Where the game itself has screwed you over!

[ZombieGenesis]

I'm sure in the modern age of advanced technology in videogames, and the major tweaks and bugs therein, we've all been caught up in a situation where despite our best efforts and knowlege of in-game mechanics the very game itself has seen to our unjustified ends.
Instead of just wallowing about it though I say we share them out and have a good laugh at the games expense...that'll teach you!

A few examples of these;

Dead Space
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The Engine Room level, which has the most tedious and slow progression of any room I've been in thus far with the whole dragging of engine blocks then followed by an awkward and cramped monster battle and topped off with escaping a firey explosion at the last second by closing the elevator blast doors. Was rather happy at getting through this in one piece and was glad to see the save spot just at the end of the hallway...as soon as I clicked the damn thing...
Black screen.
That's right, the damn thing crashed on me! The Necromorphs are taking over my PS3.

Fallout 3
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After evading a nasty bunch of bandits I came across the Tenpenny tower, with all relevant side quests and zombie related hoo-hah. Long story short I convinced everyone I needed to (and removed those who wouldn't) before heading up to give the head of the household the good news! Since there were no enemies I shamefully hadn't saved while chasing and speaking with the residents and BOY was I thrown off guard when I walked out onto the balcony and approached Tenpenny only to have his TORSO EXPLODE. Since I was also promptly gunned down I can only rationaly presume that the bandits were sniping at me from the distance, how the hell they knew I was there I'll never know.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Mario Kart Wii. Ever heard of the Hater Missile?

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Culcept and Culdcept Saga-they are both DESIGNED to kick you when you are down.

 

[Curtmiester]

I believe once in Halo 3 after I killed a whole bunch of aliens (took me 50 tries) a vehicle jumped over a hill and landed on me. Guess who was driving it. Seriously just guess.

 

[Hoppetussa]

Mario Kart Wii. Ever heard of the Hater Missile?

Behold!

 

[GoldenRaz]

I believe once in Halo 3 after I killed a whole bunch of aliens (took me 50 tries) a vehicle jumped over a hill and landed on me. Guess who was driving it. Seriously just guess.

Cortana?

I had also had a problem at Tenpenny Tower, albeit a different one: I had let the Feral Ghouls into the Tower as a part of the quest "Tenpenny Tower", and when everyone was dead except for me and the three non-feral ghouls who where essential for the quest, they still wouldn't take control of the building. Instead, they just stood at Tenpenny's balcony and refused to do anything. I lost my apartment that way, since it becomes locked until the quest is finished. Not a good day...

 

[dodo1331]

Got a -1 on Painkiller Expert Guitar in Rock Band 2.

 

[Piorn]

So I installed Fallout 3 on my PC and Windows Live because of the achievements.
Some month later, I had two level-20 chars and suddenly, one day, Windows Live just stopped working. I tried everything but I can't log in, let alone start it, which means I can't load my savegames!
It's the reason I stopped playing Fallout 3.

 

[Alcookie]

Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness....dont really need to explain but i will anyway.

Last boss got stuck in the wall when loading, couldnt attack him so had to restart whole game, couldnt level skip cos of the abilites.

 

[GeoPB]

FF8, the part where you have to go into the galbadia controled Balamb Town to fight fujin and Raijin. I was young and stupid, so I didnt save before I went in, so when it came to fighting them, I lost. This was because I wasn't at a high enough level, or didn't have the skill to beat them, and you couldn't get back out of town to fight and level up, so it ruined my whole save.

Although that is probably just my own stupidity... Dammit.

 

[ohgodalex]

Halo 3. My friend and I had gone most of the way through Crow's Nest, and had gotten to a large fight with Brutes in jetpacks. During the fight, my friend fell off a ledge and ended up on some cliff next to a death barrier. I got myself killed, and spawned next to him, several hundred feet below the stage. While there, we got a Checkpoint, and would repeatedly jump off the ledge, only to restart in the same place.
Similarly, I once got a check point while falling into the same spot that a light bridge spawned. Another mate of mine was in the back of my Warthog, teetering on the edge of a walkway as we got a Checkpoint, then the bridge sprung up. It killed us both, and we respawned in exactly the same situation to meet exactly the same fate. Many, many times. Eventually we stopped laughing and restarted the level.

 

[Harrow]

Every game I have ever played where falling off the edge of a cliff does a little damage then respawns you back on the edge. EVERY time I play one of these games at least once (usually between a boss fight that took me 7 tries and the nearest save point) I fall off, then get respawned next to something (a wall or, more often, an enemy that accidently puched me off the first time)that immediatly makes me get pushed off again. contintues till death. Damn, got Ninj'd

As for a specific game and event, in Morrowind GOTY I was doing a series of quests for some girl (forget her name, she was one of the cat people, and had a few lines that were more creepy because of it, eg "You are my special friend","You can have the robes off my back" and the like) and I had just finished the last quest for her and was going to talk to her to be finished and avoid that town for the rest of eternity, but she wasn't in her house. She was always supposed to be in her house or the nearest bar, but I checked in and around the whole damn town, and she was nowhere to be found. I never finished that quest because the person I was supposed to talk to fell off the face of the earth.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Currently playing Half Life 1 for the first time, and I seem to have gotten myself stuck at a point where you have to use some boxes to jump through a small hole. Not knowing this I destroyed said boxes with my wrench, and I can't seem to get past this point. Obviously there's a way to do it, but right now it seems that the game itself is screwing me over.

 

[WittyName]

LBP.

The game switches between the planes to watch you fail.

Then makes you start the whole level again...

I hate that game..

 

[Panken]

Oblivion. The way that game levels up with you sucks. Its like you can never get the upper hand. Plus, if you level up wrong the game becomes fucking impossible and you are screwed.

 

[Kajt]

Fallout 3, when I got stuck in shack with low health and a pack of Regulators waiting for me outside.

 

[garjian]

prototype and how i seem to spontaniously combust seconds before checkpoints...
prototype and CRASHING ALL THE FUCKING TIME...
fallout 3 for locking me out of my stash and bobblehead achievement by not loading tenpenny tower... thanks for that.

 

[Scobie]

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[Choppie6]

Oblivion - becoming a vampire. Awesome, I thought, but it was tedious, and infuriating because I could only fast travel at night - and if it overlapped into the day I drop dead at the place I fast travel to. So, the sun damage wasn't worth it and I try to get the cure. This took me a good while because I didn't know where half the items were. The final item I needed was bloodgrass. When I finally found an alchemist who sold some, I go to give it to the old lady who needs it to make a cure. BUT WAIT! She insisted that there is no bloodgrass in my inventory. I thought "it's okay. Maybe I need it freshly picked from oblivion itself." I start the mainquest and go through the first oblivion gate I find. I grab about ten pieces of bloodgrass, I then try to get to the old lady as fast as I can (which is very slow because it's day and I can't travel in the day because I'm a freaking vampire so I have to wait ARRGGGHH!!!). I finally make it to the lady's house at night (which is trespassing but screw that I'm about to get cured!) and I talk to her about to give her the bloodgrass but . . . it appears there is no bloodgrass in my inventory fitting the lady's required criteria. All that work and she does the equivalent of sticking her middle finger up at me . . . screw you, lady, and screw this game.