wow! looks like some real Gaming fiascos in this thread. Keep Em Coming *_*

Another few obnoxious gaming moments were...
1. Watching my friends play the fabled Xbox360 game "Gears of War". At first, Gears of War had this ridiculously shitty commercial that used Fears for Tears "Sad World" playing in the background. This pissed me off, because I had intended to use the same song in Take Down Legacy Episode 2's opening movie... And didn't want my game associated with Xbox (at the time I hated Xbox, now I'm indifferent). The commercial looked and felt pathetic. I really don't see why people were hyped. THEN, I saw my friends play through the whole thing. They were having a blast, and I STILL don't see why they were hyped. The graphics were appalling, when attacking monsters it didn't matter where you shot them (even the arm) they'd explode in a ball of blood. When doing some 'cool destruction' like chainsawing a couch, it would split up the same way every time. Preset destruction, shitty graphics for the age, crap gameplay by comparison to other Xbox games (my friends even confessed how much they loathed the grenade system)... Gears of War pissed me off then, and continues to as it's cited as one of Xbox360's better games.

2. Assassin's Creed - Mobile.
I just downloaded Assassin's Creed on my cellphone. It looks and plays smoothly, like Gameboy Advance. I was REALLY impressed. I mean REALLY. The gameplay differed from the Xbox360/PS3 counterpart in that it was a 2D platformer. The game felt smooth, there's that word again, as you leapt over spike pits, bounced off walls, slinked down a narrow passage, wall crawled, flipped your ladder around so you could walk it along the wall, or even used the four weapons: Sword, Grappling Hook, Bomb, Crossbow.
The swordplay was a simple attack, block, parry shtick that worked exceedingly well.
Grappling hook just got you through some areas, and if you were across from an enemy (between which was a spiked pit) you could grapple the enemy and use him as a platform to clear the spiked pit. Bombs, well, blew up. Crossbow had this crosshair you could angle up and down, and generally felt great to use.
All in all a great game, yeah? Well, the boss battles felt Megaman-esque (another awesome thing) and the levels were generally well laid out with enough variety that it never felt repetitive. So what's my beef?
Well, length. I was done in about an hour (excluding the deviously Tombraider1 load times). Sure, it's a cellphone game... but HOLY FUCK. By the end of the game you're given all those fancy toys and for WHAT? It was just one cool tutorial---then Game Over. I don't even recall the ending, but it was dog too. The whole thing felt like someone gave me a big ol' two scoop ice cream cone, with sprinkles and fancy dribbled chocolate syrup and a waffle cone and then slapped it out of my hand so it fell into the face of a filthy hobo. I was so agitated.

3. Toy Home for PS3... I think that's what it's called. Sports! Skydiving for PS3. And other games that utilize the Six-Axis only.
To all game designers: Six Axis is the worst thing to happen to PlayStation since GranStream Saga (see earlier post)... Don't FLAUNT it!
The only game thus far that I've seen to use Six-Axis in a great way was Heavenly Sword. You could control arrows and canon fire with the  Six Axis, and it really felt 'OK'. I still would have preferred an Analog option.
Sports! Skydiving is a formation skydiving game, and there's a few others that follow suit in using ONLY Six-Axis. No option to switch to Analog. It drives me insane. The game might be slightly "bored to hell" play-worthy... if not for that idiotic feature.
I truly praise Ratchet and Clank Future for their Six Axis use. In falling from the sky, you dodge missiles, cars, rocks, etc as you fall using the Six-Axis. However, if you suck enough (like me) it opens up the option for Analog. This is also true in their little electrode circuitry minigame. (though not for that damn Tornado gun)
I suppose what I'm bitching about is that perhaps the most frustrating, and endless, Worst Gaming Moment is the Six Axis for PlayStation 3.

Man that's awful.  I thought Dragon Quarter was absolutely brilliant.

Last time I tried playing it (a couple of years ago) I got like 2/3 of the way into the game and thought it was pretty good but I just stopped playing. Then last week I started a new game and I guess maybe it is my uncertainty about what I keep from a retry that is keeping me from retrying but the game this time around feels like I'm just leading monsters into Nina's traps because everything else does atrocious damage. Maybe I should try retrying more, I dunno. I guess I just don't really understand how to get anywhere in the game any more.

The first few times I tried playing Brain Dead 13 on the 3DO were terrible, because no one told me the 3DO version had a bug that made it unplayable about two minutes in.  Basically it would force you to run in one direction no matter what direction you were choosing, and you ran straight into death.  For a long time I thought it was just me having bad timing, so I would try for a while then quit playing, then later try again and quit again.  I would never spent huge amounts of time at once playing this, and I wouldn't try every single day or anything, but I'd just pick it up every now and again and never understood why I couldn't get past the beginning.

Then later I found out it was because the game was fucked and felt like a dumbass!

Dude. Brain Dead 13?!? I literally know the guy who did the key animation for that game. He was teaching an animation course at the local art shop (which has a studio downstairs). He taught me the fundamentals of animation. But, yeah, that game was balls.

Yeah so now my worst gaming experience happened yestery.  It was spending an entire day of vacation trying to get X3 to run because Marcus recommended it and it seemed awesome.  I got it to run just long enough to decide it was the best game ever before it started crashing again and I ended up killing myself three times.  Like I'm really really upset about this.  The problem is caused by the game assigning an invalid audio codec for decoding digitized speech or something and I don't understand why they didn't just use normal compressed audio files for everything and it's so stupid.  I can't unregister the corrupted codec that the game created because it's corrupted and I can't change the codec assignment because you can't change which DLL file that a corrupt codec routes to because it is corrupt in the first place and I tried to change priorities but the game still would't recognize that my legitimate codec had a higher merit and shit guys I tried everything and I think I wasted $20.

Sewer Shark for Sega CD was pretty bad.

Yeah, Brain Dead 13 as a game was fantastic, you just had to have a copy that wasn't fucked up (we had the PC version too though and I watched my brother play it many a time)

My PSX version was either scratched, or you can attribute it to my patience. I don't know how many times I can bare to watch the Repair guy die before it drove me nuts. I like the style of game and all, but I got to a vampire haircutter(?) or something, after beating the football frankenstein...and just gave up. I loved Fritz the little Igor guy, and the main villain. Hehe, such great characters.

Oh, gawd, can't think of a worst gaming moment. Derailing the topic into Braindead 13.
OK---Dungeon Maker, if I haven't mentioned it yet, for PSP. I thought it would be an entertaining game for making dungeons (a la RPG Maker). Nope. It's a dungeon-crawler. You make the dungeon while inside, decorate it, and then exit so monsters will wander in; enticed by your dungeon design. Then crawl through again, rape some monsters, and repeat. It held my attention for a few levels of my dungeon, but man was I disappointed. The only reason I kept playing was A) megabored, and B) had nothing else to play. It was tedious, repetative (slumping through the same ol' dungeon that YOU MADE can be a drag.), and bland (as far as hack'n'slash RPGs go).

Quest64........ I can't even remember if that game had a story. And if it had one it must have been pretty boring cause I don't remember a single word of it.

It wasn't an awful game, it was just boring to tears.

Oh, there is also my Final Fantasy VII "horror story" as I call it. I was playing the game about last year, or maybe the year before that. Anyhow, I had leveled up a lot, beat all of the weapons and I think I had every magic spell/summon in the game. Well, I hadn't bothered to do the final battle with Sephiroth, so I decided to beat it after one school day. I came home and my nephew was playing the damn game, started a new game and ERASED MY SAVE FILE BY OVERWRITING IT. Words can't describe how mad I was. Either way, I started a new game and beat it after a few months, but I didn't bother to do a whole lot of extra things.

When I was playing through this game when it was new my save data got currupted about halfway through.  It's really weird because this message just comes up saying "File is Ruined".  I think I may have broken down into tears because I was like 12 years old or something and Final Fantasy 7 was serious business dude.

Many games. But recently? Children of Mana for the DS. I almost cried with how awful it was.
The graphics and music were great. And even parts of the gameplay were decent, but it was how the game developed that made it so ugly and lame compared to Secret of Mana or Seiken Densetsu 3.

yeah, mine is either alundra 2 or grandia 2. i enjoyed both originals a lot, and both sequels were really terrible awful terrible horrible games.

Grandia II was the first game I played in the series, followed by I and III.  I liked the first 2, but the 3rd really blew - I had to force myself to play through the entire game.  Ryudo > Justin or Yuki