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

[scorptatious]

The first F@$* THIS!!! moment i can remember was back on The legend of zelda: Majoras Mask for N64. Trying to get your horse to jump over a large steel fence into the Gorman Ranch at an angle (at the time not realizing it an impossible jump), i tried over and over and over, until i literaly yelled, "alright! F*** this sh*t!!!!!"

"It doensn't go at an angle!"

Cookie for reference.

OT: Can't say I really remember my first, but probably the earliest one I can remember was Sonic 06. After beating Sonic's story, I tried out Silver and Shadow's stories. Didn't like either of them. I stopped playing right when I got past that stupid ball puzzle at the end of one of Silver's levels.

 

[VoidWanderer]

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

I love that game! Which part?

I hope you are thinking of the excellent one on the consoles...

But the craptacular PC version had

1) Glowing Spider Icons that are the only things you can swing on.

2) The 'world map' is corridored by buildings.

3) The boss fight against Mysterio had such a horrible camera angle, I want to find a PC version of this game, just to destroy the disc.

 

[WhatHityou]

halo 2 legendary, Never again.

 

[Birdman1604]

I can't remember any early ones. A recent one that comes to mind is Modern Warfare 2's Favela mission on Veteran. I swear there are not that many grenades in existence.

 

[The Gnome King]

We've all hit a point in a game where we just give up, something we just can't accept anymore, sometimes in otherwise perfectly good games, but most of the time in just plain awful games.

To me it was the very first TMNT game on the C-64 over 20 years ago, I got the swimming level, and after many many tries and many restarts (this was before the age of saves and level check points, you failed you started from the very beginning of the game) I just quit. I never saw past the 2nd or 3rd level of a game I was very excited about (big TMNT fan when I was 10) and saved for months to buy.

What was the first "oh F- This!" moment you ever had in gaming?

Honestly, it could have been that very same game for me - I remember being VERY frustrated by TMNT on the C64.

For me though it was the Bard's Tale game series. I was probably under 12 when I played most of those games and they could get *tough* at certain points, to the point where I think I appreciate the games a lot more now than I did then.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

I honestly can't remember my first one. Maybe something like Megaman 64 (Legends.) The earliest one I can remember was Xenosaga Ep 1. Every 2 enemies was a fucking boss battle and I didn't even make it a 10th of the way into the game before it got too hard I said "Fuck This Shit!"

Returned to it about a month later and figured out I completely didn't understand the leveling and experience systems in place the first time through. Then I pwned the game like it was my job.

 

[replingham153]

Demons and Dark Souls, The Bourne Conspiracy, the final boss on Turok (2008), Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox Ninety-Nine Nights (not in a difficulty way, more of a "holy shit this game is boring" way)

Oh my god Turok!

That boss level...

(If I knew how to put the "Oh God" meme face, I would.)

That took me 6 months... sweet Jesus!

Bad memory!

 

[Sewer Rat]

Trying to tow-cable an AT-AT.

Still can't do it on a lot of Star Wars games.

This. I ended up just crashing into the first AT AT I saw until it died in Rogue Squadron, of course that took all my extra lives and then of course there was another one right around the corner =_=, really need to go back and play that game again to see if those bits are still as much of a pain in the ass as I remember.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

I remember having a breakdown over one of the Doom games a long time ago...

But the first one I TRULY remember is FFVII with the Ruby and Emerald weapons. I was confident, I just needed to be clever right? Maybe try a few different times, a few different...ways...a few....oh holy fuck this shit is impossible.

I was about 7-9 at the time so in fairness...but yeah I remember getting really annoyed, I threw everything my young mind could think of, alas I lacked hades and W-summon and KOR and various other kickass things. Still, such is life. I finished the game otherwise, just those two...(I have now beaten them, I admit, twas a happy moment.)

 

[R0cklobster]

I've had a number of those moments playing MGS1 now for the first time almost 15 years after it was first released and having to deal with really frustrating backtracking, as well as some annoying checkpoint locations. Coming from modern games, it surprises you how infuriating the former can be. That being said I know that MGS1 probably isn't the best example of this, especially when compared with plenty of games from around or before that period.

 

[Rossmallo]

Mario Party 8.

May as well be called: "The Computer is a Cheating Bastard: The Game".

 

[ejb626]

Age 14, Halo 3, this was when I was introduced to online multiplayer and the concept that there are real people somewhere else in the world intent on murdering you for pretend, and sometimes they're a lot better at murdering you for pretend than you are at murdering them for pretend. Yet unlike NPCs they will also taunt you after they murder you for pretend. Basically my first ragequit.

 

[Phisi]

PLaying the Hunted mission in CoD4 on Veteren, tried for half an hour to run from covering behind the tractor to the basement and counldn't make it.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Alone in the Dark, PC version, where you were driving the cab as the street was getting torn up.

Assassin's Creed, about 20 minutes in. The boredom got me angry enough to stop playing.

Toejam & Earl, Sega Megadrive (Genesis) my brother and I were just about to collect the last piece of the ship when the game glitched and sent him back all the way to level 1, I was on the last level.

Thunderbirds, C64, couldn't make it out of the first level.

 

[Skekfaer]

Borderlands... What's up with the constant spawning of the same enemy in the same place of the same level... It's a drag more than anything else to go and deliver your quest and to turn around to see that all the enemies you just slaughtered stand up and demand a rematch for the bazillionth time.

 

[zigzigzigbah]

When i borrowed dead island from a friend, I dont care what anyone says about it, that was the most boring hour and a half of my life.
I gave it back to her the next day.

 

[Kermi]

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

 

[ghostrider9876]

Oddly, Little King's Story. I liked it at first. Then the minor annoyances of both gameplay AND story variety started creeping in. (Seriously. You're the KING. People can't just "vote against" the King's decision.) The bosses got harder and harder, for all the wrong reasons. The first time I ever said "F**K YOU" to a video game was that fat f**king Shishkebaboo and his f**king pinball machine boss fight, aka a boss fight BASED ENTIRELY ON LUCK and where "hitting the pinball" damages your "flippers," and "dropping the ball" erases a big chunk of the progress you've made fighting him. But I did eventually beat that one.

The point at which I nearly shattered my Wii remote came later, at the boss where you have to climb a mountainous obstacle course to reach him. Turns out that you can upgrade any soldiers, etc. in your army to like 14 units of health but you can -never- upgrade your King past the starting 3. So after dying on the way up that obstacle course and being forced to restart it more times than I care to remember, I said "f**k this" and quit.

 

[Tyrannical]

Water Temple of OoT.

 

[JesterRaiin]

This :

http://www.emuparadise.me/GameBase%20Amiga/Screenshots/S/Super_Cauldron_2.png

To this day i don't know what this game was about.