Most unplayable/frustrating games

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Paulrus_Keaton

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Bubsy 3D.
Tried to play through this mess for the sake of a GiantBomb article. UGH.

If the horrible controls don't do it for you, the lack of depth perception and visible landmarks due to a horrible graphics engine will.
 

likalaruku

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Psyhchonaughts. It goes back & forth between frustratingly dull, & then suddenly the difficulty curve will shoot up like a tower, & whatever happens isn't fun either. I actually get anxiety from playing this one level.
 

Sonofadiddly

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I had an extra $10 on a Best Buy card, so I bought Pirates: Legend of the Black Buckaneer. I went "yay pirates!" then after hitting the jump button once I went "oh no" and sure enough it was unplayable. But I should have been tipped off by the terrible voice acting in the opening cut scene.
 

Arleer157

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himemiya1650 said:
GTA IV, the driving mechanics made me quit prior to the first actual level
GTAIV's Driving mechanics were previously quite realistic, nowadays they are idiotically simplistic and have caused me to lose interest in the game. I guess this post wuold be sort of pointless if I didn't say this; It didn't used to be that bad, is all.
 

Jark212

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Bojinglez said:
Ecco the Dolphin... That was ridiculous.
Let's just pretend that the game does not exist...

That's what I've been doing for the last 14 years...
 

TheRocketeer

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Too Human, Too Human, a thousand times Too Human!

I have never hated a game quite as much as I have hated this game. It would have been more fun to just cram the money I spent on that game up my ass and then eat it on rye bread.
 

Sonofadiddly

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Jark212 said:
Bojinglez said:
Ecco the Dolphin... That was ridiculous.
Let's just pretend that the game does not exist...

That's what I've been doing for the last 14 years...
I loved that game! Even though it was ridiculously difficult and so frustrating I wanted to eat my controller. Still, there's something about being a dolphin and being able to frolic through the waves with your dolphin friends that made me delirious with joy. There should have been more of that and a lot less frantically trying not to drown.
 

Omikron009

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GTA 4 isn't unplayable, it's actually very good, but it has some extremely frustrating issues.
1. Too many car chases. The fact that the cars handle realistically makes them tedious.
2. It can take too long to get places in missions where you can't use cabs.
3. NO GOD DAMN MOTHER FUCKING MID MISSION CHECKPOINTS! GRAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
 

Guttural Engagement

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Rewdalf said:
Oh, quick addon.
Sim City 4.
Apparently my video card was juuuuuust not powerful enough.
I could play the game, but every so often the screen would barf a barrage of pretty colors at me, and getting rid of them took some skilled camera tinkering...
But that was on my old PC.
Oh my, that must've been one piece of crap graphics card. My old computer had a ATI Radeon 9550 and it could run Sim City 4 at Full Graphics. Either that; or your monitor (or monitor cables) had serious issues.

Glad to hear it was your OLD computer though; I would heavily pity you if you still had and were using a computer that outdated.