Still ain't fun

[Arkhangelsk]

Time has not made Jak X any less frustrating.

nor has it erased my fear of Cliff Racers

I got around halfway on that game, until it came to a halt, because the next course was bloody impossible. Your weapons are jammed, the others target you and only you, and the design is fucked.

Oh, and Jak 2, the mission where you pick up a relic at the edge of town (the water section) and then have to traverse the whole place on foot while guards and ships are firing their lasers up your bum... In fact, Jak 2 is probably one of the most frustrating games ever, the difficulty is sometimes preposterous, racing becomes impossible to navigate, enemies overwhelm you, etc. But it's also one of the most fun games.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Bioshock, the Big Daddy disguise.

fucked up vision, annoying bootsteps, and a cuntgargling escort mission. *wrenches womeone in the face*

 

[gim73]

In saga frontier for the ps1 there is a little village called yorkland where you need to get the grail card for the tarot magic. You have to go to every cellar in the town, and each one will force to to drink some booze and go to the next one. Once you have drunk from all of them, they send you into the swamp where you constantly stumble, and being drunk inflicts EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of your party with a random status ailment. If you do this late in the game the enemies scale with you and will own you even if you were sober. Ever fight a battle with three charmed characters, one asleep and another who can't use any special moves? In a game with cheap ass regular enemies that go first and cast a single spell that does 200 more damage than your max hp to your entire party, this is by far the most frustrating part of the game.

Oh, water temple isn't that bad. I don't even use a strategy guide when I go through and I have no problems.

Cliff racers have a mod in the PC version that reduces their numbers to reasonable amounts. You would not BELIEVE how easy it is to have seven of these bastards pecking at you in certain places.

I had ten once inside the ghostfence. and two ascended sleepers. and some ash fuckers.

I was CHEATING and i got killed

Well, there is cheating, and then there is CHEATING!

Cheating involves just using spells to allow yourself to get the times five multiplier on level up to max out your stats to 100 fast. This isn't so bad, I usually do it.

CHEATING is where you use soul trap for any of it's various permenant spell bonuses other than water breathing/walking. Really, who wants to swim through the water, that place is swimming with slaughterfish. I would hate to be a fisherman in morrowind with all those man eating fish in every body of water. But, anyways, the real cheat is pumping your stats up to 1000. Don't do this for speed or you will run so fast you leap over red mountain.

 

[Nazulu]

Oh, water temple isn't that bad. I don't even use a strategy guide when I go through and I have no problems.

Agreed. It's one of the very few so called faults that haters like to exploit to death. I had no problem with it, completed in no time besides not being able to find the last key to get to Dark Link.

OT, Diablo 2 when you go down the worm hole in the desert, you know the one filled with all the thunder beetles and poisonous parasites in a really narrow passage the whole way through. Can't avoid them, have to kill every single one of them till you eventually get to the lower levels.

Metal Fatigue, the alien levels are ridiculous, need to create a giant army just to kill one and that takes at least an hour.

Pokemon games, I hate those dark caves, gives me the shits but the one I played in Pearl recently was so bad.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

In saga frontier for the ps1 there is a little village called yorkland where you need to get the grail card for the tarot magic. You have to go to every cellar in the town, and each one will force to to drink some booze and go to the next one. Once you have drunk from all of them, they send you into the swamp where you constantly stumble, and being drunk inflicts EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of your party with a random status ailment. If you do this late in the game the enemies scale with you and will own you even if you were sober. Ever fight a battle with three charmed characters, one asleep and another who can't use any special moves? In a game with cheap ass regular enemies that go first and cast a single spell that does 200 more damage than your max hp to your entire party, this is by far the most frustrating part of the game.

Oh, water temple isn't that bad. I don't even use a strategy guide when I go through and I have no problems.

Cliff racers have a mod in the PC version that reduces their numbers to reasonable amounts. You would not BELIEVE how easy it is to have seven of these bastards pecking at you in certain places.

I had ten once inside the ghostfence. and two ascended sleepers. and some ash fuckers.

I was CHEATING and i got killed

Well, there is cheating, and then there is CHEATING!

Cheating involves just using spells to allow yourself to get the times five multiplier on level up to max out your stats to 100 fast. This isn't so bad, I usually do it.

CHEATING is where you use soul trap for any of it's various permenant spell bonuses other than water breathing/walking. Really, who wants to swim through the water, that place is swimming with slaughterfish. I would hate to be a fisherman in morrowind with all those man eating fish in every body of water. But, anyways, the real cheat is pumping your stats up to 1000. Don't do this for speed or you will run so fast you leap over red mountain.

I was playing on Xbox at the time, so i had health cheat AND Royal Signet Ring on. Between the two of those things VIVEC has a hard time murdering you. Fucking Vivec. With his fancy half-gold body. Dammit now I need a Chimer race mod

 

[Brotherofwill]

I still hate around 90% of all the beginings of old (and often new) rpgs. Oh no the building is on fire! Get out of bed! Oh no, raiders are attacking the village! Oh no, a big catastrophe is happening! Oh no, I woke up and can't remember my past! Man...give me a break.

Oh yea and I still hate catching a Magikarp and getting the little useless bastard to level 20. While I am at it why do so many Pokemon need to be traded to evolve?

I still hate brewing the recipe in Monkey Island on the ship because I always fear that I forgot something or will throw something important in.

Still hate the wormhole in Diablo 2.

I still don't like the leveling system in Elder Scrolls games because it makes you plan everything so carefully that it feels like a chore if you want to do it perfectly.

But then again, I see the N64 Zeldas as the non-cdi low point of the series, so perhaps people are just stupid.

Ofcourse they are...ofcourse. I'm sure it's not you.

 

[Agrael]

Certain multiplayer maps on a variety of games will be the doom of me yet. Afghan, anyone?

I fucking love Afghan..

 

[Mafoobula]

No matter how many times I play ANY Legend of Zelda game, I will never be able to get past how horribly non-innovative it can be, especially when it comes to weapons. That's why I really loved Wind Waker and Spirit Tracks, despite so many people bashing them; the weapons are innovative and genuinely enjoyable to use in all their capacities.

 

[Lekonua]

Metropolis Zone. I still have trouble making it through within the time limit.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

The water temple in Ocarina of time

It never ceases to frustrate me. The complexity of the temples sky rockets

 

[Signa]

nor has it erased my fear of Cliff Racers

Making a quick mod to give Cliff Racers 300% weakness to lightning eased mine.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

half-life 2, the antlion beach

 

[TxMxRonin]

The phone calls in inFamous. Goddamn, why not when you beat the game the first time you can skip the damn things?

 

[jboking]

I've finally gotten to the point where Onin's game isn't hard anymore

...you did know you could pause durring Onin's game and just look for all the buttons that are on screen and then just unpause and hit them all really quick right?

As for a part of a video game that has not gotten any easier or less frustrating to this day, MGS1's torture sequence. My thumbs weep in terror STILL. However, I refuse to lose. I will not ride off into the sunset with Otacon when I could be doing that with Meryl.

 

[Altorin]

Playing Mass Effect again has only caused me to be further enraged by it's terrible design choices. Only this time my hate for the side quests is rivaled by my hate for the AI's complete stupidity. You'd think Garrus would know when to get behind cover instead of standing out in the open and drawing all enemy fire towards him like a magnet.

Though I suppose I should give a more specific example. In Pikmin 2 the Submerged Castle was a nightmare to complete on my first try, and time has not made it any less aggravating. Based on people's other complaints in this thread, it seems that Nintendo goes out of their way to make their water levels as frustrating as possible.

Damn water wraith.

while I love Mass Effect, and don't actually mind the sidequests, and don't actually HATE this part, I gotta say the NPC AI is pretty shitty... I thought "Hey, Garrus's class gets a bonus with sniper rifles... I'll pump his stats into sniper rifles and see how that goes."

nope, he's a moron with it, so I gave him back his assault rifle.

 

[Namewithheld]

I just pumped up my biotic powers and ignored my companions for pretty much all of Mass Effect. It worked out well.

CLIFF RACERS!

Gah! Fuck! They SUCK! I hate Cliff Racers with a fiery passion.

Hmm, a thing I still hate, after all these years?

It'd have to be those FUCKING BASTARD monkeys from System Shock 2. Small, fast, creepy as hell...OH and they fired CRYOKENISIS AT YOU! Then you meet them later, when you're better armed and now they throw PRYROKENISIS!?

Yeah.

FUCK YOU MONKEYYYYSSSS!

 

[Blair Bennett]

nor has it erased my fear of Cliff Racers

*twitch* This. THIS. THIIIIS. ARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Or Balverines. I. HATE. BALVERINES.

I almost didn't finish my playthrough of Fable because of the Balverines.

OT: I've never liked the Gerudo Camp area in Ocarina of Time. I usually have terrible, terrible luck when trying to run around the place, and it took me a bloody age to find/kill the last guard. Seriously, those damn carpenters better be grateful.

I had been tempted to mention the piano puzzle from the original Silent Hill, however, once you figure out what you're supposed to do initially, it's fairly easy to do it a second time.

 

[CD repo man]

I hate the Ashley level in re4, all of the jet ski sections in Uncharted, and any and all escort missions as previously stated.