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 Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:30 pm
Alright so this doesn't strictly have to be about vintage games, but I find them more aggravating than most.
But what are some of the hair pulling out moments you've had in video games?
A time where you died right near the end of a level or right on top of a health item.
A time where there was an insanely unfair boss battle
A time where a glitch prevented you from doing something
Or anything else that comes to mind.
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:42 pm
I have so many of those moments it's crazy. Recently. . . . Probably in Lego Batman and the game froze three times in almost the same place.
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Ravenmichiru Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:30 am
Ravenmichiru I have so many of those moments it's crazy. Recently. . . . Probably in Lego Batman and the game froze three times in almost the same place. That's so annoying
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:20 am
In any game when an NPC just stands in your path obliviously and gets you stuck. I remeber I glitcvhed the first Sims a few times where they would get stuck shaking their heads endlessly so annnoying.
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Ravenmichiru Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:08 pm
Avane Anime In any game when an NPC just stands in your path obliviously and gets you stuck. I remeber I glitcvhed the first Sims a few times where they would get stuck shaking their heads endlessly so annnoying. I completely agree with this! There are so many games that I have gotten stuck in because of NPCs.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:48 am
Along with that NPC thing, getting stuck on air! There is nothing more aggravating than glitchy programming that causes you to be stuck on absolutely nothing.
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LadyBuggington Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:12 am
When the cartridges battery fails. sad
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:35 pm
When the stupid monkey is right infront of you and it falls through the ground, or it jumps into a killing tree, or it jumps onto the ledge, placed just that bit higher than you can jump.
Ape Escape: The Greatest, The Best, The Original
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Ravenmichiru Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:24 pm
Dark Genosha When the stupid monkey is right infront of you and it falls through the ground, or it jumps into a killing tree, or it jumps onto the ledge, placed just that bit higher than you can jump. Ape Escape: The Greatest, The Best, The Original I haven't played that yet, but I really want to. Hmm, I think I will put that next on my "video games to buy" list.
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:26 pm
Probably the final two levels of Skull Monkeys. The game is amazing, but those last two levels make you want to kill your controller. The problem is, it give you a password every two levels or so, and of course the one it give you is two levels from the end boss. Everytime you die then, you go back two levels. If that isn't bad enough, those levels are damn impossible!
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Ravenmichiru Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:50 am
Gradius...just Gradius. All those games totally punish you for not having ESP.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:05 am
In final fantasy VII when I ran into to Ruby weapon randomly not realizing what it was, I got my arse totally handed to me and lost several hours of game play. Maybe they should have made it lok a little more concerning than a little worm sticking out of the desert *grumble*
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LadyBuggington Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:02 pm
LadyBuggington In final fantasy VII when I ran into to Ruby weapon randomly not realizing what it was, I got my arse totally handed to me and lost several hours of game play. Maybe they should have made it lok a little more concerning than a little worm sticking out of the desert *grumble* So near then end of FFVII I was wandering around in the airship leveling up and doing side quests and I hadn't saved for an hour maybe 2. So here I am flying around in the airship. do de do de do, oh hey what's this little thing sticking out of the dessert? I fly down and run into it. Wow! That's a big enemy. Maybe a minute later... DEAR GOD WHAT WAS THAT MY PARTY IS DEAD F#$%*U%^)*&^)$E%)*%^&!!!!!!!! Yeah I randomly ran into ruby weapon and was totally unprepared for it.
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:05 pm
On th final fantasy note of aggravations, Tonberries.
my first experience with a Tonberry came in Final Fantasy VII. I was making my way to the final battle in the Northern Cave, I'd been playing for I'd guess around an hour since the last save point when a Tonberry popped up. First I was confused.
This thing is so tiny and cute! What's it doing down here? All these other monsters are huge and terrible. Hee Hee look at his little knife, and that cute little star.*
*As though facing a tonberry completely obliviously isn't bad enough, this was a MASTER Tonberry as well.
So I attacked and it counterattacked the party with "everyone's grudge", it hurt of course, but it wasn't totally life threatening especially given the ridiculously high level we were all on. So I healed up and kept attacking and he kept counter attacking, while slowly moving forward.
I wonder why it's moving. Ha! It fell down, That's so cute!
This line of thinking continued until it made it to one of my party members (Cloud probably) and used "Chef's Knife"
Hee Hee, Doink! Even it's attacks are cu... HEY WTF! CLOUD'S DEAD! THAT REALLY HURT
I foolishly convinced myself that chefs knife was probably something like 1000 needles, it hurt the crap out of you, but you could handle it assuming the rest of the party was in good shape. Besides it was small and cute how many hit points could it really have left? I'd been pummeling it for at least a dozen turns now and unleashed a few limit breaks. I could handle this...
Later, staring at the game over screen.
F@$#$%*^% !!!!! I haven't saved in soo long, how could something so cute be so awful!
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:20 pm
Vintage, eh? PLENTY of those, I can tell ya that. Lets see what I can dig up:
- Any point in a game where you're killing yourself over and over to get past one part, and after you finally make it past, you find out you've still got over half the level left and at least two or three other things that keep killing you.
- Marble Madness. Even after all these years, I still get the the last level but can never beat it.
- Bubble Bobble, in general. The whole game kicked my a** all over the place, and I was only able to beat it with a friend. Amazingly, we both made it all the way to the final boss. Thats all 100 levels plus that crazy-a** boss.
- Greased Lightning Round in Gradius 3 on the SNES. Grab speed ups and pray to your god.
- Speaking of fast: you can't say "aggrivating" without mentioning Battletoads and the damned speed bike area in the underground part. I have been past it, but GOOD GOD it took forever to memorize.
- Earthbound.
- Double Dragon and the fact that the game thought it was a platformer. IT WASN'T. Jumping on platforms in that game was a horrid experience, and you were almost sure to lose a life. Pile that on top of an already hard game (where hitting someone meant that they could punch you while you were already punching them) and you can tell I never got through that S.O.B.
- The original TMNT game on the NES was also a terrible, tasking dominatrix that totally punshed you for doing well by the time you got to the dam level. If you somehow avoided losing any turtles by then, you'd be killing them off one by one in there.
Wow, I think I could keep going and going, so I'll leave it there for now.
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