Do you ever get the feeling that your games are just fucking with you?

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Stronghold battle against the Imps in Soul Storm. If I built my base outside my original safe-house, it'd be bombed to bits by this goddamn artillery cannon. Eventually, I'm going to run out of goddamn resources. How am I supposed to win while being cramped into a tiny space with enemies constantly attacking me?
[sub]I probably wasn't very good at it but I defeated every race before them with ease except the Tau. I had to re-build my base in that one. I tip my hat in respect to IronLore because that was pretty damn fun.[/sub]
 

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Reaper195 said:
I Wanna Be The Guy. That game was made to do nothing but fuck with you. You spend an hour trying to get past a single screen, you succeed at getting past all these fucking spikey things through perfectly timed jumps....only for the pattern to change completely about midway through and kill you. And then it does it three more times. I got a total of nine screens. I hate that game with such a passion.
It's definately a game that infinitely more fun to watch someone else play rather than playing it yourself XD

I have decided it's actively trolling the player (unlike Super Meat Boy, that game just fucking hates you with a passion.)

There's this one part where you need to jump through some spikes to turn off a fan, get back through the spikes and when you try and double jump through the now inactive fan Ryu from Streek Fighter comes out of nowhere and spin kicks you

U mad bro?

Oh and since this is I Wanna Be The Guy we're talking about i should say...

APPLES DO NOT FALL UP
 

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Borderlands.

Boasts something like 16 million supposedly randomized weapon spec combinations, yet every gun seems to to balanced to have one stat boosted and another complete shit; you NEVER find the perfect combination: High power? No scope. Scope? Shitty power. Elemental effect? Sweet! Accuracy? Ass. And forget about trying to find the holy grail of the perfect combination of power, accuracy, fire rate, elemental effect AND zoom! Will. Not. Happen. What ensues is a 69 level grind of picking up and dropping the same four guns with slightly different specs. And just when you get a decent gun, you level up and the same four guns that got you this far now, at best, cause minor skin irritation because the baddies level up with you; your search for guns starts over. It's not so much the advertised "Gun Porn" as it is just painful marathon masturbating to the view through a gun store's front window. I carried 15 SMGs because each had one decent spec; if I could only find a way to get them to form Voltron or some shit...
Try and find a combustion hellfire, they are fucking awesome.
 

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On Oblivion, I wiped out more than 40 dungeons before I finally found a daedric helmet.
 

spartan773

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Cut the Rope for the iphone or ipod touch... it was clearly designed for people with styluses.
 

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Da Orky Man said:
On Oblivion, I wiped out more than 40 dungeons before I finally found a daedric helmet.
Similar to me; I went through to Elven before I replaced my Steel claymore, at level 13.
 
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The Wykydtron said:
Reaper195 said:
I Wanna Be The Guy. That game was made to do nothing but fuck with you. You spend an hour trying to get past a single screen, you succeed at getting past all these fucking spikey things through perfectly timed jumps....only for the pattern to change completely about midway through and kill you. And then it does it three more times. I got a total of nine screens. I hate that game with such a passion.
It's definately a game that infinitely more fun to watch someone else play rather than playing it yourself XD

I have decided it's actively trolling the player (unlike Super Meat Boy, that game just fucking hates you with a passion.)

There's this one part where you need to jump through some spikes to turn off a fan, get back through the spikes and when you try and double jump through the now inactive fan Ryu from Streek Fighter comes out of nowhere and spin kicks you

U mad bro?

Oh and since this is I Wanna Be The Guy we're talking about i should say...

APPLES DO NOT FALL UP
They're more like giant cherries...

And I forget what I was going to say, because I Wanna Be the Guy is worse.

Oh, wait, now I remember. Alpha-152 from DOA4. Fuck that Listerine ***** from hell and her 50%+ health off counters.
 

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God of War.

There's a part in the later half where you have to balance on some bars while blades spin all over the place. The camera decides to freak out (completely taking away your control over it) when you land, not showing the next blades coming for you, and I died a lot. Then the piece of shit game 'recommends' that I lower the difficulty, WHICH ONLY AFFECTS THE ENEMY HP AND STR!!!

I have never felt a game was actually mocking me before then.
Ah God of war, it mocks us all
I was once playing through the game on god mode (hardest) And I was at the Minotaurboss after a long, painfull run. he had all his armour off, his hp bar was nearly empty, and he pulled ---the firespam everywhere attack--- on me, which I haven't been able to dodge or block in any way. It takes approximately 70% of your max HP + Chamber of bounty or something. I had about 20% of my hp left because just 4 seconds before, he pulled the same bullshit move on me. So I died, one, maybe two hits away from victory. I nearly exploded with rage.
*reads god of war 1 online guide*
I knew that attack was bullsh**,unblockable in every way. and I've been in the wrong plane according to the guide guy. I wonder if my ps2 has the savegame on it still.
Vengeance will be mine
 

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Aeshi said:
Xprimentyl said:
Borderlands.

Boasts something like 16 million supposedly randomized weapon spec combinations, yet every gun seems to to balanced to have one stat boosted and another complete shit; you NEVER find the perfect combination: High power? No scope. Scope? Shitty power. Elemental effect? Sweet! Accuracy? Ass. And forget about trying to find the holy grail of the perfect combination of power, accuracy, fire rate, elemental effect AND zoom! Will. Not. Happen. What ensues is a 69 level grind of picking up and dropping the same four guns with slightly different specs. And just when you get a decent gun, you level up and the same four guns that got you this far now, at best, cause minor skin irritation because the baddies level up with you; your search for guns starts over. It's not so much the advertised "Gun Porn" as it is just painful marathon masturbating to the view through a gun store's front window. I carried 15 SMGs because each had one decent spec; if I could only find a way to get them to form Voltron or some shit...
I've played to level 52 and most of the guns I've found tend to be reasonably balanced, maybe you're just unlucky? (Although I play 2-player with my brother so maybe that has something to do with it?)

Plus I've heard that in Borderlands 2 you'll be able to take guns apart and use the parts to build your own gun.
No, not unlucky; you're right, the game does offer balanced weapons, but my complaint is that the best possible iterations of those 16 million possibilities simply do not happen. The guns it offers level with you, but it never 'randomly' serves up a GREAT gun; they're all merely "good enough" for the next three or four levels; you never really get that feeling of weilding the "Finger of God" a game that sells itself as "gun porn" leads you to believe you should eventually. I've got a level 69 character, took a lot of time to get here, and between my guns being slight variations of "vanilla" and the enemies sitting pretty at level 69 as well, I honestly feel WEAKER than I did at level 1. Seriously, the cannon fodder from 40 levels ago now takes 3-4 full clips to put down! And if I get jumped by three or more of 'em, it's almost assuredly a lost cause. I know it's odd to complain about a game getting harder as you progress, but games with even light RPG elements are unique in that there are supposed to be rewards for putting in time; you "level up" because you should be able to do something/weild something you couldn't at lower levels; you always have something to aspire. All Borderlands does is get harder. Hooray.

Fuck the Vault, I spent MY 69 level quest hoping to come across that game-changing weapon, not one that unfairly balances the game, just one that makes me feel like the badass I'm supposed to be, y'know, MY gun. But alas, literally days of gameplay later, I'm still dropping this assault rifle for that one because it does 2 more points of damage, but fuck, it doesn't have a scope and it's got only single-shot action... guess I'll carry 'em both... oh look, this one has a sweet x3 scope and an awesome rate of fire! But shit, it does 30 fewer points of damage than the first two... Christ, guess I'll carry all three... sonuvabitch, my backpacks full again.... guess I'll go sell ALL this shit...

Borderlands is the gaming equivalent of "The Song That Doesn't End," but in their varient, the song gets faster with each verse and they change the language unexpectedly.
 

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Dead Space 2.
Fighting a shitload of magical space zombies? Used stasis on every damn thing in sight? Still died because of those FUCKING PUKERS!?

Respawn tip: "Use stasis to slow down enemies."

...fuck you. What the hell did you think I was doing?!

Also, enemies in DS2 that glitch out and appear right behind you the next time you respawn/load your savegame.
 

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Games that cheat to pad the difficulty give me this feeling a lot. Have you ever been playing a racing game, and got in first place and had at least a minute lead on the second car, only to mess up for one second and all the other cars come zooming by you?

Pokemon Black is doing this to me right now, actually. I swear finding a gym leader with an evolved pokemon a few levels before it should have is not even amusing anymore. It's just annoying. Also the Nimbasa City Gym leader uses Electric types, and the game spends a great deal of time hinting at you getting a ground type, and even makes Sandile, a ground/dark type available to you beforehand, which would be perfect for the gym, until you actually fight the gym leader, and she has two Emolga, which are immune to ground attacks. Trolololo indeed.

The Wykydtron said:
Reaper195 said:
I Wanna Be The Guy. That game was made to do nothing but fuck with you. You spend an hour trying to get past a single screen, you succeed at getting past all these fucking spikey things through perfectly timed jumps....only for the pattern to change completely about midway through and kill you. And then it does it three more times. I got a total of nine screens. I hate that game with such a passion.
It's definately a game that infinitely more fun to watch someone else play rather than playing it yourself XD

I have decided it's actively trolling the player (unlike Super Meat Boy, that game just fucking hates you with a passion.)

There's this one part where you need to jump through some spikes to turn off a fan, get back through the spikes and when you try and double jump through the now inactive fan Ryu from Streek Fighter comes out of nowhere and spin kicks you
Psst, *street fighter

Also, I watched a guy do a complete runthrough on impossible difficulty on youtube. It's definitely really entertaining, as opposed to the game itself. (I can't even get past the second room ): ) Also, the part with Ryu made me jump the first time.

I think the fight with Dracula was especially evil, though. Especially since he
throws his wine glass at you mid-cutscene and can kill you while your guard is down.
The ending to the fight makes me laugh every time though.
 

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Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - In the Wake of the Gods fanpatch

I swear the AI cheats itself to the best creatures and them steamrolls you unless you use the "Win Battle" cheat to stop the cheating.
 

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X-COM: UFO Defense. The entire goddamn game.

Squad member rounds a corner, gets one-shotted by an alien's reaction fire. Position your soldiers to breach a door, alien fires a blaster bomb and kills everyone. Order a soldier to fire on an alien, misses every shot. Alien mind control always seems to target your soldiers with the weakest bravery. You're having a great month, only to have a Snakeman or Ethereal terror mission 25 days in.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

I've never played the sequel Terror from the Deep, but I've heard that one's even more sadistic.

Sadistic Terror From the Deep design:

One of the terror sites is on a cruise ship. They have a few bathrooms with 5-6 shower stalls taking up one square. There is usually an alien camping in one of those. Imagine you're on the last part of the mission just trying to find the last bugger, securing every square of a huge map. Of course the alien camping the shower gets initiative because you are coming round the corner and can easily kill of several of your guys before you get it.
And of course then there's the 10 identical cabins...

Still I loved every bit of that game, but it could get hairsplittingly frustrating.
 
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Xprimentyl said:
Borderlands.

Boasts something like 16 million supposedly randomized weapon spec combinations, yet every gun seems to to balanced to have one stat boosted and another complete shit; you NEVER find the perfect combination: High power? No scope. Scope? Shitty power. Elemental effect? Sweet! Accuracy? Ass. And forget about trying to find the holy grail of the perfect combination of power, accuracy, fire rate, elemental effect AND zoom! Will. Not. Happen. What ensues is a 69 level grind of picking up and dropping the same four guns with slightly different specs. And just when you get a decent gun, you level up and the same four guns that got you this far now, at best, cause minor skin irritation because the baddies level up with you; your search for guns starts over. It's not so much the advertised "Gun Porn" as it is just painful marathon masturbating to the view through a gun store's front window. I carried 15 SMGs because each had one decent spec; if I could only find a way to get them to form Voltron or some shit...
...I really liked looking for new guns in Borderlands, I'm in the process of collecting one of every legendary and I've found some great guns along the way (I actually keep a spreadsheet of orange guns i do and don't have on my desktop). I agree SMGs always have something wrong with them. I'm a pistol/revolver aficionado (all the legendary revolvers, all but one of the legendary repeaters/machine pistols).

Borderlands is one of my favorite games because of the collecting of randomized guns; you never know what you will find and there will always be something new.
 

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I've had a couple of games of Duels of the Planeswalkers where because of the AI, it adopted my tactic late-game: Sit back and do fuck all until you army is enough to wipe out your opponent doing 20+ overkill damage.
 

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Sober Thal said:
God of War.

There's a part in the later half where you have to balance on some bars while blades spin all over the place. The camera decides to freak out (completely taking away your control over it) when you land, not showing the next blades coming for you, and I died a lot. Then the piece of shit game 'recommends' that I lower the difficulty, WHICH ONLY AFFECTS THE ENEMY HP AND STR!!!

I have never felt a game was actually mocking me before then.
The freaking awful platforming in the God of War series is why I will never play those games again. The sheer spectacle kept me going through the three games.

But rule number 1 of 3D platforming: Give me the god damn camera control. But they broke that rule and added another dick move: sometimes the camera angle changes unexpectedly while you're in mid-jump.
 

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.

You get to an area where there is a scientist who also sells things,and after you talk to him you must gain access to an underground complex.

Walking your way to the underground complex is like a punishment.
It's full of zombies with guns and some mutants named snorks.
Snorks are bullet sponges,they take many bullets to die but they don't ever leave any ammo.

First time I tried to get to the underground complex I ran out of ammo relatively quick and without ammo in that game you are already dead.

After trying a few times,I loaded an older save and went to the scientist and bought all the ammo he had for my weapon,an AK74.
With roughly 550 bullets I then went to infiltrate the complex.
On my way there I found some zombified stalkers waiting for me at another place they did before and after a surprize attack I died again.

I then proceeded carefully and shot them down.
I kept progressing and with assault rifle ammo being so scarce,I was left just with pistol ammo once more,even after having bought all the ammo the scientist had.
After many deaths and hard tries to get in just by using what I was left with I finally managed to get inside the underground complex,hoping there will be some ammo waiting for me inside.
Being able only to use my good almost for nothing pistol,I walk down the stairs,look at the dark room in front of me and slowly proceed. BAM!
In the first room of the complex there are about 3-4 dudes hidden in the shadows at different directions.
Each one of them require about 1 or 1,1/2 assault rifle magazines to drop dead,and I only carry my little pistol with me,while I die from just one or two 3 bullet bursts from their rifles.
Each one is in a different direction which means that as long as you are facing one to kill him,the others will be shooting at ya.
Killing just one of them with the pistol takes much longer time that what it takes for them to kill you.
There aren't enough cover spots in the room,and if you get in to let them see you and then go back out of the room,the enemies won't follow you out of the room as they do in most games,so you can't lure them to fight them one by one.

And then is that I think "Im F@CKED!".
I bought all ammo the scientist had,what else should I do ? Load an even older save and start the game 2-3 regions ago just to buy all ammo from all traders exist in the game ?
I thought that the computer players where cheating me and I decided to treat them the same way so I downloaded a cheat mod that gives you a super powerful gun with 1000 shots.
Then I passed it.

Note: I don't like cheating in my games or installing modes on a first playthrough,but when a game ends being just frustration instead of fun,and I start feeling that only a masochist would have the nerve to play such a difficult game to the end,I'll do it.