Thread 724752432

Which one is it for you, anon?
You know, that moment that fucked you over so much in a game, you developed that ceartain tick, that little sixth sense, that little piece of muscle memory that just sticks with you whenever you go, even in other games.

Spore

>>724752432 (OP)
I unconsciously try it on every action game I play

>play L4D2 with a friend on realistic expert
>Get absolutely destroyed whenever we play Dark Carnival
>Attempt like 6-8 times
>Attempt several times to do it
>Get idea that "maybe we can get lucky and get a bile jar for the last 2 parts (the roller coaster and the concerts entrance).
>During our other attempts start to realise that after ceartain points we never actually see any bile jars at all.
>Find it weird, decide to look it up to check if its not my imagination
>Turns out during later sections bile jars do not spawn at all
>Hoard bile jar the whole campaing just to use it on those moments
>Both of us develop a mania to hoard boomer vomit all the time, even in campaings like Dead Center when we get it every 2 minutes

>>724752432 (OP)
the chao release option in sonic adventure 2 battle has always been nightmare fuel

>X-Com UFO
>Assaulting large scout
>Set up best soldier with flying suit on inner UFO door
>Expecting him to reaction-fire the ayy when it comes out
>Ayy comes out
>No reaction fire
>Ayy fires not once
>Not twice
>But EIGHT times into the guy's chest and kills him

I haven't touched the game since

>Play Halo Wars
>Play on hard because I'm not a pussy
>First 3 missions are easy as fuck, you can win by doing a turtle strategy (camping on base, develop everything to the max, defend base, produce as many units until max capacity, then steam roll the enemy).
>Get to Mission 4
>Arcadia
>"My god... Arcadia".
>Start with nothing but a Car and 4 hornets. No base, no resources, not really anything else
>Have to also defend civies, and the Covenant doesn't stop coming.
>They are literally Zerg rushing anything in mass, and with Banshees that spawn out of nowhere.
>Find out later that the AI has a base from the start, and is somehow capable of doing both zerg rush and turtling at the same time.
>I usually get curbstomped the second I attempted to expand to have a second base in the map.
>Its a fucking nightmare to try to defend the civies, defend myself and my troops, try to expand to make things easier and shit on the covenants base.
>Finish the mission
>Almost every single mission after that has been piss easy
>Check out if its as hard on normal
>It is still pretty fucking hard
>Find out later veteran players playing with legendary on all skulls have nightmares with this mission
>tfw i realise steady difficulty progression is a meme.

>>724752432 (OP)
>Playing FFVI back in the SNES days
>Climbing the cultist tower
>The tall ass tower full of fights with no save points
>The one where if you lose you have to start all over again
>Fight Magic Master, the final boss of the tower
>Kill Magic Master
>Sweet. Time to move on to the ne-
>"LOL, just kidding. Even though I'm dead I'm going to cast Ultima, the strongest spell in the game that can't be reflected and one shots your whole party."
>Get a game over and sent back to the bottom of the tower.
I stopped playing the game immediately, and it still haunts me to this day. I am wary of "gotcha" ass mechanics in RPG bosses to this day.

Inb4
>"Dude, just Reraise/Osmose. Super obvious."
I was 12, and this was before the days of wiki faggotry and game-specific internet subcultures.