"I give up!"

Haha, this exact same thing happened to me too! And I was playing in the "sims based on me and my real life friends" style, so it really did happen to me. I felt hideously betrayed.

Anyway, I engineered an "accident", and killed her.

Fortunately, only my main Sim is me, and this is just a girl from the neighbourhood. Still, it's a bit close to the bone. I can imagine this happening in real life too.

Of course, if you don't mind the flashing baddies you could get the NES one which would probably save a lot of bother. There are tons of NES emulators here, and I'll post the rom in the YSI thread if you have trouble finding it.

No One Lives Forever: I can't remember the specific mission but there's a point where the difficulty level jumps from "fun" to "OMFG what the hell??????????"

Deus Ex: The training mission. Never have I been more disappointed in a game's interface.

Max Payne: Also the training mission. The last time I was this disappointed in a game's interface was Deus Ex.

A friend of mine never finished the mission on Vice where you rescue Lance, which I did first time. I went over his to show him how to do it, and spent all night trying. We still haven't beaten it.

i remember that, it was basically that you-have-30-mins starcraft level rehashed. Just build like 9000 ziggurats.

I'm trying to think of my own examples of quitting full stop like this and failing, unfortunately, even though this was a pretty common phenomenon for me playing as a kid in the days pre-Prima and GameFAQs. Some of the NES games in my possession I didn't beat until I went back to them much later on, but I can't think of why I stopped playing them/where I got stuck specifically (except in the case of Deadly Towers, which I gave up on early in just because it was totally crap). Oh wait, I remember my FIRST "I give up" moment ever, actually, the first (and last, for twenty years) time I played Dragon's Lair in the arcade. I played through it until I reached one of Dirk the Daring's more gruesome death sequences and I got so spooked as a result that I let the kid behind me in line take over my game!

gran turismo 2, didn't even get as far as the third contest even though i pwned GT1 completely.

Tron 2.i was really enjoying this one until there was a level where you rise up in a cylindrical elevator with no weapon only to have to fight hoards of enemies and get killed pretty much straight away. i de-installed the game in a great rage.

You have inspiried me to go back and play this game for the first time in 18 months.

And this made you wanna give UP on the Sims?!?! Dude that sort of crazy shit is the best thing about the game :D The horny little fuckers. I keep ending up with lesbian sims all the time, I swear Im not forcing it on them and they just gravitate towards teh gurels.

The end of it was just Indy standing on top of the Ark while the Atari graphics did its wavy "rainbow" effect.

It was so not worth it. Horrible, horrible game.

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Thanks for the tip, bye bye cheating girlfriend!

When the Sim with my name gets old and dies (or I get bored with him), I'm going to make a family called the Aristocrats and leave them to have whatever kind of sex festival they want.

hell, i'm trying to remember all the games that you COULD beat, instead of never-ending repetition. Adventure was one.

Did she piss next to the painting before you fried her?

Yep.

It went through the wall, somehow.

In a delightful turn of events since my namesake Sim killed his girlfriend, he is now having "intimate relations" with another man!

Ah, these things happen.

Currently given up on C&C Red Alert 2. Not so much frustration as total boredom (it was on sale in Game, I couldn't resist!).

(xpost) GTA flight school, totally OTM. Nearly resulted in foot through screen.

Dan I think it is obvious that you need to be seen in public trying to get the attention of a software dachshund by talking into the microphone of this:
http://www.famitsu.com/topics/2004/05/12/601_26130_ds_pink_200.jpg

The fact that if you messed up enough times they'd let you skip it was nice. But somewhere during the Apu level I just got tired of missions that came in several parts where if you failed on the third part you had to do the first two parts again... and again... It just got tedious.

I was really enjoying the game up until then, too. Oh well.

Now I realise that there is an option just to have 'blips' only on the radar. doh!

I think it would be much better if I had a DS with razor blades on it.

there's your problem. go for San Fierro, instead.

there's your problem. go for San Fierro, instead.

No, no, no. You gotta go to that town north of San Fierro, where Barbara lives.

I would always pause the game, walk up to the television screen, memorize where the blue dots were on the map, sit back down, and resume playing.

I'm still not going back to that evil game. I'm just going to study and ignore the one eyed demon at the end of my room taunting me, offering me flashy fun and noise. Damn you Mad Dogg and your huge house of death!

Operation Stealth (aka James Bond: A Stealth Affair). show me someone who finished that game without a walkthrough, and i'll show you a liar.

I got passed the water level on TMNT on the NES recently and was over the moon, til I ended up wandering round in circles about 30mins later with seemingly no-where to go. I'll pick it up in 10more years time.