Vote For The Most Frustrating Gaming Situations

19 responses to “Vote For The Most Frustrating Gaming Situations”

1. 

   AerintheADEQUATE

   January 21, 2012 at 8:21 am

   Is there one for “Coming home to find your little brothers moronic friend sitting at in your room and asking you if it’s ok that he deleted your savegame so he could start a new game and save his progress.”….?

   Cause there should be…

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2. 

   McGarnical

   January 21, 2012 at 8:55 am

   I am catching up on Resident Evil 4, and got to the part where you find Ashley last night. Once the game showed me the controls of how to ask her to wait or follow and told me it was game over if she died, I thought, “Are you KIDDING me??” Really hope this part doesn’t go on too long. It’s not the rest of the game, is it..?

   And I can’t believe it, but VVVVVV has an escort mission too! I stopped playing it a soon as I got to that part, I hate them so much.

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   1. 

      Hiero

      January 21, 2012 at 12:00 pm

      She gets script-kidnapped for part of it, but you’re stuck with her for most of the rest of the game. You also have to play as her for a short segment (like 10 minutes or so?) It’s still a great game though. Which console are you playing it on?

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         McGarnical

         January 21, 2012 at 3:23 pm

         Thanks for the heads up.

         Playing on Xbox 360. The HD looks really great.

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3. 

   Noamuth

   January 21, 2012 at 9:43 am

   ‘Significant other’ made me lol. But yeah, amazing how many pokemonones there are.. Man, those games.

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4. 

   Damian

   January 21, 2012 at 9:54 am

   I find that a poorly timed save destroys a game for me. To this I developed a habit of using sequential saves.
   Unskippable / repeated cut scenes I don’t find that annoying. Escort missions suck if either the NPC is a raging idiot running into battle or a complete pansy who just stands there taking damage and crying.

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5. 

   bazuden

   January 21, 2012 at 9:55 am

   Having to go back to an old save code on the NES cos your brother writes them down wrong EVERY TIME.

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6. 

   McGarnical

   January 21, 2012 at 10:46 am

   Just realised this list doesn’t have QTEs on it.

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   1. 

      bazuden

      January 21, 2012 at 10:48 am

      I like QTEs….

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         McGarnical

         January 21, 2012 at 10:58 am

         I like them sometimes.

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7. 

   N0NEoftheAB0VE

   January 21, 2012 at 11:09 am

   Whenyour kids delete your N64 save file on Banjo Kazooie – and then wonder why they cant see the level they want!

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   1. 

      CyK

      January 21, 2012 at 2:01 pm

      Why don’t Nintendo/developers in that era have save game features? blows my mind. Clocking everything single thing in Ocarina of Time and then loosing the save.

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8. 

   Wooly89

   January 21, 2012 at 12:32 pm

   All escort missions, apart from Ico and RE4, are terrible so I’m going to have to go with that one.

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9. 

   RocK_M

   January 21, 2012 at 1:33 pm

   I don’t get the rage over Water Levels most i’ve played were tolerable (even the spike infested Bubbleman stage xD)…. the only exception is unless we’re talking about the ones from the American McGee’s Alice…

   Lets compound terrible controls w/ horrible camera angles messing up where your going and what your knifinfg.. and forcing you to climb back up for air when your getting your ass chewed by monsters. Always good fun! =P

   That being said… i find Ice stages more annoying xD

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10. 

    EmbraceThePing

    January 21, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Poorly scripted Companions are the worst.
    When I was playing Skyrim having your stupid companion do a LEEROY JENKINS!!! while your trying to sneak up and kill enemy one at a time was a real DOH moment.
    Even if you tell them to wait back away from the enemy as soon as you lure one enemy away and fight it the stupid NPC compaion rushes in and starts laying into all the others :/

    Having said that I still rate dying without save as the worst. It can kill a game for me as I have to trudge back and do the same shit over again.

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11. 

    Snacuum

    January 22, 2012 at 12:56 am

    I’ve been playing Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and it has reminded men of how much I hate any RPG (or RPG style game) that basically says: “You can do this and this and upgrade that” and then you do and a few levels later “Lol you dumbass you should have put all your points in that other thing, too bad all enemies are super-tough now!”

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12. 

    Alligator

    January 22, 2012 at 8:53 am

    One not in game related is having a mate over for an xbox night and having both your charge an play packs die… And you only have one cord and no batteries. Fail.

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13. 

    Josh bonador

    January 22, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    There has to be

    ‘Finding a fork in the road, taking one route then being unable to explore the other route.’

    Being a perfectionist, its annoying to have that occur. Happened in Bastion quite a few times :[

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14. 

    Crowbar

    January 23, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Extremely long unskippable cinematic right before a really hard boss fight, during which you are unable to save (forcing you tediously sit through it over and over again each time you die).

    Nothing tops this for me.

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