Crappy luck and frustrating moments in games.

[ProfessorLayton]

There is this one quest in Fallout 3 where you have to deliver a message to some chick's family. Well, you have to find this city, and turns out her family is dead. Then you have to go find their son who was kidnapped. You go into this place that's got raiders and radscorpions. You know the drill... go into the place, kill the raiders, take their clothes, find whatever you're looking for. Well, what happened was I killed all the raiders, and then found a room with a lock on it. I couldn't pick it and had to find a key. I walked around the place for 20 minutes and couldn't find a key, or anything left alive. I decided to teleport to megaton and do the quest later, but guess what? You can't teleport from where I was! So I had to find a way out, and it was like trying to find your way out of a hall of mirrors. So I ended up walking in circles for 30 minutes until I turned off the game.

(BTW if anyone knows how to do that quest, message me)

 

[Ingatius]

There is always one boss fight in every Final Fantasy game that I get stuck on for days.

The most frustrating on for me was in Final Fantasy X, and the boss fight was lady Lady Yunalesca, and the most frustrating part of the whole thing was it was not that I didn't have the power necessary to beat here, it was that I was just in a poor situation.

There was a large amount of battles prior to the throw down with Yunalesca, and most of my heavy hitters were really weakened and on top of that I didn't have a decent supply of aids.

So for the next hellish two weeks I just kept playing the boss fight over and over and over and over again until I beat here.

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Jumplion]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl hates me.

And I hate it back.

It's a mutual relationship.

 

[plastic_window]

The last level of Abe's Exodus. I genuinely couldn't complete it... until 2 months ago. YES! Now all I have to do is go to Japan and punch God and I shall be whole.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

HOLY SHIT. No game has ever pissed me off more than True Crime: Streets of LA. There is a boss fight near the end that I never got past. Fucker was practically indestructible, and every kick he landed sent me flying into the flames surrounding the area. God-modeing, meet video games.

 

[megapenguinx]

The license test in the Gran Turismos.
Everyone in my house knows when I'm doing them because of the endless stream of profanity. I usually end up smashing a controller.

This is to get the Gold by the way

 

[Dancingman]

Okay, this is not like those two threads that are basically the same about funny kills or deaths. It can be funny, but it doesn't have to be. This is about parts or levels of games that just piss you off, or some time when it just didn't go your way. maybe you accidentally stirred up a shit storm just when you didn't need it, or maybe a level, boss, or even a multiplayer deathmatch or something in a game that despite your best efforts just kicks your ass. Any time you've had bad luck, or a game just pissed you off to no end. Maybe you're playing and you've just - almost - got it- and then bam! dead, just before you manage to succeed.

Here's one of mine: I was playing KOTOR and I was in the sith facility on that watery planet (the one with the firaxan sharks). Not the one that was under the water, but the Sith headquarters on that planet. Anyways, it was that one room full of Sith troopers with a couple Dark Jedi and a Sith captain. I tell ya, that one just kept on gettin me. The thing is, I had played through KOTOR before and until this time had not trouble with this part. I kept getting stuck in Force Whirlwind by one of the Dark Jedi, while everyone else shot me or killed my party members. I broke the controller I was using, I threw it so many times. I propbably died more than six times in that room alone.

The planet is called Manaan

 

[Russian Redneck]

I was crawlgrinding through the second dungeon of Persona 4 last night and it seriously grinded my shit. A few things have been annoying me about the game since I finally got past the three-hour long intro. The fact that enemies can notice you WHILE you're behind them is a load of bull. I can understand when their bodies are slightly turned or you're approaching off the side but directly behind them? This is important because to get first strike on your enemy, you have to hit them directly from behind and if you swing too late, you enter the battle handicapped enough to give your enemies an advantage even when they don't get the first strike. Speaking of first strikes, telling the distance between you and an enemy is also a pain is the balls thanks to a grossly unwieldy camera that took one too many steps backwards from Persona 3 and ended up jumping off a cliff and into Shit Central. It's impossible to tell exactly how far apart you are from a Shadow and if you swing to early or too late then they'll get the chance to move before you.

Well, something like that happened to me last night but while I could have defeated the enemy with relative ease had I swung at the right time, this enemy happened to be able to inflict the Fear condition. Combined with the fact that they summoned a creature who could One-Hit Kill anyone afflicted with Fear and had no weaknesses made them borderline broken. So, the moment of "jacked-up" happened something like this:

-Enemy uses Evil Smile
-Teammates are afflicted with Fear
-Enemy summons One-Hit Kill monster
-OHK monster uses Ghastly Wail
-It's a One-Hit Knock Out!
-Fission Mailed. Try again?

And this was only in the second dungeon! I'd hate to think what the later dungeons are like!

 

[The Lawn]

For me... it was the Shrek game for the GameCube.
The Ice Queen boss fight was so bullshitty, and the AI cheated to boot...

I hurled my controller at a wall so hard the left trigger broke.

The second incident was in CoD4, I was going for the finish a match without dying.
2 seconds... TWO FUCKMOTHERING SECONDS!!! from the end, some **** randomly tossed his grenade and it landed at my feet...

 

[ganpondorodf]

In Shenmue anytime you'd be in a fight, and Ryo would end up facing the other way and spend five minutes getting kicked in the ass until he passed out. A terrible game, but I still love it for some unknown reason.

Is there a thread for brilliant luck in games? I have a couple of good ones.

 

[neoxdonut]

Playing the campaign for Call Of Duty: World At War on veteran..

 

[The Giggling Pin]

The second level of Metal Slug 3, the one where you first encounter the zombies. I love the game more than life itself and while i love it i also hate it. I like to bash out really high scores so i would fly through the first level and rescue all the hostages and keep the slug intact and get the "super ultra uber mega bonus". The second level was easy up until the last boss where i would always get to almost the last shot on the boss where i would be killed by a bloody falling pillar o' death. ARRRRGHH! I can feel the rage build up inside as i speak. So many broken controllers, so many sore knuckles. Oh how i look back and laugh at my near adolescent rage!

 

[Revernd Awesome]

Missing 3 95% chance headshots on the V.A.T.s in Fallout 3 and then getting ripped to shreds by a Deathclaw, who had 1 freakin' life left.

And he killed my dog.

 

[Wislong]

Playing any Chinese or Korean guy at any game ever, online.

 

[bmf185]

Traveling anywhere in Far Cry 2 on any difficulty above Normal is just asking to be swarmed by the unbelievably hostile inhabitants of Africa. However, sometimes nothing happens at all. Re-hee-diculous.

 

[acer840]

Playing the campaign for Call Of Duty: World At War on veteran..

I know what you mean.
*Sneaks behind cover while battle ensues*
"Nobody saw me get here, in a sec, I'll pop up and..."
*Sound of 4 to 6 grenades landing within 2 feet of me*
"...sh-"

That game has officialy earned my "Game With Spamming" Award.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Riicek]

My most recent one, the stupid meteor shooting bit in Dead Space. I keep telling myself that it wasn't really that hard, but I wanted to break the Xbox nonetheless. I'm dreading that part on my next playthrough.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

There is already a thread for this.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.81860

Hey, jackass, the OP of this thread is over two months before yours. This is the original thread. Quit copy catting people and them accusing them of doing the same.

Okay, this is not like those two threads that are basically the same about funny kills or deaths. It can be funny, but it doesn't have to be. This is about parts or levels of games that just piss you off, or some time when it just didn't go your way. maybe you accidentally stirred up a shit storm just when you didn't need it, or maybe a level, boss, or even a multiplayer deathmatch or something in a game that despite your best efforts just kicks your ass. Any time you've had bad luck, or a game just pissed you off to no end. Maybe you're playing and you've just - almost - got it- and then bam! dead, just before you manage to succeed.

Here's one of mine: I was playing KOTOR and I was in the sith facility on that watery planet (the one with the firaxan sharks). Not the one that was under the water, but the Sith headquarters on that planet. Anyways, it was that one room full of Sith troopers with a couple Dark Jedi and a Sith captain. I tell ya, that one just kept on gettin me. The thing is, I had played through KOTOR before and until this time had not trouble with this part. I kept getting stuck in Force Whirlwind by one of the Dark Jedi, while everyone else shot me or killed my party members. I broke the controller I was using, I threw it so many times. I propbably died more than six times in that room alone.

The planet is called Manaan

Thank you very much. That was still bothering me to this day.