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Section of a game that felt impossible and made you quit playing a game entirely?
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StormCell
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I feel a bit of shame for this, but I'm going to share. So I learned something about myself while playing Metroid Prime, which I really enjoyed that game a lot. I learned that I detest boss fights that involve any sort of lackeys or waves of support. I actually quit the game because of the Omega Pirate boss fight. The waves of pirates really got on my nerves, and I find the whole concept of distractions in a boss fight to be just intolerable. To me, if a boss is really all that special, then let it face me 1-on-1 rather than trying to overwhelm me with tons of distractions.
I've since come to recognize that these types of challenges in games really aren't my thing. I'll bear through most of them, but they're not fun for me. Either give me waves of whatever or give me a boss to fight, but do not do both at once, please.
I've since come to recognize that these types of challenges in games really aren't my thing. I'll bear through most of them, but they're not fun for me. Either give me waves of whatever or give me a boss to fight, but do not do both at once, please.
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Flapples
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Was doing a Halo: CE legendary playthrough once and there was this long ass corridor with a couple of elites that died instantly and at the other end were a couple flood with rocket launchers, i tried it like 20 times and eventually gave up, i still dont know how it is even possible to get passed that without a friend.
please tell me someone else knows what part im talking about
please tell me someone else knows what part im talking about
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Heebie Jeebies
Banned
I'm up to the final boss in Thumper and it's just way too fast, it's a sensory overload that my mind and my reactions can't keep up with. Anyone who has completed every level on perfect is a god in my eyes.
JareBear: Remastered
Banned
I was playing GoW 3 Remastered (I had played and completed the game last gen already) and got to the part where youre on the lift going up and you keep dealing with waves of enemies. I don't remember struggling much when I played game last gen but this time around I just kept dying. Kept dying no matter what. Got tilted and just uninstalled.
Edit, nevermind, wrong boss
Edit, nevermind, wrong boss
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SpinkyMinky
Member
Not a section of the game per se, but in the Syndicate remake I got an auto-save going into a room full of enemies with almost no ammo. When I died, it respawned me with the same ammo. No amount of re-loading gave me a fighting chance. So I was done with that.
And as a very, very young kid with a new Commodore 64, I couldn't even fly any of the planes out of the hangar in Raid Over Moscow. So I never got further that the opening screen.
And as a very, very young kid with a new Commodore 64, I couldn't even fly any of the planes out of the hangar in Raid Over Moscow. So I never got further that the opening screen.
TacosNSalsa
Member
Final Fantasy 6 the final dungeon. You had to split your team up and of course there were characters I never played as voluntarily so they were hilariously underpowered. Makes me wanna pick it up on pc to finally get through it
cr0w
Old Member
Everything after the fucking electric seaweed section in TMNT for the NES. I couldn't figure out where to go in the fucking van, and I haven't touched it again to this day.
After getting dropped into the jungle in Rambo for the NES, I just couldn't figure anything out either. That game drove me up a fucking wall.
The Adventure of Link after Horsehead. Again, just too obtuse for my young brain.
The ascent up the final tower in Rygar, again for the NES. I got stuck and unable to get past one of those weird snail things and gave up.
In more modern times, I got up to Marbus in the first Xbox Ninja Gaiden and had to put it down for a long time before I could play it again. I beat it eventually. In DS, Ornstein and Smough gave me fits for 5 days straight.
After getting dropped into the jungle in Rambo for the NES, I just couldn't figure anything out either. That game drove me up a fucking wall.
The Adventure of Link after Horsehead. Again, just too obtuse for my young brain.
The ascent up the final tower in Rygar, again for the NES. I got stuck and unable to get past one of those weird snail things and gave up.
In more modern times, I got up to Marbus in the first Xbox Ninja Gaiden and had to put it down for a long time before I could play it again. I beat it eventually. In DS, Ornstein and Smough gave me fits for 5 days straight.
JareBear: Remastered
Banned
Also, I played Bloodborne for about 20+ years each until I got to a boss I couldn't beat and gave up.
BB it was the....ehhh...I don't remember the name. It was like a big white fuzzy lookin boss, I think? A female one. Amelia? Amelia something. I had handled the game pretty well up until this. I loved just grinding certain segments. People told me that the Amelia boss wasn't hard and that I was doing something wrong but for some reason I just never figured it out
BB it was the....ehhh...I don't remember the name. It was like a big white fuzzy lookin boss, I think? A female one. Amelia? Amelia something. I had handled the game pretty well up until this. I loved just grinding certain segments. People told me that the Amelia boss wasn't hard and that I was doing something wrong but for some reason I just never figured it out
V2Tommy
Member
Add a properly-levelled character per party and survive a few fights and you'd gain so many levels! Use one of your slots as a full-time healer and you can survive nearly anything.
wvnative
Member
Human Cargo mission in True Crime: New York City where there's a button mashing mini game to shove a guy off a ledge...
The button mashing is actually super easy to do, but the xbox version has a bug on this part where it won't respond to the B button being pressed to finish the mini-game. Making the game unbeatable on Xbox via normal means.
Airbus Jr
Banned
Cant you just summon other people to help you out?
Or having trouble to find other player?
I suppose there's NPC available there to help you out
Can't really give a proper tip to beat Amelia cos I remember I beat her by 3 vs 1 not by solo
Imo in the Bloodborne dlc there's boss much harder than Amelia so you need to be more prepared for that
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
I recommend not revisiting Cuphead. Sunflower's one of the easier bosses. It's aaaaallll downhill from there.
JareBear: Remastered
Banned
Maybe I will reboot the game, I bought it digitally so its still there, obviously. I think I lost my save though. Not a huge biggie as I have forgotten everything about my character at this point.
Pejo
Member
I searched for battletoads on here, glad I'm not alone. The game was so fun for the first 2 levels, then they throw that god fucking awful speeder level at you for level 3. You had to either memorize the entire layout (seriously, Nintendo Power even came with a map so you could memorize it) or have reflexes of no mere mortal man.
I wouldn't have even cared so much if this wouldn't have been the 3rd damn level of the game. So many people never saw any of the bosses past it. I myself beat the level one time legitimately, and then just cheated my way past it in the future with game genie level skips.
What a stupid fucking design. Did those devs even playtest the game at all?
cr0w
Old Member
If you ever return to it, Amelia is a beast so she's weak to both fire and serrated weapons. Pop a fire paper and use either the Threaded Cane in its transformed state or a Saw Cleaver in its normal state and it'll do an additional 20% damage to her. The trick is to stay almost directly under her the entire time and just beat the piss out of her. Or summon someone, that works too.
Aenima
Member
Valkirya Revolution.
Game was never that good, but i was enjoying the story enough to move forward. The combat was pretty mediocre but it was easy to move forward without needing any grind, untill i reached a boss close to the final chapter that was simple impossible to beat at the level i was. Never bothered to grind some more levels to try it again.
Game was never that good, but i was enjoying the story enough to move forward. The combat was pretty mediocre but it was easy to move forward without needing any grind, untill i reached a boss close to the final chapter that was simple impossible to beat at the level i was. Never bothered to grind some more levels to try it again.
Rodolink
Member
it was long time ago when I played it, just remember I tried many many times, for days until my urge to finish it faded away for good. at least it was just the last boss.
Also I forgot to mention Jak & Daxter II like most of the missions? oh my god so damn hard game.
Rodolink
Member
Lol I'm exactlly at that point, just died, will try again tomorrow.
SirKicksalot
Member
Has anyone finished Far Cry without cheats?
Whole game after the trigens was bullshit but that volcano level lmao
Whole game after the trigens was bullshit but that volcano level lmao
Jigsaah
Gold Member
Ruby + Emerald Weapon in FFVII...i was young and didn't get why i was getting one shotted.
Ninja Gaiden on NES (The Jacquio) could never quite make it to him with the super slash item equipped. I still plan on finishing it.
Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out - still never beat him
Rambo NES could figure out how to get past the jungle level
Ninja Gaiden on NES (The Jacquio) could never quite make it to him with the super slash item equipped. I still plan on finishing it.
Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out - still never beat him
Rambo NES could figure out how to get past the jungle level
Danjin44
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OOOOOOH YEAH!!! Its actually call back to first Drakengard. But let me warn you Drakengard 3 final boss is really......
PuppetMaster
Member
I remeber the second game in that trilogy, Warrior Within, had a boss fight at the end that was incredibly difficult for me!
I put it down and never finished it until the PS3 remaster came out. The PS3 version I had no problem beating all three games in the trilogy.
I do really love those games but man some parts were hard. And they came out before youtube walkthroughs was a thing.
Geki-D
Banned
I got up to pretty much the end on crushing, the massive shoot out on the pirate ships and just couldn't do it for the life of me. ...Then I realised that the cheats from my first playthrough were available along with the filters. I slapped on the thief vision filter (one where you see enemies as red), turned me on some infinite RPG7 and it was pretty easy after that. I honestly would have gave up otherwise.
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Super Mario Sunshine Blue Coins.
Star Fox Zero and its opening levels (Due to the controls being completely unusable)
I quit playing Majora's Mask because it was so tedious and mind numbing to get to the first dungeon.
Kid Icarus Uprising's controls killed it on the first level.
There are countless others.. As someone who has beaten DMC3 on the highest settings without getting scratched, I am particularly critical of games that don't have good pacing or intuitive controls. I' tend to quit games because they're not good games, not because they're too hard.
Star Fox Zero and its opening levels (Due to the controls being completely unusable)
I quit playing Majora's Mask because it was so tedious and mind numbing to get to the first dungeon.
Kid Icarus Uprising's controls killed it on the first level.
There are countless others.. As someone who has beaten DMC3 on the highest settings without getting scratched, I am particularly critical of games that don't have good pacing or intuitive controls. I' tend to quit games because they're not good games, not because they're too hard.
Ailike
Member
This is why you never skip the tutorial, maaaan
Shai-Tan
Banned
Did they make hades easier in the remaster? I only died a few times
bitbydeath
Member
Demons Souls.
I literally could not get past the start.
I could play for an hour or more, die and respawn at the very beginning again.
It was brutal.
I literally could not get past the start.
I could play for an hour or more, die and respawn at the very beginning again.
It was brutal.
hybrid_birth
Member
Has happened a lot of times.
Most recently the latest Doom. I wanted to finish the game. It was just too frustrating dying and dying from what seems like an endless spawn of demons. On top of that, there's not enough ammo.
I avoid difficult games now.
Most recently the latest Doom. I wanted to finish the game. It was just too frustrating dying and dying from what seems like an endless spawn of demons. On top of that, there's not enough ammo.
I avoid difficult games now.
Airbus Jr
Banned
noonespecial
Member
Batman: Arkham Knight's drill boss battle. It wasn't "impossible" but it was so annoying and I was so tired of the Batmobile by then that it was simply the last straw.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
OOOOOOH YEAH!!! Its actually call back to first Drakengard. But let me warn you Drakengard 3 final boss is really......
Haha, I believe it. Final bosses can be very rage inducing, especially in these types of games. I now got to try out this series because stuff like that intrigued me for some reason.
Danjin44
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I was able to beat it at my 60th time. One advice.....
Don't rely on the visuals, the game just loves to mess with camera, so you mostly need rely on beat of the music. people say it much easier if you have good ear for music but I didn't and I suffered for it.
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Rhazer Fusion
Member
Ah, got it. Thanks. The game always looked fun to me. 60th try? Wow, you got determination and lots of patience. I think I tried like 100 times with that terrible balcony part in Killzone 2 and still couldn’t conquer it.
Danjin44
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Another thing. I love Drakengard 3 but that game's performance is pretty shit, SE barely give Yoko Taro budget for this game and also........
You need get every weapon and I if remember correctly you also have to upgrade all them to the max to even able to unlock this boss.
I love Drakengard 3 but unlike Nier Automata, this game is rough.
edit: bright side is the game has my secret best girl.
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Arun1910
Member
Warrior Within was such a tonal difference for my small mind back in the day haha. I'm wondering now if I ever finished that either, haha.
louis89
Member
Last boss in Grandia. Hard dungeon build up requiring me to consume pretty much all of my items just to get to it and have nothing for the boss, then it has a save just before and multiple phases on top. I never went past a couple and I couldn't bother making it back out of the dungeon in reverse to restrock or grind up, lol, the good old JRPG days with random battles and no auto health regen inbetween
I had that same issue with the eye boss in Grandia II. Gave up and never went back, which is a shame because I loved the game.
Same issue with Beatrix in FFIX, but I actually bothered to restart the game and play those ~12 hours again.
louis89
Member
You jest but when I was a kid I literally got stuck for probably days or weeks on the first water level in SMB because I didn't know you had to press A repeatedly to swim up and over the first wall of coral.
Havoc2049
Member
This thread reminds me that I still need to kill the final dragon in 7th Dragon III Code: VFD on the 3DS. I've tried numerous times and even went back and grinded another level and still couldn't beat the dragon.
The final boss fight in P.N.03 was a pain in the arse, but I finally beat it (after watching a video on YouTube).
The final boss fight in P.N.03 was a pain in the arse, but I finally beat it (after watching a video on YouTube).
SlashBringingHasher
Banned
Talos final form In one of these RE rail shooter games. I beat first form. After trying twice ND barely bringing his healthcare down likens quarter I knew it was near impossible. It's the only time I ever done that.for the most part