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

[Mr_Vorhias]

Was playing Mario Party 7 for a while. In story mode, the final level in the game pits whichever character you played as against Bowser in yet another ridiculous looking death machine. How this one works is you're situated on an elevator-looking thing, and in order to win you have to make it all the way to the top floor. This is accomplished by hitting 4 dice cubes in the 4 corners of the square playing area, (The total amount is how many floors you move up.) all the while dodging Bowser's (And later Bowser Jr's) projectiles. In order to get to this stage you need to get a star on the board.

Okay, I'd say that's enough context for now...Here's the "No Fair!" Moment:

If you end up losing before you can get to the top floor, you don't end up being sent back to the bottom floor, but when you try again you start at the floor you left off. (If you lost on the 85th floor, when you come back you'll start at the 85th floor.)

But here's the thing: Your computer opponents can start there too. If you lost first on the 85th floor, when the computer opponent comes around, THEY'LL start on the 85th floor.

So you can imagine my seething fury, when time after time, the computer opponents continued to win the game, benefitting from my hard-earned progress.

I nearly crushed the Gamecube controller in my hand.

 

[Dessembrae]

Halo 2-3 in MP when you spawn or turn a corner and you find yourself having a date with a rocket/spartan laser/shotgun or a plasma grenade -.-

 

[NickCaligo42]

The time the apples fell SIDEWAYS in "I Wanna Be the Guy." That's a really obscure reference, though, so...

I'd say any moment in a game where it expects you to do something contrary to the core gameplay is reasonably unfair. Like the ONE TIME you need to do stealth in an action/adventure game. It's usually more frustrating than fun in a game where you could and WOULD just as soon stab or shoot all your enemies as try to get around them without being noticed. Fable did this. Jedi Outcast did this. Wind Waker did this too. It just isn't fun when the challenge is contrary to the core activity of the rest of the game. Imagine if Ratchet and Clank had a segment with a ton of civilians running around amidst a ton of bad guys and you got severely penalized for each civilian you killed. Imagine it. A game based on indiscriminate firing of rockets, bombs, lasers, lightning bolts, ducks, and fireballs and rewarding collateral damage and for one segment of the game they penalize you for it. Wouldn't that suck SO BAD?

 

[Phelps]

Tales of the world: Narikiri Dungeon 3
During the last stretch of the game, you have to fight Barbatos. So I enter the battle with 2 spellcasters, one with an all heal spell, and another with all offensive spells, and one non specialty character. I enter the battle and the dude keeps spamming off the same 2 spells a million times (which take about a second), almost consistantly interrupting my own. My healer got a heal in every now and again, and my offense mage got some hits, but they didn't regester any hits, and then I realize it.

The dude is invulnerable while he's casting spells. Not a zero coming up, he just doesn't get hit.

So I'm like Dubba-ya Tee Eff? Lazy bastards! He's casting spells like 90% of the time!

If it wasn't absurdly easy to get items, I would've died that level.

I haven't played ND3, but I might have an explanation for that.

In the last battle against Barbatos in ToD2, if you attempt to cast a spell he'll counter with a big spell of his own. Most likely the same thing happens in ND3, and since you entered the battle with two mages...

-- Phelps

 

[boyitsme95]

I was playing Portal when the dumbest thing happend. I had just arrived at the ending fire pit, when I thought it was a cut-scene. Why? My Xbox 360 controller turned off! Not looking to see if it was on, I relised that it was to late, and tryed to save my KFC style butt, and I died. Amazingly, I got back to that point in two trys, and I almost blew up with anger.

 

[Melf]

James bond on the N64 , secret agent mode the train map..just infuriating..

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

In RE4 when you have to fight this claw guy in the castle, he kills u in 1 or 2 hits, and it takes most or all of your ammo to kill him. I still haven't.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Rob Inglis]In RE4 when you have to fight this claw guy in the castle, he kills u in 1 or 2 hits, and it takes most or all of your ammo to kill him. I still haven't.

He has a weak point on his back...

 

[skyfire84]

ok i've been seeing a lot of dead rising, but nobody has said the most fustrating part in the game for me: "recovering" from gunshots. i have major issues with that game's controlling, and this is a big part of it. imagine you are fighting some psychopath, like carlos or those f*ckers that like to hang out in the park. they shoot you, you lose some life and fall down. you SLOWLY climb back to your feet, only to have your ass shot back down again. and again. AND AGAIN. how the heck is that fair?? you can't sprint, and the aiming in that game is absolutely horrendous. that fight against the gun shop guy almost made me break my controller. i'm surprised i actually willed myself to beat that game.

and getting the real mega buster? you can't call that unfair; you want the extra gun, you gotta do something stupid to get it (i.e. waste many hours of your life running over zombies with a car). it's always been that way. getting the achievement is not the unfair part, it's that when you finally get it, it only shoots ONE shot at a time at a slow ass rate. no triple shot like the REAL mega buster? come on capcom.

 

[Melty Blood]

Tales of the world: Narikiri Dungeon 3
During the last stretch of the game, you have to fight Barbatos. So I enter the battle with 2 spellcasters, one with an all heal spell, and another with all offensive spells, and one non specialty character. I enter the battle and the dude keeps spamming off the same 2 spells a million times (which take about a second), almost consistantly interrupting my own. My healer got a heal in every now and again, and my offense mage got some hits, but they didn't regester any hits, and then I realize it.

The dude is invulnerable while he's casting spells. Not a zero coming up, he just doesn't get hit.

So I'm like Dubba-ya Tee Eff? Lazy bastards! He's casting spells like 90% of the time!

If it wasn't absurdly easy to get items, I would've died that level.

I haven't played ND3, but I might have an explanation for that.

In the last battle against Barbatos in ToD2, if you attempt to cast a spell he'll counter with a big spell of his own. Most likely the same thing happens in ND3, and since you entered the battle with two mages...

-- Phelps

Yes, but the thing was Arche's broom (Or black hole), Chat's eternal pow hammer, and Keele's Freeze lancer went right through the dude whilst he was charging his spell. The spell itself wasn't the thing (annoying, but Mage A got a heal in every now and again), but you can't hit him BEFORE he uses it.

 

[SpiderLotus]

The entirety of "I wanna be the guy". That game... it punishes...

 

[m_jim]

I open the map in the editor and check which ai spawn could have gotten LOS on me there:
1: The pistol soldier who was standing there before i owned him.
2: The boat that got destroyed by my TAC cannon.
3: A soldier in a watch tower, on a peninsula, 3.5 miles away.

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.

 

[SongsOfDragons]

What HaliWali said earlier...only in my case the game was Link's Awakening and I was stuck on the puzzle to get the Roc's Feather in the Tail Cave.

I was stuck there for A YEAR AND A HALF.

Then I discovered walkthroughs. Yeah, I was 11 and a right newb when it came to gaming, my only previous experience being Stargoose, and Pacman on my dad's Atari 2600.

 

[Colodomoko]

Most "no fair" is one of those random SPAM noises poping up in the middle of a shoot-out on CS:S and you fall out of your chair while the other team gun's ya down.(SPAMMY LITTLE ****'*)!!!

 

[Abbadiel]

Beating Death Rally on the "Petrol in my veins" difficulty. You can't even start playing. Almost every godamn race would be lost or be won with your car with 99% damage, which is not encouraging since the repairs cost more than the money you actually make. The Loanshark ,which can be very useful if in a pinch, won't give you a godamn dollar because your car is a vagabond (the first car you get).

 

[ert47]

I have to say the Japanese version of Tekken 5 takes the michael!

I can play the European version easy on Hard mode without the game raping me... but the Japanese game takes it too far...

I found myself being KO'ed constantly on Very Easy ._.

 

[Fireandice]

In God of War I, when you just get pandora's box after a solid couple of hours spent in the bloody castle, then Eros senses your success and throws a freaking pillar to the other side of the continent and nails you to the door while harpies nick your box! That was bullshit! That was MY GOD DAMN BOX!!! GET YOUR OWN! Seemed unfair to me.

i remember that!!!! it was kind of awesome and i was left yelling "what the F*ck!?!?!" for about 20 minutes lol

 

[Eranus]

Probably getting to the end of the sewer level in Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox and then having the game freeze. I haven't played that game since.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

The ones that spring to mind at the moment are:

1. The total lack of an autosave on DMC4 - Thank you very much for that Capcom, I desperately wanted to play through those three levels again

2. The overzealous police response in Just Cause. Come on officer, I only nudged his car. I know we're in a militaristic junta, but is the helicopter gunship really necessary?

3. Respawning Guards in Assassin's Creed - Apparently my throwing knives didn't kill the guards, they just made them very sleepy.

 

[meatloaf231]

During Ninja Gaiden Black for the xbox... When I just beat one of the most irritating bosses and then in the very next room I get to fight TWO AT ONCE.

OH COME ON

Either that or in Zelda: phantom hourglass when you run out of time inches away from passing the stupid, STUPID multi-leveled temple thing.

Or perhaps the end of Halo 2. If it counts.