Crappy luck and frustrating moments in games.

[TOGSolid]

Can something be frustrating not because it's hard but because it's badly designed?

If so, then I nominate Halo 1 in which you follow the little blue ball thingy (shows how much of a 'fan' I am eh?) through this area. The flood start pouring out of the walls and what not and everything starts off good and great. I'm getting through it just fine, and then I start noticing something after about the second or third area. They're identical. Each god damn section was identical to the last...and they kept going on...and on...and on...I shut the game off and so began my hatred for halo.

 

[Sennz0r]

In Metroid Prime Hunters, that Morphball part with the lava and the pistons that One-hit-KO you.

Those who've played know what I'm talking about.

Good job bringing back those painful memories I baried in the coldest depths of my brain.

Yes, very annoying.

That wasn't too hard a section
Very annoying though I'll give you that

Anyone who ever played N+ on the XBox 360 knows I have had too many of these frustrating moments to list here.

I play it way too much and I'm ranked 13th out of the world. I know all too well of your pain.

-Ricky

Wow impressive. I was just happy I finished the campaign, then the Expert challenges got unlocked. Still have to finish the last episode of that one I believe.

Still, very proud of myself that I finished the damned campaign

 

[Mastersmoo]

Dieing in cod4 and respawning directly below an airstrike and dieing again to respawn just in time for the second jet. And again for the third.

Or getting killed by a helicopter just as you was about to get into cover only to respawn outside and get killed by the chopper again

 

[Death Magnetic]

Anyone who ever played N+ on the XBox 360 knows I have had too many of these frustrating moments to list here.

I play it way too much and I'm ranked 13th out of the world. I know all too well of your pain.

-Ricky

Wow impressive. I was just happy I finished the campaign, then the Expert challenges got unlocked. Still have to finish the last episode of that one I believe.

Still, very proud of myself that I finished the damned campaign

Seventh at the moment now, the key is patience and time.

-Ricky

 

[Maddenfreak]

I feel ya. Even though I treat BF2 like a god and make sacrifices to it daily, when I'm in the interior of the death Star I'll spawn, take 5 steps BLAM, dead, respawn at a different location, find it swarmed with the enemy, BLAM dead. GRRR!!!

 

[Sgt. Giggles]

CoD4 Multiplayer. I was the last guy on my team with the bomb ticking down for the win on Search and Destroy. While watching the bomb the last guy on the other team runs over and begins defusing in plain sight. Just as I set up the perfect head shot my controller craps out... Damn batteries.

 

[kibayasu]

Oh, pretty much every level, barring the first few, in SWAT 4.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Fighting the dragons in Baldur's Gate II drove me insane. I eventually fastened on a strategy that involved Feeblemind, which would prevent the dragon from doing anything provided it failed the saving throw (not often). There was an amusing moment, however, when one of my wizards spontaneously Disintegrated the dragon in the second round of combat, leaving me staring open-mouthed in shock.

That and finding some godawful "Immune to Physical Stoneskin Lightning Enchanted Multishot" boss in Diablo II was enough to make me restart my game. You just have to acknowledge that you are NEVER killing that sucker.

The second chariot race in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones followed by the Twins fight inspired some truly amazing profanity, as well. I don't break things, but I certainly cuss.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Any time Final Fantasy Tactics refuses to make my buffs work because I don't have the time to grind up my units' Faith levels.

 

[CIA]

Can something be frustrating not because it's hard but because it's badly designed?

If so, then I nominate Halo 1 in which you follow the little blue ball thingy (shows how much of a 'fan' I am eh?) through this area. The flood start pouring out of the walls and what not and everything starts off good and great. I'm getting through it just fine, and then I start noticing something after about the second or third area. They're identical. Each god damn section was identical to the last...and they kept going on...and on...and on...I shut the game off and so began my hatred for halo.

For me it just spawned an acute hatred of libraries.

 

[mr mcshiznit]

Going for the geometry wars 2 acheivement where you go through 30 circles without shooting or getting shot... ive got 29 bout 100 times.. i cry.

 

[Alone Disciple]

Maybe my driving skills are that bad....but in Mercs 2....the part where you need to test drive that off road SUV through a sand pit area and you have to do it before time runs out.

Must have seen that finish line dozens upon dozens of times, where I fail at last checkpoint. And have to do the whole thing all over again.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Fighting the dragons in Baldur's Gate II drove me insane. I eventually fastened on a strategy that involved Feeblemind, which would prevent the dragon from doing anything provided it failed the saving throw (not often). There was an amusing moment, however, when one of my wizards spontaneously Disintegrated the dragon in the second round of combat, leaving me staring open-mouthed in shock.

That and finding some godawful "Immune to Physical Stoneskin Lightning Enchanted Multishot" boss in Diablo II was enough to make me restart my game. You just have to acknowledge that you are NEVER killing that sucker.

The second chariot race in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones followed by the Twins fight inspired some truly amazing profanity, as well. I don't break things, but I certainly cuss.

Kick those bosses' asses every time. If your a barbarian, the key is to have magical weapons, and you don't have to worry too much about life since the barbarian is a survivor, really tough. Whatever character class you are, they key is to keep up a relentless attack while simultaneously pretty much freebasing health potions. It can be a long, hard battle that involves spending a lot of money, but you can do it. Like I said, the main strategy is to just keep hitting him, give him a super kick-ass barrage. I spent ten minutes killing one that way once, but it worked, and I didn't die one time myself.

EDIT: also, if possible, stand at a distance. If you do, you'll be able to avoid a reasonable amount of the lightning that comes off him when you hit him, since it spreads out and eventually just fizzles into nothing.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Fighting the dragons in Baldur's Gate II drove me insane. I eventually fastened on a strategy that involved Feeblemind, which would prevent the dragon from doing anything provided it failed the saving throw (not often). There was an amusing moment, however, when one of my wizards spontaneously Disintegrated the dragon in the second round of combat, leaving me staring open-mouthed in shock.

That and finding some godawful "Immune to Physical Stoneskin Lightning Enchanted Multishot" boss in Diablo II was enough to make me restart my game. You just have to acknowledge that you are NEVER killing that sucker.

The second chariot race in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones followed by the Twins fight inspired some truly amazing profanity, as well. I don't break things, but I certainly cuss.

Kick those bosses' asses every time. If your a barbarian, the key is to have magical weapons, and you don't have to worry too much about life since the barbarian is a survivor, really tough. Whatever character class you are, they key is to keep up a relentless attack while simultaneously pretty much freebasing health potions. It can be a long, hard battle that involves spending a lot of money, but you can do it. Like I said, the main strategy is to just keep hitting him, give him a super kick-ass barrage. I spent ten minutes killing one that way once, but it worked, and I didn't die one time myself.

EDIT: also, if possible, stand at a distance. If you do, you'll be able to avoid a reasonable amount of the lightning that comes off him when you hit him, since it spreads out and eventually just fizzles into nothing.

Heh, I don't know which version of Diablo II YOU played, but once you get to Hell difficulty (the only place you'll find a boss with that many attributes) you're not going to kill something with only the little dribbles of elemental damage you can get from magical weapons, which puts the Barbarian and a spear-Amazon in an awkward position.

Add to that the fact that lightning-enchanted multishot emits massive gobs of electricity that can 1-hit level 80 characters with 5K+ health and maxed-out lightning resistance even at extreme range and you've got a recipe for serious annoyance. It's just not worth killing the boss at that point.

Bosses with thorns at that level become pretty nasty, too. Very often you do more than enough damage to one-hit yourself on their aura.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Aha. Never got that far in Diablo II. See, the computer it was on crashed several months ago and this one doesn't have the ass to run it. And I missed that it also had multi-shot, sorry for that.

 

[Gotham Soul]

Level 3 Sniping challenge in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

I lost four or five times because the car didn't explode fast enough.

 

[TwilightFan182]

Assassins creed; going perfectly silent on a mission only to have some fucking drunkard you dont see around the corner push you into a guard.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE

The exact same thing but the lepar pushes you into water and you die! AND YOU HAD TO TRY 50 TIMES JUST TO FINISH THAT LEVEL

DAMN YOU LEPAR!!!!

The Lepers (spelling ire, deal with it) are a pain, but your supposed to avoid them by going along the boats and dockpoles in the harbor.

And just to show off my brain-muscles, there are only Drunks in that section.

Sorry to interject and correct you further, but you used the wrong version of "you're/your". Yes, I judge you when you use poor grammar. I'm sorry. Now, back on topic. The final stage of the arena in Fable 1, when you haven't gone back in and are looking at a 100k gold prize for beating your partner from the team round. That girl is so fast and annoying, and I usually had no healing potions and very little HP left by this point.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Add to that the fact that lightning-enchanted multishot emits massive gobs of electricity that can 1-hit level 80 characters with 5K+ health and maxed-out lightning resistance even at extreme range and you've got a recipe for serious annoyance. It's just not worth killing the boss at that point.

You know what's worse? even a couple of hits on a Multishot/Lightning Enchant will spawn more gobs of lightning than the game engine can render, so you can be standing somewhere you think is perfectly save when bam, you're dead to something you couldn't see.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Here's a frustrating moment for you: the quick-time sequences during the fight with the Emperor at the end of Force Unleashed. (press x to not die-really, really fast!)

 

[Nagamasa_Azai]

Heres 2 of my all time favourite moments -

1 - Missing with 95% accuracy in Fallout (any) Seriously, it happens WAAAAAAAAAAAY too frequently. I know that 95% accuracy represents a 1 in 20 miss chance, but even so its just stupid. I mean the molerat was almost eating my gun barrel...how do you miss from that range!?

2 - Civilisations IV. Here is the scenario. Babylonian crossbowman on a hillside. Modern Infantryman on a neighbouring hillside. The game gives me a 98.6% chance of victory. I attack, and fail. Im sure i speak for a lot of people when i say this, but random chance mechanics in combat can FUCK . RIGHT . OFF