Most FRUSTRATING RPG moment (Thread 1 of 2)

**CrackerRiley** · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 3085

my most frustrating RPG moment(s) have to be when i learned that i had to face seymour in FFX not just once, but many times. damn that was frustrating because it took me so long to beat him. then im just going along happily and all of the sudden, there he is again!

**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

**Alakaiser** · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4154 Location: Cambridge, MA

Haha I played through Pokemon Gold and had the same exact problem in that game. XD

**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

**Armageddon** · Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 3006 Location: Durham, NH

Yunalesca, from FFX, was the one that caught me off guard the first time I played. I was amazed I had to fight her because of her place in the story line, and I fought and killed her 1st form. I thought I was done, so I put down the controller to watch the ensuing cutscene. She morphed into her 2nd form, and that was tough. My guys were talking a beating, most of my aeons were dead, but I prevailed. "Phew, that was tough, glad it's over" I said, and put down the controller to watch the cutscene I so rightfully deserved. But the game had other plans. She morphs into her 3rd form, and insta-kills my entire party. NOOOOOOOOO! That totally pissed me off, because I didn't bother saving after the former boss, because I didn't expect another boss. 2 failures in 1.
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**CrackerRiley** · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 3085

**QuistixXx** · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 89

**tommy2000** · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

**bcruise** · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 286 Location: Waynesville, MO

First time caller here (heard about the site from watching those incredible Youtube videos)

I've had too many of these to count, so I'll just go with the most recent one....

Valkyrie Profile II. Dunno how many of you have played it, but there's a way to manipulate enemies' stats and elemental properties through what are called Sealstones. Using them correctly is actually very important to getting through some of the tough parts, but when used wrong they can absolutely doom you completely.

In chapter 3, I'm going through this mine and I run across a sealstone called Brimstone Law, which in it's description says "Turn to fire". All throughout this mine, I've been running into Wasp Nests which have an elemental weakness against Fire. So I start thinking if they get the effect from this stone, I'll have a much easier time beating them (you can't attack them physically, gotta use magic).

So I activate this stone and go on my merry way, right up to the boss fight. As soon as I get in and cast my first spell, I realize my terrible mistake - "Turn to Fire" meant literally to turn the enemy's element to Fire, not make them weaker against it. To make matters worse, guess what the only magic spell I had in battle was? Yup, Fire. I could not kill the Wasps at all, because I couldn't attack them physically, and my fire spell only healed them. So I just ran up to the boss and let him wipe me out (which he did in very short order).

This system can have some major growing pains attached to it.

**manicmonkey** · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject:

i stayed over at my friends house overnight and we continued our old FF7 file and tried to beat it. We were up all night playing it non stop, and then my friend fell asleep. i stayed up playing it to level up and all, and then my friend stretches out his legs, and his toe hits the reset button while i was saving. then it corrupted, throwing 60 hours of our lives down the drain. Then my friend woke up in the morning and i told him what happened and he flipped out like mad! we were so frustrated....

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**NetStormer** · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Swift Current, SK

Not so much frustrating, as annoying... but stat maxing in FFX with the sphere grid... this is the definition of monotony!!! killing the same monsters over and over (about 32 for each stat and i think 200+ for HP and another 25 for MP)

Uhm... frustrating RPG moments... In Mt Nibel on FF7, I could not figure out how to start the boss fight with the Materia Keeper... I wandered around there for lord knows about 3-4 hours, and then I finally figured out that you have to "talk" to the thing (Press O while up against it). Then the killing ensues!
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**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

That reminds me! I remember this one part in Granstream Saga for PSX where I was in this dungeon and I got to near the end of it and reached a part where there is a "Moonstone" sitting there. So I clicked the X button and the dialogue box prompts something to the effect of "Take the moonstone?" So of course I click "Yes" but nothing happens, so I proceed to walk around the dungeon for the next 5 hours going out of my mind trying to figure out what to do (this was before the days internet was really really popular)...finally I go back up to the stone, and click "No" this time out of frustration. Then, a secret door opens and lets me continue. I wanted to scream.
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**Frostilicus** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 112 Location: Boston

I'll go with two, both SNES moments....

One, FF6 (aka FF3 US). Did anyone else ever get the weird sketch glitch to happen? I triggered it without knowing what was going on and thought that I was going crazy. Just when I first got Relm in the World of Light...and yet I suddenly had 0 (aka, 255) Illumina, 0 Gladius, 0 Wonder Shoes...etc. etc. CRAAAZY stuff. now that's a boon, but there were graphical errors, and weird things happening. I had no idea what was going on - just started over.

Second - Lufia 2. Kind of crappy game, but with one innovation I LOVED - the Ancient Cave. Since most of you have probably not played this....in the Ancient Cave, every time you entered you were reduced to level 1 and had nothing. There were 50 floors, each with progressively more difficult monsters. Everything was randomized - what you found there, what treasures there were...and on certain levels you would find special chests which had powerful items that you could keep when you came back to the Ancient cave. Basically you had to make tons of trips through it to collect enough equipment to get down to the lower floors, adn even then you ahd to get lucky in terms of what spells you found on the way in order to have an even fighting chance. Dying at one of the last floors to some impossibly tough monsters...after all of the hours of working and trying to get lucky on getting one last weapon for the one guy who needed a good one....I damn near ripped see the SNES apart.