Frustrating Moments In Otherwise Great Games

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I actually got Lulus weapon in like 20 minutes on my first attempt. THAT was the easy bit, it was all the other times when you're just walking through the area not paying attention that were annoying. Random battles are annoying enough, random lighting strikes knocking you over WITH random battles was just, ehh!

More annoying though was the stupid butterfly bit in Macalania. Now there's a fucking frustrating bit for you. That was the worst bit of the whole game.


As for Hades, meh, I never found that too difficult. Yeah I fell off a few times, and had to restart the climbing bit occasionally, but I never got knocked off at any point above the first 10 feet or so, so it never got frustrating. In fact I used to enjoy the challenge of trying to do the whole level in 1 life. Only managed it once though, usually I got screwed by the archers during the platform section enar the end.

[Aerozord]

Megaman 9, that STUPID FLOWER. Most annoying mini-boss in the game. Randomly appears on platforms you need to continually be jumping around because of an equally annoying pinwheel continually spinning around, with an instant death spike pit just in case you miss a jump.

Oh and the weapon best used against this guy? the one you get AT THE END OF THAT LEVEL

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

Megaman 9, that STUPID FLOWER. Most annoying mini-boss in the game. Randomly appears on platforms you need to continually be jumping around because of an equally annoying pinwheel continually spinning around, with an instant death spike pit just in case you miss a jump.

Oh and the weapon best used against this guy? the one you get AT THE END OF THAT LEVEL

MM10's Whatever-Devil. Ugh, ugh, ugh. If Capcom released a Megaman game where every boss was a Devil variant I'm pretty sure the world would collectively burst into tears.

Also, I tried playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia on Hard Mode without using a New Game+. Big mistake. Trying to beat Dullahan was bad enough. Then you get to the forest, with three long screens full of Winged Guards (60+ damage and they're EVERYWHERE), Bats (30-ish damage, but they're hard to dodge), and Medusa Heads (70+ damage plus petrification) respectively, and you with your sub-200 hitpoints and trying to dodge/kill everything when you have no healing potions and you have to do the whole thing in one go. It's nerve-wracking to say the least.

By now I've gotten to the Tymeo Mountains and it's somehow gotten worse. I've got more (unrecorded) deaths on this file than on an entire runthrough of IWBTG.

[Tev]

Trying to figure out what that annoying little puke of a child meant by "Palm trees and eight." in Final Fantasy Adventure...

I honestly feel that is the baseline for judging frustration in my games. No matter what the issue is, at least it's not that vague little asshole.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Tev

Trying to figure out what that annoying little puke of a child meant by "Palm trees and eight." in Final Fantasy Adventure...

I honestly feel that is the baseline for judging frustration in my games. No matter what the issue is, at least it's not that vague little asshole.

Well, in the GBA remake Sword of Mana, there was a pair of palm trees that you had to walk a few figure-eights around to unlock a passage.

[krogothwolf]

Empire: Total War. Unit's deciding to wander off mid battle at stare at trees. I attacked an evil fortress of the French! I had them surrounded and reduced their walls to nothing. They came out to attack me and I did slaughter them in open field. I did deem that as they ran back into the fort to follow. My troops charged forwards pouring through the gaps. Wait, I meant one of my troops did. The other 5 decided to go around the fort and through the back door that was you know, locked and there were no holes in the walls there. Happened a freakin lot that the troops would try to go through unopened gates or run around the fort once before going through the giant holes in the wall.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Well, in the GBA remake Sword of Mana, there was a pair of palm trees that you had to walk a few figure-eights around to unlock a passage.

Wait....so in the remake they didn't even give you a poorly executed hint? They just expected you to know that you had to dance around a pair of trees to progress in the game?

[Aerozord]

had something like that in paper mario for the Wii if I recall. gotta run around Yoshi statue three times, and I never got any hint

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I got a new one; 2 units of Peatorians and a spear man, sent to fight a unit of archers and a barbarian and each of them getting their arses kicked without taking out a single enemy. It took me 20 turns to buld those 3, I left my city un-protected to move them into a fight and they died in 1 turn.


FUCK YOU Civ4!!! Fuck you!!!!

Note that this is on slightly easier than normal, becuase last time I played on normal Alexander the Great randomly decided to attack me with 15 fucking chariots, took 2 cities in 1 turn, everything I had on defence fell to everything he had and I was left with nothing, while all the while I was hemoraging money and my people were unhappy and on the verge of stagnation despite the fact that Id been putting all my time into city growth.


Yeah, the combat system in this game is fucking bullshit!

[Niveras]

Originally Posted by Tev

Wait....so in the remake they didn't even give you a poorly executed hint? They just expected you to know that you had to dance around a pair of trees to progress in the game?

A lot of JRPGs reward dedicated try-everything kind of testing. Who do you think was the first to find a pink tail on the pink puffs in FFIV, which are themselves highly uncommon spawns?