Frustrating moments in video games

My only strategy for Cruel Brawl ever was "use Donkey Kong and spam Hand Slap". Which would usually kill, like, three before I got killed myself. So yeah.

edited 5th Jan '12 10:09:40 PM by Beorc

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It takes a bit of luck, but if you throw yourself off the edge with Olimar, a bunch will suicidally follow you off the side. Then you use your Pikmin chain to grapple to the ledge, and do your ledge recovery attack to get rid of anything waiting for you there. Repeat until you win die brutally.

edited 5th Jan '12 10:20:20 PM by BadWolf21

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edited 5th Jan '12 10:31:24 PM by Vorpy

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Despite all I've said thus far, one of my worst gaming memories comes from Metroid Fusion. After days of trying to defeat Nightmare, my brother finally defeated him for me...only to die on the way to the save room.

Phantom Hourglass. The damn temple of the ocean king.

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Street Fighter III Third Strike:

• GILL.
• Q's Rival Battle with Akuma. Q is a slow, cumbersome, defensive character who relies on Charge moves. Akuma is a lightning fast Shoto who's AI is ALWAYS pure evil. And I was generally untrained with Q, and still under the impression that Total Annihilation was actually useful. Guess how it went
• GILL. Again. For emphasis. Fighting him with Yun resulted in one of the first times in a while I swore loudly at a game, causing my mom to berate me.

Assassins Creed Brotherhood:

• The Apple of Eden missions. Ubisoft, what the HELL were you thinking?! These are not fun. These are tedious, stupid, and aggravating.
• Any Romulus Den that has a time limit Bonus Synch.

Xenoblade Chronicles:

• Trying to find certain NPC's for quests/turning in quests that have schedules. I hate this in most games, but Xenoblade does alot of things wrong on this front. It doesn't mark their locations well, it requires searching through separate menus, and the graphical engine, makes looking for them a pixel hunt at times.
• Rare Collectibles, particularly when rebuilding Colony 6.
• How slowly affinities build up. I want to see these characters interact! WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG FOR THEM TO BECOME FRIENDS?

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

Yeah, Nightmare himself is a baster', but it's the Gravity Suit madness that comes after him that makes him a real pain. I actually kind of like fighting Nightmare—sure, he's hard as hell, but he's so grotesquely creepy, there's something delightfully unsettling about his boss music, and though he's hard, he doesn't feel quite as murderously unfair as Yakuza.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

Some of the puzzles in Uncharted 3 are so difficult that the game eventually felt sorry for me and gave me the answer. However, one of those puzzles involved putting something in a specific hole in the ground, but the room had thousands. The answer the game gave me was just showing the general area. Even after getting that hint, it took me about fifteen minutes to solve it. Overall, it was probably an hour...

edited 6th Jan '12 3:04:42 PM by foodbattle

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The freaking desert of breath of fire 3 and also some of the puzzles in Alundra.

Speed running "The Green Shard" level from Wonderland Adventures is going to be tricky. The start requires you to walk quickly (and precisely) and then click through two dialogue boxes INSANELY fast and then continue without stopping. There's a 99% chance you will die by not being fast enough. You could wait for the fireball to pass, but I'm time-attacking now...

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First attempt at a boss, I get them really weak before losing. Second attempt? THEY UTTERLY DOMINATE WITH STATUS WHORING.

WHY, ALICE, WHY!?

...And that just makes me want to RIP AND TEAR more... RIP. AND. TEAR!

In fact, all status whoring enemies belong in this thread.

edited 8th Jan '12 9:11:54 AM by TARDISES

PVP in The Old Republic. My class is fa too squishy to complete objectives, so I usually cover the people who do. Unfortunately, I have horrible luck with teams: 75% of the time most of the team focuses on killing the other side instead of winning, making it very difficult to complete my daily quest.

When your allies decide it's a great idea to split up from the life-giving Medic in Team Fortress 2 or Alien Swarm.

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.

Once, I lost all of my money in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness because I forgot to bank it after a shopping trip.

In Assassins Creed, when the bonus synch requires no detection for long missions with tons of guards.

Also, any game whose QTE's require you to press a button an inhuman amount of times in a short period or fail (looking at you, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2)

edited 9th Jan '12 11:38:03 PM by Firebert

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Super Smash Bros Brawl

• Cruel Brawl in general
• Fighting 7 characters in all-Star, as in Pokemon
• Smash Ball, Gooey Bomb, Bo-bomb, Smart Bomb at any time during Single Player
• That the computers don't utterly suck
• The heavy gravity in the SSE. Lame.
• How broken/OP/Clearly above the rest that Meta Knight is.
• When your batteries stop working during an important match.
• Unable to transform back into Full-Suit Samus without a Smash Ball. >_<

edited 10th Jan '12 12:02:46 AM by Hydronix

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Those goddamn bouncy platforms in the goddamn Casino Night Zone. I JUST WANNA BOUNCE UPWARDS AND GET THE EXTRA LIFE FFS

Fighting Brigantia in Folklore. Endless rounds of waiting and dodging bombs while the boss zips in and out of the area, indifferent camera controls making it entirely possible to lose half your health from being run over because you can't see where he's coming from; between these, a relatively brief window of opportunity to try to hit his tail when you can only target his head and he never stops moving. When you finally slice off enough of his body that he stops playing peek-a-boo, he trades that for bouts of flailing wildly around the area, taking off large chunks of HP any time he hits you, and the difficulty of keeping the camera on him makes it very likely that he will.

And then you have to do it again.

Fighting I-no as a final boss. Some people think her unique attacks are the dangerous part, but they have canned animations are are easy to deflect. No the real That One Attack is the flying headbutt, which has no windup, no lag, and higher priority than whatever you are doing at the moment. Just another reason to never jump, ever.

They assed first. I am only retaliating in an ass way. -The Dead Man's Life

Fighting Gigantuar and Neochu in Final Fantasy XIII.

The first one has an ability that can drain 10000 health in one hit (while my characters all had around 12000 health overall) and has a chance to inflict status effects that disable your physical and magical abilities (so if he inflicts both, you pretty much can't do anything until they wear off). And it's his only attack. So he uses it about every ten seconds. I only managed to beat him through ridiculous amounts of luck and many, many tries.

As for the Neochu? I beat one before, but that was one was only due to some luck and persistence as well. And now I have to fight another, and this one also has a bunch of little monsters with it. I have yet to actually manage to kill them all, but I'd imagine if I did he'd just summon more after a little bit because that's what normal Ochus do. And the Neochu has a certain attack that he uses rarely, but when he does it's a guaranteed game over, unless I'm at full health and have a Sentinel in the party, in which case he'll only nearly kill me. And with his little helpers constantly chipping away at my HP, it's nearly impossible to keep up full health. I am stumped on this one.

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Any time hax happens in Pokémon.

The foe's Gliscor used Ice Fang!
It's not very effective... Metagross lost xxHP (5% of it's health)
Metagross was frozen solid!

Note that he was only actually using Ice Fang to pop my Air Balloon as well.

edited 11th Jan '12 12:31:26 PM by Plumbum

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.

-Remembers Sonic Unleashed's final boss and having to tap "X" forty times-

... Yeah, that's annoying.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

Oh, god. I-no makes me say bad things.

• Dying from instant death spells in any SMT game is the pits. Just the other day, I was 20 minutes into playing and one of those sonsabitches got lucky with Mudo. When I reloaded, I decided to fuck that and introduce them to my Tornado + Force Boost combo.

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

When, in Fallout: New Vegas, my save glitched, meaning that every time I tried to get to 188 Trading Post (Where you find Veronica) it froze.

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Big's story.

One of the most aggravating and least fun gameplay segments of the entire franchise. I'm trying to get all his emblems, and uggggh.

edited 11th Jan '12 11:47:28 PM by VertigoHigh