Your Least Satisfying Gaming Victory

[Vault101]

Incredibly obvious answer: ME3, pre extended cut. I cured the genophage, united the Quarians and the Geth, beat the Reapers... and all I got was a blue beam of light.
.

Beat me too it

I dont know what the fuck was going on but it was NOT satisfying....

now going toe to toe with Harbinger "shadow of colussus" style while he tried to talk you down..THAT would have been an ending worthy

*sigh*

 

[Sir Boss]

Napoleon Total War, playing as the french, moving in on Austria. I won the battle, but suffered something like 80% casualties, so I had to fall back to rebuild my army, and give the Austrians ground. That was no true victory there. That was truly bitter.

 

[Blunderboy]

I once made a guy resign fifteen minutes into a game of AOE2.



By building a wall.

WHAT

Absolutely ANYONE ELSE would think "well, touche!" and get working on the siege weapons.

OT: The final boss in the original Tomb Raider glitched into a wall and died. That was... sad.

I know. I was looking forward to another 3 or 4 hour session with the usual group. Luckily I was able to convince him to start again. Where I trounced him with regular units instead of buildings.

I once made a guy resign fifteen minutes into a game of AOE2.

By building a wall.

"My God. What is this sorcery?!"

I can't imagine how that wouldn't be satisfying, to thoroughly demoralize someone through clever masonry tactics.

Yeah I guess it was but when you're getting set for a marathon, a sprint is pretty crap.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Bioshock bossfight with Atlas, in the main game I discovered that using fully upgraded chemthrower with electric gel while also having all the possible electric damage enhancing plasmids it was easy as fuck to take down any version of a big daddy so I thought I'll bring the same combo to the final fight and it lasted something like 30 seconds, I was to blame but yeah it took away any chalange and I just stood there feeling empty while the little fucks had their way with the supposed superhuman.

 

[Revolutionary]

Obviously the pre-EC mass effect 3 ending.
Also the non-special edition (extended) ending of Alan wake was a bit lackluster, confusing, and generally disappointing.
Rage also had a pretty shocking (poor) ending, oh and Two worlds, and FFXIII, don't get me started on the splinter cell conviction co-op ending. I could go on really.

 

[Casual Shinji]

That capture the flag minigame in Assassin's Creed 2 during the carnaval.

You start on top a building, and there's no other way to get to the flag before your adversary without hurling yourself off the roof and losing 80% of your health. The moment the other guy gets the flag you're fucked, because he out runs you no matter how much you try and catch up. And you have to do this three times, the third being an experiment in pure brain-bleeding frustration. This one moment alone almost drags down what was till that point a fantastic game.

And all of this is so you can win a golden mask which you need to enter the area where your next target is. But in the end you get cheated out of it, and you're forced to simply steal the stupid thing when you could've just fucking done that from the start

 

[Nihlus2]

Well have to say it is to this day still ME3, and I nailed that in first playthrough without the internet, any walkthroughs or anything, with best possible ending. Pre-extended cut. (Although this gripe still applies post-extended cut).

The choices to this day still feels very unpersonal and not applicable to the universe as much as to general philosophical and ethnical questions.

That and I had a feeling I was playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but without any real context/connection to the ending choices. As these things didn't really take into account Shepard's journey and experiences as much as maybe Jensen's dillemas,

Existence and life are two entirely different concepts to revolve choices about. When you think about it.



However that one was obvious so...

Another one would have to Legacy of Kain: Defiance. This one on the other hand is more of an immersive sense of "least satisfying victory", it ends on a very bittersweet note. So I suppose that is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It barely even felt like a victory, more like a turning point - which in this instance is a good kind of thing.

Although it does have the downside that it never really concluded the series after that cliffhanger. Still, good a series, good games.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

My fourth playthrough of Dragon`s Dogma. I beat the big red and the final boss but it was frustrating.
Don`t get me wrong i still like this game but wanted to be done with it. I didn`t use a second save because there was no way i could mess up this one mission for the golden idol (never happened before) and guess what? I messed it up and i`m still missing the damn hero trophy. Next time i`m going to use a second save for sure.

 

[Iwata]

Napoleon Total War, playing as the french, moving in on Austria. I won the battle, but suffered something like 80% casualties, so I had to fall back to rebuild my army, and give the Austrians ground. That was no true victory there. That was truly bitter.

The very definition of a Pyrrhic Victory.

"Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone"

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Whenever I had to resort to using the grenade boss glitch in Blaster Master because I didn't want to have to start over from scratch.

King K. Rool in DKC. You just jump on his head when he throws his crown, over and over. Its like fighting a really determined Goomba that doesn't know it could be a Spiny.

 

[Razentsu]

It would have to be a Magic: the Gathering game. Many moons ago, back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. I was playing in a draft tourney, and in the final round, match tied 1-1, I was about to lose the match (and subsequently the tourney). So I convinced my opponent that I was about to win, and he promptly conceded to save time.

That is absolutely wonderful. I wouldn't feel bad about that at all.

Man, what an awesome way to win. XD

It'd be a little silly, but I'd leave smiling after winning like that.

 

[Vegosiux]

Guild Wars 2.

Spoiler

After fighting through Zhaitan's forces, both on land and in air you're treated to a pretty cinematic where the airship gun blasts the tail end off Zhaitan forcing him to land on a nearby tower. After mopping up the remaining forces on deck you then sit on a cannon and keep pressing "2" until he dies and falls into the abyss. The fights leading up to Zhaitan are great but the final encounter is 100% anti-climatic and isn't the slightest bit satisfying.

What I found even more galling was that characters talk about him in the same tone of voice one would use to say "Why, we're having such nice weather today, aren't we?" But hey, the explorable more than makes up for it.

The Lich King in World of Warcraft.

Beating him has a "Fuck Yeah" feeling to it, but the ending cutscene strips all that satisfaction away.

Spoiler

It turns out that Arthas was grateful to finally be rid of Ner'Zhul.

Anub'arak HC with 50 tries left was my case. Or rather my raid group's case. The general sentiment was "Can we go back to Ulduar again for the next few weeks instead of farming this place?"

 

[Beautiful End]

AC2. Punch the pope to win. Screw your weapons and everything you've learned.

Meh.

 

[crazyrabbits]

I remember, back in those halcyon SNES days, I played Super Mario World like mad, and somehow got to the Special World on my own without a walkthrough. I remember getting to Tubular (which is the most difficult level in the game), and being so angry that I could never complete that I'd often throw my controller on the floor. Fast-forward many years later, and I found that you could use a Blue Yoshi to pass the level. I reloaded the game in a ROM, played through as small Mario with a blue Yoshi, swallowed a Koopa and won on my first try. It probably should have been satisfying, but I felt like a chump.

Also, the final boss battle in the original Deus Ex. The first 98% of the game is some of the best FPS/RPG gaming of all time, but the lackluster way you get the endings aren't up to snuff. I remember turning on the final generator to stop Bob Page, while a melee was going on between a security bot and genetically-engineered creatures behind me, watching Page blow up like a fool, and thinking, "This should be awesome, but it really isn't". Same goes for the final boss in Human Revolution - I still had a plasma rifle with me, and decided to shoot it through the glass at her on a lark. I won the game in twenty seconds.

 

[aguspal]

I GUESS that one time were I was overleveled IN A RPG in a MAIN STORY BATTLE.


As in, around HALF the time I play any of those GAMMES.


Like, say, SKYRIM. but then again that whole game was a little screwed up with BALANCE. I still loved it, thougt.

 

[Mordekaien]

AC2. Punch the pope to win. Screw your weapons and everything you've learned.

Meh.

Yeah, you would think that in a game about assassination, there would be a lot more stabbing involved.

For me, it was when I defeated Joker in Arkham Asylum. It felt.... anticlimactic.

 

[crono738]

Beating Demon's Soul's the last boss was just so easy after the rest of the game was so hard.

This. The final boos being a barely mobile pile of slime was disappointing to say the least.