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>Moments in Vidya That Made You Feel Helpless

The moment vidya went to shit

There's a campaign in Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries where the last mission, Fox Hunt, requires you to race to a dropship before it leaves you stranded on planet. The best way to make you feel hopeless is a series of unfortunate events in rapid succession.

>mission starts

>ok I have five minutes to cross several km of terrain, that's doable

>oh a bridge guarded by two Mechs barrelling straight across, whatever just alpha these fuckers can't afford to lose time

>alright good news and bad, the good news is both Mechs are dead, the bad news is it's because the bridge collapsed under their collective weight and my firepower

>yeah guys I'll uh, camp out or something you can just come back later

Also the one which is a fraud contract set up by pirates that ambush you got me pretty good.

Shadow of the Colossus

the ending, when you try desperately to hang on for your life but the void keeps on sucking you in. I remember myself screaming at the fucking TV, Pressing buttons real hard, fighting with all my wits against the unavoidable end

What a game, some anons dont like it. I fucking loved every second of it, every single autistic second.

Great memories

>>16003921

Whats the story behind pic 1? I never played whatever that game was.

>>16004533

Something about how the Gnomes (Jews) were breeding Orcs (niggers) with the population to make mutts

>>16004516

Great game, agreed. Agro really grew on me.

>>16004564

Same here. Seeing him again was a silver lining in such an ambiguos ending.

Teared up a little when he showed up

when cute girls die and you can't save them ;_;

>>16004533

The game is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. The other two posters have already spoiled the plot point, but neither of them actually named the game.

>>16003921

Just shank the Gnome in the face there is zero consequences of you doing that.

>>16003921

>2nd pic

The game forces you in that position with no other way to progress the game but to use the white phosphorus. Then it lambasts you for doing it.

<you could just stop playing :^)

>>16004673

>tfw the gnomes get their half orc cattle to break the windows in your wagons and burn down your cottages

>tfw the gnomes pay your more stupid members to join the half orc cattle and turn on their own kind

>tfw the gnomes employ their dark worship of the god of greed to steal away all the resources of the land and implement a thinly veiled slavery system

>tfw older members of society have been brought up to believe the gnomes are good little angels who can do no wrong

>tfw everyone else in the world hates the gnomes but nobody will openly talk about it

>tfw you shank the gnome for the mass murder and rape of your own people

>tfw your own people thank you for avenging them by stabbing you in the back

Gnomes deserve death and little else.

>>16004516

>when its sucking you in and you know that there is NOTHING you can do even though you can try to fight

I liked how it waited after, I was sitting there going

This really isnt it is it?

>>16004424

Pyramid Head confirmed Thot Patrol.

>>16003921

>Half-Ogre island

That didn't make me feel helpless, that filled me with rage. I went on a gnome murder spree after that, starting with that fucker in Tarant and people connected with him, and moving on to random gnomes in the streets. I would follow them at night, waiting for them to go into dark alleys, and then disintegrate them so leave no evidence. They disappeared without a trace, just like the people they took.

>>16004795

>being too retarded to figure that out

Dean, go back to failing at Cuphead.

>>16004546

if you are hungry you will think about bread, anon.

>>16004781

I did that too, but the problem was that the game didn't acknowledge what you did in any way. There were no newspaper articles about the gnome-killer, or any dialogue with NPCs who remarked on it.

The next best thing was to kill both Bates and Appleby (the rival steam engine manufacturers) and making Cumbria rise again, so you could see how Tarant was fucked up in the epilogue. Alternatively, you could have free the Bane of Kree from the Void and he'd devastated entire cities in Arcanum - or just team up with Kerghan and wipe out all life, which we might as well do at this point.

Good game.

>>16005087

Oh man it's been ages since I last played Homeworld, does it run properly on win7?

>>16005456

What an awful fucking ending

it didn't make me feel hopeless it made me annoyed at such a third wall ass pull

>>16004468

>can't get true ending, final level and final boss without following some obtuse sequence of events no one will know without a guide

only problem I have with that game

In Rimworld, while most of my useful colonists were away on a field mission, the base was attacked by a sudden mad boomalope. For those who don't know, a boomalope explodes upon death. The boomalope just happened to be standing in my farm fields at the time, where he then ran up to my lone field worker. Boom, fire everywhere! Normally, this wouldn't be such a big deal, except…of the three colonists I had manning the base, zero of them were capable of firefighting.

I watched as the fire burned it's way through the farm fields first, then migrated to the food stockpile, and had basically removed all wooden structures from the colony by the time the main colonists arrived back at the colony. There was no food left, and Winter was only seven days away.

>>16005544

I'm still mad

>>16005544

Thank you so fucking much for posting this image. I always had a strong feeling there was a good reason I never got into Danganronpa besides the price, finally I can put my finger on it.

>3rd level in SC1 where you wait for an evac and at the last minute the entire Zerg army descends upon you

Basically any business sim games where you suddenly are informed of a timed goal (i.e., gather XY million dollars within 24 months or else), you frantically pull all emergency steps available at your disposal; only to realize you won't be able to make it about ten minutes before the timer runs out.

>>16005087

the higarrans had to have loved every single one of those 'interrogations'

>>16004671

zombie pussy is pretty cold

>>16004000

Did you have to look up their names to be able to post that cos I've played half those shitty games and couldn't name one Cod character if you paid me.

>>16005576

The first two games are good though.

>>16005746

Dark souls 3 is basically a huge fuck you to the hopelessness of DS1

>gods are all emo cunts who fuck off to mope or do hedonistic shit

>backup gods are called, they're basically all useless

>crestfallen warrior is a druggie who wants huff incense fumes with ornstein

>so is the king of lothric

>prince of lothric is a sissy wizard who wants to mope all day while the world ends

>you beat the shit out of all of them

>world ends anyway

<and what do you do?

>you beat the shit out of the living embodiment of fire and either:

<kill firekeeper, putting an end to it forever

<kindle the flame, becomeing the same person, just so someone else can come along and eventually kill you and choose the kill firekeeper option

<get waifu and let kaathe kindle the flame

>>16004719

Wow, epic! You should post this epic type of stuff to reddit.

>>16004424

When I first played Silent Hill 2 I thought the In Water ending was the only ending and felt pretty hopeless.

>>16005487

Twitch chat is fucking cancer. I like watching a bot that spectates the worst lol matches playing, it's silly background noise and with uMatrix blocking the fucking images and liberal use of the block function it's bearable.

>>16003921

Not quite what you're after but I did some drunken knife damage to my little finger on my left hand many years ago so Guitar Hero 3 when Devil Went Down to Georgia came up on the Expert path it made me go: "Whelp, that's that".

In Dawn of War Winter Assault when you have to save the Eldar from a Ork Wagghhhh that outnumbers you ten to 1

>>16005464

nah that ending is awesome, the only ones who don't like it are autistic faggots (like yourself)

>>16005469

Most of it isn't actually obtuse. The thing is, you aren't supposed to get the last ending on a first playthrough, maybe not even a second. Cave Story is a game you're expected to replay, again and again, to find the extra secrets and try out the different weapons you can get. Getting to the final area and ending is something you're supposed to only be able to do after piecing together the puzzle of it from multiple playthroughs. You're not going to find the tow rope the first time you play the game, but you might go down to that area on the second time and find it. You'll go down and talk to the dying Booster the first time, but then you'll read his journal near the end of the game, and then possibly notice the weird red mark on the ground during your second go.

When I go into Black Mountain Clan in my first playthrough. Level 8 party trying to kill those golems and nothing could be done

>>16006534

How the fuck is the Imperium still using nukes in the 40.000th century?

Apart from still using swords, machine guns (aka stubbers) and flak armor

I mean, you could just tip a rocket with a plasma warhead or something thatalike.

>>16005487

what is a yeet anyways?

>>16006599

There's a type of Russ that uses unstable radioactive shells against dug-in infantry. The reason Kreig is such a shithole is because they were nuking themselves for 500 years. The Deathstrike uses nuclear ICBMs. Nukes never go out of style.

>Plasma

Plasma is complicated and expensive to make. That being said, plasma warheads are used in orbital bombardments.

>>16006609

zoomer cancer.

>>16006783

what is a zoomer anyways?

>>16006440

you didn't see that coming? have you been sleep for the past 5000 years or what?

>>16004822

If you have a brain you'll think about the world?

>>16006872

I knew he was a fallen angel, but my point is that he was still an angel at that point. When I found out he was a manipulative asshole with one of the best characters in the game I was legit furious.

>>16003921

Yeah, the 2nd picture really made me feel helpless, because I was smart enough to figure out that it makes no sense for the enemy to clump up like that, but the retarded game wouldn't let me leave the bombing screen.

Afterwards I felt helpless because even if I wanted the forced guilt trip wouldn't have had any effect on me.

>and not simply because of a lack of foresight by the devs

Oh.

>>16006837

A weak meme that tries to conflate a boomer with generation Z.

>>16005701

Ghost is pretty memorable, don't know who the fuck Roach is though.

>>16005760

Was that halo mission unironically good?

When I played Dwarf Fortress, I didn't bother to read the wiki. I stumbled around and figured out a lot of it myself (learning how workshops worked was a huge achievement, for example) and over the course of maybe five forts finally got an understanding. It was my sixtgh fortress that became the sort of self-sustaining fort that could tolerate anything from anything, built to nullify pretty much any megabeast and repel any assault.

Unfortunately, my closed-off nature of playing lead to me making a single massive mine shaft, with little defense. I had a massive army - half my massive fort was properly trained due to cycling shifts - and very good weapons. Iron armor and steel arms. That's when I struck adamantium. I dug hard and greedily, and in time figured out how to refine the stuff and all my officers had adamantine helms and swords (Signs of office, regardless of weapon proficiency) and I even started in on golden wall fixtures. It didn't take long to break into "the circus".

The demons were initially not much of a problem. My powerfully armed officers and well-trained rank and file were able to dispatch a few with no problem. But the numbers were so overwhelming they blew a hole in my ranks sooner rather than later. Hasty fortifications and shitty walls were circumvented, proven pointless, or destroyed. I watched humble workmen and artisans fighting to save themselves - pointlessly. The smithy killed a demon, then was decapitated only a moment later by the one behind it. Even the children and the babes fought to the last. I watched every last resident die, the fort covered in their blood. All 20 z-levels of housing, manufacture, storage, meeting rooms and halls, training rooms, the demons boiled all the way up to the trading post and destroyed even the visiting dwarves from the Mountainhomes.

One day I'll arm a force enough to reclaim that fort. But now it stands only as a testament of lessons learned.

>>16007112

The last time I poked into the circus I had a measly 12 demons trickle in then the flow stopped completely, left me pretty saddened

>>16005087

No one's left.

Everything is gone.

Kharak is burning…

The Scaffold and all orbital facilities have been destroyed. Receiving no communications from anywhere in the system, not even beacons.

Wait, on the maintenance frequency, I'm getting a signal from the cryo-tray systems in orbit. The cryo-trays are under attack, defend them!

>>16007053

I don't even know why Ghost was memorable. His whole personality was literally just that skull mask and that's it.

>>16007203

He became a meme because of Gaz from the first game, so they essentially brought him back from the dead for MW2. That's why he wears the mask.

>>16004516

It would've been more dramatic for me if I hadn't figured out you could outspeed the void by doing tiny hops in quick succession

If you get halfway through the temple you automatically get blown back though, so there's nothing you can do

>>16007184

that shit was godtier. Nothing better than having an entire race of people genocided right at the start of the game and then you're now on a quest to get revenge. Yeah I know they copied Battlestar but it worked really well here.

>>16004468

I remember feeling impotent as fuck at that moment. I loved that game.

R-Type's a weird meta example. If you play them in order of release you start out feeling exited because the music kicks ass and so does the game but by the end of Final you're either perplexed over what the fuck's even going on or are in a somber mood thanks to the game's atmosphere. Then you remember Irem shut down and then you get sad.

>>16007345

>Yeah I know they copied Battlestar

Homeworld was originally going to be a Battlestar game but there were issues in getting the license

Most of my challenge runs in C:DDA, although rougelikes hardly count I suppose.

While many may argue it doesn't count as vidya, quite a few VN's have this, prominently S;G and C;H, although the ending to World End economica and the intro to the sequel legit was legit fucked, the plucky light of children being crushed by jews and the soulless banking/market system with the few remaining characters living in abject poverty and resulting to alcoholism and dead end government jobs to recover from the fallout of lying/conspiring jews taking everything from you including your waifu

>>16008058

Black and white? I played a bit of it but it was pretty unstable for me.

>>16007047

The whole concept of the zoomer meme is just confusing and unfunny. Take Wojack's face make him young and then put in some new shit that kids like, like fortnite and whatever trend is big and that's the joke. "Haha yeah young people amiright?" Just a way for 20 something year olds to feel different and cooler then kids a few years younger

>>16008370

It also doesn't make sense in accordance to wojack's characterization or, if it's supposed to be a younger incarnation, the timeline of his existence. For comparison's sake soyjack is actually something a real life wojack could end up being so it at least makes some kind of sense.

>>16008278

I've played Black and White. Trust me it's not really that good once you get over the rage of trying to be a good pet owner. Turning into an evil god is all but inevitable but it's trying to raise your pet properly that's truly frustrating.

>>16007203

That's literally why he's memorable. His callsign and his mask, that's it. He's pretty much just another random face without those things.

>>16006599

>Apart from still using swords, machine guns (aka stubbers) and flak armor

because its cool and grimmdark, it doesnt need to make sense, taking 40K seriously is a mistake that the IP is doing, it was never meant to be taken like that.

>>16008389

Did you know you can light a rock on fire and simply holding it while dragging it over villagers/buildings will ignite them?

I know you don't know cause you said B&W isn't fun.

>>16008459

Tormenting the villagers gets old Anon, raising the creature was what kept me going.

>>16008389

>>16008459

>>16008481

Why is it that Black & White just sort of fizzled, with no third sequel or copycats of any kind? Or many god games at all for that matter? First entry was a little spare with a weird gameplay cycle and dumb, non-self sufficient villagers you have to babysit the entire ecosystem of so they don't kill the trees and starve to death, but they did attempt to build scaffolds for themselves occasionally, so the foundation was there. The creature had a pretty indepth brain that I don't think anyone has ever mapped out. There were a lot of miracles even if you didn't necessarily have a use for them all. Megablasts were neat if superfluously destructive, for example. But it was an award winner with half a million sales.

Then 2 comes along and it's rushed, with some cut content (there was supposed to be a Greek prophet character and semi-animatic cutscenes before each level, I remember that much from an early interview, plus scalable wall height & thickness) and if I remember right money trouble at Lionhead as they juggle too many projects at once with dick speculators sticking their noses in, admittedly to protect their investments. Still sells at least 100,000 in the UK alone and gets positive reviews. You get a nu-Total War combat deal with army units pairing off to duel in a big furball with two whole unit types (plus catapults) and a simplified creature, with less varieties, who you can pet or slap on any learned subject at any time. The miracles have neat throw/pour variations, but there's only six, the attack miracles are all redundant, and they should have been more versatile. There's an expansion pack with a death god. It's okay, I guess. Never finished it.

Then, nothing. They had places to improve and the directions were obvious. Refine and optimize the engine just a little bit, it was pretty nice looking for when it came out in 2005 as long as you don't zoom in on the people. Make the creature a little more complex, without the ability to perform personality surgery, while not leaving it quite as impenetrable or at least opaque as in 1. Make some better army combat. Maybe advance the time period to the late classical/early medieval, possibly pastiched with high medieval gunpowder elements, sort of keyholing with what they did with Fable 2 in 2008. Don't have a handful of cultures, creatures, units and missions compared to 1. Don't inexplicably remove multiplayer support.

And don't make things quite as binary as 'good nice simcity man' and 'evil toto wa pig' on the morality axis, code in a little alignment clemency for defensive reprisal after an attack or within a certain distance of your influence ring for example, maybe have policy settings or post-conquest buttons for how invasions and occupations are handled. Violent suppression? Kill everybody to open the settlement for colonization? Soft or hard proselytization? Shipment of relief resources from your main influence ring to the contested area, or any interaction at all between settlements for that matter? Something like that.

Under such a system, you can go full divine Genghis Khan and brutalize everyone that resists your will to get things over with quick and try to roll over settlement after settlement. You can starve and brutalize everyone indiscriminately, even your own villagers, to get lodse mana, passive army XP & evil points at the direct cost of population and resulting indirect damage to economic reliability. You can give not a shit as soon as resistance ceases and tithes are paid, expanding your home city while crash fortifying the new frontier before advancing again as a neutralish empire builder. You can restrain yourself and wage only justified war at some pains to stay good and to game the counterattack stat buffs to your largely intact armies fresh from the homefront, now on crusade. You can build mega-tall and never fire even one shot in anger (outside your influence) and accept the great unwashed migrant masses to your impenetrable Babylon megacity, if you really like the B&W2 Simcity cycle, or a less shitty version. And all the possibilities inbetween. Anything so you don't have to exclusively build (agonizingly slowly) in your initial overcrowded and far too slow to expand influence ring to be efficiently 'good,' or have big town center circle-dancing capture powwows in skeletal enemy settlements to be 'evil.' And be slow & indecisive between conquests to be 'neutral.'

This technically counts as a hopeless vidya moment, right? It's just wrong that Molyneux and company ditched the IP entirely after failing to bring it to its full potential both times, and then he goes and botches Fable, then makes a mediocre Populous retread. It doesn't make sense and it's all such a waste. I wonder if he'd answer fanmail on the subject, assuming he hasn't drunk himself to death at that little indie company.

The death of Eli Vance at the end of HL2 Ep. 2 which will never receive closure.

>>16008916

What would be an even more helpless vidya moment would be them farming out a sequel when they don't even understand the series anymore.

>>16008916

Wouldn't know. I got bored at the vehicle section

>>16005770

Was there any actual evidence it was a far flung mining outpost? I just love how mysterious the Shivans are. There's also so many fan theories about them and what not. I've been meaning to play the free space expansion remake in the fc 2 engine.

>>16008383

It's not supposed to be wojak or the OG feels guy. Zoomerjak is an ironic iteration of boomerjak, which is an iteration of the brainlet iteration of normal wojak. So basically, 7 layers of irony coming from newfags who don't get the point of the character.