Worst Moments in Games [Archive]

Ghost of Fraiser

Dec 26th, 2003, 05:21 AM

What are some moments in game that just fucking pissed you of to no end? That maybe you wanna throw your console against the wall.

I have two moments.

Ghouls N' Ghost (Genesis)

After finally getting to the last level after dying constantly to the goddamn red devils and the Phantom Bee. I made it to the end, then out of nowhere this wizard guys shows up and tells me I have to find this soul with a great power then sends me to the fucking beginning of the game. Total Bullshit.

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)

Carnival Night Act 2, a wall closes behind me and there this spinning barrel, I move on it, it starts bouncing up and down, so logic tells me to jump. And i would try this so many times but i could never get it all the way goddamn down, and when i think i got it, sonic dies on me. TIME OVER. I would try this several other times, TIME OVER TIME OVER TIME FUCKING OVER. Then one time i just mash buttons, and after a few more times of that i actually got it down. I felt like a fucking god of gaming. It was years later that i found out all i had to do is pres up and down while on the barrel, no jumping needed, Total Bullshit.

Oh and that little gem, The Princess is in another castle >:

Mad Melvin

Dec 26th, 2003, 05:54 AM

One of the worst moments for me was when I played silent hill 1. I had just killed the lizard/dog/whatever boss in the school and after that, I saved my game. I continued playing and went all the way to the bookstore. When I came out of the bookstore, some fucking monkey-like monster jumped on me and killed me just like that. The worst part happened when I was going to load my most recent savepoint. I hadnt been saving the game since the fucking school. Hours of gametime down the drain. I was so pissed I threw my controller to the floor. It broke.

Protoclown

Dec 26th, 2003, 10:45 AM

losing games really pisses me off, that's prolly the worst moment for me

McWorld

Dec 26th, 2003, 12:17 PM

The damn jet ski level from Battletoads

Emu

Dec 26th, 2003, 12:31 PM

A free for all in Warcraft where I had oblitterated everybody, but one guy had been hiding peasents all around the map and had managed to build up an army of Gryphon Riders while I was killing someone else, and then he killed me. :(

Ant10708

Dec 26th, 2003, 02:30 PM

In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic there is a level where your main charcter gets captured and you need to pick one of your other people from your party to free them. I used Mission since she has Invisiblity stealth mode. Well apparently when she went back to the ship she was still invisible so later on during a cinematic my game fezzes because I can't see her. Luckily I had an item that increased my awareness enouh for me to see her so my game wasn't ruined but I thought ti was for a few days.

EverythingWillSuck

Dec 26th, 2003, 02:33 PM

Fuck that Sonic 3 barrel got me a few steams as a kid. That part must be a torture device.

The mine carts/hang glider levels of pac-Man 2 (and many other parts of the game)

I kept going crazy figuring out what the hell to do next in the Kirby Superstar Great Cave Offensive

ultra perfect cell

Dec 26th, 2003, 03:43 PM

I was playing this one fighting game (Not DBZ, mind you) and killed the hardest opponent in the game with one second on the clock. I won once, and lost once, as did my enemy. When he fell showing that he was dead, my second ran out. You shoulda heard me, I was cursin' like a truck driving sailor with overtime.

Zbu Manowar

Dec 26th, 2003, 03:58 PM

Nothing beats that level in the NES Mission: Impossible game where you have to defeat that asshole who disappears in the room with the floor that keeps falling out in square chunks. You have to keep moving because the floor is falling away AND you have to defeat that guy who keeps vanishing. You can't use the guy with the gun because you can't aim and he's slow as shit, you can't use the guy with the sleep gas because he can only punch, and the guy with the boomerrangs works somewhat but THE FLOOR KEEPS FALLING AWAY. I beat it once but after that I couldn't care for the game at all.

Esuohlim

Dec 26th, 2003, 06:12 PM

In Dungeon 7 of Zelda: Link's Awakening, there's this one metal ball you need to use to throw against pillars to make them tumble. Well, there's one part where there's a large gap with a chest on the other side (I believe it was the chest that gave you a bomb). You are supposed to use the Hookshot on the chest to cross the gap, but I found that out later. I instead somehow threw the metal ball across the gap, and it landed between a hole and the chest. Now, since the ball was blocking the chest, the Hookshot couldn't grab onto it and pull me over. On top of that, the ball never moves from its position back to where it originally came from, so the only thing I could do was completely restart my game.

I've never been more pissed off at a game before. :(

thebiggameover

Dec 26th, 2003, 07:24 PM

not being able to see the ending of ff9 because my disk is fucked. 40+ hours gone...

NES Boy

Dec 26th, 2003, 10:38 PM

Mario Party. The original. Three words. Tug. O'. War.

Supafly345

Dec 26th, 2003, 10:44 PM

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)

Carnival Night Act 2, a wall closes behind me and there this spinning barrel, I move on it, it starts bouncing up and down, so logic tells me to jump. And i would try this so many times but i could never get it all the way goddamn down, and when i think i got it, sonic dies on me. TIME OVER. I would try this several other times, TIME OVER TIME OVER TIME FUCKING OVER. Then one time i just mash buttons, and after a few more times of that i actually got it down. I felt like a fucking god of gaming. It was years later that i found out all i had to do is pres up and down while on the barrel, no jumping needed, Total Bullshit.
That is #1. I hated that game for months, just dreading the point I would reach that level. Then I accidentally discovered the 'secret'. Increased gameplay time by 600% that did.

Mike P

Dec 27th, 2003, 12:07 AM

I had beaten the Tower of the Gods in "Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker", and since that pretty much marks the point in the game when you're halfway done, I was kind of pumped. Hadn't saved in a while, such and such. Instead of going right for the next temple, I decided to complete many a side-quest. Treasure maps, Nintendo Gallery Figurines, heart pieces and rupees... if it was a side-quest, I was on it. So I got a good deal of figurines, treasures and maps, heart pieces, and whatnot, when the goddamned power goes off. However, I hadn't saved it since before the Tower of the Gods. I was so pissed off that I just restarted the whole goddamned game so the monotony of getting all the crap back would be offset by redoing levels.

Oh, and any moment in Tetris when you misplace a piece resulting in your demise on the higher levels.

Drev

Dec 27th, 2003, 02:35 AM

One of the Worst moments was Yoshi's Story for N64...THE WHOLE GAME! We first get Yoshi's Island, being one of the best SNES games to play, and hearing this, and it being the same gameplay (excluding the use of Baby Mario, and that the eggs explode), I was hoping for this to surpass it....boy we were sure wrong. First off, you don't beat all the levels to fight the boss. In fact, if I remember, you had 3 choices, and when you bet one of 3, you fight the boss and go to the next world, and it goes like that until you beat the game. It was just too easy, and the only challenge in the game was to try to beat the game with eating all the melons (which was easy as well). I got it for my birthday, and it took me 3 days to get 100% on everything (mind you I had school and played about 2 hours a day), and sold it the next month.

DamnthatDavid

Dec 27th, 2003, 06:17 AM

Soul Calibur 2.

I was borrowing my friend's X-Box for the weekend, and I was playing it on it's hardest setting, it was one of them levels in the mission journey thing. Beat all opponents in a set time, but warning, enemy regains health quickly.
Now, with Nightmare, most of the time I can get the enemy off in 3 hits. But this was nearly impossible. I swear, I played through every charachter. About the 30th time, I was getting really angry. I started kicking, and punching the wall. Then, while using Mitsurugi (sp?), I pulled off this massive combo, wailing on Ivy, for she was the last. I got her to a inch of her death, it was awesome, I still had half my life. Then, in the middle of an attack, she blocked, grabbed, threw, and did a small combo on my sword wielding ass. No worries, I had recovered quickly. I rushed her, side stepped her attack, and was about to claim victory with a sword blow to the head when suddenly, that missed sword swing I had side stepped, glitched to another position, one with sword entering my body. Killing me. I started cusing, and then I kicked the wall. Sending my foot through and opening up a 3ft by 1ft gap.

ultra perfect cell

Dec 27th, 2003, 06:57 AM

WHOA! HOLY HELL! :faint :eek Even I don't get THAT pissed when that happens (no offense)

Supafly345

Dec 27th, 2003, 07:36 AM

You're not a hill giant with a taste for children either. Its not that bad when you put things into perspective.

ultra perfect cell

Dec 27th, 2003, 08:10 AM

WTF did you say?! Seriously, what the HELL are you talking about?

Mad Melvin

Dec 27th, 2003, 08:40 AM

Go ask your mom.

ultra perfect cell

Dec 27th, 2003, 09:28 AM

Can we focus back on the topic at hand? I have another bad gaming moment. In this one other non-DBZ fighting game, and in it, I was so close to winning when my enemy used a fatal move that sliced my head off, then my character got his balls stretched off. I was so pissed, I told the game to fuck itself and screw it's mom.

Emu

Dec 27th, 2003, 11:19 AM

alright

eggyolk

Dec 27th, 2003, 04:05 PM

I agree, the Sonic 3 carnival shit got rather old.

Another thing is Morrowind, when you complete a shit load of quests and haven't saved in a while then you ACCIDENTLY STAB A GAURD IN THE BACK AND DIE//////// >:

MK IV

Dec 27th, 2003, 04:25 PM

not being able to see the ending of ff9 because my disk is fucked. 40+ hours gone...

The FF9 ending >:

Trann

Dec 27th, 2003, 05:10 PM

Megaman & Bass is PISSING THE HELL OUT OF ME.
Second King level, you fight a giant tank thing. I had that all figured out and I managed to make it to the next part of the level. No extra lives or anything, I go to the next boss (the flying platforms thing) and I died right before destroying it. I never played that game again.

Nemesis

Dec 27th, 2003, 06:26 PM

When I was playing WWF: No Mercy for the N64. I was trying to gain money to unlock some stuff on Survival Mode when a thunderstorm came. I was thinking abot shutting the game off and playing after the storm passed, but I had already eliminated about 70 people. Then Mother fucking Nature killed the power in my house, and not only did the game shut off, but my memory card data was erased. Again.

Oh, and does anyone remember the level on Goldeneye where you have to go on the train, rescue the chick, then escape before it explodes? I tried playing it on the hardest level so many times, and no matter how much time I had left and how fast I was going, that stupid chick would always be too slow and get killed in the explosion. I never found a way to beat it. And that was only 1 of 2 levels I still needed to beat on 007 mode (or whatever it's called) to get the bonus one.

Now that I think of it, the other one I died on was where you had to protect the same girl while she hacked into the computer, with a bunch of guys running down and shooting you. I played that one a lot too. The closest I got was right at the exit with all of the objectives completed, but I got gunned down. That level is so goddamn hard.

ultra perfect cell

Dec 27th, 2003, 07:09 PM

Ugh......I know how that feels.....

Supafly345

Dec 27th, 2003, 07:58 PM

WTF did you say?! Seriously, what the HELL are you talking about?David is a giant with uncontrollable rage to which he will damage nearby property with little or no care about its value. He also has intercourse with other creatures his size, such as the Yeti.

Matt Harty

Dec 28th, 2003, 12:39 PM

MAN WHAT?

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FRIGGIN HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! :eek :eek

Immortal Goat

Dec 29th, 2003, 04:09 PM

Comrade Rocket

Dec 29th, 2003, 04:29 PM

all I had to do was press up and down. thats it? I FUCKING HATED SONIC 3 BECAUSE OF THAT ONE PART. I FUCKING HATED TAILS BECAUSE HE ALWAYS MADE IT HARD.

But my worst was when i was playing Robotech: battlecry I couldn't beat this one mission were you had to blow up these transports that had some kind of culture in them. It was almost impossible because the ships moved to fast and had to much power to be able to destroy one and move on to the next one. I had to get some codes. They made it so that your gun had one hit kills. It was fun for the next few missions until i got to this one mission were you have to try and disable your friend, but not kill him. I couldn't find the paper that had the code on it and everytime i used my gun, it would kill him. And it was a reletivly new game so there were no codes online. I swear i put that gun to my head, of course had it hit me anywere else i would kill me in one hit. I finally was able to beat him, but i had to use missles and it took for-fucking-ever.

DamnthatDavid

Dec 29th, 2003, 08:39 PM

Screw you Adam, you're the one to speak. With that wookie of a father that you have. You going to look like that one day.

soundtest

Dec 29th, 2003, 10:24 PM

Battletoads, Ghosts 'n Goblins are good ones... but mine's with Street Fighter III in the arcade. Not really an issue with the game itself, but painful nonetheless. Went to an arcade when I lived in Toronto with my friend's sister. All day I was bragging about how good I was in Street Fighter and how I'd put anybody to shame. So I step up to this dude at the machine, and the bastard parried EVERYTHING I had... he totally just played with me for half the first round, then after tiring of that ruined me quickly (almost perfect) both rounds. I was so shocked and impressed I'm like "daaamn! nice man" - but he just looks at me awkwardly for a second wondering why I said that as if he was daydreaming during the whole fight. COCKY COCKSUCKING FUCK BASTARD - I had a GIRL with me! At least let me win a round to save some face! She laughed her ass off at me for the rest of the day and kept calling me "Ryu, my hero!"

And I never played video games again. :tear

Mr. Vagiclean

Dec 29th, 2003, 11:16 PM

Games don't USUALLY get me upset to the point of no return, but i distinctively remember the moment when i realized i was getting backstabbed by some no goodie-backstabbin fucks in a game of Starcraft: Brood war. Wow, that was a angst-ridden 5 minutes >:

Supafly345

Dec 30th, 2003, 01:33 AM

Just remembered another one:
TOFU: THE SURVIVOR
The seconed secret character of RE2 in which I had to play a full 12 hours of that game (after I finally got good at it) just to earn. I kept far away from this game untill after I beat the already insanely hard "Hunk: The 4th survivor" mission. Which was one hell of a task already even with the heavy artillary (and 2 herbs) he comes with. Room after room filled elbow-to-elbow with deadly enemies, and many times only a split seconed to act in time to avoid being lunch. And that was a major frustration in itself with it's crappy "End of one story, prelude to the another" ending (yes, it said "to the another).

Then here we come to that migrane of a secret TOFU. Which you have to go through Hunks hard as fuck mission as an hilarious block of tofu... with a knife. Why capcom decided to torture RE addicts like me with a reward this cruel is a mystery. But torture it did. I probably played more as that damn block of tofu than I did the main characters of the game, half of it I didn't even get halfway through it. But finally I managed to get through it, and I was rewarded well... with a peptic ulcer. It was the same damn ending as Hunk, and it looked even worse with a hunk of tofu with no arms or legs other than two floating hands. But, still I subjected myself to that tofu-ie goodness at least 2 more times to make sure it was skill and not luck that brought me there. Needless to say, no phrase can ever make my inner furnace of hate and anger burn hotter than "End of one story, prelude to the another."

Nemesis

Dec 30th, 2003, 05:39 PM

I never beat it with Hunk. I got to the save room full of zombies either a room or two before you make it outside. I was already limping before going in there, so I was lunch.

Schimid

Dec 30th, 2003, 05:44 PM

Streets Of Rage.

"You've got potential! Would you like to join me in my crusade?"

___YES
___NO

If you pick yes, he sends you back to Level 6, and you still get the bad ending. Goddamnit. >:

AChimp

Dec 30th, 2003, 06:08 PM

Reaching the end of Half-Life and discovering that you've run out of ammo, then realizing there's no more on any of the remaining maps and the crowbar and bee gun can't save you.

ProfessorCool

Dec 31st, 2003, 11:17 PM

One that i actually hit the console, when i was younger.

Wizards and Warriors, I was at the first part of the castle stage and it took a long while just to get up there. I was on one of the towers when Jumped and mistaken a shaded area of the castle for a platform, fell all the way down. Got pissed and kicked the NES which reseted the game. I yelled so loud my whole family came to my room.

the_dudefather

Jan 1st, 2004, 09:15 AM

resident evil code veronica, saved the game, was a bit weak, 3-4 of those strech armstrong zombies around the corner, aghhhhhh.

ninja gaiden, kill three hard bosses in a row, if you fail, back to the last level. also the birds, theeee birrrrrrddsssssss

broken sword 2, the pyramid, if you dont use your one opertunity to throw the ammo belt onto the incence burner (which doesnt do anything) you are stuck

PorkchopSandwiches

Jan 1st, 2004, 12:14 PM

My worst gaming moment can be summed up in one word:

GILL

Gill, the final boss in Street Fighter III, is the cheesiest bitch ever compiled. After parrying this, blocking that, and countering everything else, (when he's within an inch of his life) he decides he's done playing with me and throws his rainbow power super combo that obliterates whatever life I had. Or, upon delivering the final blow, his two-faced ass resurrects and completely fills his life bar. On level 8 difficulty, I winged my Dreamcast controller so hard, the cord severed allowing the controller to sail across the room into the (unlit) fireplace. It hasn't worked since.

Nerd

Jan 1st, 2004, 01:08 PM

resident evil code veronica, saved the game, was a bit weak, 3-4 of those strech armstrong zombies around the corner, aghhhhhh.

Those are called Bandersnatch's, or as I call them, Mucus Monsters.

My worst moment in a video game is probably all those failed speed runs in Resident Evil and Metroid. Playing for nearly two hours without saving, only to die on the final boss. WTF.

Retro Man

Jan 1st, 2004, 02:24 PM

saving over my only final fantasy tactics game directly before going into a battle i was horribly outmatched in. it took me a week to figure out how to beat the guy (Elmdor) without starting all over. >:

slain

Jan 1st, 2004, 03:32 PM

In link's awakening the eagle level (i forgot) that fucking penguin that would uppercut you to the beginning of the dungeon, i got so pissed off i threw my GBC at the wall >:

Comrade Rocket

Jan 1st, 2004, 08:16 PM

Any of the Zelda games, when you spent a long time getting to the middle of a dungeon, and just as you got as far as you ever have... you get grabbed by one of those hands. I FUCKING HATE THE GOD DAMN HANDS.

And while we are on the subject of Zelda i was playing Link to the Past. I got to this one dungeon and worked like a mofo to get the Mirror shield. I finally had all the good stuff when I go in this one dungeon and a Like Like eats me. I didnt know that it would eat my shield, so I ran away after i got loose from its grasp... only to realize about a half an hour later that i had lose the unreplacible shield.

Supafly345

Jan 1st, 2004, 08:25 PM

The shop has whatever your latest shield was you know. So immediately after you held that shield it appears in the shop.

Darko

Jan 12th, 2004, 12:37 PM

Half-Life: Going through the Xen Portal without saving before it and never grabbing the jetpack. I was so pissed I just gave up.

Back the the Future (NES): I wasted 5 bucks renting that piece of crap. It was literally impossible to beat the first level, according to Nintendo Power.

Beating KOTOR light side. What a weak ending. Same for Jedi Academy. At least when the series was about Kyle, the storyline was good.

The new TMNT game. The ending. I don't even think I actually fought Shredder. I think it was Hun in Shredder armor, because before you enter the last stage it has an fmv of hun and shredder talking and Shredder says "You know what you have to do." and Hun says "Yes, master," and walks away. But then you never see Hun again.

Hmmmm.

Halo, playing the last level on legendary, running for the Pelican with my shields down from the turrets on the sides and all the elites that run out, with 1 bar of health left. I've got about 50 meters to go when an elite runs out and smashes me on the head.

pjalne

Jan 13th, 2004, 07:17 AM

The new TMNT game. The ending. I don't even think I actually fought Shredder. I think it was Hun in Shredder armor, because before you enter the last stage it has an fmv of hun and shredder talking and Shredder says "You know what you have to do." and Hun says "Yes, master," and walks away. But then you never see Hun again.

Maybe you have to beat it on a harder difficulty.

I'm just talking out of my ass here, I haven't played it. I just know a couple of games where tis is the case.