[Caniad Bach]

Infiniti, on 12 February 2012 - 07:00 AM, said:

Labyrinth Act 3.

To this day I can't stand that fucking waterfall. I keep playing Sonic 1 on my iPod on the Tube and it makes me rage every time.

Also bubble generators in Labyrinth Zone, I swear I run around them, jump on them, stand by them for ages and nothing happens, leading to not only my inevitable demise, but also the far worse fate of hearing the countdown music which has haunted my dreams since I first played Chemical Plant Zone 2.

[flarn2006]

Surprised nobody's mentioned this yet.



It's not that it always killed me or anything like that. It's pretty easy to avoid, and I knew to hide in the shadows even then. It only kept me stuck on that level because every time I ran into it it scared the shit out of me! Not anymore though.

This post has been edited by flarn2006: 14 February 2012 - 10:51 PM

[MrBadger]

Ranger, on 22 November 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:

THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE
I've had a Game Gear and Sonic 2 for it ever since I was five years old. To this day I have not beaten this boss.

God I hate that thing, I still haven't killed it either and I've had Sonic 2 GG for years. Raged so hard as a kid, came back to it a few years ago and STILL I couldn't beat it
Anyway Sonic 3 was my first and I used to hate just about...everything about Carnival Night and the rising floor in Marble Garden...getting to Icecap has to be one of the biggest breaths of fresh air I ever had
And finally those asterons in Metropolis, like when you're on one of those corkscrews, nearly at the top, one explodes before you have time to react knocking you all the way to the bottom and the corkscrew doesn't respawn until you go all the way to the left of the screen then all the way back again

[Burnt Ash]

Sonic's had several things that made me rage. Final Fortress, Crazy Gadget, Black Doom, Aquatic Base, Egg Golem, etcetera. But the things that made me rage the most? That would undoubtedly be the Biolizard and Lancelot Returns from SA2 and SatBK. Now, Biolizard isn't that difficult as a fight once you start to get a hang of it. That is, when you finish the boss. As a kid, with a low tolerance level, the Biolizard made me rage like mad. The purple orb thingies were difficult for me to dodge, and those red egg stuff were a pain to homing attack, the music was awesome though. I got so many game overs just from fighting that one boss, but this boss was at least fun compared to the Tails vs. Eggman Round two, which was just...frustrating, to say the least. Eventually I did beat the Biolizard and proceeded on to the Final Hazard, which shocked me as the fight was so easy. I love the Biolizard now though, I've gotten pretty good at fighting that boss.

As for Lancelot Returns, the only reason I did this boss was to unlock Silver (Galahad) for the multiplayer. Lancelot Round 1 was extremely easy, Gawain was extremely easy, Percival was a bit more difficult, but Lancelot Returns...talk about a difficult spike! Several deaths were caused by his Chaos Blast and that damn sword QTE. Sent me raging in my mind for a long time, that boss. To be honest, I still don't know how I beat that boss...if I go back and try it again, I just get owned by him again. Of course, I could also blame that on my neglecting of the guard method. :P

[The Growler]

I cannot count THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I FELL OFF the edges trying to beat this boss!
I know it's pretty straight forward: hit Robotnik, dodge ball while jumping to the other side, hit him again. I used to do it easier when I used to play it over and over when I was little, but now that I'm out of practice, boy is it a lot harder than I remember!

But for crying out loud when I skid off the edge and die, ARGH!

This post has been edited by The Growler: 20 February 2012 - 06:07 PM

[Blue Wisp]

Hm... Labyrinth Zone, everything of it. (Do I need to explain?). Big Arms in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (At first, then I learned how to beat him). Tails in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (God damn it Tails, stop stealing my ride in Hill Top Zone). Big the Cat's Level A challenges in Sonic Adventure (Yes, I actually did them ).


That's pretty much I-
...


THIS... LITTLE...

I went too fast and I always got stuck there. Damned Mystic Cave Zone

[Burnt Ash]

Ah, Labyrinth Zone. Haven't touched Sonic 1 since encountering its boss. It's probably just me not being good at Sonic 1, but boy did that boss give me frustration. Eggman moves pretty quickly, I move to slow in water (not a fault really, this just adds to the difficulty in a way that isn't cheat), and those arrows are mean . If there's one good thing I'll say about Sonic 4 Episode I, it's the way they handled the Lost Labyrinth Zone boss.

[Aerobian-Angel]

I could pretty much count multiple occasions from each game, so I'll just stick with the worst from the canons (by Sonic Generations' logic).

SONIC 1 (Gen.)
- bypassing the Special Stage Ring

SONIC 2 (Gen.)
- Metropolis Zone's badniks (the level itself was alright)

Sonic 3 (& Knuckles)
- Big Arm's ability to harm Super/Hyper Sonic
- Hyper Emerald Special Stages

Sonic Adventure
- GRAB THE BAIT, FROGGY

Sonic Adventure 2
- Artificial Chaos

Sonic Heroes
- 75% of Team Chaotix's missions

Sonic '06
- FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Sonic Unleashed (Xbox)
- Eggmanland S-Rank

Sonic Colors (Wii)
- Aquarium Park's Hermit-Crab thing

Sonic Generations (console)
- Time Eater's lack of sense

[Friend of Sonic]

Plenty of things listed here have made me rage. But as of tonight, Mission 53 on Sonic Adventure DX. My god what a piece of shit.

[Yash]

Blue Wisp, on 20 February 2012 - 07:44 PM, said:

Hm... Labyrinth Zone, everything of it. (Do I need to explain?). Big Arms in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (At first, then I learned how to beat him). Tails in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (God damn it Tails, stop stealing my ride in Hill Top Zone). Big the Cat's Level A challenges in Sonic Adventure (Yes, I actually did them ).


That's pretty much I-
...


THIS... LITTLE...

I went too fast and I always got stuck there. Damned Mystic Cave Zone

Aww yeah, I remember getting stuck down there as Super Sonic and having to run out the ring meter. Bunch of bullshit, mang. Getting down there as Tails was worse since he was supposed to be able to, you know, fly.

Robotnik's speed traps and the barrel in Sonic 3 always pissed me off too.

[Burnt Ash]

Oh, Aerobian-Angel listed another thing that made me rage. Sonic Unleashed on the Xbox 360...is possibly the most difficult Sonic game ever made, and Eggmanland is the final proof of that. And this time, the difficulty is almost fair, unlike the likes of Sonic 2006. The almost part refers to the fact that the Werehog, for whatever reason, has no shadow, making those pipe walking sections a bitch to handle. Everything else was difficult, in a fair way, and that's why I love it. It isn't like Crisis City or Aquatic Base in Sonic 2006 for being absurdly cheap, Eggmanland is, for the most part, legitimately difficult, with some abundant platforming. Several things in Eggmanland, such as fighting three titans at once, the fan room, and never ending, respawning enemies were some of the few reasons as to why I found Eggmanland, not just difficult, but to make me rage at the same time. Now recently, I've been trying to 100% Unleashed, and unfortunately for me, that includes the hotdog missions, even the ones for Eggmanland. The time limit is great, I can finish the level (with deaths) pretty quickly. The problem I have at the moment, is that whenever you die, you restart all over again. Which would really suck if you just died at the three titans part. So far, Eggmanland's hot dog vendor seems to be having a rather splendid time laughing at me.

[ToxicAtom]

http://info.sonicretro.org/Egg_King

^I'm surprised this never came up. I would sit there, screaming at my ds lite "DAMN SHRIMP-GUNDAM-THING!" How dare sonic team make a boss that causes the game to lag. In hindsight, I'm one of those stubborn people who find the notion of "easy mode" moot, therefore, I can't say I couldn't beat that.

also, there's the usual "chemical plant, labyrinth zone, tidal tempest, etc." that are infamous for emotionally scarring children, and some other misc. things people already mentioned. However, I didn't really have a problem with the barrel, but that doesn't mean I knew the right technique off-the-bat. for about 5 years I thought you had to use carefully timed jumps to make it work, and it did, until I found out the real way to do it.

[Jayextee]

It's weird seeing things like Sonic Generations mentioned in a topic called 'Things that made you rages as a kid'. This means I can't actually list anything that came out more recently than Sonic and Knuckles.

But if I could, Altitude Limit in Sonic Rush would qualify more than any other part of the series, I think. However, I loved Rush.

[Ell678]

Even though I was probably about 12 when I played them, the last couple of Knuckles / Rouge levels in SA2. I still to this day hate looking for things in games, and I think this is why. I remember quitting several times out of frustration when I hit the 30+ minute mark. They were basically the single things that ruined SA2 for me.

But more recently and specific? Fucking Aquatic Mine. Fuck that level.

[Quarterman]

Oh, god. Aquatic Mine pissed me off so much.