A game says f*** you

[AroLombardi]

Fallout New Vegas is kind of a d*ck to me. I'd be walking along when an annoying Cazador pops by and poisons me. I hate Cazadors more than anything else in that game, so I beat it to death. Five meters after that, I stumble onto a nest. I died after only killing one.

But that was probably because I was stingy with my 130 Stimpaks.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

The Strider/Hunter battle near the end of HL2:E2. Just beat it tonight and boy do I want to punch the people who thought it was a good idea.

OK, you get these balls that destroy the Striders in one hit, but you got to use the gravity gun to stick it to them and then shoot it. But the bombs won't stick unless you kill two Hunters that accompany each Strider, which is no easy task. They also won't stick even if you shoot it at them but it doesn't stick because the bombs just don't feel like it. Oh yeah, and there is no ammo anywhere, so if you run out of shotgun/rocket launcher/pulse rifle/magnum/machine gun ammo fighting the millions of Hunters, you are pretty much screwed. You CAN use shoot the tree trunks using the gravity gun, but that does a total of 0 damage.

I'm exaggerating of course, but really frustrated me to no end.

 

[TheTim]

Call of duty 4 veteran, call of duty world at war veteran, call of duty modern warfare 2 veteran, call of duty black ops veteran, mass effect 2 insanity. And playing against expert computers on company of heroes

 

[TheLoneBeet]

Shadow Link in Ocarina of Time. Also, Demon's Souls in it's entirety.

 

[SargentToughie]

Guitar Hero 3: Rock battle with slash on expert.

I'm no master of the series, not by any means whatsoever, but when a game tells me to go suck on my thumb, cry in the corner, skip this battle, and then come back when I'm a REAL man, I get kinda pissed.

And when Toughie gets kinda pissed, he puts games down... forever.

That's right, the battle against slash on expert forever killed the entire Guitar Hero line of games for me.

Good job, guys.

 

[RivFader86]

Jagged Alliance 2....quite a lot of moments where you just seem to miss and the enemy just shoots you in the head each time or a door opens and you get a shotgun blast from 2 feet away

 

[Lightning Delight]

Dragon Age: Origins. Seriously. That game punishes exploration. There were a dozen times when I would be looting everything I could find, and I searched a gravestone and a god damn Revenant appeared. They would always be 10 levels higher than me, too. Or I would be walking through a cave and a dragon would just appear and eat my face.

And then there were a few times in Mass Effect where I had full health and full shields in the middle of a firefight, and an enemy sniper would kill me with one shot when I popped out of cover.

Why do you hate me, Bioware?

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Console ports for PC that have terrible mouse control. Is that really so hard to program?

 

[PeePantz]

OT: New Vegas's constant "you are free to roam anywhere you want, but if you deviate from the path we tell you for the first 20 hours we will fuck you up". Seriously, the road south there's a couple of powder gangers, every other conceivable directions there's scorpions and cazadores and deathclaws and everything else that will destroy you in less than 6 seconds.

I recently got that game and have been playing the proverbial "shit" out of it. I'm actually happy I got scared away from other paths because I just mopped up the lower half of the screen and funneled into the middle, finally hitting the Strip at a 20+ level. I am owning the strip and haven't even really scratched the game's main story line. In a way, the game forced me to be more creative in finding different paths all around, causing me to gobble up xp.

OT: Coincidentally, New Vegas has been giving me the biggest fuck yous with the bugs and all the crashing. Nothing like losing a couple hours from a corrupt save file a couple times while the game froze/crashed. After this happened twice, I now manually save after every single somewhat big happening. As great as this game is, it is constantly sneaking up on me and pissing in my ear.

 

[Chalacachaca]

The cliffracers in Morrowind are one of the biggest f*ck you's of all time (At least they are when you're beggining the game).

 

[Xooiid]

Alice: Madness Returns. The camera constantly flipping around and making my platforms unseeable/change my direction in mid jump. It's basically a giant middle finger, especially in the underwater level. See those stalagmites? That's nature's middle finger, laughing at you.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Assassins Creed 2 the game is amazingly easy all the way through and then you get to the bit with the guy on the boat...surrounded by guards and you have to kill him without being detected. This include as your about an inch away from stabbing him it goes 'NO THEY SAW YOU TRY AGAIN' -.-

 

[Dango]

Several Total War games.

Those times when everything is going great and you're expanding at such a great pace, killing everyone in your way...

And then that one huge army comes into view and decides to mess up all the progress you made.

...Or when Mongols arrive in Medieval 2.

 

[yankeefan19]

An iPod game I have called Gravity Guy, in which you run through a course without stopping while shifting gravity. There is a powerup you can get that turns on slow-mo, but you have to buy a pack of 5 for $.99. If you do badly while playing the game, it will give you a message saying "You seem to be having some trouble, would you like to use a slow-mo?" I didn't know about the cost at this point so I clicked "yes" and it sent me to the screen to buy packs of slow-mo. I could just imagine a trollface popping up at the transaction screen.

 

[mjc0961]

Every time Spirit Tracks asked me to do a stupid pan flute duet with one of those Lokomos assholes. You do it perfectly and the game just says "fuck you" by having the other guy decide you didn't play it right and thus you have to do it again. And again. And again. You know what, fuck you too Spirit Tracks.

Also, every second I played inFamous was a second it was giving me two middle fingers.

Console ports for PC that have terrible mouse control. Is that really so hard to program?

Ugh, yeah, I hate that too. They don't even program a full options menu. If you want to set the sensitivity properly and disable acceleration and whatever nasty assist shit they put in there, you have to quit the game and go rooting through an INI file. I mean come on developers, is it really that hard to spend an extra bit of time putting in a proper options menu for the PC version of your game? -_-

 

[cryogeist]

Terraria+corruption+blood moon is rising!= mother f*^ker

 

[godfist88]

In left 4 dead when I was caught by a smoker, then immediately slimed by a boomer, while being beat up by a tank.

Yikes, just Yikes.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Ninja Gaiden II could fill this thread all by itself with its "fuck you" moments.