Your TOP biggest "Are you kidding me ?" moments in your videogaming li

What is you biggest "Are you kidding me?" moments in your videogame playing careers.

Personally mine would probably be playing One by metalica in GH 3 and it being really nice and easy and slow, then out of no where the most insane guitar solo ever (besides ttfaf of course) comes out of no where and instantly i lose. of course i pressed on to finally beat it, but that was shocking. now this topic isnt about me, its about you, so share your storys people!

1. Near the end of Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb there is a level where you're being chased by a tank while having to make all the pixel perfect jumps over a series of pits. This kind of no-mercy-allowed jumping puzzle has a way of sucking the fun out of anything.

2. The assassination mission near the end of Call of Duty 4. I'm hiding under an old ferris wheel while fending off what seems like a billion solider after killing some arms dealer. Who brings this many people to an arms deal?!?! 30 trys and I still could not get it. Fighting an endless number of enemies doesn't equal a fun time.

3. There are several missions in the old X-Wing flight simulator that you have to fail in order to find out the actual mission requirements. Apparently someone who worked at LucasArts back then decided that telling you your full mission goals during the briefing wasn't important.

4. Any game that doesn't work right out of the box.

5. Any game that still has serious stability issues even after several patches. Two examples are Silverfall and Temple of Elemental Evil for the PC.

6. Any end game boss that is 10 times harder than everything else in the game put together. Three games I had a blast with until the end are Simpsons Hit & Run, Psychonauts, and Beyond Good & Evil.

6. Any end game boss that is 10 times harder than everything else in the game put together. Three games I had a blast with until the end are Simpsons Hit & Run, Psychonauts, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Drosa

1. Near the end of Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb there is a level where you're being chased by a tank while having to make all the pixel perfect jumps over a series of pits. This kind of no-mercy-allowed jumping puzzle has a way of sucking the fun out of anything.

2. The assassination mission near the end of Call of Duty 4. I'm hiding under an old ferris wheel while fending off what seems like a billion solider after killing some arms dealer. Who brings this many people to an arms deal?!?! 30 trys and I still could not get it. Fighting an endless number of enemies doesn't equal a fun time.

3. There are several missions in the old X-Wing flight simulator that you have to fail in order to find out the actual mission requirements. Apparently someone who worked at LucasArts back then decided that telling you your full mission goals during the briefing wasn't important.

4. Any game that doesn't work right out of the box.

5. Any game that still has serious stability issues even after several patches. Two examples are Silverfall and Temple of Elemental Evil for the PC.

6. Any end game boss that is 10 times harder than everything else in the game put together. Three games I had a blast with until the end are Simpsons Hit & Run, Psychonauts, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Drosa

*Gears of War 2 spoilers*

[spoiler] Tai dying in Gears of War 2 [/spoiler]

The last level of CoD 4.

The Deal ending of GTA IV.

"Sir, finishing this fight..."   *screen fades to black*jim_shorts

In COD4, I set the difficulty level to one below veteran. I started the first mission. Somewhere in the container ship I choose to take some cover. When I peek out of cover, I see my teammate standing one metre from an enemy, not shooting at him, but being shot at. He kept standing there and not dying. I just thought "how is this supposed to feel realistic or like a shooter at all?". 

One other moment was also with COD4. In the campaign, I was aiming for a rooftop, and shooting enemies off it. I kept doing that, and seeing the same enemy do the same movements and firing the same rockets all the time until my sniper bullets ran out.

Then in Halo 3 the last mission. 

In Resident Evil 4, when that cage drops on you and your reaction is "oh, better brace myself for a challenge", then the Zealots with their  flails and cross-bows fill up the room and you think, "well, this is going to be rather difficult," and then the friggin' Garrado jumps into the cage and you're like "you gotta be ******* kidding me!".

Quite a few similar moments in that game, actually, but none stand out in my mind quite so much is as the abovementioned.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2. This one mission where u have to protect this moogle and defeat all enemy's.

2 of there units use an ability that randomly chooses targets and puts them to sleep and casts doom on them. Sure the moogle is immune to doom, to bad my white mage isn't...

"Sir, finishing this fight..."   *screen fades to black*jim_shorts

Dude thz also my fav line From Halo 2

1.) I am shocked no one said the end of disc 1 in Final Fantasy 7. I can't believe they had the balls to do that. In retrospect, Aeris' passing made the game stronger now that I'm 10 years out in the distance, but that didn't make me utter a WTF so much as shocked silence that my Phoenix Down didn't work for some reason.

2.) Fighting Nyx at the end of Persona 3. I fought him for literally an hour and a half because I was underleveled, using up all of my Somas and other uber healing items. Second to last turn, bam, hits me with Night Queen, silencing Mitsuru and enraging everyone else. He had a god damn sliver of life. Main Character bashed him real good. So did Junpei, Aigis his once, then missed second enraged attack. I couldn't see his life, but no one had any HP left except Junpei who survived the next round, but being slower than Nyx was, he waxed him in the next hit...

If that mother ****er had more than 25 hp, I'll be suprised. I refused to lose so I grinded 10 more levels for each character then came back and shredded him. But an hour and a half down the drain for literally maybe double digit damage. UGH!!!!! That had me yelling and swearing.

3.) Any time playing Gears of War 1 or 2 on insane. 

The Ugh-Zan III battle in Serious Sam.

I literally was like: "You gotta be kidding me!"

The Gol and Sil Dragon in PSO. This is easy, what the crap he split, holy crap his double split too.

Any game where I win a fight only for the following cutscene to tell me that not only did I lose I lost badly.

People that complain about QTE in games, yet will buy Rockband and Guitar Hero when they are essentially QTE set to music.

People that bring up trivial complaints.
One I've recently seen about RE4: It makes no sense where Ashley got a flashlight from.
In a game about Viruses and Parasites that control or reanimate the dead, a guy that can carry a couple of handguns, shotguns, rifles, rocket launchers and few dozen grenades in an unseen and never heavy case, and that is your biggest complaint.

The Gol and Sil Dragon in PSO. This is easy, what the crap he split, holy crap his double split too.

Any game where I win a fight only for the following cutscene to tell me that not only did I lose I lost badly.

People that complain about QTE in games, yet will buy Rockband and Guitar Hero when they are essentially QTE set to music.

People that bring up trivial complaints.
One I've recently seen about RE4: It makes no sense where Ashley got a flashlight from.
In a game about Viruses and Parasites that control or reanimate the dead, a guy that can carry a couple of handguns, shotguns, rifles, rocket launchers and few dozen grenades in an unseen and never heavy case, and that is your biggest complaint.

Chaos1031

To refute your QTE statement, most QTEs involve 4 buttons and 8 directions (yes Diagonals appear in many QTEs). At most you have 5 in Guitar Hero. Secondly, even on expert, you do not lose from missing one press. I rest my case.SemiMaster

Not all QTE cause you to instantly lose either, as rare as those kind are.

I should have been clearer on what people I was refering to. The people I was trying to refer to are usually also the kind who end up button-mashing in a game as well, the ones who have little grasp on how to play any actual games. My sister for example wants to get GH, and I know she'll complain about having to hit the buttons in time with the screen.

Stupid message ran together.

[QUOTE="SemiMaster"]To refute your QTE statement, most QTEs involve 4 buttons and 8 directions (yes Diagonals appear in many QTEs). At most you have 5 in Guitar Hero. Secondly, even on expert, you do not lose from missing one press. I rest my case.Chaos1031

Not all QTE cause you to instantly lose either, as rare as those kind are.

I should have been clearer on what people I was refering to. The people I was trying to refer to are usually also the kind who end up button-mashing in a game as well, the ones who have little grasp on how to play any actual games. My sister for example wants to get GH, and I know she'll complain about having to hit the buttons in time with the screen.

Stupid message ran together.

1. Near the end of Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb there is a level where you're being chased by a tank while having to make all the pixel perfect jumps over a series of pits. This kind of no-mercy-allowed jumping puzzle has a way of sucking the fun out of anything.

2. The assassination mission near the end of Call of Duty 4. I'm hiding under an old ferris wheel while fending off what seems like a billion solider after killing some arms dealer. Who brings this many people to an arms deal?!?! 30 trys and I still could not get it. Fighting an endless number of enemies doesn't equal a fun time.

3. There are several missions in the old X-Wing flight simulator that you have to fail in order to find out the actual mission requirements. Apparently someone who worked at LucasArts back then decided that telling you your full mission goals during the briefing wasn't important.

4. Any game that doesn't work right out of the box.

5. Any game that still has serious stability issues even after several patches. Two examples are Silverfall and Temple of Elemental Evil for the PC.

6. Any end game boss that is 10 times harder than everything else in the game put together. Three games I had a blast with until the end are Simpsons Hit & Run, Psychonauts, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Drosa

I also had Simpsons Hit & Run for gamecube and i know exactly what u mean. I went through most of the game the first time that i replayed it while trying to get all of the cars. My favorite, even though it isnt the greatest was the sedan.

Going through tons of quests in fallout 3, making sure I am as evil as I could possibly be and then watching the 2 minute ending cut scene...

Still a great game though.

Left 4 Dead quite often does it. Especially on VS mode when you play against a team who gets givern a Tank at the start, then on your turn as the infected they get a free clean run to the safehouse with no zomebie hordes or nothing in there way. You find you can't keep up on them because they can run through the level so fast, the director system often makes for unfair games.

Valkryia Chronicles had a mission where the enemy turn had some reinforcments come into the battle. It let computer have 20 turns (which is a lot) with a unit which is invunurable to all damage, can beat anything of yours in one shot, is 100% accurate and infinate range to it's attacks just walked around the battlefriend taking out everything I had with nothing I could do about it. It's known as the worst designed level in the game according to GameFaq's which I had to resort to in order to get past the level.

Valkryia Chronicles had a mission where the enemy turn had some reinforcments come into the battle. It let computer have 20 turns (which is a lot) with a unit which is invunurable to all damage, can beat anything of yours in one shot, is 100% accurate and infinate range to it's attacks just walked around the battlefriend taking out everything I had with nothing I could do about it. It's known as the worst designed level in the game according to GameFaq's which I had to resort to in order to get past the level.

TristanShand

[QUOTE="TristanShand"]

Valkryia Chronicles had a mission where the enemy turn had some reinforcments come into the battle. It let computer have 20 turns (which is a lot) with a unit which is invunurable to all damage, can beat anything of yours in one shot, is 100% accurate and infinate range to it's attacks just walked around the battlefriend taking out everything I had with nothing I could do about it. It's known as the worst designed level in the game according to GameFaq's which I had to resort to in order to get past the level.

AirGuitarist87

yep.

[QUOTE="AirGuitarist87"][QUOTE="TristanShand"]

Valkryia Chronicles had a mission where the enemy turn had some reinforcments come into the battle. It let computer have 20 turns (which is a lot) with a unit which is invunurable to all damage, can beat anything of yours in one shot, is 100% accurate and infinate range to it's attacks just walked around the battlefriend taking out everything I had with nothing I could do about it. It's known as the worst designed level in the game according to GameFaq's which I had to resort to in order to get past the level.

TristanShand

yep.

The last couple of races (I think they're called masters...but I don't remember) in Ridge Racer 6. They're a massive spike in difficulty over anything that came before, since you basically have to race perfectly and **bleep**-block the AI opponents as well as time your last nitrous blast to carry you over the finish line right as it runs out.

Frustrating as hell. I can't believe they actually expected people to beat it, or that I actuallly finished them.

Guild Wars has a couple of those moments too. My first one came after checking my totals and noticing I had unlocked about 150 high-end chests (after about a year or two of owning the game). I checked online to see how many I'd have to complete that title track: 10,000. Are you **bleep**ing kidding me Arenanet?

I've got a couple

Return of Big Boss at the end of MGS4

Tackling a survivor through an open elevator shaft doorway and causing us to plummet to our deaths in versus mode in Left 4 Dead

Becoming the Nemesis of 7 people in one game of TF2 at the same time.....it will never happen again

Playing Max Payne 2, the game was autosaved as I was falling into a hole, so I would constantly restart already falling in the same hole.

End of Halo 2

The first time I played a korean in StarCraft.

Edit: Also in Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin the last couple missions, the first where you have to kill Wayan or something the air guy, he starts with more guys, a better position, more buildings for resources, and more places to build guys. You have nothing going for you.

Playing Max Payne 2, the game was autosaved as I was falling into a hole, so I would constantly restart already falling in the same hole.Hypochondria9

[QUOTE="Hypochondria9"]Playing Max Payne 2, the game was autosaved as I was falling into a hole, so I would constantly restart already falling in the same hole.SemiMaster

Wow, that must really suck. :?