Most Frustrating Video Game Moment

[quote name='yeah-yeah']The only way I could beat that guy was using the SELECT trick. That's impressive that you beat it without it.[/QUOTE]

Just out of curiosity, what was the Select trick? If I would have known of a trick, I sure as hell would have used it. That part was insane.
 
[quote name='lebowsky']Just out of curiosity, what was the Select trick? If I would have known of a trick, I sure as hell would have used it. That part was insane.[/QUOTE]

When you hit select, it did an on-screen pause and didn't open the weapons menu. When you hit select and unpaused it, if your weapon was in contact with something, it would register as a hit. So for the block boss, you'd shoot him with elecman's blast and rapidly press the select button as the electricity passed through his eye. Everytime you pause and unpause, it'd register as a hit. Using this method, killing the boss only took a couple passes.

This trick actually worked throughout the entire game, not just on that boss.
 
[quote name='wildnuts02']Yeah my girlfriend got stuck there and never played it again. It's a shame because it's her favorite game ever.[/QUOTE]

Did you ever do the Pit of 100 Trials or whatever it was called? The boss on the last level is actually stronger than the final boss of the game. And if you lost to that guy, you have to do all 100 levels again. Thankfully I made it through on my first go-round.
 
I always had a major problem with MGS's "torture" section. I could not seem to avoid tapping out. I had to call my cousin over to do it.

Anyone play Jurassic Park for the Genesis? The 3rd level (I think) was fucking impossible.
 
[quote name='wildnuts02']Mike Tyson from the old NES Punch Out. I finally beat him using the emulator but as a kid he pwned me.[/QUOTE]


For me (and some of my friends) beating that cheap bastard Super Macho Man was and still is harder than beating Iron mike.
 
Recently I pretty much gave up on trying to beat Solus in Breakdown. I've beat him down several times but the bastard keeps getting back up and somehow he always gets the upper-hand.

Yes...read all the gamefaq guides and such...I just can't beat him (normal mode). Oh well.

Next to that is Alma on hard mode, Ninja Gaiden. Hit the brick wall. I've beat the game twice on normal, but she's bitch slappin me around on hard mode. Doesn't help that I have a save spot with only one health potion.
 
[quote name='Mike23']Anyone play Jurassic Park for the Genesis? The 3rd level (I think) was fucking impossible.[/QUOTE]

3rd level? As the guy or the raptor? I don't remember which one that was ...

Maybe that's why they made "Rampage Edition" so easy. I played through both modes in one afternoon with no trouble whatsoever. :lol:
 
[quote name='Kayden']:wall:

The hit detection on that was so fucked up its not even funny. I'd be at the top and a blade would pass a 6" under my foot and it'd knock me off allllll the way to the fuckin bottom. :bomb:
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That's what I was secretly thinking too. I knew, absolutely knew that fucking game was cheating me.
 
I just thought of another. Recently, I bought Midway's Arcade Collection 2 and played through NARC. I changed the options to infinite continues, just because I wanted to beat it. I CANNOT KILL THAT FINAL BOSS!!!! He keeps hitting me and hitting me, no way to dodge. If you die, you have to start the fight over, not continue in you place like every other time in the game. GRRRRRRRRRRR!
 
[quote name='jshendel']I just thought of another. Recently, I bought Midway's Arcade Collection 2 and played through NARC. I changed the options to infinite continues, just because I wanted to beat it. I CANNOT KILL THAT FINAL BOSS!!!! He keeps hitting me and hitting me, no way to dodge. If you die, you have to start the fight over, not continue in you place like every other time in the game. GRRRRRRRRRRR![/QUOTE]

Damn, I meant to include that bastard in my list. I pumped so many quarters in the arcade game to try to beat that floating head and I never beat him, ever. Even tried with MAME and no dice.

[quote name='yeah-yeah']When you hit select, it did an on-screen pause and didn't open the weapons menu. When you hit select and unpaused it, if your weapon was in contact with something, it would register as a hit. So for the block boss, you'd shoot him with elecman's blast and rapidly press the select button as the electricity passed through his eye. Everytime you pause and unpause, it'd register as a hit. Using this method, killing the boss only took a couple passes.

This trick actually worked throughout the entire game, not just on that boss.[/QUOTE]

Holy crap! I really wish I would have known that. I hate to be cheap in games, but that is one time that I wouldn't have minded in the least.
 
Someone already said it, the Tower of Babel in Xenogears. Who needs 3-d platformer jumping with a screwy camera POV in a RPG? I can't count the times I almost got to the top before plummeting to the bottom again. I almost didn't finish that game because of wasting hours hopping around. As it was, I set the game down for over six months before tackling it with a Red Bull and a Vicadin.
 
Battletoads on NES definitely had some impossible parts, but I think Battletoads on the original gameboy had them beat with the part where you pilot a spaceship (especially with the GB screen blur). It was very similar to the bike race, though.
 
Of recent memory it would have to be Breakdown for XBOX the white room with pillars that spew out T'lan. It really showed how flawed the combat system was against multiple enemies. It also changed the way you handled combat from beat the snot out of T'lan to jumping around until you can single out a T'lan to beat on it for a bit to jump around again. It was harder than Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden on very hard mode.

There are a few NES games that were hard. To name a few: Silver Surfer, Dr Jekyl & Mr. Hyde, Super C (without extra lives code), Ninja Gaiden 1 (The flying ninja star throwing enemies right after the great bridge part towards the end), Gauntlet, Castlevania 3 (not with Grant, but with Sypha (sp?) and Alucard), and a few others I can't remember at the moment.
 
Anyone think NBA Jam TE was a bit unfair, though not really impossible? Like, if you ever get a lead of 5 or more points, the computer becomes ruthless until it's even. The game really comes down to who has posession before the buzzer.
 
[quote name='m0nkeybl1tz']Anyone think NBA Jam TE was a bit unfair, if not impossible. Like, if you ever get a lead of 5 or more points, the computer becomes ruthless until it's even. The game really comes down to who has posession before the buzzer.[/QUOTE]
I lost so many games on last second heave three pointers its amazing I never broke the controller.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']3rd level? As the guy or the raptor? I don't remember which one that was ...

Maybe that's why they made "Rampage Edition" so easy. I played through both modes in one afternoon with no trouble whatsoever. :lol:[/QUOTE]

As the guy.

People who play as the Raptor were fucking pussies. :lol:
 
[quote name='theq87']Every aspect of Milon's Secret Castle.[/QUOTE]

Especially the fact that the game had a critical bug toward the end of the game that prevented most people from completing it.
 
[quote name='psiufoxx2']Especially the fact that the game had a critical bug toward the end of the game that prevented most people from completing it.[/QUOTE]

That reminds me - did anyone ever play QuestMaster for the Apple IIGS? Right near the end of the game, there was a bird sitting on a sign that you were supposed to ride. But you couldn't until you fed it bird seed. You could clearly see the bird seed at the foot of the sign, but when you typed "GET BIRDSEED", the game would say that it wasn't there. No bird seed, no riding the bird, no finishing the game EVER.

I think I called the company about it but they had gone out of business. Not surprising.

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/game_pages/questmaster.html
 
This is going to sound pathetic, but I had trouble with IG-88 in SotE for the 64. Then I discovered that your character could strafe. It was great I even got into a small argument with my friend because he said it was so easy for him, because he just "strafed" around him. And I was like there's no strafe button in SotE, I felt like such an ass.
 
[quote name='Mike23']As the guy.

People who play as the Raptor were fucking pussies. :lol:[/QUOTE]

I never understood the kind of people who would rather be a scientist than a raptor. :lol:

I never got past the 6th level as raptor, I hardly ever played as the guy.
 
for me: who framed motherfucking roger rabbit on nes.

i'm not sure if any of you have played this piece of shit, but long ago, this was one of the few games i had.

so you're in this pseudo-rpg where you're trying to find 4 pieces of a will, all culminating to a final battle with that one dude played by christopher lloyd in the movie. you seriously have like 2038432094 different weapons

AND ONLY TWO OF THEM DO ANY DAMAGE. A PIE IN THE MOTHERfuckING FACE? COME THE fuck ON.

so you spend your nine bombs and your nine exploding cigars to take off 1/10th of his life, then you run out so you have to switch to your trusty punch and

PROCEED TO PUNCH THE DUDE AND DODGE HIS ATTACKS FOR THE NEXT 9281312879 HOURS.

seriously, playing a game has never felt more like work for me like this game has.

and the most gutwrenchingly funny part about it? after you knock his ass out, you have to run down and stop the gun from squirting on roger and jessica rabbit, then run back to the boss and try to shoot him with his own gun

WITH THE VERY LIKELY CHANCE THAT HE'LL GET UP AND KILL YOUR DUMB ASS FIRST.

this game taught me to be okay with not finishing games. it also taught me that movie adaptation games are the devil.
 
[quote name='Morpheus']Of recent memory it would have to be Breakdown for XBOX the white room with pillars that spew out T'lan. It really showed how flawed the combat system was against multiple enemies. It also changed the way you handled combat from beat the snot out of T'lan to jumping around until you can single out a T'lan to beat on it for a bit to jump around again. It was harder than Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden on very hard mode.

There are a few NES games that were hard. To name a few: Silver Surfer, Dr Jekyl & Mr. Hyde, Super C (without extra lives code), Ninja Gaiden 1 (The flying ninja star throwing enemies right after the great bridge part towards the end), Gauntlet, Castlevania 3 (not with Grant, but with Sypha (sp?) and Alucard), and a few others I can't remember at the moment.[/QUOTE]

I think breakdown had an excellent combat system, and in my book, the devolopers actually making you think about singling out baddies in a large fight adds great diffculity and strategy to the fights.

ya i had a hell of time with that part, and solus part two, but man o man did the ending ever feel sweeter.
 
I had been playing Blaster Master all freaking day (one of those NES games with no option to save/no password) and I was on the last boss when the NES froze! :bomb:
 
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Originally Posted by jshendel
I just thought of another. Recently, I bought Midway's Arcade Collection 2 and played through NARC. I changed the options to infinite continues, just because I wanted to beat it. I CANNOT KILL THAT FINAL BOSS!!!! He keeps hitting me and hitting me, no way to dodge. If you die, you have to start the fight over, not continue in you place like every other time in the game. GRRRRRRRRRRR!



Damn, I meant to include that bastard in my list. I pumped so many quarters in the arcade game to try to beat that floating head and I never beat him, ever. Even tried with MAME and no dice.



[quote name='lebowsky']Damn, I meant to include that bastard in my list. I pumped so many quarters in the arcade game to try to beat that floating head and I never beat him, ever. Even tried with MAME and no dice.



Holy crap! I really wish I would have known that. I hate to be cheap in games, but that is one time that I wouldn't have minded in the least.[/QUOTE]




last guy isnt to hard

all you needed to do is do a slight jump and fire a rocket so that you blow off his hat and then fire one into his face to take off his glasses and then ... dang i dont remeber the rest of his little weeknesses but the hat thing was the big stickler for me. i think you needed to crouch and fire a rocket to. might have needed to get him in the back not sure but after you get his outer shell he turns into this skull thing and you either needed to crouch and rocket his base or hit the skull dont remember.

sorry about the vagueness but i beat it like when TMNT the movie came out. good luck.
 
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