Most irritating game?

[vonuber]

I'm sure that not a quick time event and you just have to press action to grip the ice.

Anyway, the last level of driver on the ps1.

[sparks_E39]

vonuber said:

I'm sure that not a quick time event and you just have to press action to grip the ice.

Anyway, the last level of driver on the ps1.

Tried everything.. I just couldn't do it!

[BaronVonVaderham]

RemaL said:

Project cars. Set controls to manual gears, ABS only and breaking markers as per all racinng games I have played for years and still can't drive for st. FWD, RWD all st and handles like crap

Exact same settings here and I love it, it sts all over GT/Forza and make them feel very arcadey by comparison. There was one settings change that made all the difference on pad, mode 2 iirc.

It's worth persevering with as it has a great selection of tracks and a good career mode. My favourite racer to date. I do have asseto corsa as well, but if you can't get on with pcars then the even more realistic handling may challenge you.

I'd put AC as my most annoying as the handling is sublime but the rest of the game is woeful.

[TommoAE86]

vonuber said:

Anyway, the last level of driver on the ps1.

What about the first level in the car park? People always seem to hate that, I know it took me few tries and at that time all I played was driving games!

Driver San Francisco had a version if you hit 88mph in the Delorean you go back in time to that mission rendered in full PS3 beauty. strangely it's harder in this one than in the original. Still completed it though (just)

Edited by TommoAE86 on Friday 24th March 11:39

[Mr E]

moustachebandit said:

My nomination is Another World. Never got anywhere playing this on the Amiga. Bought it a while back on the Xbox one. Still impossibly hard.

A gourgeous lovely thing on the amiga. I don't recall it being particually annoying.
Flashback was better imho, and also available in original and remastered forms on the Xbox.

I'd second rick dangerous for annoyance factor, and would like to add "Thrust" for the 8 bit crew. A wonderful little game, but very very irritating (at least every failure was your own fault).

[vonuber]

[quote=TommoAE86]

What about the first level in the car park? People always seem to hate that, I know it took me few tries and at that time all I played was driving games!

[/Spoiler]

Do all these difficult maneuvers against the clock in a car that handles like blancmange.

I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea, but I'd love to meet them.

[TommoAE86]

yup that's the one. I still have my copy of Driver 2 and maybe 1, will have to get the PSX out and give it another go

[parabolica]

vonuber said:

TommoAE86 said:

What about the first level in the car park? People always seem to hate that, I know it took me few tries and at that time all I played was driving games!

Do all these difficult maneuvers against the clock in a car that handles like blancmange.

I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea, but I'd love to meet them.

To be fair, if you could do that intro level, you could do anything in the game! Loved it personally; took maybe a dozen attempts first time round but then the world was your poorly-rendered, appalling-frame-rate oyster

I dug it out a year ago and rose-tinted specs were thoroughly torn from my face

[Mr E]

I refuse to believe driver is anything other than brilliant.
It let me pull up next to a cop car at red lights and perform a rolling burnout.

[Fane]

Everquest. And World of Warcraft. As a distinctly casual player, I got so fked off with them raising the level cap every time I got to, or close to, max level.

[Lance Catarmaran]

Any fighting game for me, as I don't have the skill or patience to learn the frame-perfect skill they require. Trying to play them online is an exercise in misery as well, seemingly only ever full of people who will destroy you with 40 hit combos or just spam the same move over and over again.

Only game I've ever broken a controller on was Conan on the 360, where seemingly no matter what you did the AI just blocks and counters everything, and QTEs would appear whilst you were mid-combo which meant instantly failing them and dying. Call of Duty games on veteran are no fun either, with endlessly respawning grenade spamming AI feeling ridiculously cheap.

[anonymous-user]

Operation Flashpoint - when you get shot in the leg after 30 seconds and then realise you have to crawl 3km to the objective

Hard as nails, that game. Deep down I loved it

[Red Firecracker]

RC Stuntcopter.

It even said in the instruction manual, "You will not beat this game".

[PhilboSE]

Ant Attack on the Spectrum.

Particularly Level 10, the last one, where you had to run along a series of towers executing perfect left and right turns while running. Required perfect timing executing about 10 moves consecutively, one mistake and it's game over requiring a complete restart.

Caused me to rip the metal plate off the keyboard and crush it in frustration!

Brilliant game in every other way, really pushed the boundaries in many ways. Sandy White...wonder what happened to him?

[Loyly]

Symbolica said:

Operation Flashpoint - when you get shot in the leg after 30 seconds and then realise you have to crawl 3km to the objective

Hard as nails, that game. Deep down I loved it

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was one of the few games I have returned for a refund in 25 years of gaming (I started at 3 with a Megadrive).

On the first mission, one of the first objectives was to cross a river to approach a village on the other side. For whatever reason, the game would crash whenever I tried to cross the river. I thought maybe it had installed poorly, but no, even deleting the game and doing a fresh install didn't solve it. I didn't bother getting a second copy.

[Zetec-S]

Moog72 said:

In the same vein, Jet Set Willy or indeed quite a lot of the mid 80s Spectrum games. Badly coded, barely tested and in some places downright impossible - Sir Fred and Brian Bloodaxe, I'm looking at you Good pocket money spent on those, total garbage

Didn't Jet Set Willy have a bug in which meant it was impossible to complete?

[Steven_RW]

PhilboSE said:

Ant Attack on the Spectrum.

Caused me to rip the metal plate off the keyboard and crush it in frustration!

Ahh - beauty. That was exactly the game that came to mind as I ran through my entire gaming history. Utterly nails. Level 10? Are you some sort of hero? I don't think I even made it off level 1 iirc!

[Steven_RW]

Zetec-S said:

Moog72 said:

In the same vein, Jet Set Willy or indeed quite a lot of the mid 80s Spectrum games. Badly coded, barely tested and in some places downright impossible - Sir Fred and Brian Bloodaxe, I'm looking at you Good pocket money spent on those, total garbage

Didn't Jet Set Willy have a bug in which meant it was impossible to complete?

Yes - along with a number of other games there is a programming error that means you cannot complete the game. Same with attic attac and so on I believe.

[boyse7en]

Moog72 said:

robemcdonald said:

Manic miner. People complaining new games are tough don't know what tough really is.

In the same vein, Jet Set Willy or indeed quite a lot of the mid 80s Spectrum games. Badly coded, barely tested and in some places downright impossible - Sir Fred and Brian Bloodaxe, I'm looking at you Good pocket money spent on those, total garbage

Edited by Moog72 on Saturday 18th March 20:24

Edited by Moog72 on Saturday 18th March 20:34

The most frustrating game on the Spectrum was definitely trying to get copied games to load

The amount of time I spent watching patterned lines on the screen and praying it would load was uncountable.
Then sigh in regret as it rebooted, adjust teh volume/tone control on the cassette player and try again...

and agin...
and again...