Moments that made you give up/quit playing a game (Spoilers!) - Page 3

What? Are you serious? That sounds absolutely ridiculous in a Ghosts and Goblins kind of way.

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Just catching up on this thread, but for as much as I enjoyed the cheap John Woo-ness of Dead to Rights, I hated the fuck out of the bomb-defusing minigames and the fistfight with the black boxer dude. Also seconding the hate for the Hades portion of God of War.

Yeah, except when you take control of Dante, you backtrack all the way to the beginning, fighting the bosses in the opposite order you encountered them instead of starting from the beginning again. Still, it doesn't make it any better.

My interest in this game just sunk to zero.

You also have to fight the bosses for the third time all on the same level. To access them you have to play a fucking board game.

God Of War lost me at that part where you had to push a guy in a cage up a slanted walkway while guys kept attacking you. I know, I know, there were places to set the cage so it wouldn't slide down, but no matter what I did, I could never manage to hold off enough guys and get that cage up to the top. The fact that I had to do that twice in order to progress made me give up. A shame, since the game was so much fun until that part.

A moment of triumph: A friend bought the Wii, and on it came Ghost n' Goblins. I flashed back to my childhood when I played that (and couldn't save, so I had to play it straight through...Grandma wanted me to spend time with her before she died, but you know...priorities) and that one boss, the giant centipede with the little larva and the hearts in the rock, the one I could never beat...I played the game to that part and didn't stop until I killed that mother fucker. Fuck yeah! Closure!

I will recommend, one of the most anti-frustrating games I've ever played is GUN. That, and Resident Evil 4, which is a game that seems like it would be more frustrating then it ultimately was.

Now you're just fucking with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywg8LIUhxCs

Also please note that the playthrough shown is on the easiest mode their is, a bizarre one shot kill cheat mode. In the proper game these are all full boss fights.

That's awful. Are the boss fights at least fun? I've only played the first DMC, and I found them enjoyable enough.

Same bosses three times? Retracing steps? That's just plain absurd.

That's where I quit. After 2 levels of the damn board game and seeing that they were going to throw the same bosses at me again pissed me off.

I wish he was.

The bosses are your average huge demon bosses. Nothing special the first time let alone 3 times. I liked the first DMC too but DMC4 is bullshit. Capcom better not pull any of this shit in Resident Evil 5. I'm already a little worried that it just looks like a prettier Resident Evil 4.

Which would make it, what? Only one of the top five games of all time, instead of one of the top three?

Top six at worst.

Beyond the recurring El Gigantes, the new Resident Evil games don't really lend themselves to the kind of bullshit that gets pulled in DMC4. Meaning that I expect RE5 to be much the same way that RE4 was in that when you beat a boss, you beat it to shit.

Not "game-stoppers" per say, but the Madden series has resulted in me hurling more fucking controllers than I care to admit.

Also, I did quit playing EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 after breaking three controllers out of frustration.

Command and Conquer Kanes Wrath has a part where you need to intercept some kind of shipment. I can't catch the GDI army to stop the shipment and I've played it about 15 times so I've given up... for now.

GTA4 I beat it but that bank level was impossible.

Even the same old shit in GTA got old.

If you mean the lack of free aiming, checkpoints, or a decent save system, then that actually got old about halfway through GTAIII. If you mean the tired mission design, well, GTAIV actually seemed like a step back from Vice City and San Andreas.

Never was a big fan of GTA, but it was more of a shot at GTAIV actually. That game could have ended up in this thread for me. It bored me with the same old missions. I kept playing though, to see if it would get any better, but it never did. I do share in your hate for the save system as well.

Really? That game was the easiest 1000 achievement points I ever recieved. Granted I get my ass handed to me online, but the single player game wasn't too bad. Although I'm a punk and use the buttons instead of the sticks most of the time.

Farenheit definitely pissed me off. Sure, it was kind of innovative, but for some reason it would never actually save my game. I only played it three times. The last time I played for five hours straight before I completely gave up on the thing.

Christ I was going to go back to DMC4 after I'd finished Ninja Gaiden 2 but now - not so much. There was enough back tracking in that game to begin with.

My serious Achilles Heel is ANY incarnation of Rainbow Road on Mario Kart. Never fails to illicit a barrage of 'FUCK YOU man' aimed at whatever Nintendo console I'm in front of.

EDIT : This has just therapeutically reminded me of Mario Super Charged Soccer on the Wii - I never could finish the single player tournament thing on that.

Jurassic Park: TRESPASSER. You're playing Minnie Driver on Isla Nublar, and she has only one arm and moves like a dick. Just reloading your gun with your single hand becomes a frustrating experience, working crates to reach ammunition - it breaks you. Add a bunch of hungry raptors and you're ready to kill yourself.

GTA VC > I wanna meet the sadist that developed the RC helicopter mission. The one in wich you need to deploy dynamite in a building. I wanna deploy dynamite in his buildung and a RC helicopter down his throat.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought F-Zero GX was hard as balls. The only game this generation that I didn't get very far in because I sucked so bad.

I don't know if it was weathering the San Andreas RC missions first that made me better at it, but I breezed through this one.

The motorcycles in that game nearly killed the experience for me a couple of times, but again that was me too used to San Andreas.

Sadly I've got one. KOTOR. The Unknown Systems. Sure, fighting rancors is kind of bad-ass, but I'm tired of it. They went one world too many for me. I just wanted to be on the Star Forge after finishing the four worlds and quite frankly I have no interest in another alien culture. I'll finish it eventually but I'm in no hurry at this point.

When I was playing Dead or alive 4 and trying to unlock all the bitche's skimpy costumes, I realised I still had my massive collection of hardcore porn on my computer hdd. Never played DOA 4 again.

Wait ... the first time you fight Sniper Wolf or the second? The first time you need to take drugs or smoke to steady your aim. The second time you just hide behind a barrier and shoot her with nikita missiles instead of attempting to snipe (cheap, but, whatever).

The temple at the end is so very worth it. Trust me.

You people are crazy, giving up on Gears of War and KOTOR, yet you can play endlessly on GTA IV. :P

Gears of War is probably one of the dullest games I've ever played. I literally gave up about 30 minutes after Mr. Racial Stereotype was put into my squad.

Was just playing Call of Duty 4 online, Free for All Deathmatch, and one guy had his headset on. We were playing in Killhouse, the noisiest most fast paced map. And the fucker's baby would not stop screaming into the mic. Really made me want to kill real people.

GTA Vice City nearly did me in on the mission to rescue the "Tubbs" character and finally did me in on that target shooting mission. Never finished the game to this day.

I loved DMC4 despite the boss thing, which unfortunately Capcom has become absolutely infamous for as it's in almost every single game they've ever made that has bosses in it. For me, Dante played differently enough that I didn't mind fighting bosses again because I had completely different weapons (plus all the styles at his disposal) so I was able to fight them in totally different ways. Having to fight them a third time, though, was totally inexcusable.

Temple at the end of the Unknown Systems or the Star Forge itself?

Temple at the end of the Unknown System. The place is not only well structured, but the boss fight at the end and the dialogue is great no matter which decisions you make.

We've never met, Spike.....but I love you.

Personally, I was turned off the second I figured out the basic enemy in the game takes damn near close to an entire clip of ammunition to kill, and it was just downhill from there. For all Halo's flaws, at the end of the day, killing remains fun all the way through. I was tired as fuck of Gears of War within an hour.

The one where "Tubbs" is held hostage at the garbage dump? God, I hate that mission, never managed to complete it.

I found this thread, thought it interesting, and decided to bump with some very simple words:

Ninja Gaiden II can go fuck itself. I kind of suck at games, so I tend to play on the easiest difficulty. Not even that saved me from the horror of the second boss in that game. Here's my rough reaction:

"Wait, he can TELEPORT? Are you fucking kidding me? How the fuck am I supposed to fight a guy who can teleport behind me? I CAN'T EVEN BLOCK HIS FREAKING SWORD THAT WELL, AND HE TELEPORTS?!"

After having this reaction about, oh, 25 times, I quit. No game should be making me feel like I'm about to go into cardiac arrest.

It seems like ancient history now, but the first Spider-Man movie tie-in for the Playstation 2 was a big bag of dick. I didn't bother playing past the first warehouse where the camera insists on orienting toward your front so you can't see the assholes shooting you and your spider sense goes off after the mack truck has killed you instead of before.

I never beat Beyond Good and Evil because of that last boss. The game is easy and fun up until that point, then you fight a floating head that knocks you down in one hit and gets two more free hits as you try to stand back up. Fuck that.

I was really enjoying Okami until I got to one of those stone block puzzle guys that I couldn't beat. I tried and tried, but the Japanese Sun God was soundly defeated each time by a fat ass talking rock.

I think I got to the second or third mission in SOCOM II and couldn't progress any farther. It's not that the game was hard, I killed every enemy in the map within 20 or 30 minutes, but once you do that you're supposed to kill the Big Bad guy before he escapes the level. Trouble is, the game never tells you where he is or where he's going, and each time he gets away causing me to fail the mission. I even tried camping out the most logical escape routs to catch him as he runs away. Didn't work.

Then there was the time it downloaded a patch for multiplayer and literally made the game inoperable. Fun times.

I remember playing Diablo II and committing the apparently unpardonable sin of wanting to stop and go to bed. So I saved my game and called it a night. The next day when I went to play again, every goddamn monster that I had killed was all respawned and I had to spend an hour killing stuff I'd already killed just to get where I'd left off. I understood the need for this as regards online play, but single player? Ridiculous. Never finished it.

I quite Kane and Lynch at the mission where they bring out your wife and daughter and you're supposed to kill a guy in a dump truck. Impossible. I tried probably 30 times over the course of two days and then took it out and never played again.

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