You first "**** This" Moment in Gaming

[Hugga_Bear]

I remember having a breakdown over one of the Doom games a long time ago...

But the first one I TRULY remember is FFVII with the Ruby and Emerald weapons. I was confident, I just needed to be clever right? Maybe try a few different times, a few different...ways...a few....oh holy fuck this shit is impossible.

I was about 7-9 at the time so in fairness...but yeah I remember getting really annoyed, I threw everything my young mind could think of, alas I lacked hades and W-summon and KOR and various other kickass things. Still, such is life. I finished the game otherwise, just those two...(I have now beaten them, I admit, twas a happy moment.)

 

[R0cklobster]

I've had a number of those moments playing MGS1 now for the first time almost 15 years after it was first released and having to deal with really frustrating backtracking, as well as some annoying checkpoint locations. Coming from modern games, it surprises you how infuriating the former can be. That being said I know that MGS1 probably isn't the best example of this, especially when compared with plenty of games from around or before that period.

 

[Rossmallo]

Mario Party 8.

May as well be called: "The Computer is a Cheating Bastard: The Game".

 

[ejb626]

Age 14, Halo 3, this was when I was introduced to online multiplayer and the concept that there are real people somewhere else in the world intent on murdering you for pretend, and sometimes they're a lot better at murdering you for pretend than you are at murdering them for pretend. Yet unlike NPCs they will also taunt you after they murder you for pretend. Basically my first ragequit.

 

[Phisi]

PLaying the Hunted mission in CoD4 on Veteren, tried for half an hour to run from covering behind the tractor to the basement and counldn't make it.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Alone in the Dark, PC version, where you were driving the cab as the street was getting torn up.

Assassin's Creed, about 20 minutes in. The boredom got me angry enough to stop playing.

Toejam & Earl, Sega Megadrive (Genesis) my brother and I were just about to collect the last piece of the ship when the game glitched and sent him back all the way to level 1, I was on the last level.

Thunderbirds, C64, couldn't make it out of the first level.

 

[Skekfaer]

Borderlands... What's up with the constant spawning of the same enemy in the same place of the same level... It's a drag more than anything else to go and deliver your quest and to turn around to see that all the enemies you just slaughtered stand up and demand a rematch for the bazillionth time.

 

[zigzigzigbah]

When i borrowed dead island from a friend, I dont care what anyone says about it, that was the most boring hour and a half of my life.
I gave it back to her the next day.

 

[Kermi]

Waiting 25 minutes to load Gunship 2000 via tape drive on my friend's Amiga.

 

[ghostrider9876]

Oddly, Little King's Story. I liked it at first. Then the minor annoyances of both gameplay AND story variety started creeping in. (Seriously. You're the KING. People can't just "vote against" the King's decision.) The bosses got harder and harder, for all the wrong reasons. The first time I ever said "F**K YOU" to a video game was that fat f**king Shishkebaboo and his f**king pinball machine boss fight, aka a boss fight BASED ENTIRELY ON LUCK and where "hitting the pinball" damages your "flippers," and "dropping the ball" erases a big chunk of the progress you've made fighting him. But I did eventually beat that one.

The point at which I nearly shattered my Wii remote came later, at the boss where you have to climb a mountainous obstacle course to reach him. Turns out that you can upgrade any soldiers, etc. in your army to like 14 units of health but you can -never- upgrade your King past the starting 3. So after dying on the way up that obstacle course and being forced to restart it more times than I care to remember, I said "f**k this" and quit.

 

[Tyrannical]

Water Temple of OoT.

 

[JesterRaiin]

This :

http://www.emuparadise.me/GameBase%20Amiga/Screenshots/S/Super_Cauldron_2.png

To this day i don't know what this game was about.

 

[The Devils Guitar]

FarCry 2, sneaking up to a mansion having set up traps and mines to kill the soldiers. Sneak up behind a guard, pull out machete, Swing it, hear a satisfying slice as it strikes the guards neck.... guard turns round, shouts, shoots you, sniper who you cant see in the house shoots you too. Run away and hide in bush.....

F$%^K that.

 

[Drake666]

Zelda(the first one)

My save battery is dead so every time I start the game I start from the beginning again... I gave up trying to beat it in one sitting.

It's doable... but don't... it's something around 10 hours of game if you know where everything is... but your NES will go to the flashing blue screen of death (or freeze frame of death) well before that...

Take one of these two advices:
1) You can change the battery, it will cost you something around 1 dollars (it's a small round battery inside the cartridge).
2) Do it on a emulator (without save state).

Otherwise, I know there's a Wii and a Gamecube version...

 

[tahrey]

Probably level 1 of "Xenon".

... I have never, ever got to level 2 as far as I know. If so, it was only briefly.

I still occasionally play level 1 for nostalgia's sake, but even rushing headlong towards 30, having first played the game when my age was in single digits, I can't get past that super fucking nintendo hard boss thing. Generally just turn the machine or emulator off now.

But it's ok... it came with the computer along with a few other games, so we ain't bovvered.

EDIT: Not getting past the asteroids stage of handheld star wars is fairly understandable, as it's quite tricky, but never figuring out how to SHOOT them? On a GAMEBOY?
Even at 4 years old, I have to wonder if you were a bit "special". I was making simple Sinclair BASIC programs at 4...
Then again it might have just been the game. The Gamegear one was a touch buggy and they've obviously dropped out sections that appeared in the manual but not in the game...

Waiting 25 minutes to load Gunship 2000 via tape drive on my friend's Amiga.

I call shenanigans unless you can bring us some proof of there ever being a tape deck for the miggy... Gunship loaded in about a minute on my atari, from disc.

 

[Jay DeLozier]

I stayed true to my 100% ways until the flags in Assassin's Creed.

 

[mikey7339]

Zelda 2. I was so completely lost and the side-scrolling game play was exactly what I was NOT expecting when I got it. I tried to play it for a couple of days before I just gave up.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Driver 2,
I've never had a PS1 and this was the 1st game I bought for my new PS2, upon release.

Second to last mission, where you have to chase and crash the hitmans car.
I never managed to complete that mission, not in years.

I just went to play it a friend's house, on his savegame, just to see what the final mission was

Was that the one with the roads on the cliff faces?

If so I remember that it was bloody hard. I did manage it though eventually.

Not sure what my first was I tended to be able to get through most games. Although I think I did give up on Abes Odyssey, I was too young and impatient at the time.

 

[Bolt Van Der Huge]

Star Wars Force Unleashed. After killing the first Junk Titan, you have to push... something to continue. After trying and failing around twenty times I decided not to play it anymore and instead use it as a bookend. Other than the part as Vader, it was just irritating.