Games/moments in games that were too hard for you to get past?

Photek wrote:Sekiro just kicks my ass, I just don't really get it I think....the entire game is teetering on impossibly hard to me.

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Not at the time but now whenever I play Strider I really struggle with the upside down bit. I really don't know how I managed it back in the day.

Edit - I've realised there are a couple of upside down bits, the one I struggle with is towards the end with multiple moving drills

Ironhide wrote:Diddy Kong Racing is another one I've just thought of, I never managed to beat the boss race against the dragon as I was terrible at flying the planes and you basically had to pull off perfect laps to have any chance of winning.

All of the bossess in DKR are annoying, for different reasons. Multiple attempts are almost always needed, and while I have completed the game, every time I replay it, it always takes more practise and attempts than I think.

The first thing that came to mind for me was Dark Chronicle. I absolutely love(d) the game, but at the end you essentially have to beat all of the game's bosses back-to-back with no chance to get extra health or items, and I just couldn't do it. Admittedly I was a teenager then, and so my patience and skills might not have been the best, but I think I have even less patience these days :slol:

, so it would probably still annoy me. Felt cheap as well, which added to the frustration.

I've just thought of another one in The Last Remnant. There's a point in the game where to have to fight a ridiculous number of what are essentially bosses (something like 7 or 8 of them), all with different tactics, party members, and approaches needed, with no saves in between, and with no chance to get items or resources. It's unbelievably difficult and frustrating, and they actually changed this when they released the PC version, allowing you to save in between battles. What was also annoying in that game is that the enemies level with you, and the 'Battle Rank' that your team has - which you'd think is your party levelling up and improving - actually refers to the enemy strength, so you want to go through the game fighting as few enemies as possible to keep them as weak as possible. If you fight most of the enemies you come across, as you would in most RPGs, you get to a point where all enemies are crazy powerful, and far stronger than your party is. It was a pretty decent game up until that point, but I gave up with this bullshit.

Outrunner wrote:Not at the time but now whenever I play Strider I really struggle with the upside down bit. I really don't know how I managed it back in the day.

Edit - I've realised there are a couple of upside down bits, the one I struggle with is towards the end with multiple moving drills

That reminds me of the bit in Rocket Knight Adventures where you can only see Sparksters reflection and have to navigate several difficult jumps using the upside down view at the bottom of the screen.

The whole level was a nightmare, genuiinely don't know how I used to do it.

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Struggling on the final boss of Kena bridge of spirits at the minute…. But I will do it.

Edit, and Done.

Bart versus The Space Mutants on NES

Just lol

Ironhide wrote:Diddy Kong Racing is another one I've just thought of, I never managed to beat the boss race against the dragon as I was terrible at flying the planes and you basically had to pull off perfect laps to have any chance of winning.

DKR became stupidly difficult after a certain point, the silver coin challenge in particular was a nightmare as you'd have to go way off the racing line yet still win despite the CPU cars not having to do so.

Herdanos wrote:Bart versus The Space Mutants on NES

Just lol

This on the Game Gear. I never got past the first level. :lol:

I had this on the Amiga. I got to the second level. Once.

Most games I just keep at it until I eventually get past any difficult part. Most of the time I’ll be screaming at the TV or in the past throwing my controller around the room.

Two bits that spring to mind are Driver Tutorial and The Goat section in Broken Sword both I managed to get past but took a lot of attempts.

In recent times its more trophies that have had me nearly give up or even give up! Or 100% completion like one of the collectibles in Metroid Dreed which I was so close to giving up.

I wonder how many copies of Driver got returned, with players not seeing a single story mission. Trying to do the reverse 180 was the hardest bit.

If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game :lol:

Buffalo wrote:Xen, in Half Life. I either put in an invincibility cheat or just stop playing.

I remember being stuck for ages on that. It's the spider boss in Chapter 15. I shelved it for about six months and then came back and did it fairly quickly. To be honest the Xen levels are a bit crap so I wasn't too upset as I'd played the best bits of the game already :lol:

The level of X-Wing Alliance about two thirds of the way through where you get ambushed by the pirates. Utterly impossible, and because it's a family mission you can't skip it. I had a huge guide for the game published in PC Gamer and they rated all the levels' difficulties. This was a huge VERY HARD spike around a load of medium missions. I still haven't done the Second Death Star mission :cry:

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Got to the end of Ninja Gaiden (NES) in about 2 hours, then losing to the final boss sends you back like 3 levels and I just couldn't be assed. Maybe I'll go back some day with save states, but I generally don't like doing that. It would probably have been fine if the game sent you back to the start of the same level like all the other bosses do. It's not my fault, it's the game's fault! I-it's n-not my fault... it's the game's fault!...

Qikz wrote:
Herdanos wrote:Bart versus The Space Mutants on NES

Just lol

This on the Game Gear. I never got past the first level.

There was a Master System game I had (either Kung Fu Kid or My Hero, I forget which one after 30+years) where I couldn't even get past the first enemy, not sure if it was a bug or me being stupid but it was legitimately impossible to get any further.

Rubix wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game

Iirc, I managed to do the tutorial mission on the third or fourth attempt.

Tried it again a few years later on the PSP release and it took several dozen attempts :lol:

Rubix wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game

The last mission was also brutal. Cop cars everywhere.

Great game.

Bertie wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game

The last mission was also brutal. Cop cars everywhere.

Great game.

Who paid you to say that?

Herdanos wrote:
Bertie wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game

The last mission was also brutal. Cop cars everywhere.

Great game.

Who paid you to say that?

I liked it back in the day. I think I played the PC version a few years later.

One of those games where you pay money and therefore you push to get through it, regardless. Now games just get turned off.

Bertie wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:If you can't handle Driver at its worst, you don't deserve it at its best xxx

I think the tutorial was probably the hardest part of the whole game

The last mission was also brutal. Cop cars everywhere.

Great game.

Put in an invincibility cheat in for that as well. It was ridiculous - you were chased by FBI/secret service cars as well I think that were crazy.

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