The times you thought: 'fuck this game'

[schtingah]

Badly placed savepoints. MY GOD!

There's nothing more frustrating than having to redo 10 minutes of gameplay because they decided to not put any checkpoints.

And after a while your just trying to rush the bit you managed easily and start failing there and then i'm just done xD.

Most recently i've had this with Hitman, but its not even close to the only example.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

Started playing baldur's gate recently, and OMG why the hell are the doom guards so annoying. I just want to finish the damn game, but no, they won't freaking let me. There should be no freaking reason for that difficulty spike at the last leg of the game, so yeah fuck doom guards and fuck the d&d system.

 

[Rawne1980]

Star Wars: The Old Republic.

I bought into the hype, which is something I never normally do, after hearing the words "you will be doing things you have never done in an MMO before".

I thought it would be different.

It wasn't.

Played for a few days and realised that, outside of the shiny cut scenes and voice overs, it was exactly the same as every other MMO on the market but with worse gameplay.

Fuck that game.

 

[KeroseneBlast]

Unlimited Saga. Just...Unlimited Saga....

 

[C F]

Those of you who are aficionados of the classics may want to kill me with a rusty 9-iron, but I have to say the first two Legend of Zeldas. Simply because I couldn't be asked to proceed beyond the first general areas without wanting to quit and put in a contemporary game. I just find them too dull and not at all compelling.

And this is the same me who willingly finished Skyward Sword (not sure why). And the same me who's currently re-playing the awesome Majora's Mask. I don't know why, but the old-school Nintendo games have that effect on me.

For some reason, I can put up with all the irksome parts of modern games just fine. Skyrim crashed? No problem, I'll just boot up the Xbox again. XCOM froze when I tried to capture a Thin Man on a VIP rescue mission? I re-loaded that save and subsequently crashed it three times before I decided to shoot the bugger and just get on with it. Good thing it wasn't Ironman.
I have to fight my way through the dull old school country-side the way the good Lord intended?
Screw. That.

 

[IrenIvy]

Braid, after about 2/3 of the game when I realized that those story snippets aren't making any sense to me.

Psychonauts: great game in general, I even managed first half of Meat Circus somehow but after dying way too many times in second half I just saw the ending on YouTube.

My first try at Prince of Persia: Two Thrones, first boss, in Arena. Glitch or something else but I couldn't initiate quick time stabbing sequence. I finished it eventually but several years later.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent - about 10 minutes in. I was just too scared to continue. Still is.

 

[an874]

On Sunday I was playing Hitman Absolution and was probably a little over halfway through the game when it froze while loading a checkpoint. I picked up the game a few hours later to find that all my progress was gone. I couldn't even get to the mission from the mission select feature, I really mean all of my progress. I traded it in an hour later.

 

[I am only a man]

Star Ocean 3. It was a specific enemy towards the end of the game that would fire a barrage of missiles that would follow you and when (not if, when) one hits you, it launches you in the air allowing the rest to quickly chip away at your health and kill you in mid air. I quit the game for a while. I eventually beat it though. Not a great game IMO.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

The 2010 remake (reboot?) of Splatterhouse. I only made it to about the third chapter when I was about done with it.

The difficulty was all over the place, the combat was incredibly repetitive, and not even the awesome voice work of Jim Cummings was enough to pull me through to the end. No, the real stinger was the atrocious cutscenes. Allow me to explain: each and every time you die (and take my word for it, you do this a lot), you are forced to endure an agonizing 15-20 seconds of the ugliest monsters snarling and growling as they fight for screen space. It isn't even as if there are variations of this, oh no: it is the exact same animation looping over and over again.

That, along with the loopy, woobly camera shaking that goes on during these loading screens, I was getting headaches, fast.

So yeah, fuck that game hard. I wasn't going to deal with that anymore.

 

[el_kabong]

My quickest rage quit in a game was Hawx 2. I think it was like the second mission where I have to refuel the plane. I loved Hawx because of shooting and dog-fighting fun. If I wanted an airplane sim, I would get a better airplane sim. After my third attempt to refuel the stupid thing, I quit and sold the game.

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

Starcraft 2. That game annoyed me so much that I actually get annoyed whenever I read anything about it. x_x

 

[solemnwar]

Fable 2. They train you into a rhythm. There's an oncoming big bad coming and you have a year to prepare, so every week or so, you meet with your court and have to make a moral decision for the betterment of the kingdom or the best preparedness in the face of the oncoming bad.

Then, all of a sudden, the last decision you made leaving you 6 months on the clock, it jumps to the day before. All those plans you had for fully exploring every area, or maybe transferring some of your sizeable wallet that you'd been sensibly investing in local business to generate far more money than it would have sitting in some vault somewhere back into the kingdom's funds? Too late. The game has locked the coffers, the time has passed, and there was no warning.

Alright. I'll just load the last save.

There is no last save. Only a quicksave which the game has already made, after the point of no return. If you want to get back to before that point, you have to replay the whole damn thing.

Yeah. I never finished that game.

That's Fable III bro.


OT: Uh. Probably the original Fallout games. Mostly when your asshole teammate crit hits you by accident and you die. Or you crit hit yourself and you die. Or for some reason you constantly miss your target despite having a guns skill of 100 and they constantly hit you for very high ammounts... and you die. Or when there's like 50 enemies and one round of turns takes about an hour to get through. SLFJLKISFJSLFkdssdkfjlaslf.

I am not a fan of the original Fallout games. And yet I keep playing 2...

 

[Yojoo]

Diablo 3. No big "fuck you" event, my interest in it simply evaporated at around the end of act 1 when I realized that my spells' strength scaled with the damage range of my weapon. The stupidity of that design somehow led me to the crashing realization of how bad the loot system was in that game, and I bailed on the spot. Lost out on quite a bit of cash, but I'm glad I stopped playing when I did.

Dark Souls, right about at the Valley of the Giants (or whatever it was called, the place with no light), the game abruptly went from being a uniquely challenging experience to a remorseless grind. I still might finish it one day, though.

Just got Baldur's Gate Enhanced, and I have a "fuck this game" moment roughly every time I play it. However, I just take a break and come back.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

GTA 4's despawning of cars was probably the worse thing about that game.

Whenever I have a steak of bad luck in Halo 4 MP. Especially when I am constantly getting killed by BR users. I mean Jesus those things are stupidly accurate. Even in close range I have trouble killing the bastards. You'd think a weapon like the AR or Storm Rifle would trump the BR in close range but nope. More often than not I'm face down dead.

I guess I don't have those essential twitch reflexes to keep up.

If you're using the Assault Rifle or the Storm Rifle in Halo 4, twitch has nothing to do with it. 9 times out 10, they're gonna land a five shot on you before you can even take out the shields. That's just what Halo is.

Basically, if you're using either of those guns, you're doing it wrong. You need to use gun that's capable of headshots.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Metroid Other M When I was forced into first person mode and had to look for something, that I only found 12 minutes later by accident.

How about telling me what I'm looking for?

How about having her spot it in a cut scene?


Blargh!

 

[The Rascal King]

I recall fond memories of Kingdom Hearts boss fights. You think you're a badass at the end of the game and then you go back to Agrabah and see this ************...

Spoiler: God fucking dammit

...who effectively rips out your testicles, shows all the faces of your potential children, and then destroys your very being.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

When I was playing Skyrim and progressing through the main questline only to find that I was precisely the right amount through the Imperial/Stormcloak questline that I was pretty much prevented from continuing. That, along with the Forsworn Briarheart whose heart I couldn't use for the damn quest because I already had it when I got the quest and the book that I found early that wouldn't become a quest item for the library and losing my two thralls in an area because they couldn't be fucked walking out...

But mainly that first one. I love you Skyrim, but if I'm not going to see a return on my investment THERE ARE OTHER GAMES I CAN EASILY PLAY.

(Also when MH Tri was announced as Wii-exclusive despite being promised as cross-platform, but that's not really the spirit of the thread. CAPCOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM...!)

 

[shadowslayer81]

The Witcher 2 when nobody told me what sword to use against what.

 

[mitchell271]

Planetside 2
A lot of people just do not want to play nice and make a halfway decent platoon that actually listens to each other. Do people in FPSs just not listen to orders?
OR
Running across the map for 10 goddamn minutes because no one wanted to touch down for a second and let me into their transport and then get sniped by some guy I can't see.