[Cause]

I have finally gotten around to playing TW: Shogun 2 and I still have it. I just played out the siege of the century and defeated 2.5 full stacks of enemey samurai led by a five star general using just half a stack of my own and a maxed out castle structure. I annihilated the enemy to almost the last man and took unbearable losses myself. Luckily after the victory I am able to rest my men for a turn and because they rested in a maxed castle they all replenish thirty men! Time to take the fight to the only surviving enemy unit from the attack a lone and weak spearman unit that is hiding in the woods near my castle. Im planning to just meet it in battle and press auto-resolve. No big deal. I initiate the fight, and my general and half the army defect to the other side! Oh God, why did I not save after my glorious victory, Why was I cursed with such a cowardly general!

Whats the most annoying or frustrating gaming moment of your life?

This post has been edited by Cause: 17 January 2014 - 09:10 PM

[Aptorian]

It's usually when a game chooses to crash or hard lock and I lose precious progress. Specifically when it is something text or conversation heavy. I hate having to go through the same gameplay or story material twice.

For example I was playing Lego Batman 2 the other week and that game has a really weird saving system and is also horriblt unstable. I lots 2 hours worth of progress at one point.

[Traveller]

Yeah, clearing a whole goddamn dungeon in Skyrim, to have it crash on the way out of the door. And the last save? Back when you walked in...

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

Maybe Apt, on 17 January 2014 - 09:38 PM, said:

I hate having to go through the same gameplay or story material twice.

This is why I find it so hard to replay even my most favourite games.

I get really angry with other people in MMOs / multiplayer games in general. When people keep killing me and won't leave me alone, like they're really trying to piss me off on purpose, or are generally being preventative dicks. Or when someone I'm playing against is so inexplicably better than everyone else that they must be cheating somehow. Just whenever I'm losing, actually. Especially when I'm losing to someone who's shit(tier than me) but has just has a bit of good luck and is doing way better than they should (read: me).

I'm actually just a very angry person when it comes to multiplayer gaming.


EDIT: I've broken about three headsets by throwing them across the room in a rage.

This post has been edited by Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast: 17 January 2014 - 11:16 PM

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

In recent years the most frustrating moments were Guild Wars 2 related. I used to play the World V World there in a small competetive guild (one that actually defended stuff which was rare). The times that pissed me off were when I was the lone defender, or one of few defenders, holding a strong point against huge numbers while waiting for reinforcements and either:
a: uber lag due to number of players (GW2 issue), leading to death
b: disconnect or game crash
c: obvious enemy bug abuse/hacking leading to death

[Dolmen 2.0]

When playing Fifa 13 against my brother, a full 90 minute game and we're drawn 2-2 heading into extra time. I have played him off the park the whole game, missing 13 brilliantly on target shots because of his annoyingly good Victor Valdez and his complete defence

then he says in his most annoying Sean Connery voice, "you think this is a game?"

I lose 6-2. in extra time. After all those chances and all that hard work! I usually want to pile drive him onto the carpet on principle.

This post has been edited by Dolmen Weeks: 18 January 2014 - 03:52 AM

[champ]

Cause, on 17 January 2014 - 09:08 PM, said:

Whats the most annoying or frustrating gaming moment of your life?

Some moments spring to mind...

Playing a ROM of Shining Force 2, around 40 hours in and nearing completion, oh the save file only goes and gets corrupted, that gave me serious Hulk rage!

Also, playing FF7, had a grind of about 4 hours working up to beating Ultimate Weapon, I hand the controller over to my mate and tell him to just keep on levelling up while I go to the shop... return from the shop and he has only gone off to fight Ultimate Weapon without saving and we lose all progress that day.

Tales of Symphonia, the special boss after you have collected all the secret weapons, an absolute epic fight that had gone on for about 40 minutes only for it to be ruined by a power cut, aye that was another delightful experience!

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And don't even get my started on the Counter-Strike days and competitve play!

This post has been edited by champ: 18 January 2014 - 08:10 AM

[D'iversify]

Ages back, I gave up on Fantasy Star Online on Dreamcast because of the combination of the fact that when you died you dropped your money and weapon (something changed in later console editions) and because the third boss had an instant kill attack that could only be avoided by circling him until you thumb cramped up from having to hold down the joystick for so long. So I kept getting killed and I kept losing my weapon, so I just got fed up.

[Aptorian]

They released a sequel to Fantasy Star Online last year by the way.

[worry]

The most frustrating moment recently was getting that Jak and Daxter trilogy for PS3, enjoying the first game pretty well (a decent post-Mario 64 platformer), and then starting the second game to find it's an entirely different style of game w/ some of the worst timed "driving" missions I've ever played and nothing much to redeem it. Quit about 20% in.

And of course I've had the same TMNT sewer level and Battletoads every level frustrations that every kid did.

[champ]

worry, on 20 January 2014 - 06:57 PM, said:

And of course I've had the same TMNT sewer level and Battletoads every level frustrations that every kid did.

Damn, I forgot all about Battletoads, that hoverbike level was impossible, was that actually a bug impossible to pass or ridiculous difficulty, I know I never passed it!

[Aptorian]

That reminds me of Alpha Protocol. By all respects that game was a mess but I was enjoying the story right up until a boss fight in a disco against some kind of russian knife maniac. No matter how many times I tried I couldn't kill him. Got really fucking close a few times but I couldn't figure out how to cheese my way through the fight.

I generally don't ever give up on a game. If I start it, I finish it. Really annoyed me to have to put that game away.

[champ]

Maybe Apt, on 20 January 2014 - 09:26 PM, said:

That reminds me of Alpha Protocol. By all respects that game was a mess but I was enjoying the story right up until a boss fight in a disco against some kind of russian knife maniac. No matter how many times I tried I couldn't kill him. Got really fucking close a few times but I couldn't figure out how to cheese my way through the fight.

I generally don't ever give up on a game. If I start it, I finish it. Really annoyed me to have to put that game away.

Alpha Mission 2 for the Neo Geo, I spent an eternity trying to complete that game, I got up to the final boss so many times but could never beat that mofo, one game I really regret not completing but man, I tried! So I feel your pain!

Had an experience a bit like that with Shining Force 3 on the Saturn, one of my favourite games as a teen but I never completed it and ended up selling the system for some reason, regretted it so much I ended up buying a Saturn and the game again off ebay a couple of years ago so I could finally complete it, still have it now and it's a rare game the price of it has doubled!

[D'iversify]

Briar King, on 19 January 2014 - 02:08 AM, said:

D, on 19 January 2014 - 12:13 AM, said:

Ages back, I gave up on Fantasy Star Online on Dreamcast because of the combination of the fact that when you died you dropped your money and weapon (something changed in later console editions) and because the third boss had an instant kill attack that could only be avoided by circling him until you thumb cramped up from having to hold down the joystick for so long. So I kept getting killed and I kept losing my weapon, so I just got fed up.

Ha I know what you mean! I still have that game. I never actually played it online though. If you did was it fun?

Never played it online - by the time I was playing Dreamcast (sometime in early to mid 2000s, so not that 'ages back') there wasn't much of an online community left and I'm not sure whether I could have easily signed up if I had wanted to.

[Gothos]

Nothing quite compares to ironman Paradox games - Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis 4, in my instance.
In any case, Ironman mode doesn't let you save on your own and makes autosaves after each important decision and every month otherwise. It's also the required mode to get achievements.
Let's just add that these games are LONG.
Even without the RNG events that can completely screw you over, let's say you misclick... and your game becomes trash. Several dozen hours of your life just went down the drain.

C' est la vie, как говорят французы.

[Tapper]

Hearts of Iron 3. Playing as the US, you have the economy (and more than that) but not the manpower. Playing as the British, you are too spread out. Playing as the Germans, you run out of resources. Playing as the USSR, you have the manpower, the resources but not the industry to utilize them, and your army is obsolete. Playing as the Japanese, the US is too strong and China a manpower-sink. Playing as France, you break the game. Playing as Italy, you fall between minor and major. Playing as an Axis minor, you depend too much on the German AI. Playing as an allied minor, you have to wait for the US to do anything.
Still a great game.

Dark Souls, for obvious reasons. The GF made controllers fly during Assassin's Creed because she only played it on the laptop and not on console.

RPG CTDs.

[D'iversify]

Tapper, on 23 January 2014 - 09:32 AM, said:

Hearts of Iron 3. Playing as the US, you have the economy (and more than that) but not the manpower. Playing as the British, you are too spread out. Playing as the Germans, you run out of resources. Playing as the USSR, you have the manpower, the resources but not the industry to utilize them, and your army is obsolete. Playing as the Japanese, the US is too strong and China a manpower-sink. Playing as France, you break the game. Playing as Italy, you fall between minor and major. Playing as an Axis minor, you depend too much on the German AI. Playing as an allied minor, you have to wait for the US to do anything.
Still a great game.

Surely better than one side being stupidly easier to win with than the rest (is the problem that the AI are overpowered?). BTW - what do you mean by 'you break the game' if you play France: impossible to win?

[Traveller]

AC has some ridiculous moments throughout the series. Like every 'tail the guard' mission. Followed by eavesdropping. I'd get annoyed with it before I'd started, so inevitably fail as i'd be rushing it. Then I'd have to do it again. I'd end up turning it off in disgust after about 3 goes as they are such awful things to put in a game - total waste of time. I got about 5 minutes into AC Revelations before quitting it and never touching it again. Which I don't regret at all. Dark Souls has it's moments. The first time I fell in the cellar in the painted world - those damn wheel skeletons kept creeping up out of nowhere and killing me before i even saw them. Also accidentally pressing the back button on a ledge - and jumping off, losing 20k souls, right at the beginning. Oh and the Bed of Chaos. Nuff said there.

[Tapper]

D, on 23 January 2014 - 11:09 AM, said:

Tapper, on 23 January 2014 - 09:32 AM, said:

Hearts of Iron 3. Playing as the US, you have the economy (and more than that) but not the manpower. Playing as the British, you are too spread out. Playing as the Germans, you run out of resources. Playing as the USSR, you have the manpower, the resources but not the industry to utilize them, and your army is obsolete. Playing as the Japanese, the US is too strong and China a manpower-sink. Playing as France, you break the game. Playing as Italy, you fall between minor and major. Playing as an Axis minor, you depend too much on the German AI. Playing as an allied minor, you have to wait for the US to do anything.
Still a great game.

Surely better than one side being stupidly easier to win with than the rest (is the problem that the AI are overpowered?). BTW - what do you mean by 'you break the game' if you play France: impossible to win?

Well, no. The AI is actually not that good, and in the latest rendition Germany doesn't start the war at all.
It is just that as France, with player foreknowledge of how WW2 played out, it is possible to stem the German tide in Belgium, influence US to 100% allies, and wait in the trenches until Germany runs out of supplies/oil.