Most frustrating games?

[Bananamatic]

Tap the direction pad lighter.  There's your focus. :V

Oh yeah and you know how you have to be good at chaining in DDP to get to the second loop?  In MM you have to be good at chaining just to get to full power.  Goddamn cubes. :<

How this isn't the hardest shmup ever?
I've finished it after 40 continues or so, it was......ugh.

It makes Futari Ultra look like Barbie Horse Adventures.

The gameplay is pretty hectic. Most of the shots don?t move very quickly, but there are so many of the colored, patterned bullets that it makes the Dreamcast slow down at times.

MY ASS

[KomeijiKoishi]

Throne of Darkness, a Diablo-like RPG for PC. The difficulty? I guess something WAY BEYOND UFO LUNATIC!
Your weapons break REALLY fast (like half an hour of gameplay after you start using them), your characters have way too few health and without running away from the enemy every 10 seconds, there is NO FUCKING WAY to even get out of the first castle.

[Marukyu_Nineball]

Kingdom Hearts. I hate the Demyx, Xigbar, Xaldin and Xemnas fight DX I hate Agrabah cause I had to find the three switched and I flew in circles I felt so dizzy.

KH358/2 Days... DX just plain hard. And I almost cried at the end.

Touhou Project... Everyone would be frustrated.

Pokemon... I have a hard time beating Pearl

[Third Eye Lem]

I rented New Super Mario Bros Wii recently, and ZOMG WORLD 5 IS HARD.

5-1: Piranha Plants, they either spit these spiky balls at you or stretch up to bite you.
5-Enemy: Pain in the ass unless you have either flower.
5-2: Giant Wriggler tunnel. You have to find your way around them and sometimes use their bodies as platforms.
5-3: Rolling logs, the longer you stand on them, the sooner they roll and threaten to dump you into the lethal soup of poison water. Oh, and there are these annoying two-legged walker things too.
5-Tower: OH GOD SPIKED WALLS. Like, the walls move back and forth, and cover up parts of the level with spikes, so you have to run back and forth across the platforms to avoid getting skewered.
5-4: Raft level. Enemies fall onto your raft and often kill you because you're not looking up. This is what stopped me, because the raft has a counter on it that goes up when enemies are on it, and if it gets too high the raft stops. I'm pretty sure it sinks when you leave it full of mooks for too long. Unless you have a fire flower, it takes forever to clear them out, AND THEY REAPPEAR IF THEY FALL OFF THE RAFT AND YOU SCROLL THEM OFF THE SCREEN. Also, Mini Goombas. I hate them with a burning passion.

I also heard World 8 is pretty nasty too, I can't imagine how World 9 would look like...Thank god you can save anytime you beat a fortress now.

[Arcengal]

Yes it was. The playtesters where fired upon pointing out the gazillion flaws. And no, I'm not joking about that.

Source?

[tjk]

I think my most frustrating one of recent was Mass Effect , I landed on some random planet and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get back off it.

[An Odd Sea Slug]

I just remembered my frustration with the second-to-last regular mission of the first Rogue Squadron game on the N64. Holy shit was that mission hard. You couldn't really expect your wingmen to literally last longer than 5 minutes, so they certainly weren't any help. Hideously accurate Turbolasers, missile turrets and AT-ST's basically flooded the map, along with copious amounts of TIE Bombers. Fighters and Interceptors hounded you the entire time, on your back like a bad itch.

You're forced to make all these crazy and wild maneuvers just to survive, including the constant closing and re-opening of your S-Foils to get the speed you need. Good luck trying to fly this one with the TIE Interceptor or A-wing, unless your REALLY good at destroying things quickly while taking as little damage possible. The Y-wing and Falcon are just too slow; the ability to soak up damage becomes irrelevant very quickly with annoying TIE craft taking pot shots at you. The only options I'd consider viable are the either the X-wing or N1 (Naboo's Starfighter).

Thats not all. Even if you beat the odds, an Interceptor with very peculiar AI will start messing with you. He fires all four cannons at once shotgun style, and is freakishly accurate, even by AI standards. Its as if he's actively taunting you with the slow firing style, and I swear he took more damage than normal. He flew quite well. Even if you somehow managed to get behind him, he'd just instantly sharp turn out of the way and zip right back behind you. You're forced to do a hold bunch of unconventional maneuvers (read: spam the airbrake and twist wildly) just to evade him, let alone get a good angle for him for a precious few seconds of return fire.

Finally, once you've knocked out the remainder of his forces, that bastard Moff Seerdon (sp?) finally comes to town. Yes, the arrogant bastard thats been taunting you since Blockade on Chandrilla will descend to you in an armored Imperial Shuttle for a nice one on one. Said shuttle has a ludicrous amounts of HP- I hope you saved your torpedoes... And hope said torpedoes have the seeker upgrade... Even after you die several times trying to figure out how to dodge his missiles, you got a long fight ahead of you (unless you learn how to outwit him long enough to concentrate blaster fire on him, as I did).

It must've taken me weeks, if not months to beat this single mission, or at least thats what it felt like. It took me even longer than Defection on Corellia (that mission also took forever due to the broke-ass tow-cabling mechanic that was thankfully smoothed out in the sequels). And this was just on normal difficulty. I didn't even attempt this on Ace mode...

[Ionasal kkll Solciel]

Solar Striker, a shump for the Game Boy.  Every stage past 3 (where it starts being forts rather than ships) is so goddamn annoying to beat, especially since you have no continues, barely any extra lives, and it's a literal goddamn hailstorm of bullets for a Western shump, since the hitbox is huge.

Oh, and on the talk about Lance on the previous page, one of his Dragonites (can't remember the version) has Barrier, a move that literally is unusable by any of its line, in any series.

[theshirn]

Solar Striker, a shump for the Game Boy.  Every stage past 3 (where it starts being forts rather than ships) is so goddamn annoying to beat, especially since you have no continues, barely any extra lives, and it's a literal goddamn hailstorm of bullets for a Western shump, since the hitbox is huge.

SOLAR STRIKER

OH HELL YES

HEEEELLLLLL YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH

Come on, though, that game wasn't THAT bad.  I've beaten it fairly simply.  Honestly, the Stage 4 boss was the hardest part.

[?q]

Oh, and on the talk about Lance on the previous page, one of his Dragonites (can't remember the version) has Barrier, a move that literally is unusable by any of its line, in any series.

Not to be confused with the last trainer in Stadium 2's Poke Cup, which features a Dragonite with ExtremeSpeed (only obtainable in Pokemon Crystal, which wasn't even out at the time of Stadium 2's release).  Or any of the three incarnations of Lt. Surge in the Gym Leader Castles, who all had Pikachus and Raichus that could Surf.

On topic:  For a while I was trying to beat The Subspace Emissary:
*No Stickers
*No Continues
*Intense Mode only
*Final Destination (where applicable)
I couldn't get past The Battlefield Fortress.  It definitely qualifies as one of the more frustrating challenges I've tried.

[Ionasal kkll Solciel]

Or any of the three incarnations of Lt. Surge in the Gym Leader Castles, who all had Pikachus and Raichus that could Surf.

Can't you get one yourself in Yellow, though, through one of the N64 games?  I remember a Surfing Pikachu minigame that required such.


Back on topic, FFTactics is making me bang my head on the walls.  I've never been good at strategy games, enough times having my Lord die in Fire Emblem or my base wrecked by a three-pronged assault in Red Alert 2 make that obvious, but who gave the idea out that random encounters should be scaled to the player's level?

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Back on topic, FFTactics is making me bang my head on the walls.  I've never been good at strategy games, enough times having my Lord die in Fire Emblem or my base wrecked by a three-pronged assault in Red Alert 2 make that obvious, but who gave the idea out that random encounters should be scaled to the player's level?

Don't ever play the hacked version of FFT v1.3 then. Even the story battles level with you in that and it is so full of BS early on that I just gave up on it. They sure did make things harder, but it wasn't any fun.

[Matsuri]

It makes Futari Ultra look like Barbie Horse Adventures.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Bullshit.

Plenty of people have 1CC'd Mars Matrix. There have only been a handful of people who have 1CC'd Futari Ultra using Palm, and only one who has 1CC'd Ultra with Reco.

You have no idea.

[?q]

Can't you get one yourself in Yellow, though, through one of the N64 games?  I remember a Surfing Pikachu minigame that required such.

If you can get that Surfin' Pikachu, you're a better player than me.
The requirement is to use Pikachu in every battle of R-2 Prime Cup Master Ball.  In other words, you get two Pokemon and lose the first turn, they get three Pokemon.  If you bring a Mewtwo in, you can hope for a stalemate/Struggle-fest with the last trainer's Mew.  After that you get your third pick to fight the other two Pokemon.  GLHF, etc.

[orinrin]

I am surprised no one mentioned Minesweeper.  That is considered one of the most frustrating games for me.  High difficulty settings completely screw me over.  Why do I play Minesweeper?  How else am I gonna pass time after I finish my final exam?  Whoever invented Minesweeper was a sadistic genius.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Hexic is much, much worse.

I I haven't gotten close to a proper grid because I don't see something and combo flowers and other stuff accidentally. I don't even know how I would make a Black Pearl using the grid and getting it back in place. I'll never get the pearl flower. I lucked out and got the pearl cluster when I didn't even know about making grids.

[Gregory House]

Kid Icarus for the NES.
I mean, even ignoring the enemies, you still die from falling unless you're terribly good at platformers.

[Matsuri]

Kid Icarus for the NES.
I mean, even ignoring the enemies, you still die from falling unless you're terribly good at platformers.

Oh god, yes. I remember when I started playing that, I'd die dozens of times each stage.

Then once you beat the game and collect all of the special equipment, it's fun to just keep looping the game and breezing through it like it's nothing. I think I was on my 11th loop on Virtual Console before I got tired of playing. 

Sometimes the most frustrating games become the most fun!

[Xelotath]

The dungeons levels in Kid Icarus were frustrating as hell, I hate the Eggplant Wizards with all my soul. Other than that it was not that bad. Still, as a kid I couldn't beat the game.

The original Metroid was pretty hard at the time too, it's probably the game where I got stuck the most. When I got the game I only wandered around and getting killed without finding anything. You were just thrown in the game with no instructions aside from the useless manual. When I beat the game(with no guide) I was really proud of myself.

[mil]

Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness.  Imagine Hydlide I. 
Now imagine it 5 times as worse.

Wizardry 6 on expert.  Think of one of the hardest RPGs you have ever played. 
Per encounter, multiply every enemy and boss by 2. 

Pok?mon Pinball.  Try to get Mew (to even appear).

[Gammeru]

The Immortal for the Genesis. EVERYTHING kills you.

[Ghaleon]

The dungeons levels in Kid Icarus were frustrating as hell, I hate the Eggplant Wizards with all my soul.

This.

The game wasn't very frusterating IMO, just those damn eggplant men. The worst, if my traumatized memories serve me correctly, was in the third dungeon. About 5 rooms away from the nearest doc, you have to go from right to left across a room where there is a floor in between you and 2 eggplant men, in other words, no way to get to them (the floor has no holes to fall thru to kill em). Due to the arcing of their eggplant shots, and being below you, it was particularly difficult to get past. To make matters worse, there were 2 platform+animated spike rooms, AND THEN ANOTHER eggplant room with the exact same design afterwards!

Kid Icarus is one of the first games I know with multiple endings, I remember when Chrono trigger was new, everyone thought it was some amazing new feature that a game had multiple endings, but there were plenty before it.

I found the game was most difficult in the first world (minus the first stage in it) though, the powerups you got thru the game outweighed the increase in difficulty IMO (minus that damn eggplant fest in the 3rd dungeon).

I totally forgot how bad those eggplant dudes made me go ARRRAGHHHH!!!! though! thanks alot >=p

[trancehime]

How this isn't the hardest shmup ever?
I've finished it after 40 continues or so, it was......ugh.

What? Mars Matrix isn't very much compared to Futari Ultra.

Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness.  Imagine Hydlide I. 
Now imagine it 5 times as worse.

Wizardry 6 on expert.  Think of one of the hardest RPGs you have ever played. 
Per encounter, multiply every enemy and boss by 2. 

Pok?mon Pinball.  Try to get Mew (to even appear).

Re: Hydlide II
Delete, play Super Hydlide. Superior to both Hydlide games in every aspect. Yes, I've finished the three games. I know how it is.

Re: Wizardry 6
Agreed.

Re: Pokemon Pinball
I've done this numerous times.

[mil]

Re: Hydlide II
Delete, play Super Hydlide. Superior to both Hydlide games in every aspect. Yes, I've finished the three games. I know how it is.

You actually beat Shine of Darkness?  Your 'purity' must be lost forever!
Even with the aid of a comprehensive Japanese FAQ, I'm still surprised I finished that aberration.

I think I will like Virtual Hydlide the most.  Low quality blurry 3D graphics are just too charming.

[Byakuren Hijiri]

EoSD. Seriously I can beat SA like IN, but EoSD is too hard for me 

[Anglican]

I'm kinda frustrated on Assassin's Creed and it's sequel, even though the game and the relevant plot is actually interesting but the redundancy of things like the prerequisite before Assassination is really tad boring. And the difficulty I was hoping it was more harder.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Started playing Bionic Commando Rearmed again. I still need to finish the challenge rooms and beat Super Hard. So I started a Super Hard file.

How the hell did it take me over half an hour to beat area 5 on Super Hard? It's not like the level is hard, and you can easily get through it just killing the boss since everything else is easily avoided.

I have no idea which area I'm going to next, but I'm expecting a lot more rage.

[Tarquinius]

Pathologic, by Ice Pick Lodge. The worst translation of any game ever, (parts of the Devotress story line were translated using Babelfish), some engine flaws, and a fascinating storyline told at the expense of any sense of fun.

[DgBarca]

Well Obviously touhou, hey Tetris in not bad...FFFUCKING BLOCK I SAID TURRRRRN !

[Nat Tea]

Well Obviously touhou, hey Tetris in not bad...FFFUCKING BLOCK I SAID TURRRRRN !

You know the feeling where you need a four straight piece and the game gives you a box? Yeah.  :V



A game on my frustration list? Bowser's Inside Story, strangely.

I don't know how, but every time I retry the fight I'm stuck on (

Spoiler:

the second Bowser fight

), I keep losing! Maybe I should just level up a bit...