I have had some embaressing and illogical break downs, much more in my younger years, when things in games just didn't work for me. A very notable example was when I broke into tears and screaming all because however hard I tried I couldn't get my skater fellow to grab onto the back of the car in the first level of Tony Hawks Underground. I was pressing triangle like the game was prompting in every imaginable combination of approaches and to this day I think my PS2 was just fucking with me. Definately not my finest moment, I was young but my fit of rage and despair was on par with my wife being mauled by a rampaging giraffe. Exactly like that. Exactly. I tried for 3 hours and for no obvious reason he eventually did it, and the rest of the game was enjoyable and left me with some good memories. Whenever it asked me to, skitch?, again it always worked :/
I've been pretty pissed at Fable too with the last fist fighting match. I refused to bother even trying after the blatent one sided nature of that fight. I was utterly destroying him (the chief of Knothole Glade), knocking him out of the ring repeatedly, never letting him get a punch in, 20 minutes of this later I was getting pretty sick of it and he suddenly got a punch in, then one more. He wins. I get the whole "our punches still count even if they don't hurt you" shit they were impressing on me, but if its all about ability I'm fairly sure that 20 minutes of owning him should have accounted for something.
I have more. I'll leave it. Games can suck sometimes.