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

[Generic_Username]

I love those games that make you look all over for an item to progress. More recently, InFamous 2.

So I'm going to some warehouse to get a blast core or whatever they were called, and Zeke just HAPPENS to mention in the conversation that there are 3 more warehouses just like that one. What do you think were the chances of the core being in the first warehouse you have to go to?

That's right. Zero. Because you have to go through ALL four of them, because there's absolutely no chance that by some strange cosmic law, you'll have SOME luck, and the core will be in the first warehouse.

Ugh.

 

[Caine Master]

I have this feeling anytime the game gives me a side quest to do that requires you to go a long distance and when you finish it and turn it in the npc gives you another quest that makes you go back to the same place. Why couldn't you just give me that quest at the same time, it would of made things easier.

 

[Alphakirby]

Psychonauts.

It took away my cobweb duster in the second crazy's head (The one who thought she was an actress)

That pissed me off to no end.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

There's a certain point in Assassin's Creed II where you have to make a particular jump.

It's not a hard jump, pretty similar to the 11,045 or so that you will already have made.

However...

Right in the middle of the jump the camera swings around, causing your left input to become right. Ezio promptly falls in a puddle, making you start the obstacle sequence over again. It's completely beyond your control and happens every damn time.

I honestly think someone at Ubisoft did it as a prank. "Complain about our DRM will you, you whiny little bitches? A few spazzy cameras will shut you up!"

Ubisoft: The trolls of the video game industry. They just love putting things in their games for the sole purpose of screwing with you.

Take Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, for example. I finally bought it about a year ago, and was having a blast playing through what is widely regarded as the best of the SC series. That is, until I had to hunt Douglas Shetland and defuse his stupid bombs. The game decided that it would just be completely hilarious if it started giving enemies night vision goggles. Night vision. When the gameplay depends almost entirely on hiding in the darkness and never being seen.

What the hell, Ubisoft. What. The. Hell.

 

[Grunt_Man11]

Years ago, during vanilla WoW (as in, before the release of the first expansion), I was trying to get my first dungeon tier for my Druid. It consisted out of gloves, helmet, shoulder-armor, chest-piece, leggings, bracers and boots. Every item was located in a different dungeon, with the RNG (Random Number Generator) system deciding which item drops of which boss.
I do all the dungeons, I almost every item within a few tries, but the boots...the booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooots! Not only did they drop from one of the last bosses in a freaking crazy long dungeon, but they also never ever dropped.

It took me about 120 tries (not even kidding), over a time span of 4 months to get the boots.
World of Warcraft has it's own way of messing with you.

Hell, I could never get the shoulders and leggings for my Tauren Hunter. Must of killed old Rivendare over 50 times, and yet the prick never dropped what I needed! Screw the RNG!

Oh, and let's not forget doing random battlegrounds.

- Que to enter a BG match.
- Twin Peaks... for the seventh time in a row. (Hate Twin Peaks.)

- Que to enter a BG match.
- Strand of the Ancients loading screen. (Hey, I actually like Strand of the Ancients.)
- Enter BG.
- "Alliance Wins" Didn't even have time to take a single step.

- Que to enter a BG match.
- Isle of Conquest loading screen.
- Enter BG.
- Get ganked by the 20+ Alliance in our keep.

 

[onewheeled]

The first Puzzle Quest. All of it.

If you've played it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You always have shit luck, while your more powerful enemy gets extra turns and random skulls all over the place, doing dozens of damage points to you at a time. It's just bullshit.. But I can't stop playing...

 

[ZombieGenesis]

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.

This I entirely agree with.
That game is aggressive, cruel, hate-filled and terrifying.
And that's why we love it. Gamers are pretty masochistic beasts. We cry for more when Nintendo gave us ridiculous 'Nintendo Hard' games. We applauded when someone made I Wanna Be The Hero, a game so hateful of players it kills them with their own extra lives. A cult grew around the difficulty of Devil May Cry 3, renowed as one of the most unbreakable games of modern times.

And then, there's X-Com. Shine on you crazy diamond.
Also, the new X-Com game looks like shit. Buy the Xeno independant version when it comes out.

 

[AceTrilby]

All the time. Recent experiences:

Mortal Kombat - Sektor? He's just a robot, what can he--FUCKING stop TELEPORTING! That doesn't even make se-*dead* (repeat for every opponent's overpowered special, while they block all your specials)

Red Faction: Armageddon - Okay, so I killed the big bad, it's over, right? "Hell no, you gotta slowly walk to some random place with your whiney girlfriend in a crappy spider mech! Won't that be fun?" FFFFFFFFUUUUUU-

 

[Issurru]

I also had a "fuck off, game" experience with RE5.

I had got to the very end of the game, and had to go, so I turned off my console. When I go back to complete the game (which I do) it doesn't recognise my completion, and bumps my checkpoint back a whole fucking level. So I go and complete the game again. It ignores my completion once more and bumps me back again.

I turned that game off and never played it again.

This is exactly the reason I have never, and will never finish Halo 3 on my 360. It refuses to accept that I have been probably 20 minutes from the end of the game, yet every time I turn the fucking thing off it pretty much says "fuck you" and just resets all my data for the campaign and I have to start all over, again, every fucking time...

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

All the time. Recent experiences:

Mortal Kombat - Sektor? He's just a robot, what can he--FUCKING stop TELEPORTING! That doesn't even make se-*dead* (repeat for every opponent's overpowered special, while they block all your specials)

At least he can't ignore your hits, then throw an unblockable hammer at you. *glares at Shao Kahn*

 

[krazykidd]

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.

This , i just finished my first playthrough today on survivalist , and i can tell you this happens a lot! Fun game though but trolly aliens.

 

[dommyuk]

World of Warcraft, I've spent nearly 2 months camping a rare spawn mount, the alert for it's come up twice after someone else had claimed it and I haven't had another alert for about a month.

 

[ruben6f]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. You know the night vision? All it does is slip a green or purple filter over your eyes and you still can't see shit. Of course, I didn't turn it on until I was running around at night trying to avoid Pripyat's Snork population. FUCK YOU, GAME!

Have you tried using mods, most mods I use improve the night vision.

OT: S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat, I needed an 3 items called veles detector (I think that's the name) to do a quest, after I got 2 I had no idea where I could get a third one, so I completed every single quest, explored every stash and attacked groups of zombies with exoskeletons (exoskeletons are the best armor in the game and I attacked them because stalker wikia said that they carried those detectors) most of the times doing these things wold end up with me being dead or crying and runing from pseudo giants.

After a long time I found the third veles detector, finally after all that hard work I was going to complete that quest, I was returning to a stalker base when I find a stash with one veles detector and next to the stash a dead guy with another veles detector, then I kept walking and found a group of dead stalkers and 2 of them had veles detectors with them, and later I found another veles detector for sale and when I was going to finish the quest I was talking to the scientist that needed the detector and clicked the trade button just to find out that he had a veles detector for sale.

Rage was strong with me that day.

 

[FirstPersonWinner]

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.

The real problem is that for every 1 good gun you actually switch into your equipment, there are 100 completely useless guns.

 

[MetaKnight19]

The first Puzzle Quest. All of it.

If you've played it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You always have shit luck, while your more powerful enemy gets extra turns and random skulls all over the place, doing dozens of damage points to you at a time. It's just bullshit.. But I can't stop playing...

Totally agree, but I went on to complete the game virtually 100% (still some items left to make, spells to learn etc.) The final boss didn't have a chance after the insane amount of level grinding I'd been doing. *Goes to play Puzzle Quest again*

 

[ruben6f]

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.

No ammo was your only problem? you are lucky.

My first time there was torture, I ran out of ammo for my AK and pistol but I found a Shotung so I was happy, but for some reason all the zombies and snorks decided to attack me at the same time (not kidding every single zombie and snork in the entrace to base attacked me at the same time) since everione was attacking me I hided inside a small building only to find out that there was radiation in there, so I left the building and because of that I took tons of damage and when I clicked my bandage hotkey I noticed my bleeding wasn't stopped.

I had no bandages, only had some shotgun rounds and I was bleeding a lot (red icon), I was able to get to the controller before giving up and loading another save, try to kill zombies and snork while hitting the medkit key every 5 seconds.

 

[theonecookie]

Been playing the first ice wind dale game for the past few day's and the amount of rage it has generated is insane i'm sure its rigged

every encounter is stacked against you like you wouldent believe (6 orcs and a ogre with a lv1 group yeah right)that and its based on the d20 system which is at the whim of the RNG for everything and the only option is save scuming and lots of it

 

[teisjm]

Sincerely hoping Kratos finds me too old for the greek standard of young men, if not, i'll just try to think about how much worse it would've been if the game had been in a dvd box, and not the smaller blu-ray one.

Durring that fight in Bayonetta where you fight that other witch at the rooftops, in a multi-checkpoint fight, where one of the stages has missiles raining down on you from above.
There was no sense as to whether my attacks worked or not, i was given no chance to stock up on health, or health lolipops or anything, before the fight came out of nowhere, and all my consumables got used durring failed attempts.
No other part of the game was that hard, not even the retarded final boss.
And every time i thought i had finally beaten the *****, another checkpoint, and she's up for another round, just with even more shit speaking to her advantage, like the aforementioned missiles raining down on me, forcing me into QTE evasion shit every 10 seconds or soemthing.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Everything in Demons Souls.

Ok, got past you stupid dragon I'm finally getting along.*stab*

WHAT, KNIGHTS AS WELL! WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO!

This happened all the time. I heard my PS3 giggling.

My poor wanderer, she was murdered mercilessly so many times, and I've never played a RPG where I've seriously regretted my class choice.

I remember one time I hid her behind some barrels because I had the audacity to quickly go to the bathroom, and, to my horror, she was murdered by wolves. WOLVES!!!

I swear the game and my PS3 were laughing at my tears for my fallen wanderer.