8 Moments That Made Us Go Eff This Game

Sometimes there comes a moment in otherwise good games where things are suddenly so tedious, annoying or scary that they make you go “You know what? Eff this game." Watch on for the moments in games that made us do just that, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday.
Moments that ground our gears enough for us to quit playing include unskippable studio logos, horrible checkpointing, infinitely respawning enemies and creepy weirdos joining our party. Thanks but no thanks, videogame.
Which videogame moments made you want to pack it all in? Let us know in the comments!
Thanks to the original reddit thread that inspired this video! bit.ly/2CihpyK
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[@lesmortimers4791]

Ahhh Yusuke. It’s a bummer they went so creepy with him on his recruitment mission. Doing his social link, you realize he’s actually not interested in romance or sex at all; he’s single-mindedly focused on art and has very little grasp on social that the MC has to steer him away from putting himself in bad situations because of this lack of awareness. The writers made a bad choice making him so focused on Ann, considering the team JUST beat the teacher who was pressuring Ann sexually and was implied to have sexually abused her best freiend. Bad, tone-deaf choice

[@bishielurfer]

That really got me. They spent her whole arc showing how awful the experience was and how damaging his actions were to her, and then turn around and have her friends pressure her into agreeing to the painting. Like how can you not see a problem with that as a game developer? It also felt really weird for all of them because they generally in the game don't push for something if the person is uncomfortable, so it felt like they weren't taking her discomfort seriously at all. Honestly several of the ways the game handled Ann made me incredibly uncomfortable. 😩

[@dragonslair951167]

@@bishielurfer Honestly, Atlus has a pretty bad track record when it comes to women and minorities. Persona 3 and Persona 4 both have scenes that are pure agony to sit through if you're trans and realize the implication. Naoto's entire character arc is basically "Transitioning bad".

[@chillnagasden6190]

@@dragonslair951167 why do people keep incorrectly saying this?! Her arc relates to societal expectations regarding gender. Yes, that isn't necessarily totally divorced from Trans issues faced (Had a trans ex), but it also isn't as close to it as people think. The simple and obvious message is "Some genders have societal barriers when there should be none" , so she pretended to be a male to get the chance to do the thing she should have been able to do in the first place. It reads more like a sad necessity rather than dysphoria, which disqualifies Trans stuff for me. Not all Trans people have dysphoria, but it is a *powerful* motivator to go through the process to GRS.

[@dragonslair951167]

@@chillnagasden6190 Why is this the hill that Persona fans choose to die on? How many times am I, a non-binary, going to be lectured by cis folks about how a person assigned female at birth who dresses as a man, doesn't correct people who refer to them as a man, fantasizes about being a male character, is consistently uncomfortable doing almost anything traditionally feminine, and has an entire mind palace dedicated to their overwhelming desire to undergo gender reassignment surgery, couldn't possibly be interpreted as trans? Naoto's entire character arc is half a dozen transphobic stereotypes all rolled into one. A person who "Just needs to accept themselves" instead of getting surgery. A person who is getting gender reassignment surgery for the purpose of gaining social status. Whose desire to get gender reassignment surgery is portrayed as irrational and reckless. And who gets lectured halfway through about how their sex is immutable and unchangeable.

[@chillnagasden6190]

@@dragonslair951167 Additionally, 1)There is no hill. This is not a fight. This is a statement of *fact*. 2)Me happening to be Cis does not invalidate reality and facts. 3)But you jumping to the whole "oh Cis" immediately shows the bad faith tired shit that means you were never honest to begin with. 4)Well done ignoring the fact that I used to date a trans person. I guess it was more convenient to leave that out of the reply you made because some people like you are bad at English and reading comprehension and decided to conjure up a story , and it would undermined that desperate clinging? IDK. Don't bother replying.

[@alec4prez]

I love how non scripted this is... it's like a confessional... you can sense their frustration.

[@babyteamhax]

Yeah. They don't even have a "beware these spoilers" list lol.

[@babyteamhax]

@@NightRaven-lh1bf what's wrong? Some people don't know some of these things naturally. :P Especially stuff like Persona 5, where the developer has strict rules against showing content of the game past day 7/7. That game's story is so long 😂

[@danielhikari5128]

This seems pretty scripted if you ask me.

[@seanh9882]

@@danielhikari5128 a lot of people still like the style a lot more than their usual. Also a 32 min script? Idk

[@danielhikari5128]

@Sean H You’d be surprised by how long a script can be and I never It was bad I just said it seems scripted.

[@blitzgirl6522]

The main thing that makes me not finish games is entirely my own fault: When it comes to big RPGs like Skyrim, The Witcher III, etc, I do so many side quests and exploring that I burn myself out and never progress the story (or I don't finish for a very long time because I keep needing to step away for a while).

[@Rissa_1322]

I forget what the main quest was and at a certain point the process of making my way back to it is way too convoluted. Especially if the quest log says something vague and I was already several steps in and I'd have to backtrack. It's game over.

[@skipfred]

Yeah that's my problem too

[@wolfwing1]

yeah, oblivion/morrowind both beat the main game when the expansion came out hehe. I've found that I have 3 stages of a open world game. stage 1 explore everything I find stage 2 find something I want to collect or do and focus on that stage 3 four months later realize HOLY SHIT I still haven't beaten then and rush through the end hehe :>

[@dlunar1551]

Opposite for me most of the time, I do so little side quests and avoid fighting to the point I’m at a required boss and I’m dying bc I’m using the gear I picked up 5 seconds ago

[@spillingthetea2519]

I tend to find one aspect of the game i lile that isnt really related to the main quest , and i do that tnen feel lost when i complete it. Like in skyrkm i enjoy building houses with tbe heartfire dlc, and when i finish i stop playing for months.

[@frostyblade8842]

The napalm situation is why you always put on subtitles, that way you can hear whispered conversations 20 metres away, which is amazing

[@swishercutterx7456]

I do this automatically on all games I play for this reason.

[@rohuffgamingakaLea1576]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does or thought this

[@frostyblade8842]

@rohuffgamingakawisteria6578 Yeah our fellow wise men can be hard to find but we're here somewhere. I can't imagine playing without subtitles at this point

[@scarletcroc3821]

Literally thought the same thing, people always complain about not hearing instructions in games but never bother turning on subtitles

[@teyyyyya]

"I'm gonna go... Take a walk. Outdoors." Man, those were the days...

[@merricklamarsna4470]

Back in my day, we could sit at fast food restaurants!

[@zacharyjoy8724]

At least until you decide, “I’m going inside. All this fresh air’s getting into my lungs.” (Thank you, P.G. Wodehouse!)

[@Demogorgon47]

Yeah. Back before a totally avoidable pandemic wasn't avoided in the slightest due to the idiotic insistence that we just have no border security because everything will magically work out for the best and how dare you how dare you, you vile disgusting racist if you dare to disagree. Ahhh them's was the days. Back when people thought things through instead of just exploding at everyone in the vicinity for slightly disagreeing.

[@dailyraptor7700]

Demogorgon47 the pandemic was never avoidable. The massive spread was but not the pandemic because when it starts somewhere it’s likely gonna spread fast and we didn’t take it seriously enough because something like this doesn’t just happen all the time.

[@Demogorgon47]

@@dailyraptor7700 Yeah.....or maybe if we'd closed the borders instead of "BUT RACCCCCCCCCCIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" the virus would have stayed in China. So whilst it's possible it was unavoidable I sincerely doubt it.

[@SigmaSyndicate]

To be fair, literally everyone in Persona 5 acted like a massive weirdo before finally joining the party, at which point they took a chill pill and start behaving like human beings.

[@unculturedswine5583]

vaguely likable weirdos though

[@HovektheArtist]

@@unculturedswine5583 yea ryuji is the asshole that always has your back, ann likes to act kind of aloof but cares a lot, and yusuke the a-sexual who only thinks of his art who is loyal to a fault

[@seand7042]

Ann didn't neither did Ryuji IMO

[@Meikyu1]

Everyone except Makoto. She took the angry pill and started to misbehave instead XD

[@blademadlabs2423]

Plus he just admitted he dropped persona 5 on the second palace. Lmao

[@dlunar1551]

No one tell her that there were 7 more phases to the Ansem fight. I told my sister that when she was fighting him AFTER she already beat the second ansem part and she just laid on the floor saying oh god over and over

[@valdenay7264]

After the second guardian fight, it's only one more stage, where are you getting 7? Island garudian, dark sora 2.0, Heartless bubble guardian (the solo stage she talks about), the world core stage

[@thekingofstrategies13]

@@valdenay7264 The World of Chaos is actually split into multiple phases. One where you fight Ansem's part, one where you fight a wave of heartless, where you fight some tentacle cannon thingies, another wave of heartless, a massive head, ANOTHER wave of heartless, the core of it, and then Ansem again. That's 8 Phases and I may have even forgotten some. Fortunately some of the phases can be pretty quick depending how you go about them and hiw good you are at the game, though.

[@toastybastard9559]

"All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ"

[@alanpereyra5503]

What about Plague Inc Evolved? When a random citizen around the world sneezes and Magadascar/Greenland closes all contact with civilization

[@mattdavis4417]

Yessss

[@darrienjones8917]

Yeah F**k that game

[@gornfoo]

I love that game... But fuck it so hard.

[@blazzzzziing]

Which is why I chose to start on either one of them and not develop any of the symptoms until everyone is infected, except on one of the level where the whole world research the cure from the start Now that specific level, can f**k off

[@MortisLegio]

When I first played the game, I had a virus that infected everyone, 100% of the planet was infected, BUT I didn't put points into lethality, so no one was dying. I couldn't evolve the virus since everyone was infected.

[@CaitlinRC]

Honestly, I had to take a week long break from AC Black Flag because of SHIP STEALTH. THIS GIANT SHIP IS NOT MADE FOR SNEAKING AROUND, ITS MADE FOR COOL FIGHT SEQUENCES WITH CANNONS GOSH DARNIT.

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

I never really had a problem with them. Just go slowly, and use the minimap rather than the screen to navigate. Shows you their sight lines as well. Remain at half sail until they start getting ahead, then switch to full sail for a few seconds until you catch up

[@kylemagaro231]

I quit! I thought it was just me. Black Flag's the only AC I never finished because of that.

[@therighthandartist6111]

Caitlin RC SO TRUU

[@miso1004]

*nods* *cries*

[@shadowcat1606]

Urgh, yeah ... i didn't really have a problem with them, gameplay-wise, but they made very little sense to me. The only thing worse was tank-stealthing in Arkham Knight.

[@angelitabecerra]

I powered my way through that Ansem fight in KH 1.5 but man was I cussing up a blue storm during it. One of my roommates came in wondering what was going on and my other roommate who was watching just answered "Kingdom Hearts". Nothing else needed to be said.

[@jtyler9130]

The Ansem fight isn’t that hard that people consider it if you mention Kingdom Hearts. The Cerberus and Riku 2 fight are more frustrating.

[@angelitabecerra]

@@jtyler9130 Maybe for you. I kept failing that bloody Ansem fight. Almost quit the game permanently because of it

[@deandrenicholas2545]

@@angelitabecerra I watched someone else play the Ansem fight and decided right then, without even trying it once, that I didn't want to play Kingdom Hearts at all, ever. Plus, I don't give any shits about Disney stuff so I passed on it.

[@Little16Dragon]

The move with Ansem charging around is the most punishable move he has. 😆 🤣

[@jamesherb4384]

@@jtyler9130 i absolutely had more problems with the riku fight than with ansem, but I was also level 100 when I fought ansem because of achievement grinding.

[@MrKrory]

I wonder if Mike ever found out you could just run past the Tyrant in Code: Veronica at that point.

[@undizz1]

Ansem from Kingdom hearts actually has more stages after the one Ellen quit at. He really is the Dragon Ball Z villain of Kingdom hearts.

[@gorz2013]

What bothers me is that those fights are actually pretty damn easy.

[@meesterpepper572]

Dragon Ball villains can only dream of having the number of forms Ansem gets

[@DucklynStark]

I had actually quit at the moment that Ellen did.

[@TheNewGen08]

Me playing that sequence for the first time: "THERE'S STILL MORE!?!?!?!?"

[@ne0n1nja247]

and you xehanort is Madara

[@Cielestia]

"I want you to air out these books." Just that line sounds so dead.

[@Clickstop24]

Legit thought that was text to speach

[@shazzbutter]

Just the books... ?

[@THEGREATMAX]

They could have easily solved this by walking slower. If you walk slower there are fewer QTEs

[@bobbydee30g]

Resident evil taught me the value of dividing my weapons in tiers and ranking what enemies are worth what ammo. Code Veronica was my introduction to RE so I learned this lesson in the same way with the tyrant fight. Only difference is Final Fantasy taught me years ago that I should play with at least a good 2-4 save files.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

The most famous one of these has to be in the final battle of Mega Man when you can get past the last save point with no bubbles, which leaves you with no way to beat the final boss as you can only hurt him with bubbles. There is no way to go back to a previous save so you can't beat the game.

[@A_Knight44]

So fun fact: I've never actually played a whole Kingdom Hearts game. I HAVE however beaten Ansem. My younger brother lost like a dozen times and after I got tired of laughing at him I offered to try it myself, and he just wanted to see me fail for a while so he let me. And I did fail. Once. I spent the whole first attempt learning the buttons, and beat him on the second try. My brother has still never forgiven me for that and it must've been 16 years ago this happened.

[@philasopherr]

Joey I wouldn’t forgive you either because Ansem whooped my ass a million times and it took a million hours and tears and a thousand boss battles for me to win. ONLY TO BE SEPARATED FROM KAIRI.

[@skabs508]

Kingdom Hearts was the first game I ever beat By Myself without any help with from my brother... Kingdom Hearts 2 was the second. However during the last cut scene my mom called and I had to walk away to answer. That means I had to go through the last fight over again to watch it (or at least I thought so, I never searched to see if they saved). I got stuck in THE GREAT WHITE FUCK OFF ROOM. I had already beat it once, but I couldn’t get through it again. So I handed to controller to my brother (who had never played it before ever) and he neatly beat it for me in one go.

[@kenoboyd9929]

@Jordan Spencer dance water dance

[@MegaHAZE21]

@Jordan Spencer Wuut he's like the easiest guy, did him in the first go. I beat every single member of org 13 expect for Marluxia (#11, pink hair, scythe) it was literally impossible.

[@DillyThePickley]

See? There you go! Listen, one thing that every Kingdom Hearts player should work on is timing. The dodge roll ability has invincibility frames!!! :P

[@Mrshadowmind14]

The barrel problem is why i do this setting for every game ever Subtitles: on Music:50% SFX:75% Voice Lines: 100%

[@ForrestFox626]

I prefer making sure subtitles are on myself

[@thomasphillips885]

What does he say?

[@calebcannon4634]

I wanna say you could continue if you kept moving up without messing with the barrels.

[@AdmiralPureBlood]

Hel I’m a subtitle on even the television now because of games. I’ve seen some really interesting things because of subs

[@Insight-Nobody]

Caleb Cannon Yea I was going to say Ive played through the Black Ops campaign like 3 times and I dint remember the barrels at all lol I think I missed the dialogue and just kept moving

[@forthexp8649]

I feel Ellen, teenage me got SOOO good at killing the Shadow for this exact reason. And yes, it WAS worse not being able to skip cutscenes

[@mediabreakdown8963]

I rage quit the first Max Payne over the “escape the fire” sequence. I tried so many times. Add to the difficulty the fact that every death forces you to watch an unskippable cutscene, and the fact that there is a giant glass but somehow unbreakable window right where you start, and I never did finish….

[@johnnym3462]

The parts where you have to follow an invisible line in total darkness was my breaking point

[@paulgibbon5991]

My own "eff this" moment was the end of the first time I played Persona 3. It was two in the morning, and I was really hyped to see how it all ended. Epic boss battle, forty-something minutes in, I get it down to half health, and then it fires off a super attack that inflicts random status conditions on my party. It charmed Yukari. Who then, before I could take an action again, HEALED IT UP TO FULL. I was just so demoralised I turned the console off right then and didn't even retry it for another few days.

[@300IQPrower]

This…..This is something many people know. I still hear the screams.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@300IQPrower I've got another one--the final boss of the Doom Eternal DLC. You know those really annoying enemies where you just have to wait for their "shoot me now" cues, and you can't use any clever strategies? Let's model the final boss on those guys! But his tells last half as long, and every time he hits you, he regenerates a third of his health. Then repeat the same thing four times!

[@setster007]

Aw jeez. That don't sound fun.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@setster007 The second DLC was rushed to fit it into the season....sadly, it REALLY shows.

[@setster007]

@@paulgibbon5991 I wasn't even talking about that one, but yeah, that one also doesn't sound like fun.

[@Tuna-High-Roller]

''...I will put my heart and soul into creating the best nude painting ever!'' is probably the funniest out of context line ever written.

[@neotheresa]

Andy encapsulates all our feelings about Yusuke with the simple sentence of “What the fuck?”

[@vault29a]

idk, hes the best thing that was in Persona 5. plus he has no sexual interest in Ann.

[@leannechambers4064]

I like Yusuke. He’s awkward and weird, but he’s still a nice guy. And he’s a great party member. A bit squishy, but does awesome damage numbers.

[@jamesherb4384]

@@vault29a i mean, yes, buy that hardly makes his introduction less problematic given, as luke said, ann was very much not involved in his nude painting consensually. Yusuke is a lot better once you get past his introduction but it's still not a great introduction, especially given that ann was already a victim of sexual harassment by kamoshida

[@benn454]

@@vault29a Doesn't make him not super creepy

[@phoenixxxashez]

​@jamesherb4384 except he never really intended to do the nude painting in the first place. He only said that to get the phantom thieves to leave him alone. He didn't actually think they would agree to it.

[@surefang4343]

I wonder now how post-Dark Souls Ellen would do against Ansem.

[@commanderharataidaku3303]

Probably wreck him 😂 once you realize Ansem's move pattern, he's a breeze to beat.

[@glenjitsu1408]

That scream in Max Payne definitely happened, however the scream in this video isn't the original scream used in the game, but you are correct it absolutely happened 😅

[@spartythespart]

it was the baby screaming long

[@pipebhart4272]

YES! That scream...

[@spartythespart]

@@pipebhart4272 I know because I got stuck on that part of the game literally for hours and my whole family was like WHAT IS THAT ANNOYING SCREAMING That part of the game haunts me as one of the worst designed parts of any game ever

[@jount4195]

Right wasn't it your wife who makes a blood curdling scream if you fall?

[@jeffhelmick8065]

@@spartythespart that sounds similar to the funeral home setup in the old punisher game for ps2 gd that game still haunts me to this day

[@dragonhunter2343]

I nearly pissed myself when exploring Assassin's Creed Black Flag and my low level Jackdaw accidentally found a legendary ship.

[@mobunagathevoiceofresistan801]

Dragon Hunter Bruh!!! I remember that like it was yesterday. Just cruising along singing sea shanties and BOOM a dreadnaut appears!!

[@humbagaming6710]

Dragon Hunter gawd chasing after shanties was my most frustrating experience lol

[@ChobinoftheFunk]

"Challenge Accepted." Five seconds later: "Well, that's a thing we're not doing again."

[@TYRELLAIRD]

Mannnn. Remember one of those battles had two ✌🏽 👏🏽 of them ready to clap 👏🏽 you down madara style like the fodder you are ☠ ☠

[@sovietdoggo753]

Just singing a song,then found a legendary. Sailed away while it's chasing me,found another. Then I stood still,and the waves became my plot armor. With every shot fired,the waves moved me out of the way. They destroyed each other.

[@rwvfsu07]

That moment when you realize you've gotten old just happened to me. I've been watching these videos lately having just stumbled on the channel and was like "surely someone will mention the Wiegraf fight in Final Fantasy Tactics in the comments...." and to this day I may still be somewhere here, scrolling through, hoping beyond hope that time hasn't gone by quite that fast.

[@jount4195]

Lol they talked about it somewhere 🤣☠💀 I think it was like reasons we had to restart a game . Cause alot of people said they saved in a death loop ☠💀

[@Amayawolf_01]

I never played that one, but I remember the double boss fight at the end of FF Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (I think it was that Illua lady and then some weird monster thing after you beat her??) was really difficult and I'm not sure I ever actually finished the game because of it 😅

[@kaldo_kaldo]

I completed that game when it was new - I don't remember that fight at all. I don't even remember that character.

[@rwvfsu07]

Your quest will be endless. This is the first and only thing I thought of when reading the title of this video, how it wasn't included is criminal. I lost 30 hours to that fucker because I didn't have a second save.

[@SimuLord]

That moment when I realized I've gotten old was when everyone in forums was talking about how relatable Persona 5 was and how much they loved it and I watched some Let's Play footage of it and I'm like "I outgrew this 30 years ago, I am _not_ its target demographic." And as bad as Wiegraf was, he's got nothing on just about all of chapter 3 of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

[@kylemorin3945]

Similarly to Ellen's, one moment that made me stop playing was in one of the old Avatar the Last Airbender video games. The final boss has two stages, and you can't use any healing items in the second phase. I could have easily beaten it with just one heal, and knowing that and being unable to beat it frustrated me so much that I never finished the game.

[@wickedmk4653]

I love this unscripted kind of video , seems more genuine and fun

[@ZamwiseStudios]

WickedMK I prefer the ps access ones, they all do it at the same time and interact and talk, makes it seem more relaxed and funny

[@sethkauffman9915]

@@emilyconnor3911 I can agree with this statement... I forgot which channel did it, but one of them mentioned the other channel one time, I know I remember it... But anyhow, both channels are amazing. They each have their own pros and cons. But I do still respect your opinion.

[@gui.andrademeira]

Totally agree.

[@tomasxfranco]

Unscripted?

[@harleenhufflepuff340]

Everyone else: Grrrr these technical things are frustrating! Luke: This guy was icky and I didn't want to play with him 😭 Luke (and Ellen) is such a pure soul and I love it!

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

Or they're just snowflakes 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@harleenhufflepuff340]

@@insomniacbritgaming1632 Beautiful, delicate, and individual? Agreed ^^

[@unculturedswine5583]

@@insomniacbritgaming1632 its called having a good heart

[@FarikoWishless]

@@insomniacbritgaming1632 I'm glad you find it weak to dislike sexual harassment and threats of being arrested if you don't sell your body to a creep. Totally normal behavior.

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

@@FarikoWishless right... so the fact he turned himself around is irrelevent?

[@SirAlbertthe3rd]

It's a shame that Yusuke was the breaking point. Some of the best conversational moments are centered around Yusuke later on, between him with Futaba, the two lobsters, he's great.

[@a.p.2019]

I'm glad Jane understands my Max Payneful memories. I fell constantly, and the screaming never seemed to end.

[@azazellon]

That's not a blood tightrope. That's an umbilical cord. Dark room, crying babies, blood floating in the darkness? You're in the womb.

[@Echo32x]

Thank you for pointing that out, I was going crazy the whole time they were talking about it!

[@outlawsaul9969]

That's even worst than a blood tightrope

[@apaxtoa]

@@Echo32x How silly of you.

[@cassolmedia]

worst umbilical cord ever!

[@theblackwidower]

Explain the prolonged scream when you fall off. Also, it's hard to cry when you're immersed in amniotic fluid.

[@SilverStarSong7]

i like this kind of long-form less-scripted video from you guys. do more of them!

[@SearynSever]

It's very PlayStation Access, which might be why they're a little rare.

[@LucaxCorp]

I hope so too. Less shitty jokes in this compared to their scripted videos.

[@TwasBrillig]

Lucax Corporations Those jokes are the very reason I subscribed in the first place :)

[@Yaishto]

@@TwasBrillig i'm with you, this was a bit too long to watch. I skipped like 4 minutes at a time cause they spend over 8 minutes on each entry

[@coffeepoweredkatie6290]

Just felt the need to fix your comment so it has some damn manners in it. "Do more please" or "Could you possibly do more of these?"

[@cameronwiley9412]

I remember that Max Payne part. Freaked me out too. It also made me think Max Payne was a scary game, like with ghosts or monsters or something. I would find out much later what Max Payne was really about.

[@johnnoodles2155]

I remember the scream from Max Payne - if you went to a dead end in the blood trail "maze", the baby screamed in a horrifying, unnatural way until you turned around...!

[@realitynowassigned]

"ruining the immersion!" FINALLY someone understands. Do a list on games that refused to stop holding your hand. Theres one i cant remember because its what made me say eff this game

[@MultiWicht]

realitynowassigned Getting told the value of rupees in some Zelda games every time you restart the game... I can see how many get added to my wallet. Just ad an option to remove those tutorials for veteran players.

[@christophercollins3632]

Wolves hunt in packs! -Dragon’s Dogma pawn chatter. It’s like training wheels you can’t take off. Goblins hate fire! For the hundredth time I know that already.

[@xanethedarkwerehog]

Pokemon sun and moon

[@sageemerson5074]

@@xanethedarkwerehog yeah this!!! i played to the second island and they were STILL tutorialing me! i was like "nah man, i think im good lmao"

[@xanethedarkwerehog]

@@sageemerson5074 ikr XD

[@calebhill5679]

Ya Ellen, you didn’t have Goofy to help you, but Donald was doing what he always did in Kingdom Hearts! He stood there not healing you!

[@recklessrex]

My problem was that he was using up all his magic offensively before I was injured enough to warrant a healing, and before he could build his MP back up, Goofy would have somehow gotten more hurt than me, so Donald would heal him instead. I don't let him hold ethers either, they're too rare in the early game and he just uses up what I give him in one fight. Eventually I starting shoving Goofy's pockets full of standard potions while I carried two ethers, two hi-potions, an elixer and a mega-potion, all of which were reserved until *I* decided we needed them. Once Goofy runs out of potions, which will be obvious trust me, *then* Donald can have an ether, and I'll replenish my pockets once out of combat 👍

[@calebhill5679]

RecklessRex ya I would just run around and spam healing lol

[@OsakaLover]

RecklessRex It's times like that that you wish MP Gift from KH1 was still a thing-

[@jpjp4227]

So true.....so true

[@TermT26]

I'm pretty sure I spent most of my time on Kingdom Hearts healing Donald and Goofy constantly during the last fight. I got MP that quickly, I would just basically spam cure whilst them 2 dealt offense.

[@asdfghjjfdfvcddcbhxg6550]

So in the SNES game Breath of Fire, you will find yourself in a dreamland. To get out of dreamland you have to climb to the top of a tower. That tower has a maze on every floor. The maze has walls that will go invisible. Have fun.

[@ericb3157]

oh, AND there's a segment where the entire floor SPINS AROUND!

[@ryanmichaeldumas621]

My mom and I love playing video games together, and some of our favourite levels in the games we've played have been tricky mazes - she'll write directions and notes down, and help direct me, and i'll help her notice stuff that may be helpful. We accidentally cheese quite a few things, and it's very common in our current game (Fenyx Rising). It's also how my parents bonded in high school - my dad would man the controller in the original loz, and my mom would man the brain xD (the first game we played together was botw) My point is: recruiting some extra brainpower for maze levels may benefit you, as well as add some fun c:

[@lissas4152]

Ugh... thanks for reminding me that I am still stuck there.

[@limeylimers21]

This video gave me an even greater appreciation for Luke… thank you for being just such a wholesome person 😭

[@revdarian]

Tbh I like japan a lot, but these things have put me off from some works so hard that I'm currently purging myself from them. One of the worst was a manga about real martial arts, alright, and then they beat up this bad guy and they proceed to add him to the team... What was his thing? He was a literal rapist, "but don't worry, he only raped guys!"... W t f Japan, they tried to play it as if it should be ignored or taken as a joke because he liked to force his penis into other men he subdued with martial arts and I had to just accept that? Not even close to cool, fully dropped that manga (it wasn't a hentai nor anything like that so it really was a disappointing curve ball) My point is that Japan sometimes is cool, but a lot of other times they really need to talk to a counselor or something because holy f.

[@basicoptimalmouse]

Except he completely misinterpreted the character though. Yusuke is asexual and isn't painting Ann to be a pervert. He says her beauty reminds him of a painting he is inspired by as an artist, and wants to capture that feeling himself.

[@bigchungus420]

@@basicoptimalmouse asexual (that's canon?) or not, the intent was unclear and came off creepy.

[@jamesherb4384]

@@basicoptimalmouse first off, Yusuke being asxesual is nothing but a fan theory. second, that hardly changes the fact that ann was clearly not interested, and that Yusuke 100% blackmailed her into compliance by threatening to get the police involved. Luke completely understood what was happening at that specific moment, even if it wasn't ultimately a testament to Yusuke's actual character

[@cptteacosy6158]

@@basicoptimalmouse hard to misinterprete a character who threatened blackmail if he couldn't paint a naked minor

[@jamesm4970]

I quit Catherine hard after it became apparent that Vincent could solve his problems easily by simply talking to Katherine or being assertive with Catherine, but instead decided to be a coward. Then the Bride was sufficiently difficult that trying to beat her wasn't worth the effort to continue watching Vincent refuse to deal with his problems.

[@CelestialAgony829]

OH MY GOD YES. Vincent was such a tool.

[@luansomething380]

Wasn't Catherine like a demon or something? It looked easy for him to get out of that situation, but it sure wasn't.

[@RanMouri82]

Part of the deal with Catherine is that the player ultimately makes Vincent's choice or not-quite-choice for him along the spectrum of chaos and order. But dang, watching Vincent either space out or wet himself with terror throughout the game got old fast.

[@duck_sized_horses8887]

I loved that game. It wouldn't be a game if Vincent started off as a brave staunch individual. It was about the journey to make him a better man. Not every game should be about a bad ass character who makes all the right decisions. If Dante or Master Chief were the main character type of every game that would be boring. Character development makes me feel accomplished. The problem solving was a blast. I can't wait to get the New Catherine remastered that's coming out. Though to be honest I do agree with you at times Vincent being such a coward bugged me, but he got it together by the end.

[@plutarcouranus4200]

Andy: Are they high school students? Luke: Well.... yes. Andy: What the F***!

[@SunOnYeet]

Correction : they are JAPANESE high school students ! That's a completely different thing

[@MaverickRiou]

Thomas Regnart objection: though JP’s age of consent is lower than other Western countries, sexual harassment is still universal. High school? Office lady? Elderly? She said no, son, back the fuck up.

[@spirit.ofthe.harvestmoon]

When Andy asked this, I thought Luke was going to answer: JAPAN! Not as a justification, but as a way of explaining it's a game made by the mentally impaired.

[@iainperkins2085]

Did she say no though? I think that the dialogue is a bit iffy, but basically Yosuke wants to call the police because they are on the property on false pretences if they don't either consent or leave. It is an odd scene however, and it makes me wonder if the writers of Persona 5 know any models because it is very common for models to bring friends along to avoid unwanted behaviour.

[@BattyButtercup]

Iain Perkins Saying "no" isn't always an option safely available - especially when your friends are pressuring you to go along with something & you are but a wee teenybop. Always look for an explicit "yes" and if that doesn't happen then back off. If you're teaming up - for an art project, espionage, ambushes, infiltration - you've got to respect your team. Everyone's on board or you find another way everyone can work with.

[@darrenk284]

The book-carrying reminds me of the pumpkin-carrying minigame from Zelda: Skyward Sword, but somehow even more frustrating.

[@user-uo1kp3uh1u]

I screamed at the pumpkins

[@Aurirang]

I think my brain deleted the pumpkin carrying thing. But i completely suked t playing that panflute in spirit tracks. For every single song, i had to give the ds to my brother so he ca play the fipping song and i can actually proceed.

[@SilasHumphreys]

For me, it's something that Valve loved: that moment in a Half-Life game where they lock you in a room, full of instant-death lasers and enemies that jump at your face, and expect you to do first-person platforming as Gordon Freeman, who let's be honest handles like a rocket-powered brick on a greased floor. Dude does NOT stop on a dime. And there's always an NPC who tells you they're not doing that, but you have to. That segment in Half-Life 2 had me ragequit the game and not go back to it for seven years.

[@thomasr7129]

I think it was HL2 episode 2 near the end with a rocket launcher, where you have to shoot bombs onto the striders, then swap weapon and shoot again to detonate - I took a loooong break, before I came back and completed it on easy. It was sooo annoying. Badass enemies on the ground pestering you - and I think there was a timer. Been a while... ;)

[@matthewgerdes9184]

Any assassin's creed eaves dropping/tailing mission ever. They are so tedious but the most egregious was in black flag when you had to stealth follow a ship, in another ship.

[@mentalpopcorn2304]

Stealth following the ship wasn’t really that hard... I just did that the other day after revisiting the game

[@meneldal]

More than how hard it can be, it's mostly how stupid ship stealth is.

[@Frogglin]

God yes. I'm playing Syndicate atm and every time the little "tail" icon pops up I quit for a few days. SO annoying and so badly done, really. Trying to stay at X distance while not being spotted but not losing the target. Rage. Then I forget why I stopped playing, load it up and go "OH EFF EFF ESS"

[@DoYouBelvInTheYeti]

Yes but that ACV level was soooo cool looking!

[@alptigin5438]

To be fair, as with the melee combat, tailing is one thing from post-Ezio AC that Syndicate kind-of fixed so it's kind-of not total bullshit. Although I seem to recall that Syndicate seriously breaks AC lore about Assassin running speed by having fat old ladies that you "tail" by sprinting after them and never catch up.

[@emilythesmelly]

Psychonauts. During the meat circus when you have to climb up the flaming circular wire cage with imprecise controls and an unmovable camera angle and water rising below you threatening to kill you if you take too long. It was the end of the game and I said, "you know what? i did enough."

[@bfitz5610]

Pretty sure that's the last part of that game I remember too. Maybe it was actually the end?

[@PsychoticManiac]

I had a huge fear of video game spiders so when being introduced to them in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly or some shit I instantly was traumatized and never played it again. Only got over this fear after quitting Skyrim (due to obvious arachnid reasons) and realizing how much I loved the game so after braving it out I got used to them. Still hate the slow motion kills that zoom into them though.

[@keithcass257]

I also stopped playing Persona 5 when he joined the party. Really rubbed me the wrong way

[@deannal.newton9772]

Yusuke's still better than Eickichi Mishima from Persona 2: Innocent Sin, at least he's not down right rude or resorts to violent means just because you go to a different high school from him.

[@NickolaofBusk]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the pc. The part where you have to sneak around the library stressed me so much. I still think about it today and it STILL makes me anxious

[@JayTohab]

YES. The scares in that game weren't intentional, but that's what made them so effective!

[@princesszelda1997]

Oh man I had to do this with my mum when I was a kid

[@alexander_markovski]

I had it on PS2 and oh my GOD

[@raineblackstar3522]

Oh god...the image of that green pranking bastard popped up in my mind again...fucking scares me everytime.

[@mustangraptor8208]

Same here

[@mysterywryter5110]

I can’t express the RAGE of me repeatedly failing the parkour at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts so I always stopped out of anger

[@Soumein]

The race against Riku? The controls are clunky, but I don't think you needed to win.

[@doomraven0]

If you don't win, you don't get to name the gummi ship: unacceptable.

[@darkbladenexas]

@@doomraven0 You know you can rename it...... right?

[@sean4236]

Sephiroth was the only "eff this game moment".

[@crazypomp927]

The music of Persona 5 is God Tier. "Wake Up Get Up Get Out There" is a goddamn masterpiece and the single greatest song ever written for a video game. Haven't even played the game, but thankfully Smash Ultimate gave me the music!

[@rikijamie]

Man..the last few fights of P5R was magic. And the music when you enter a dungeon for the last time and it gets urgent and dramatic. Not a single piece of music in that game i didnt like.

[@0ctopusComp1etely]

My roommate played through Resident Evil Veronica about a year ago. And by "played through" I mean he got to the final boss, had one save point before it, and literally ran out of ammo during the boss fight no matter what he did. Maybe there's some special method to beat it, or like a time-out mechanic or something. But to this day we do not know, and he absolutely no longer cares. He checked out of that ending, hard.

[@Dutchtica]

24:20 I had this with Octopath traveller! There's a secret hidden Final Boss, which requires solving several sidequests. No biggie. So you get to the secret Final Area, where you beat 8 "ghost" bosses, which are dark versions of bosses you fought before. EIGHT. There is no save point in the final area. These bosses aren't really HARD per se, for a later stage level party, well equipped and all. But then you get to the final final boss. A sequential. Final boss. Which takes so long, and is so hard, I fought it for 45 minutes and I died. I loaded back up; outside. All eight-- EIGHTS of them - Ghost bosses still alive. It takes a good 10 minutes a boss, I'd say. All of my desire to beat the secret Final Boss immediately sapped, I never bothered again. I took up gardening.

[@r.j.penfold]

As someone who played the demo multiple times around when we first got our Switch, I wanted to 100% complete the game (cuz I'm a masochist apparently) and now that you said it... Maybe nevermind.

[@mdredheadguy1979]

You just described my biggest complaint about the first two Kingdom Hearts games! Those lengthy boss battles, and no saves between them!

[@tribble608]

Exactly what happened to me lmao, I beat the 8 bosses, no problem, had a good setup. Then died immediately to the final boss and noped out.

[@FoxIord]

I haven't put myself through it yet, but I've heard that the Pantheon of Hollownest from Hollow Knight is that, but with 30-some bosses in a row, which includes every boss in the game, plus several Pantheon-exclusive bosses, in a notoriously difficult game. I think it has a 0.3% completion on Steam. Whenever I get the game, I'm going to torture myself with it.

[@johngowanjr5303]

Don't forget the 4 secret bosses that unlock 4 classes

[@chavamara]

Did anyone else expect Ellen's "Eff this" moment to involve spiders in some capacity?

[@johnyshadow]

On behalf of my friend: "Eff Skyrim spiders!"

[@rmcgowa1987]

Johny they are far too big to be considered realistic it's how I get over most in game spiders

[@chavamara]

But did seriously expect Skyrim to be Ellen's game for that reason. Love you, Ellen!

[@stevemalone3781]

Yes I did.

[@maddlarkin]

@@johnyshadow on behalf of everyone who ever played Skyrim Eff those bloody spiders, they'll haunt your Nightmares!!!

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

I really like the added background music for ambience during each of the game's entries. Nice little attention to detail.

[@beaver6d9]

As soon as I saw Black Ops, I knew exactly what mission it would be! I had no idea about the barrels until this video. I've died so many times on this level.

[@SolidStuDoo]

Jane: "It may have just been me who fell off the blood tightrope and heard this horrible baby scream" OH NO YOU WERE NOT JANE. That screaming child's voice and constant falling off still haunts my dreams.

[@darkhorse989]

I had to play those segments on mute.

[@013wolfwarrior]

Oh yeah that part scared the shit out of me as a kid, when I would watch my brother play and he'd reach that part I'd run out of the room.

[@Astrithor]

Dont put quotes around something unless you're saying exactly what they said. That's how a quote works.

[@UndeadAngel1987]

That segment gave me PTSD and I recently replayed Max Payne 1 on my PS4 and I absolutely despise those screams.

[@gamithemighty5932]

Capcom has aboard meeting. "so lets add a gernade launcher here. early in the game, and then later in the game well add the toughest monster in the game into a chase sequence where the gernade launcher is the key!!!" "wont the player try to waste the epic gernade launcher on the enemies in excitement?" everyone looks around the table... "NAAAAAAAAAHHHHH"

[@Lonelyeco]

Or, maybe they said, "Exactly!"

[@TheSnKoh]

Am I the only one who intentionally uses the weakest but effective weapon for this exact reason. Perfect example is dying light or even dark souls before you can repair at the bonfire

[@nolan8226]

@@TheSnKoh Also Dead Space, I remember doing well in the game even on challenging difficulty because I focused on killing every enemy as efficiently as possible. My brother just couldn't do that, letting encounters go a bit out of control more often, and would get stuck because he was simply out of ammo. Anyway, it's fine if you're heavy into maximizer/efficiency tendencies but most people aren't so....

[@bobbydeuce6486]

What sucks about Andy’s experience with uncharted is that there’s a great semi stealth bit little ways after where he said he quit. You enter into this big clearing with the wreckage from the train strewn all about. Suddenly, right after you get there, a bunch of guys show up from the other side of the map looking for you. Lemme mention that there’s a blizzard going on that progressively gets worse as you progress through the scene. So it’s a nice cinematic moment with nice tension and ambiance. Of course, if you don’t care about being stealthy you can just start blasting and let it turn into a waist high cover gun fight… I see where Andy’s coming from and concede the point.

[@bryandedon7459]

I loved uncharted 2. That's weird he didn't like it but says he liked the ones after that. They're all very similar. Maybe there's a tad less fighting but not enough to where you quit one bc you're bored but have no problem with the other ones. I also feel like cover based shooters hadn't been done to death at that point to where you'd be sick of them or think its just another generic one. Gears 2 came out a year before that and they pretty much popularized that genre. I could understand it by the time 4 came out but he said he liked that one. I have the remastered trilogy and have only replayed the first one. This video has made me want to jump back in and replay them. I'll pay attention to how much shooting there was. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong.

[@marthur1971]

U2 is a masterpiece. I actually tried to see how many enemies I could take down before they saw me in most places. I'm thinking he just wasn't very good at it. Of course I think the 4th is overrated so I can't hold his opinion against him. Too much. Seriously given when U2 came out it was mindblowing. Seeing the temple city, cat and mouse with a tank, the creepy monster things. Near perfect. Well except for the final boss fight which is ridiculous. Anyone else just melee him to death on the hard settings? edit: I also kinda want to jump back in and replay it now.

[@lightfallonthehead3842]

probably the only top 10 "insert something here" channel i will enjoy

[@JuliFreeCG]

Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess: The "protect the wagon" level. Only thing thats made my vry from frustration in a video game.

[@eggo5100]

That mission made me hate the enemies who attacked the wagon Edit:didn't expect to get 3 likes

[@Xormyr]

That mission made me cry in frustration and anger...

[@amandag5023]

Glad I am not only who hated this bit of Twilight Princess!

[@eggo5100]

@@matthewbrown1617 great sarcasm

[@secrets_behind_the_fan9185]

Omg ik. I hated that part

[@LocalMaple]

Shiny Pokémon uses Self-Destruct.

[@moistdrippings5970]

Oh, OUCH.

[@keo549]

Damp :^)

[@LocalMaple]

Keo Not everybody carries some on their team at all times. Especially if they’re a Nuzlocker, and Shinies are the exception to the 1-per-Route rule.

[@keo549]

That's true, but a lot of people also doesn't think about it/doesn't know. Hell, even shiny hunters let it happen. Nuzlockers are a small minority in this matter, and most of it is just forgetting/not thinking about it. I always keep my master ball in case of something like that, or a shiny legendary who refuse to cooperate

[@blainy-o93]

Shiny Pokémon in Safari Zone: flees.

[@defeatedink0544]

Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Thunderblight Ganon. Never finished that boss fight cause I forgot how to dodge

[@riversong4997]

That's the point where I basically gave up on the main game and just started fucking around XD

[@TheTwilighthawke]

No blocking we die like the champions

[@lisadagens9892]

Eff thunderblight and the divine beast missons to

[@emilygoodman6779]

When I played, I was TERRIBLE at dodging, but there’s a way around it. Get your stamina bar at max level, get some two handed weapons, and when Thunder Blight Ganon teleports, start spin attacking and moving around while spinning with your weapon. You’ll still get hit, but it gives you a higher chance of landing some hits. That’s how I defeated him.

[@EricIsntSmart]

My "Eff this" moment was the drill vehicle sequence in Batman Arkham knight. normally i'm fine at batmobile sequences but it stressed me so much and i could never do it, waited like 2 years and then got my dad to do it

[@blueshadowsoundeffects1559]

That wasn't even that hard

[@EricIsntSmart]

@@blueshadowsoundeffects1559 good for you

[@Nintendo122333]

I feel that Luke is justified about Yusuke. Like, just previously, the gang dealt with a teacher who preyed upon Ann, and then suddenly her teammates are convincing her to go along with Yusuke's blackmail? He literally blackmails to call the police on the 2 dudes if Ann doesn't comply with the nude painting. That's sexual harassment. And don't forget, these guys are minors. I can honestly see why people would be put off with this. Personally, as much as I was irritated with this, I still enjoyed the game for what it was worth.

[@TrueJunebug]

Yeah, it's really offputting with Yusuke at the start. The thing is though that I love Yusuke as a character later on. It's just sad that you need to kind of brush aside him blackmailing a teenager into modeling nude before you can really get into his character.

[@TheBAGman17]

The thing is Yusuke honestly just trying to paint her he's not just making up excuses to see her naked. it kind of lacks the sexual nature of it to be sexual harassment although that doesn't make it any better for Ann.

[@caionapoli3434]

It's just a horrible, horrible piece of writing. It's obviously being played for laughs, but it's extremely in bad taste especially when considering the previous dungeon. I could get through it because for me it was an obviously poor attempt at humor/fan service, but it did taint my vision of the game and made me super aware of their poor taste jokes and fanservice later on. That was one of the few things that deeply disappointed me in Persona 5

[@hexblack2215]

I dont want to spoil the game but If he actually finished the game he would see how all party members had to put something on the line in the different parts of the game so asking Ann to stall for a few minutes while Morgana pick-locks a door wasn't exactly dangerous. and he would have seen that is this game just because someone is acting valiantly and polite and all that good stuff doesn't make them good people and vice versa. The whole game is a redemption tale about a group of young people escaping the influence of "shitty" adults who's trying to turn them into their own image and almost succeeding and Yusuke is no different.

[@chrisroberts1773]

I'm almost positive I got through that COD level without knowing about the 'stab the barrel' trick. After an hour or so of playing like you described, I just got pissed and charged down into the trench, and the level proceeded.

[@NEMESISJ18]

I did the same thing..

[@nickolascardoza3939]

I think I just did it. I might have had subtitles on.

[@maverickhunterzero8847]

I definitely don’t remember the barrel thing, I just charged down the hill

[@annana6098]

At the end of the original Link's Awakening, the last boss starts with a blob phase. My two siblings and I couldn't figure out what to do to it, none of our items would work, so we just kept swinging at it with everything we had. After like... thirty minutes, it transformed! Yay, we did it! In reality, you're supposed to hit it with magic powder, which we did try, we just sucked at the timing and got no confirmation that was the correct thing to do, so we stopped trying. I'm just really glad the devs put in some sort of failsafe to move the fight along, or we would have given up.

[@slowpokedragon]

I think the funniest thing about Yusuke is if you do all his Confidant cutscenes- he isn't actually a pervy creep, he's just a massive idiot obsessed with art. He actually is terrible with social norms and understanding women, to the point other characters (like Ryuji) comment on it and exclaim in disbelief about how stupid he can be.

[@CrimsonWolf132]

Both Makoto and Ann during the fireworks fest say something to the effect of "Yusuke could get so much ass,... if he wasnt so incredibly dense"

[@thedragodile545]

Lol, the raaaage at the unskippable cutscenes in Kingdom Hearts!! 🤣 I totally forgot about that. "It is I... ANSEM."

[@EmberTheFlareon3579]

The seeker of Darkness.

[@8ballmoe]

I’m sure Andy will say F this game next time he has to play Hitman 2 against mike

[@timothymclean]

You didn't expect Yusuke to join the party? That's probably a common reaction. I guess you could say _you'll never see it coming?_

[@hundred2949]

Wait, not expecting Yusuke was a common reaction. I was there like I know Yusuke will join me, let’s hope he gets better

[@terminalsarcasm]

To me the worst part of Persona 5 is Morgana constantly telling you to get some rest. I know that the protagonist will have to go to sleep even if Morgana isn't there to remind you but the fact that he constantly does, even on days where you didn't really do anything, really pissed me off. Before Yusuke joined the party every time i fought a weak enemy i got at least one attack on that little shit.

[@ShiftyApparition]

Hold on I guess Luke needed to think again He didn’t know What he was starting

[@stevef5888]

Dammit Yurameshi

[@thisisodsmith]

It says it all that Atlus realised how players were getting so PO'd with Morgana saying "Don't play the game, get some sleep" at regular intervals and literally not letting you play the game that they made a t-shirt of it that makes Morgana look like Monokuma from Danganronpa

[@thumper5555]

Definitely feel the Ansem fight woes. I fought my way through it, but dang it took so many tries.

[@CJMoody]

I think my biggest "f*ck this!" moment in a video game was the High Fort in Breath of Fire II. The game was difficult already in more bad ways than good, mostly in the scarcity of mana replenishing resources (not helped that said resources inflict mild damage to an character who uses them) and Ryu's dragon transformations are a major downgrade from his ancestor's in the first game. But once I'm stuck in High Fort, my party keeps getting wiped out by monsters in the dungeons because I'm too low on resources to stay in shape, and I can't leave to restock on supplies, nor change out my party members in favor of members potentially more helpful for that part of the game.

[@cheznut13]

These personal stories are my favorite videos.

[@leetbaumann]

Mine too!

[@MinniMaster]

TheRealCheznut I honestly hope they do more of them. The scripted list vids are the ones that I watch the least often, but I absolutely love these personal stories.

[@rhyger7243]

Same here

[@smnoy23]

Yusuke does get better but MAN is his introduction rough. Not only does he want to paint Ann nude while she's clearly uncomfortable with it, this all comes right after Kamoshida's dungeon, who was a HORRIFIC creepazoid to Ann. It's just weird that the game doesn't give you any option to go "Hey maybe we shouldn't force her to do this, huh?"

[@raulrojas9253]

wow you english speaking people are such pussys, you complain about every single little thing.

[@dunnyzed6953]

Not gonna lie I played the whole of Persona 5 with everyone rocking swimsuits

[@natsudragion7790]

Isn't that game Japanese??

[@nerocrow4040]

What? The gang is there to make sure yusuke doesn't do anything so the option of don't force her was already there he only says Ann has to do it because of Ryuji saying all that he did not mention yusuke had to do it they're multiple reasons why yusuke did what did saying that you go on with the game and saying yusuke is a creep is entirely missing the point of his character and that arc

[@reddragon9064]

yes its set in japan as well natsu also lol dunny

[@SynthMusicWorld]

I remember playing that terrible section of Max Payne when it came out. It's very easy to fall off of that bloody tightrope.

[@motivelacking]

Mike recalling old COD Black Ops reminds me of my days fighting in Japan, 1942. I faced a grenade spam unlike anything I've ever seen to this day while beating COD World at War on Veteran difficulty. I'm not even joking when I say I saw a cluster block out the Sun.

[@scorpix96]

"you might've heard of vietnam, it's a war" well, technically it's also a country Mike ^^

[@skuzzyj]

A country known mostly for the war, though. And the currency being called the _Dong._

[@Aleainctaest]

And technically a Police Action. It was not declared a war with declaration by the Congress. Congress hasn't declared wars since WWII, unless you count the war on abstracts ... Poverty, Drugs, and Terror ....

[@DLBBALL]

Aleainctaest Fighting fire with fire will always come to bite us in the back.

[@Aleainctaest]

Dude Lmao Aleainctaest So basically the war on anything that isn’t agreeing with the US? No, just stating a Fact. There is much that is being done that should not be done as it is transpiring. Otherwise they would follow precedent and legality to do what should be done instead of obfuscating and hiding behind illegal actions. For any law or action to be legal in the USA it must abide by the Constitution. There were major limits set upon the government in the powers it held. These have been blurred and broken with compliance and false belief it is legal because they claim it is so ... Always use the proper words for something. Even if it is unpopular.

[@KarmasAB123]

"If you don't do this nude painting I'll call the police!" That's... sexual blackmail... is that not illegal? XD

[@mr.e9502]

And, it’s directed towards a TEENAGER.

[@Corrupted]

@@mr.e9502 The problem isnt that its dark, its the weird hypocritical quirky way they handle it afterwards imo, stuff like this can be handled well in art - sadly wasnt done here

[@adrianjem7188]

But we’re rewarded with a memorable and funny ally with that mission

[@unculturedswine5583]

​@@adrianjem7188 first impressions are important and personally all his antics later seemed artificial just stemming from his writers intent and i couldn't shake off that even after some time he himself seemed to not possibly be capable of anything that opposed that intial character of him,anything nice about him seemed like it was written for a different better character with no bridge in middle to connect to the weird first one, there just wasn't much acknowledgement by the game or himself that he was acting like a creep and that it was just anything more than woaah!, he's quirky and weird. so most jokes centered on him and his supposed-to-be funny crush on ann fell flat on my face. i guess i could have managed to come to like him even still, but it never happened. i do agree that he does show redeeming features but i didn't feel that it was actually his old character that was redeemed or that his redeeming features felt earned, so it never managed to cancel out to me, though i'm sure there are loads of people who managed to fall in love with with and i also really think thats great, this was just my experience.

[@oldmanartist4655]

@@mr.e9502 legal age in japan is 16.

[@mattsmith336]

In bo 1 I never heard the instructions from woods so I just fought my way through the enemies and woods would follow and bring the other guys along so I always thought that was how that level was played. Huh the things we learn.

[@GTisRule]

Gawd, that Black Ops II part, my first time I fought for probably 45 minutes until I finally died rushing the trenches trying to figure it out, then caught the dialog on the save reload. So frustrating thru that sequence!

[@LacroixboiMarx]

This is probably my favorite type of list videos y’all do. The personal experience kind. All videos y’all do are great, don’t get me wrong. I just really like the addition of these.

[@SargentGrey]

OK so I was playing this game where you had to work front desk at a B&B, but then it took a sharp plot twist and I spent most of my playtime ironing bedsheets in the basement laundry room. I said, “Screw this!”, set the controller down, and quit... Oh wait, that was my job, not a game 😅

[@HyruleHeroHan]

Ever had a moment where you were basically one hit away from winning on the final boss, just to lose right there? That happened to me on Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64 (via Virtual Console). Haven’t been back to it since.

[@Jessie_Helms]

The High Charity level of Halo 3 was a massive “eff this” moment for a lot of people. So little ammo, so many flood, such a maze... Legit, I never finished Halo 3 on 360. I only beat it once it dropped on the PC.

[@Bubbles99718]

I don't think "a lot" of people ever had f this moments in Halo. Or even a few. This is a you thing

[@Jessie_Helms]

@@Bubbles99718 you’re objectively wrong. That level is known for being a stopping point for a lot of players.

[@Bubbles99718]

@@Jessie_Helms Arguably the greatest game ever made did not have a high % of rage quitters. Don't know what your on about

[@sfisher923]

Cortona I finished that game a few times on Xbox 1 but that level was annoying because of how bad I'm at with Mazes

[@paddyblah887]

Jane.... I'm sorry to be the one to tell you... but it wasn't a blood rope... let's just say it's related to the baby... 😷😷😷😷 but this segment made sick too...

[@2KWIK4U]

Damn thats gross

[@finnmurphy7118]

Oh god.....

[@JachAnen]

Why did you have to write that?? Jane already woke my PTSD from so many years ago and now it's worse than ever :(

[@Queerventurers]

Hell no!

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Shouldn't have read this comment immediately after lunch

[@davidbeaton1545]

My 'Eff This' moment came in Mass Effect 3. It's a game entirely about amassing an army to take on the imminent threat. I was playing through the Hanar mission, when I hit a point that I couldn't get into a certain room. Try as I might, I couldn't work out how to get in, and as a result the Hanar didn't join my army and it changed the ending of my game. I later discovered that the only way to get into the room is to have Kasumi in your party. I had not heard of Kasumi, so I researched and found out that she was a DLC character that you had to pay for in Mass Effect 2. So the only way to change the outcome of my Mass Effect 3 game was to go back and replay Mass Effect 2, buy the character and then replay Mass Effect 3 again. Eff That.

[@donb7519]

i was so annoyed because of how many things depend on its dlc and mass effect 2's especially the epilogue dlc

[@jacobswafford1151]

That's actually horrible. I hadn't heard about this but damn. past dlc should never be a plotline in a current game.

[@alexbailes91]

Mike - THANK YOU! The Khe Sanh level in COD drove me up the wall. I could not figure out what was happening. First time ever that I dropped the difficulty level down on a game (allllll the way down) and felt like a such a failure!

[@ladmyn2726]

There was a side mission in Mass Effect one where you had to kill some biotic terrorists without hurting these drugged up scientists and i swear i hate it and i gave up because they kept dying

[@TheMbangel]

Late reply but a tip for that section is to switch off your companions' auto use of their abilities and try to lure the biotics to the corridor you enter from. The sucky part of this section is when you play on the higher difficulty levels and the Biotic terrorists using their abilities making the scientist fly around and then die. Totally get your frustration with that level!

[@QuickSilverKitsune]

Imma have to replay ME1 then, cause the only 2 missions I can even recall that were vaguely like these either A) Had a Paragon/Renegade Check that would let you avoid the fight, which was actually harder to fail then pass if you were investing in either at this point, or B) Literally dropped the terrorists so fast with headshots that the scientists just...weren't an issue

[@meganbeaudoin8085]

Don't use guns or powers, disable your companions, and use melee to knock out the infected colonists!

[@natsudragion7790]

Oh my god!! , I've played blacks ops twice and I've never done anything with those napalm barrels. No interaction whatsoever. I just ran down the hill and killed the guys until they gave me another checkpoint . Mind is definitely blown...

[@erinhaury5773]

Me too, my friend and I never even noticed the barrels. We shot the hell outta everyone until we got low on ammo, then figured we were supposed to just push closer. Once we did, it checkpointed and we moved on. =p

[@Silentgunner543]

Natsu Dragion77 am I the only one that heard what woods said

[@GreekGeek-dh2kh]

I gave up on anything but shooting out of frustration, confusion, and pure hate. Kinda like real soldiers...

[@armedwombat6816]

If I'm not mistaken, you could just turn on subtitles. But that is also something you need to know in advance because most people have turned them off because it's mostly distracting and rarely useful.

[@shadowfoxspirit9]

@@armedwombat6816 I always have subtitles on because selective hearing kicks in real bad lol

[@purgatoryzero0]

I'd kill to play video games with the same friends all my life😭

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

The Outside Xbox people only met each other as adults though

[@duck3819]

Deep but true

[@duck3819]

@@SurprisinglyDeep yeah, but they have still been making videos and playing with each other for years now

[@AlexJones-xz8oc]

Did you kill them or something?

[@AvianZone]

Alex Jones Bruh don’t tell me you’ve never had that one Xbox friend who you tell that you’ll see him tomorrow and never see him again for years. That shit hurts dude.

[@artturisiikanen3843]

12:14 be happy luke atleast kamoshida is not joining the party

[@goldenkirby2135]

Ngl that Black ops mission was a hang up for me too. I remember the barrels glitching on me as well so that I didn't have the option to kick them down and the spawning enemies actually slowing down a bit..

[@kaitlyngarner740]

There's a reason I put subtitles on in COD games, to avoid these confusing times

[@CollinandBri]

Kaitlyn Garner I just never did the barrels and ended up making it through the sequence somehow

[@reidill5266]

If you go all the way down the hill there is a checkpoint that progresses it forward, I didn't do the barrels either , I just ran...

[@reddragon9064]

ya see i always do that for any game so i hade no ishues at all tbh this whole list ik its there exsperences but i dont relate at all to any sure anoying but iv never just quite a game and never stoped and had to come back enless it was just a fight i couldent win and was actually to weak to beat at that point (like in one game i foucuesed on upgradeing just on party member then um ya eventually that one op member wasent anuf for a fight and i needed 2 go back so ya) and some games you cant do that its go back and farm not even worth it enimes or thats not even a option and your stuck there and have to go back before you entered to farm or do something diffrent

[@justanothergmailaccount1353]

They had issues with KH, of all games, so competence isn't their forte....

[@DoYouBelvInTheYeti]

Blah no reading for me! 😹

[@taquitos2242]

*_I will put my heart and soul in creating the best nude painting ever!_*

[@newflesh666]

This comment really suits your icon 👍

[@duck3819]

Make it multiple

[@zombie_6555]

That line made me feel so awkward •.•

[@nmb-u-]

that made me feel disgusted on the game :/ and that is Very hard..

[@adrianjem7188]

I hate that this one line can make people hate the game, there is way more fucked up moments in the game and that’s one reason why that makes the game great ,it really is a good game and I hope that people can actually see the greatness of the jrpg, also I say great a lot.

[@johnbuck4395]

The max Payne tightrope...I remember how stoked I was to finally get thru that hell

[@user-pg7uj4bp4q]

i did this to myself but the first time i played Ocarina of Time i did the glitch where you can swap one of your items for an extra jar so you can carry lots of revive fairies and the item i swapped was the Banchu Bomb. i should've done the Deku Nut but I figured that i actually use that sometimes whereas Banchu Bombs are just regular bombs with wheels. Not until you get all the way to Gannon's Castle at the end of the game do you ever meet a situation where Banchu Bombs are your only way forward.

[@ericb3157]

i once got stuck for MONTHS because i didn't know how to get the FIre Arrows, which are only needed in the final area. it's surprisingly obscure, the ONLY clue is: "when water fills the lake, shoot for the morning light." you have to stand in a specific spot and SHOOT AT THE RISING SUN... the spot is near the Water Temple. NOT the Fire temple, the WATER temple!

[@HitchcockJohn]

The ending of Far Cry 2. I tried to tolerate the game's imperfections and a lot of the ways it really hasn't aged well but that finally drove me to quit. So basically, the game has a "buddy system" wherein the player has a group of so-called "buddies" they encounter throughout the game which includes all of the playable characters (and three female characters who aren't playable for some reason, says a lot about audience assumptions at the time). Over the course of the game you encounter several and have two main buddies (though the roles shift between several different characters). One of them will come to rescue you if you get overwhelmed in a fight, the other will phone you with alternative methods of completing missions. They also play into the story, with each of the Buddies having their own background and motivations and having to work with the player to survive. Then you get to the final climactic section where, straight out of nowhere, they all turn on you for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. You run into your latest buddy who greets you, then one of your buddies from earlier randomly shows up and decides they have to shoot you, and then everyone decides to go along with that. Why? I don't know. They suddenly claim you're not one of them and that they "made other arrangements" but this comes completely out of left field. It even goes against the established characterizations of some of them (Michele Dachss for instance). This detail seems to exist solely for the sake of forcing a twist into the end that really didn't need to be there. I remember being so angry at how abruptly this was shoved into the climax that I didn't even care to finish the game. I just stopped it right there and sold it at the first opportunity.

[@Jotwah]

@@Tenkai917 that was only a choice though. Turn on your friends for some puss puss or nah, my guy.

[@tripple-a6031]

Seems like you didn't understand the end of the story...

[@unoriginalhazard]

Far cry 2 story was ass, but that's not why people played it.

[@have_a_good_day420]

John Hitchcock It’s true though, even today the gaming community is overwhelmingly male dominated. Not because men are “hogging” gaming. It’s just that men and women are different. Gaming tends to be what guys do, with women sometimes as well. That’s life.

[@quintonbreault4059]

In kingdom hearts, if you use guard when Ansem charges like he does instead of dodge roll, not only will it block the attack, but with the counter attack skill, you can follow up into a combo.

[@Sonicsgirl13]

Ahh...

[@bojansarkanjac983]

Oh dear god, amnesia. I have schizophrenia, and when I'm tired or upset I would start seeing shadows trying to either grab at me or something similar. My paranoia would also shot through the roof, my head would also sometimes feel like Its swimming while I walk. It's hard to explain. So, when my characters vision started blurring, and stuff started appearing more vividly I noped out of there. It was even worse 'cause my mind tried to show me things even when the game was quiet. So, yea, I honestly never got to even see the monsters of the game, and while I HAVE tried playing the game I can never get past the first thirty minutes. It's just too damn real.

[@katyoiin2370]

I never knew you had to do that thing with the barrels in bo1 I just ran past the waves of soldiers coming at me and after the 20th time of dying I made it past somehow