Ragequitting.

[krogothwolf]

Originally Posted by Mike McC

Never play a Shin Megami Tensei game.

You will cry blood if Rouge Galaxy's opening is giving you problems.

Really? I never had much trouble with those kind of games, I always wondered why people got so frustrated by them.

Shinobi for the PS2. You know what, I get normal enemies can be hard and I get bosses being even harder and requiring skill. I do not get bottomless pits that require you to jump at the perfect spot. I do not get having 20 in a row. I really don't get having them right before the boss. Fuck you shinobi, fuck you. I suffered to beat you but fuck you, I'll never touch you again. Gah! I get angry thinking about those jumps!

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

To be honest, I don't think I ragequit that often. If I stop playing a game, it's usually because I either got bored, or it got hard, but not "frustation induced, throw the controller across the room hard" (though I have done that on a few occasions, I can't remember which games caused it now).

The only game I can really say that makes me ragequit is DMC. I keep trying to get better at it, and make Dante/Nero do awesome things that look awesome, but after a few minutes I realise I'm just not that good and get angry.

In short, I wish I was better at DMC.

[Mike McC]

Originally Posted by krogothwolf

Really? I never had much trouble with those kind of games, I always wondered why people got so frustrated by them.

Neither have I. In fact, I prefer the hardest modes on them, because otherwise it's too easy for me. Hell, most jRPGs I can play in my sleep, they offer no challenge unless you really go out of your way (minimal levelling runs, minimal equipment, no spells, etc.).

I'm just saying, if he finds Rogue Galaxy unfair, SMT is not for him in the slightest.

Bit of a tangent, but I always chuckle when people say VATS ruins the difficulty in Fallout 3. 1) It's completely optional to use, 2) You can do more damage outside of it anyway. I have never got a one-hit kill sneak-attack critical on a death claw in VATS (at least using the Combat Shotgun/Terrible Shotgun), and yet I always pull it off aiming and shooting outside of it.

[krogothwolf]

FF XIII I have officially decided fuck the first form of the final boss.

Lead dies = retry
Final Boss uses an attack that causes instant death
135% death immunity
Final Boss has instant deathed me 9 times with 135% death immunity, 3 times before doing so. 1 at 0%, 1 at 45% and 1 at 90%

Fuck you square for adding instant death to a game where if your leader dies you are screwed. FUCK YOU!

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Beating MMZ3 (megaman zero 3) on hard mode using only the buster.

Got up to the final stage... and that was it.

Still can't beat it to this day.

[Roland]

I ragequit for the very first time a few weeks ago in Mario Kart Wii. I was playing online, and one of my favorite courses got picked (N64 Mario Raceway). I was doing pretty well for the first two laps, but it didn't last and I got booted to third in a five man race.

Well, on the third lap, we were coming up on the final set of item boxes, and I figured I could at least get second with a good item and not lose too much VR. I got passed up by the guys in 4th and 5th just before I hit the boxes, so I had to get a good item, right? Certainly if it's not something like a star or a bullet bill, it's gotta still be useful, right?



WRONG! Needless to say, I lost. Badly. Got so pissed that I shut the console off and didn't touch the game until yesterday. Funny thing is, I think I lost more VR from dropping out than I would have if I'd just sucked it up and took the loss with dignity.

[Jagos]

Final Fantasy Tactics

I like Ramza. I like him as a Monk. I would like him to be a great summoner. But when you have Four Friggin Tentacled monsters as a random encounter, who takes up half an area and can confuse and berserk you while a red chocobo throws down meteors, and you have ONE MORE &$^$ing monster taking off half damage that even Auto-Potion can't heal, then I have to say that the game must really hate me in random encounters. >_<

[Vauron]

Well, at least it wasn't that random encounter with more than 10 monks as your enemy that I heard of. Its quite rare, so I haven't seen it myself.

[Krylo]

That's because of the way spread works in VATS vs out of it, however each individual pellet gets a damage bonus inside of VATS.

When using single bullet weapons, such as the scoped 44 or sniper rifle, or high spread multi-projectile weapons you can do more damage in VATS than you can out of it, while with multi-projectile low spread weapons, such as any combat shotgun or the laser rifle from The Pitt, you do more damage outside of VATS.

This is because you always get the same spread when using VATS so high spread weapons get a narrower spread, meaning more bullets hit, and low spread weapons get a higher spread, meaning fewer bullets hit.

Of course, all that is at range. If you're at point blank range you're generally going to do more damage in VATS than out of it because every pellet is going to hit anyway. Also you get some degree of damage immunity while in VATS, so it's best to use it at point blank range for that alone.

[Mike McC]

Originally Posted by Krylo

When using single bullet weapons, such as the scoped 44 or sniper rifle, or high spread multi-projectile weapons you can do more damage in VATS than you can out of it, while with multi-projectile low spread weapons, such as any combat shotgun or the laser rifle from The Pitt, you do more damage outside of VATS.

Meh, using the scoped weapons is still better outside of vats, because you can hit enemies reliably from ludicrously far away outside of it, while inside of it the aiming is stupid and gives you low hit percentages.

Hell, I snipe people using the Dart gun. I dunno why I barely used the Dart Gun in my first playthrough, it quickly become one of my favorites when I started actually using it.