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[Tough Games] And a Graveyard of Broken Controllers
THEPAIN73
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For me I have times when I get mad at certain parts in certain games and I lose it. Call it an anger problem, but some games are just rough.
When I was a kid the first game I remember really getting angry over was Another World for SNES. And for a 5 year old the game was nuts. Cutscenes, parts where you had to THINK, tough game never beat it though. I might buy it on VC if I ever get the chance.
I love Golden Sun, but Dullahan from Golden Sun 2 was horribly overpowered. I tried the entire fight to not use Djini but alas I summon rushed him to the end of the Earth and ended his reign of terror on my cartridge. I want GS3 now! :x
Something more current is in Kingdom Hearts 2. Where
When I was a kid the first game I remember really getting angry over was Another World for SNES. And for a 5 year old the game was nuts. Cutscenes, parts where you had to THINK, tough game never beat it though. I might buy it on VC if I ever get the chance.
I love Golden Sun, but Dullahan from Golden Sun 2 was horribly overpowered. I tried the entire fight to not use Djini but alas I summon rushed him to the end of the Earth and ended his reign of terror on my cartridge. I want GS3 now! :x
Something more current is in Kingdom Hearts 2. Where
Xigbar is constantly shooting at you with those pink bullets in the most tiny square ever and it's impossible to dodge.
I'm at level 50 and still cannot beat him. I want to finish it so bad. THEPAIN73 on
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Geometry Wars 2 had me bite my 360 controller, and now there are teeth marks on my main controller.
Mario Kart Wii almost had me toss my Wii-Remote against the wall, but I shut off the game and walked away.
I know I've gone through MULTIPLE N64 controllers on Killer Instinct Gold. FUCK YOU GARGOS!!! LAUGHING AND REGENERATING YOUR HEALTH?! FUCK YOU! OH ITS SO FUNNY TO KNOCK ME IN THE AIR EVERY TIME I GET CLOSE ISNT IT?! *breaks keyboard*
Recently, Bionic Commando: Rearmed made me shove my face in a pillow and bellow so loudly that I hurt my throat.
Naglfar's pit.
That is all.
Devil May Cry 3
Silver Surfer on the NES
I wanna be the guy
Ikaruga
ThunderForce 3
Ninja Turtles on the NES
Super Ghouls n Ghosts on the SNES
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Fuck. That. Game.
Killer Instinct SNES
Nerd rage,
Shattered controller.
Also, Vietiful Joe made me a jibbering wreck in the final battles.
Fuck. You. Yellow. Devil.
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Most EA Sports games - leading by a goal / touchdown with little time left? The computer automatically becomes god-like and ties or wins the game.
Mario Kart Wii - I've slammed the Wii Wheel into my couch a few times, mostly relating to Rainbow Road and the fiery mountain stage whose name I'm now forgetting. Trying to unlock the advanced ghost on Rainbow Road was incredibly frustrating for me, especially the one time that I would have broken the time with ease and then I fell on the very last curve.
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I came in here just to post this, I think I actually cried as a kid.
Limed for truth.
Sometimes, sometimes I still cry myself to sleep because of that game.
I still have it actually, played it last year with my friend for a few hours, I think we got to level 2.
we're both pretty good at contra. He's beaten the first one three times in a row, and any of you that have done it more than once know that it gets harder as you go. Stuff takes more hits; that kinda deal. It's just so goddamned frustrating when you know you can beat the game on one life and you just die. Over and over.
I don't think I've ever seen the 2nd level. I remember going to Dave and Buster's and telling my friends that I will continue to play as long as I can until I beat the first level.
I ran out of credits.
I never made it past that snowy level in Super Ghouls n Ghosts, the one just after that bitch of a level thats like you're inside a stomach. I feel I may never finish the game and it will sit there forever on my shelf mocking me.
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Bionic Commando Rearmed almost made me do that, but damn those controllers are expensive.
It's almost worth it for the music though.
Like Ghouls and Ghosts with russians.
The one game that's really gotten to me recently is Jumper. I know at one point my wife came into the computer room with a concerned look because I was shouting "COCK! COCKS! COCKS!" over and over and eventually it turned into some sort of weird a capella jazz thing.
I won't do that again =/
It was either:
And since I didn't like the outcomes of the last 3... #1 won.
One day I decided to give it another shot and made it farther than I ever had before only to *miss* the last set of button mashes. I dunno what came over me but I threw the controller without thinking as hard as I could and it nailed the top of the dreamcast. The DC still worked, but the disc was dead, and to this day I have never beat Shenmue II. I really enjoyed those games too, but because of that I'm not stuck in "Waiting on shenmue 3 purgatory", you win some ya lose some.
This is almost a haiku.
Of course, I was an angry kid back then. :P
I miss the Sega Master System games like none other.
But there's a difference between a game thats a fun challange, with a feeling of accomplishment when you beat it. And absolute bullshit, like QTEs
I dunno, I rented F-Zero GX knowing nothing about it, just because I remembered many hours of enjoyment on F-Zero for the SNES. I played it for like half an hour and then moved on to something I could actually enjoy.
I one snapped a PSX pad clean in half (forget why). I recently had to discard my original Dual Shock 2 due to years of bearing my frustrations across my collection (mostly Armored Core and Monster Hunter though).
I've actually destroyed copies of Armored Core 3 and Tales of the Abyss through physical violence. Still need to replace Tales
Anyway, if you're a machine you'd best follow C3PO's advice around me.
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my girlfriend is both entertained and a little unsettled by watching me when i play Bionic Commando's challenges.
Granted, they were betting money on it, but still.
I didn't throw it out of frustration. I didn't slam it against a wall. I didn't even bite it or drop it while throwing up my hands in frustration.
It broke because the game was forcing me to play too hard.
The little plastic springy bit on the R2 button shattered and sent tiny pieces of plastic rattling around my controller because I was switching weapons so much during combos. It broke while I was switching to the Beowulf gauntlets, ending a beautiful god knows how many hit SSStylish combo in which I was obliterating everything in the room.
I still haven't replaced the controller.
Yelling into a pillow works great. I feel a lot better after doing it.
That reminds me, my girlfriend gets pissed at me when I get pissed at a video game. Thus causing me to get even more pissed that she's pissed at me, and I generally end up storming out of the room.
Only to come back later to apologize for my actions, and find out she's still pissed... Which throws me back into the circle.
That story still makes me laugh, especially if I try and imagine the look of horror on the girlfriend's face.
Oh holy shit. I didn't see that. FJL is the best phrase ever.