Anyone have any memorably unfair moments in gaming that they'd like to share with the Escapist community? Maybe you finally beat that tricky boss only for your game to crash? Or perhaps you slogged your way through an unforgiving level only to die within spitting distance of a checkpoint? If you have any stories or controller snapping, blind swearing moments of frustration and rage, we'd like to hear them =)
To start the ball rolling, here's one of my own - Myself and 3 friends were playing Left 4 Dead on expert difficulty determined to finally complete a level on it (our 8th attempt). We made it to the finale with only one molotov between us and no pipe bombs. The AI director gave us NOTHING for the final crescendo. So we squared our shoulders, loaded our weapons and prepared for the onslaught. We had made it this far, rescue was only minutes away.
The first casualty was "The Rookie", pinned by a hunter and killed by the first tank. He was the least experienced player in our group, but had saved me many times from the infected. As the tank fell, we shed a tear for him before bracing for the second attack. We held off the waves of screaming infected and dispatched the second tank without further incident, but a few close calls. Finally our salvation arrived, but not soon enough. The infected were everywhere, our bullets seemed useless against the closing wall of zombified flesh and we had nothing to thin the horde. No pipe bombs to draw them away, and our one molotov we had used against the tank. A boomer hit "Sarge" and the infected tore him apart before he could reach the chopper. Cut off from him by the rabid undead, there was nothing I could do but run.
Four of us made it to the roof, but only 2 of us escaped. If only we had a single pipe bomb Sarge might have escaped, if that hunter had attacked someone else then the Rookie might still be alive.
We played for 2 hours and they never got the satisfaction of beating the level. They were seriously unhappy about that.
Why? Why?! Curse you AI Director!
To start the ball rolling, here's one of my own - Myself and 3 friends were playing Left 4 Dead on expert difficulty determined to finally complete a level on it (our 8th attempt). We made it to the finale with only one molotov between us and no pipe bombs. The AI director gave us NOTHING for the final crescendo. So we squared our shoulders, loaded our weapons and prepared for the onslaught. We had made it this far, rescue was only minutes away.
The first casualty was "The Rookie", pinned by a hunter and killed by the first tank. He was the least experienced player in our group, but had saved me many times from the infected. As the tank fell, we shed a tear for him before bracing for the second attack. We held off the waves of screaming infected and dispatched the second tank without further incident, but a few close calls. Finally our salvation arrived, but not soon enough. The infected were everywhere, our bullets seemed useless against the closing wall of zombified flesh and we had nothing to thin the horde. No pipe bombs to draw them away, and our one molotov we had used against the tank. A boomer hit "Sarge" and the infected tore him apart before he could reach the chopper. Cut off from him by the rabid undead, there was nothing I could do but run.
Four of us made it to the roof, but only 2 of us escaped. If only we had a single pipe bomb Sarge might have escaped, if that hunter had attacked someone else then the Rookie might still be alive.
We played for 2 hours and they never got the satisfaction of beating the level. They were seriously unhappy about that.
Why? Why?! Curse you AI Director!
