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

[flaming_mo]

ffviii omega weapon: an attack that takes off more damage than you can EVER have in health
super fantasy zone: every boss you EVER faced on the game consecutively, followed by another boss. If you died, you lost all the power ups you'd collected and were left with some shitty gun and bomb
gran turismo: getting gold licence tests. I am not michael schumacher
any game on 16 bit consoles with no save points: its not fair for a 10 year old to be expected to play through earthworm jim in one session

and for the record i managed ninja gaiden sigma.... on normal.... and with many frustrated moments

 

[flaming_mo]

oh, and driver on the ps1: even forgetting the glitches. run a red light and the police act as if you've committed a mass murder

 

[Xanadu84]

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.

SS2 is fantastic, and I also really enjoyed FEAR. They just go at being scary from different angles, SS2 had RPG elements done well, and FEAR had better gunplay. I do horribly miss the creepy zombie noises, but i'm also a sucker for, "Creepy angry ghost girl with bangs covering her face who you just can't stop".

 

[Greichen]

In Dawn of War, there's a territory where you get some kind of benefit if you beat it. The benefit is that you can have a base on any territory you want to attack. The thing is that for stupid reason you can't build, so you start with a massive army.

How's this unfair you say? Well, in that game for every heavy weapons upgrade you make, you need plasma and the only thing you can construct are Listening Posts (They produce the normal type of resource). The problem lies that you have to destroy every any structur and this map is controlled by a high difficulty Ork army that, unlike you, can build structures.
This probably ends in a lost battle.

YES YES YES, ABSOLUTELY YES.
As soon as I read this, the nightmares flooded back. Yeah, nothing like a mission where you begin with a finite supply of soldiers, and told to take out an enemy who has a base and just keeps spawning. "Oh Well" you might think, because after all, what's an RTS without atleast one those those stages. You're tasked with destroying all their buildings in the entire map. I can't off the top of my head remember the exact number, but that hardly matters, as they actually have the capacity to BUILD MORE as the lvl goes on. By the time I took out 5 towers, they had built another 12. It was like a Finish line attached to the back of a transport truck. I would run to catch it, but it easily outpaced me, and sometimes slammed on the breaks if I got close, just to watch me smash my face off the bumper before pulling away again.

Aside from that game though, there was a game for the NES called Anticipation, which I decided to call "Precognition Training"
The game was much like pictionary, only it'd give you a very rough connect the dots image, and then begin connecting them to draw the image you had to guess. The computer had an infuriatingly nasty habit of "Guessing" the answer after about 2cm of 1 line was completed. Most of the images could be logically figured out rather quickly, but rather quickly was a luxury the game often did not give. You had to toss out an answer ASAP, because that AI was going to snatch it from you, which usually meant unless you are really fast combined with lucky (the game had a short time limit in which to answer aswell, like Jeopardy) or if you were perhaps a kwisatz haderach, you had little chance of winning.
Good Times.

 

[Kiytan]

Onimusha: Dawn of dreams

having just destroyed one factory thing, with generic stone of super ultimate power in it (roberto is so cool) It was on to the next factory. My characters could kill most things in one hit, or one combo certainly, the game went from being funny easy, to seven shades of horribly difficult in one boat ride, never got past that, not even the combined awesomeness of roberto and Tenkai (*cough*samonosuke*cough*)could save me from that, never got past that point

Oh and some moments in S.T.A.L.K.E.R (with oblivion lost mod) - OK, got to assualt this old train depot, i have an ak-74 with lame scope, and 2 pistol rounds, they have atleast 2 snipers, 6 guys with AK's, a military helicopter...and hostages....oh fuck.

 

[misterponcho]

The whole of "I Wanna Be The Guy".

 

[Sammich]

Constantly, constantly, constantly losing my savegames in Oblivion. I like it but it crashes if you BREATHE on it for god's sake... I restarted 6 times after losing every savegame I had on each previous character... And then I find out that the way to make it stop crashing is by deleting all your savegames and never overwriting any new ones... 7th character gone. No fair!

 

[Zombie Badger]

Mafia. The race level.

 

[PureFuzz]

Final Fantasy VII
you know the bit i mean when you've spent the whole game leveling up Aeris as your healer just to have her wasted. Damn you Sephiroth, damn you to hell!!!

Just thought of another one, playing almost to the end of ninja gaiden blabk on my 360 only to find my save corrupted when i tried to load it next time. that happened about 5 times before i gave up and traded it in

 

[Asday]

Half life original. It's a little b*tch, I've spent all this time getting to a deadend. You know where the huge-ass fish things are? When you get the tranquiliser gun? Yeah, I didn't pick that up. I just charged it through the gate. Then, I got all the way to the scientist in the locked room, and he won't let me in. I look at a few guides, and they say I need the tranquiliser gun, so, I attempt to swim back. Of course, there's that grate in the way.

Somehow, though, I manage to get through it, then get out of the water, by doing some ninja stuff with one of those things that sucks you towards the ceiling, get the gun, kill the fish, go back to the deadend, and the mother****** still won't let me in.

I haven't played that game since then.

 

[Spektre41]

Team Fortress 2: Sentry Guns being placed right outsde our base, or right next to the entrance to the Intelligence Room. Granted, that's a smartidea, but I'm still going to whine about it.


Also, trying to beat Boss I-No in GGX2#R.

 

[Taunto]

I hated when I was smaller that my brother would get me to play pvp on halo and always killing me until I finally stopped playing with him in pvp we just spent the whole days playing co-ops and passing the game 5 times

 

[ForrestDixon]

Any moment in Multiplayer Halo when you unload a full clip into someone and then slam them in the face with the but of your rifle and they kill you.

Not saying I hate Halo just dont think that it holds a "Halo" high above its head.

 

[Zani]

In FarCry 2 I had to warn the people at Sam's Bar (pretty sure that's the name) or the church about som military raid or something, I went to the bar, all the windows get blow out, there's gunfire everywhere, explosions everywhere and suddenly all your buddies in the bar is gone, guess they didn't like me, and I just thought "WTF", I eventually got "killed" because I ran out of those magic needles, I got slightly pissed and wondered how I was ever going to win that, and then suddenly the black screen fades away and your on the back of a truck in the desert.

 

[Dancingman]

In a game of Civilization realizing you're on a continent with Isabella, Shaka, and Montezuma.

Try Gandhi, Saladin, and Tokugawa, I can assure you that they are worse.

And I hate the dog packs in Call of Duty: World At War, I had to stop a session after I almost threw my controller at the screen.

 

[sirtunic]

Sonic 2, final boss. Remember the second to last boss fight with Robotnik in the first one? there were beams on either side of the screen, and you simply had to avoid a laser that rocked back and forth from the ceiling as the side beams slowly closed in on you.

When you walk into the arena, you recognize the setup, and you're just like, oh, okay. Just when you're standing under the laser waiting for the match to start, 3 small platforms descend with spikes on the bottom of all 3. You're expected to jump on any of the platforms (which frequently cross eachother in all directions) to levy up to the laser above.

Which is SO awesome when you've no rings.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Ninja Gaiden II: Self-explanatory

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Far Cry: When you get captured and promptly dumped from a helicopter at the top of a waterfall without any weapons. You just get an M16 with 10 bullets to get past dozens of trigens to the next checkpoint...

The most unfair thing is trying to get the acheivement "get some grub" in HL2: Ep2, its freggin impossible.

Little Rocket Man is worse....

I would have had it until I went to the human base after the antlion tunnels, where you get the car, and got cut off from the little bastard.