Most Funny/Annoying/Stressful Video Game Moment

[davidwhang]

game: Contra III (SNES)
problem: VERY HARD MODE using 3 Lives only 2 players

About 10 years ago, my cousin and I moved to a new neighborhood and so we spent most of the summer playing Contra III. We progressed naturally from Very Easy to Easy to Normal to Hard to Very Hard. Again naturally with the number of lives. Finally, after about 2 months of everyday play, we got good enough to play with 3 lives. We got close many times to beating the final boss. But if you have played Contra III on Normal or above, you know that the final boss comes back alive and chases your helicopter... well.. that is when the game gets hard as hell. After failing about a week straight and already vowing to never play that game again, we finally got to the point where we had 3 lives each AFTER beating the final boss part 1. We were SO d**n happy and thought we would easily beat the helicopter part.

We had him blinking FOREVER.... I honestly believe that 10 more shots would've killed it. MY GOD. We threw our controllers, breaking one of them. I then pulled out Contra III from my SNES and threw it against the wall, which broke it enough that we decided to look in it. (I know all of you have tried opening up a NES or SNES game before just to be truly disappointed that it was just chips) Anyways, we vowed never ever to attempt that again and besides the fact that we couldn't, we also didn't...

Until the SNES on PSP... I tried it again solo... needless to say, I got owned on stage 4. If you want a challenge, play contra III on VERY HARD MODE. It should be renamed VERY STRESSFUL mode... anyways... if you have never played it, try it out -- just don't get addicted like me...

Man... writing that makes me want to play it again... Imma call my cousin and go for it again one day..... ONE DAY WE WILL SUCCEED... my vows are worthless. Don't marry me.

[corona]

I dont think Ive ever wanted to injure someone so badly before.

[davidwhang]

didn't mean to offend you.. it was a bad joke in bad taste..

[prettzv]

I reccomend staying away from games like ghouls and ghosts, or megaman powerup then, beacause they are pretty rough stuff and will do nothing but break your spirits.

[mstrhelix]

thats nothing have u ever played Driver for Playstation? the last level is impossible even with cheats. you try to get away and complete mission but every car rams into you at break neck speed and flips your car until you bounce on top of some skyscrapers. its pathetic and spirit breaking to say the least. one of the few games i never beat.

[wantan]

Annoying/Stressfull video game moment for me... well it was years ago when I was playing Ninja Gaiden for NES... does anybody remembers the last act of Scene 6... when you have to battle against 3 bosses in a row...? and if you're getting killed you have to restart all the act 6? The only good part here if you kill one of the bosses you have only to battle against the other 2 and so...

Most Funny... well... that was 3 months ago, when I perform my first killtrocity in halo 2... hahaha... it was just pure luck... because at most I can only perform killtaculars... but I was in the right moment in the right place...

[bl@ckm@ge987]

Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. So friggin hard (especially for a 10 year old) coudn't beat the first level, but loved the music. Coudn't beat Sigma on Megaman X till I was 14! Definetly Contra III, now I wanna play it. Losing to the last Pokemon on Pokemon Red, my Venusaur 1HP, his Charizard 1 HP, the Charizard was faster... d**n...

[corona]

Dude, Pokemon was the easiest RPG Ive ever played!
Try playing Dragon Warrior Monsters, or Final Fantasy 2 for Gameboy.
Those are the hardest RPGs I've ever played.
As for non RPGs, Turok 2 for the N64.
I beat the game on the hardest difficulty. It was the closest thing to a miracle Ive ever seen.

[rogermcghee16]

Ninja Gaiden Black, Hard Mode thats all i have to say

[prettzv]

Try playing Dragon Warrior 2 without a strategy guide or playing dragon quest 5 in japanese
Ninja Gaiden gets easy after you know the sequence of the mobs.

[wantan]

Well... if you gonna play any RPG in Japanese it's obiously that it would be very Annoying and Stressful...

And yes... if you know the sequence of the enemies in Ninja Gaiden you can beat the game... But, that's not true the first time you put your hands on the game... well... I remember it now I´m 29 years old... so It was one of my stressful video game moments of all time... right now... I can beat the game in less than 20 minutes.

The point here is that we're not searching for the most difficult/annoying/stressful/funny game... we're discussing about the game moment that you remember...

[corona]

Most stressful moment in any videogame EVER!

FF7 for PS.
I was at the end of the game. My party was about lvl 36 (extremely low lvl for end of game) and Sepheroth had just finished casting his ultimate move (the one the destroys the entire solar system) right after I had finished casting Sheild, and Big Guard on my entire party.
Only Yuffie survived the attack, used her limit break technique and low and behold, Sepheroth had 1 friggin HP left.
It was by FAR the most annoying thing Ive ever seen.
Even more annoying, the day after that, someone else beat my record for beating the game at a low level (he managed to do it lvl 30)
I was so angry I snapped the disk.

[wantan]

Yeah... I remember that move... hahahaha... that's really annoying... have just one party member alive... with only 1 HP... hahaha. That's a good one corona!

BTW have you manage to get knights of the round and beat all the Weapon Monsters(Ultima, Red and Omega) with that level?

[corona]

Yeah, I had to be lvl 80 before I could do away with Ruby and Saphire Weapons.
The Knights of the Round summon was easy to get.
All I had to do was breed Chocobos like mad, and it came pretty easily after that.
Ruby weapon was difficult for about 5 minutes, until I realized a perfect combo with pairing Revive with Final Attack.
Doing that kinda made Cloud invincible, then after that, all it took was 10 minutes of unrelenting beatdowns to quell Ruby weapon.
Emerald Weapon isn't even worth a mention.

[wantan]

Well it's so impresive... hahaha... btw thanks... I've forgetted the names of all the Weapons... I mean... I played ff7 years ago... so I can't remember the names of all the monsters...