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Team Fortress 2. I really like this game, but every now and then I just have one of those days. Days where I can't seem to find a server that doesn't have too much lag or allows me to have a decent framerate, days where I'm getting my ass handed to me left and right, days where I keep finding myself on a team with 5 snipers/spies/pyros/engineers, and days where I can't keep my sentry up because a spy keeps getting the drop on me and ruining everything every single time I try to set up. On those days, I get pretty angry. Maybe tomorrow will be better... | |
For the archers, once you're at the top near the one on the right, roll to dodge the arrows (the archer on the left cant hit you). Once you get close enough to him he'll pull out a sword and shield. At that point the best strategy is to parry him, which should either knock him off the ledge or kill him. Stay hollowed unless if you have to restore your humanity. All of the bosses can be fought on your own if you know what you're doing. (I did this with the Anor Londo bosses, took me forever) If you have a friendly phantom while you're invaded, there's no need to turn off the Xbox, since the odds are in your favor. (if you don't have one, summon one) There are not many invaders that can win a 2v1 or a 3v1, and if they're the gankers you're mentioning the chances they are one of those invaders is basically zero. | |
The Witcher 2 (and not because of the "difficult" combat system). Here is my experience playing it. Watch cutscene. Talk to some jack off who I have no idea who they are. Get quest. Try to use the piss poor map system (and fail). Wander aimlessly with nothing to poke my swords into forever. Listen to people drone on and on for eternity. Finally find where I am supposed to be. Quickly finish the fight with a few pokes and a couple dodges. Try and find the way back. Rinse and repeat. I didn't know Witcher meant shrink. I thought it meant monster hunter. | |
Hmm... no one has mention Shinobi or Nightshade. OH. Did I forget to mention that the final few levels had no floors. Hardest game I've ever played.... and completed. And then there was a car platforming jump battle and a submarine platforming jump battle that were both major tests of patience. God Hand, Bayonetta's Non-Stop Infinite Climax, and DMC3 US original (normal=hard) are both child's play, compared to that game. http://www.gamespot.com/nightshade/ I recall one mission in Mafia II that had me pulling out my hair. I vaguely remember having to follow a car, and the car kept on getting stuck in traffic, which would cause the game to blame me and say I failed. I didn't fail, your stupid AI failed. I do love that coke-a-cola and rum song that's in that game, though..... | |
Dead Rising is racist against Americans. It blames the zombie apocalypse on American capitalist consumption while simultaneously demanding that the player purchase a Sony HDTV in order to read the text. | |
Unfortunately I was playing a soldier (have been since ME1), but what's surprising was that he was the only challenge I faced on Insanity so far. | |
I think it might be left, right, center. | |
'which are supposed to be fun.' Well, no. 'and to what end!? there is no need AT ALL for this to exist!' In the context of the narrative (or what CoD claims is a narrative), it's needed. | |
Game that made me angry: Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault. The first level of this game is the attack on Pearl Harbour. So what can a FPS do with the attack on Pearl Harbour? Shoot down Japanese planes, of course! All on my lonesome, with my Tommy gun (the PT motorboat later on) I shot down 72 planes. Not taking into account all the others the bots shot down, I personally destroyed nearly 3 times as many planes as were actually shot down in 1941. I felt insulted, and offended on behalf of everyone involved on that day. The game didn't get any better. I never finished that one. Game character that made me angry: Mavis Blackbriar, Skyrim. Multiplayer that made me angry: Space Marine The matchmaker....doesn't make good matches. It seems completely unable to ensure an even spread of levels, so it's common to find one team with most of the high level players, and the other team with maybe 1. To date, I have only witnessed the matchamker balance teams when people drop or leave exactly once. 7 v 5 isn't uncommon, and when the team with 7 has all the top level guys.... | |
Modern Warfare 2 A buddy of mine persuaded me to play the multiplayer again recently and good god is it a clusterfuck of a game.Overpowered killstreaks that count towards your next killstreak,ridiculous amounts of killstreaks on screen at the same time,shiity spawn system that spawns you into the path of a killstreak so you die instantly,noob tubers everywhere,stupid perk combos,quickscoping,being knifed from 10 feet away.....After about 30 mins playing it I remembered why I'd stopped playing the fucking thing in the first place | |
And every single one of the new pokemon in that game looked absolutely horrible. | |
The Hobbit for the Gamecube. You play as Bilbo who, if you have any knowledge of Lord of the Rings or read the title of the game, is a Hobbit. Thus he is really short and not very strong. You do piss-all damage to enemies without doing massive combos on their weak-points, which is hard to pull off due to the fact that you can easily be 2-3 shotted by some of the most basic foes. Later levels introduce bigger, stronger enemies that use poisons, explosives, long-range attacks (your armed with a crappy short sword and rocks, so no ranged) and attack in large groups, making even small fights incredibly frustrating. I believe I ended up giving up on the last level with a resounding 'Fuck it!' and went to play some Borderlands, where my Sniper-scope-bladed-Shotgun-Grenade Launcher makes anything problem-shaped disappear instantly. Honourable mention goes to the Blade Columns in God of War - my. fucking. GOD. The one time I have felt pure fury at a video game as the deceptively large hit boxes sent Kratos falling to his doom for the 50th time. | |
Yeah, where's the "Shoot Makarov in the back of the head before we walk in 'cause we know he's going to kill a ton of people" option? O wait, then they'd have to use another character for the main story, and that would be bad... somehow. | |
I would say "it's contrived" - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.374490.14528445. This is equivalent to the idiot decisionmaking in bad B movies, only they're forcing you as the player to behave like the fool. | |
Dark souls. | |
In terms of Pokemon B&W, yes the new roster was definitely disheartening. A Pokemon game in which you don't want to play again because of the Pokemon you encounter is a definite failure for the game series. For The Force Unleashed 2, it sure was surprisingly short. I'm guessing most of the "development" put into the game was to create numerous inventive ways to kill Storm Troopers and TIE fighters. | |
In fairness, it was a fun game. but it took me less than 2 hours to complete. Then I did force rage IRL and killed some stormtrooper cosplayers, thus the rage subsided. | |
Yes Dead or Alive is much more noob friendly and I would assume Dead or Alive 5 will retain this there are only 4 buttons one throws one blocks + counters (depends how you use it but its easy to understand) and two buttons attack one punches one kicks if I remember correctly. Its not as in-depth as some other fighters but very easy to get into and can be a lot of fun as there is quite a lot of spectacle to the matches and it is deep enough to allow you to improve at it. Im also looking forward to DOA5 I think its about time they brought the series back after a much needed rest. | |
Force Unleashed. | |
Any Crash Bandicoot game after Twinsanity because they killed him :( Guilty Gear XX Accent Core because of the most annoyingly difficult AI in a fighting game I've played Timesplitters 4 because it will never happen | |
Avoid the knight and go up the ramparts kill everyone there. Once that's done get to a spot where the knight has a hard time hitting you and use a ranged attack either a bow or magic to chip his health away, you don't even has to invest in leveling just as long as you meet the min requirements and bow can kill it provided you have enough arrows. He is perhaps the easiest boss in the game next to phalanx. And anyone who says Dark Souls is hard it basically boils down to repetition, run the same area a few times and you'll soon break the difficulty over your knee. After Anor Londo you've basically won. | |
conkers bad fur day with the FUCKING FINAL BIT with the (spoiler) matrix section when they would FUCKING murder you OVER AND OVER AND OVER, seriously fuck that game | |
You play as an American CIA agent. A well-placed one. What makes you think a US agent would risk his cover, his mission and commit certain suidice to save a buttload of Russians? | |
(Just chiming in, as another one who got genuinly angry at ol' MW2) Well, I'd have less of a problem with it if the game didn't ask me to be outraged when the Russians do the exact same thing in America. "If it wasn't a big deal with civilians being massacred back there, why is it now, game?" Of course, that whole flippin' story is so surreal either way, so it hardly matters... After defending Burger King from the Red Menace, I sort of blacked out a bit, I vaguely remember the White House being involved somehow. Context got thrown under the bus long before the first protagonist was, that's for sure. | |
So far only Too Human is the only game that makes me legitimately angry, I mean the first hour or so is actually pretty nice, it has an interesting control scheme and I like the idea of Cybernetic Viking Gods. But than all the horribleness starts creeping into your attention, the atrocious healing system (you can't store healing items, they only drop in significant numbers when you don't barely need them, and the only class that can heal itself heals at a rate that would make glacial shifts look hypersonic) and the associated death sequence, the embarrassingly useless ranged weapons, the teeth scrapping slow movement speed and a plot that is too thinly spread to offer even an ounce of engagement. It makes me really angry mostly because that first bit works so nicely that it feels like some filthy lie once you get further into it! | |
Last five minutes of my last game didn't exactly sit well with me. Or my body. Or the rest of the galaxy. I guess it all depended on my wanting to commit either mass slavery, genocide, or molestation that day. | |
Coincidentally, I just rage quit'd a BF3 match just then for all the reasons you just stated! My dipshit squad-mates, both of them, had the Sprint perk on. Ok, not THAT big of a deal. What pissed me off, is that they were also SNIPING. With the perk that lets you sprint faster. When I asked one of them to change, he just said 'y?'. MFW | |
Super Meat Boy, its a fantastic game and I love playing it. However, I am awful at platformers and yeah the inevitable rage occurs. | |
Dead Rising. I just can't beat it... I just can't. I get so far and then I die and have to go through everything ALLLLLL over again because saving in that game is so tedious. I know that when you restart from the beginning you can keep your current level, but even so... Having to do the same quests over and OVER AND OVER again, blagh. I gave up on it loooong ago, and never picked up it's sequel. Also, the PSP port of Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Not only did the original PS1 version have a better layout for the menu that made setting turn orders and such MUCH easier, it was also LAG FREE! The PSP version's combat interface lags ALL THE TIME! Even turns lag, sometimes it takes 5 seconds in between turns to load the next one, it's crazy! Not to mention loading between battles and entering new areas... The PS1 version had like, NO loading screens. All in all it was a major letdown... Oh but I can't hate you Atlus :( | |
I didn't even know it had a manual. Now I understand that I'm supposed to suicide myself. Well, that's a hell of an unintuitive mechanic... ...Still, at least now I stand a chance in hell of beating the first freaking level. | |
I know. I played it. And your question sets up my point exactly - the developers did not put in the CHOICE for the player to blow his cover, his mission and commit certain suicide to save a buttload of Russians. (Edit: and yes, the story could have gone on with a name and face change for the villain and a bandaid's worth of writing). Said lack of choice is why it's a contrived scenario and imo the major reason that mission is so controversial - the player, who by definition is a active participant in events, is forced to either be a bystander to a massacre or participate in it. Of course people are going to be "wtf?" about it. But since the game industry has been infested with every Hollywood wanna-be director/writer who can't get a job making ACTUAL movies, it's no surprise to me that such hamhanded B- movie crud is showing up in games. | |
Somebody needs a hug from a Star Child. KIDDING! | |
I am very mild-mannered, but I get infuriating whenever I play video games. I guess that means every game makes me angry. | |
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Any game that results in me dying not by my own fault, but because the computer is a cheating bastard.
I realized this, as I would usually laugh and smile in the middle of raging when I realize that me dying that time was my fault, and my fault alone. Still happens every now and again, even.