You first "**** This" Moment in Gaming

[The Devils Guitar]

FarCry 2, sneaking up to a mansion having set up traps and mines to kill the soldiers. Sneak up behind a guard, pull out machete, Swing it, hear a satisfying slice as it strikes the guards neck.... guard turns round, shouts, shoots you, sniper who you cant see in the house shoots you too. Run away and hide in bush.....

F$%^K that.

 

[Drake666]

Zelda(the first one)

My save battery is dead so every time I start the game I start from the beginning again... I gave up trying to beat it in one sitting.

It's doable... but don't... it's something around 10 hours of game if you know where everything is... but your NES will go to the flashing blue screen of death (or freeze frame of death) well before that...

Take one of these two advices:
1) You can change the battery, it will cost you something around 1 dollars (it's a small round battery inside the cartridge).
2) Do it on a emulator (without save state).

Otherwise, I know there's a Wii and a Gamecube version...

 

[tahrey]

Probably level 1 of "Xenon".

... I have never, ever got to level 2 as far as I know. If so, it was only briefly.

I still occasionally play level 1 for nostalgia's sake, but even rushing headlong towards 30, having first played the game when my age was in single digits, I can't get past that super fucking nintendo hard boss thing. Generally just turn the machine or emulator off now.

But it's ok... it came with the computer along with a few other games, so we ain't bovvered.

EDIT: Not getting past the asteroids stage of handheld star wars is fairly understandable, as it's quite tricky, but never figuring out how to SHOOT them? On a GAMEBOY?
Even at 4 years old, I have to wonder if you were a bit "special". I was making simple Sinclair BASIC programs at 4...
Then again it might have just been the game. The Gamegear one was a touch buggy and they've obviously dropped out sections that appeared in the manual but not in the game...

Waiting 25 minutes to load Gunship 2000 via tape drive on my friend's Amiga.

I call shenanigans unless you can bring us some proof of there ever being a tape deck for the miggy... Gunship loaded in about a minute on my atari, from disc.

 

[Jay DeLozier]

I stayed true to my 100% ways until the flags in Assassin's Creed.

 

[mikey7339]

Zelda 2. I was so completely lost and the side-scrolling game play was exactly what I was NOT expecting when I got it. I tried to play it for a couple of days before I just gave up.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Driver 2,
I've never had a PS1 and this was the 1st game I bought for my new PS2, upon release.

Second to last mission, where you have to chase and crash the hitmans car.
I never managed to complete that mission, not in years.

I just went to play it a friend's house, on his savegame, just to see what the final mission was

Was that the one with the roads on the cliff faces?

If so I remember that it was bloody hard. I did manage it though eventually.

Not sure what my first was I tended to be able to get through most games. Although I think I did give up on Abes Odyssey, I was too young and impatient at the time.

 

[Bolt Van Der Huge]

Star Wars Force Unleashed. After killing the first Junk Titan, you have to push... something to continue. After trying and failing around twenty times I decided not to play it anymore and instead use it as a bookend. Other than the part as Vader, it was just irritating.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Trying to tow-cable an AT-AT.

Whereas I've managed to do that solo, switching myself between the gunner seat and pilot seat. Died twice trying, and when I succeeded, the game crashed trying to award a checkpoint capture to no-one and kill-assist to me. Worth it though.

One of the levels in Jedi Knights II made me give up on it though. May have to try it again soon.

heh, i usually don't get rage'y at games. UNLESS SOME BLOODY SPAH SAPS MA SENTRY >:E then i go on a fail shotgun rampage -_-

Star Wars Battlefront is effective at teaching you how to track targets and keep a steady aim while moving. Skill in doing that is directly translatable into Team Fortress 2 shotgun usage.