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

[cleverlymadeup]

well the one that got my ire up the most is in gta san andreas

during the race side quests one race you have to go down a hill and if you fall off the cliff and live but miss the check points you have to go back get the check points and of course lose the race. if you push the npc cars off the cliff they can continue on without having to hit the check points AND even pass and win the race

out of everything that one still ticks me off after all these years

tho crystal chronicles comes in a close second, i got pretty far into it, like 5 or 6 seasons and then it switched elements to ones i couldn't cross and the only available lvls were ones that were well above my chars skill set. stopped playing the game at that point

 

[TheSKSpecial]

My current 'no fair' gripe is the Slash boss battle on Hard in GH3. He doesn't miss a note when you don't use a powerup on him and seems to recover way too fast. Definitely hit the point with that game where it's stopped being fun to play.

Wait'll you meet Lou.

 

[TheSKSpecial]

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.

You can sidestep from Tekken 3 on. In Tekken 2 you get pushed to the side after blocking so many hits. But I agree for Tekken 1.

I gotta say Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out! I remember my first experience vividly.

First time I fight him: "OK...sit back, see what he does to give himself awa-" SMACK! Knockdown 1.

"What the fuck?!? He dropped me in ONE PUNCH?!? Ok...he blinks before throwing. OK he just blinked...move to the side...he didn't do anyth-" SMACK! Knockdown 2.

*2 minutes into the round* "OK. I think he's done with the blinky magic punches. What else can he-" SMACK!

TKO.

 

[shrapnel_city]

How about Ninja Gaiden, the only game where there was a calculated 1% chance of completing

 

[m_jim]

Any sports game made by EA: "Woo! Leading by 3 with 3 minutes to go! Too easy"
1 minute later: "Okay, still leading by two, this should be fine..."
2 minutes later: "Right boys, hold on to that one point lead, come on..."
3 minutes later: "GET TO THE GOALS, GO! NEED TO SCORE..." <Ball gets intercepted, opposition scores with with 3 seconds remaining, you quit the season, grind the disc to dust and use it as baby powder>

Definitely. EA's games have ridiculous "rubber-banding" AI. They claim that it keeps the game interesting so that you will never have a blow-out victory. The problem is that the advanced AI doesn't turn off once it takes the lead. That's why I wound up trading in EA's NBA/NFL Street titles.

 

[imPacT31]

The 3rd stage of the boss battle against Yami (I think that's its name) in Okami.

You're fighting a slot machine where the only way to inflict damage is to randomly power-slash one or more of a particular symbol.
It took me a literal fifteen minutes before I got bored of having no idea how to damage him and looked up a guide, only to find random chance was the only way and I'd been unlucky enough to not be successful once.
This is a rare example of the reactive boss, who can't do anything unless you attack first.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

My current 'no fair' gripe is the Slash boss battle on Hard in GH3. He doesn't miss a note when you don't use a powerup on him and seems to recover way too fast. Definitely hit the point with that game where it's stopped being fun to play.

Wait'll you meet Lou.

Funny thing about Lou: I beat him the first time on the song. Then failed the next three times.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Much as I love Shadow Dancer and Revenge of Shinobi on Sega Genesis, I can't recommend them today. They make Ravenholm look a cakewalk.

Revenge Of Shinobi - Hardest Difficulty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBR5pHk3v5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3toXXSvPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kZT-n_Mn7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NxRGqG1SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIJdfFHc3Mw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5doc_xuXbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9r741DEadc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKafWNT3CJQ

Whovever Said Mortal Kombat:

MK1 - Flawless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MsNq3A4I4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOhYMTA5ryI

MK2 - Flawless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_W9dFK_XE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_5ywfaAoU

Mine has to be a shedload of 8 & 16 bit games that cheat to beat you, with psychic enemies, jumps that vary length and, of course, the dummy exploding powerup.

 

[random9qz]

Call of Duty 4 with my friend on his 360, I set off TWO CLAYMORES under him, he wasn't even a juggernaut, and he lives, shoots the wall beside him with a shotgun, and hits me in the face. I almost threw the controller at him :\

 

[Bromeliad]

Every time I play Tribes Vengeance online.
I am terrible at a game that has servers filled with experts.

 

[redheadedrant]

Whenever I play mario kart and I'm about to get 1st place, right before a blue shell blows up and four people pass me. It's part of the game, sure, but it always ticks me off.

 

[redheadedrant]

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.

Yeah, glitches are toys, but the people are tools. That's right.

 

[zma924]

COD4 nuke
Not getting to fight a brumak in Gears 1

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Playing against the LA Galaxy in FIFA 08 and having David Beckham take a penalty kick from ANYWHERE on the field. He will slot it through no matter what.

 

[x434343]

Weapons taken away in the citadel in HL2.

Ooh, I was once playing Battlefield 2. I use the quickfind option. Get on a server as a Chinese. Go to a plane. There's an American in it. I smile because I'm a SpecOps. Use all of my C4 on it. -BOOM!- Kicked from server, and I quote, "For being an ASSHOLE!"

Because I was trying to defend my base, I got kicked. What the fuck?

 

[Hanji]

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.

Yiazmat in FFXII also comes to mind. 54 million HP is just ridiculous, especially when you throw Magick Barriers and Palings in. The game is long enough without the guy.

 

[T0r012]

hmmm...
ET for the atari 2600 --- falling down those freaking holes and having some insane way to get outwhere you levitate in some odd way and not having any idea on how to get out even when you levitate up.
-----
dragon warrior for the NES. finding that darn good armor. this was before the internet and looking up stuff in 30 seconds. you had to search every darn section of the map block by block. and it is hiding in the section with the huge section of the poison swamp that you want the armor to get through so you don't take damage from every step through the poison swamp.

 

[the monopoly guy]

anytime you get kicked from a server from being too good. You know when thats the case too becuase you jsut joined and already have 10 kills

battlefield vietnam, my m16 sniper ran out of ammo so all I had was a pistol, and someone playing as a vietcong has picked up an M60 and grenade launcher...and he was in a jeep with someone else...

the first big boss in God of War...but then I found out Kratos kicks a**

 

[tthor]

in star wars: battlefront 2, whenever i was a jedi, i would just continuesly use force push on my friend to push him around(if he was on my team or not), whether it be into a corner or off a cliff,
and whenever he would try to get up, i would just push him back down. good times =)

 

[Gitsnik]

Titan Mode in God of War II, fighting Zeus with the big sword when he's about to execute Kratos.

The first time that happened I was "NO FAIR!" because there was absolutely no warning that Kratos was going to fight back - by this point I'd put down the PS2 controller to have a pull on my vodka. Other than that the first time I played Starcraft online and got Zerg Rushed.