Most frustrating games.

[videot76]

Mirror's Edge speedruns. The prologue only took five tries or so, but heck, beating six minutes on level one took me LONGER than completing the ENTIRE GAME ON MY FIRST RUN.
I did not complete any more after that.

Trying to learn the multiplayer mode/maps of ANY game as well, since you will be continually and completely screwed over by everyone with more experience wanting cheap kills. The first two days of any online game has me wanting to throw stuff at the screen in hope of it dimension-warping out through another screen, breaking the nose of the smug 13-year-old there. (Yes, I say 13-year-old because the worst gankers always seem to have names like "DAMASTABATER1995" (often with spelling variations and assorted XxX's front and back, since they can't think of an original name to save their lives).
So I'd say "multiplayer is frustrating" and leave it at that.

 

[ntomlin63]

Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Use screwdriver, you can't use that, try every other possible thing you have, use screwdriver, nothing happens, argh use every other possible thing that you have, frustration is building, use screwdriver, Oh very well if you are going to insist. I popped the game out of my disk drive and that point and never turned it on again.

 

[DRADIS C0ntact]

It's already been mentioned, but I'm going to say it again. Ninja Gaiden on the NES. That game used to frustrate me so much that I would throw my controllers across the room. I broke so many of them back in the day...

 

[Abedeus]

Why people rant on Ninja Gaiden so much? It wasn't that ha... Okay, it was. But it wasn't that infuria.. God damn it.

Okay, it was really aggrovating. A lot of NES games are.

Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Use screwdriver, you can't use that, try every other possible thing you have, use screwdriver, nothing happens, argh use every other possible thing that you have, frustration is building, use screwdriver, Oh very well if you are going to insist. I popped the game out of my disk drive and that point and never turned it on again.

That's why, although I like the genre, I detest most of the adventure games. Using everything on everything else is NOT puzzle solving!!

 

[Rager82]

Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2
Ninja Turtles
DOOM

And the biggest one of all...

Trying to get all the master gems on sonic. ARGHHH

 

[Shrubery]

super monkey ball
Thanks to that game i now have bite marks on one of my controllers

 

[Mutough]

God Hand. I got Carpal Tunnel from that game, and yet it never got old. Sure, the later bosses were rather easy, and most of the combat resorted to lose one hit point, tap square a million times, lose sixty hit points, turn your arm into a nuke, but the game usually represented a challenge that went anywhere from "good exercise" to "good suicide note content."

 

[Shrubery]

And those battles in guitar hero .
RAWR !

 

[Shycte]

Dead Rising mabye.

When you first notice that it don't have any auto-save....

 

[painfull2006]

N+

nuff said

 

[Ultress]

Ninja Gaiden in any incarnation is 'Instant Aneurysm'... Guitar Hero 3 is a more recent example of this for me. Damn Slayer. I beat 'Raining Blood' once and got 4 stars on Expert, but never again. Lou's a bastard too.

Damn you to hell Raining blood,it stopped me from beating that game(or at least to have the privilege of getting my butt handed to me by Lou) and I cursed with reckless abandoned at it.Though the birds in Ninja Gaiden for the NES are the true ban of my existence, that game had a nasty habit of re spawning enemies.

Also Crash Bash for PS1 that stupid pogo stick mini game never made sense on the second level and was annoying as hell.Screw you Ripper Roo

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

When I was about 7, doing Dragon Ball Z tournement mode on the hardesy setting. GRRR.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Prinny. That game hates the player with a passion.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Mirror's Edge speedruns. The prologue only took five tries or so, but heck, beating six minutes on level one took me LONGER than completing the ENTIRE GAME ON MY FIRST RUN.
I did not complete any more after that.

Trying to learn the multiplayer mode/maps of ANY game as well, since you will be continually and completely screwed over by everyone with more experience wanting cheap kills. The first two days of any online game has me wanting to throw stuff at the screen in hope of it dimension-warping out through another screen, breaking the nose of the smug 13-year-old there. (Yes, I say 13-year-old because the worst gankers always seem to have names like "DAMASTABATER1995" (often with spelling variations and assorted XxX's front and back, since they can't think of an original name to save their lives).
So I'd say "multiplayer is frustrating" and leave it at that.

No game is as frustrating as real people...

 

[Breno]

fallout 3 where u tryed to pickpocket someone and it failed so they caught u and everyone there starts shooting u so u die then u auto save at where u just pickpoket the person and u kepp getting fired at and u keep dieing so u have to restart the hole game (happen twince to me i was so pissed)

and fighting games where u dont get a chance to do anthing and ur oppnant just kicks the shit outa u and u cant do anthing

and mmorpg when u get a lag for ages it just gets me off the wall

 

[bjj hero]

Modern games only really frustrate when they dont work properly, such as on Endwar when my online gamecrashes, I go back online to find my units demoted. The difficulty and challenge doesnt match earlier generations.

Dont believe me? Beat the current gen ninja gaiden. Now go and beat gouls and ghosts/contra/thunder force 4/bionic commando/shinobi/turtles/the nes version of ninja gaiden/etc. Theres no comparison in challenge. Even "tough" games in the modern era are fairly easy.

Gouls and ghosts annoyed the piss out of me, as did the original R-type. Modern games dont come close. My stress levels are probably healthier for it.

Now a days everyone completes games, when I was young finishing a game without cheats provided bragging rights.

 

[Daveman]

the original tomb raider, god the controls were shitty. am now playing anniversary and it is so much better

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Well I suck at video games so it's pretty much every game out there but specifically it's got to be Ninja Gaiden. That game was hella difficult.

Honourable mention to Mass Effect when your squad mates start daydreaming in the middle of a battle.

 

[Vrex360]

I'm going to have to say Dead Space for a number of reasons first up I like to agree with Yahtzee in that it really isn't scary. Anyway:
The things I love about Dead Space are the dismemberment combat (a truly unique mechanic that makes enemy encounters much more interesting), some strong voice acting, zero gravity and good visuals (not anywhere near as good as Bioshock but still nice nonetheless). THe gameplay is nice and while the story is typical sci fi horror 'we found an artifact on a distant planet and were foolish enough to think it could be controlled, oh no here come some hideous alien mutants to come eat our faces' sort of thing... it was well don and felt like a movie. The movie Event Horizon, the movie Aliens and the movie The Thing combined... actually most gmaes feel like movies these days. Must make a thread about it some day.

Anyway, despite all the good things there are some major frustrations. Annoying enemies with cheap unavoidable attacks, being killed over and over by those fucking wall screaming guardian things *twitch* but my most hated are those fucking kinesis puzzles. I hate them. I also hate those bullshitty instant death puzzles where I'm being attacked by monsters in zero gravity in the vacuum of space in dnager of getting killed by unresponsive controls. So often I find myself yelling at poor Isaac to 'move his slow tin can arse' and yelling in frustration when I die again at that stupid puzzle with the asteroid, or the asteroid shooting game, or any other puzzle.

I guess this is why for me Dead Space is a 'love me and hate me at the same time' game. I guess maybe those puzzles are the reason I loke Bioshock more, though I think Bioshock might just be better. But while there are many good things about Dead Space I had to get over a heavy level of frustration.

 

[The-Big-D]

I wanna be the guy, frustrating but at the same time just awesome.