Worst day of gaming ever.

[BarbaricGoose]

I don't really have a "Worst," but I had a couple annoying things happen recently.

- Got to the final mission in XCOM (the new one) and it bugged out in the middle. Twice. Haven't tried again yet.
- Bought Draven in LoL. He and I have a very bittersweet relationship. Sweet when I get a good support, bitter when I don't.
- Got to the final challenge in Vanquish. Quit after being smacked so many times. I could've persevered and beat it. I was SO close SO many times, but I just got bored of it after the umpteenth time. Stupid flying suits...

 

[Easton Dark]

Throwing knives. Completely silent and a one-hit kill so long as you don't hit their armor or guns by accident.

I think I only had like four or five throwing knives at that point.

So.

You can pick up throwing knives after you've used them.

OT:

I don't want to play in a TF2 match where the whole team is snipers... I don't. Games that rely on teamwork and you're on a team where no one wants to work together...

 

[00slash00]

my first playthrough of dark souls.

eary on in the game i killed a black knight, killed the hydra, killed the moonlight butterfly, killed havel, killed the capra demon and made it down to the depths. i knew i should have stopped at a bonfire but i was on a roll, i couldnt be stopped, i had more souls and humanity than id ever had before. then it happened. i was in the sewers and a rat was running from me and i thought "this is a trap, i know how this game works. nice try but ill go the other way." and i fell down a hole and was surrounded by basilisks. that was the right way but i had no idea what they were and i was instantly cursed and died. so i thought, "fuck! well, at least i can get my sous and humanity back." but things were different now. i no longer had the same confidence. i was cursed, extremely tense and jumpy and worst of all, i was rushing. i wanted to get by souls back as soon as possible to i could spend them. i dont think i need to tell you that i never saw those souls again. i dont remember what killed me, but i know i died before i reached my body. i didnt get mad or anything. i just stared at the screen for what felt like forever then i just calmly said out loud "welp...i think its time to take a break."

 

[Lazy]

Playing Final Fantasy XIII.

Zing!

More seriously, the only time I've ever ragequit and uninstalled a game out of frustration has been Metro 2033.

In Chapter 4, there's a section where you're supposed to sneak, or something, through a camp of post-apocalypse Nazis. The problem is that the stealth mechanics and shooting mechanics in the game mean that unless you're extremely lucky, your silenced pistol (if you even have one) probably won't kill anybody in one shot, and once you've got that one shot off, every enemy in the entire area knows exactly where you are at any time. They have turret placements. They have grenades. They have shotguns and assault rifles. And you have barely any cover.

Now, maybe I was just playing the section incorrectly. I'm not so proud to deny that. But after dying in the exact same spot fifteen times, trying to run into cover while shooting a guy in my way because there were turrets above me and guys coming up behind me, I said "Fuck this!" and stopped playing.

I felt much the same way at that point. I was attempting to cross the far bridge that is absolutely covered with Nazis but would only ever be able to get a few kills in before someone figured out where I was and I got riddled with bullets. What's more, my frame-rate was low enough that things were moving in slow motion. Died so many times I lost count. Anyway, turned out I wasn't supposed to go up there at all, but rather sneak past the two guards executing the deserter and climb out onto the air vent.

Despite this frustration, I kept playing until I got to the Library. I had been playing on Ranger Easy because I prefer having scarcer supplies/guns that do more damage vs. lots of bullets but requiring a million for every enemy. One thing that I don't like, however, is that your air filters run out in all of about 30 seconds. This led to a situation where I had no filters and the only ones available were on a corpse being guarded by a nigh un-killable monster.

And this was the checkpoint.

 

[RJ 17]

5 hours later I am down 30 ranks, lost to a player 2 leagues below me, lost to every unconventional/stupid/rush strategy in the book

If the you lost to such strategy, you really can't call them "stupid", can you? If you lost to a foolish strategy, what does that say about your OWN strategies, hmmm?

Just giving you a hard time, just last night I got my balls kicked consecutively in two different games.

Start with Magic 2013 on the XBox Arcade. I was playing with a friend of mine and the first game of the night was a Planes Chaser game. It's not official, but more of an "unwriten rule" that he and I generally leave each other alone until we're the last two left. Well that time finally comes and it's about even, I've got a card in my hand that'll quite possibly tip the scales into mmy favor, but then the Planes card changes and the effect is that all players must shuffle all permanents on the board back into their deck, then they deal cards from the top of their deck until they have one permanent for each one that went back into their deck. I call this the Wheel of Fortune card because more often than not, one person gets set up like a king while the other gets the royal shaft. Well I was on the receiving end this evening, and had most of my land taken away, a couple crap creatures tossed out, and an enchantment that I could have sworn I took out of the deck. Meanwhile he got pretty much all of his best creatures onto the board. Needless to say, I lost that one.

Oh well, considering the night before I had won two Planes Chaser games in a row, I didn't mind particularly. We switch over and start playing some Two-Headed giant. I use the mill deck and he uses Garuk's deck. Well he got mana-screwed and I didn't get any mill cards until about turn 5. So I we ended up getting destroyed against the 5 Color Deck (possibily the cheesiest, most unbalanced deck in any of the Magic games on XBox) and the enchantment deck. Next game, new opponents, I switch to Liliana's black deck and my partner was using Crosswinds. We come up against the Black green deck and the mill deck. My luck (or lack there of) maintained and while I had gotten screwed over while using the mill deck, our opponent apparently had a fantastic opening hand and started milling right off the bat. Ended up rage-quitting and dashboarding so I could go to my happy place: Tenchu Z.

I love me some sneaky ninja assassinations! Too bad the game decided it didn't want me to succeed. Between my X button apparently not wanting to work when I need it to and the fact that I quite clearly landed BEHIND "that guard", yet he got alerted as though I had landed right on top of him, being a sneaky ninja wasn't doing an effective job at calming me down.

And so, having found out that I apparently hadn't re-downloaded all the Left 4 Dead 2 DLC so I could play it with a friend, I started downloading it again and ended the night by loading up Magic 2012 so I could beat the piss out of some computers while playing as the Arch Enemy. I won, of course, but it was a hollow victory that did little to improve my mood.

Personal bias not-withstanding, I'd say I had a worse night of gaming than you did only for the fact that my curb-stomping carried through different titles, rather than all being focused on one game.

 

[scorptatious]

The day Sega pulled out of the hardware industry. That has been the biggest lose fsr the entire gaming industry.

They still made some damn good games. Like Valkyria Chronicles.

OT: A few years back, I used to play Soul Calibur 4. Back then I was relatively new to the online scene and I got frustrated very easily. One day, I rage quit in a middle of a match and then the guy who fought me proceeded to call me names via a few messages.

Needless to say, I felt like shit that day.

 

[scorptatious]

snips

I remember having a similar feeling once I reached that one area with the skeletons and necromancers. I spent so many times dying to those stupid skeletons. Getting slightly farther each time I died. Eventually, I found myself inside a dark room with a ladder, I went down it and there I found a black knight who promptly kicked my ass. Realizing I wasn't going to get those souls back, I just decided that it was a good time to take a break. :/

 

[Snownine]

I was doing a no save/ no death run of the Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past and was well into the game when the power blinked. I was so incredibly furious.

 

[luckshotpro]

As an aspiring critic, I took it upon myself to play through Call of Juarez: The Cartel in the name of experience. It was one of the most dull, frustrating, and downright maddening gameplay experiences that I have ever had the misfortune of playing. I finished it in a single 6-hour-long session, and I kept playing in the vain hope that it might get at least a little bit better. It didn't.

 

[Denamic]

Just a few days ago, I was playing dota 2 with a friend, and I got dominated by the enemy pudge mid. I don't mind losing, because sometimes you just do. The thing is that he was a trash talking, barely literate idiot that wasn't even good. He just kept playing like shit, taunting me, while landing absurdly lucky hooks. I should have stomped him, but I was somehow off that day and just kept making mistake after mistake after mistake. I even knew I was making some of the mistake while I was doing them, but kept on doing it anyway. I've no idea what the fuck was wrong with me. I was too angry to even curse.

Not one of my best days.

 

[likalaruku]

In the 80s or early 90s I was away from the house visiting relatives, relatives that lived in the middle of a forest near nothing & had no cable or computer & didn't pick up radio stations other than christan or country, & it never occurred to me that I should bring a console or some comic books or casette tapes.

These folks go to bed hours before me, so there I was, faced with the choice of playing solitaire for 3 hours or watching paint chip off the walls in a quiet room with no music. I played with Vegas rules & didn't win a single round.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I had a retarded amount of bad luck on DOTA 2 a couple months ago, I had lost 4+ matches in a row prior and the one game I did win wasn't counted by DOTA because of some server fuck up. I join another match and I'm matched with some moron who dies 5 times in 5 minutes and abandons the game, giving me a loss. I then join another game and have the same guy on my team again and he proceeds to do the exact same thing; dies 5 times, abandons, loss. At this point I'm kinda sad, I keep getting fucked over by things out of my control. Determined to win, I join another and we get raped in the early game as we had 3 or so carries. After a 30 minute ricefest we come back, storm the mid and just as we're taking down their ancient my PC turns itself off for an update and I come back 5 minutes later to find out we lost. I dc'd attacking their base, they killed me and my teammate and went for gg. Awesome, I then join another and I'm matched up with a professional player on my team. A competent player? Free win? :O Nope, someone on the enemy team DC's before first blood so the game doesn't count as shit. I then went to bed.

In close second is another day of DOTA, in which I lost about 5 or so in a row because in every game someone on my team would disconnect and never come back for no apparent reason. The weird thing is that rarely happens, and then all of a sudden 5 games in a row of abandons. So sad.

 

[Lunar Templar]

The day City of Heroes got canceled.

I know MMO's get shut down, but generally not profitable ones. CoH was making money and the developers had years of updates in the pipeline for the future. NCSoft just decided they didn't want to keep making money from it and shut it down.

this :/

NCsoft is permanently on my shit list and 'do not buy from' list. not just for pulling the plug on my favorite MMO, but LIEING ABOUT TRYING TO SAVE IT (why yes, i AM still pissed about it and i make no secret i wish NCsoft would go under for it)

NCsoft wanted 80 million for an IP valued at like, 3 mill.

we never had a chance of saving our city :/