noname2200 said:
One of my runner ups is this asshole, from Final Fantasy Tactics.
Now, Tactics is not a particularly difficult game. In fact, its mechanics let you completely break the game early in the first chapter. Even if you don't deliberately try to break it, the game automatically hands you Orlandu in the fourth chapter, after which point there remains no pretense of challenge.
Velius exists to punish you for not breaking the game.
The first time through the game, when you probably haven't mastered the mechanics well enough to break them yet (and why would you; it's not otherwise a hard game!), you'll stumble cluelessly into this fight, and it won't be pretty. Hope Ramza's a fighter class, or else the duel with Weigraf is going to end real quick. Hope you used the duel to power up Ramza, or else the fight's going to end fairly quick. Hope your teammates can survive two consecutive hits from Summons and ranged demon attacks, or else the fight's going to end super quick. For added funsies, you were probably stupid enough to save right before this battle, huh? Well tough, cause now you can't grind or restock items without winning this battle (and the luck-based battle after it, for that matter).
So there are two of my "screw this game" moments. What are some of yours?
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I was chatting with one of the mods about this very exact fight. I did save like a fool right before that fight, I must have retried it 7-8 times thinking I was going to have to restart my game all over. I managed to win it with some tweaking and some blind luck but damn that was a nasty fight.
As for a moment, I really said "Screw this game", it would be with Skyrim. I made a mage and played the game for about 20 hours. I finally got myself some second tier spells and thought I'd finally have some firepower. Then I tried them out and all they did was drain my mana faster without any real bonus to my killing power. That's when I realized the combat wouldn't get any better and stopped playing the game.
Runner up: King Ing in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Couldn't beat that son of a bitch.