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A Weird Kid's Top 10 -- Most Frustrating Moments In Gaming
Excremento | 11:27 PM on 10.18.2007 34 comments




There are games, and then there are GAMES, but there will always be a little something in any game you play that is just absolutely tedious or just for lack of a better word, frustrating. Numerous controllers have been smashed in anger, siblings have been slapped, cuss words have been uttered, televisions nearly smashed all thanks to frustration (the game developers' final Nelson-like "Ha-Ha").

Tonight the list is my Top 10 Most Frustrating Moments In Gaming. Catch you at the end.

Honorable mentions:
Fighting Chainsaw Guy -- Resident Evil 4
Jackals With Sniper Rifles on Legendary -- Halo Series
Finding the Boss of the 7th Dungeon -- The Legend of Zelda
The Glass Bubble Stage -- Earthworm Jim
Respawning enemies knocking you off cliffs -- Ninja Gaiden
Medusa heads knocking you off cliffs -- Castlevania Series
Fighting all the bosses over again and then taking on Fire Leo -- Viewtiful Joe
Losing all your weapons when you die in the later levels -- Gradius Series
Story Mode -- F-Zero GX
When you fuck up a drop and leave an oddly shaped empty space -- Tetris
Getting all the Tribals -- Jet Force Gemini
Yellow Devil -- Mega Man
Disappearing blocks -- Mega Man Series


Zodiac Puzzle -- Silent Hill



Silent Hill was probably the most scary game experience that I had ever experienced, ever. When playing this game, I actually had to have a friend come over and sit in front of the TV with me so I wouldn't be so freaked out. I can't remember too clearly but I think the Zodiac Puzzle was in the Hospital level of the game, and had me stumped for almost a whole fucking week. I didn't know how to solve the damn thing and without thinking of the internet as a means to solving the puzzle, I spent a good day or two looking up zodiac information in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and even in history books I had around the house. Who would have known that the answer to the question was asking about how many feet the symbol had...Damn I felt so stupid for not seeing that one.


Lulu's Ultimate Weapon -- Final Fantasy X



To obtain Lulu's ultimate weapon, you have to avoid 200 (OMG!) lightning strikes in a row on the Thunder Plains. Sure it's doable, but fuck is it tedious! Not only that, but Lulu was an ancillary character! Plus if you get an enemy encounter, it'll fuck up your timing. Really hard, and really unnecessary Square, BOO!


Jason Attacks! -- Friday the 13th



Friday the 13th was a pretty scary game for me as a kid, though nowadays I can look at it and laugh. Though it was creepy as hell for Jason to just "Pop-up" when you're going through a cabin looking for weapon upgrades. He's also rediculously easy to kill once you get the pitchfork. Getting attacked by Jason is really what this game was all about, but if you were playing a counselor and were on the lake and Jaosn popped up, you were fucked! So damn annoying!!!


Water Temple -- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time



Doing my research for the Top 10 for tonight I found someone who abhored this dungeon, I thought his comments were absolutely wicked, and he says everything that I could hope to say and more. His blog can be found here.

And I quote "Grab your iron boots, because the added weight will help end the madness quicker when you step off the chair with the noose around your neck. The Water Temple in the Ocarina of Time might be the single most aggravating temple/castle/fortress you will ever fight through in all of the Zelda series. First of all, there are three distinct water levels you will need to switch back and forth with to get through. You better have got the Iron Boots before entering or you may as well just reset to save the backtracking time. By the time you fully acquaint yourself with the water level dynamics it’s mini-boss time. Dark Link, hells yeah. But he’s really not that dark, and really not that hard, at all, really. You fight him on a frozen lake where he mirrors every action you take. Solution? Walk to the little patch of grass in the middle of the room (because that’s where you really are anyways), equip your two-handed hammer, and club Dark Link like a baby seal. After all that, and a few more small puzzles, Link rewards himself with the big treasure chest…the longshot! A freaking longshot? That’s exactly what you have of enjoying this rat bastard of a temple, ironically enough. Let’s review. Change the water level multiple times (don’t eff it up, either, you’ll pay the price), hit your dark half with a two ton hammer a couple times, then grab the longshot. Not an ice arrow, or a magic wand, or anything else cool for that matter. A fucking upgrade to the hookshot. You know what they should have called it? The longshit. Because that’s what you just took if you played the Water Temple."


Electric Seaweed -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles



TMNT for the NES is one of the more difficult games that I have in my collection and can recall with great fondness how awesome it was to play as a kid. At the same time I can recall how utterly horrible the second stage of this game was. I'll get you the premise: You, the turtles, must find the explosives that Shredder and his vile foot clan have placed on the dam. When the level starts, you are timed and must find all the explosives and all the while avoid all of the traps in the water, such as the electric seaweed, which was near impossible to pass.


Last Stage -- Driver



Driver was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the game thoroughly, it was the precursor to the GTAIII car physics engine and could be annoying as fuck to pass a level without totally destroying your car. Once that little damage meter fills up, game over. The last stage involves you driving the president away and from the moment the stage begins, people are after you, there are numerous black sedans that want you dead, and for a good 2-3 hours, they succeeded in making it that way, wait, I don't recall if I've ever beat this game...


Jet Board Race -- Conker's Bad Fur Day



It doesn't matter how many lives you have with you at the beginning of this level. Sure you just got done bombing the cavemen's home and shrine causing it to fill with lava. Now you get all of your money stolen by some prehistoric pricks and have to race and club them all to get it back. The racing wouldn't be so bad if the collision detection was all there and if you didn't have to weave inbetween the legs of a wandering dinosaur as well. I played this today and it took 23 attempts to finally finish it. Conker was a great game, but it definately had its faults and this is one of them.


Mike Tyson -- Punchout!!!



Straight up...FUCK MIKE TYSON! There's nothing worse then getting through all of the regular matches only to have to fight the biting and raping man boy sounding tattoo faced bastard. Sure he was a hell of a boxer, but not nearly as good as they made him in this game.


Speeder Bikes/Turbo Tunnel -- Battletoads



Many thanks to Chad Concelmo for his "The Memory Card" series, especially for this one, which does a much better job of explaining how God Damned frustrating this level was. I'm serious, unless you've played Battletoads for yourself and can comment first hand on how tough this level was, I don't want to hear it. Sure, after a long time of practicing and putting numerous bite marks on my controller, I beat this level. From then on, I used warp zones...


The Entire Game -- Ghosts 'N Goblins



Hooooooooly crap, this game is hard. Not like Contra with one life hard, but like you get 3 lives and that's it. You get a few more when you reach a certain amount of points, but each life you start with has a 3 minute shelf life. If you haven't finished the level in 3 minutes, you die, no ifs, no ands, no buts. Worse off, when you do die, you restart at the beginning of the level, or the halfway point if you were lucky enough to get there before you die. Truly one of the hardest games I have ever had the misfortune of playing. In fact, if you reach the last boss's stage and this is your first time there, you get whisked back to the beginning of stage one with a higher difficulty! Only when you get to him a second time can you beat him. Its hella fun, but so damned hard!


The Millions of Zubats in Mt. Moon -- Pokemon



Damnit Nintendo, how many Zubats do I have to battle in this godforsaken level? Sometimes you get a Geodude to fight, but most the time, its a damned Zubat...Random battles are one thing, but when you can predict what enemy will pop up, that's when you've played too much. This was the only time I actually considered throwing my Gameboy across the room, the ONLY TIME!!!



Well, that wraps up another edition of A Weird Kid's Top 10. I hope you all enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed putting tonight's list together. As always, let me know if you have a particular top 10 that you'd like to see, and I'd be happy to oblige. Thanks for reading!!!



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F Whipple's Destructoid Blog
Another truly great list. Congrats
LethalHairdo's Destructoid Blog
Good list tho I will never understand why SO many people complain SO much about the electric seaweed level in TMNT. It's really not THAT hard...the time is not even an issue once you know where all the bombs are. Plus...just use Raph if you are afraid of killing off a turtle.
Excremento's Destructoid Blog
@ LethalHairdo

True man, it's not that bad nowadays, but I'm speaking from my experience as a 10 year old kid (at the time) and how damn hard that stage was for me.
Def JM's Destructoid Blog
You can put all the Ghosts and Goblins and Ghouls and Ghosts I've been playing them on the Capcom Classics, and they are evil. But another one is the glass bubble? in Earthworm Jim that shit annoyed me.
Tino's Destructoid Blog
Since when is Contra with 1 life hard? Just the last boss might be difficult.
Excremento's Destructoid Blog
@ Def_JM

Forgot about that one! It has to be on the honorable mentions.
Kyttie's Destructoid Blog
hehehe, FUCK THE BATTLETOADS LEVEL!!! I don't think I ever actually beat it... :(

I do remember Mike Tyson being a complete Bitch in that game, but I also remember almost never losing a fight before that, so meh.

as frustrating as the hoverboard race in Conker was, it also kicked ass! but ya, I turned off the game and waited until the next day to beat it a couple times xD

for Lulus' ultimate weapon, all you needed to do to make it a million times easier was a shield (or weapon, I can't remember) with "no Random Encounters" which was pretty easy a little later in the game, and then just have a 1-2 second reaction time 200 times in a row.. hehe, I was always able to get it pretty easily in less then an hour.. (yes, I played and beat FFX about 4 times, and had a game that I never finished but with all my chars (except the dumbass cat guy that I can't seem to remember the name of, Rikimaru?) having the entire AP Thingamajig completely done!) yay me

but ya, great list :)
Teta's Destructoid Blog
This has to be the best A Weird Kid´s Top Ten so far.
I´ve played almost every frustrating moment listed there and i was really frustrated.
But the electric seaweed numer 6? It at least deserved a number 4. I remember hating every single beep of Ralph´s health, and Don´s, and Leo´s and Mike´s, oh the anger is coming back.
And the Battletoads level, oh no, that´s frustration made gaming.

But you know what´s frustrating? Cartridge memory failure in your Final Fantasy.
Kyttie's Destructoid Blog
@Teta

Cartridge memory failure on Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Tron Knotts's Destructoid Blog
Brilliant list.
HarassmentPanda's Destructoid Blog
I hate the Turbo Tunnel. I forgot about that level until now and my life was better for it.
BahamutZero's Destructoid Blog
yoshi levels in super mario sunshine = wrath
tehdopefish's Destructoid Blog
another great list... it's nice to see worthwhile blogs in the cblogs.
shipero's Destructoid Blog
Battle toads was the first gmae to make me break a controler, the first of many... so very many.
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
Zubat bitches.
A New Challenger's Destructoid Blog
That Conker level wouldn't be as annoying without the dinosaur. I think there are many moments more frustrating than that, though.

Haha, I totally agree about Zubat.

Some of my own suggestions:

-Respawning enemies knocking you off cliffs: Ninja Gaiden
-Medusa heads knocking you off cliffs: Castlevania
-Fighting all the bosses over again and then taking on Fire Leo: Viewtiful Joe
-Losing all your weapons when you die in the later levels: Gradius series
-Story Mode: F-Zero GX
-When you fuck up a drop and leave an oddly shaped empty space: Tetris
-Getting all the Tribals: Jet Force Gemini
-Yellow Devil: Mega Man
-Disappearing blocks: Mega Man series

Another great list!
Excremento's Destructoid Blog
@ A New Challenger

Updated the honorable mentions list, thanks for contributing!
SPIDER PIG's Destructoid Blog
lulu was my fav charater in that game, but damn that lightning crap was insane, i never did it.

and i forgot about that TMNT thing, awesomely hard

i don't remember the end of Driver being that bad,

Remember how hard the final battle in FFX was though?
Def JM's Destructoid Blog
This could be an idea good games alot of people never really played.

Def JM's Destructoid Blog
Damn that didnt work it was Street Fighter 2010 The Last Fight for the NES
Fleet3000's Destructoid Blog
im beginning to like these lists more and more.

i will never. ever. be able to beat that battletoads level. ever.
Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
I could get through the electric seaweed without taking a single hit. Noobs. Great list!
Boolean's Destructoid Blog
TMNT was the first game I ever ever played on my first PC. And I never had a problem with the seaweed.

Freaking crybabies.
soul3150's Destructoid Blog
Alex Kidd in Miracle World was a control pad throw-fest.

First, you had to go through the game at least twice to get the Janken match patterns, as the telepathy ball was fucking useless. Second, you had to save your brother in the second castle to get the letter to get the tablet or you didn't know the code for the last stage.

And even after all that, the code had to be read right to left bottom to top as it followed the Japanese writing style, which would not occur to a five year old Brisbane kid.

After getting everything done and putting the code in wrong because I was reading it backwards I had a fit, that is the most frustrating moment in a game ever.
trydizon's Destructoid Blog
two things i hate in life:
1. lag
2. the water temple in the ocarina of time

cheers!
( o Y o )'s
007's Destructoid Blog
wtf... i loved the water temple. that's my favorite temple of all time...
LethalHairdo's Destructoid Blog
@ 007:

The water temple still hates you though.
007's Destructoid Blog
hey, lethal, guess what.



FUCK
YOU
LethalHairdo's Destructoid Blog
I never said I hated you, brother. I was just letting you know that the water temple was serious about breaking up.
trydizon's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, I saw the Water Temple at the Max the other day. She was with Zack. I think they're going steady. Make sure Kelly doesn't find out.
Eschatos's Destructoid Blog
I fucking hated the room full of lasers in Half Life 2, until after 20 tries running through it, I realized you had to climb above them.
GrayFox's Destructoid Blog
I never, ever got past the electric seaweed in Ninja Turtles. What a stupid fucking level.

Great list once again.
Sk8nOB's Destructoid Blog
Ballin' list. If it weren't for the Speed Demos Archive, I'd be convinced no one has ever beaten TMNT.
dprime's Destructoid Blog
Damnit Nintendo, how many Zubats do I have to battle in this godforsaken level?

Very nice.


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