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Title: Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: GodSend25 on October 12, 2004, 04:15:31 pm
Im sure everyone here has a few of these.  Usually they arent great games, but they are utterly difficult and frustrating.  They may have weird rules, strange controls, and swear enducing cheating by the machine.. but none the less we continue to return to them..

For myself, I particularly like boxing games.  There are quite a few out there, but only several which I consider really good (Ring King being one of them).  The ultimate for frustrating boxing games has to be "Final Blow".  Is anyone good at this game!?!?!?  Whats your secret??  Because I continually pound the cpu and still end up losing..  repeat about 5 or 6 times.  I may get the odd victory in (which is always a cheap flurry of jabs which seems to be a bug in the game where you can repeat about 50 in a row with good timing)...but then its back to swearing.....

Ultimatly I return, only to be pissed again..
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: fatbasta on October 12, 2004, 09:00:54 pm
Bejeweled on palm.  Dumbest game ever and yet I can't stop.  I need help, serious help.
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Witchboard on October 12, 2004, 10:43:54 pm
Which is the boxing game where you're looking through the wired mesh fighter (you)?

Hmm.. as for a game that is frustrating... They are all frustrating to me.  I just turn them off.. HA!  I WIN!
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: GGKoul on October 12, 2004, 11:01:50 pm
Which is the boxing game where you're looking through the wired mesh fighter (you)?

Hmm.. as for a game that is frustrating... They are all frustrating to me.  I just turn them off.. HA!  I WIN!

Punch Out?
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Mameotron on October 13, 2004, 12:59:02 am
Yes!! Punch Out.  I remember beating it as a kid in the arcade, but when I play it on my MAME cab I just can't get through it.  Lots of pounding & swearing, but I always come back....
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Sephroth57 on October 13, 2004, 08:40:25 am
im trying to beat DoDonpachi on only 2 credits for a while now, best ive done is 4 =\
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: DYNAGOD on October 13, 2004, 09:00:38 am
gunbird 2 >:(
this game is inhumanly difficult..
but yet some masochistic element of my psyche keeps bringing me back for more.. and more and more...
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Hoagie_one on October 13, 2004, 10:08:19 am
the asteroid fields in Moon Shuttle irritate me to no end
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: danny_galaga on October 13, 2004, 10:34:28 am
commando. i really love the game play and the style is totally in keeping with my cocktail cab. occasionally i get 'on song' with it and get a good score. but most of the time i die really quickly and get nowhere near the high scores. damn frustrating.
even so, its still showing as the most played game on my cab...
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: HaRuMaN on October 13, 2004, 11:39:43 am
Super R-Type on SNES.  To truly beat the game, you had to beat it on pro level.  Pro level is only accessible after you beat hard level.  Anyone who plays R-Type knows what a difficult shooter it is, but this is just insane.  I have never beat Pro level, I have been trying ever since I got my SNES 10 years ago!!!  *argh!*
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Luxury on October 13, 2004, 12:47:09 pm
Currently its Burnout 3.  I mean the game was super easy until I got to the Super class of cars, and now the AI cheats like a mofo.  I don't mind hard games, as long as it's hard and fair!  AI cheating makes Luxury mad!
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: clanggedin on October 13, 2004, 01:16:05 pm
I can't freaking kill Onaga in MK:Deception. No matter how hard I try , he always hits me into someting and I die with nearly full health.

Stupid game! I can't get enought of it either.
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: DYNAGOD on October 13, 2004, 02:30:48 pm
well if the ps2 is included than i have to say ninja gaiden
that game is ruthless..
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: fredster on October 13, 2004, 03:38:00 pm
Robotron and Asteroids
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Floyd10 on October 13, 2004, 06:31:12 pm
Paperboy
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 14, 2004, 05:34:44 pm
The Legend of Kage...

...and the "no continue" last levels of Life Force, Rastan and Shinobi.
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: Luxury on October 14, 2004, 08:00:06 pm
Life Force

And Gyruss.  Me and my roomate competed for months to see who could beat that game first.  Neither of us ever did.  ---goshdarn--- sun!  

I think he is still trying 6 years later.  :o
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: RacerX on October 14, 2004, 08:18:32 pm
You're all going to laugh at me and kick sand in my face, but...

...Galaga.  I suck at it.  I can barely break 100,000 points on it.

 :D
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: whammoed on October 14, 2004, 10:04:39 pm
You're all going to laugh at me and kick sand in my face, but...

...Galaga.  I suck at it.  I can barely break 100,000 points on it.

 :D
I had my family down from Indiana (to florida) and they were playing galaga...they would think you were a galaga god if you broke 100,000! ::)

I stink at marble madness and galaxian but still play ;)
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: danny_galaga on October 15, 2004, 11:02:48 am
You're all going to laugh at me and kick sand in my face, but...

...Galaga.  I suck at it.  I can barely break 100,000 points on it.

 :D

cool, i've beaten someone at galaga  ;D
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: DougHillman on October 15, 2004, 08:38:35 pm
Bejeweled on palm.  Dumbest game ever and yet I can't stop.  I need help, serious help.

I once had a zen-like session in which I scored like 10x my normal score (the scoring is such that 10x is a pretty difficult leap when you're already scoring pretty well.)  I was sitting on a bench at the mall while my girlfriend shopped for shoes.  I made her wait for me for like 20 minutes as I finished the game out.  This was like a year ago and I've only played it 2 or 3 times since (just to demonstrate it to others) cuz I know I'll never duplicate that feat again.   :)

 
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: DrewKaree on October 15, 2004, 09:52:34 pm
Bejeweled....glad to see it's not just me.  I had it for my Palm, and now I've got it for my cell phone too!

Jamdat bowling for my phone is THE game pissing me off.  I've gotten a 275, but nothing closer than 250 since, and there just IS no way to know what's gonna happen.  

Pocket hit and all I get is a 7-10 split!  WTF?!?!?
Title: Re:Games that piss you off...(that you just can't stop playing)...
Post by: pointdablame on October 16, 2004, 03:54:11 pm

I once had a zen-like session in which I scored like 10x my normal score (the scoring is such that 10x is a pretty difficult leap when you're already scoring pretty well.)  I was sitting on a bench at the mall while my girlfriend shopped for shoes.  I made her wait for me for like 20 minutes as I finished the game out.  This was like a year ago and I've only played it 2 or 3 times since (just to demonstrate it to others) cuz I know I'll never duplicate that feat again.   :)

 


Wow, that struck really close to home.  I also got my high score on my cell phone while my girlfriend was shopping for god-knows-what.  Perhaps the mall has some power to put a person in the Bejeweled zone..... or perhaps it's just a coincidence, and I'm an idiot  ;D

I also vote for lemonade tycoon deluxe.... damn.  Why is it that something as dumb as selling lemonade can suck up entire days at a time?  I actually had to uninstall it when school started because it was taking up too much of my time.