Either video, card, or table top?
I find if I have an exceptionally bad session of a game, I lose all desire to ever play it again.
Either video, card, or table top?
I find if I have an exceptionally bad session of a game, I lose all desire to ever play it again.
Yes, but quite rarely. Recently I got so frustrated playing Trials HD that I doubt I'll ever go back to it. Before that, I guess it was Devil May Cry 4 (though in that case, it was bad game design and controls that made me ditch it rather than cheap ass difficulty).
Super Mario Sunshine.
DMC4 is a button basher,beat the final boss it the first time playing.
No need to get al the so called secrets unlocked,lost interest really quick.
Sure, it happens all the time, if I get frustrated enough and hit a wall. The test of a game is whether or not you're still willing to come back to it and give it one more chance. Sometimes you make new headway at that point, sometimes you don't and realize you were right to put it down the first time.
I guess most recently it would be Split Second. Fuck, that game is hard.
But sure, lost interest in frustration a few times.
Was going for Recon armor for Halo, gave up on that damn firefight achievement...
Leaning against playing Singularity any further... We'll see...
Oh, Conflict Denied Ops. Terrible fucking game.
Shining Force III disc 1: on my second playthrough attempt (the first got wiped when the Saturn save battery died), I got all the way to the huge golem castle bridge boss, got defeated a lot, and lost interest. The thing was, with that particular save I was trying to get a 100% completion, and I had done some of the harder things you could do in the game, like save ALL the refugees from the knights in the train switching stage, so sneaking by the golem wasn't an option.
Sonic Adventure 2 I almost quit. I just plain hated the rail grinding mechanic... and the developers had to go and make the LAST FUCKING STAGE on Hero-side storyline ALL GRINDING.
Yes, many. If a game pisses me off, but I feel like I can do it, I'll keep playing. If a game is pissing me off and I'm not enjoying it at all it gets shelved or returned to gamefly without another thought.
Tenkaichi Budokai 3 for PS2... honeslty I can't beat a friend so I decided I had to quit... everytime he wins he goes all "proud princess" and I simply can't stand it...
Yes, but not for a long time as I make a point of not buying shit games.
I did sell DMC4 without beating it but not because of frustration. I flogged it because it was shit.
I give up on a lot of games due to lack of time/interest, but I generally don't quit out of frustration. One game that comes to mind is ActRaiser 2 on the SNES, I bought it back when it was fairly new and it broke me.
A couple of weeks ago I pulled out my SNES and started playing it again, and I gave ActRaiser 2 another shot, and the game is fantastic. Still hard, but I'm a better player now. I beat easy mode and I'm working my way through normal now.
RE0 and Mario Sunshine
because they were annoying, both hung on me after doing something challenging, and .. basically fucking sucked.
Yep. Dead Space. Got to the asteroid part and couldn't beat it 10 times. I turned the game off and put it on the shelf.
It was really hard to do the rail grinding at first, but I kind of liked how that level forces you to learn to do it consistently or perish. It's surprising the things that seem impossible at first but later become possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
It happens quite often. I'm a casual gamer, I don't enjoy playing videogames for challenge or competition. I play most games on the easy or normal difficulty. The only games I've played on the highest difficulty are those that were easy enough to make that jump after completing them on normal difficulty (Mass Effect 2 for example).
But if a game is raising my blood pressure and frustration I won't hesitate to stop immediately. I'll come back to that game one more time to see if I can surpass my troubles with it. If I can't, boom...done...trade it in. I play videogames to chillout, relax and melt away, not to raise my pulse.
But there has been an awful string of games this year that have either been complete letdowns or pigeonholed me into submission. Alpha Protocol, Alan Wake, God of War II, Infinite Space, 3D Dot Game Heroes...and DJ Max Fever come to mind. I enjoy certain aspects of each of these games, but not enough to compel me to continue playing them just to have my ass handed to me over and over again.
You should've seen me when I was younger, I would routinely break NES controllers because I would become so frustrated and "ninja star" (thank you Ninja Gaiden) that controller right into the wall. But that wasn't an issue when it was a simple thing to have the parents purchase another controller. When I started purchasing all my own stuff that all came to an end.
Well, almost an end. One particular mission in Saints Row did get me heated enough that I destroyed a 360 controller. I football-touchdown-spiked that controller right into the floor in utter defeat. Then I became more pissed about destroying a $50 controller than failing that mission over and over again. It was a bad day.
The only game I have permanently stopped playing and will never touch again is Stern's The End.
With regards to other games, I take a temporary break and then play it again.
As strange as it may sound, if a game is frustrating me I'm already at the point where I consider it worth completing, so I see it through.
I'm the kind of person that gets very upset about difficult and frustrated games, but I realize that as long as I'm not hurting anyone else and I'm not hurting myself, it's okay to get a little angry about it now and again.
I thought Godhand was difficult, and there were times I was EXTREMELY frustrated with that game, but looking back on it, Godhand is a game I'd instantly recommend to anyone. The same goes for games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden, cranked to the highest difficulty.
Hell, I beat God Of War II on Titan Mode, and that was the hardest and most frustrating thing I've ever done in a video game. I'll never do it AGAIN, mind you, but I saw it through and felt a personal sense of accomplishment out of it despite it being about a worthless thing like completing a video game.
I've been through real pain and enduring physical illness. There's not a lot I can do with the same degree of intensity I used to. Video games is one thing I CAN do with the same ability as when I was completely healthy, so getting angry about it is a way to stay tapped into the 'old' me, if that makes any sense.
(Super) Street Fighter IV was the first game I've done that with. I didn't think I'd do that with a game. There's a first for everything though.
lol SSF4Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
Too much hate for DMC4. I thought it was about as good as the first, with even better environments. The previous 2 games were utter shit though (DMC3 had solid gameplay, but everything else was shitty as fuck)
I try not to quit on any game, or put it on hold after spending a considerable amount of time on it. I know if I did that, it would be more difficult to get back to it later.
The last game I almost ended up quitting was Land Stalker. The amount of mazes and puzzles was even beyond frustrating. I absolutely did not expect that amount of confusing puzzles, and I was not ready for it mentally. I didn't manage to beat it, but that's because I lost my save file near the end of the game, not becuase I intended to quit (though I was very close to do so).
[GoW1 SPOILER]The multiple Kratos' nightmare fight at the end of the first game, Titan Mode[/SPOILER]. Dude, DUDE, THAT WAS HELL ITSELF. I managed to beat it, and then beat the almost equally-heart-breaking last fight, only to see the game freeze on me on the last part where you enter the throne room. I can't believe I went through that shit a second time and actually beat it againQuote:
Originally Posted by Taiso
Same thing happened to me with the last fight in GoW2, Titan Mode. But I found that game generally easier. The part I struggled with the most is where you fight about 5~6 groups of multiple enemies near the end of the game.
I can think of a few but number one for me is trying to get platinum medals on Trials HD:blow_top:
I'll never forget one morning I was leaving a girl's house, and all of a sudden I heard some yelling. I turned around, and it had to be a dude in his mid 40s, bald, taking a N64 controller and repeatedly smashing it against the pavement outside his house. If camera phones were around back then you bet your ass that shit would be on youtube.
Halo 3 is getting to me lately.
Just because of the droppers in Ranked matches.
It's happening way too damn much.
One of the few games I honestly get upset about when shit goes wrong.
SFIV & SSFIV. It seems like I'm never gonna get the hang of it, I just can't play the game at a decent competitive level.
I remember Shadow of Rome making me more angry that any game had before. The control response in the gladiator parts just made me see red. I flung the disc at the wall and snapped it in fury. I vow never to play games that make me that angry.
Oh and that fucking Wind Waker abomination drove me nuts. The bit where you have to shoot yourself out of flowers with pixel perfect landings required. What a pointless grind. I gave up on that shit too.
MDK2 on the DC, but only because of a design flaw.
At a certain point in a certain pretty hard level, to continue advancing you had to fall through a ledge, inevitably taking some damage. The thing is... considering that the level was pretty hard, I ended up with little HP left... so falling = dying. Even after dying, the game would make me respawn with the same amount of health at almost the exact same place, making it impossible for me to advance.
Ikaruga. Game was too hard for me.
God of War 1, I gave up on the multiple Kratos fight.
Are you putting enough time in to get results or just playing briefly, getting frustrated and quitting entirely?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElectricGrave
Uncharted 2, whatever the hardest mode was. It was way too frustrating to have to slow down my pace just to survive the enemies. It was almost worse than Metal Gear Solid 4 in Big Boss mode.
And to the people that quit on Super Street Fighter 4, lol@you. The game is so easy.
I'm like you bro. I remember doing the same thing back in the Nes days. I would get so mad that I would throw this temper tantrum and either slam on my nes console or chuck a controller. 5 minutes later after I had calm down a bit, I would start playing again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magician
Now in days, I'm looking more for a good game I could beat without going through so much hassle. I don't mind a little bit of difficulty, but I don't want to get upset over it.
The last time I got pissed off playing a video game was SSF4. I was over one of my friends house with my wife and he had acouple of his friends over. We were over there watching the Shogun and Machida fight, and SF was brought up. He said he was good at it and I told him I was good at it also, but I'm really not that good. We talked about game pads vs joysticks whatever. We finally played each other online like 4-5 weeks ago and out of 10 matches, I lost all of them. At the end of the 10th match I almost chucked my TE stick. I haven't played SSF4 since.
I find I don't play action games too much anymore because I don't have the skill or patience for them anymore.
One reason why I play RPGs mostly.
When it comes to fighting games against other live players, I don't get frustrated enough to quit at all. I prefer to keep playing those tough challengers because I want to improve my game.
When SSF IV first came out, I played LWK in a number of matches and he handled me pretty well. I lost more than ten matches to him, and I considered myself a very good player at the time, but one who hadn't played competitively in quite a while. I've worked hard at the game since then, and I can't say it would be a 50/50 split, bit I think I'd show better than I did last time.
Fighting games played at a competitive level require repetition, practice and hard work if you REALLY want to step up and improve.
However, if you have no intention of working hard to get better, then I don't see the point in getting frustrated at losing. Just take the loss, accept that you only play for enjoyment and be cool.
As stupid as it sounds, if you like the game but hate losing the matches, just play againstthe computer at low difficulty and enjoy housing the bad AI. If you get bored eventually, then crank up the difficulty and do it all over again.
One thing I've learned about fighting games that DOES frustrate me is when I fuck up the control and I whiff a fierce rather than throw a fireball (or whatever.) But that's a matter of patience and adapting to the speed and sensitivity of the control. That just requires discipline to perfect (most of the time-sometimes, it's just bad control.)
Surprised no one has mentioned Final Fantasy XIII. I really, really, wanted to like and enjoy that game. The shitty, emotionless characters and linear gameplay was already pissing me off, but once I got to Barthandaulus, I kept getting my ass handed to me. I tried all different kinds of strategies, upgrade combinations, and even went as far as using a guide to the T, but I couldn't not beat him for the life of me. My friends that were playing the game at the time kept telling me how easy he was and what methods to do, but I just couldn't do it, and I had had enough and couldn't do it anymore. That same day I sold it and bought Mass Effect 2, which was a waaaaay more worthwhile experience.
Ikaruga and MDK2 both got me, I quit on those games. I just remembered, because other people posted about em.
I only played Demon Souls one time, too. But I think I just never got back around to it. I don't recall hating it.
Last year it was Super Turbo. I was kinda getting into it for a while, but Dhalsim Vs Vega is the definition of frustrating. Slide kick = ggs, wall lunge = ggs, flip kick =ggs, miss a throw tech = ggs. I counter picked for a while, but that's lame. Tried switching characters, but it just takes a lot of fun out of things. Slowly getting back into it now though.
I have taken a break from fighting games due to frustration. I got to the point where I wasn't sure I was even having fun with them but felt this compulsion to keep playing anyway. But I eventually went back to them and I do still enjoy them.
As for other types of games, I don't know if I've ever completely given up on one due to difficulty. I am a pretty hard headed person and I flat out refuse to let a computer beat me sometimes. I might put the game down for months, but I will get back to it eventually and finish it.
Ninja Gaiden on OG XBOX for me. I played through NG2 on 360 without much issue... but NG. Fuck that game. I was sick of it about half way through. It's a good game though.
Man, Trials is magical. You hit a wall at some point and you're trying to do these stages that seem like impossible human feats. But then after banging away at it for hours, something finally clicks and it all of a sudden becomes manigable... almost easy. Easily one of my favorite games of all-time. Definitely my pick for best XBLA game ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Nugent
SF4, I just didn't care enough to try to get good at it. It also had one of the worst opening songs in history.
i've made two of my friends rage quit magic, one so bad he instantly went home and sold his cards.
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot to mention Demon's Souls. I rushed out to get it after reading everyone's positive reviews of it on the forum. I knew the game was going to be hard, but even easy mode felt like other game's nightmare mode times ten! I could never make it out of the first area. Each time I did make it a little bit further, but I hated that once you died, you had to start all over again from the very start. Needless to say, I kept at it for a day or two, but then gave up after that.
I quit playing Viewpoint because it was nearly impossible for me to get used to the... um viewpoint.
Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Any time a GTA thread comes up here I'm generally the first to throw my 2 cents in on how much I hate this series. I played GTA3 until it had lost all meaning, and I tried the same with this game, but let me tell you this ass hole of a video game made me forever quit the series, and wish hell upon its developers. It was such a glitchfest that I couldn't even attempt to enjoy it.
A few choice moments were.
1. Running into a wall and having the world flip upside down leaving Tommy to fall into the sky for about 5 seconds, afterward the fixed itself and Tommy lost 20 health.
2. Wheeling too far on a bike which led Tommy to fall off, only to slide on the ground for about 30 seconds dying somewhere around 15 seconds.
3. Corrupted save data (and no cheats were used)
4. Corrupted save data a second time after getting 100 packages (and no cheats were used)
5. falling through floors countless times
I had never run into a game that was so poorly constructed and I wasn't willing to find out if there would be another title that would be. Fuck GTA.
I put in enough time to pass several challenges with different characters. I have come to the conclusion that the timing on this game is way different, it's not as tight as previous SF games, it feels rather loose to me. I'm no blaming the game 'cause I know it's a great game, I just simply turn away from it. Also is not a matter of not winning 'cause even at my mediocre best I can still beat just about anyone I have fought against, the problem is that I'm not happy with my game and instead of spending more time in this game I rather spend the time with other games I happen to like better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Wolfgang Krauser
Glad I could be a part of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
Get fucking real. That shit was awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
Don't worry Spins, Super Street Fighter IV Turbo is gonna be the solution to all our problems, then we'll show them all who's boss, 24/7 and 365 days a year, you just wait!
I sold SF4 because it was shit, not annoying. :tickled:
WHAT? Did you play it on PS2,Xbox or PC?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kwame Kilpatrick
I never encountered any of those bugs. Vice City is an incredible game.
The latest gaming frustration for me was Shell shock 2. Worst FPS on Xbox 360 ever. :blow_top:
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