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

[Saskwach]

Definitely getting nuked in CoD4.
It was unfair not only by being so titanic, but unlike most cited examples, you cannot defeat, evade, prevent, or circumvent it in any way.

COD4 nuke

That's like calling a cut scene unfair. The point was never to beat it but to get across the message that, as Yahtzee said, "Nukes R bad". And hell, even the side message of "You can be awesome and kickass and totally save some pilot's ass, but war will still kick you in the balls if it wants to."

 

[x434343]

Lol for a while I thought "Nuke in CoD4" meant a new kill spree upgrade in multiplayer.

I liked the nuke in CoD4. It said "You are not immortal. Get with it."

It caused me to, um, not die after that. Ever. I didn't die once after that event.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Practically any boss in Ninja Gaiden.

-and I remember some RTS games like DoW(WA) where in the campaign it was me, some Guardsmen, a Command Squad, and some buildings to hide in, while I had to hold off about 1,000 orks and two Squiggoths for 10 minutes till Re-enforcements (which I thought were gonna be useless 'til I saw that it was a baneblade and really tough units)...longest 10 minutes I've played in a game, I was on the very verge of destruction until the last second hit...if I was on a harder difficulty it would have definitely been a "NO FAIR!" moment.

Oh and "Dante Must Die" difficulty modes on DMC are a fucking pain.

 

[Fire Daemon]

This has likely been said before but whatever:

"I'm sorry but your princess is in another castle"

 

[Aerox1991]

How about that nifty little command g_antilag 1 on CoD 4 (Im talking PC version here). Anyone from Europe who plays scrims against people with an 80 ping or higher know what im talking about. Camping in a corner, and being sprayed to death by someone legging it. You go ask him WTF, ask for his demo's, check it out: See that he didn't come spraying around the corner, he just stood there for a second, then started shooting -_-

Gotta love broken commands :<

 

[flamedance58]

What do I have...

Dawn of War: Fucking stupid orc leaders who can teleport anywhere they want!!!

MMORPGS in general: taking your last quest monster to 10% hp when a newbie runs in and kills it and now ruining your entire quest and thus forcing you to do it all over again. If anyone has played Priston Tales, the quest where you have to get those body parts from those wolf things, iit's the game I speak of.

Prince of Persia: Some of the puzzles, you know the ones I speak of...ALL OF THEM!

EVE Online: Mining asteroids innocently in your lil frigate when suddenly 4 space pirates warp in and blast you a new exhaust hole + killing pirates in a nice asteroid belt to only be PK'd by some corp who "owns" the place

Maple Story: Finally getting your first class then realizing how ridiculously same the stats are with the Novice class.

Ragnarok Online: Being the melee class trying to fight the Wizard with the 60% freeze spell that deals 1000+ damage per hit.

Magic The Gathering (card game): setting up your manas and support cards to summon your big mother f-ing monster of chaos when...your opponent slaps down a "Remove All Cards" card...GAH!

Any FPS game: starting a mission with the crappy pistol and finding out weapons you PICK UP don't transfer over for some reason.

BG/BG2: Characters being randomly perma-killed or finding out that slaughtering all the orcs which cost you several hundred gold in potions have nothing on them but 2 copper necklaces, 10 gold pieces, and a rusty broken sword.

Jurassic Park: Dino Battle (?): When either the computer, your friend, or yourself figure out that one move that makes you grab the enemy by the face and whip em to the ground (which does a nice chunk of damage and stuns em), and then realizing you can spam it.

 

[The Thief]

In any game where you are "captured" by the enemy during a cutscene. I know the game has to be linear, but they should always give the illusion that it is avoidable.

 

[BillBarilko]

Idiots that think it is cool to play f*ckd up muzik through teamspeak while you are busy using your ears not to DIE!

That doesn't really qualify as a "No fair!" moment in a video game, it's actually griefing, which is a hip way of saying "being a fucking douche bag". Add dolts who think whistling, making animal noises, or playing retarded loops to the list.

When playing MP FPSes on public servers, I've recently started applying what a friend calls the "What the fuck was that?" rule. If I say "What the fuck was that?" more than twice in a game, I jump servers. It's proving to be good advice, especially for COD4.

 

[Gooble]

In Baldur's Gate, slogging it out against a bunch of mercenaries or evil dudes, slowly each group getting killed off, being left with one guy to kill, then my main character dying-that's annoying as hell.

Also realising that your last save was about 1/2 hour ago, and you've just died

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Hmmmm, everyone said System Shock 2 was near-impossible, but I got through it ok. You have to be VERY careful with weapons and ammo at the early stages though. And one major gripe (apart from the fact that every shotgun the Many's foot-soldiers have is broken when you try to take it from them, despite them firing at you with it just seconds before) - how come your shotgun and your pistol do roughly the same amount of damage, regardless of range? You'd think that a shotgun would do a lot more damage at close range, and a lot less at long range. Not the case.

Doesn't stop me recommending SS2 as one of the scariest games I've ever played though... Anybody who seriously got freaked out by FEAR (how?), try SS2 with surround-sound headphones. It will probably turn your hair white, but you'll enjoy it. Trust me on this. It'll work easily on Windows XP with a patch you can get easily online, although I haven't managed to get it working with Vista yet.

Unfair moments in games? You'd have to go back to the 64KB systems to find the worst ones. Racing games where if you so much as scrape another car's paint job, your own car immediately stops and bursts into flames... overhead-view driving games where the screen is so small, you can barely see three inches in front of your own bumper, yet you drive at light speed and die if you so much as hit a bush... overhead-view shooting games like "Rambo" and "Commando" where you only have to get hit once to die, but the enemies and bullets use up so many sprites that the computer can't display them all, hence deaths from being hit by nothing at all... Beat 'em ups where the enemies are psychic and move around like cheetahs on speed, while you crawl about trying to time your slow kick and punch attacks to the millisecond in order to actually hit the damn things.

Guys, compared to us ancient C64-ers, you had it easy. But "Last Ninja 2" and "Last Ninja 3" on the C64 are still two of my favorite games ever, so we had it good sometimes as well.

 

[Le' Moog]

the Driver mission on GTA: Vice City.

If I wanted to recruit him as a driver, why would I have to be faster than him in a race? surely that would prove he's rubbish?

I still havent completed that game

 

[LightRailCoyote]

1997. Doom 2 3rd Party WAD was released called Hell Revealed.

Whenever I started a level, "What the sodding buggery is this!" were the first words out of my mouth.

It was literally impossible.

 

[BillBarilko]

the Driver mission on GTA: Vice City.

If I wanted to recruit him as a driver, why would I have to be faster than him in a race? surely that would prove he's rubbish?

I still havent completed that game

The RC copter mission was worse.

 

[Not From Antarctica]

Possibly my most NO FAIR! moment was in TF2 where I shot an engineer in the head 5 times with critical and he still diddnt die.

 

[Asehujiko]

Possibly my most NO FAIR! moment was in TF2 where I shot an engineer in the head 5 times with critical and he still diddnt die.

If i were you i would have shot the medic behind him instead...

On topic: All of Condemned. You are armed with a slow as piss wooden board and are supposed to fight against perfectly silent, ceiling running "homeless and drug addicts" who can club you to death with anything in a single hit if you don't block perfectly(which is impossible unless you are a telepath, some of the enemies have a shorter swing animation then you have a block animation) but take 10 hits to the head with a fire axe in return and are more often then not armed with shotguns and smg's.

Can't say anything about condemned 2 because it's not out on pc and if yahtzee is to be belived, it's better this way.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Dead Rising in general with its artificially inflated difficulty, but if you want specifics...

Short Timelimits
Stupid Ally AI
The 3 Prisoners
Nighttime Zombie Powerup
The Gunshop Survivors (Who will FILL you full of holes as soon as your finished talking to them, or when you come back to talk to them, or pretty much anytime).
Fighting Faster Human Foes with a control system designed to fight slow zombies.

I could go on.

Still a good game though, in spite of mega flaws.

 

[Burld]

I'd have to say in multiplayer the most unfair thing seems to be not living in America. It seems that all Americans have a better connection than me, which is understandable. The fact that I still manage to play fairly well despite a quite noticeable bit of lag always brings a smile.
I'd have to say one of the best examples is GTA unclear mission instructions. Just recently in 4 at the end of 'Three Leaf Clover' I was told to go back to Packie's house, and although I had 3 stars I thought that since it didn't say 'Lose your Wanted level' as usual I could go back without bothering. I got there with about two tyres left and red health, and it told me to lose my wanted level just at that point.

 

[erikvduyn]

uh....Max Payne 2, the final bit of your apartment level, after the scaffolding you stand on collapses, a van with about 5-6 cleaners suddenly comes in. i was seriously 'you s.o.b devs!'

that was until i found out i could kill most of them by throwing a molotov towards them as they drove in