Most Frustrating Game You've Ever Played? [Archive]

Michael Thomasson

02-11-2003, 06:47 AM

Okay, I've played 1000's and 1000's of games, and I have to say almost instantly that the most frusterating game that I have ever played is Bubsy on the Atari Jaguar. Even the first board is a nightmare to try and play through as the they made the character nice and big on the screen. It looks nice, but you can't really see what is coming up as your run to the right, and constantly and consistantly die. Okay, time for some super Bubsy fan to chie in and tell me how easy it is for them...

Michael

Ruudos

02-11-2003, 07:24 AM

Bubsy too. The SNES version, but I doubt there's much difference.

NE146

02-11-2003, 11:53 AM

I gave up on Battletoads for the NES.... and I've never done that to any game before or after :/

TheJuggala

02-11-2003, 12:02 PM

The most frustrating game i have ever played would be any of the Resident Evil games with the exception of the RE Directors cut which i almost beat.I don't know why but i just plain suck at all of them, and it makes me mad >:(

bargora

02-11-2003, 12:04 PM

I've nearly given up on Driver 2 several times. Especially when I had to chase down and wreck 4 cars in 7 minutes. I got awfully tired of Jones telling me "here's the tip". I also nearly quit when I had to destroy the mad bomber's truck (was that the one that was "heavy with the jelly"?). Now I have to wreck an ambulance, and I threw in the towel for the evening after a dozen attempts. I'm beginning to see a pattern here...

Driver 2 has mo' betta FMV and curved streets, but I think that Driver was a better game.

Doom 64 with the no-save-points and the crush-you-dead-ceilings is another one. When I get crushed, the N64 usually gets turned off.

CrazyImpmon

02-11-2003, 12:06 PM

ET for Atari 2600. The pits are the pits! 'nuff said.

ET for GBA. Same thing. LOL

Zaxxon

02-11-2003, 12:10 PM

What about Cannon Fodder?

cerex

02-11-2003, 12:13 PM

toxic crusader for nes i would always loose the mop the first 2 seconds into the game no matter what i did.

Tempest

02-11-2003, 12:14 PM

Battletoads (or as my friend used to call it "BattleChodes") is nearly impossible. I don't know how this one got past the playtesters, but either they were superhuman or they had access to some kind of cheat menu. The regular part of the game was hard enough, but add those speeder bike stages and forget it.

Tempest

hamburgler

02-11-2003, 02:39 PM

The most frustrating game for me is: Street fighter.you can't even do Ryo's fireball move because the controls stink.I still like the other street fighter games but not this one at all.

rbudrick

02-11-2003, 03:00 PM

Hands Down...Holy Diver for the Famicom ....that game is so goddamn hard and cheap....but highly addicting. Battletoads is definitley next...that game blows chunks. The only reason it was big was becasue they flooded the market with that game and put a big special on it in Ninendo Power magazine.

_Rob

Gunstarhero

02-11-2003, 03:45 PM

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(NES). I got so good at that game I could blow thru it all the way to the last stage, but oooohhhh that Last Stage >:( I've never won this game because I just couldn't take abusing myself with it any longer. Good game though, just not one I'll return to.

Starcade

02-11-2003, 03:49 PM

Ninja Gaiden (NES)...nuff said

Charlie

02-11-2003, 05:18 PM

Wonder Boy 3 for the SMS, Battletoads for the NES, or any NES Castlevania game.

ManekiNeko

02-11-2003, 05:40 PM

Every game winds up frustrating me, but most of the early, less professionally designed NES games really got on my nerves. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde seemed like an exercise in futility, since Jeckyl was so weak in comparison to Hyde, yet you lost the game if Hyde made more progress than his mild-mannered counterpart.

JR

hydr0x

02-12-2003, 03:19 AM

laugh at me but i had so huuuuuuge problems with the last levels in Super Mario Bros 3 (NES), ok, i was 6 or 7 back then, but still....

jhd7

02-12-2003, 07:27 AM

NES Little Ninja Brothers. I threw the cart at the wall numerous times, shattering the plastic case. Somehow, the circuit board survived, so I continued to play when my temper waned. Eventually beat it, tho, and I'm never going back.

buttasuperb

02-12-2003, 08:43 AM

Tecmo Super Basketball for the SNES. Going into the 4th quarter up 25 points then proceeding to miss every single shot including layups and dunks, while the computer hits everyshot, including 3 pointers in the midst of good defense, and eventually losing is not fun. Just ask the controller I smashed.

kainemaxwell

02-12-2003, 08:52 AM

E.T. for the 2600.
The Speeder Bikes levels in Battletoads

Wayne Ryder

02-12-2003, 11:22 AM

What about Cannon Fodder?

Good call. I hit a brick wall at a level where you got in a jeep & went over a waterfall (or something). Drove myself mad for a week and never went back to it.

WiseSalesman

02-12-2003, 11:25 AM

Xenogears. Yes, thank you for sticking me in a town for hours at a time and making me talk to every single person. I really appreciated all the unecessary and unrelated "development" that had nothing ot do with the story.

Kid Fenris

02-12-2003, 11:55 AM

Hmm . . . I don't remember Xenogears pulling the talk-to-everyone-or-go-nowhere trick, at least not any more than others RPGs did. However, Xenogears had that goddamn Tower of Babel. Mr. Takahashi, just because the characters can jump doesn't mean that you can turn an RPG into a platformer, and an irritating one at that. Imagine this: Jump. Miss. Fall. Fight five random battles before you can get back to the place where you first leaped. Jump again. Miss again. Fall again. Five more battles.

My greatest gaming frustration, however, is Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Inadvertent Masochism. Ninja Gaiden titles are usually tough, but this one's just nasty about it; cheap deaths abound, and you're given only a handful of continues in which to do everything with pixel-perfect precision. I consider it a miracle that I ever finished that game. But you know what? I'm glad I spent so much time hacking at it. It's been a long time since a title challenged me so brutally and made me thankful for it, and I need another Ninja Gaiden game. Don't let me down, Tecmo.

Happy_Dude

02-12-2003, 12:18 PM

I loved the speeder bike levels in Battletoads :?
Nothing wrong with a challenge. (not much of a challenge but better than none)

Actually I don't think I'v ever found a game I couldn't play.
and I never gave up. mainly because my parents wouldn't buy me another
game until I finished the last one they bought LOL

But T2 (NES) gave me the most frustration. I can't count how many times I'd play
through to tha last level with full lives and then die over and over because
I couldn't make that fucking jump. then if I ever made it there was an equally
dificult jump after it. >:(

DarkSoul

02-12-2003, 02:47 PM

Silver Freakin' Surfer on the NES. Silver Surfer gets my vote nearly instantly not because it was absolutely impossibly difficult, but because it was ALMOST impossibly difficult. Sure, touching even a little rubber ducky that looks vaguely like a powerup would kill you and send you back to the begining of the level, but unlike some games it FELT possible. My friends thought I'd cracked when I sat down with that damn game for somewhere in the order of five hours. I couldn't stop!! The damnedable thing seemed SO beatable, so, so, so damn close to being beatable... but, eventually.. they made me stop. They.. aww. Man, now I have to go buy it.

rbudrick

02-12-2003, 05:02 PM

TMNT for NES is actually beateable if you stock up on maximum scrolls in level 3...it's the only way. After that, level 6 is a breeze.

Castlevania used to seem impossible to me, but I actually just learned the pattern of every level over the course of years and can now beat it on one life.

Starforce...now there's a game that's impossible w/o game genie....I got to level 16 out of 24 and died, I was so pissed! No continues in that game....and the ending sucked (I think only the American version even had an ending). It tells you Super Star Force is coming soon...it never did, except in Japan...

STar Soldier is another.,..

-Rob

lostsage

02-12-2003, 05:33 PM

i got a couple: who framed rodger rabbit for the NES. could always make it to judge doom, but always died. could never figure out how to beat him. by the end of the fight, all i had were my fist and pies.(never had a game genie)

2nd on would be revolution x for the SNES. put in a code for extra lives, and still couldn't beat the freaking helicopter in the 1st stage. that's how to ruin a good arcade to home experence. (but can't remember if it had cage dancers like the arcade version).

TheJuggala

02-12-2003, 05:33 PM

ahhh yes, i forgot all about TMNT for nes. I have never ever been able to get past the City level. >:(

BillyKaneIsGod

02-12-2003, 06:55 PM

Definately Ninja Gaiden 3, as well as Battletoads for NES...I also had a hell of a time with the arcade version of Strider. Also, I never got to finish Aero Blasters for the TG-16, but that one I really enjoyed anyways, so I never stopped trying.

Arqueologia_Digital

02-13-2003, 12:41 AM

Ms. Pac man for Master system, maybe it´s a common game, but it´s a bad release for this machine

Ruudos

02-13-2003, 09:53 AM

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(NES). I got so good at that game I could blow thru it all the way to the last stage, but oooohhhh that Last Stage I've never won this game because I just couldn't take abusing myself with it any longer. Good game though, just not one I'll return to.
Same as me, until I've finally once beat it. And the scrolls are useful but I died in th Technodrome and lost all my scrolls. Somehow I managed to get through the Technodrome with the next continue, and without scrolls (except those one you can find there) :o

Retsudo

03-04-2003, 09:23 AM

Socom us navy seals. People who play it offline knows what mission Im talking about. Damn Mr. Pickle!!!!!!

threeoclockhigh

03-04-2003, 11:03 AM

Jurassic Park for Genesis, lots of glitches and deathtraps that aren't easy to spot, especially as Grant. That's on top of the fact you can't stun some of the dinos and the ones you are able to wake right back up 5 seconds later.

Lion King Genesis: quite a few hard jumps that you have to try several times before you make. Probably the hardest Disney game out there.

Battletoads NES: There's the speedbikes but later on, also some level where you have to beat some piece of shit rodent or some other character in a 'race.'

Gradius NES: How can't you mention a game where if you die you go back half the stage and start over without weapons. It's like "Prick, I can't get through some of these parts with a full arsenal (shields, lasers, etc), how am I going to make it through with just my standard gun." The rocks and Easter egg island heads (just because of their numbers) have left me in a rage many times and screaming like the fat guy who sells insurance/loans for 'the competitor' in the Di-Tech.com commercials and keeps losing his customers to DiTech, "OH NO, NOT AGAIN......!"

Bart vs Juggernauts GB: 50% the events are impossible. 25% of the events can be won only with a good deal of luck and button jamming. The remaining 25% of the events are pretty easy but they either are the ones you get to participate in the least (skateboarding) or they are the ones that give you a lower dollar amount (that basketball type game).

Fishing Derby 2600: Maybe I am just bad but I cannot master this game. That shark also always has me screaming like the fat guy from the DiTech commercials, paraphrased: "OH NO, NOT AGAIN....... I lost ANOTHER fish to the shark from Fishing Derby."

Zaxxon

03-04-2003, 11:04 AM

Cannon Fodder

03-04-2003, 08:24 PM

Gargoyles for Genesis- in the 1st level when you have to scale 2 castle tower walls at once, jumping alternately & avoiding fireballs...I couldn't BELIEVE how hard that was for a "kid's game"! It took me at least an hour to do & I was screaming at the game the whole time...in my apartment! Never got far past the Rookery level...yet.

Chakan (Genesis)- in the small amount of time I've spent on this I haven't been able to get too far...I really need to schedule some time to get into this game!

Fatal Frame(PS2)- great, fun game but trying to photograph that G.D. Wandering Monk made me lose it & wreck the disc as a result.

Martian Gothic(PSX)- also good but composed of too many tedious tasks w/in the game & kinda long...plus the FMV messed up so it felt like I did all that work for nothing. No plans to try again soon...

03-04-2003, 08:30 PM

Gargoyles for Genesis- in the 1st level when you have to scale 2 castle tower walls at once, jumping alternately & avoiding fireballs...I couldn't BELIEVE how hard that was for a "kid's game"! It took me at least an hour to do & I was screaming at the game the whole time...in my apartment! Never got far past the Rookery level...yet.

Chakan (Genesis)- in the small amount of time I've spent on this I haven't been able to get too far...I really need to schedule some time to get into this game!

Fatal Frame(PS2)- great, fun game but trying to photograph that G.D. Wandering Monk made me lose it & wreck the disc as a result.

Martian Gothic(PSX)- also good but composed of too many tedious tasks w/in the game & kinda long...plus the final FMV messed up so it felt like I did all that work for nothing. No plans to try again soon...

dave2236

03-04-2003, 10:13 PM

Back to the Future for NES.

God I hate that game with a passion >:(

Anonymous

03-05-2003, 03:11 AM

The speeder bike level in battletoads was tought, but I made it through there. I got all the way to like level 6 or 7, a (second) sewer pipe half running/half swimming maze. A lot like the one before it, but the water was filled with spikes Aarrgh! You would have to do crazy things like run full speed and jump to reach a part of the water with two spikes on either side and then stop all movement and fall straight down.

I beat Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden II, but could never beat III.

Total recall was another game I couldn't beat. I could barely make it out of the first level in that evil game.

leonk

03-05-2003, 10:32 AM

Pyramid for the NES (anyone actually managed to get a single line in this game!?) and Dragon's Lair for the NES.. talk about an IMPOSSIBLE game! I can't get past the draw bridge!

LK

Metrackle

03-06-2003, 09:34 PM

Deep Blue: This game slaps you very cheaply, and the sheer fact that your ship is slow and weak doesn't help at all. I could never get past the first level, and rarely ever made it to the first boss, only for it to spit fish at me.

Double Dragon 3: Either version irritates me, but I hate the arcade version more (and why was it ported to the Genesis and Game Boy?). The controls are bad and the cheap hits don't stop, especially during Cleopatra, one of the cheapest bosses ever. I have no idea if you can even avoid being pushed away by ESP in that game.

Magician Lord: Very difficult and frustrating game. The main character can't fire diagonally in most forms, can't fire while on a ladder, and can't jump off the ladder either, making it a frustrating experience in certain points of the game. The seventh stage just irritates the hell out of me. You get hit on the platformer, you die, fall off, and have to start over.

Gradius 3 (super ultra hard Arcade version): To me this is the hardest game ever. Thank God the SNES version is toned down. If you ever played this on MAME or on the PS2, you'd know what I'm talking about. I had difficulty even getting past the first level on one life, and the second stage is just hell. Don't get me wrong, I love a challenge, but enough is enough.

allstater4by800

03-08-2003, 10:49 PM

The levels in Max Payne when you are having those messed up dreams and have to follow blood trails then you mess up and start over again. And the baby is crying the whole time. Then you fall down and you scream so loud your ears bleed. After one fall I turned the sound on my tv all the way down and I fell again and still heard it. I think I cryed when I beat those damn levels. I was so happy.

ashbourn

03-08-2003, 11:03 PM

TMNT, sports games on the NES and cyber speed for the PSX

SoulBlazer

06-12-2003, 07:04 PM

It's amazing how many games people listed on here are ones I've taken over my knee and spanked silly -- even as young as 10! :D

A game I could'nt finish? I'm actually hard pressed to think of a game I WANTED to finish but could'nt because it was too hard. I guess the only one I can think off right now is Phantasy Star 2, and that's only because I did'nt want to invest the days of straight game playing that would be needed to get my levels high enough to finish the game, though.

I WILL admit, however, that I could never beat the last guy in Capcom's NES game Code Name: Viper without using Slow Mode on my NES Advantage. :-D

Oberfuhrer Hamm

06-19-2003, 11:42 AM

Well, there was Resident Evil (PC). "Hmm, walk 2 rooms. Uhoh zombies. *Die*." What the hell. That game is a coaster now...

I do remember having loads of trouble in Solstice (NES). I never got further than about 33% through the game.

Make fun of me for this, but any part involving a shootout in GTA (PSX). I.Just.Cant.Do.It! >:(

Atari7800

06-19-2003, 01:31 PM

Star Wars Arcade for the 32x >:(

I can't tell you how many times I played that damn game. The only thing that you can do is play a two-player game (you will get one extra shield and you can press down the fire button on the 2nd controller with a chair leg to get extra firepower) and enter the only code programmed into the game... the ability to turn off the timer. I read in an interview where one of the game's programmers admitted that the game was too next to impossible and that they should have put in some more codes, but didn't. >)

vision89

08-25-2003, 06:05 PM

How about Street Fighter 2010 for the NES, that was one that always gave me a lot of trouble. Not to mention the bounty that is Double Dragon for the Atari 2600, where my character seems to be a punching bag.

lendelin

08-26-2003, 01:00 PM

Battletoads was tough, but in the end I could go through the game like there was no tomorrow. (using warp zones)

1. Level 6-2 of Ninja Gaiden(NES). This one very difficult jump sequence drove me nuts. My only game experience was SMB and Mega man2, and I almost gave up on Ninja Gaiden. I didn't look at it for 6 months, and when Ninja Gaiden 2 was annonced , I got back and finally beat it. My best time finishing the entire game: 25 minutes, 34 secs. The other Ninja Gaidens were easier.

2. The last fight with Dracula in Castlevania 3(NES). Geez, what a fight! It took me 8 hours to beat him.

3. To get the Gold medal in the last license test of the S-license in Gran Turismo 3(PS2). Try it...it's so frustrating...and FUN!

4. To beat "King" in Virtua Tennis (Dreamcast) in the Championship mode and get the number 1 spot. It took me two evenings to defeat this..this...this...monster!!

I agree with Gradius 3 for the PS2, it's hell! :) I have to tackle it again, I only finished two stages...time to get it out again. :)

When the control of a game is good, it's more of a big challennge than frustration. The true frustrating game experiences stem from games with bad control where you blame the control and not yourself.

Once mastered, the big challenges on the edge of frustration are the most memorable and FUN game experiences. That's why we play videogames, there is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment after mastering a big challenge. :) You go from this :o to this :/ to this :angry: and finally to this :D . Isn't this one way to immerse a gamer into a game??

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lendelin

08-26-2003, 01:17 PM

I do remember having loads of trouble in Solstice (NES). I never got further than about 33% through the game.

Get this game out NOW :-D It's fun, not impossible to beat at all, I even drew complete maps for it on the PC. The sequel Equinox for the SNES is also a great game.

Back in my NES and SNES times I had a great policy...I never bought a new game before I finished the old one. I should have stuck with it. I finished all my NES and SNES games (altogether around 110)

Oobgarm

08-27-2003, 06:41 AM

Back to the Future for NES.

God I hate that game with a passion >:(

I'll second that one.

3. To get the Gold medal in the last license test of the S-license in Gran Turismo 3(PS2). Try it...it's so frustrating...and FUN!

If you find that near-impossible test fun, sir, you should have your head examined. :) I also found the reverse Seatlle course S-test rather difficult (the one with the GT40).

I'll also jump in here and say TMNT as well. Couldn't pass level 3, ever. Granted, I haven't even tried in like over 10 years... LOL

Recently, I've found both Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) and F-Zero GX (GCN) to be of extreme difficulty. I'm all for tough games, but cripes! These really push my limits.

lendelin

08-27-2003, 01:58 PM

If you find that near-impossible test fun, sir, you should have your head examined. :) I also found the reverse Seatlle course S-test rather difficult (the one with the GT40).

Strange, my psychiatrist said the same thing. :)

To get gold medals for every test for the S-license is difficult, the last three rank from very difficult to insane. Over a year ago it took me more than two hours just to pass the last test, and I didn't evn look at it again all this time. A couple of weeks ago I tried again just for fun, and after two hours I had gold! I was flying out there, in the last twenty secs of my record time I was in a different world, adrenaline pumping...great experience :)

keith

08-31-2003, 11:14 AM

i HATED Incredible Crisis for the psx.......it wuz too frustrating for me.....

Daltone

08-31-2003, 11:55 AM

T2 on the game gear drove me nuts. That game isn't hard. It's impossible. I've never even seen half way through level one.
FIFA 2003 (after playing Pro Evo 2) Mainly because everyone just seems inept.
Snake's Revenge - Why can the bad guys shoot in 8 directions when you can only shoot in 4?!
Contra: Shattered Soldier should get a mention too - but I consider that frustrating in a good way :)

Neo_Veteran

09-01-2003, 02:13 PM

ViewPoint for the Neo•Geo

:o

bb_hood

09-03-2003, 10:44 PM

Dragon's Lair for the NES. Most frustrating (and worst) game ever. Hands down.

careerbellman

09-06-2003, 02:52 AM

Ghosts N Goblins for the NES, I tried so hard but couldnt even get to the bridge part. The worst thing about that game was after you die, you have to see the stupid map scroll for like six seconds which feels like 10 minutes before you start again. Then of course you die in two minutes. Ugh!

bensenvill

10-24-2003, 09:40 AM

THE definition of impossible:
Kings Quest 4 (Apple ][e) - the games pretty frickn hard to begin with but the last thing you need to do in the game is to put the bridle on the unicorn. I spent several YEARS trying to get her to do that. It wasnt until about a year ago that I found out on the net that there was an error in the game where doing that was impossible. GRRRRRRR

And I am shocked no one has listed this one yet:
QBERT (atari) - every time you accidently hit L/R rather than diagonal... death. and with those 7800 joysticks, that was near impossible.

Unknown God

11-30-2003, 01:17 AM

MDK2 for the dreamcast was very hard for me. I remember that some of the levels with Kurt were hard, but nothing compared with the level with Max where you have the jet pack and you have to fly to the top of some huge building. It took like 10 mins to complete and if you messed up and fell, odds are your momentum would be too great and the jet pack wouldn't be able to save you. I took a break from that part and came back around 6 months later to beat it on my 3rd try or something like that, but overall it took me probably about 30-40 tries. I had read somewhere that there was an elevator somewhere in that room that would take you to the top, but I could never find it.

Even after all that, I made it to the ending boss and never beat him. Maybe I should try again.

Xskaterjake

12-01-2003, 09:49 PM

Dark cloud-who knows but this game pulled my chain. I rember yelling a thetv in rage and breaking my only ps2 controller.
Dot hack//infection-AAAAHHHH!!! ha part with mia is pretty impossible. I had data drained the boss but he killed my @$$H0!E to #E!! oK ENOUGH POINT IS THAT GAME IS A PRETTY BIG LOAD OF $#!T!!!!
MARIO BROS-I WAS TRYING to get the secret level but I was only able to go o world 1 level 2 once, so I had to reset and redo the proccess.

suppafly

12-02-2003, 10:15 AM

Gaiares for Genesis was pretty hard, also Hellfire for Genesis....and also Thunderforce 4 (try to finish it with just 3 lives).

I could never pass the last level of Battletoads too....and i never was able to pass level 6-2 of NInja Gaiden.

Blackjax

12-04-2003, 12:07 PM

Final Fantasy Legend 2 for GB.

I've gotten all the way to Apollo (when he uses al the Maji on himself) 4 FREAKING TIMES playing the game start to finish until it got banished to the box for all eternity.

Retsudo

12-04-2003, 12:42 PM

Gradius 3 for the SNES: The last level is a Beatch. I beat the game many times but Shao Khan in MK3 is a cheating MOFO and very frustrating. @_@

Balloon Fight

12-04-2003, 02:02 PM

Sinistar. Ive been trying to master that 250+ trick, but i can never get it. That and the game is way to hard. Id rather play Stargate than it.

jaydubnb

12-04-2003, 02:32 PM

I'm usually pretty damned good at shmups but I have to nominate R-Type Delta as the single most f'n frustrating game I can remember. I can not pass level three and I've had this game for over a year now!

Ze_ro

12-04-2003, 07:43 PM

Definitely Cannon Fodder for the Jaguar... even with a complete walkthrough of the game, I can't even get a quarter of the way through the game. The game would be easier with a mouse of course, but it's just so damn easy to die.

--Zero

hu6800

12-05-2003, 10:19 AM

Nightcreatures or Silent debuggers for the turbografx 16

you really wanna go nuts? try beating DEEP BLUE
for the same system

slip81

12-12-2003, 10:23 PM

Rambo and Ghostbusters for the NES. When I first got Rambo I realized it sucked after an hour of play even at age 7, but becuase i love ghostbusters the movie so much i fooled myself into thinking the game was good for about 3 years. Also if anyone has beaten Rambo for the NES please let me know.

slip81

12-12-2003, 10:23 PM

hu6800

12-13-2003, 07:44 AM

hu6800

12-13-2003, 07:44 AM

josekortez

12-16-2003, 11:22 PM

Most recently, it's been Def Jam Vendetta. I'm stuck on the stage where D-Mob's 3 thugs hand out an hour-long ass whoopin' and I've been there since April.

crazyjackcsa

12-16-2003, 11:37 PM

I'll stick with game types I'm normally good at. (I blow at schumps)

Soviet Strike, Croc as well as Chalkan I literally used to scream at Ecco the Defender of the Future, I now loathe that stupid game,

gamergary

01-03-2004, 09:28 AM

Incredible Crisis for psx and Mystical Ninja starring Goemon the part where you can to swim up the waterfall were very frustrating for me.

SegaAges

01-22-2004, 12:52 PM

Lord of the Rings: Two Towers for any platform.

I breezed through the entire game up to the second to last main level, and now I can't beat that level. I really wouldn't have cared as much about the second to last level being so tough if the rest of the game wasn't so easy. When I say breezed, I mean like 2 hours breezed though the game, and now I am stuck. The entire game was easy as hel, and now I am stuck. It is too bad when things like that happen in games. Make the whole game as hard as the hardest level, or make it as easy as the easiest level (usually minus the first level on some games, since many games have a tutorial as the 1st level). This may be why some of you have problems with super hard games. Many programmers fell like I do. Either make all the levels hard, or make them all easy. Gamers get frusterated when they get to the second to last level in a game in 2 hours, to only be stcuk since the level is so hard. If you couldn't tell, I am still a little frusterated at that damn game

SegaAges

01-22-2004, 12:56 PM

For the guy that said Def Jam Vendetta, here is an easy tip to ensure that the level is easier. Go for the small guy, I think his name is sticks or somethinkg like that. Just keep doing moves to him, and once you get your special meter up, the other 2 will run away, giving you enough time to give the little guy a KO. when i say go for the little guy, completely ignore the other 2 besides avoiding them. trying to fight off all 3 is too hard. trust me, try this way, and it won't take near as long to beat it.

Vroomfunkel

01-23-2004, 03:47 AM

Well I have to second two previous nominations right now:

Incredible Crisis on the Playstation. We bought it 2nd hand having heard recommendations here. Absolutely the most frustrating game in the world! Played it right through, just to make sure ... but initial impressions were only confirmed. THere was the odd vaguely entertaining mini game - but the main part of the game was doing the same irritating mini game over and OVER again, just getting a bit longer and harder each time round. And the vast majority of the mini games were just crap.

Also .. Double Dragon 3 for the Megadrive. Remembered the original game from the Amstrad, thought "wow ... a Megadrive version of DD3 ... gotta be great!" Finally got it a couple of weeks ago. Supremely disappointing. Bad collision detection, bad graphics, bad moves. Bad everything. Looked like a Master System port - played like a slug on downers.

Vroomfunkel

FlufflePuff

03-15-2004, 10:26 PM

Ninja Gaiden, Levels 6-2 and 6-3. Stupid flying birds are the most aggravating things! Plus, you can't kill them! They just repop. :angry:

Milon's Secret Castle. Fun game, but can I please have a continue? Please?

Hydlide. Do I really need to talk about this one?

And Castlevania. Death was such a pain in the ass. I don't think I ever got to Dracula as a kid. It wasn't until recently that I was finally able to beat Death.

Darkness X

03-16-2004, 01:39 PM

-The last couple of missions in Driver 2(PSX) (this game was really easy for me until I got to that level where you have to follow the helicopter) I had ot quit, because I was afraid I was going to ruin the game and my PSX in a fit of rage.

-Max Payne(PS2) The "dream" levels where you have to walk on a thin red line while listening to a baby crying, and if you fall you have to restart the whole thing!!! Those 2 levels were the reason I traded MP for FFX awhile back.

-BattleToads(NES) I still can't beat this game without cheats...

-Super Castlevania IV(SNES) maybe I just suck at this game, but I found it to be very hard.

atari_overlord

03-16-2004, 02:00 PM

The first Tomb Raider was the first and only time I have ever broken a controller by throwing it.

As for right now Ikaruga for GC makes me want to drown myself in my toilet.
I am not great at shooters but Christ I think this game is hard.

ECWSandmanECW

04-03-2004, 11:44 AM

Super Smash Bros Melee

KirbyStar27

04-03-2004, 12:58 PM

probably either

battletoad for snes
or stuntman for PS2 (god it so freakin hard) :angry: UGHHHH

optic_85

04-03-2004, 01:47 PM

The first game that came to mind was Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Now, i love this game, but did anyone else find some of the levels(especially the last) very difficult? I threw(and broke) my xbox controller during one of the snow levels.

Also, Total Recall for the NES was just nerve wrecking, and horrible.

Yago

04-05-2004, 01:21 AM

Although my favorite game of all time, it kills me because I still can't finish it... James Pond 2 Robocod for the Commodore Amiga computer. (AGA Version)

I'm going way back here but I have to add some of the very early PC games. Bard's Tale, ANY of the Quest games (Kings, Police, Space, Heros...) by Sierra. I loved to hate those games. Your always close, but yet, so far away...

zerohero

09-18-2005, 10:36 AM

Ninja Gaiden (NES)...nuff said

That game and Kabuki the Quantom fighter.

Famidrive-16

09-18-2005, 08:01 PM

That Mario Pinball game for the GBA pissed me off. One time, the cart deleted my saved game randomly, and I got so angry I made this long rant about how shitty the game was and how Nintendo is full of morons on another forum.

There was also some awful Genesis RPG I played where I couldn't kill any monsters and they all killed me. I couldn't figure out how to get past that game at all.

syd

10-07-2005, 07:31 AM

I'll definitely have to go with Ghosts and Goblins for NES. That game was incredibly frustrating to say the least. I remember when I rented it I couldn't even get past the Red Adder (I think that's his name). Even today I can only get past that bastard every 10 tries or so! :/

Battletoads was such a great game back in the day, but man was that hard. I couldn't hardly get past the bike part then, but now I can easily get up to the Garantula tubes, but there's no way in hell I'm ever going to get past that part! I probably could, but I'm not in the mood to memorize every single blind drop.

cyberfluxor

10-07-2005, 07:50 PM

I haven't played every game in the world, but out of the ones I own and have played, the following on the systems are what I have problems with:

Sega Master System - Shinobi
I always saw other people beat this game, but I could just never get past that boss with the stack of heads and the lightning behind you pushing you forward. It really sucked because it would take at least 45 minutes for me to make it that far just to die each time. It was still a fun game though.

Sega Genesis - Desert Strike
To me, all of these games are a kick to play but I can never pass the second levels. I'm always running out of gas and firepower to complete the missions. I know others must have problems of their own with these games.

Super Nintendo - Wordtris
Spelling words as letters drop from above is just plain hard to me. I can do Tetris games, but Tetris-like games where you spell things and you have to imagine where to put that letter to get a word and advance to the next level... screw me!

Nintendo - Marble Madness
I can never beat the 6th (final) maze on this game. I don't know why I couldn't but just still can't make that first hop! I'm sure some of you have beaten this game. http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/marble/l6_ultimate.png

I may add some more later on.

handheldchick

05-06-2006, 02:43 AM

ninja five-o. for gba i cant beat it. its still enjoyable,tho.

Happy_Dude

05-06-2006, 05:29 AM

I'll have to add Thrust+. Even though I'm one of the few (2)
that have beaten it, it is bloody frustrating. And I haven't
got very far on game 3. those new stages are pure evil ....

(I just got the trophy in the DP arcade for this. not exactly the
same but still cool :D beat me if you can :evil: )

B - Mark

05-19-2006, 01:54 PM

Alf for Master System.

I´m a fan of TV series and i read the Marvel´s comic book when is published in my country.
When i won my Master System in Christmas 1989, i saw a Master System Catalog is indded in my console and Alf is mencioned in this catalog.
And i think: Cool, this is Alf game for Master System. It is a good game.

Fortunately, this game wasn´t released in my country by Tec Toy.

I played Alf in emulators two years ago.
After this game over, i think:
" This game sucks, ruined the TV series. "

B - Mark

05-28-2006, 11:28 AM

Other frustrating game i played is Driv3r for Playstation 2.

I had a great expectative about this game because the previews published in the Brazilian EGM.

In the cover of this edition readed for me is wrote:
" Driv3r: Better than Grand Theft Auto? "

The first item is the graphics, better than previous versions of this game.

Other points had attencion for me is Tanner, the main character of this game is voiced by Michael Madsen, the same man had voiced Toni Cipriani in GTA III and Timmy Vermicelli, parody of Tommy Vercetti, the main character of GTA Vice City and a hidden character in the cities of this game.

But i played is the deception.
Poor gameplay and weak aim compared with GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas.

7th lutz

05-28-2006, 12:29 PM

This is a toss up betweem e.t, battle toads, Karateka for 7800, and Actraiser 2.

aaronpetrosky

05-28-2006, 11:41 PM

Ghosts n Goblins or Tetris.

Trevelyan

04-10-2008, 02:27 PM

Diddy Kong Racing frustrated the hell out of me. I wanted to fully complete it & it took a bit of time, but the juxtaposition of cutsey-tricky makes me want to chew nails & is one of the worst combinations you can put into games. :frustrated:

Steve W

04-10-2008, 02:54 PM

Highlander for the Jaguar CD. The controls took an insane amount of time to get used to, actually doing something to prevent myself from getting pummeled took a couple of hours, and really getting into the game was made painfully long because of the bad controls you were saddled with.

jjreason

04-12-2008, 07:54 AM

The first Legendary Axe for TG16. I could breeze through the whole game untouched until I met that 2nd-to-last (I believe) boss, the one that shot the floating "donuts" at you. I could never even figure out how to HIT him, let alone beat him. :(

G-Boobie

04-12-2008, 02:32 PM

A couple of new ones for the list.

Wartech: Senko no Ronde. This game is so strangely put together and has such a crap tutorial that you can't even figure out how the game works without having GameFAQS open while you play. You may as well just mash random buttons for all the good it will do. The concept is cool(a shmup mixed with a fighting game), but the execution... Not as good.

Metal Slug 3(xbox) This game isn't so bad on emulator, but the retail version for the original Xbox was well nigh impossible. Not enough continues, sir. Not enough continues.

Call of Duty 4 This is the game that I broke my first controller on: the first in ten years of gaming. Why? Fucking enemy respawns were out of control. This game is like an FPS mixed with a bullet hell shooter in single player mode, and I didn't like it one bit(even though I eventually finished it). The TV station and the rendezvous with the helicopter after rescuing another squad took me forever

Rule of Rose If you took the Silent Hill approach to having weak, unreliable player characters and took that to the farthest possible extreme, you'd have Rule of Rose. I haven't beaten it yet and probably never will. Not enough health items, sir. Not enough health items.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne I just recently beat Nocturne after a year or so of on and off gameplay, and I can honestly say that it's the hardest, least forgiving JRPG I've ever played. It refuses to hold your hand and has no compunctions about kicking you in the teeth if you make a mistake. The hardest part of the game isn't anything gameplay related. It's gritting your teeth and grinding away on the fusion chart when a boss kicks your ass for the tenth time.

Smashed Brother

04-12-2008, 02:50 PM

One frustrating game that immediately comes to mind is Yakuza, for the PS2. I was somewhat enjoying this Shenmue wannabe, leveling up my character, gettin' with the ladies and knocking heads around, right up until the part where I reached that plot device known as the little girl Haruka. Specifically, the part where you have to take her around town and 'have fun'.... don't be fooled, this is just a thinly-veiled 'escort mission', which we know to be the bane of all universal existence when it comes to video games.

You just got done rescuing this spoiled little brat from some other Yakuza because she decides to run away and now, you have to take this ungrateful little shit to pretty much every place in the city and not only buy her what she wants, but also manage to hit ten homeruns at the batting cage and roll all 7's on the slot machines! All of this to get her 'trust' in you a little higher, as if taking care of her and rescuing her dumb ass isn't enough! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Also, the part where you have to go in the abandoned building to rescue a couple of your loser friends from other Yakuza.... let's just say many battles and very little health equals very little fun. Not to mention the cheesewheel of a boss waiting for you on the rooftop who dresses like Dante from DMC and can magically shoot you through the vents that you desperately try to hide behind because you have no energy left! @$#&@!!!!

Frankie_Says_Relax

04-12-2008, 11:44 PM

9WaveSpecial

04-14-2008, 10:59 AM

Ghosts n Goblins or Tetris.

Have to agree with you on Ghosts n Goblins. I always found it tough and frustrating.

The 1 2 P

04-18-2008, 09:56 PM

Today that would be Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Nes. WHY NINTENDO? WHY WOULD YOU ALLOW TECMO TO MAKE A GAME SO HARD AND ALLOW THEM TO PUT IT ON YOUR SYSTEM? I'M ONLY 9 YEARS OLD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. THERES NO ONE MY AGE THAT COULD EVER REALISTICALLY GET PAST LEVEL 4, LET ALONE BEAT THE WHOLE GAME. WHY, WHY, WHY????? Whoa, another 20 year flashback. Those were some rough times. And when I finally beat that game today, all I could think of was: thats all I get for subjecting myself to two decades worth of nightmares? You could have atleast thrown in a free meal, or a bj. Something to help whither away the pain.

vintagegamecrazy

09-10-2008, 01:48 AM

I am going to add in SNES games Timeslip and Musya. Both are pretty bad and both are extremely hard due to lousy game play.

SpaceHarrier

09-13-2008, 10:41 PM

Transformers: The Mystery of Convoy for the Famicom.

Got it in a Famicom lot this month ... you can't go 2 feet without getting killed (in one hit) by rocket or flying Decepticon.

I've never in my life played such an outrageously difficult Famicom/NES game.

This is TRUTH. My buddy bought this as he is a TransFormers nut. This game just amazes me with its sadism. Eventually he made it to level two. I was more amazed at his patience than his skill...

My personal choice:

Rocketeer - SNES

I don't know if this was actually hard or not...but renting this back in '92 or whatever, it was the single most evilly frustrating game I'd ever played in my young life. Haven't played it since, but I imagine things haven't changed much.

Arcade_Ness

09-14-2008, 01:45 AM

Put me down for Ghouls 'n Ghosts for the Genny, and any Megaman game frustrates me to no end.

hellfire

02-17-2009, 09:02 PM

dr jeckyl and mr hyde, nes :frustrated::frustrated:

Swamperon

02-18-2009, 07:48 AM

dr jeckyl and mr hyde, nes :frustrated::frustrated:

That game is just plain annoying. Played it a few times, never again!

Hoshigami for the PSX/DS. It's cheap, frustrating and unbalanced. The only way to really get anywhere is to level grind your characters for ages... and the game just isn't worth it!

Game Freak

02-19-2009, 09:28 AM

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - NES, $3.99
Ghosts n Goblins - NES, free
Out of This World - Genesis, $4.99/SNES, free
Metal Gear - NES, $4.99
Adventures of Bayou Billy - NES, $5.99
Medal of Honor: Frontline - PS2, $4.99
Fester's Quest - NES, $1.99
Home Alone - NES, free
Home Alone 2 - Genesis, free
Toy Story - Game Boy, ~50c
Aladdin - Game Boy, ~$1
The Jungle Book - SNES, $2.50
Stunt Race FX - SNES, free
Star Fox - SNES, from trade
Kirby's Adventure - NES, $4.99 (way too damn unresponsive)
Rambo - NES, from trade

Im done for now...

Smashed Brother

02-20-2009, 01:49 AM

Rambo - NES, from trade

One of the only few games where you destroy a helicopter with a knife. Well, in 'Lethal Weapon' (NES), you could also kick a helicopter to it's death...

Anyways, I picked up 'The Last Hope' (DC) a little while ago, and I still have yet to even make it past the first level. Infact, I have yet to even consistently make it past the first quarter of the first level! I've absolutely destroyed games like 'Ikaruga' and 'Mars Matrix', but this game and it's shitty design flaws refuse to let me enjoy it even the slightest bit.

Enemy bullets and shrapnel mix together with the backgrounds to the point where trying to even see bullets is like looking into a Magic Eye illustration. Some of the same-type enemies in formations also happen to shoot bullets faster than other ones, which is just cheap no matter what way you look at it. Couple these with a vastly-underpowered ship and a useless force-ball (think R-Type, but useless) and you come up with a game where your only hope is to survive for more than 40 seconds :bad-words:

Technosis

02-20-2009, 05:37 AM

Not nearly the most frustrating, but I found the moves on Natsume Pro Wrestling (SNES) to be aggravating at first because there was a certain "latency" or weird timing to pull off anything more than a kick or punch. Once you get used to it it's OK, but If you play against someone who has never played it before they won't be able to do any moves.

Chemdawg

02-27-2009, 07:59 PM

the first game i got was the first game to frustrate me.... the original mario/duck hunt. i remember mario was quite frustrating at the time (i was 5 at the time).

but now a day's the devil maycry series sure had some frustrating momemnts for me, TMNT (nes), castlevania's sure got me buggin somtimes, and contra 3 for snes(no 30 lives code on this version :( )

GnawRadar

03-04-2009, 10:52 AM

I know I have played some difficult games, but right now Resident Evil 0 is pretty frustrating. I love the game and the co-op system, but having to move my items or running back and forth to get them sucks and then there is the occasional time where you make a lot of progress and then get mangled by some hunters or a leech-monster and have to re-trace all of your steps over again.

JackElam'sEyes

03-04-2009, 05:10 PM

There have been a ton of games that drive me insane but the two that come to mind right now are Guardian Legend(some of the later flying dungeons) and Mega Man 1. For some reason in Ice Man's level everytime I jumped onto one of those floating platforms it'd glitch and I'd fall right through. I'll just throw in Section Z as well.

obesolete

03-09-2009, 09:54 PM

I recently picked up double dragon 3 to complete my trilogy...
I had forgotten everything i had learned about the game until i started playing.

Not even game genie could save me.
I got to level 2 with 2 players.
That's good right?

mnbren05

03-09-2009, 10:12 PM

I always had trouble with Resident Evil, the last level of Space Station Silicon Valley, Game Cube version of F-zero with higher difficulty, and Devil May Cry 3. Those games tested my patience and resulted in me throwing quite a few controllers.

makaar

03-10-2009, 12:36 AM

Although most won't agree with me the last boss in Extermination for PS2 had me pulling my hair out. Otherwise, the last fight in Doom 64 was enough to drive you crazy...

Chemdawg

03-10-2009, 02:05 AM

not the most frustrating game i've every played but lately i've gotten close to thrownin my DS across the room with Castlevania order of ecclesia. some things in the game are easy but some bosses are just insane. and random enemies on some lvl's are like frustrating as hell as you have to have a stratagy for each different one and having to switch glyph inbetween different enemies all the damn time really sucks too.

Compute

03-10-2009, 08:02 AM

I once threw a PSX (or what some tards would call 'ps1') across the room because of WWF Smackdown. Ugh.. What else..

Wall Street Kid (NES) - I really wanted to play this game through, did pretty good for a while but the passwords..the passwords. You had your A-Z, a-z, 0-9, punctuation, AND the reverse of all of those (black on white bg). Include the part about them being half a notebook page long and you have one frustrated 9-year-old.

Where In Time Is Carmen San Diego - Much easier now with Wikipedia, I used to rent this to see if I could get the coffee cup to stay standing in the lounge.

Codename Iceman (DOS PC) - A -quest type entry from Sierra Online, actually a great game, even better if you have all the documents that came with it. Piloting a submarine is kind of hard otherwise.

boogiecat

03-17-2009, 08:21 PM

Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox....

The 1 2 P

03-18-2009, 01:16 AM

Recently the last two levels of Bullet Witch had me getting pissed. It wasn't even the whole levels, just certain parts. On the second to last level , all of a sudden the snipers turn into MLG marksman pros and don't miss a damn shot. When you see that red target redicule you better start jumping like crazy. And on the last level, the end boss was super annoying. It wasn't even that hard, but it's a battle that takes atleast 15-30 minutes to complete and if you mess one thing up you have to start all the way over from the beginning of the battle. I definitely won't be playing thru that one again.

broadsword2

03-19-2009, 06:31 AM

Far Cry 2 for me

Why oh why do we have to spend days driving around the place only to geet having to stop and kill folks at the guard posts when we ahve already cleared them. This is terrible, particulrly because it is so new and you'd have thought these kind of issues would have been sorted out. I have to say i gave up on this game, looks good but got boring very fast

Namnuta

03-20-2009, 12:26 PM

Sea Dragon for the TRS 80 and Alice in wonderland for the C64 were some of the most frustrating games i ever played.

I always found Xevious for the nes to be way to frustrating.

Almost forgot one of my favorites and game i got with my NES. Kid Ikarus (Spelling?) made me through my controller many many times.

koshichka

06-16-2009, 07:15 AM

At the mention of DS, I've gotta make a quick comment about Henry Hatsworth, but I gotta say, it's a GOOD frustrating game...

Hell, one of my other DS favorites, Big Bang Mini (the most unique take on a shoot-em-up I've ever seen), has some incredibly frustrating parts (OMFG world 3...and a few levels in world 4 that had clouds that would reflect shots DIRECTLY at your current position) that led me to start using the term "DS-chucker" even though I love my DS too much to ever get that mad. :P

starchildskiss78

06-27-2009, 02:50 PM

On the advice of my girlfriend (who must hate me!) I downloaded Ghosts N Goblins for the Virtual Console. I got to the red demon about half way through the first stage and proceeded to get my ass handed to me over and over again! Every time I died I was right back at the beginning of the stage. At least in Super Mario Bros. you started at a midway point if you died! I got a little farther, but it is just damn near impossible for me....at least I downloaded Sim City as well.