#277259 - 02/11/08 01:31 PM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: GBC]
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Addicted Boomer
Registered: 01/15/05
Posts: 4452
Loc: london uk
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When I think about it there seems to be very few games that don't have one aspect or another that infuriates somebody! Out of the games mentioned that I have played I would agree with most of the 'annoyances'! - the troll cave & the twins in Dreamfall (I didn't mind so much the stealth & combat); timed & stealth sequences,crate puzzles in BS3; monkey combat in MI4 (but I did like the insults in MI3  ): the chores in White Wolf - also for me the skating pond puzzle, the snowmobile chase & the repetitive snowball fights but I did really like the fox & geese game! & the game overall. I didn't mind the wolf sequence in GK2 too much but hated the swinging axe ending to GK3. I don't mind sliders & the only thing that stopped me loving The Awakened was the control system that made me feel nauseous. There was a little too much wandering back & forth in Limbo of the Lost but to get back to the game that started this - Evil Under the Sun - for me the worst is wondering what you have to do or where to go to next to progress the game & having to keep going back & forth to different locations in the hope that you bump into the right person (or object):) The double-clicking to exit quickly from a scene does help!!
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#277275 - 02/11/08 01:49 PM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: GBC]
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Shy Boomer
Registered: 09/19/07
Posts: 32
Loc: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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I hate it in an adventure, when I get really, really stuck because of some extremely small hotspot or a hotspot that was inactive at the time that I passed it, but got active when I do something in the game. Especially the last one I hate.
East Side Story for example. There is one hotspot which is not available when I first passed it. When I triggered an action, then there was a hotspot. I spend a few hours walking around, talking to people but I couldn't find it. As a last resort, I looked into a walkthrough. I hate walkthroughs, it is a way of cheating I don't like. Especially since it is not my lack of adventure skill.
The same goes for Time Stand Still. You can work on a puzzle, but until you do something else, it is impossible to solve it. I spend hours working on that puzzle. Again I used a walkthrough and I found out that I spend all those hours on a puzzle, I shouldn't even have access too.
But I love all four Carol Reed Mystery adventures. It is terrible that those things make me use a walkthrough.
Another example of a game I love with something I hate. The recent Wii adventure Zack & Wiki. I loved it, until the very last level. You have to use the Wii Remote to swing something around like a lasso and release it when it is at top speed. However, the controls to release it are very very broken. I just didn't work. It felt really random well it wasn't. Normally, to release a lasso, you throw it in the direction you want to throw it. Not in this level. You have point to left. Totally illogical and very difficult and frustrating to pull off. You can also do something wrong in the game, without it giving any feedback that you actually did messed up. Thankfully the levels are small. But there are a few levels that I forgot one thing in the beginning of the game, which resulted in me, spending a decent amount of time, wondering what I did wrong, well I was actually really stuck from the very beginning. Very bad. But I still love the game.
I probably have a lot more examples of games I love, but elements I hate.
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#277378 - 02/11/08 05:00 PM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Becky]
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Shy Boomer
Registered: 09/19/07
Posts: 32
Loc: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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It should be great, but it just didn't work. And that's a shame in a otherwise great end fight.
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#277412 - 02/11/08 06:00 PM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Sneaker]
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Grande Olde Dame
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Registered: 12/04/99
Posts: 31224
Loc: Northwestern New Mexico, USA
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The game that I loved in spite of frustration was Grim Fandango. It was the first keyboard controlled game that I played, and it was a shame that the controls were so hard to use. Poor Manny spent most of his time either turning around in circles or smashing into walls and doors!!  But the game was so good that I endured the frustration of trying to move Manny around--and by the end of the game I was moving a little better, I'll admit...
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#277860 - 02/12/08 03:38 PM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: BubbaJake]
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True Blue Boomer
Registered: 07/10/05
Posts: 23997
Loc: UK
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I won't discuss Abnathus, or whatever/whenever his name was.  Abnaxus. That guy could talk the hind legs off a donkey.
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#278115 - 02/13/08 04:34 AM
Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: SuMac]
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Adept Boomer
Registered: 02/08/06
Posts: 12095
Loc: Scotland
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Two games that I really liked but got so frustrated with that I didn't finish them...
Atlantis Evolution - trying to escape from the Guardians in the forest had me tearing my hair out and hearing "Halt Deviant!" in my dreams! I just couldn't master that one even with a walkthrough.
Mysterious Journer 2 - the fog maze puzzle, could never get the hang of that one either.
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