Not all video games are a pleasure to play.
While most think of games as a competitive, relaxing or enchanting means of escape from
reality, some video games make it harder to just enjoy your gaming down time.
That's because they're difficult AF, they seem simple but prove to be excessively complicated,
or, they're just flat out infuriating thanks to annoying game mechanics.
Yet we can't stop playing them!
So today, rather than mulling over what on earth is wrong with us all, we're counting
down the games we love to hate with our list of the top 10 most frustrating games!
Let's jump in.
10 Battletoads Let's start off our list with a game that
has a brand new installment- Battletoads!
The original battletoads is notorious for being difficult.
Released back in 1991, it's a beat em up game starring three anthropomorphic toads that
was created in response to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It's highly considered one of the hardest games ever to be released on the NES, with
many believing that completing the game is only achievable when playing co-op.
But thanks to a fun little mechanic in which co op players can damage one another, you
can't get too close to your partner or else suffer from unfortunate consequences, which
is hard to do when you're moving so darn fast.
And don't even get us started on the Turbo Tunnel mission.
No thank you.
9 DOTA 2 Many gamers feel as if the DOTA community
is one of the most critical online gaming communities, with small mistakes never taken
lightly, regardless of whether or not you're new to the game.
Luckily, this frustration tends to cease if you manage to get beyond the new player blues.
But if you're a casual player, some feel that the toxic behaviour of some other players
can make the game next to impossible to actually enjoy.
Some players even think that it's a game not designed for casual play, since the initial
learning curve is quite steep.
Thick skin is essential for this one, friends.
Or like, people could stop being so damn toxic online.
But that's just wishful thinking.
8 The Impossible Game This game is LITERALLY CALLED the impossible
game.
And it's minimal AF.
A 2D platformer, you play as a square that must jump over spikes.
You can jump on top of other squares, but if you fall off of them into little pits or
hit a spike, you'll die.
There's also no checkpoints.
So you're going up against an never ending conveyor belt of danger with no other defenses
than quick reflexes and swift thinking.
If that still doesn't sell you on the idea of it being frustrating, just watch someone
play it.
Or give it a go yourself and see how long you last.
7 QWOP At first attempt, QWOP seems like a hilarious
little game, but oh boy friends, does that escalate real damn quick into swearing at
your screen and pulling out your hair. (for some).
Essentially, you play as a track star who you control with four keys - Q, W, O and P,
of course.
Here's where it gets real fun - the Q and W keys control your right and left thighs
while the O and P keys are your right and left calves.
The goal here is to sprint but even trying to successfully get into little tiny lunges
is a real challenge.
You're also technically doing a long jump challenge, so at the end, you need to jump,
and guess how damn difficult that is.
6 Hotline Miami Hotline Miami is a ridiculously fun game that
can at times be oh so frustrating.
How so?
Because in order to be really successful, you need to combine precision and speed when
executing your attacks against your foes in the game, otherwise you'll find yourself getting
killed more times than not.
It's the kind of game where a single enemy can take you out if you're not careful.
Luckily, the retro style and dope music help make getting killed and having to restart
a little bit easier to digest.
5 Sonic 06 It's not just difficult games that land on
our list, friends.
Games that are incredibly poorly made and have a devoted loyal fan base definitely count
as frustrating too!
And Sonic the Hedgehog, also known as Sonic 06 is by far one of the most frustrating games
to play for that reason exactly.
It's got a sh*t narrative, its level design is awful, it's glitchy as hell, and don't
even get us started on the camera.
Oh and then there's that cringey Sonic makes out with a human girl moment.
It's bad, dude.
So now imagine that you're a sonic fan - or hey, better yet if you are - and try to imagine
playing a game that you're SO DARN EXCITED TO PLAY and it's just absolutely garbage and
almost impossible to make your way through the levels because of how badly it's been
put together.
So many deep feelings of disappointment, friends.
Now that's true frustration, because no matter what YOU do, there's nothing that can be done
to make it better.
At least with the difficult games on our list, you can just, you know, play better eventually
and beat them.
Can't do sh*t about Sonic 06.
4 I Wanna Be the Guy To any of you who watch PewDiePie's let's
plays, you might find this title familiar - it's called I Wanna Be the Guy, an indie
freeware game that came out in 2007.
You control a character called the Kid in this platformer that is a pastiche of other
well known platform titles from the NES, including the Legend of Zelda, Tetris, Ghosts n Goblins,
Castlevania, Mega Man and Metroid, to name a few.
The whole goal of the game is that the kid wants to become the guy, a plot that you're
informed off right off the top of the game in broken English as a parody of the bad Japanese
translations found in early NES games.
While that may sound awesome, here's the rub- the landscape is engineered to specifically
kill you, and includes a ton of less obvious or flat out unpredictable threats that are
all but impossible to avoid unless you know it's coming (aka, you've died trying before,
trial and error fun times friends).
The Kid always dies with a single hit as well, exploding into a pool of blood, and throwing
up the words GAME OVER onto your screen.
There's multiple levels of difficulty, with impossible being the toughest of the tough.
3 Flappy Bird Remember Flappy Bird?
That mobile phone game that for like, two months, everyone was obsessed with?
For starters, it's a super simple concept - you direct a little bird from hitting pipe
obstacles by tapping on your screen.
Yet something that simple became oh so frustrasting, and millions of people struggled to get a
relatively not embarrassing high score.
The game was then famously taken down from app stores and thus began the ridiculous internet
reactions - people have made quite the pretty penny selling their smart phone with Flappy
Bird installed on it.
A bunch of carbon copies have even come out using pretty much the same game mechanics,
diluting the trend.
RIP Flappy Bird.
Can't say you're gonna be missed.
2 Contra Contra is the OG frustrating video game.
Notoriously hard, it came out in 1987, published by Konami, initially as a coin operated arcade
game.
But in 1988 it was ported to the NES, where it gained even more popularity, and was considered
the standard by which future platform shooters were judged.
It has been voted as one of the most difficult games to beat.
Why?
Multiple reasons - the levels constantly fluctuate in perspective.
You have no armour, and no life regeneration, and no cover.
Plus, the tiniest of mistakes means you can easily end up dead.
It's also the reason why the Konami Code is famous - it's a cheat code in which if you
press a specific sequence of buttons on your controller, cheats are enabled.
While the code was created for the NES 1986 game Gradius, it was popularized in Contra
since many a player felt the code was a necessity in order to survive in the game (it gave you
additional lives rather than just the 3 you started out with.)
1 Dark Souls There's a reason why so many people believe
that Dark Souls is the most difficult video game series to play.
And yes, we're putting the whole darn series on our list at this number.
Regardless of whether or not you're of that opinion, the Dark Souls series is by far one
of the most tedious games, if not rewarding because of it.
Dark Souls can be unforgiving; some saying playing it makes you a masochist.
Why?
The regular enemies you come across are all incredibly powerful.
There's random traps.
The bosses are tough.
Items that heal you are limited.
And you die often, meaning there's lots and lots of repetition.
Those who love the game speak highly of the kinds of determination, practice and strategy
that goes into mastering a game like Dark Souls.
And for some who just want to go around and slay a bunch of fantastical creatures, Dark
Souls just ain't for them.
It's a different kind of beast friends.
Some feel that the first Dark Souls is by far the most difficult and therefore most
frustrating, but many a player feels that that title should go to Dark Souls 2.
Dark Souls fans, what do you all think?
Alright there we have it friends!
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