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

[bader0]

I was about 8 and I had gotten the 360. I got two games, Viva Pinata (awesome game) and the polar opposite of that, Sonic the Hedgehog. Viva Pinata wouldn't work, so I was stuck with Sonic the flipping Hedgehog for 2 weeks whilst we sent out for another copy of Viva Pinata. The first silver battle is when I just went **** this.

holy crap i saw 8 years old and got a 360 and suddenly thought you were really young. Then i realised this gen of consoles is 7 years old. Crazy huh?

My first really frustrated moment in videogames. hmmmmmm well it was probably ff7 im pretty sure i was really young when i played that game. I got to some tower that i had to climb that was full of guards and stuff. They kept killing me, ragequit, never played again. In hindsight there was probably some way around i dont really know.

 

[AnotherAvatar]

I can't remember it in any sort of clarity but given the first games I played were Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt I'm guessing it's one of them, either that fucking Dog laughing at me (though if I remember right I was great at that game, and it started my love of gun games so I don't think it's Duck Hunt) or the far more likely "OH GOD FUCK PLATFORMING" as, straight up, while I am really good at a NUMBER of different game types (I feel my best is stealth) I suck at platforming, so I died a lot. For the record, I haven't beaten a single Mario game, not even when it went 3D and became retarded easy (because that was when Zelda and Final Fantasy began to steal every second of my life).

 

[Gizmo_Gia_Gias]

The first time I did it was when I was playing Threads of Fate for the Ps1 when I was around 8 (great gem of a game that few people have heard of, at least thats what I think) I was playing Rues story got to the Ghost Temple where you have to fight 3 Chimera and each is more difficult than the last. The number of time I must have died to the foul beast boggles my mind. I gave up and never touch the game for at least 3 years. Came back to it finally beat him after maturing and get treated to a wonderful scene of the 4th Chimera being stomped by Duke who you have to fight right after. Whew that felt nice to say.

Xenosaga Ep II one save point away from the end of the game I stopped playing for a months, the combat system made random encounters so frustratingly long that I just could not take it anymore.

Nier. After beating the game you get the option of starting story B. Once you begin B you are treated to about 20 minutes of white text on a black background explaining the backstory of one of your party members. The moment I saw this I turned off the Ps3. This is compounded by the fact that one of the areas you go to The Forest of Myth, forces you to sit through the same thing in order to finish the area and you cannot skip the text in the forest because you are asked question about what you read and wrong answers start you over form the beginning.

So yeah, fornicate that

 

[Falcon123]

My first was in Gladius on the Gamecube. I realized pretty early on that the heavy class was overpowered as long as you knew how to get criticals (which were easy to get), so I stopped using my heroes and just focused on building up my heavies. I would even leave a few spots open so if they needed a specific class, I could just recruit some new ones with my massive pile of money. My school was all powerful, even if my heroes were massively underleveled (seriously, they were underpowered compared to even other murmillos or barbarian options, and you had more customization options).

Then of course, we get to the Windward Steppes and the game forces me into a battle I have to fight with my heroes against enemies levelled to the rest of my school. Needless to say, I was vastly underpowered, and my last save made it so I couldn't go back and grind them up. I was doomed to endlessly repeat the same damn battle with the vastly overrated and weak characters. If I wanted to get farther in the game, I'd have to revert to my backup save and grind endlessly for grinding's sake.

F*** that, my impatient 11 year old self said. And lo, it was that I removed the game from the gamecube and replaced it with the better-than-people-remember Super Mario Sunshine. And all was good.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

The Twin Bosses in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
A lot of segments in Deus Ex Human Revolution
The tank mission in Prototype
A lot of moments in Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
Mass Effect - During the final boss figght, my weapon cooldown froze, so I had to kill him with happy thoughts and a lot of dumb luck

 

[TheDudeEM]

Wanted: The Game-Halfway through the game on normal difficulty when I come across a turret section with me raining hot lead into the castle walls with a mounted machine gun. Somehow, no matter how many I take down, there's always more to kill me. Add to that when you take too much damage, your screen dims making it harder to see. I must have done that part over a dozen times and even lowered the difficulty to easy and still couldn't get passed it. Thank God I just rented it.

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men-The part where you fight off the guys in the makeshift grave and the bulldozer comes in. Me and a friend tried that level so many times until the game glitch and our characters were frozen. HAven't been back since.

My first one though was Suikoden 5-I was trying to get all 108 Star recruits. The only one left was the painter guy who will only join if you give him a specific painting. I scoured and farmed through levels to get ? paintings for him and none of them are it. I gave up and turned my attention to other games. 3 years later I go back and by my third time harvesting I get the damn thing.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Entering the Taris Lower City, in Knights of the Old Republic. Sith armour to fool the guard, can't bring Carth with me because he'd blow my cover, change back in the next area, and I get unavoidably cluster-f***ed by three dudes with better armour and weapons than exist previously. And that's on normal mode.

 

[Funkysandwich]

Kings Quest.
Police Quest.
Space Quest.

F**k you, Sierra.

 

[EHKOS]

The "Control" mission on Goldeneye 007 on Secret Agent difficulty as an 11 year old.

That reminds me of that one level in Nightfire where the snipers respawn every five seconds. I recently played through the game again and both levels I got tripped up on as a child I beat in one go.

 

[starhaven]

Two thirds through the first Suikoden game my memory card data somehow got corrupted and I just couldn't load any of my saves. Just threw it away...tho I did enjoy the second installment not long afterwards.

oh god as a lover of that game i must say that for me that would hurt so much


as for me it was a game called birth of amercia from steam looked like a indy total war type game and for the life of me i cant figure a dam thing out its sitting there installed staring at me as if to say hah i beat you

but i swear some day i will beat it

 

[NerfedFalcon]

prince of persia: sands of time. i got stuck on this one timed course for 2 days of trying. i gave up and haven't been back to it since

It helps if you use the 'jump' button to roll under the door; I saw it in a vision once, so that's how I know it's possible at all.

 

[Fasckira]

The speeder section of Battletoads on the SNES. Co-op mode. Nothing will end friendships faster.

Very much this, recall having to memorise the wall locations and yelling them out to each other.

For me it was probably Two Worlds though. I had just finished playing Oblivion and I was told that Two Worlds was insanely awesome, if not a tad glitchy, and that it was a really open RPG world with lots to do.
I decided to check it out on the 360 as I found a copy for a mere £3 in the local game store. I didnt bother reading the manual or the tutorial system and pretty much charged in... and died. Considering for the first few levels everything can pretty much wipe you out in a few hits compared to Oblivions pampering I got to the "Bugger this for a game of soldiers" stage pretty quickly.


Have since gone back to it and completed it several times though and now class it as one of my favourites but I still recall that controller-flung-onto-the-desk moment clearly.

 

[Reaper195]

Spiderman 2 for PC. Almost killed my entire love for everything Spidey.

This. I loved the console version. Then My ps2 broke and I thought "Yeah, this'll look actually better on my computer! *Gets game*
......FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

 

[Randomologist]

Probably when I was about 5, trying to get past the yeti on SkiFree.

 

[Blair Bennett]

LSD: Dream Simulator

Scares the fucking shit outta me o_0

Thank you, for being one of the only other people I've ever met, online or otherwise, who have any idea what this game is. Nothing is stranger, and it's impossible to even attempt to explain the damn thing without sounding like one ought to be committed, so just...just thanks.

OT: When my brother and I were kids, we had an N64 for all of maybe 2 months before we traded it with some guy for a PS1. Now, I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure the only game we had was Banjo Kazooie, and this is significant because at the ages that my brother and I were at we had no idea what the hell it was we were supposed to be doing. We knew there where puzzle pieces or something, and that collecting them was maybe a good idea, but we didn't have a memory card, so what we did was every once in a while we'd start the game up again, and we'd collect the same goddamn 4 puzzle pieces over and over again. It took, well, way longer than it maybe should have, but eventually, 7 year old me just said "Fuck it." and stopped collecting them.

 

[Newtonyd]

The speeder section of Battletoads on the SNES. Co-op mode. Nothing will end friendships faster.

Oh my god yes. Battletoads made me not speak to my friend for two weeks. The people who made that game deserve a swift kick to the pants.

There's hard, there's insane, and then there's Battletoads.

 

[Hookman]

GTA: San Andreas.

1.The mission where you have to get on a motorbike and follow a train, while Big Smoke nags you and occasionally decides to shoot at the guys on top of the train that he needs to kill before they reach the end of the level.

2. The 'Learning To Fly' mission. I never even got past it, my save file is stuck there to this day! If I wanted to fly through rings all day I would have bought Superman 64!

 

[Truniron]

Good old F1-racer on the game boy. The two first levels where easy, but after the third, the games flips the bird and gets ridiculously hard. Oh, and that Japan level can go F*** it self. Hated that level, but got so filled with rage that I refused to give up. 14 years later and over 80 retries later, and it is still just as impossible from stage 3 and up.

 

[BishopofAges]

I cannot remember my first, but the moment is always the same: the situation is confusing, no idea what to do, tried 7 upon 7 upon 7 times in different manners to find my way, solve the puzzle, kill the guy, get pissed after one more try then ask my friends what they think. If this line turns up nothing then at long last I hit gameFAQs, I know its a cop-out, but if I feel I've exhausted every other idea I had and am not having fun anymore, then it deserves a quick end.

 

[targren]

It was the dawn of the third age of video gaming, two years after the release of the NES. The Legend of Zelda was a dream given form. Your goal, to rescue Princess Zelda from the prince of darkness "Gannon"[0]. Two quests, eighteen dungeons, and a quarter of a hundred monsters and bosses wrapped in 1024 bits and glistening plastic colored like metal, all alone in the basement rec room. It can be a dangerous place, with Wizzrobes and Like Likes, but you're Zelda's last, best hope for rescue.

The year is 1987.
The name of the place is "Level 6."




[0]That's how they spelled it in that one. Flames to /dev/null