The most 'No fair!' moment in a video game?

[Teleios]

Spoilers of Course...

But in the original Half-Life. You're inside the warehouse, after killing ninja assassins. There are tons and tons and tons of boxes and crates. You get fully stocked on pretty much anything after spending about 5-10mins breaking all of the boxes, only for everything to go black and wake up finding yourself in a dumpster with absolutely nothing.

 

[Baba booey]

Digital Devil Saga and it's elemental healing.

 

[Asehujiko]

Lol. Funniest thing I've read all day. I was jealous of being a console tard and not being able to experience the magnificence of Crysis (namely, I thought the "bad guys speak Korean" mode sounded totally badass). Now, I'm a little bit less so.

They still only have 1 quote for each action so you should have figured out what means "grenade" and "enemy spotted" after your first 10 kills. Just don't get near those boats and pay attention to the guys in sniper positions with their infinite range.

 

[EnzoHonda]

I've got a few:

Rome: Total War. Me and the other two factions have taken over the whole map. Then the senate tells me that the other two factions are traitors and I have to attack them by the next turn or I'll be castrated. And all my armies are way the hell over in Spain and Britan trying to keep mobs from burning all my cities down.

Baldur's Gate. Having bunch of Basilisks attack by throwing a ball that petrifies one of your characters then throwing another that shatters said character causing permanent death.

Any of the Gabriel Knight games.

 

[seethroughwindow]

How about just the entire Ninja Gaiden for XBOX. That game in and of itself was unfair, due to its high difficulty and learning curve.

Ain't that the truth. Though Black is even harder, which I didn't think was possible.

Also, going "old school," any game that's made for the NES by Hudson in which you had one hit + you'd be dead, but there were no passwords or save points in the game, so you'd just have to start over from the beginning. Specifically I'm thinking of Milon's Secret Castle. Sure you could get a shield which made it so you would have two hits before you die, but the enemies keep respawning and the level designs make it so you have to deal with them. You just sit there + go... "Really?! Come on now!" + scream obscenities at your TV screen

 

[Jercurpac]

Solo B (and to a lesser extent the whole solo) in Jordan from Guitar Hero II

I thought conquering and five-starring Bark at the Moon in the original made me a badass. I figured nailing the solo in Freebird was a monumental achievement. Hangar 18? Piece of cake. Misirlou, nothing to get upset over. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can prepare you for solo B in Jordan. Even on songs you can't beat you can at least comprehend what's going on and understand what you need to do to eventually win. Through the Fire and the Flames and The Devil Went Down To Georgia are crazy-hard, but they make sense to me. When I lose I know that I wasn't strumming fast enough or my hands couldn't hit the buttons fast enough.

Solo B is just random noise and the notes that supposedly represent the sonic onslaught that is battering you. All you can do is strum wildly while fretting as close to the right notes as possible and pray that your starpower lasts long enough.

 

[VRaptorX]

Lee's infinite kick combo in Tekken series. You think someone would eventually get rid of a 1 button infinite combo. And that combo moves him foward as well so you can't just walk backwards and watch him kick in place.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Any multiplayer, team-based game in which you bust your arse for an entire round and lose because your teammates are inadequate.

For example, Murphy's Law dictates that when only one machine gun is available, the 300-pinger who's AFK half the round, doesn't speak English and can't shoot for shit will get it, dooming the rest of the team to slaughter at the hands of entrenched enemies no one has the means to suppress.

 

[Kayevcee]

Half Life 2, the late setpiece in Nova Prospect with the three turrets and the 2 billion Combine troopers. It all goes well at first, the guys pop out, the turrets go off, you lend a few rounds of your own while you're not covering the entrance that the turrets can't reach. You quicksave regularly until you don't spot the grenade and find your new save position is a quarter second before it goes off knocking over at least one turret and it all goes downhill from there until you find yourself cowering in a cell with 3% health and 6 bullets to kill the 4 remaining guys. Fun.

Before I read a walkthrough that suggested just turning the turrets round in their cubby holes and clmbing in the fourth one yourself I had actually started carrying the two turrets from the previous section over the electrified lake with the gravity gun to make use of the extra firepower. I felt a bit of a chump afterwards, but I also couldn't help wondering if that was what Valve intended or if they actually expected you to take on a whole regiment with your trusty shotgun and three pea shooters on wobbly tripods.

-Nick

 

[CommanderCool]

Amen.

For me? DOW (LOTW mod), having a Baneblade with a few Leman Russes rolling into an enemy IG base and suddenly getting raped by DROVES of Guardsmen and Ogryns.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Glitches in Star Wars Battlefront. If oneself can get inside a wall, there is almost no stopping them. Fortunatly, me and my clan have a little syaing that speaks on behalf of many gamers; Glitches are toys, not tools.
Still, it's a *meep* for anyone who has to deal with those people.

 

[Quiotu]

How's this for an old one? Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Old adventure game about the original series released in 1993. The last mission in the end has you battling two ships, one being a duplicate Enterprise. The battle is considered to be nigh impossible and entirely based on luck... I never did get to finish that mission and the game.

Bully, the game. The final mission I beat up everyone, and am fighting Gary on the scaffolding. Gary finds a glitched spot and gets stuck, and I can't finish the mission. To get to this part you have to run around the academy and take out the leaders of the four cliques plus make your way up to Gary. Takes probably 2-3 hours... was not happy...

In my opinion, Xenogears once you hit the second disc... I had to groan at how unfair it was for the game to suck so bad after that. And they had it going SO well before that...

Playing Jurrasic Park for the SNES and realizing it had NO SAVE FEATURE!!

Star Control 3... just... the game itself. Damnit, that one hurt...

And my final, most retro 'no fair' moment... Playing Yar's Revenge, and being taken by the Ghost of Yar. Only happened once... still sucked...

 

[skyfire84]

Playing Jurrasic Park for the SNES and realizing it had NO SAVE FEATURE!!

i'm with you on that one. that had to be one of the most horrible things a person could come up with for a game. i played it a bunch of times, never with the intent on beating it. one time i decided to try. never again. anyone ever play super bonk on the snes? same BS. probably a lot of games out there that are unforgivable for that reason

years ago, when Marvel VS Capcom 2 just came out in arcades. i had enjoyed the first one (i wasnt too good, but it was fun), and i was excited when i saw it. me and my friend were in a small arcade, and there were two machines near each other. there were maybe like 5 people total in the arcade that day. one guy was playing MVC2, and he was quite good at it. i just wanted to try the game so naturally i went to the other arcade. im about 15 seconds into my match when the other guy comes over to my arcade, pops in a couple quarters, and proceeds to beat the crap out of me. i didn't even know what the new features were in this game yet, and this guy comes over to get his jollies. wtf? i mean, how lame do you have to be? haha

 

[rcorp]

1)Ending of The Longest Journey
I know it was better for April but hell... it made me cry.

2)Ending of Dreamfall
Well...I like it but at that time I wanted to beat Ragnar Tørnquist with something hard and heavy.

3)Escape sequence in Deus Ex
I finally escape from my brother's hotel room, sneak/run to the subway station and get to the next station. I go outside just to be greeted by Agent Hermann and a few soldiers who blocked the escape with some big metal crates. So I chat with him for a while, refuse to surrender and flee back to the station with Hermann following me. There I shoot at that metal bastard from the ventilation shafts with everything I have just to realize that he's apparently invincible. I change the plan, put on the invisibility armor, run outside, use super-strength to remove one of the crates and sprint away just to find out that the rest of the map(which we visited in one of the previous missions) is almost completely empty and looks like an abandoned movie studio. So I humbly return and let the Tin Man arrest me. Ouch.

 

[_Janny_]

2)Ending of Dreamfall
Well...I like it but at that time I wanted to beat Ragnar Tørnquist with something hard and heavy.

I'm with you on this one...

I never had many "No fair" moments, but I remember playing DMC3 at the chessboard part and I had to destroy the king in order to finish the part very fast. I made my way to him, used all of Dante's powers, managed to kill the king and I was supposed to pass onto the next part- but Dante died at the exact moment the king did... game over -_-

 

[BLad30Fgod]

First time in Assassins Creed when driving with full speed through a group of soldiers with my horse. Fuckin'twenty soldiers surrounded me. but i didn't know i could counter by that time so i got owned

 

[Dealin Burgers]

Thought of another one: Playing as a spy in TF2, cloaking then getting headshotted by a sniper aiming for the ally who happend to be behind you. That, and crit rockets are never fair, as long as you can see it explode, your in the radius to die from it!

 

[Alcari]

The dirtbag commander in Battlefield games, who seems to be there purely to stroke his ego, because he's not doing anything. And the retarded team that's to stupid to mutiney.

And of course any FPS that put you on an important mission with totally shitty weapons.
"Alright Soldier, we need you to rescue the president with his Nuclear Doomsday device from satan and his numberless minions in the pits hell. Here's a pistol and 12 bullets, go get 'em"

about any time when enemies seem to have an infinite ammount of ammo, untill you kill them. Then they only have 4 shotgun shells.

In Baldurs Gate, and BG2. Every time one of my chars was perma-killed.

 

[shufflemonkey16]

The entirety of Ninja Gaiden