6) Nearly Beating Dragonforce – Guitar Hero 3
As the ultimate party game, it’s difficult to imagine a social, carefree experience like Guitar Hero leading players to too much devastation, but sadly, the case is that its challenge can be enough to cause the game’s plastic guitars to be smashed in true Pete Townshend style.
In Guitar Hero 3, for example, players were offered the challenge of taking on the absurdly difficult guitar track for Dragonforce’s “Through The Fire & Flames”. The track runs in at almost eight minutes long, and even on the most generous difficulty setting it can be gruelling to get through.
The soul-destroying sensation of managing to guide cramping fingers through the majority of its notes only to fail at the final hurdles will be the stuff of nightmares for many a gamer, and is certainly one of gaming’s harshest experiences.
5) Defeating A Shiny Pokemon – Pokemon
While losing to the champion is a disappointment for any aspiring Pokemon Master, this emotion is easily eclipsed by the absolute devastation players will feel after foolishly defeating a shiny Pokemon in the wild.
There may be some reading this who didn’t even know shiny variants existed in the games, which speaks to the sheer rarity of such encounters. The chances of bumping into a shiny Pokemon game is calculated to be 1 in 8192, leading to fits of joy amongst trainers once they do find one.
Consider, then, the almighty fall from the euphoria of seeing a shiny to the sinking pit of despair seeing the chance slip away and the colourful little bugger disappear for good.