Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment

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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:06 pm

So I've hauled my XBox to my mum's today to have a bit of a Rock Band session between exam marking. Put on a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival that has an excessive tapping section wherein I had to press the A buttom rhythmically 620 times in order to get the best score on the song, and after 616 perfect taps my internet connection dropped, the XBox signed me out and froze the song just long enough for me to miss tap no. 617.

My rage filled screams have terrified the dog into running off somewhere and I haven't seen him since.

What is your most frustrating gaming moment?

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Skippy » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:11 pm

My brother accidentally corrupted my Red Dead Revolver save when I was at the very, very end. Not a huge deal in retrospect, but I was so pissed off at the time. There might have been some residual stress involved from the Tower of Blades in God of War, which I was playing around the same time.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Cumberdanes » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:25 pm

Most recently the punch out artist training in Yakuza 0 but overall it has to be losing a 150+ hour FFVII save file when a cheap memory card went corrupt on me.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by False » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:25 pm

I put my fist through the dividing wall beside me when the shitty Destiny matchmaking dropped my connection for the third match in a row when I was playing well and logging very high KDR's.

I am usually very good at containing myself but Destiny always brought out the monster in me and after months of pain I finally broke.

Rock Band related, I was trying to master Vaseline by Stone Temple Pilots - a song I hate and struggled to play - and after dropping one too many notes I picked up and threw the drum kit across the room, breaking it in half.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by MrKirov » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:39 pm

When I was so angry when I was playing Geometry Wars 2 in person with Rubix78 that I punched a window and smashed the double glazing, thus cutting my hand open in the process.

Yeah, I had anger issues when I was younger :fp:

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by The Watching Artist » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:31 pm

I dunno about most but most but recently having to farm for vials in Bloodborne. So strawberry floating stupid.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Cheeky Devlin » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:38 pm

I don't tend to get physically violent, mostly just seething anger or abuse-laden outbursts (Hi Mario Kart!).

The one that frustrated me the most was playing through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 to get the Gnome achievement. Took quite a while as the guy was a pain in the arse to keep track of sometimes. The worst segment is the car chase, where the physics cause him to fly out of the vehicle at the slightest knock. Lots of reloading, and trying again.

Finally got him to the end of the game, loaded him into the Rocket and finished it off. Only for the achievement to not unlock.

As I'd already played through the game a couple of times I decided to mix going for the achievement, with having the commentary nodes on. Having these on apparently disables achievements. I did not know this. :evil:

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Preezy » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:14 pm

Dropship on PS2 - hardest game I've ever played, as a younger man this nearly broke me.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by jiggles » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:22 pm

I had a cheap unofficial memory card for PS1 that corrupted on the third disc of my first playthrough of FFVII.

I remember having to explain to my mum why I was crying and her not understanding the gravitas of any of it.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Squinty » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:30 pm

Meat Circus in Psychonauts. Tried it numerous times. Ended up turning the game off and never returning to it. It was gooseberry fool.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by <]:^D » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:45 pm

my takeaway from this is dont buy cheap memory cards
unfortunately you cant get official ones any more so i have 3 cheap 3rd party ones :dread:

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Corazon de Leon » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:53 pm

I had about 44/65 Timesplitters 2 platinum medals only to be foiled by a dodgy memory card.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Cumberdanes » Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:06 pm

*<]:^D wrote:my takeaway from this is dont buy cheap memory cards
unfortunately you cant get official ones any more so i have 3 cheap 3rd party ones :dread:


Mine was one of those massive ones which compressed the data so you could store loads of saves. I later learned they were notorious for corrupted data.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by FatDaz » Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:36 pm

Skippy wrote: There might have been some residual stress involved from the Tower of Blades in God of War, which I was playing around the same time.


Came here to post this exact thing. There has never been nor ever will be anything as utterly soul destroying and rage inducing. I was literally screaming till my voice went and shaking with rage! Broke my controller by throwing it and I'm normally careful about not damaging things

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by rinks » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:58 pm

Squinty wrote:Meat Circus in Psychonauts. Tried it numerous times. Ended up turning the game off and never returning to it. It was gooseberry fool.

I was there just a couple of weeks ago. It was a bit tricky, but not that bad.

The thing with frustrating moments is that I am too stubborn to quit. I will not be beaten by a game. So the frustration is always wiped away by the relief at having overcome it. It's why I love/hate Cuphead.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by jawafour » Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:05 pm

Veni, Vidi, Vici in VVVVVV on 3DS. Strawberry-floatin' hell.

Did it, though 8-) .

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Tafdolphin » Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:26 pm

Alpha 152.

Nearly gave myself an aneurysm.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by KingK » Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:50 pm

Call of Duty 4's Epilogue on Veteran - Mile High. Never got it and stayed on 980/1000 for that game. Even used to do it with a YT video open alongside so I could check my timings. Always died or ran out of time

Nowadays my most frustrating moment is usually what I'm currently playing. My patience is not what it once was! :shifty: :lol:

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by Buffalo » Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:50 pm

The vast majority of Jak II. The difficulty of that game was quite bizarre. Did it, somehow.

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PostRe: Your Most Frustrating Gaming Moment
by mrbrightside » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:22 pm

:nod: Canary Mary the second time :twisted:


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