For me, the moment when The Longest Journey made me combine a swimming ring, a length of rope and some copper thing to try to fish out a key off some railroad tracks. I do not give a damn about how good the story is, if I have to constantly jump through ridiculous puzzles and need to refer to gamefaqs every 5 seconds.
Famous and important games that made you throw down the controller.
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Fable 2 was like that with the anti-climax.
But GoW on Hardcore, when i first attempted it. The AI is suicidal, making my life all the more awkward.
That made me throw away my controller in rage.
But GoW on Hardcore, when i first attempted it. The AI is suicidal, making my life all the more awkward.
That made me throw away my controller in rage.
Far Cry 2, I cleared 2 encampments to get past 1 road ALIVE and to get a mission, I then get in the car and drive back the same way and the encampments had re-spawned already. I said "fuck this" and turned on Fallout 3, should probably finish Far cry 2 someday.
Technically Fallout does have a last boss, it's Col. Autumn. He is just rather easy to kill by that point...
One game that had me in controller snapping, screaming fury was how perfectly you had to time your jumps on some of the Rayman 1 levels...
One game that had me in controller snapping, screaming fury was how perfectly you had to time your jumps on some of the Rayman 1 levels...
Mario Kart. Sometimes no matter how well you actually do, you can just get attacked by a blue shell just before the end and then all the other characters zoom past you without forgetting to bump into you so you can't get going again. That game really takes the piss sometimes.
That was a good boss. He was chatty and everything.Gotham Soul said:
The boss battle fetch quest thing in Dead Rising where you have to get the bombs in the service tunnels. Tons of zombies, okay, but a Goddamn Truck?! It took me five trys to figure out I should try to kill him.
Mirror's Edge. The emphasis being on controller here. That's a game that reaally doesn't benefit from using a stick as compared to a mouse. I'm square in the "FPS is for PC" camp, I just can't understand why game designers insist on making FPS games for consoles; although I think it does work on the Wii, since there is a pointing device. FPS hand-to-hand combat is even more stupid (as of yet and imo). There's a reason why I don't play Virtua Fighter with a mouse, and there's a reason why I don't play Portal on the Xbox.
Speaking of Mirror's Edge: lovely game, with such obvious flaws that even EA's director spoke up about it [http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20652]. He shouldn't have backed down on that, plus had a more interesting combat system and I'm likely to have joined the local branch of the EA cult.
Speaking of Mirror's Edge: lovely game, with such obvious flaws that even EA's director spoke up about it [http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20652]. He shouldn't have backed down on that, plus had a more interesting combat system and I'm likely to have joined the local branch of the EA cult.
Fallout 3 - the end. Oh, what? That's it? FUCK YOU. Anti-climax central.
Fable 2 - the end. Oh, what? That's it? FUCK YOU. 8 hour story, Half Life 2 takes longer.
Metroid Prime: Corruption - "and now go back around levels and collect fuel cells!" No, FUCK YOU.
Half Life 2: Episode 2 - How could you? You bastards, fuck you. Now give me episode three.
The whole first level of Deus Ex. A wonderfully impossible barrier to a great game.
Fable 2 - the end. Oh, what? That's it? FUCK YOU. 8 hour story, Half Life 2 takes longer.
Metroid Prime: Corruption - "and now go back around levels and collect fuel cells!" No, FUCK YOU.
Half Life 2: Episode 2 - How could you? You bastards, fuck you. Now give me episode three.
The whole first level of Deus Ex. A wonderfully impossible barrier to a great game.
The problem wasn't that it had an ending. The problem was the ending sucked. They never really sold the water being that big of a deal. Yeah, they had a few side missions patching up pipes but I wasn't really buying that things would be impossible without it.apsham said:
That and you only meet Col. Autumn once previously. That and there's no real reason why you couldn't have survived the radiation except plot device. The "development" with Autumn and your Dad just happened out of the blue. Felt shoddy in what was a good game.