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Has a videogame's difficulty ever made you cry?

Never cried, but I did throw my PS2 controller multiple times while playing VF4. Eventually I had to ban myself from ever playing the game again (or at least until I get an arcade stick, maybe).

Oh, I also almost broke an SNES controller while playing Madden 94 because the game cheated -- after a stunning punt from me that I managed to make roll out of bounds at around the six yard line, we returned to the field and the computer got to start on my six yard line.
 
F-Zero GX... had about 2 more staff ghosts to beat and then...

"File is corrupt"


Never played the game again =(
 
Grug said:
Fucking loved that game. Smashable backboards. A game well ahead of its time.

Oldschool EA.
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That game rocked so hard! Bird vs Jordan was hot too..
 
Ghosts and Goblins, the last stage before the boss. Almost 20 years and I still can't pass it. Probably the only game that I couldn't beat (at least from the games I have played). I never cried, but the frustration is unbearable when you get to that level and try for hours and still get nowhere.

Battletoads also gets an honorable mention, though that game is definitely beatable. Some boards just take a little luck.

Also Rygar. The worst feeling is spending 6 hours to get to the last level and just dying on the last boss. No continues or anything, you have to start all over again.
 
Not really.

Extremely annoyed... now that has happened. The game that comes to mind is PoP:TTT with the Sword and Axe boss fight. I was very close to mailing back the disc to Ubi Soft and telling them to get some common sense when designing games.

What's even more disturbing is that some developers seem oblivious to issues like this and continue to include things like this. It baffles me that ridiculously cheap boss battles make it to games. I can probably understand this for harder difficulties, but not normal difficulty.

Heck, DoA4 has a boss battle at the end that is ridiculously cheap. Now, this isn't so bad because there's basically no penalty, this being a fighting game, in retrying it. Interestingly enough, from the same team, you have Ninja Gaiden. A game that, save for a few exceptions, once you die, you know it's your fault alone and don't really feel you can't beat any particular challenge.
 
MegaMan 2 ------- My first MegaMan, I was about 9 years old and had no idea of the masochistic ecstasy I had subjected myself too.
 
bionic77 said:
Ghosts and Goblins, the last stage before the boss. Almost 20 years and I still can't pass it. Probably the only game that I couldn't beat (at least from the games I have played). I never cried, but the frustration is unbearable when you get to that level and try for hours and still get nowhere.
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Hah. That game is so ridicolousy crappy in oh so many ways, I don't even get mad playing it. It just goes to far. I just laugh, shake my head and turn the damn game off.
 
The 1:05 facility challenge on Goldeneye got me pretty frustrated. But I finally took that down.

Perfect Dark Zero on Dark Agent can be pretty frustrating.
 
Why, hello there Arthur! What's that? You finally defeated all the enemies and want to see Princess Guinevere? Sure, sure. But first, why don't you just FINISH THE GAME ALL OVER AGAIN.
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*remembers the sheer helplessness of double-jumping*

*slits wrists*
 
jetjevons said:
The 1:05 facility challenge on Goldeneye got me pretty frustrated. But I finally took that down.
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Yeah, that was an instance where I wanted to cry tears of joy. A little while later, some kid heard that I had done it and paid me ten bucks to do it again on his cart (this was before the button codes were released). Miraculously, I was able to do it again.
 
Holy fuck, you guys actually pulled off the 1:05? Color me impressed, I never even tried it since it sounded impossible. Though I can't tell you how many hours I wasted blowing up the scientists on that map with my remote mines. :lol
 
zesty said:
Holy fuck, you guys actually pulled off the 1:05? Color me impressed, I never even tried it since it sounded impossible. Though I can't tell you how many hours I wasted blowing up the scientists on that map with my remote mines. :lol
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I remember my time was largely dependent on Dr. Doak being in a certain spot -- if I got there and he was somewhere else, I would automatically restart. Of course, you also had to do the usual GE speedrun tricks such as strafing pretty much all the time. I worked at it for way too long.
 
slighty frustrated at times. Not more.
Anyway, at the end of my "getting frustrated" process there's a killing urge, not a crying urge. I never killed for a videogame - and never will lol
 
bob_arctor said:
*remembers the sheer helplessness of double-jumping*

*slits wrists*
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The worst part is that the whole "you need a secret weapon to defeat the final boss" thing is bullshit. If you input a code to go straight to the final boss, normal lances will kill him :lol
 
Close to it. I do remember though playing the SNES Super Empire Strikes Back and hating it soo much because of the level where you are riding the Tauntaun and getting random cheap shots from offscreen enemies forcing you to drop into the pits of death below. I'd be so angry that I'd grab my SNES controller by the cable and whip the poor controller into the ground at high speeds.

I hate that game with a passion and anyone who loves it deserves to have their hands cut off and never play a game again as they know nothing of good game design.
 
Cry? Never.

But one of the ONLY times I've ever gotten mad at a video game was when I decided it would be wise to use my NES controller like a pair of nunchucks, and slam it onto my Top Loading NES. Broke the fucker wide open, too.

It was over a game of Baseball Stars between me and a friend. He kept kicking my ass, and I couldn't take it.

I don't LIKE losing.

Yeah, I was a big baby. Thankfully, I fixed that top loader many years later by winning a broken one in an auction(but the outer casing was in perfect condition).

Lesson learned. I'll never take my anger out on my games again.
 
oh, i cry a little bit on the inside at the shooting range C in RE4, and it manifests in ambivalence and hate. I need money! ::sob::

too bad there's not a trick option as a means to make a little extra cash on the side for weapon upgrading. Leon could show Krauser, the Regenerator, or Ada a "good time." :lol
 
I very nearly lost it on True Crime: New York last night. The stupid-ass
President's Club final boss
is the cheapest, most poorly-designed POS that I've ever had the misfortune to come across. The fact that you're fighting the shitty camera during the battle just put the cherry on top of a hairy camel-ass sundae.

Funnily enough, the rest of the game isn't that bad. But that one boss... *strokes out*
 
Warm Machine said:
Close to it. I do remember though playing the SNES Super Empire Strikes Back and hating it soo much because of the level where you are riding the Tauntaun and getting random cheap shots from offscreen enemies forcing you to drop into the pits of death below. I'd be so angry that I'd grab my SNES controller by the cable and whip the poor controller into the ground at high speeds.

I hate that game with a passion and anyone who loves it deserves to have their hands cut off and never play a game again as they know nothing of good game design.
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That is like the first level of the game. And that game is not difficult at all.
 
The only thing that comes to mind(and it was more of a case of frustration) would have to be Sega's Gunvalkyrie. At the end, you have to face 3 bosses in a row with no save ability in between. Also, there was a level in that game(actually I think it may've been right before the final boss fights) where you have to work your way from platform to platform to reach the top and if you missed, down to the bottom you would go and you'd have to start your ascent again.
 
Synth said:
F-Zero GX... had about 2 more staff ghosts to beat and then...

"File is corrupt"


Never played the game again =(
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That's not cry worthy...That "Your head asplode" worthy. Ouch.

And the the original topic...Yeah...More times than I'd like to recall.
 
human5892 said:
I remember my time was largely dependent on Dr. Doak being in a certain spot -- if I got there and he was somewhere else, I would automatically restart. Of course, you also had to do the usual GE speedrun tricks such as strafing pretty much all the time. I worked at it for way too long.
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pfft it wasnt THAT hard. I beat it in about an evenings worth right before the family was set to vacation to Maryland. Fun times.
 
I thought beating Aztec on hard mode was more difficult then getting the 1:05 Facility cheat in Goldeneye. That one room with the ambushing laser dudes, the infinite enemies that pour in post-launch sequence start, the turrets. Oh and Jaws~ That fucking sucked! I remember trying it two dozen times and failing, leaving the game for about three months and coming back to it, beating it my first try. So eh.
 
In recent memory I verbally cursed David Giraffee's name many times for the Hades level. I believe it went something like this: "Fuck David, fuck him in his stupid fucking ass, that cock biting fucker! Goddamn God-of-Fucking-Log-Rolling-Simulator!"

Then I got to the spikey tower climbing part and totally lost it.

Oh yeah, and Geometry Wars. Fuck.
 
Ninja Gaiden NES - Fuck you eagles!

God Of war - Spikey wall thing...because of the shitty collision detection and the crappy ds2 analog stick.
 
Ganondorf>Link said:
Never cried, but I have thrown a controller plenty of times. I thought about breaking my Ikaruga disc once due to the difficulty.
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Ikaruga didnt come even close to making me cry.

I played it about 20 or so times, made it to the third level a few times, then thought "there is no fucking way I will ever get good at this, so I am not getting upset".

Respect to people that have mastered that game.
 
Rage and Swearing: Unwanted Emotions

F-Zero GX

story mode or chapter mode (whatever it's called)......'nuff said!

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

The boss fight: ING Leader. The 3rd form i can't even explain it but eventually i beat about after 25 to 30 times.
Swearing + rage = death's about to get sweeter!!!! :lol







One small tears for mankind one giant leap getting your a$$ kicked

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

From the beginning to the earth shattering ending:
Zelda's identity unveiled until she got kidnapped by that 'dorf!
 
Jade Knight 08 said:
Rage and Swearing: Unwanted Emotions

F-Zero GX

story mode or chapter mode (whatever it's called)......'nuff said!
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Nipple Bandit said:
Dear Nintendo:
YOUR COCKSUCKING PRODUCT HAS REDUCED ME TO A GIBBERING MAN-APE WHOSE ONLY RESORT TO DEALING WITH THE ALMIGHTY FUCKING GRIEF IT'S BESTOWED UPON ME IS TO SCREAM AND HURT MYSELF.

Seriously, I am jumping up and down and throwing my shit in handfuls at the fucking television in some impotent primal effort to get the thing to work. I have been sitting here trying to enjoy your product - YOUR PRODUCT, YOUR GAME, YOUR CONTRACT BETWEEN DEVELOPER AND CONSUMER THAT THE CONSUMER WILL ENJOY YOUR PRODUCT - but instead the damn thing's been crawling out of the console and taking warm shits in my gaping mouth. Swear to god, you should have just added a little door to the console through which a hand pops out and flips me off, because I am insulted that your QA or testers or whatever brainless shitstove three genes short of a monkey FAGNUT signs your games through thought that a person with more than a single fucking digit IQ could enjoy Story Mode Chapter 7. INSULTED.

WORK WITH ME HERE: The goal's simple enough! Come in first! Hey, that's fine, it's just like playing the grand fucking prix; not a problem! Only deal is your cross-eyed team of tongue-slapping wunderkind decided to give the game every single fucking advantage possible TO THE GAME rather than me.

How in the fuck does Black Shadow - whose car is the heaviest and lamest piece of shit next to the Crazy Bear - suddenly become SO FUCKING GOOD that he can stay in first without using a drop of boost? Huh!? Why!? You never see this shithead anywhere near the top fucking 20 in a normal race. BUT HO HO HO THIS TIME HE'S MEGA-COCK, THE FASTEST FAGGOT IN THE WORLD. 1.21 GIGAWATTS MARTY, LET'S GO BACK TO THE FUCKING FUTURE.

But it's not just Black Shadow with the magical powers, it's the entire fucking lineup of racers! THEY'RE ALL FASTER THAN YOU. AND DON'T REQUIRE ANY BOOST.

But but but I of course, am still driving some piece of shit hamster-powered jalopy who guzzles it's entire energy bar in no less than four fucking boosts! Add to this the entire course just got shitted on by some retarded space tiki volacano god and you've got a course full of hazards that'll drain at least 1/4 of your energy bar JUST BECAUSE IT CAN. WHOOPIE.

HURRR, you say. THAT'S JUST THE CHALLENGE. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY. Well fuck that noise, you lopsided frankenfaced fuckfurter.

Tell me, please, why does the GAME have to win? Huh? What happens when the game wins and I lose? Is there some huge fucking kegger waiting for it when it gets done? Is there money involved? Or perhaps the motives are more sinister. Maybe the game's family is being held hostage by another game and that game has it's cock in F-Zero's wife's mouth and he's holding a cell phone up to her and F-Zero can hear her pained moans and cries for help and the asshole game then says, "You beat that cock-sucking human, or I'll blow her brains out." I COULD UNDERSTAND THAT. I CAN BE SYMPATHETIC.

It's not any fun if I can't win, you faggots. I want to move on. I want to unlock whatever piece of shit clown car you have hidden away from me so I can start racing and get pissed off with that too. When your game prevents me from fully enjoying the product I have bought you have failed in your fucking mission to deliver a game. You lose! You break the contract! You contract the gay and fucking DIE DIE DIE.
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An oldie but goodie. You're not alone.
 
My friend (I believe he's on GAF idk why he hasn't spoken up) has a large box filled with broken controllers, cartridges gameboys etc. that he calls "the graveyard". He once broke the left handle off the N64 controller.
 
I've never cried over a game but right now DOA 4 has been pissing me off so badly. Worse than stupid Smash Brothers trophy challenges. Crazier part is I'm not doing bad at all in DOA 4, just that the cpu is complete bullshit. wooosah wooosah.
 
In 2nd grade or something I used to get frustrated to the point of tears with my GB Power Rangers game. Apparently (and much to my parents' chagrin), I used to use prayers meant for blessing the food as pleas to God for help in "beating that stupid Rita."
 
When playing (2D) shooters, you have "off days" where nothing will work out for you. I guess lack of a good night's sleep and other emotions get in the way and you'll just suck and suck and keep sucking, but because you know you can do so much better you'll also keep trying. I've ended up slapping myself in the face for sucking so much, and while I haven't actually shed tears, some of these days have gotten me fucking depressed because then it feels kinda like I can't do anything else I take upon myself to do during that day either. Uh, yeah.
 
Swat said:
In recent memory I verbally cursed David Giraffee's name many times for the Hades level. I believe it went something like this: "Fuck David, fuck him in his stupid fucking ass, that cock biting fucker! Goddamn God-of-Fucking-Log-Rolling-Simulator!"

Then I got to the spikey tower climbing part and totally lost it.
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LOL! I too lost my friggin' mind at that spiky tower in God of War. And then, moments after rejoicing that I actually scaled the thing, I found a SECOND tower.

Goddamn, I was pissed, and it was all over for me that night. I came back the next night with a cool head and passed the level and finished the game, then boxed that bitch back up and traded it in for a new game the day after.
 
I don't cry. I get pissed and super frustrated.

has a video game ever done that to me? yes, many. most recently is the pickham casino in DQ8.
 
I sense much anger in you. And you, and you, and you...

Haven't you people ever heard of deep breaths and counting to ten?
 
Prince of Persia, Gamecube version. There's some shit where you're on an elevator and you have to protect the stupid bitch who keeps dying. She just kept dying over and over and over and over after 10 waves of respawning enemies and finally on wave 9 of 10 the game CRASHED. Big single-colored polygons and corrupted textures everywhere. I took the disc out of the Gamecube and zinged it like a frisbee through my house. FUCK YOU UBI YOUR CODING SUCKS SHIT.
 
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