"WTF?!" moments in video games

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  1. Fit For natalie

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    Ahh, the Controller at the end of the Agroprom underground. That guy actually has no melee attack, so one solution some people have given is to run up and stab it with a knife.

    You should be glad GSC didn't make him like their original concept for the Controller. Originally, as it's name suggests, the Controller controlled zombies and could turn NPCs within it's field of influence into zombies.
     
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    Hmmm....the best one I can come up with. Resident Evil(Game Cube version) Going through a second time off a saved complete file. Deciding to shoot a zombie I can't see, but can lock on to. I fire....KAAABOOOOOOOM! Whole thing blows up and I die. Forgot that when you go back through, Kenneth is wearing a bunch of C4, and blows up if ya shoot him...DOH! The worst part of it, is I don't save as often in that game because I know what I am doing hahaha! So, I just go...WTF? and quit playing :( 

    Another one I can think of, FF7, when Aeris gets killed. I went WTF!? and wondered why I couldn't just use a Phoenix down to bring her back! Stupid story line!!!

    Back to the Future-Nintendo. The whole game is a WTF!? because, is there any way to even beat it? You can't get to the end of a level before the picture desolves into nothing!

    If I think of any more, I will be sure to post!
     
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    Yeah, it was the screw attack. And yes, I was paying attention. That's what pissed me off so much! The game made NO indication of what I was supposed to do or where I was supposed to go.
     
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    E.T. on the Atari 2600.

    A big WTF moment from start to finish.
     
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    Pretty much my point. I don't care how the computer cheats, it's still cheating. I can't tell you how many SNES controllers I broke back in the day over these games. Well, actually I can (2) but I can't tell you how many times I glued them back together....

    Lol, I was just going to post this. Also:

    Superman

    A boy and his Blob

    Fuckin, Elevator action. God I hate this game....
     
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    Phoenix down is used to revive the fainted, not the dead.
     
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    Hey, I actually beat that game. I thought the game was ok but I am in the minority because I read it was a giant flop. The one that I recall was the x-men nintendo game. It still bothers me today that I could not figure out how to beat it.:crazy:  I need therapy.
     
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    I don't remember MK4 being that way though. Hell, it was the only MK arcade game I could actually beat with just a couple bucks in quarters. Of course it helped that Shinnok was alot easier to beat than even Shao Kahn.

    Oh and Conker's Bad Fur Day. That entire game is a WTF moment. Especially that one boss made out of...poo. And with corn in it to boot...
     
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    One word. Battletoads.
     
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    I miss the days when there were NEVER any hints about where to find the next item in Metroid games...
     
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    I'm enjoying some of the random hilarity of the dialogue in Bionic Commando Rearmed.
     
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    Adventure Island for the NES. God, trying to beat 8-3 was just atrocious. :lol 

    Oh, and Viewpoint for the PSX.
     
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    Oh wait... now that I've had time to think...the message DOES come in really late...heh.
     
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    Other really hard NES games:

    Double Dragon 3. A review I read somewhere summed it up perfectly - the game is less about finding some Rosetta Stone than it is about Jimmy and Billy being mugged and killed in the alley behind their dojo.

    Bayou Billy. Some kind of weird game where a southern crocodile dundee struggles to fight the kidnappers of his girlfriend.

    A Boy And His Blob: Some impossibly difficult game about a boy who feeds jellybeans to his pet blob, who can turn into stuff depending on the jellybean given.
     
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    Hearing "LA-LE-LU-LE-LO" for the first time in MGS2. I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
     
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    La le lu le lo?
     
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    for that matter...LBP is some weird sh*t. but it makes sense...
    oh..."grumble grumble"...sure, I was 8, but it took a ridiculously long time to figure out that I had to give that creature a hunk of meat.
    and speaking of meat...Bonk's Adventure...I was the only lucky kid in the neighborhood who had a TG-16 (and no multitap...or friends), but damn...meat never made me go crazy like Bonk would.
     
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    Sorry, I think it's La li lu le lo. Accoring to my youtube search...



    Fast forward in about 5:25.
     
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  20. McBradders

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    No, see, in MGS2 nobody could say "La li lu le lo" without the next person saying "La li lu le lo?"

    "Yes, the La li lu le lo!"

    ...see? See? SEE?!