10 Video Games That Royally Messed Us About
Ruining Christmas Day since 1986.
We all know some games are harder than others. Some, like Dark Souls, revel in rewarding skill and precision while others start off easy enough but then ramp up the difficulty, reaching insane levels of toughness that leave you hunched over and hissing at the television like Gollum with carpal tunnel syndrome. Anyone who suffered through Jordan in Guitar Hero II probably still has the muscle spasms to prove it. In this day and age, though, its hard to get irreversibly stuck in a video game. When frustration sets in, you can simply switch to your consoles web browser and hunt down an FAQ or skim through a Lets Play on Youtube. They may be tough, but we expect to be able to complete games if we put the effort in. Even in the 8-bit era, when getting stuck meant trading tips in the playground or the humiliation of phoning the Nintendo hotline, you believed youd get to the end eventually. Sometimes, though, you were unlucky enough to run into a game that didnt play by the rules. A game that wasnt just hard, but actually impossible, or where a simple mistake could prevent you from ever seeing the ending. Some games would deliberately include puzzles that couldnt be solved just by playing, leaving players wasting their time trying to assemble an incomplete jigsaw. Sometimes this was deliberate malice on the part of the developers, sometimes it was a late change to the games code that never got properly tested. Here are some of the worst offenders: