6. Dead Rising 2
Most of the other f**k you moments in this list come from the narrative of games, and thats refreshing because it proves gaming is becoming more grown-up as a medium, capable of telling adult stories. Yet this isnt the case for Dead Rising 2, a puerile yet-awesome game which allowed you to strip down your boxers and take on a horde of the undead wearing a flaming animal head. Where Dead Risings f**k you lay was in its mechanics, or more specifically, the ability to let you restart the game at any point with all the abilities and weapon recipes youve gained so far. On the face of it, this is good idea and Im aware many people really like this addition. Yet to me it made an already-repetitive game almost monotonous, and the worst thing was that for an arch-completist or unprepared player, these rewinds became inevitable. This is because occasionally in the game you would stumble across psychopaths, and if you came across them in your first play-through they were often far more formidable than your pathetic self, and capable of cutting you to ribbons in seconds. Yet they became visible from an early part of the game, so you always stood the chance of coming across some utterly unbeatable boss, like a psycho hippy in a toilet in itself absolutely gutting when youre just looking for somewhere to save or a motorcyclist in the unavoidable main square, ready to chop your already-wounded novice Chuck to bits. They simply couldnt be killed first time around, and when you combine this with the lack of checkpoints in the Dead Rising world, what was once a fun game became an infuriating slog as you passed through the same story missions again and again after continuous restarts. By making the restart a necessary evil, the game said f**k you to any time-poor player or any player who got caught out in murderous ambushes, hamstringing a cool game with constant bang-your-head-against-a-wall moments. If you mastered the restart mechanic you were in for a hell of a good time, pirouetting through zombie hordes with two chainsaws and a paddle if you didn't, your fury could be heard from several continents.