We all know there are points in games where it is difficult, some people need to feel like they've accomplished something great and the only way to do that is to maintain a high curve of difficulty. However I think we can all agree that there are points where it feels like the game is just a little bit too difficult and sometimes, just sometimes where it feels like it's deliberatley being as hard as possible and maybe even bending a few rules to allow it to always beat you. Or at least make you scream in annoyance at the TV screen while some heartless developer miles away laughs at your suffering.
My personal choice is the On Rails meteor shooting section in Dead Space. Most on rail shooting sections in action games are needlessly hard at the best of times but this one just took it one step further with the fact that when you hit one asteroid it merely breaks into many others that cause more wide spread damage, it also has them scattered in endless numbers in a random pattern and makes your gun overheat and it just goes on and on with no breaks... it's just horrific. Every time I go through that section if feels miserable and I can't help but feel like the game is deliberatley trying to make this as hard as possible because it wants me to lose.
So that's my example, how about you? What points in games do you get the wierd feeling that the game is somehow self aware and now plotting to make itself as difficult as possible and twisting the odds so insanely out of your favor that it reaches the point of wondering why you should even bother trying?
My personal choice is the On Rails meteor shooting section in Dead Space. Most on rail shooting sections in action games are needlessly hard at the best of times but this one just took it one step further with the fact that when you hit one asteroid it merely breaks into many others that cause more wide spread damage, it also has them scattered in endless numbers in a random pattern and makes your gun overheat and it just goes on and on with no breaks... it's just horrific. Every time I go through that section if feels miserable and I can't help but feel like the game is deliberatley trying to make this as hard as possible because it wants me to lose.
So that's my example, how about you? What points in games do you get the wierd feeling that the game is somehow self aware and now plotting to make itself as difficult as possible and twisting the odds so insanely out of your favor that it reaches the point of wondering why you should even bother trying?
