I'm going to be cheeky and mention a PS2 game: Virtua Fighter 4. If you lost to the final boss - the game ends and you have to restart all over again, no second chances!!!
same of VF5 on the 360 as well.
Also, Shinobi (arcade) can totally fuck off for not allowing you to use credits for the entire last level (which includes 3 sub-levels which are unreasonable levels of difficult). the last boss is unbeatable by humans as well.
anyway, Speccy.... Bugaboo. Death is usually unavoidable and is always unbelievably annoying.
Don't know if this counts but the Robocop demo (released with Crash) had a terrible sound effect if you died. As the red blood descended down the screen, your Speccy would make this horrible screeching noise. Try it - scared the life out of me the first time I played it.
Fortunately they lost the sound effect when they released the full game.
same of VF5 on the 360 as well.
Also, Shinobi (arcade) can totally fuck off for not allowing you to use credits for the entire last level (which includes 3 sub-levels which are unreasonable levels of difficult). the last boss is unbeatable by humans as well.
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The very worst arcade boss that I know of is the laughably difficult end-of-game bastard from Vigilante. What a joke he was.
Also, Shinobi (arcade) can totally fuck off for not allowing you to use credits for the entire last level (which includes 3 sub-levels which are unreasonable levels of difficult). the last boss is unbeatable by humans as well.
And for the very same reason, the arcade version of Taito's Rastan can also fuck off.
And don't even get me started on the ludicrously difficult Haunted Castle (arcade Castlevania game by Konami) which is not only insanely hard, but also limits you to only being able to continue 3 times, after which point you have to start all over again from Stage 1 no matter how much money you pumped into it. :evil:
Arcade machines = cheating, coin gobbling bastards. No wonder they died out.
Creepy I was going to write this in yesterday, but I decided against it, but you're pretty much bang on with what I was going to write. Freaky thing is the "like, duh!" bit, admittedly mine was going to say "Well duh!", but the bit about decapitation and stuff.
I may sound confusing but I know what I mean
Yes, my greatness is starting to rub off on you, that's what it is :wink:
The very worst arcade boss that I know of is the laughably difficult end-of-game bastard from Vigilante. What a joke he was.
ah yes, the old "let's give the final boss a machine gun to mow you down and eat your credits" trick. So popular in arcade games.
The worst thing was in Vendetta once you had beaten the final boss there was a bonus level where you had to fight all the end of level bosses again two at a time!
I like the Resident Evil games, and some of the death scenes are pretty good, but I've always thought it was just a bit unnecessary to have a huge 'YOU DIED!' message appear. Like, duh! :p That would certainly explain why my character is no longer able to continue after being decapitated or eaten then. :wink:
Y'know.....if we ever do get a massive Zombie invasion, and I get munched upon by a zombie...I'll be really disappointed if big letters don't flash up saying "YOU DIED!"
Oh! And for lovers of all things zombie, or Big Brother, check out a post I'm going to make on the chit chat thread in a minute about something that could be interesting...
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same of VF5 on the 360 as well.
Also, Shinobi (arcade) can totally fuck off for not allowing you to use credits for the entire last level (which includes 3 sub-levels which are unreasonable levels of difficult). the last boss is unbeatable by humans as well.
anyway, Speccy.... Bugaboo. Death is usually unavoidable and is always unbelievably annoying.
Fortunately they lost the sound effect when they released the full game.
The very worst arcade boss that I know of is the laughably difficult end-of-game bastard from Vigilante. What a joke he was.
a man walked into a bar, ouch he said.........oh, not that sort of joke
And for the very same reason, the arcade version of Taito's Rastan can also fuck off.
And don't even get me started on the ludicrously difficult Haunted Castle (arcade Castlevania game by Konami) which is not only insanely hard, but also limits you to only being able to continue 3 times, after which point you have to start all over again from Stage 1 no matter how much money you pumped into it. :evil:
Arcade machines = cheating, coin gobbling bastards. No wonder they died out.
Yes, my greatness is starting to rub off on you, that's what it is :wink:
ah yes, the old "let's give the final boss a machine gun to mow you down and eat your credits" trick. So popular in arcade games.
The worst thing was in Vendetta once you had beaten the final boss there was a bonus level where you had to fight all the end of level bosses again two at a time!
But what about Chuckie Egg? I used to run a bath while that death tune was playing.
:lol: Surprised I forgot about that one, yeah that was truly awful considering that the actual game itself is brilliant.
Y'know.....if we ever do get a massive Zombie invasion, and I get munched upon by a zombie...I'll be really disappointed if big letters don't flash up saying "YOU DIED!"
Oh! And for lovers of all things zombie, or Big Brother, check out a post I'm going to make on the chit chat thread in a minute about something that could be interesting...