moment that made you hate a game.

[Adremmalech]

It's been said before, but:
Driving around LA Noire aimlessly, waiting for Phelps to clue me in on landmarks I hadn't been to before. The Tar Pits aren't even in the right place. I was so excited when he said tar pits, and I drove up Wilshire toward the Miracle Mile, but they moved it three miles south of where it really is.

 

[DirgeNovak]

The "find the landmark" part in LA Noire made me not want to play the game for a few days.

This. In fact, the entire homicide desk conclusion pissed me off to no end.

Spoiler

I got a full confession from Grosvenor McAffrey. There is no fucking way in hell he didn't kill that girl.

 

[Demitri Kamoraz]

The Random Ass Chinese Orbital Laser that can only fry personnel who have a chip imbedded in their skin and are out in the open (and stand still for it's thirty second charge up) and is never mentioned again. And the sewer level that precedes it.

Conversly, a moment that made me love a game was Dante's amazing innuendo streak when he receives Lucius in... the fourth one, I think? (Devil May Cry.)


OP fucking fails at Oblivion.

 

[Watchmacallit]

EVERY game teaser trailer makes me hate games. So so so so so so so so so much.
What are companies thinking when they play a bit of audio (MWF2, Halo: Reach) or the start of an action scene...without the action (Blades of Time...The teaser I just watched that brought me this rage)

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

I didn't like fable 2 from the get go, but the final boss, the moment I pressed that button my soul was blackened with a loathe like no other.

 

[Feylynn]

And from that point on, I vowed to stop playing that fucking game. I put up with the whole "people are being persecuted because of an odd denomination by Space Nazi stormtroopers", and then I watch some massive **** punch a character who I actually had some respect for. And instead of changing her personality and anger issues, she thinks coming on to a 14 year old will solve the problem.

Spoiler

People were being persecuted because those people are marked by the Falcie, making them a sort of volatile slave race with a choice of destroying society of their own will or having the gods that bend them punish them by turning them into twisted mindless wretches with no purpose but to destroy. They also have magic and supernatural power and stuff and power scares people.

Lightning punched Snow because he won't shut up about being a "Hero" when as far as she is concerned the only thing he has done is fail to protect her sister, who he is engaged to, she's kind of bitter about that part too because she doesn't like him.
She may have anger issues, you don't have to like her, but I think it's silly to quit a game because you don't like one thing one character did when it's something as minor as a punch.

She isn't 'coming onto' a 14 year old, he's following her because he's happy to see someone punch Snow, who 'let' his mother die.
He has that in common with her and wants to kill Snow and thinks she can help him do it.
She knows that's not going to solve anything and tries to indirectly set him straight while preparing him to survive this whole thing.

That all said it's probably a good thing you gave up on 13 because it did a good job trying to be unplayable.

Final Fantasy XIII for me as well but for the combat.
Tactic A: Chain gauge to make the fight possible within 20 minutes but 50/50 you'll die before you can shift every few seconds.
Tactic B: 7 hour fights.

 

[Zeema]

La Noire 4 cases in a Row all about Killed women with writing on them

it annoyed me

vary it up

 

[Demitri Kamoraz]

I've been ninjaed...but yeah, The final boss of FFX. God damn, I swear that just Square just kicking us all in the face for buying it.

Which end boss? Thee were about 4 in X. Sin->Seymour->Jecht->Aeons+Yevon. Did I miss any? None of them were really challenging, either, because I have a bad habit of power leveling before the end of a game.

FFX isn't really my answer, though. For me, it was Fable III. The first time I got to the Sanctuary and thought: "They wanted a place that served as a menu system that you could play so that it does not take the player out of the action. Fair enough. They made it like Ken's Dream House. Ok, I can deal with it. IT TAKES YOU OUR OF THE ACTION MORE SO THAN HITTING A PAUSE MENU! WTF?!"

IT seemed to me that it did the exact opposite of what they wanted, only times ten. I'm guessing that they are really just trying out different stuff with the series, but it made me kind of mad. Oh, and they got rid of augments to be replaced with crappy weapons. Most of which can only be leveled with Xbox Live, which I don't have.

Me and my mate were actually talking about this (Fable III) the other day, and you know what we concluded?

Fable II had a super shitty menu system that took hours to load anything, right? So instead of doing what sane developers would do and just optimize it, Peter Molneux (can't spell his name) opted to just break out his magical powers of INNOVATION!!! and turn it into a magical teleporty place.

 

[thenamelessloser]

The vehicle section in half life 2. I think I stopped playing about the time I had to control the boats or whatever. Also the game was too linear to me to that pint (which I guess is sort of the point of the game but I just found it very boring nevertheless)

 

[Demitri Kamoraz]

La Noire 4 cases in a Row all about Killed women with writing on them

it annoyed me

vary it up

Victor Zsasz was hard at work over those few days, give him some credit.

The vehicle section in half life 2. I think I stopped playing about the time I had to control the boats or whatever. Also the game was too linear to me to that pint (which I guess is sort of the point of the game but I just found it very boring nevertheless)

yeah, for all the orgasms that game has caused, I didn't really like it much either. still played it through, sadly.

 

[kasperbbs]

One part in the first dragon age where you go through tight corridors and once you open a certain door a bunch of mages starts spamming fireballs at you, you fall on your ass and once you finally manage to get up your whole party is dead and soon you join them yourself, i died a bunch of times there, tried different tactics, but it still ended the same way, i dropped that game for a week or two after that.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

Halo 2, "I'm gunna give the covenent back their bomb". Alt-F4 immediately. Endless mindless action movie one-liners are funny when duke does 'em. Not when done by someone who is trying to be taken seriously.

I'd just like to point out how silly it is to stop playing a game, because the main character said a one-liner at the end of the first level.

OT: The only thing that really puts me off certain games is random difficulty spikes, Naughty Dog is the most guilty of this. I have never beaten any Naughty Dog game because of them. I've always enjoyed every other part of their games, but some parts are so frustrating that they completely put me off the game.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

And from that point on, I vowed to stop playing that fucking game. I put up with the whole "people are being persecuted because of an odd denomination by Space Nazi stormtroopers", and then I watch some massive **** punch a character who I actually had some respect for. And instead of changing her personality and anger issues, she thinks coming on to a 14 year old will solve the problem.

Spoiler

People were being persecuted because those people are marked by the Falcie, making them a sort of volatile slave race with a choice of destroying society of their own will or having the gods that bend them punish them by turning them into twisted mindless wretches with no purpose but to destroy. They also have magic and supernatural power and stuff and power scares people.

Lightning punched Snow because he won't shut up about being a "Hero" when as far as she is concerned the only thing he has done is fail to protect her sister, who he is engaged to, she's kind of bitter about that part too because she doesn't like him.
She may have anger issues, you don't have to like her, but I think it's silly to quit a game because you don't like one thing one character did when it's something as minor as a punch.

She isn't 'coming onto' a 14 year old, he's following her because he's happy to see someone punch Snow, who 'let' his mother die.
He has that in common with her and wants to kill Snow and thinks she can help him do it.
She knows that's not going to solve anything and tries to indirectly set him straight while preparing him to survive this whole thing.

That all said it's probably a good thing you gave up on 13 because it did a good job trying to be unplayable.

Final Fantasy XIII for me as well but for the combat.
Tactic A: Chain gauge to make the fight possible within 20 minutes but 50/50 you'll die before you can shift every few seconds.
Tactic B: 7 hour fights.

Well, the combat system and the boring soundtrack wasn't helping, and the script could've done a hell of a lot of a better job of conveying the fact I'm supposed to like the good guys.

Don't get me wrong, I love all the voice actors, especially Snow and Lightning's VAs, and everyone's performance, but the script was the worst piece of shit ever. Yeah, I oversimplified half of that crap, but the game made no efforts to be likeable.

Yeah, Lightning defrosts, and that punch could have been a way to strengthen her character early on, but no. The fucking writers just had to fuck everything else right the fuck up and make the most bland characters ever.

 

[Zhukov]

The Witcher 2.

The battle with the giant armoured battlefield demon thing. I think it was called a "Draugr".

Allow me to describe the event in dialogue form:

"Hey," says the game, "I'm going to put you up against a massive boss now."

"Sounds good", says I. "Let's go."

"But first I'm going to force you to swallow a great fat sticky wad of pointless preamble bullshit peppered with unskippable cutscenes that will ensure that any potions you took to prepare for the battle will have worn off and you won't be able to use any more."

"Hang on a sec, why would..."

"And I'm not going to give you a checkpoint before the big fight, because everyone knows that convenient checkpoints are for console tards. So if you die you will have to watch another unskippable cutscene and then repeat a fight with some trash minions while using a character that can't dodge, use items or cast spells. Then you'll have to mash the skip button to get through some dialogue. Then you'll have to fight a larger minion, then skip some more dialogue and then, at long last, you'll get to fight the boss... again."

"Well that's alright, I'll just use quicksave to..."

"Oh no you don't! Quicksave is for morons who need to have their hands held, so we're going to disable it throughout this stage. You will use my poorly placed checkpoints, and you will love them!"

"Fine, whatever, I don't really care anymore. I'm stubborn enough to put up with your shit. Just let me fight the guy."

"Oh hey, did we mention that he can call down volleys of arrows and catapult barrages?"

"Yes, I noticed. Now, could I just..."

"Also, he is immune to all potions, poisons and spells.

"I know, I read the..."

"Oh yeah, and he kills you in two hits, maybe three if you sacrifice a goat to the holy random number generator in the sky.""

"Noticed that too."

"And his attacks are unblockable."

"Yup."

"Lastly, don't forget that you won't have any potions for this fight. So you can't recover any health or boost your resistances or any..."

"No, no, no, no. That's it. Fuck you Witcher 2. Fuck your poorly written dialogue. Fuck your boring characters (except Ioverth, he's pretty cool.) Fuck your boring protagonist. Fuck your pandering sex appeal. Fuck your generic and boring setting. Fuck your convoluted mess of a plot. Fuck your buggy delayed-action controls. And extra special fuck your retarded checkpoint placement.

"Steady on, no need to resort to profanity..."

"You actually impressed me to begin with. I was willing to overlook your flaws. But I've had enough. Y'know what, I'm going to use this metric ton of ingredients I've been lugging around to craft enough overpowered grenades to fill my inventory. Then I'm going to bomb your miserable fucking boss fight into oblivion. Then I'm going to march invincibly through your entire fucking game burning all in my path."

And so I did. And I hated every second of it.

 

[Zetatrain]

Orsino in Dragon Age II. You son of a..

Spoiler: Basically this spoiler is 50% of the ending of DA2, read at your own risk.

You side with him in the final battle, kill EVERY SINGLE TEMPLAR THERE, then he randomly turns into a fat blood demon thing (What!? Oh, that's right.. he was the guy that was talking to your mother's killer, 'O' as he signed the end of the letter. This is only explained to you if you sided with the templars however, if you're a mage then he just whips out the dagger after the battle is over and starts carving away with barely any explanation atall). One would assume then that he would be doing this to aid you in killing the templars. Unfortunatley, common fucking sense doesn't apply to the last 15 minutes of that game, so the guy whom you have helped all this time decides he's going to try and kill you for no reason.

This!

I loved the game and was so annoyed when Orsino did this!

Well to be honest I don't think turning into a monster allows you to retain higher brain functions. He turns into a Harvester, because he is hell bent on killing Meredith and the Templars. However, once he turns into a Harvester he is basically the equivalent of an abomination or a rabid dog, and there is nothing of the original Orsino left.

Also, while Orsino does not reveal outright that he is "O" if you side with the mages he does mention that he knew about Quentin's research. And since his name begins with an "O" it's easy to connect the dots.

 

[thePyro_13]

Halo 2, "I'm gunna give the covenent back their bomb". Alt-F4 immediately. Endless mindless action movie one-liners are funny when duke does 'em. Not when done by someone who is trying to be taken seriously.

I'd just like to point out how silly it is to stop playing a game, because the main character said a one-liner at the end of the first level.

OT: The only thing that really puts me off certain games is random difficulty spikes, Naughty Dog is the most guilty of this. I have never beaten any Naughty Dog game because of them. I've always enjoyed every other part of their games, but some parts are so frustrating that they completely put me off the game.

True, if I'd payed for the game I would still play to try and get my moneys worth.

But I was just playing the demo and that is as far as the demo does anyway. The experience pretty much soaked up any interest I had in it as a single player game.

 

[Hopper9]

This is going to be pretty obscure but, Onimusha 2's final boss. Giant gold statue, you've suddenly got a laser arm. You run away from it, and pew pew it to death. Terrible, terrible ending that ruined a pretty good game. Never played it again after that shit ending.

 

[LemonFury]

I hate VTMB at the moment. The long ass sewer level I could stand, I was angry but I didn't hate it. Then it crashed after I found the card to open the hatch or whatever. I jumped down there and BAM! Desktop! I am going to play today but I hate it so much.

 

[General_Potatoes]

All of fable 2. Was just a waste of my time.