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Game frustration (both solo and competitive)
Video games are such a stupid thing to get mad over. But damn, man, even when I know it is, it just doesn't fucking stop XD
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I get this feel ALL THE TIME.
I remember playing Skyrim on my friend's PC. I had escaped from Alduin and was now hiding with Ralof. Being that kind of player, I started hacking away at Ralof. I wasted all my magicka trying to kill him and was about to thrash his PC when he,snickering, told me that Ralof was unkillable.
I've been playing Skullgirls with my friend as of recent. When he gets mad, he gets pretty vocal and profane. I tend to grow silent and put on a pouty face of teen apathy when I'm locked into a pretty obnoxious combo. Our matches are always close since short bread and butter combos do so much more damage than longass chains anyway... most of the time... depending.
But holy fuck man, Fighting Games are seriously just "Buttfrustrated: The Genre"
This is why I don't play a lot of competitive multiplayer games, especially fighting games. I lack the patience and self-esteem to pull my emotions back together after a crushing defeat.
I'd rather get destroyed in a single-player games. There's something about the lack of a human opponent (sans leaderboards) that makes me less infuriated in the face of defeat.
I only get upset when a computer is consistently beating me. In fighting games, I tend to understand the fundamentals and most of the time they win because of my suckage.
Dat feel when the A.I. in a RTS beats you by cheating.
Oh yes, A.I. cheating really pisses me off!
Speaking of vidya, I'm sort of in the mood for a good turn-based strategy.
Everytime my friend invites me over to his house, we just stare at him getting unbelievably assmad at Civilizations V
^^Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor!
^^ > choose Germany
> speedtech to Renaissance
> destroy everyone with landsknechte
^ And maybe I'll try that. Thank you. Although some further information on the game would be appreciated, too.
Megaten game meets RTS. You are stuck in a Tokyo lockdown after demons evade and you have 7 days to find a way to survive, using a magic predictive clock, and demons, both harnessed by a personal computer.
Imagine pokemon meets mythological creatures with a particular focus on Abrahamic mythology. Also, there's the ability to fuse your mythological pokemans into stronger demons/gods.
Also throw in a dash of ebay for demons and magic computers. And the glory of Black Frost, the magical hero of RAGE.
Not to mention some RAGE of your own from how balls hard the game is.
Etrian Odyssey series.
Wrong skill point distributions on your characters can mean hitting a brick wall.
Thankfully, you can reset your characters' skill points, at the cost of 5 levels.
Also, what platforms are these?
All on DS. EO4 is coming to 3DS, however.
3DS for Devil Survivor. Or DS if you're okay with the slightly less awesome version.
Oh hey, I just happen to have a mighty fine 3DS somewhere around here. Thank you for your suggestions.
Shin Megami Tensei I and II.
So I hear you're used to the idea of not paying to summon your demons.
(I'd bring up Magnetite but that's mostly early-game--you get enough MAG later on that MAG consumption stops mattering.)
Oh dear lord, early game magnetite. "You're getting magnetite in miniscule quantities? TOO BAD."
It's not out yet, but Banner Saga.
Xenoblade Chronicles: despite how great it is otherwise, I really can't get the hang out of the WoW-esque combat. I really need to pay attention to the tutorials more.
The most frustrating game I've played has been Knights in the Nightmare, because of three things that don't combine well.
1): The combat system is really, really weird. So weird no one's even sure what genre it fits. This is not a bad thing.
2): Absolutely everything is a finite resource that must be carefully conserved across the entire game. You don't have time to waste figuring out how to do things properly--or, for that matter, HP to waste, items to waste, or even units to waste. This is bad, but salvageable--after all, it fits well with the game's themes of loss and destruction.
3): There are no interactive tutorials. You're told how to do everything, then expected to be able to do all of it without help or further instruction from the very beginning. This is very bad.
Malk - didn't the 3DS version remove the grinding cap so you could better face people? Not that the game isn't hard, but it is manageable even when the first time I played it I ended up being an idiot and not thinking you could swap out skills, so I didn't crack half the skills I had available. The Babel fight (Atsuro's route) might have been a bit easier if I could have just gotten the MC there faster and spammed holy dance.
You can remove the cap in new game+. It's still there in the first battle though.
Ever played Runescape? Well, in its earlier days it was a horrible, horrible grindfest, even more so than now. Well, it was 2007 and I was a kid with nothing better to do, so I played Runescape. After six months of tedious, mind-numbing skill grinding (on dial-up, no more and no less; yeah, I'm a masochist), I had a quite decent character.
So, I had some trading to do, so I took all my money and all higher level equipment from the bank and went for a walk. While on my way, I got in an argument with some douche and we went to Wilderness (the PvP zone) to settle it out. Long story short, he beat me with a very cheap trick (even though he was weaker, statistically) and took all my stuff.
Six whole months of grinding on dial-up, all gone to waste. I literally felt my heart palpitating, felt like I was going to pass out and thought that I would have a heart attack.
Devil Survivor 2.
Just... just the whole game.
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