What's The Most Saltiest Thing That Has Ever Happened To You In A Video Game?

After first beating them i got better and just summoned Solaire when i was going to fight them in NG+.

I'm now up to NG+10 with a soul level of 463 so pretty much every boss is a pushover for me . Except Manus which i can only beat by shooting arrows at him from a ledge until he's weakened enough before the boss fight even begins. I find that this method saves a lot of sodium chloride and tears.

 

I couldn't even get solaire because every single time I went human in NG+, someone would either invade me or solaire would just die instantly.
So I decided to attempt doing it solo. And after 20+ tries, I succeeded.

 

That was pretty much my first try too. The trick is to keep Orn and Smug seperated which is how i managed to beat them consecutively.

 

The way I do it is to keep Ornstein in front of Smough, while dancing around the pillars.

 

I'll be honest, I though roughly 33% of the posts here would be about Dark Souls.
Surprisingly, I had no salty moments in that game. I had raging moments of quitting it, but never salt.

I do, however, have salt in my mouth because of Lords of the Fallen, a Souls-esque game. Heck, it is not just Souls-esque, it's a Souls clone, right down to the button layouts and game mechanics.

Anyway, so after clearing out an entire map of enemies, racking up that multiplier that grants me better itens the higher it is... the game froze and crashed. Lost all of that progress and experience I earned.

MRW:

 

When I was playing Pokemon Diamond, I had only recently started the game. I had progressed to the first forest, and here they have a girl with a Chansey accompany you through the forest. This does two things- first, every battle is a Double Battle, wild pokemon included. Secondly, you're healed completely after every fight. Alright, sounds pretty sweet. I'm romping around, taking the opportunity to grind against the Hoothoot, the Murkrow, and the Wurmple. The Chansey is mostly using Refresh and Softboiled, but hey, free heals, so I dont care. After a few fights, a two Murkrow show up, but one looks a little odd.

The left hand Murkrow is S H I N Y.
Up until this point, I thought shiny pokemon were only hacked in, not something that happened in actuality. I was stoked. And murkrow happened to be one of my favourite pokemon up unti this time! My luck was unbelievable. Naturally, the first thing I did was throw a pokeball, only to have a message come up telling me that my character is too distracted by the presence of another pokemon or somesuch. I groan, knock out the right-hand murkrow, leaving me alone with the shiny Murkrow. I whittle it down to the red, and start chucking pokeballs. First one burst immediately. Okay, I can do this. Second pokeball. A few shakes, but no dice. Third time's the charm, right? Three shakes, last second escape. I can feel that the next one will catch it. Except...
The chansey. Up until that point had been happily healing me and using Refresh, but no. They were DONE. I didnt even know they HAD egg bomb until they finished off the poor pink bird.
I was livid. I nearly ragequit from the game altogether until i got a new idea. Revenge. Every single fight, before i even TRIED targeting the enemy, that Chansey had to die. Battle after battle in that long forest, I brutalized that pink puffball for their transgressions against me.

To this day, just thinking about this memory makes me so, so salty.

 

Played Cookie Clicker for 2 years. Had backups on HDD. HDD crashed. Lost everything.

 

Starts a CS:GO game with friends.
"Huuuh guys? I have litterally 1500 ping. Bye."
And they managed to win the game, despite playing on four versus five the whole time. I just felt so useless when they told me they won.

 

Playing "Gladiator Begins" on the PsP and getting juggled against a fence by Deimos (Last gladiator Boss) for an hour (Dying tons) before beating him. Broke the shoulder buttons on my PsP from gripping it so tightly in anger.

 

Rented Hunted: The Demon's Forge cause it looked neat. Played it with my friend and we couldn't finish the first level [After the tutorial area]. He lost it when he found a shield and it broke in one hit lol.

 

Have I told you how I hate games where the idea of challenge is making everyone but you bulletsponges?

Yeah. Quantum Break is like that. It's a very fun game, mind you. I loved it. But I wouldn't have bothered with the hardest difficulty had I known what it was like. I don't care how advanced your technology is, no combat vest should withstand an entire assault rifle clip worth of bullets. And no combat helmet should hold more than one headshot. Oh, I'm talking about random mooks.

And don't get me started on the final boss... oh, does he take a lot of punishment to die? Nah. Just a couple of rounds. Literally.

Yes, really.

The kicker is he sends waves of those aforementioned mooks while occasionally attacking you with a one hit kill blast. And the only clue you have that it is coming is a red glow beneath your feet...
...which is all but invisible when your entire goddamn screen is flashing red from low health and the sound cue is muffled by the ongoing firefight. I lost count of how many times I died without even knowing how.

The rest of the game is fantastic, I might add again. If you think Alan Wake or any other Remedy games are underrated gems, this is their magnum opus so far.

 

I haven't been doing a lot of video games lately, so I suppose I'll do the "Saltiest Thing during this past week" which is rather mild.

So, I was bored one night and opened up my SNES emulator and looked down through the games, looking for something I've not played in a long time. That's when I saw Arcana at the top of the list and I was like "You know, as many times as I tinkered with that game, I have never seen the ending?"

So I start playing.

Well, one such play session went like this:

I was in Chapter 2 of the game, and there's this pass you go through which leads into a forest. I was derping around, I had most of the weapons and armor from the village, everything was going well, when I run into the boss in the middle of the Forest, which is the Cyclops. It is a fire-based enemy.

Well, I'm thinking.. "What to actually use on this thing?" Well obviously, MP gets saved for healing, and then Sylph's turn comes up and I look at her spell list. Now, in Arcana, Wind is weak against Fire for some weird reason. One of the spells in her list is called "Change Attr to Wind" and I'm like "Well, if I turned the boss into Wind, then he wouldn't kill my Sylph in two shots. OK, we'll do that."

......

......she turned my two human characters' attribute to Wind.

Cue a butt stomping and a heavy "Arrrrgh, I knew I should have saved state before the boss..." later.

I lost like... 30min of work, at least.

Well, the next time I played, I got through that, and then some... got to Chapter 3... I see a Battle Axe for 1,700 gold (I had like 6k gold on me). Bought it, and it has 2 less attack than the sword that costs 1,000 and I'm like ".....wtf?" I thought I saved it before I got there.. nope. My save was from the end of Chapter 2... blarrrgh. lol.

Some of these old games were fun, but they REALLY needed more UI feedback so you know what you're actually doing.

It just goes to show how far games have come nowadays. You don't see stuff like this in newer games, thankfully. At least not usually (some indie games are still just as obtuse).

 

That is pretty much the norm of the game industry now.

My experience with Tom Clancy's The Division has been alright. Though there are some parts of the game that is bullshit. I had to defend a certain spot for a while and a group of about 12 dudes came backed up by three tanky snipers. These snipers were a pain in the ass for me to deal with as they do a burst fire of three shots while each shot do a fuck ton of damage. I was close to getting rekt as the other enemies kept charging at me.

Another salty experience I have is with Grim Dawn. A certain skill got tweaked to do Line of Sight, however the LoS is pretty janky that a pebble is enough to protect monsters from getting hit by it. It wasn't fun playing around with the skill. Most of my early game had a lot of terrain issues and took me a couple of hours to adjust to its LoS.

 

I used to HATE this back when I played those kinds of games. You shoot at an enemy and it takes 5, 6, 7 bullets to kill something, but you die in 2-3 shots yourself and you two appear to be using the same kind of guns.

Fallout 3 and 4 were also guilty of similar. Every raider around could knock off a quarter or more of your life per shot, but then you lift your piddly little varmint rifle and despite you firing the exact same 10mm ammo as many other guns use, you barely do any damage whatsoever and need nearly 10 shots to kill one of them. I like how the 9mm pistol does more damage than a varmint rifle, despite the latter firing larger calibre ammo.

Though Fallout 3 wasn't quite as bad as FO4 was for actually trying to get started. My main beef with FO3 was how fast shotguns degraded. Seriously, 10 shots and you need to repair it. But I suppose it is better than FO4, where you can't get a shotgun until way later in the game unless you don't mind single-shot shotguns. Who uses single-shot shotguns these days? Those went out a long long long time ago. Like, 1900s long time ago.

 

I blame the way the game plays in FO3. If you used the VATS then you could hit them like 7 times before they managed to open fire.

 

Ummm... is this a good time to reveal that a double barreled sawed-off shotgun is the best weapon I own in FO4? And I have the Deliverer, Kellogg's Handgun and all assortments of weaponry.

Like, it is good enough to take out deathclaws without power armor. And I'm also including legendary, alphas and even savage deathclaws on that statement. It is also worth mentioning I'm playing on survival difficulty.
The thing about it is: sawing off the barrel means you'll absolutely need to get veery close and then use VATS. So no, it is not the be all end all gun I have (hence the aforementioned weapons and a sniper rifle I always carry around). HOWEVER, sawed off shotguns give massive critical damage, enough to cripple whatever I aimed the shot at if it doesn't outright kill the target. And the kicker: mine is a legendary weapon that doubles the critical damage yet again and charges the crit bar 15% times faster, so three or four well placed shots on VATS are enough to get a critical. Oh, and I didn't pick any luck perks. I think it is the lowest stat I have, so it's not even as damaging as it could be.

I can pretty much kill deathclaws in one VATS barrage without breaking a sweat, and the tougher ones gets their legs crippled (hint: ALWAYS cripple deathclaws' legs. They are helpless without their mobility. I carried that crossbow gun with leg crippling darts in FO3 just in case I ran into one of them).

 

Yeah, but FO3 didn't have the "All of my weapons suck and do no damage" that FONV did at the beginning. They at least gave you weapons you could start the game with and actually kill something with, and the starting weapons used ammo that wasn't that hard to find. But then I chalk that up to Obsidian wanting challenge or something stupid like that. In fact, the guy who developed the game released a mod that imposed absolutely ridiculous restrictions and said that's how he envisioned the game to be but couldn't do it that way.

I was looking at the list of things his mod did and I was just rolling my eyes. Basically, it makes the game nigh-impossible to get anywhere in.

You're talking about using a named weapon, with putting various stat points into the right stats and perks, something you can't do at the very beginning of the game. If you're Level 2 or Level 3 and you pick up a sawed off shotgun and you're still wearing vault clothes, I think the last thing you want to do is get within 3 feet of a raider who is also using a shotgun. Most likely, your body is going to hit the floor before his does unless you sneak up on him (which is not easy at the beginning of the game when your skills are still low). The whole point of what I said, was at the beginning of the game they give you weapons that are rather useless at the time. With a low guns skill, and no personal armor to speak of... single-shot shotguns are not very ideal. You get one shot, and then its time to hit the tab key and switch to another weapon.

Not that shotgun shells are very common at the very beginning of the game anyways.

 

I gave FO4 like 3 hours. Uninstalled after. I played FO3 and FONV for at least a few hundred.

 

Uh, when I said FO4 I meant NV. Sorry about that. Derp. I've never played FO4, though I'm curious: Why didn't you like it?

 

Yeah, I know the one. And he is the one who worked on Fallout 2, I think.

Gosh, I remember that game... You started out as a tribesman with nothing but spears and knives, and guess what? Next place you visit, eeeeveryone's packing heat.
It really made you feel like a savage in modern times.

Oh, and I always use sawed-off shotguns. As soon as I can get them. Both in Fallout 4 and New Vegas, which is what you were actually referring to.

Well, now that I know you were talking about New Vegas, it made more sense. They don't have all that stuff I was talking about. Sorry about the confusion.
Anyway, in New Vegas I used a regular sawed-off shotgun. I found it better there than in FO3, where it did piddling damage. But still, it wasn't easy and it wasn't the only gun I used so there you go...