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paladinking
12-06-2006, 23:14
What made you real mad while playing any video game?
Computer cheating? scratched up disk? bugs?
heres mine
I finally got Resident Evil 4 Saturday.
So I was playing it today and I got real far, then I heard thunder and said to myself "I guess I better save and wait til the storm wears off" so I went to the Typewriter [save point] and started saving my game, all of a sudden the power went off while saving, so I try to load my game and it says "Failed to load data, data my be corrupt"...I was so ticked off right there that I yelled at the top of my voice "CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPP PPP!!!!!!!!!":banghead: :censored: :rant: :mad:
well, whats your story?
diablo loves donutz
12-06-2006, 23:18
I'm an avid socom 3 player (online) and one time i shot a guy with a shotgun, he got up, i shot him again, he got up again and killed me....I lost it
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
12-06-2006, 23:20
I hate it when I spill my beer or rum & coke on the keyboard.
I hate it when I spill my beer or rum & coke on the keyboard.
i know. such a waste of a drink isn't it?
AeroJonesy
12-06-2006, 23:39
I hated Soda Popinski's laugh in Mike Tyson's Punchout.
when I can't skip an insanely long intro movie when I want to start over again..
usbserial
12-06-2006, 23:39
In diablo, I once tried to play HC. I got a lvl 38 barb before he died because of lag. I don't know if I would've been so annoyed if he had died from natural causes, but the lag-death really pissed me off. Haven't played HC since. I can't imagine how much more pissed I would've been if he had been a much higher level.
I also get pissed in Counter-Strike when morons on your team block you, resulting in your death.
Oh, and accidently saving over good saved games (in any game) really blows.
Having no idea where to go (get a rope to save Rinoa!)
Incredibly dumb AI. I've been playing Guild Wars. I have two computer controlled characters on my team that can resurrect. Three characters are dead. One casts their res spell. Just as it is almost finished, the other one starts to cast theirs on the same target. These spells cost like 6 seconds so there's 6 seconds of life down the drain.
Oh, I've been playing Star Ocean too. After a huge, long dialog scene you are in a combat area. But, these are monsters you have no business fighting yet, I guess you're just supposed to run to the next town. Of course, I go the wrong way, get a game over, and have to listen to all that dialog again.
paladinking
12-06-2006, 23:53
when I can't skip an insanely long intro movie when I want to start over again..
aka-Metal Gear Solid:grin:
Cloud_Walker
13-06-2006, 00:12
Fire Enchanted boss deaths in [crowbar swings] - unnecessarily massive damage.
The misc. stupid things your units do when telling them to navigate terrain in Command & Conquer. For example, if you tell a Hum-vee to go over a bridge (one lane) and when it gets there another vehicle is crossing the bridge already, going the other way, the Hum-vee will sometimes take a different route rather than wait. Most of the time this route involves covering just about every square inch of the map and passing through at least 2 enemy bases. *sigh* Or if you want your units to move in a generally straight line between where they are now and where you click, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
diablo loves donutz
13-06-2006, 00:12
I hate it when I spill my beer or rum & coke on the keyboard.
When my brother does that and I wake up the next morning to find the keys stick down.
paladinking
13-06-2006, 00:41
Fire Enchanted boss deaths in [crowbar swings] - unnecessarily massive damage.
The misc. stupid things your units do when telling them to navigate terrain in Command & Conquer. For example, if you tell a Hum-vee to go over a bridge (one lane) and when it gets there another vehicle is crossing the bridge already, going the other way, the Hum-vee will sometimes take a different route rather than wait. Most of the time this route involves covering just about every square inch of the map and passing through at least 2 enemy bases. *sigh* Or if you want your units to move in a generally straight line between where they are now and where you click, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
things like this happen in almost EVERY RTS, with the exception of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, your units in this game actually listen to you.
Drosselmeier
13-06-2006, 00:48
Got cheated in The Game once. No score. I was mad.
Well, there have been plenty of smashing-my-head-against-the-keyboard moments in *crowbar swings*, mostly to do with trying to solo-mule. I've never yet had a character lapse due to not clicking on them for two months or whatever it is, but with six accounts it's bound to happen and it's a constant nuisance.
But really the worst things in games are bugs. Like the insanely buggy Ultima VIII (Origin should burn in hell for making so many great games and yet making so many of them bugfests) and Space Quest 6, those had the kinds of bugs that simply make the game unplayable.
A lesser annoyance is having to sit through an overly long tutorial right at the start of the game. The learning curve is something that needs to be expertly handled. I remember I almost gave up on Mario 64 because the whole first level was nothing but interminable signs telling me every one of the 4,000 moves I'd eventually need to know. KOTOR also had a dead-weight intro tutorial that made me sit through an excruciatingly boring lecture about a lot of technical gameplay things when all I wanted to do was enjoy the tension of being on a ship that's under attack and about to explode. Admittedly it was a complicated game and not at all intuitive to play, but it could've been handled better. I actually gave up on the game and only went back and gave it another chance later.
when I can't skip an insanely long intro movie when I want to start over again..
Oh, God yes. The very first thing people should do when playtesting the game is to look for the key to skip cutscenes and if it isn't there strangle the developers.
Edeas_Knight
13-06-2006, 00:53
When my 4xPS1 memory card got erased. Had 150+Hours of FF7, 100+H of FF8, 85+H of FF9, 40+H of FFTactics, Lunar:EB, SoTSS, and a few other games all gone. I almost hit someone.
When my brother does that and I wake up the next morning to find the keys stick down.
I hate to break it to you, but the keys might not be sticking because of beer.....
The learning curve is something that needs to be expertly handled. I remember I almost gave up on Mario 64 because the whole first level was nothing but interminable signs telling me every one of the 4,000 moves I'd eventually need to know. KOTOR also had a dead-weight intro tutorial that made me sit through an excruciatingly boring lecture about a lot of technical gameplay things when all I wanted to do was enjoy the tension of being on a ship that's under attack and about to explode.
Really, you had no problems your first time in Mario 64? I remember spending hours getting those first few stars. That first level seemed so huge at the time. I remember constantly falling off the mountain and bridges. It was the first time I had ever used an analog controller and my first 3-D game though, perhaps that was what I was getting used to?
Really, you had no problems your first time in Mario 64? I remember spending hours getting those first few stars. That first level seemed so huge at the time. I remember constantly falling off the mountain and bridges. It was the first time I had ever used an analog controller and my first 3-D game though, perhaps that was what I was getting used to?
Well there were a few moves to get used to, but what they should've done is broken the different moves up a bit more and given less detailed instruction (I can figure out the stick moves you, one button is jump and the other is punch). The trouble was that the first fifteen minutes of gameplay was nothing but one long sign full of moves to practice after the other. That's the "wow" period in which the game is supposed to show you how much fun it can be and hook your attention. Tutorials should be short and well integrated or optional.
LonghornRob
13-06-2006, 01:26
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I can do everything on that game, except for one of Zero's missions. He requests you take a toy plane, chase down and shoot four different vehicles, and then return back to his place, all in under six minutes. I played that mission over and over and over for five days straight and could not beat it. After playing that damn game for three weeks straight, I got so pissed that I stopped playing it entirely, and haven't played it since.
diablo loves donutz
13-06-2006, 02:07
I hate to break it to you, but the keys might not be sticking because of beer.....
Great, thanx a lot....now I've got to wash my hands after typing this and go get a new keyboard, get tested for a VD, and have nightmares for the next week.
When it lagg, stutters. Hate it.
HaLoPhReAk
13-06-2006, 03:02
In halo 2:
When you are chasing a guy from behind with a Sniper Rifle, and a Battle Rifle, and he has no clue that you are there, and you try and whack him but you miss, then he turns around with an SMG and manages to kill you.
In d2:
When i'm xfering between charactars, and it says that I have to wait a bit, and i lose 2 sojs worth on ladder, and when i was a totall newb.
Moosashi
13-06-2006, 04:08
Trying to master the "smash" in Smash Bros. when your already expert friends are mercilessly destroying your pathetic Link in order to rack up points against each other. Then, after finally mastering it, a noob comes along and spams the "C-smash" with Marth or Pikachu and kills everyone.
Ash Housewares
13-06-2006, 04:12
footballs passing through defenders
defenders who let receivers get behind them when they should be playing prevent
opposing linebackers that can jump 8 feet in the air
tackling 2 full seconds after I hit the button
SWITCHING TO THE PLAYER THAT IS NOT CLOSEST TO THE BALL/PUCK
DON'T SWITCH TO THE WRONG PLAYER, I HATE YOU EA!!!!!!!!
Xenon[XoA]
13-06-2006, 04:16
Crates -.-
Crates with beautiful texturing.. and ****ty controls + gameplay...
Moosashi
13-06-2006, 04:26
Oh I forgot. The maddest I ever got was at Roger Clemens Baseball for the original Gameboy. As far as I could tell, there was no combination of buttons that made your baserunners tag up on a fly-out. So pretty much every pop fly was a double or triple play against you (the computer knew how to tag up). Also, if there was a way to direct your fielders on which base to throw the ball to, I never figured it out.
Roger Clemens Baseball eventually lead to the destruction of my first Gameboy.
The way the PC keyboard won't recognise more than two simultaneous keystrokes, making most of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat impossible to execute.
PatMaGroin
13-06-2006, 06:11
footballs passing through defenders
defenders who let receivers get behind them when they should be playing prevent
opposing linebackers that can jump 8 feet in the air
tackling 2 full seconds after I hit the button
SWITCHING TO THE PLAYER THAT IS NOT CLOSEST TO THE BALL/PUCK
DON'T SWITCH TO THE WRONG PLAYER, I HATE YOU EA!!!!!!!!
The worst is when you switch to a defender that's about to get a sack, only to push the button a split-second after the QB throws the ball, so you switch to the DB and dive instantly (trying to sack the QB with the first guy) and the WR trots into the end zone, untouched.
Ash Housewares
13-06-2006, 06:17
The worst is when you switch to a defender that's about to get a sack, only to push the button a split-second after the QB throws the ball, so you switch to the DB and dive instantly (trying to sack the QB with the first guy) and the WR trots into the end zone, untouched.
that one too...
Nimbostratus
13-06-2006, 06:35
Crappy AI in team-based first person shooters, especially the way it functions in the team modes in Unreal Tournament. All bots on the opposing team become like gods, while the ones on your team are the most incompetent pieces of crap ever.
Me: Defend the base!
bot: *stares at a wall*
Me: Somebody get our flag back!
bot: *walks around aimlessly in the center of the map*
Me: I've got their flag! Cover me!
bot: *loosely follows and takes EVERY pickup, even though I'm at 11% health and have no ammo*
I once got over 150 kills (many of which were headshots) in a Capture the Flag map by just sitting in the base and sniping while trying to have my team capture the flag. In all of that time, they only manage to score a single point. After that, I just put all of my team on defense and scored the remaining two points myself within just a few minutes.
WildBerry
13-06-2006, 10:39
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I can do everything on that game, except for one of Zero's missions. He requests you take a toy plane, chase down and shoot four different vehicles, and then return back to his place, all in under six minutes. I played that mission over and over and over for five days straight and could not beat it. After playing that damn game for three weeks straight, I got so pissed that I stopped playing it entirely, and haven't played it since.
What's your system? Afaik, this mission is leaps and bounds easier on PC. If you're playing on PC and still experienced trouble, you prolly used keys. Get a cheap directional pad and - hey presto! - gazillion times easier. Go ahead, try it - you're missing on lot of content.
Dawnmaster
13-06-2006, 11:53
Crappy AI in team-based first person shooters, especially the way it functions in the team modes in Unreal Tournament. All bots on the opposing team become like gods, while the ones on your team are the most incompetent pieces of crap ever.
Me: Defend the base!
bot: *stares at a wall*
Me: Somebody get our flag back!
bot: *walks around aimlessly in the center of the map*
Me: I've got their flag! Cover me!
bot: *loosely follows and takes EVERY pickup, even though I'm at 11% health and have no ammo*
I once got over 150 kills (many of which were headshots) in a Capture the Flag map by just sitting in the base and sniping while trying to have my team capture the flag. In all of that time, they only manage to score a single point. After that, I just put all of my team on defense and scored the remaining two points myself within just a few minutes.
SOOOO TRUE :rolleyes: I thought I was the only one :grin: (record stands on 450 kills, almost all headshots in 5-10 minutes time, hearing MUMUMOO MUMUMUM MUMUMUM, it couldn't get to Monsterkill before the next one was dead :grin: , man those were the good days)
Here a few more of my own:
Someone disconnects the router...
Someone is overloading the electric circuit, main power shuts down...
Someone starts downloading movies and music files like a nutball...
Someone keeps walking in my room and wants to talk all the time...
In a bizar experiment I used contact-lens-fluid to make my own sort of glue, dropped it all over my keyboard once...
Breaking my mousebuttons on a Sunday...
Saving a game, getting killed / stuck in a wall a few seconds after that...
AI controlled characters that help me always act a lot dumber than the ones I have to fight...
LonghornRob
13-06-2006, 12:03
What's your system? Afaik, this mission is leaps and bounds easier on PC. If you're playing on PC and still experienced trouble, you prolly used keys. Get a cheap directional pad and - hey presto! - gazillion times easier. Go ahead, try it - you're missing on lot of content.
I only have it for PS2. The first couple of times I tried it, I got pissed and quit messing with it. Since its only a side mission I went ahead in the game and ultimately beat it. But then I went back thinking that because I learned how to fly well and because I got a lot of playing experience, I could probably own the mission. I thought wrong. I played it SO MANY TIMES that I can't even count, and only a couple of times was I even able to chase down that final van and turn around before I ran out of gas. I'm convinced its a mission that I am simply not capable of completing.
Also, one other thing I always hating as a kid was on Tecmo Superbowl. I'd have a 63-0 lead with 30 seconds left thinking "I'm actually going to get a rare freaking shutout on this damned computer!" and then low and behold they miraculously complete a pass for the first time in the whole game and kick a field goal, making my 63-3 victory seem like utter crap.
HAMC8112
13-06-2006, 12:16
For me it was tppk in D2. I didnt mind pk's, i had several pk's myself but tppk was woosh! you have died. I really hated that.
For me it was tppk in D2. I didnt mind pk's, i had several pk's myself but tppk was woosh! you have died. I really hated that.
Real sorry to hear that and I can certainly 'feel your pain', having been "dirty" pk'd a few times since D2 originally came out.
For me, since my return to D2 LoD, it has been the high number of people who actually miss PLAYING the game through and sit in public channels begging for rushes. Seems most want to skip the challenge and fun of playing to Hell and high level, and now, have opted for the 'lazy-mans' way out to "Glory". Sad.
Xenon[XoA]
13-06-2006, 17:26
Crappy AI in team-based first person shooters, especially the way it functions in the team modes in Unreal Tournament. All bots on the opposing team become like gods, while the ones on your team are the most incompetent pieces of crap ever.
Me: Defend the base!
bot: *stares at a wall*
Me: Somebody get our flag back!
bot: *walks around aimlessly in the center of the map*
Me: I've got their flag! Cover me!
bot: *loosely follows and takes EVERY pickup, even though I'm at 11% health and have no ammo*
I once got over 150 kills (many of which were headshots) in a Capture the Flag map by just sitting in the base and sniping while trying to have my team capture the flag. In all of that time, they only manage to score a single point. After that, I just put all of my team on defense and scored the remaining two points myself within just a few minutes.
This sounds like Unreal tournament `99 :rolleyes:
Nimbostratus
13-06-2006, 18:54
']This sounds like Unreal tournament `99 :rolleyes:
Actually, these seem to have happened to me more often in the newer ones (2003/2004). Though the mass one-man killing spree was from that one CTF map with the two bridges over some slime pit (I forget the name) in UT99. It's been a while since I've played, so I'm thinking of loading up that map to do some target practice...
MadMachine
13-06-2006, 19:16
D2: When I finally found a great item (M'avina's True Sight Diadem) off of Pindleskin after over 1000 runs only to suffer a roll back after leaving the game.
Non-D2: In City of Heroes, getting invited into a Task Force with a high level character and his low level friend exemplaring him and playing over 5 hours late into the night to complete the TF only to have his low level friend's connection drop half of a task from the end. High level drops, I'm left alone and forced to exit. NRGH!!
rplusplus
13-06-2006, 20:50
Ummmm...
What really burns me bum is...
When you finally get a good strategy down and have your character all set up and WTFPWN everything in sight...
And then Blizzard comes out with a new patch and nerfs all your favorite features to "Balance" the classes.
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
13-06-2006, 20:53
Ummmm...
What really burns me bum is...
Lighting a fart and you don't get enough pressure and you singe the hairs and ooh it stinks and you dance around trying to put the fire out and everybody is laughing and you're cussing so hard the flowers two counties wilt and nobody has a camera so nobody believes it happened?
I hate it when that happens.
DoomWielder
14-06-2006, 10:55
Lighting a fart and you don't get enough pressure and you singe the hairs and ooh it stinks and you dance around trying to put the fire out and everybody is laughing and you're cussing so hard the flowers two counties wilt and nobody has a camera so nobody believes it happened?
I hate it when that happens.
In such situations,the fire department suggests a quick 3 step solution.Stop.Drop.Roll.(and hope you didn't eat too many beans).
In such situations,the fire department suggests a quick 3 step solution.Stop.Drop.Roll.
:laugh: :laugh:
Yes, SDR can be right preventive, at times. :thumbsup:
DurfBarian
14-06-2006, 11:57
http://homepage.mac.com/durf/pix/duckhunt.jpg
MadMachine
14-06-2006, 14:30
http://homepage.mac.com/durf/pix/duckhunt.jpg
I'd purposely let the ducks fly away just to put three shells in that bastard's forehead.
That reminds me, I've got to get a gun and Duck Hunt for my NES.
SaroDarksbane
14-06-2006, 14:51
Ummmm...
What really burns me bum is...
When you finally get a good strategy down and have your character all set up and WTFPWN everything in sight...
And then Blizzard comes out with a new patch and nerfs all your favorite features to "Balance" the classes.
Oh, for a minute there I thought you were talking about Cryptic and CoH.
I've never played a game where my character would go from "Godly" to "I wouldn't invite you to my group, you gimp" every patch. And you think I'm joking. Blizzard is tame by comparison.
How Blizzard nerfs:
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Blizzard Employee #1: Hmm, people are massing _________ in WC3. What should we do?
Blizzard Employee #1: Nerf their damage from 20-30 down to 19-29.
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How Cryptic nerfs:
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Cryptic Employee #1: Hmm, this archtype based on resisting damage is too powerful. What should we do?
Cryptic Employee #2: Cut his resistance in half, cap the number of people his abilities affect, cut his damage by a third, and suppress his travel powers while fighting so he can't get away!
Me: *reroll*
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rikstaker
15-06-2006, 21:29
Ace combat:
In one of the restricted altitude missions,supposed to be flown below 1000 ft,you are negotiating quick turns trying to shoot down an ace towards the end of the 20 minute mission,one wrong move.... oh oh...cliff...I think I can make it...:evil: ...erh...damn pull up... pull up........-crap :cry:
Pro evo socer-damn computer equalizing in extra time. :rant:
oscarmk1
16-06-2006, 01:46
Definitly when you get realm down...
Gibbzilla
16-06-2006, 02:41
Aside from D2...
On NCAA Football 06 when there are dropped open passes, the ability for the computer's receivers to catch passes that have been deflected off 5 of my players, the ability of walk-on fullbacks to shed 8 tackles and prance into the endzone, the ball going through one of my defenders, the inability to get a single yard from a halfback screen, and when you forget to change the controller configuration to NCAA 05 resulting in diving with your cornerback.
Me and some of my cousins were playing Tecmo Super Baseball for the SNES(using the Indians because they had a freaking SICK lineup back then) when I hit a walk-off homerun in the world series with Manny Ramirez, and one of my cousins started jumping up and down beside the SNES and the waves of the floor vibrated the SNES, and it shut off. I didn't really feel mad at the time, because we were laughing so damn hard, but thinking back on it really pisses me off.
.....But what I hate more than anything in video games, is how bad collision detection was on NES and some SNES games.
strikeamatch
16-06-2006, 16:36
i've always gotten hacked off by pking in online games... i actually chose my muds back in the day with that as a primary criteria... is there pk, if so is it controlled?
stupid pkers...
animeangyl
16-06-2006, 20:31
Its not really maddening, but more time consuming.
Usually when I play RPG's, and I'm in the middle of the game, or just started with few hours into it, then someone asks me if I, or i find out about:
a) did "so and so" quest
b) got "so and so" item
c) etc..
then i stop and sit around for a little bit, and restart the game from the beginning so I can do everything there is in the game.
i.e.: i started playing Ogre Battle for SNES 2 nights ago, and realized I could get Canopus to join my army. But I was 4 hours past that point.
So i started from the beginning again.
Blizzard banned my account with thousands of hours worth of stuff (including 349 dmg lance in classic and the #1 Necro on USWest ladder during the first ladder season...)
All because my account was called BackStabbinJew. Nevermind that I never cheated or ripped anyone off and never used maphack. Nothing happens to those people.
I drank 2/3 of a liter of vodka that day as a result. It was spread out though so no hangover.
pancakeman
17-06-2006, 03:26
When I start a new Star Ocean save, and have to sit through 3 ****IN HOURS of dialogue. Wait for the message to be done, hit X. Wait for message to be done, hit X. Bash brains out on game case....
Playing Medal Of Honor, minding my own business, when somebody logs on to the intarweb 50 miles away and overloads RoadRunner, causing MEGA-LAG.
Playing *crowbar swings* and watching my Iron barb getting killed by a derned Fire Enchanted Carver. Someone nerf those things.
Playing Empire Earth, building a perfect city, not attacking anyone, when the computer somehow assembles a massive force and invades me with 45 trebuchets and 2000000000 longswords.
When someone plugs in the vacuum cleaner and blows the fuse, leaving me to watch as my Tyreals goes back into the pixellated Heaven it came from.
Its not really maddening, but more time consuming.
Usually when I play RPG's, and I'm in the middle of the game, or just started with few hours into it, then someone asks me if I, or i find out about:
a) did "so and so" quest
b) got "so and so" item
c) etc..
then i stop and sit around for a little bit, and restart the game from the beginning so I can do everything there is in the game.
i.e.: i started playing Ogre Battle for SNES 2 nights ago, and realized I could get Canopus to join my army. But I was 4 hours past that point.
So i started from the beginning again.
God, I know exactly what you mean.
Blizzard banned my account with thousands of hours worth of stuff (including 349 dmg lance in classic and the #1 Necro on USWest ladder during the first ladder season...)
All because my account was called BackStabbinJew. Nevermind that I never cheated or ripped anyone off and never used maphack. Nothing happens to those people.
And yet every second game I used to go into had some idiot who would say (completely out of the blue) "I hate ******s". Blizzard never bans them... *gasp* it's a Zionist conspiracy!
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