We've all had them. You know those frustrating moments when you are about to achieve something, then have it blasted away from you.

Mine was so frustrating, not even all the cuss words in the book, could describe how pissed I was. I was playing Legend of Heroes for the PSP, and I was on the last boss. I had 3 characters in play, each of them at full health, and tons of items to use. So the objective was to beat the enemy by taking down all of it's body parts. 2 arms, 2 legs, head, and torso.

I had gotten it down to just the head, I had 2 characters left, at very low HP, with all my backup characters dead. All the items had long since been used, and before I could summon up the strength to deliver one last blow, the enemy used some sort of eye power, and blasted my characters to their deaths.

1 hour it took me, 1 hour, and I got beat by a stupid eye!

Today, I was about to get the TF2 'kill 20 enemies with medic assist in one life' achievement as Heavy, when I FELL DOWN THE HOLE IN STEEL MAP. That was annoying to say the least.

I'd beaten the final career on Guitar Hero World Tour on Hard, the Encore screen appeared... And the game froze. That was pretty annoying.

And as usual, there's always moments in Left 4 Dead that are really annoying (In one campaign I had to kill 3 Witches because they were right in my path),

DrummerM:
I'd beaten the final career on Guitar Hero World Tour on Hard, the Encore screen appeared... And the game froze. That was pretty annoying.

And as usual, there's always moments in Left 4 Dead that are really annoying (In one campaign I had to kill 3 Witches because they were right in my path),

Ouch! I savoured every moment of my defeat of WT on Hard, so I feel your pain.
Also, Expert witches spawning outside safe rooms. What is with that??

This thread has been done multiple times, but I'll play along.

Any racing game, when you do a race for ages and can't finish it. Then finally, when it all looks good, the game freezes/you crash.

I had the power go out on my as I was saving a game. I'm pretty sure it was MGS 3

Oh boy im not sure i could count the number of F-yous ive had. some of the more varied ones are:
-Beating a number of missions in C&C3 before my computer crashed and my saves mysteriously disaperred.

-Being unable to find my Far Cry CD for days before getting frustrated and googling a no-cd crack, ignoring my anti-virus warning and putting a virus on my computer which took weeks to remove (lesson learned there)

-Barly managing to fight my way to the reactor in S.T.A.L.K.E.R before having my first crash of the game right outside Chernobyls door, not once, not twice, not thrice... six times acutally (eventually i managed to sprint it by spamming bandages and Health packs)

-Playing Crysis at a Netcafe and beating the game nearly to the end (with minutes to spare) having the bar to launch the final nuke into the massive alien boss at about 90%....and then someone knocked the multi=plug for half the net-cafe out. I then didnt have enough time to repeat the fight :(

But this is all part of gaming.....right?

Getting dragged out of the safe room by a smoker.

Captain Blackout:
Getting dragged out of the safe room by a smoker.

I can beat that. Sprinting to the safe room being chased by a hunter but succedding on getting there and shutting the door. And then the hunter pounces THROUGH the door and killz me thus losing our team the game.

I was playing halo wars today, and in the for the last 8 minutes of the final level after destroying everything except a few flood forms, the computer kept spawning scarabs from God Knows Where! and I couldnt open the final door. God it pissed me off.

Playing Street Fighter IV, I said "FUCK YOU!!!" to Seth many times when he chain Spinning Piledriver'd me.

runedeadthA:

Captain Blackout:
Getting dragged out of the safe room by a smoker.

I can beat that. Sprinting to the safe room being chased by a hunter but succedding on getting there and shutting the door. And then the hunter pounces THROUGH the door and killz me thus losing our team the game.

You win.

left 4 dead bill lagging and will not go in safe room

The last fight in Half Life 2: Episode 2, you know, against all the striders with hunter packs.

Or at least I thought so at first... I haven't played the game for a while, since i stopped at that level late at night, unable to kill the damn hunters.

But then I realized that the hunters are simply roadkill for my car, and striders don't really bother to attack me, especially when I speed towards them from the back to blow them up... So it became hilariously easy.

Playing the Endless Setlist 2 on Rock Band 2, and getting to the second last song, on expert, realizing I couldn't play it, and then wallowing into a corner in shame. With the knowledge that I would never get those 6 hours back.

In LoTR:Conquest the first evil mission has a spot where you have to kill so many enemies in a set amount of time, well the enemies strategy is to gang up on you and your team mates only attack people who attack you so you could have four or five people constantly attacking you with several archers and mages supporting them with no aid, my predicament wasn't helped by the fact that I had to play as a warrior(ringwraith), my worst class.

NOTE: That only happened on the hardest difficulty, I beat it on medium, they had the same strategy but less health and did less damage so I won.

i went i-rate while playing FF8. all the way on the final disc...and then...my memory card goes toxic on me. "Cannot retrieve data" or whatever. I almost threw my controller through the television screen. I had just crashed the Ragnarok INTO pandemonium!! i was so pissed i havent picked that game up in years.

l4d no mercy chapter 1 in versus mode. We were playing on a lan so we decided to crank up the difficulty to expert. I'm the only survivor that makes it to the safe room and I'm about to close the door, but nooooooo a tank had hidden inside the bathroom and......

All the times you get "plot-blocked" in "Bioshock."

What's a plot-block? Think "cock-blocked," but for story/mission objectives... such as the "Arcadia Glens" area where you're just passing through, then they kill the trees which somehow prevents you from leaving until you get them to grow again. X-(

i have three

one was when i was trying to get the DO NOT DISTURB acheivment in left 4 dead. we made it to the very end of no mercy and guess what was waiting in the elevator shaft. a witch right above the first ladder.

the second: i was playing Halo 3 to unlock vidmaster annual. we spent 3 hours trying to beat the level. we finally got to the end and just when i made the final jump it brought me to a black screen and said trying to connect to game. 3 seconds later i ended up in the menu.

The final one was in left 4 dead. this time it wasent for an achievment but to complete a campiegn on expert. we were doing blood harvest 4 and all my teamates died. i made a run for the safehouse. i jumped onto the train and guess what hits me. a rock that the tank threw. i was literally three inches from the safe room.

The end of Halo 2

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Anonymouse:
Final Fantasy XII. Omega Mark XII. You know, the bastard with 50 million HP, lots of instant death attacks and can limit how much damaged you do to him. So after like 4+ hours of my characters kicking his ass non stop while I watched House I got him down to like 1/3 HP but most of my items were gone. So I left to save and resupply. Come back and continue fighting. A few hours later after he went into overdrive and was doing non stop cheap attacks abount another 3 hour in he then suddenly he casts reflect on my characters. Fran cast "Full Life" it rebounds to him filling his ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE!!!
I gave up at that point at how freaking cheap it was. Most other games would have it restore 9999 but noooo. FF XII is all about the ass rape.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shit

that be an /thread

poet_lawreate:

DrummerM:
I'd beaten the final career on Guitar Hero World Tour on Hard, the Encore screen appeared... And the game froze. That was pretty annoying.

And as usual, there's always moments in Left 4 Dead that are really annoying (In one campaign I had to kill 3 Witches because they were right in my path),

Ouch! I savoured every moment of my defeat of WT on Hard, so I feel your pain.

People had trouble with Hard? Sorry, I'm trying not to be smug, but I moved up to Hard after a couple days on the original GH, so I've almost always done Hard since. The Hard career on GH3 is a kick in the nuts once you get to the last set, though...I've never been able to beat it.

I had one specific "fuck you" moment today on GH: WT. I'm trying to work through the career on Expert, and I come to the Zakk Wylde battle. I can easily make it through most of it, but at the 93-95% mark, I fail every time. After my third try, I actually made it through the uber-hard slider solo at that part with just a little bit of health, and I get ecstatic ("woo! I made it!").
But apparently it's not just your playing that affects the battle slider, so I see the thing twitch to the right even as I build up a x3 combo and I lose. Fuck it.

Trying to get the 7 day survivor in Dead Rising survival mode and freezing on a loading screen on day 6 hour 23... that was a day down the drain.

Trying to finish the last mission on GTAIV (in the Revenge set). It's probably the longest mission in the game, comprising multiple distinct sections: an extended car chase that runs one and a half times the height of the entire map, a big shoot-out with about thirty bad guys, another shoot-out with about ten bad guys, chasing a speed boat along a beach on a dirtbike, chasing a speed boat in a helicopter then a brief shoot-out.

I must have tried that mission twenty times, and the furthest I could get was the dirtbike (which took ages to get up to, with GTA's famous lack of an in-game save). There was a ramp I had to jump off that I couldn't even find at first; once I realised what I had to do it took half a dozen tries. And every failed attempt meant half an hour repeating the earlier parts of the mission, occasionally screwing it up and re-starting from there, just to get to the ramp jump. I could have killed the level designer who left a barrel in front of that ramp. Anyway, after hours of trying to get this I finally passed it, reached the helicopter sections...

And immediately crashed because I had forgotten how to fly the helicopter.

F***!

Already been done: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.81860?

Although that thread is probably dead by now...

When the store owner said 'this game is good' and got me to buy it.

It was Jewel Summoner for the psp...

RE4, when Louis died.

"I got it!"

Great Louis! Now lets g-.... why are you making that fac- OH MY FUCKING GOD NO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Oh god no! For fucks sake put him down! Oh god... uwaaaghhh!!!

*sighs*

Sorry, I went to therapy for that... *sniffle*

Louis...

I actually JUST had one:

Playing Dawn of War II I'm supposed to capture this tower which my force commander was slowly achieving. All my other units are set up perfectly and no units come anywhere near my commander, then I heard "enemy units are being spored in" and suddenly enemies are teleported behind my front line. Annoying, but still ok.

Then I hear "more enemies are coming on" and two of these behemoth heavy walkers are directly on top of my units. I can take down ONE if I plan it out pretty well, position units well and maybe set up a trap but have 2 of them teleported directly on top of me?! F-You!"

Beating the one boss in Ninja Gaiden II that explodes right after you beat it, and not managing to get away. Considering there was a boss fight immediately before that fight, it's unforgivable. Team Ninja's filled with pricks.

When you play your first castlevania and you spend hours or days trying to beat the final boss and then when u finally beat him with no health potions and almost no hit then you celebrate but wait here comes death and you die imeddiatly

willard3:

poet_lawreate:

DrummerM:
I'd beaten the final career on Guitar Hero World Tour on Hard, the Encore screen appeared... And the game froze. That was pretty annoying.

And as usual, there's always moments in Left 4 Dead that are really annoying (In one campaign I had to kill 3 Witches because they were right in my path),

Ouch! I savoured every moment of my defeat of WT on Hard, so I feel your pain.

People had trouble with Hard? Sorry, I'm trying not to be smug, but I moved up to Hard after a couple days on the original GH, so I've almost always done Hard since. The Hard career on GH3 is a kick in the nuts once you get to the last set, though...I've never been able to beat it.

I started playing GH3, moved from Medium to Hard when I realised that it wasn't enough of a challenge. However, I found the last stages of 3 Hard very difficult to complete, and WT last stages even harder. Now I sort of switch between Hard and Expert, depending on the song.

I also have a bit of a hand deficiency... not to be all baww at the GH people but it's not as easy for people with smaller hands. Rock Band is amazing for this- the buttons are smaller and closer together and as a result, I rock harder.