Hissy Fits

[marcus]

What was the last game you threw a real hissy fit over?

For me it would be whilst recently playing Fatal Frame. Now, I love this game, I really do and upon completion I instantly started again for another time round, something I rarely do these days I assure you. However, it came to the point whereby it became very obvious that I would have to go on a hunt for health/items to progress against the harder challenges that lie ahead.

After running around the mansion for the best part of an hour, slyly dodging ghosts in make or break dashes for health items, I decided it was finally time to save. So, I carefully make my way back to the nearest save point, I enter the room itself and begin walking to the save point itself, and as (bad) luck would have it, a random ghost of the particularly difficult kind appeared onscreen, latches itself onto my cute heroine and proceeds to suck every last bit of life out of her. And no, I didnt have the save stone which would of rejuvenated her energy bar, and the hour of character building was completely wasted.

Oh for automatic save points.

Cue choice words, particularly of the C and F variety.

Thats mine, whats yours?

[Faded]

shinobi.

Just the whole game. I think at one point I was very close to real tears, and by tears I mean having a total and utter breakdown which included sobbiing like a seven year old girl.

Oh and all the edinburgh VF players like to swear quite a lot midplay. That's taken for granted of course.

[NeilMcRae]

recently timesplitters 2 when you have to follow or wait for things to happen - drives me nuts

[nips]

Today. 4 player Mario Kart 64.

Koopa Troopa Beach. I did well I did the jump first two laps, got lightning and stuff at the end so they caught up a lot. I was about 3 inches from the finish line and this foolass boosts with a mushroom right up my ass, hits the green shell I was carrying behind me and flys over my head and wins.

I never even knew you could do that.

But anyway, he won, even though I 'pwned' the total track.

Next time... Next time.

[bingowings]

most times i play Super Puzzle Fighter on the GBA. the regular 'Arcade' game is no problem, if i lose i lose. but 'Street Puzzle', jesus. the amount of times i've started swearing like a loon after losing out because of just one block...looks especially bad on the train or bus

[angel]

I'm playing the splatterhouse arcade on mameox and its a right f****** c***. i can do the 1st 5 levels on 1 credit (which - ask anyone - are really hard) up to the 5th boss when your missus turns into a brown monster and then i cant do a thing. driving me mad.

[Mike UK]

I swear whenever I come across bad 'gaming logic'. I play a lot of games, I'm not too bad at them, therefore, when I come across something that appears to be totally based on luck, and not one iota of skill, and is a hassle to try again and again, I'll curse till I'm blue in the face.

e.g. the last level of Driver on PS1, the level where you have to nick a van full of drugs from the haitans in GTA VC, some level in Buffy that made me give up..

My examples run out at a bad moment, but I tend to get upset at bad game design rather than it being my fault (that's my excuse anyway..!).

Edit - and Kanbei's error in advance wars, I invented new swear words for that one..

[Shin Gouki]

Yesterday when i was trying to get the custom muscle on burnout 2 and failed for about the 20th time i had a massive tantrum and strated paceing up and down the room shouting **** about 20 times at the top of my voice

got there in the end though.

Ive just got super monkey ball so im expecting a few "bastards" and "****s" here and there

[Ish]

Burnout 2. Last weekend. Tried to play it when pissed. Failed miserably. Tried again. Did even worse. Tried again. Hurled the PS2 controller across the room.

[Shin Gouki]

Burnout 2. Last weekend. Tried to play it when pissed. Failed miserably. Tried again. Did even worse. Tried again. Hurled the PS2 controller across the room.

big mistake!

I'm looking forward to playing f-zero GX on crack when i get round to it

[JRMacumber]

Just a couple of days ago with Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. There is this one level where you have to sneak past some Germans and get to a second story in a warehouse type area. Then, you have to whip swing twice across to the other side, then duck and roll through several spinning fans, then suddenly drop down a slide you didn't see coming, then jump from that slid to catch a wall, then duck roll through another fan, then make it past a fan spinning so fast it wants to push you to the abyss, then kill several guards, all before you can finally save your game. I swear to Christ, it must have taken me ten tries at it, easily, and I was ready to throw my controller into a wall. So damn frustrating.

[Mayhem]

I'm looking forward to playing f-zero GX on crack when i get round to it

Add to the already ginormous swear pot that myself, Dave, Ph and RPJ no doubt have filled copiously since the end of July

[baddie long legs]

Just completed the first Buffy game on Xbox last night but not after much frustration thanks to the ****ing dreamer's realm level at the end with all the jumping and ****. I got so mad after falling to my doom for the umpteen billionth time that I kicked my door frame resulting in a huge crack up it. Oh well at least I didn't break anything important like the Xbox or something.

[Garibaldi Biscuit]

Most recently I would have to say Mace Griffin, dying before a save point and realising I had to replay most of the mediocre level ( particularly one tedious bit with loads of hidden snipers ) resulted in me letting out a cry of rage and literally biting the XBox pad at one point, not to mention picking up the game box and bellowing 'you think you're ****ing funny, do you?', as though it was alive and could understand me.

Reassuringly, I do half of these things through knowing the comedy of them will make me feel better, no.......really.

[PH]

I'm looking forward to playing f-zero GX on crack when i get round to it

Add to the already ginormous swear pot that myself, Dave, Ph and RPJ no doubt have filled copiously since the end of July

Its overflowing.

At the moment trying to negotiate the tight twisty Phantom Road with the FLG4 is turning me into a jibbering wreck. Quite possible the GC will go thru the window in a minute.