Great Moments of I Am So Not Ready For This

[chozo_hybrid]

My most comical "aw hell no" moment was the final Raiden arc in the recent MK game. I pretty much handed the controller to my friend.

It took me about 2 and a half hours to beat Shao Khan, but I did it. It felt so rewarding, he's a cheap ass son of a ***** though. Oh boy he is, but in arcade I can beat him in one go sometimes. Pretty sure h's harder in story mode.

 

[Zeldias]

As OP said, the first encounter with Death in DDA. Worse, it was in the middle of fighting a Garm and some Elder Ogre or something, inside a building. I go "AHA, I'll take care of you!" with my fledgling Magick Archer. I open fire.

I don't see any damage. I shoot more, still nothing. Then he catches up and sleeps me. My Pawn saved my ass and I watched the other two get cut down. The Garm is closing in, the Elder Ogre starts beating down my Pawn.

I hauled ass. Didn't even care where I ended up. Which of course landed me in a confrontation with some kind of zombie dragon with plague breath. I killed that son of a *****, but it was the last time I played the game. Was a bit too much for me.

Also reaching the end of NWN2's vanilla campaign. I was a Fighter/Weapon Master/Barbarian (fuck you, I didn't realize it was that power-gamey), with everything I had going towards fighting with a greatsword. Then those assholes hand me that stupid Githyanki longsword and tell me to have at it. I feel bad for the mages who got ambushed by that shit.

Star Ocean 2, Ethereal Queen. "Oh, I wonder what this trumpet song does?" I actually won that fight. I still can't believe that.

SMT: Nocturne, Matador. "I sense something dangerous? Um...OK. I can always reload. Oh, what's this? You look ridi-WHAT THE FUCK!?"

Riovanes Castle wasn't bad for me, but I just backed up, let Wiegraf get close, then knocked him the fuck out. Dual wield Monk for the win. Now the Tactics Ogre remake, on the other hand, I would say basically anything where god damn Nybbeth shows up, especially trying to recruit Cressida. I actually once almost pulled it off, then freaking Nybbeth ran off and summoned 6 "zombies" (that are actually counted as regular god damn units so Baldur +1 is of no use).

Also, the first time I encountered Emerald Weapon in FF7. That scared the hell out of me.

 

[Do4600]

Pretty much everything in Fallout 2 on my first playthrough.

"What's a Fire Gecko?....AAH!....oh, that's a fire gecko...(Load Game)"

 

[keiji_Maeda]

For me it was a few years ago, when I started playing Odin Sphere and reached the end of the Gwen's first chapter.

"B-but we're not even past the tutorial!"

Yeah, i remember this very moment. It should have prepared me for the rest of the games "i hope you like being bossurprised"

 

[Casual Shinji]

In Resident Evil 4 when Salazar sends his "right hand" after you. Adding to that you're confronted with a elevator that's out of juice, making sure you know exactly what the score is.

 

[Superlative]

Playing Panzer General for the first time, flushed with success in Poland. With n00b overconfidence, I go piling into Norway - very awkward country, mountains and forests all over the place. I'm attacking from the south, and have to fight through all that crap to get to the northern cities. Military genius strikes: paratroopers! I get as many of my best units as I can converted into paras, and wait for the weather to clear so I can fly deep behind enemy lines and drop my boys onto the unsuspecting blonde folk below. I have a small force of fighters to support the transport planes, and even though I've never fought them before I am sure we can handle whatever the Norwegian air force turns out to have, if there even is one. A clear day comes, and I launch deep strikes with my elite regiments - if I remember right, it was two to the northwest to grab a couple of key coastal cities, but the bulk of my force straight due north to hit the main targets. It is at this point that I become aware Norway is allied to Britain, as fucking hordes of Spitfires and Hurricanes come screaming out of the blue and hit my transport planes like the wrath of God. Army group northwest were gone in an instant, and even though I tried to rally my 3 or 4 fighters to protect the main force the RAF went through them like a brick through a window. Maybe 4 turns in to the campaign, and virtually my entire army lies broken and burning in the Norwegian mountains.

You, my good sir, have made my day with that one.

as for my own moment, it would have to be when I challenged Sephoroth for the first time in Kingdom Hearts. I was around lv 40 and I was definitely feeling myself. I'd just beaten Riku with a sick move called Arcs Arcanum and i thought it was time to take on the long haired pretty boy voiced by Lance Bass. I understood that Sephoroth had a bit of a reputation as a badass but, having never played FF7, I admit I underrated him. I've taken some harder bosses, pwned the face off the rest of the arena, I got this.

Then the opening cinematic started and i knew I was so not ready for this. His them, his sword, and his one blackened wing did not say nancy boy, oh no, they screamed BAMF so loud it made my keyblade shake. After being one-shotted I never dared challenge him till KH2 where puberty apparently power leveled the heck out of Sora.

 

[FPLOON]

My first time playing any of the Touhou bullet hell games... I had this false bravado going in (since I have played a similar space game years back) and, without realizing it at first, was playing the levels at their hardest difficulty...

Once I scaled back the difficulty, it didn't become too big of a problem to handle the streams of bullets on the screen... (Although I think it might have scared me from increasing the difficulty at any given time...)

 

[GundamSentinel]

Every single boss in Demon's Souls the first time I played through it. Flamelurker was the worst but, I was totally not ready for that fight.

I'll second Flamelurker. It was a long way to get there and when I entered the boss area I knew the first second that I had come horribly underprepared. And then it got worse.

 

[RJ 17]

Stagger-saving in tactical games is now a religion to me.

Yep, pretty sure stagger-saving became a religion to everyone who had to suffer through that damn castle. It really is disgusting how difficult both of those last two fights are. Hell, the last fight of the castle you can lose before you even get a chance to go if your characters aren't fast enough. Those assassins are obscenely overpowered. 100% Insta-Death melee? 100% Ranged Stop inflicting? 80% Chance ranged Charm? Yeah...that's fair.

I was reading a guide to the game once that said "If you manage to beat Velius" the Zodiac demon that Wiegraf turns into "he (and the game's difficulty curve) explodes." And that about sums things up. As you said, you get Orlandu and he's a one-man death machine. He's so broken that I actually don't even play with him after I get him just because it takes all the fun and challenge from the game.
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FFT for the PS.

I'm actually playing through it again for the first time in years and have made it laughably easy due to a RIDICULOUS amount of grinding at the beginning of the game...seriously, I had 2 ninjas with ignore height before I got to the 5th story battle, and I had 2 master calculators before I completed the first chapter (of four) of the game.

But we're not here to talk about being OVERprepared, we're here to talk about being underprepared. At the end of Chapter 3, you've gotta do a series of 3 back-to-back battles in a lovely little place called Riovanes Castle. The first battle is pretty standard: you're at the gates and have to kill a couple knights, some archers, I think there's a monk in there, and a black mage or two. Pretty tough, but not too much of a headache. Then comes Mr. Wiegraf to challenge your main character to a 1v1 battle.

Here's a bit of info about Wiegraf. He's powerful ranged attacks that can kill you in one shot and if they don't they can inflict Stop upon you, meaning he gets a few turns to kill you at his leisure. The only way to prevent this would be to break his sword, but he's got the Maintenance ability which means you can't break his sword. The only other option is to try and steal his sword...and good luck with that. If you fail you're dead.

So that leaves you with having to kill him before he kills you. Well your best shot is to go straight offense with two swords and try to do enough damage to him to knock him down. Well as it happens he's got a kick ass shield that makes it nigh-impossible to hit him from the front and pretty hard to hit him from the sides...add to it his accessory which increases his side defense and your only left with trying to attack him from behind...the problem is that since he's got strong ranged attacks, he doesn't feel too keen on the idea of letting you get around behind him.

Oh...screw that fight. Screw that fight three ways to Sunday and back. I remember playing that battle when I was a kid. My brother and I somehow managed to beat it, but we don't remember how. YEARS later, I replayed it, trying to see if I could understand the story better since I am now in my twenties. Got to that fight again and started swearing like a sailor. Forty-five minutes, and I still kept losing. So I cheated. Gave my character Guts, Jump, a lance, and Auto-potion. Made sure I had over a hundred X-potions. Ran away from him for thirty minutes, just using Guts to up my stats and if he hit me, I healed automatically. When I finally used jump, I tore him apart. One hit. Her transforms and the next battle starts. My hero goes first--because Guts has put his speed through the roof--and I use Jump again. No one else gets to go. He jumps up, comes down immediately (again, speed was insane) and kills him in one hit. Take THAT cheating game!

Hehehe, yep, that's definitely one way to do it. Another is to give Ramza Concentrate so you can bypass Wiegraf's obscene defenses and then just keep using those Guts abilities to boost your stats to god-like status while running away from him like a terrified school-girl until you're ready to one-shot him.

 

[XaVierDK]

Any StarCraft II ladder match. I never feel like i can get the timings and the fluidity that I want, and am just stumbling and bumpling my way through them.

Also, The Witcher 2. Any boss-battle in that game, you have no idea what you're in for, and you need to drink potions ahead of time.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Shin Megami Tenshi IV was my first SMT game since Persona 3 on the PSP so when I end up turned into a smear on the ground shortly after entering my first boss fight I couldn't help but feel a bit unprepared as I entered Naraku...The first boss in Earthbound was a little harrowing too (Frank I mean...he hits hard...I didn't get a good gauge of Frankynstein Mark III since I got a lucky SMASH or two on it)

 

[JonB]

The Stone Golems in the Baldur's Gate II opening dungeon.

Ugh.

 

[Scars Unseen]

FFT for the PS.

Same game, same fight. It was the first time I'd played through the game(I had attempted to play once before, but I had rented it, and there was no manual, so I didn't know how to add party members and couldn't get past the first fight), and I had done virtually zero grinding. I hadn't unlocked many abilities, and I think the main classes I was using were knight and archer. In short, I was woefully unprepared for that fight.

This was before I had begun the practice of multiple saves(a corrupted FFVIII save got me doing that), so there was no turning back. I just kept plugging at it, trying different combinations, and finally gave up and bought the strategy guide(only game to date that has forced me to do that), whereupon I found out I was over 10 levels below the recommended level.

I think I finally beat him with a bunch of archers armed with the Item command, spreading them out as far as they could be and sending survivors in to phoenix down the poor saps that got killed each round. It took a lot of reloads.

 

[The Funslinger]

I had trouble with the Elite 4, so I doubted I could take her on, but...I never lost so badly in my life...that freaking Garchomp...

Lucky. You had forewarning.

*flashback to Pokemon Black*

"Well, here I am in Undella Town! Looks rather pretty here. Time to start talking to people...oh, hi! Your name is Cynthia, huh? Odd, you have a <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Egwloq6Lk>strangely threatening musical motif, are you an important character? Do I want to duel? Well, sure, my team's average about level 55, I should be able to win. Bring it on!"

*gets entire team sweeped by Spiritomb*

Huh. I have literally just gotten into Undella Town, and my team averages around the mid-50s mark.

Guess I'll track her down. More on this as it develops.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I had trouble with the Elite 4, so I doubted I could take her on, but...I never lost so badly in my life...that freaking Garchomp...

Lucky. You had forewarning.

*flashback to Pokemon Black*

"Well, here I am in Undella Town! Looks rather pretty here. Time to start talking to people...oh, hi! Your name is Cynthia, huh? Odd, you have a <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Egwloq6Lk>strangely threatening musical motif, are you an important character? Do I want to duel? Well, sure, my team's average about level 55, I should be able to win. Bring it on!"

*gets entire team sweeped by Spiritomb*

Huh. I have literally just gotten into Undella Town, and my team averages around the mid-50s mark.

Guess I'll track her down. More on this as it develops.

She's only there if you've beaten the first playthrough of it. However, I'll add Cynthia to that list...

Spoiler: Along with this asshole from Black&White

[HEADING=1]SCREW YOU AND YOUR UNDERLEVELED HYDREIGON, YOU *****![/HEADING]

 

[Angelblaze]

Had mine on Fire Emblem The sacred Stones today

Chapter 9 at Fort Rinwall, attacking the castle with the Prince.

Castle is fucking huge bro - note that the follow picture has removed the 20+ enemies in it.

I literally restarted and went to the tower and did skirmishes there and in every other place just to level.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

In Darksiders 2, early into the second act I entered the Lair of the Deposed King. I got through the dungeon okay, until I got to Argul. I attacked him, he lost maybe 0.01% health. He reduced me to a blackened smear on the floor.

Ohh hahaha...I feel your pain! But...I...DIDNT...GIVE...UP! I kept going at that ************ for 30 lives until I Mastered the shit out of him, nothing but pure mad dodging skills and confidence in the fact that I had broken my hands and mind to kill that guy. Why I spent hours trying to kill him I have no idea. It was like something in my mind snapped, slapped me like a ***** and told me this "Right, you aint continuing the game until you master that shit or I will kill you from the inside."

All the pity for you, good sir.

OT. The latest iteration of pokemon games was probably one the coolest moments in my entire gaming history. I gave myself the rule that no matter what, I would not use any type of potions/healing items, revive or anything to help my pokemons in battle during the Elite Four.

Four battles in, no problem, except some close calls. Then the champion shows up, IN THAT FREAKIN DRESS! Mostly everything goes smoothly, 1 of my team are dead(some are sort of damaged but not enough for them to not continue), 4 of her team are dead, kill the fifth one, BAAM! I got this! BUT THEN! BUT THEN!

THIS MONSTER SHOWS UP!

Destroys all of my team except one, no way in freakin hell could he have taken him. It lead me to break my rule of not using revives, so I start using revives. IT DIDN'T WORK, HE ONESHOTTED ALL OF THEM! It was only a matter of time before I would run out of revives, so I accepted my fate that I lost this one. That was my "I am so dead, I am so not ready, I am going to lose, I can't do anything, I fucking lost because of my incompetence!" moment.

But then, I noticed, how stupid I was for not noticing it quicker! For the sheer fun of it, I'm going to tell you guys my team set up(not moves, just pokemons)

Mostly LvL 55 pokemons
Samurrot/Water Type
Lucario/Fighting&Steel Type
Galvantula/Bug&Electric Type
Flygon/Ground&Dragon Type
Weavile/Dark&Ice Type
Arcanine/Fire Type

...Arcanine...Arcanine!...ARCANINE! I wasn't exactly in love with this pokemon. It was hard as hell to level this one up for some reason, it took ages to get the proper moves for him and he sure took his sweet time before he became equally useful as the rest of the team.

But...BUT!!!

In one single second, he transformed from "Ehh, I probably shouldn't have him. Hes the weakest pokemon on my team and I could sure get something better" to "I FUCKING NEED YOU NOW!!!"

Revive Arcanine, galvantula gets killed, switch to arcanine, arcanine uses Intimidate, revive galvantula, arcanine gets killed, switch to galvantula, revive arcanine, galvantula gets killed, switch to arcanine, arcanine uses Intimidate

And so on and on until! Archeops loses enough attack so he wont one shot my pokemons anymore. Switch to the offensive, kill the ************, win game!

Few things are needed to say about this, but my personal favorite is: Best. Moment. Ever!

 

[Austin Howe]

To be perfectly honest, damned near every other enemy in Wild Arms 5 hits like a truck so every time I see the use of high-level magic, I'm just kinda squirming until it's over.

 

[TheSpyIsASpyWDZ]

I had trouble with the Elite 4, so I doubted I could take her on, but...I never lost so badly in my life...that freaking Garchomp...

Lucky. You had forewarning.

Not when I first played, she was going to be tough, but she absolutely curb stomped me in the most humiliating way possible.

So she shows up in a random house in Black?

...

*throws copy out the window*

Am I the only person on this forum who hasn't lost to her ever?

OT: Easy one, Red from Pokemon Gold, whose highest level Pokemon is the easiest to KO. Snorlax ruined my day with dem full restores.