I got close once, with a Sonic 2d game!

There was one point in Sonic 3, Casino Night zone, where you are trapped in a room with a large spinning platform that goes up and down. The way out was obvious, the platform went up and down, you had to time a jump as the platform was at its lowest level.

The catch was I had spotted a way of effecting the platforms (jumping just before the peak and then crashing down on it) but this platform used completely different rules you had to press up & down on the d-pad. That had never come up in a Sonic game before, or even in this one before.

I eventually did it the hard way, jumping, but it always took me about 5 minutes, requiring me to blast through the level super fast.

Somewhat frustratingly when I dug out my old Saturn to let my brother run through the classics from Sonic Jam he didn't even flinch, and found it out. Something like 6 years of mystery gone in a moment.

For me it was MGS4. I got a copy 3 days before the release so I was very exited. I took a big box of beer on way home.

What I saw - cutscene-cutscene-turn corner-cutscene-run 20 meters-cutscene. Well, after GAY took a dump on 35th minute of "tactical espionage action game" and continued with this for a whole 40 minutes I turned off console and started to play Ninja Gaiden2 for a whole day just to calm down. However I finished it the next day just to make sure no one will say that "it is getting better but you didnt finish it".

1. Titan Quest. It tried far too hard to be a prettier Diablo II and failed. The loot was too generic-looking (and cool stuff never dropped enough), the story was boring and to top it all off, I wasted about 20 hours on it...
2. System Shock II. I heard it was awesome, so I downloaded it and tried playing. It wasn't the slightly old-skool graphics that got me, it was the fact that I was shitting myself. I turned off the music because it was annoying me and, trust me, it's much scarier without the music. I still have occasional nightmares about small, telekinetic monkeys... and zombies with shotguns or wrenches

awsome work guys, you all make valid points and what not, i can name a bunch too

Bart Vs the space mutants, 2nd level theres a huge jump you physically cannot make one of the biggest traumas of my childhood. Years later I got it on emu, still couldn't do it and went on gamewinners, turns out theres a super jump you can do by holding both buttons that wasn't mentioned in the manual. If I ever find the man who made that game...

Oh and the camera on res evil. Walk around a corner and get munched by a zombie. No.

Two worlds on the 360. I played for 20 minutes, grabbed a towel to clean up the blood coming from my eyes and ears after reading the dialogs and hearing the voice-acting, threw the game back in the rental (Thank goodness) case and sadly wished I had my 8 dollars back.

Turning Point Fall of liberty. Now usualy no matter how much a game sucked I always find some reason to play it throu to the end and play it once more again, even with turning point (mostly). But good lord that was the first and only game that i played that gave me motion sickness after I played it idk mybe because the game was suck a cock slap at the end or the fact your "suppose" to be an ordinary citizen who can regenrate health and rape a whole army's worth of souldiers not wearing anything other then ordinary clothing... but now im just whining XD. bottem line I could not bring myself to play the game a second time.

K.os Theory:
the latest Soldier of Fortune game! Picked it up on the cheap, played for about 15minutes, turned it off and binned it...just complete garbge easily one of the worst games I've ever played.

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Well there has been a whole host of games i just had to stop playing, here are the main gits

GTA:san andreas = right yeah sure it was am amazing game untill you got to the 3rd island and got to the Z missions for some model plane fanatic basically all you have to do is defend these arials from mini bombers sounds easy doesent it ? ...... well no its pissing impossible there is always one of the little wankers that you miss and finishes off the last tower you have left, that mission pissed me off greatly, and even worse it ruined san andreas for me

red steel= walking round corners waiting to die , nonresponsive wii controls SHIT in other words

Heros Dark Messiah Multiplayer. I played it and i was good but ultimatly every asshole plays a mage and team kills you or sets you on fire.

TheNecroswanson:
Mario Kart Wii.
If I need to explain then you can count yourself lucky you've not seen the horrors.

Yay! I'm lucky.

And another game set added to the list is every GTA except SA and IV...they all suffered from some problematic timed missions.

Assassins Creed for being so damn Repetitive
Same with Dead Rising
both fun for like an hour or two

Mass Effect: horrible, horrible combat controls.
Metroid Prime Wii: horrible level design let me go past a thing I needed to do, and gave me no way to get back.

Silent Hill 3. I was playing it was a buddy of mine (switching off when we got bored/died) and finally I just looked at him: Are you having any fun?

No.

Fuck this, then.

Same friend tried to teach me how to play Madden. I tried, I really did, for three ulcer-inducing weeks, to learn how that fucking game worked. Finally, I said; this is pissing me off every time I play it, and I can't join you. Sorry.

Half-Life 2, the final boss stage. You want me to what with the what now? It was a rare moment when I realized; I have a life.

Final Fantasy 7, when trying to defeat Ruby Weapon. I fought it for two hours and lost.
I didn't play that game again for a year.
/beat it, though

I Wanna Be The Guy.

Edit: Oh, yes, forgot to mention Croc: Legend of the Gobboes. It busted my balls, which wasn't suprising because I was only about 8 years old at the time. I got to the first level of the desert world, which I attempted to beat over 9000 times before giving up in frustration. It was not untill years later that I managed to beat the game.

Either Diddy Kong Racing for the N64
Or, freakin' Wolverines Revenge on whatever system I had it for...DEAL LORD THAT WAS Bad!

Call of Duty 4 on the 360.

Its fine when I die due to my lack of skill or their greater skill, but the amount of deaths due to horrible hit detection and lag made me sell it.

Graustein:

Tattaglia:
Shadow of Rome. It was super-duper-awesome fun cutting people in half until the second-to-last last set of missions in Africa.

"Hey, Agrippa! Instead of facing off against a difficult but not impossible boss, we're gonna toss you into an arena with three lions, a midget shaman and a giant fucking armoured elephant. And no, nobody will toss you any health items or give you any weapon except for the goddamn spear."

I gave up on that for a year, then came back to it, finished all missions until the fight with Decius, and gave up.
He has claw-gauntlets. What the hell?

Agrippa? As in Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, the Roman general (ie. not a soldier, but he who commands soldiers) who played a key role in Mark Antony's defeat at Actium? As a protagonist in an action game that (it appears from your post) isn't a strategy one?

I don't know whether to be infuriated that they (or so it appears) did to Agrippa what Too Human did to Norse Mythology, or to be delighted that Agrippa is still remembered.

... Nope, infuriated. And how! Tell me I'm overreacting and this game hasn't pissed on Roman history. Please.

Now that's what we need people, passionate gamers. That's not a fanboy at all, that's a person with a passion for history.

Anyway, I still have not gone back to pick up GTA 4 since I died, then died again, then of course, happened to find a new spot to die in one mission; and that sad part is, I don't even remember which mission it was.

Chain of Olympuses' 4th challenge.

Ninja gaiden 2 and shinobi. I hate them so much, even after beating the games.

Command & Conquer 3, the mission where you have to destroy a nod weapons dump with like...5 guys. And a couple jeeps. No base, no way to rebuild, one mistake and lose an extra engineer, mission over. FUCK that. I suck at strategy games, but I love the story and cutscenes in C&C, but you cant even fire up a cheat code just to get past the obligatory bullshit mission.

I also completely abandoned Knights of the Old Republic 2. Look, you play a star wars game for one reason, to slice shit up with a lightsaber. When you dont get a lightsaber for 8 hours of gameplay, thats called bullshit.

I played the shit out of Oblivion, but I never actually beat the main story quest. It was just too dull.

Oblivion: I was hooked the moment I started playing it. A few hours later, I'm in a demon's castle in some other dimension and the fuckers are bloody invincible. It took me half an hour of save/reload to kill three guys in the room I was in because they damn-near one shot me while I had to hit them 20 times over. I used up all of my potions and everything. Finally successful, I venture into the next room and see more of the same thing. I gave up right then and there.

Counterstrike: All it took was a few headshots from an awpwhore to send my mouse flying. I played that game for a couple of years and every session ended with a /ragequit.

WoW: I would have quit sooner, but I had several friends who played. If it wasn't a quest that said, "Grab 10 of these really rare drops," it was walking for 15 minutes to turn in the quest, only to be given a follow-up that required walking all the way back there. I'd never been so bored in my life.

Surely there are many more. I don't often let games get to the point of pissing me off -- if I'm not entirely enthralled with them, I turn them out immediately. I'm very picky about games.

Spore put me right off on my 3rd playthrough at a vegan hippy race it was all fine and dandy until tribe where the murdering, rapists that were my race the last two playthroughs were my neighbours.
Let me tell you it is not nice seeing your love able furry pink wazzerwibjit being torn apart by satan and a shark-monster over and over again.

Fuck you Will Wright and your inherent hate of plant eaters, Fuck you straight to hell.

Battlefield 2, the most hands down unbalanced game i have ever played. The unlockable weapons ruined it for me, and dont get me started on the load times!

Spore-Space pirates!

Fuck you, whiney homeplanet!

I have a space ship, I can go where ever i want!
I dont wanna stay at home babysitting when all the cool kids hang out in the center of the galaxy!

Beatmania IIDX 7 key.
Saga Frontier

Graustein:

Tattaglia:
Shadow of Rome. It was super-duper-awesome fun cutting people in half until the second-to-last last set of missions in Africa.

"Hey, Agrippa! Instead of facing off against a difficult but not impossible boss, we're gonna toss you into an arena with three lions, a midget shaman and a giant fucking armoured elephant. And no, nobody will toss you any health items or give you any weapon except for the goddamn spear."

I gave up on that for a year, then came back to it, finished all missions until the fight with Decius, and gave up.
He has claw-gauntlets. What the hell?

Agrippa? As in Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, the Roman general (ie. not a soldier, but he who commands soldiers) who played a key role in Mark Antony's defeat at Actium? As a protagonist in an action game that (it appears from your post) isn't a strategy one?

I don't know whether to be infuriated that they (or so it appears) did to Agrippa what Too Human did to Norse Mythology, or to be delighted that Agrippa is still remembered.

... Nope, infuriated. And how! Tell me I'm overreacting and this game hasn't pissed on Roman history. Please.

Actually, you hit the nail on the head. The story of Shadow of Rome has Agrippa returning to Rome from a Germanic campaign to find his mother killed by General Decius (a vewwy bad man) and his father - Vipsanius - blamed for Julius Caesar's assassination. One thing leads to another and Agrippa winds up a gladiator fighting for his father's life while the future emperor Octavianus goes all stealthy, sneaking into the Senate and collecting coins to buy tigers and haircuts... for some reason.

Yes, the game throttled Julio-Claudian history and replaced it with a much bloodier and conspiracy-filled one. It's still a kickass game, mind the parallel universe in which it occurs.

Merc's 2 because it raped the original's good name.

Super Ghouls and Ghosts. If anyone has ever played it and beaten. Tell me your tale! I've only beaten the first stage.

Final Fantasy Tactics.

I got stuck fighting a boss that was really effective against my character late in the game and I had made my character the tank. So I had to restart the game, change my birthday to something else,and for good measure made him a long range character instead of front line.

Never stopped playing because the game actually pissed me off... but I have stopped playing games because I, or someone else, did something incredibly stupid that pissed me off. Playing an RPG or an Adventure type of game, making some good progress, getting pretty far in the game, and somebody trips on the cord, or accidentally touches the console the wrong way (more for oldschool N64 SNES days) and the game freezes, leaving me to re-do all the stuff I just did. Sometimes it'll be a couple hours without saving, and I just don't have the stomach to do it all again right then, so I'll usually put it down and forget about it for a few months... it has taught me that I should save more often though... haha

Megaman X: Command Mission. Got to a big fat green dude, got my ass kicked for two or three hours, then decided the game wasn't all that great to begin with. Tried to start a new file a few years later, and that lasted all of five hours before I gave up again.
Jak 2 pissed me off for a while, too. I stopped playing for months before I finally went out and bought the strategy guide. Still took me hours to get past that level.

Combat Arms. For the first few weeks I was able to tolerate renting the weapon with in game currency, although I am quite annoyed by the high cost just to rent 1 wepon. Afterwards the company released a patch, allowing for more weapons and stuff to be obtained through REAL money. And you RENT in game item with REAL money. This is Maple Story all over again.
So I was like, "Fuck that, Im going to play Counter Strike"