s0denone:

orannis62:
In Mass Effect, there are vehicle sections. Sometimes, you have to fight a giant "Sand Worm" called a Thresher Maw. It's attacks are a bunch of short range attacks and spitting acid at you, and when you go to far from it, it goes underground and resurfaces closer to you. Problem is, Bioware didn't equip their AI with the ability to tell where you are when their underground, so they'll sometimes pop up under you, killing you instantly, and since it's not an official attack, there is no warning and a very slim chance of escaping. The only thing you can do is keep driving and pray.

Honestly, I've heard massive amounts of people whine because of the Thresher Maw. I've goon through the game twice, for the different reactions and endings, and gone a bit in on a third run. I got to level 49 on my first run, so the second was just to reach level 60 quick, for the "Elite Gamer" at level 50, and "Hardcore Gamer" at level 60, or whatever the archievements are called.

Not once have I been bothered by the Thresher Maw, I've fought it loads of times, as you can deduce from the fact that I got to level 49 on my first run (I went to every single explorable planet in the game) - I died once that I can recall, and that wasn't from it spawning underneath me. It has been mightily close many times, where I was saved by moving constantly, but that is part of the game, isn't it?

When you fight a Thresher Maw, when it's surfaced - obviously, you move around because it is hella deadly, so the minute it uses "dig", you stop moving. "System Failure, Sir! When we cannot see the monster, we cannot move, we are powered only by the risc of death" ???

How is "You have to move around constantly" something to whine about? The monster is several stories tall, and can already kill you in one hit when you get close, so why the hell are you standing still?

I'm not, I keep moving, but it comes up beneath me regardless of where I am or how fast I'm moving. I wouldn't be pissed if it was a legit attack, though.

The fact that you assume I stopped moving shows how unfair it is.

For the record, I'm on my 4th playthrough, and I'm really only experiencing that now. Thresher fights rarely did that to me before.

Fight thresher maws on foot, for maximum jollies. Also 3x the experience when you kill them. (not as hard as it sounds, there's a "sweet spot" distance just outside their melee range where they'll just stand still and spit, which is easily dodgable)

Picture a young lad (or in a reality a 20 year old man) happily playing his latest installment in the Pokémon series of games, he enters a cave in the side of a mountain and lo and behold, what does he encounter?

"A ZUBAT?! THIS IS POKÉMON PEARL! WHY HAVEN'T THEY DESIGNED A NEW BAT-LIKE CREATURE FOR THESE SODDING TUNELS?! IT'S ONLY LIKE THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT IN THESE SODDING GAMES!!"

The rest, was history...
until he encountered a Geodude later on.

corrupt save file on forza 2, happend last week, been playing it since it came out, a power cut while saving :( I am not a happy bunny.

I'd been playing through Prince of Persia warrior within for weeks, and finally reached the last portal to go through and fight

So i started a new file and breezed through to the end. Still nothing..

I was so pissed off, it wasn't until later that i learned that this wasn't the only glitch in the game..

My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

One thing I lothe in console gaming: Regonal codes.

I bought a copy of Psychonauts from the US, because I couldn't find a copy in Australia and I'd sold my copy after I got my 360.

Anyway, it got here and I went to play the game and it wouldn't work because the game was in NTSC or whatever and not PAL.

Does that annoy anyone else and can someone explain why that still happens?

Loosing to the 100 man match in Smash Bros Melee. I killed 99!

The Rikku/Ansem battle in Kingdom Hearts. You know, that one with the extremely long cut scene.

The DDR pad breaking.

Discovering Wind Waker wasn't that good of a game. Not to mention I had expectations and hype like you wouldn't believe. I still question what everyone sees in this game.

Someone already mentioned a corrupt hard drive so I'll throw this out. My PSU exploded taking with it the motherboard and CPU. No more PC gaming for a long time.

Civilization: Revolution's logic. A unit with several stat points lower will always attack you and always win despite your superior stats. World Leaders will go to war with you simply because you won't give them your shit. Someone will always, ALWAYS get a space travel victory before you can do anything else. ALWAYS. Rival kingdoms always attack you at the exact same time. Javelins and spears can destroy fighter planes. Enemies always spawn infinite units. Always. One enemy spy can and will destroy an entire spy ring. Rival world leaders will kidnap your settlers and think it's all cool and shit. Fuck Civilization...

Call of Duty 4 lag and dying because of it. Being shot in the foot and being killed by it. Martyrdom and random grenade deaths (because every asshole uses it). And worst of all, the Juggernaut/Martrydom or Juggernaut/Last Stand combo. For the man who knows he'll be shot, and killed, but won't work on actual dodging or strategy... God...

All those things send me into fits of rage. And often.

Indeed, I do hate those CoD4 and Halo people who come on just to talk shit and scream at the top of their lungs. But usually I rebut by either talking nonsense or agreeing with them. It usually works because they'll dismiss me as a crazy weirdo. Usually they start spattering stuff that makes me laugh at how dumb they are and I no longer mind.

"You god damn faggot, you suck."

Me: "I know, big fat cocks..."

"What?! You fag!

Me: "That's a harmful word. I prefer Gay American..."

And at that point they usually just shut up. If it gets any worse, I just mute them.

My pet peeve is idiots on flash game sites (notably Kongregate) who hog up the chat begging us to help them with easy sections.

For example, in the game Sonny, one of your skills reversing all damage into healing and healing into damage on whoever you used it on. Later on, one of the optional bosses has near infinite mana and has an, IIRC, 0 mana spell that, basically, heals him for about 20 times his max HP (which is in the millions, and a fairly solid hit is a few thousand on this game).

Anybody who ever looked at their skills list would probably think "Didn't I see something that could help this?" Or if they were especially astute "Wow, how original, the 'use a re-spec to put in a hardly useful skill otherwise because we couldn't think of a better way to make it not suck'"

However, when the challenge was released, and for a few months afterwards, every DAY I would have to explain that to at least three people. Grr....

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

It was because we were broke, not because I did anything wrong. I'm an angel, and don't you forget it.

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

It was because we were broke, not because I did anything wrong. I'm an angel, and don't you forget it.

alright i wont... although are you a heavenly angel or a fallen one... you didnt specify...... im thinking fallen.. te he

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

It was because we were broke, not because I did anything wrong. I'm an angel, and don't you forget it.

alright i wont... although are you a heavenly angel or a fallen one... you didnt specify...... im thinking fallen.. te he

Are you coming onto me? If so, I'm flattered! :D

The battery memory storage on my fully complete, 151 lvl 100 pokemon copy ran out.

The pain.

THE PAIN!!!!

Gotta be the jump quests in Maple Story.
Oh and when i was playing Orcarina of time for the first time my brother erased my game when i was almost at the shadow temple, what a **** lolz.

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

It was because we were broke, not because I did anything wrong. I'm an angel, and don't you forget it.

alright i wont... although are you a heavenly angel or a fallen one... you didnt specify...... im thinking fallen.. te he

Are you coming onto me? If so, I'm flattered! :D

One word sumises this thread.
ROFLCOPTER!

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:

Kehan Wann:

Aerach:
My parents pawned all of my consoles and games when I was like 15. Goodbye Secret of Mana and Super Metroid, we hardly knew ye.

damn dude that sucks... did you do anything to deserve that?

It was because we were broke, not because I did anything wrong. I'm an angel, and don't you forget it.

alright i wont... although are you a heavenly angel or a fallen one... you didnt specify...... im thinking fallen.. te he

Are you coming onto me? If so, I'm flattered! :D

well i wasnt but now that i think about the idea.......... maybe... te he... no no im not.

One word sumises this thread.
ROFLCOPTER![/quote]

lol ROFLCOPTER? i have never heard that one before.... please explain... lol

This one is more of a self-angering moment. My cousin and i had a little gun playing marathon in this little clubhouse-tyoe thing in his backyard. We'd been playing for a few hours in this tiny little room and i was starting to feel a little cramped. I go to stretch my legs out and by some divine act of God my toe reaches out and jams into the power button of my xbox. turns out we were like 20 min from the end of the game, but we hadn't saved since pretty much when we began.

D_L4wn:
This one is more of a self-angering moment. My cousin and i had a little gun playing marathon in this little clubhouse-tyoe thing in his backyard. We'd been playing for a few hours in this tiny little room and i was starting to feel a little cramped. I go to stretch my legs out and by some divine act of God my toe reaches out and jams into the power button of my xbox. turns out we were like 20 min from the end of the game, but we hadn't saved since pretty much when we began.

ohhhhh ya thats happened to me but the power went out.... i lost all my progress.

A thing that really tends to piss me of and ragequit is blockers, most notably in Zombie Survival on gmod. And killstealers in that game. Come to think of it, a lot of things about that game piss me off 99.9% of the time, which sucks since it is really quite fun when you have decent players.

and how does that make you feel

s0denone:

orannis62:
In Mass Effect, there are vehicle sections. Sometimes, you have to fight a giant "Sand Worm" called a Thresher Maw. It's attacks are a bunch of short range attacks and spitting acid at you, and when you go to far from it, it goes underground and resurfaces closer to you. Problem is, Bioware didn't equip their AI with the ability to tell where you are when their underground, so they'll sometimes pop up under you, killing you instantly, and since it's not an official attack, there is no warning and a very slim chance of escaping. The only thing you can do is keep driving and pray.

Honestly, I've heard massive amounts of people whine because of the Thresher Maw. I've goon through the game twice, for the different reactions and endings, and gone a bit in on a third run. I got to level 49 on my first run, so the second was just to reach level 60 quick, for the "Elite Gamer" at level 50, and "Hardcore Gamer" at level 60, or whatever the archievements are called.

Not once have I been bothered by the Thresher Maw, I've fought it loads of times, as you can deduce from the fact that I got to level 49 on my first run (I went to every single explorable planet in the game) - I died once that I can recall, and that wasn't from it spawning underneath me. It has been mightily close many times, where I was saved by moving constantly, but that is part of the game, isn't it?

When you fight a Thresher Maw, when it's surfaced - obviously, you move around because it is hella deadly, so the minute it uses "dig", you stop moving. "System Failure, Sir! When we cannot see the monster, we cannot move, we are powered only by the risc of death" ???

How is "You have to move around constantly" something to whine about? The monster is several stories tall, and can already kill you in one hit when you get close, so why the hell are you standing still?

Becauuse there's absolutely nothing you can do when you are moving at full speed and bloody thing pops up less then 10m infront of you. And the facts that the acid spit has an obscene splash damage, instagibbing you even though one of your squad mates took the shot, the mako getting stuck in the air if it get's rammed from below and the fact that it's "melee" attack is completely random and unless you are playing on easy and are at 100% health, is a quick trip to the load screen and it can outrange the mako machine gun leaving you with a cannon that is guaranteed to hit absolutely nothing if you are on anything that even hits at looking something like a slope.

Also, on insane, enemies using Assasionation instagib you as well and they can charge it up in places you don't see the beam(like by aiming it at the object they are sitting behind) and they gain godlike aiming abilites, like being able to shoot you while you are still coming out of cover(an animation that takes 0.4 seconds according to fraps in which you are completely incapitated)

And then there's the weapon overheat bug, the fact that the DLC doesn't work and the fact that female shepard uses the same hitbox as male shepard(meaning that projectiles pass through her arms with no condequences but she can be killed by shooting over her head)

For every piece of great gane that mass effect has there is an equal ammount of pure distilled annoyance.

very long and very precise... anyone else?

ChaosDragon:
Friend thinks it's funny to drop my PS2. Broken memory card = no more 40+ hrs of Disgaea 1 AND 2, no FFX-XII data, no Star Ocean, no SoulCalibur3, no Tales of Abyss, no more 50+ hrs of Kingdom Hearts 1 AND 2.

He is no longer my friend.

He would not be mine either.

I recently got the beta version of Red Faction:Guerilla and i was very dissapointed to find out that even though you start a party,invite your friends and start a game,you get thrown out of that party and put into another one at random FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER!

Being Marche in FFTA.

Never has happened to me in gaming. I'm too careful.

But in computer graphics, ho ho ho, that's a different story.

Man, I am way too ambitious in what I teach myself with those programs. Indulging in information in and out of order.
There are many instances where I know I could be doing something more efficiently, and others which I know a part and don't know another, leading to inordinate frustration.

Ares Tyr:
Indeed, I do hate those CoD4 and Halo people who come on just to talk shit and scream at the top of their lungs. But usually I rebut by either talking nonsense or agreeing with them. It usually works because they'll dismiss me as a crazy weirdo. Usually they start spattering stuff that makes me laugh at how dumb they are and I no longer mind.

"You god damn faggot, you suck."

Me: "I know, big fat cocks..."

"What?! You fag!

Me: "That's a harmful word. I prefer Gay American..."

And at that point they usually just shut up. If it gets any worse, I just mute them.

Your courage far exceeds my own.

Anarchemitis:
Never has happened to me in gaming. I'm too careful.

But in computer graphics, ho ho ho, that's a different story.

Man, I am way too ambitious in what I teach myself with those programs. Indulging in information in and out of order.
There are many instances where I know I could be doing something more efficiently, and others which I know a part and don't know another, leading to inordinate frustration.

Ares Tyr:
Indeed, I do hate those CoD4 and Halo people who come on just to talk shit and scream at the top of their lungs. But usually I rebut by either talking nonsense or agreeing with them. It usually works because they'll dismiss me as a crazy weirdo. Usually they start spattering stuff that makes me laugh at how dumb they are and I no longer mind.

"You god damn faggot, you suck."

Me: "I know, big fat cocks..."

"What?! You fag!

Me: "That's a harmful word. I prefer Gay American..."

And at that point they usually just shut up. If it gets any worse, I just mute them.

Your courage far exceeds my own.

If it is any indication of the type of person I am online, I teabag every, and I do mean EVERY kill I get on Halo 3 (the only reason I even play it now). And on Call of Duty 4, my preferred multiplayer game, I'm just good. The combination of this, and my anti-trash talk (or occasional trash talk myself when I am dealing with a gang of swinging dicks) I've managed to have a Rep of about 86% of all players avoiding me for Trash Talk, Aggressivness, and Unsportmanlike (see: teabagging) conduct. I think all my positive ratings are my friends, haha.

Another game I like to play is in the pre-game lobby where I scope for the guys with the baddest ass sounding names and expressing my deep seated fear of them and how bad ass they are to my team mates. I tell them how badly we are going to lose to the guy named "Endless Death 333" or "DarkSniper1994". Then I judge their reactions.

God... I'm some piece of work.

Event Match 51, g-d i lost so many times

Everquest caused me to rage more than any other game I had known previously, or since. You would play full time for a week for a minimal amount of progress, only to die and lose all your progress.

Horrible, evil game.

I literally put my CRT monitor through a wall once, it angered me so much. Destroyed a few keyboards too..

Archemetis:
Picture a young lad (or in a reality a 20 year old man) happily playing his latest installment in the Pokémon series of games, he enters a cave in the side of a mountain and lo and behold, what does he encounter?

"A ZUBAT?! THIS IS POKÉMON PEARL! WHY HAVEN'T THEY DESIGNED A NEW BAT-LIKE CREATURE FOR THESE SODDING TUNELS?! IT'S ONLY LIKE THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT IN THESE SODDING GAMES!!"

The rest, was history...
until he encountered a Geodude later on.

This basically.