World of Warcraft... raid night... Leotheras at 5%... Server crash

15 minutes later we were back to clearing trash *bangs head against wall*

Playing HL2 Ep2.
So, third time i played the Half-Life 2 games and i was running at high for the first time (As you can hear I'm not an experienced player)
One strider left, i leave the car to get a new "Magnussons" and when i return the car is landing on me, killing me instantly =(

Just yesterday playing dead rising, trying to survive a flurry of chainsaw blades, i jump into the track for the space ride. Thwack! minus one health block. I get up. Thwack! Lather, rinse and repeat untill dead.

Yeah, Fuck you too Dead Rising.

Dont know if anybody remebers this but in Star Wars: Jedi Academy

The level were you crash your ship in a Dune-like planet (with the worms)
You have to jump like a crazy fool to get all the parts for your ship.

Damn I hated that!

handofpwn:
In assassins creed in the middle district of acre at the port I went to the viewpoint that is on an island and took the leap of faith down. Only to repeatedly die because the fucker altair doesnt know how to swim and the AI kept fucking throwing me into the goddamn water. At first I was going to stop playing, but then it got to be a personal vendetta. Me vs. the game.

Who won?

EDIT Oh. It's already been said. Never mind.

When you play for hours only to get killed and lose because you can't save in a dungeon

Danzorz:
This thread has been brought back to life, Why you ask?
Well Someone thought they would ignore the search button and make this thread. So to keep the Escapist less content heavy and save the mods time I shall revive thy threadeth.

It's waay off topic but I want to point something out to all ye who complain of the search button.

Google search is broken. Or maybe it's SEO that is broken, either way there is a problem.

I've been doing a bit of work with the Google search API and one thing that has thus far eluded me is a "DISTINCT" option a-la SQL. For example, do a search in the escapist forums search button for "zero fallout" in an effort to get yourself to the zero punctuation review on fall out 3 - the majority of the search shows up the same thread, with just unique pages within it. This is good, if I'm restricting myself to that intensity of search, but if I wanted to find, say, $MEMBER's treaty on fallout 3, which I know contains the wording "zero" (probably in reference to how much time they had spare while playing it) in the title, it is *that much* harder to find because of all the duplicate entries on the page.

There are work arounds, and that was a really, really shitty example to come up with but it's late and my movies are waiting, I just wanted to point that out.

Oh, and (another goddamned) nethack moment from me, today, just killed Rodney, picked up the amulet, step outside, bam, red, blue, silver AND black dragons are spawned (or I didn't kill them), I got hit with fire, lighting, whatever that silver thing is, I think yep I'm ok, but no, the big fuck you from the RNG, and poof, Gitsnik the Rogue disintegrated from a black dragon.

Fuck you nethack, fuck you.

When your in the middle of a game online and the server crashes and the game quits and your about 1 more kill away from winning the match.

Rainbow 6 vegas... the mission where it drops you on the stip and you fight your way along and eventually blow up a wall to get into the casino... im playing this on realistic difficluty and it takes me ages... after about an hour and 45 minutes of EPIC fail i finally reach the wall, i give the command for my team to plant the charge and..... black screen... i eject the disc and it is FUBAR, completely destroyed... fuck you R6V

Final Fantasy Tactics.
Crush Armour/Weapon/Helmet.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!

Every and all games that have bosses that suddenly decide to "NO FUCK U!!" and completely randomly start ASSRAPING you with unfairly overpowered attacks. (Prime example - Boss is at 5% vitality, you have 45+% and suddenly he just omgwtfblamzorz you to 0 for no reason)

In the RPG variation of this moment, this forces me to have to grind the game flatter than a pancake until I'm so unstoppable that I'm practically Superman without his kryptonite weakness.

Elseways I'm usually forced to reload and take different approaches.

Tili:
Dont know if anybody remebers this but in Star Wars: Jedi Academy

The level were you crash your ship in a Dune-like planet (with the worms)
You have to jump like a crazy fool to get all the parts for your ship.

Damn I hated that!

Yeah, Yeah. I know that one.

This wasn't so much the games fault, but I shall rant about it anyway because I cbf to find the proper thread...
I was playing Left 4 Dead (1st campaign, I think). Anyway, we had just exited the building into an expanse of land, with a gas station nearby. Bingo, this guy I'm playing with decides to shoot the car for "fun". Screaming zombies come our way. We fend them off, barely.
Then the genius has this great idea. "Watch out guys, I'm going to shoot the petrol station."
"Hang on, wait, I'm already there," says my friend. Said genius shoots the gas station, and incaps himself and the guy who was stranded there. Furthermore, He reduces me and my other teammate's health by 50%. Shit.
Anyway, soon enough I also get incapacitated, and the last guy tries to revive the closest teammate to him. Naturally, it's the guy who caused this whole mess. So, instead of fending off zombies while he's being revived, he does nothing, so it's not long before the last remaining teammate is downed by a hunter. And we lose.
Next game, as soon as we exit a building, we go back in, and lock him out, pressing E whenever he tries to go back in. He gets smokered, the world is a better place =]

EDIT: fixed some grammar/stuff.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. I loved Sands of Time so much, but when I put WW into my PS2, I was horrified. Did they seriously replace the witty dialogue and ambient music with big breasts and Godsmack?

God of War 2. The final ramp on the way down to the third Sister, where you have to kill every kind of enemy. Now, I played the game on normal settings, and so that wasn't the FU moment for me. My roommate is playing it on "MY LIFE IS PAIN" mode. Has been for the past 6 months. Every couple of weeks she tries it again, and I walk into the room and see the "You Are Dead" screen. That's an FU moment.

Beyond Good & Evil. It ended. I was upset.

Psychonauts. (may contain spoilers?) When you're in the awful butcher shop/circus tent area and have to save mini-Oleander from the rabbit monsters. And if you fail to save him at any of the three or four stages, you have to start FROM THE BEGINNING.

Any Final Fantasy game where you accidentally wander into the wrong area, and the first random encounter is WAY above your current level.

Chuzzle. After 5 hours of playing Chuzzle, I realized that I had been playing Chuzzle for 5 hours. :-(

Yahtzee's adventure game "6 Days a Stranger," trying to find the book you need to read on the bookshelf, oh yeah it's hunt the hotspot time - only all the hotspots look the same and there's hundreds of them.

Seriously why has no-one done a ZP-style review of his games yet?

TriggerAF:
"Sorry the princess is in another castle!"

I hate Toad.

Super Mario 64. I finish the game get to the top of the castle and YOSHI is waiting for me, he gives me 99 lives and runs off and all I can think is

"Where is that cake Peach promised me?!"

Sackwak:
CoD:WaW on Veteran
Grenades
Need i say anymore?

AMEN

When i was level four on Fallout 3 and i ran into a deathclaw. i didn wanna play anymore that day cuz i hadnt saved in a while and the last auto save was like an hour ago

I decided to play the Watchmen demo today, just for the lulz, and every time that I got past the generator, and onto one of the next battles, Rorschach would suddenly just fall through the map. I did the "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" thing every time that I tried, but laughed it off. It's a pretty okay demo, for the record, but I wouldn't pay to buy it.

in left 4 dead (before patch) in versus, when the enemy team pushes the generator in front of the elevator, and then the entire zombie team quits since they can't kill your team

also in left 4 dead when i died five feet away from the helicopter on expert and my team wins it (as in i still don't have the achievment for beating a campaign on expert)

and this should count (not me but still...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuidKexBQ&feature=related

Hmm, 1 hour ago when I was playing Majora's Mask since I lost my complete file and the game froze in the middle of the second dungeon.

When playing Lost Odyssey, and fighting the centipede boss. I barely was able to kill him and all his minions, and had only Kaim left with almost no health. He finished the cintipede with his last turn, and if he hadn't killed it, he would have died on the next round.

I set the controller down to enjoy my victory, and BOOM!

Out comes the second centipede boss.

Fallout 3. Had Charon as my Partner, I fully geared him out with Either ranger armor or Power armor. A 100% Combat Shotgun with Ranger Armor and a 100% Laser Rifle with Power Armor. So he was pretty geared up. I was down in the tunnels. With a lot of raiders.

"You ready Charon?...Charon?...WHERE THE F**K IS CHARON!?"

The game had just stolen my partner. He eventually just appeared again. Very weird but pretty annoying.

Willwillwritehiswill:

Yeah, Fuck you too Dead Rising.

That just says it all. And yet still I kept going back to the game like some sort of abused housewife.

Actually for me the convicts took the cake.. seriously, three guys on a jeep with a machine gun that do NOTHING but go straight for you.. and so early in the game. They Really made trying to get a full survivor run infuriating to the point of CD snapage.

When the host quits, or my family pull out the ethernet.
Virus's can't travel into the computer when the computers off, stop doing that!

Oh, oh. Sailor Moon on SNES!

First area and boss - easy peasy.

Second area - wtf is that? I can never possibly hope to defeat those mo...

pewpew

Oh, I'm dead, okay, it was just one turn. Whatever.

when playing red alert 2 soviet cammpain 2 last mission, build a perfect defence, tones of units to annilate there base then start moving units up and BAM! game crashes. even if i did it with a single dude it instanly crashes
never got to see the last mission :(

SPOILER

The ending of halo 2.
you are abou tto fight in the most epic battle ever. You'r on your way to the battlefield.

F**K YOU!!! credits. end of game.

When I am racing in one of the Grand Theft Auto games and a civilian car comes out of nowhere rams me and forces me to lose.

Homeworld 2. Rather than having adjustable difficulty settings, the game adjusts to you... in that the enemy fleet will always be a million times bigger than yours and perfectly designed to counter yours with no size limits on them (you, however, are very size-limited). The specific example I'm thinking of is a mission where you have to rescue a fleet commander because he knows something that he just told you anyway. I arrive, all fine. I have a lot of Torpedo Frigates (anti-frigate, anti-corvette, anti-fighter), Bombers (anti-capship), Pulsar Corvettes (anti-frigate) and my limit on Destroyers and Battlecruisers (big fat ships). So I start moving my fleet up through the map and then I see a Battlecruiser coming towards me, supported by a ton of fighters and four corvettes. Fair enough, kill them, then I see five more. They have an enormous gun on the end which obliterates my battlecruisers in three shots, and lots of little guns on the side for destroying my fighters and corvettes, and can carry and repair fighters, and incidentally have lots of missiles. I fight them off, then see twelve more coming.

Fuck that.

The way to beat that level is to scrap your corvettes and build the other sort at the end of the previous level, then scrap the new ones and build the old sort again at the start of the next, so instead of 20 Battlecruisers I was only facing one hundred and fifty frigates. God dammit.

Escort missions are there just for the developer to say "Fuck you!" I've done so many escort missions, but the ones that stand out in my mind the most is in Star Trek: Encounters, when you have to escort this little civilian ship with 1hp, while dodging mines, and getting ambushed by six ships at a time that all head for the little civilian ship. Robotech for the PS2, same thing. Escort ship with a giant bullseye on it. Armored Core: Last Raven, same thing, except no ship, just another mech with aluminium foil armor. But then Armored Core is just mech-speak for "Fuck you, in the ear, with a red hot stick that curves and comes out your ass."