the cyborg midwives on SS2
Tomb of the Giants on Dark Souls
barbarian invasions on Rome Total War
the last mission on WC3
anything involving spiders
Demogorgon on Baldur's Gate 2
ANY escort mission
the first fight with Nemesis on RE3
Touhou
Clock Tower

- Quickly tap E to avoid.....

- Nope.

You know gamepads for PC have been a thing since the early '90s (if not earlier). Were they required? Nope. Did they make certain games play better? Abso-freaking-lutely! Same thing these days. [I also wouldn't be caught dead playing flight/combat sims without a proper stick.] While, yes, there are some games that just don't play well with keyboard only controls - although I played the aforementioned Dead Space and Fahrenheit just fine that way - playing those that actually support gamepads can provide one with an infinite better experience.

Pretty much any platformer these days I won't even bother playing with keyboard because it just feels clunky in comparison to playing with a pad, even if I just end up mapping actual keyboard controls to my pad's buttons.

Funny, I'm playing D2 right now and in all the years the only monster I thought needed to be stripped from the game was a specialty monster in the form of a swarm that had "life stealing" properties. I'd hit it and then it would hit me taking back what I just took from it. Oh it never killed me but 30 minutes later we were still beating the hell out of each other with no loss on either side to show for it. I ended up just running away.

For me it was a leader (Hell Difficulty) in a cave that was both Ghostly and Immune to Physical. Was the day I stopped playing with my lvl 71 Barbarian :P

For me it was a friend explaining that every build was wrong except these few ones that had been carefully pre-charted and pre-calculated for the whole course of the game, as improvisation would lead to assured endgame defeat.

Not the way I intend to play my games, nope.

Telika my friend, you seem particularly impassioned by this topic. Are you okay? :P

Nope.

You had to battle a group of soccer fans??? :p

This x 1000. It's empty but you feel as though something is there. I never liked it

Now that we are talking about diablo II. Seeing burning souls = save and quit for me.

Also when you are playing a online game and you end up with ragers, jerks, cheaters, ...

rong44 with the soccer diss! +1 :D

I remember that one. I literally waster over 2 weeks before finding out how to do it.

BTW, I also remember OP chrysalids story. Even now I fear them. Even more in X-Com: EU.

I don't know if this is a "Nope" moment, but I remember playing Farcry in the 2nd hardest difficulty level. It was a challenge and with a lot of restores but I finally made it to the last chapter... until I opened the door for that freaking volcano.

I think I restored more times there than in my entire campaign. I really hated having to cheat in the end to be able to see the end Boss who, BTW, was a piece of cake. The challenge was surviving that volcano. Years later I read a walkthrough on how to do it without cheating and I managed to do it, but had I know I would have to cheat in the end, I would have done it from the beginning.