@!#?@! What Are Your Swearworthy Gaming Moments?
The above video shows Giant Bomb editor Jeff Gerstmann having a particularly difficult time with one of Mega Man 9's finger-achingly difficult levels. If you're at work, I wouldn't watch it with your speakers on. It's a situation I'm sure we've all been in no matter how nimble our thumbs: there's always some game, or part of a game that causes us to erupt in a flurry of blush-worthy profanity or controller crushing violence. Sometimes we're cursing a game for being cheap, but sometimes we're just lamenting our lack of skills.
I'm usually pretty reluctant to bash a game for difficulty - I'm not a great player by any stretch, but I can usually tell when a game's being fair but tough and when it's just punishing me for even trying. Is there anything you've been playing lately that's made your blood boil, and who do you blame more: the makers, or yourself? Are those challenges something you live for, or are you just not enough of a masochist to deal with them?
I was pondering giving Mega Man 9 a try when it hits XBLA next week (I've got some Microsoft points to burn or I probably would have grabbed it from WiiWare or PSN already), but seeing Mr. Gerstmann's struggle I'm not sure I want to put myself through that anymore. Part of me says to man up and give it a shot, but another part says my blood pressure doesn't need the hit. "Cause of death: Plug Man" isn't really a classy way to go.
Dawdle
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 27 September 2008
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I seem to recall some frustration with a number of "impossible" and "leaps of faith"
in the original Tomb Raider.
I also have not finished Silent Hill 3 because of the "God" boss battle.
I also wish to just plunge into Mega Man 9, I just don't wish to be bent over it's knee and spanked mercifully. My first MM game was 3 on the NES. I did fine with it. When the Anniversary Collection came out I played each game for about 20 frustrating minutes.. so why do I want MM 9? I think it's the retro action ... sigh
the end boss in final fantasy vii had me ripping my hair out for months back in the day
My 360's been freezing up a lot lately. The most recent time has been today, the first time I tried to go online with Rock Band 2. Much swearing followed.
I almost finished God of War on the hardest difficulty level - God mode I think it was called. It was insane.
Got to the part where copies of Kratos attack his wife and kid, and I just could not do it. Got angry, punched the controller and broke it.
I also remember actually beating the NES Ninja Gaiden as a kid. I probably couldn't do it now though.
Eleven-year-old me playing Final Fantasy IV and spending more than an hour getting Rydia up to the level where she learns Meteo... and then having my party wiped out by a pair of Behemoths. Probably one of the first times I properly dropped as F bomb in my lfe.
Lesson learned: When leveling up, save often. Also, no F bombs in earshot of mom and dad.
WoW battlegrounds. Pretty much all of them.
Getting killed by the last UFO in Space Invaders, on the Gameboy.
And I still haven't got past it.
I lurve Jeff Gerstmann and his giantbomb.com! *drool* And no, I didn't have anything on-topic to say :p
I couldn't even beat the trial stage on the psn demo of mm9. It's absurd. I've beaten all of the mm games thus far but the damn elephants are dumb. How the hell do I kill the third without getting hit and/or sucked into a hole? gah...
MM9 is hard as hell, but I'm having lots of fun with it still. It's been a long time since I've sucked at a MegaMan game, and it feels good to be challanged. I can beat all of the NES games (actual cartridges, no emulators), without using special weapons in the stage or on the bosses.
Though I must say I find it absurd that I've managed to kill ElecMan in original MM1 with only the arm-cannon, yet I'm having difficulties in this new game.
Battletoads for the NES The speed bike level the 5th blockade Always killed me. My cousin grabs the controller and she does it on the first try!! "I can't fucking believe it, you're a Goddess." followed.
Playing through Persona 3 was one big cuss-fest for me. F@%king hama/mudo! As much as I loved the game, the difficulty and ocassional acts of cheapness on the part of the enemy (even on normal mode)led to many expletive being hurled (while trying to avoid doing the same with the controller).
Any time a game that is not a racing game forces me to win a race in order to progress in the game will elicit profanity from me that would make a sailor blush.
I'm looking at *you*, Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank games...
The Saturn fighting game X-men: Children of the atom.
Final boss Magneto is one of the hardest bosses in any game I have ever had to face.
In the end I only ever defeated him the one time. And that one time was preceded by a lot of cussing.
The All Cup Tour (150CC/Mirror Mode) in Mario Kart: Double Dash. Being 1st with a big lead, only to be blue shelled, knocked off the edge, hit by a red shell, then hit by a star all in a row made me curse like no one's business. Of course, it would always happen with I was almost through the whole cup, too.
Right now it's that stupid secret tunnel on Bionic Commando: Rearmed-- I know exactly what to do to get that file at the end of the level, but for some reason I always mess something up and can't get it!! Aaahahah!! .. Also MegaMan 9 can go to hell, I couldn't even make it past the demo.
Definitely "Incredible Crisis" for PS when I was just twelve, caused the most memorable swears (I didn't even know I had such a colorful vocabulary till that game).
Ahhh, I remember the good times when my brothers had to hold me back from totally destroying the PS (I totally thought it was mocking my suffering for not being able to push the "X" button fast enough)...
Those were some good times~ (Also I beat it 2 days later... IN YOUR FACE INCREDIBLE CRISIS, you fun little torture device you~)
Two words: Thunder Plains.
Megaman 9 wasn't THAT difficult. I beat it within 4 hours of play. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it though. currently on my third playthrough even.
perhaps he should have tried experimenting with his Rush Coil adapter. . . .
Two things:
The first was trying to "Scan" every little thing in Metroid Prime. I got so frustrated when I missed a "one-chance-only" object or monster I needed to scan. I had to backtrack SOOO much for getting 100% in that game!!!
The second was a very early memory of Super Mario Bros. 3. I remember taking hours and hours to even get close to beating that game as a kid. Then one day, we were having a party at my house and my mom's friend's wife picked up the controller, said, "Oh! I love this little game," and proceeded to beat the entire thing in 20 minutes flat. I was in awe at first, then enraged, then I ran upstairs and cried. I was only six at the time though. :P
Ninja Gaiden 2, though I could really just say Ninja Gaiden. Stuck on the third stage after I bought it on the Virtual Console store, thinking "Oh this will be a quick, fun history lesson."
Well, I was schooled alright.
Soul Calibur 3 comes to mind as the most noteworthy. Why? Because I broke my PS2 controller in a rage over not being able to defeat Talim with Raphiel.
heh, WiiFit has made me swear a few times, but thats because i'm a fat ass.
I am amazed at some of the "speed runs" you can see online for the Mega Man games.
http://speeddemosarchive.com/gamelist/
They are freakily... freaky.. ish...
Sonic 3, Carnival level. You know the part I mean. I was in tears, I got so frustrated...
holy sh*z! It's the gamespot allstar crew (minus the kasavin) and they have their own site and they rock!
On topic, i have to say there is a lot of situations where I felt like hurling controllers across the room, but I never did. There is so many games out there, that I rarely spend time with a game that is pssing me off. I am a late adopter, so I never run into dissapointment when I buy games.
No one said it?
All Mario Karts, damn it princess get out my way! rear end red shell(or anythin else)on the finish line. Except the wii version, im fed up now wheres 200 n 250 cc theres no road rage any more.
But in general anything i spend time mastering and then get beaten at especially when i should win, my fave are Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 and Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 Game Cube(1 on 1 light sabres only in the carbon chambre)
i love all of the mega man games and feel there is an aura about them!?
Taking it back some 13 years or so. I remember having a BITCH of a time trying to beat Sagat on some version of Street Fighter 2, on the hardest level (7 stars, I think?)
I think I played against him for an hour straight before I just said fuck it and turned it off.
does anyone else find this video utterly depressing?
if this is me in 10 years somebody put me out of my misery...