Yesterday. I was at an anime convention playing Para Para Paradise PS2 version...on an HDTV. Rhythm Game + HDTV - upscaler = So Bad It's Horrible.

I tried one song, failed it even though I should be able to. Tried another song, gave up.

I have been ragekicked from Left 4 Dead by tight-assed fucknuts more than a few times. You will never get me to care for Versus mode.

I got tired/bored of Metal Arms: Glitch in the System after a while. Too damn hard.

Hmm. Probably Odin Sphere. I remember throwing my controller and hitting the keyboard.

edited 1st Nov '09 7:49:14 PM by Penguin 4 Senate

When I fought the Yellow Devil.

An Untitled Story, underwater dragon thing, fuck you and fuck your mother. ಠ_ಠ

I gave up on the last boss of Scurge Hive and just looked up the ending on Youtube.

Nintendo Hard, indeed.

Final Fantasy.

Every. Single. Game. At. Least. Once.

Yeah...

Earthgift Shrine? Zozo (after beating it, then having a power outage before I saved)? Tower of Zot? QUIIIIIIIT!

Does sitting through the plodding seven-minute You Bastard (and bizarre nonsensical crap) punishment of the Youtube port of Plumbers Dont Wear Ties count?

(thinks) Last time I rage quit...

The only one I can remember is I Wanna Be The Guy. And that's because, well. You know.

All I can remember is my brother ragequitting Mario Kart 64 because I was winning every race, and again in Super Smash Bros 64 because I'd figured out how to do a smash attack before he had. (RE the latter: Not our fault the instruction booklet didn't explain it very well.)

Every single Devil May Cry game I've played had me quitting in frustration. It's less expensive than throwing my PS 2 out of the window.

Persona3. Screw the useless AI, screw the status effects that leave you a helpless spectator until the enemies finally feel like not reapplying that effect to you or finally miss, and screw the obscene amouts of grinding (both in battle and out) for absolutely no real gain, anyway that game forced on me. I never played another Mega Ten game after that.

More recently, I quit a Battle Moon Wars level (the one where you have to fight both Gilgamesh and Berserker in like, five turns or something) in disgust after having misjudged distances and realised I needed at least one more turn than the prescribed number for mastery to get close enough to Gilgamesh.

Persona3 was easy though. Grinding was never a problem for me, and I'd always have all four characters together to back up the others when a couple got a status effect on them.

...Perhaps it helped that I'd always kill all enemies on every floor I went to, and kept the three helpers constant (Yukari for healing, Aigis for brute force, and Koromaru for 1HKO.), so everyone was almost the same level as me.

Spelunky. I was doing pretty well, had managed to get 6 points of life and a shotgun... and then I missed a jump by a couple pixels, got shot by TWO arrow traps on the way down, and then landed. Then I got run over by a caveman before I could get rid of the stun.

The helpers were so useless, I'd just let them quit when they got tired, and kept on grinding. It's probably because I go for One Hundred Percent Completetion, which means leveling up units just so I can merge them, and then have to replace them, then level the same damn units back up.

That's not even counting the absurdly pointless "daily life" BS that took up even more of the game time. Quick, let me grind some more friggin' "attractiveness" points with some coffee so I can up my relationship card with the pink girl. Then I'd better try using the bathroom (And to get that to work, you have to go Save Scumming) so I can reclaim my "energy" and grind more "studying". After all, if you aren't going to play it "right", why play at all?

When you finally do get to the part where you can fight something new, you can beat it all in one "night" through multiple trips.

But that's the thing: There was nothing "fun" I found in the entire game (and I've done Disgaea to the point of having Perfect Trapezohedrons and beating Baal and grinding that 188 million or so levels for perfect stats), so the shit that annoyed me were even less forgivable. Plus I'd already quit Nocturne, so I wasn't in much of a forgiving mood for Mega Ten.

And that brings me to what really broke the camel's back: status effects that reduce you to being nothing but a spectator on a purely random chance, letting you just sit there and watch your character get hit with confuse again and again. (While your useless partners wank off, or get confused themselves, or get slaughtered in one hit by my massively overleveled main character.)

NO game should EVER completely pull the controller out of your hands on a random chance straight off the bat in a battle. Especially because it was against an enemy that was only weak to instant death attacks, and I simply happened to miss that attack. In a game where you have to go about 10-30 minutes without saving, to make it randomly boot you straight back to reloading on something completely beyond any control of the player is raw bullshit, fluke or no fluke. They failed a basic game design concept, and I will never play a game by them again.

Guilty Gear Accent Core. The difficulty really depends on the opponent, with main characters being the most dangerous. I could blame myself for running face-first into Ky's jumping diagonal lightning hadoukens over and over again, but Sol Badguy pulls off ridiculously long combos even on the easiest AI setting.

Incidentally, though, I-No's Megalomania special is not that hard to dodge. You either have to get far away from her, jump straight up in front of her, or stand in the center of the screen and walk twoards her, and she's polite enough to tell you which version she's using. The real cheap attack is that flying green headbutt that comes out of nowhere...

...You certainly grinded more than me then. I usually got tired of grinding before any of the 4 characters did.

Level them up, store them in the compendium, then merge them. Means you don't need to re-level them up.

Point taken, even though I found the tedium more interesting than the grinding.

I think I'll nod and pretend I remember what you're talking about.

Ah. Persona 3 was my first Mega Ten game. And before than I'd been playing Soul Calibur 3 and 1080 Avalanche, so I wasn't so annoyed at hard or grindy games when I started. :/

Most of the status effects in this game can also be found in other games though. Or at least the major ones can. (So if you want to complain about "Knocked Down" or "Charmed", then you should complain about even stuff like Pokemon for exactly the same thing.)

While I agree with the complaint of having to go 10-30 minutes without saving (and often more), you should practically never be put out of control from the start of a fight, seeing as how it's the player who controls who goes first in all fights but a few.

Also, I got the feeling from something you said early in your post that after all your helpers got tired you'd keep going, and I was wondering for how long you'd keep going. Once you've got the "tired" status on the Player Character, continuing is foolish, since your attack, defence, chance to hit, and evasion all take a big drop in that state. Personally, I never fought with anything less than "great" as my status.

edited 1st Nov '09 10:11:15 PM by Sabbo

Irisu Syndrome, and before that, Spelunky.

Final Fantasy X, I think. ...I really should go back and beat that boss soon.

Battletoads.

Do I even HAVE to get into detail?

My playing of EVE Online these days tends to consist of me getting ganked, ragequitting, forgetting why I ragequit, then playing, getting ganked again, ragequitting.

I've beaten Weapon Master Mode in Soul Calibur II before, but it was immensely frustrating, and when I tried to go through it again, the computer was such a cheating bastard that I threw the controller for the first time in years. I told myself to break from video games for a bit and didn't pick that game back up when I did start playing them again.

It was a few years back. I can't remember the name of the game, but it was a fighting game with an SNK Boss. I'd evidently been too persistent in trying to defeat it, because come ragequit time, I not only turned it off, I also proceeded to delete the save and was one frayed synapse away from scouring the disc with steel wool. Yeah, it was that irritating.

edited 2nd Nov '09 6:18:03 AM by DarkDecapodian

Suikoden I, sadly. I can't find Clive!