember the giant middle finger known as "Urukkubar's first mission"?
That level still haunts me. One day, I'll beat it, grab my original Xbox, throw it out the window, and yell to the world, "How do you like me now? That dat ya sons a bitches!"

 

[hopeneverdies]

When Starcraft told me to construct additional pylons...

Funny, I thought you'd mention the game your avatar is from. Since the RNG in Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals is a complete *****. The enemy had 9% chance to hit me and 1% to crit? And they did? Oh joy, Roy is dead.

It's a good game, but it is really fucking hard. The RNG hates you, the enemies tend to be stronger, and Roy doesn't get a promotion until the start of Chapter 22 out of 25, not counting sidequest chapters. And for people who don't know what they're doing, the game could end at the of Chapter 22. I love it to death, but I think it's a very strained relationship.

Sometimes I think the Random Number Goddess wants to murder you.

 

[Composer]

L4D2: a charger followd by the tank followed by witch followed by hunter spitter combo followed by spitter jockey combo followed by smoker hunter combo is the recipe for a dick game

 

[rhyno435]

Most online games I play tend to put me in the team that has the worst people.

I was playing the Bad Company 2 beta the other day. Final score?

*approximations*
My team: ME - 2400
2nd best guy on my team - 700

Their team: Best - 3600
2nd best - 2500

That was the sort of pattern that I had in all of my games.

Same with games like MW2.

Me - 23 kills, 11 deaths
2nd best guy on my team - 10 kills, 16 deaths
Best guy on other team - 26 kills, 8 deaths

TL;DR: I'm not usually the best in the game, but I'm almost always the best on my team, and we always lose because the other people are incompetant.

 

[SUPERtwinky]

When Starcraft told me to construct additional pylons...

Funny, I thought you'd mention the game your avatar is from. Since the RNG in Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals is a complete *****. The enemy had 9% chance to hit me and 1% to crit? And they did? Oh joy, Roy is dead.

It's a good game, but it is really fucking hard. The RNG hates you, the enemies tend to be stronger, and Roy doesn't get a promotion until the start of Chapter 22 out of 25, not counting sidequest chapters. And for people who don't know what they're doing, the game could end at the of Chapter 22. I love it to death, but I think it's a very strained relationship.

Sometimes I think the Random Number Goddess wants to murder you.

If I thought that, then Roy wouldn't be my avatar.

 

[The Fork of Truth]

In Sanits Row 2, when The General drove me into a wall and shot me to hell with his minigun, killing me in about four seconds.

 

[-Seraph-]

Fighting games are the worst offenders of this to me. Mother fucking bullshit AI that will go from suck to rape in the course of a single round. I love them still, but rubber band AI or but super AI can go to hell, especially when it's specific to certain characters. There are always those characters that the AI will just demolish you with always....


Some common examples I have run into:

Killer instinct: "Glacius!! STOP!! for the love of god!! the ultra combos!! ARRGGHHGH!!!

Soul Calibur: "OK that round was eas-WTF!!! *thwack* *slice* *throw* what the hell just happened!!! bullshit!!"

Guilty Gear: "yea...fuck you Sol!! uber rushing super combo AI!"
"I-No god damn I hate you!!"
"Ky you fucking turtleing bastard!!" You'll beat the shit out of him, and then he goes into brick wall mode, blocks every attack, and kills you in half the time it took for you to get him to the health he was at.

Dissidia: Sephiroth- "I blocked that reaper god dammit!!"
Firion- *shield bash* "...I hate you"
Chaos- "hahah I got you on the ropes now, just one more round and....OH god WHY!!!!"
The AI in general on highest difficulty- mmk...instant blocks every time, zero cool down to attacks, overpowered crtical hit rate...yea..fuck you.

I love you fighting games, but your AI can be such a douchebag sometimes.

EDIT: Oh and I forgot to mention Prinny: Can I really be the Hero? The final boss battle is the ultimate dick move. Obscene amount of health, annoying attack pattern, and a time limit!! You risk breaking the [] button off your PSP because of the crazy amount of button mashing you will do in that fight.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Fighting the final Lavos battle in Chrono Trigger. That asshole can hit me with two attacks before I get the chance to heal, so I have to waste my next turn healing so that he won't kill me with the NEXT two. One of his attacks does 1000+ damage, which is more than I could possibly survive even if I did fully level up. Then add that the fact that his shield only comes down for a very short period of time, most of which is spent healing, and I have to do 30,000 damage, and you have yourself a gigantic dick move.