Biggest Difficulty Spike You Have Ever Experienced
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Duriel is a complete, and utter, bastard. Trying to fight him as a sorceress was a nightmare - everything up to that point wasn't bad. But when you then have a boss thrown at you that one hits your mercenary, runs nearly as fast as you do when he's been FROZEN and can kill you in two hits, you know its gonna be a frustrating time. Ended up just opening a town portal right before him, throwing a couple of ice spikes at him, him killing me and then going back to him again. And again. And again.EvilMaggot said:Diablo 2 last boss of Act 2.. cant remember the name... Duriel.. i think... rapes me everytime firsttimeso back to grinding gear with resistances x)
For a similar exercise in frustration: try beating Diablo as a summoner Necromancer - that poison nova attack of his will kill ALL your minions in one hit. Fun times.
Interesting question...I'd say the most recent I can recall, which by that I mean the last few years would be Victoria 2 while playing as Japan.
Starts easy enough if you're any good as defeating China and grabbing Korea is easy enough...than you westernize and have rebels popping out the ass all the time. It constantly saps your ability to fight back and if they don't do you in than your rebelling armies will.
Having to stop slapping China about with your imperial armies to focus on a rebellion that apparently involves every living being in Japan isn't very fun.
Starts easy enough if you're any good as defeating China and grabbing Korea is easy enough...than you westernize and have rebels popping out the ass all the time. It constantly saps your ability to fight back and if they don't do you in than your rebelling armies will.
Having to stop slapping China about with your imperial armies to focus on a rebellion that apparently involves every living being in Japan isn't very fun.
Ironically enough, WoW had one in the recent raid. Siege of Orgrimmar.
My team was happily mowing down heroic bosses all the way up to this fucker.
(Using methods footage because they edit better than I could ever manage)
Fuck this fight. (But damn felt good when it fell)
My team was happily mowing down heroic bosses all the way up to this fucker.
(Using methods footage because they edit better than I could ever manage)
Fuck this fight. (But damn felt good when it fell)
I second this, my first time playing Mass Effect she kicked my ass. the amount of times i went through that dialogue.... *shudders*DragonStorm247 said:
I would also suggest another game, all im going to say is "Look at all that juice!"
Disgaea 2. The whole game has a bit of difficulty then you get to the last 5 battles, where the bosses jump 10 levels each time...in a tactics rpg.
When I found the demi-lich at the docks and kept using some kind of dimensional prison on my party disappearing them entirely in one hit. LOL!Keith Fraser said:
That one part of Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3 where you have to move the bouncy cylinder up and down to get past the wall. I was playing the game just fine until then, and I think it took me a year to figure that stupid part out. At least, it felt like a year. It was probably a year, though.
You mean Stolos? Man that battle was a pain in the ass. I managed it by going full suicidal and taking out the cannons before any more damage could be dealt.MysticSlayer said:
OT: For me it would be... Magicka maybe. Those gd yetis AND the dwarves afterwards sucked the soul out of me.
I'm referring to Sturm [http://advancewars.wikia.com/wiki/Sturm]. Apparently, there are two fights against him, but I'm positive I only made it to the first. The guy's overwhelming forces and CO Power makes him incredibly difficult to overcome. I don't even want to know what the second fight was like.Qvar said:
The last legendary man of war in AC4, I swear that thing flipped 270 DEGREES in the AIR, and crushed my fully upgraded brig, the 2 man of wars one was easy-unarmed hulls, and all you have to do was kill both almost at the same time. The last one whose name I forgot was flipping around like a speed boat, almost immune to my mortars which 1 hit kill frigates, more agile, and faster than you, tries to ram you like a brig, has cannon range that outrages your mortars, can dodge cannon shells and heavy shot which also one hit kills frigates, and 2 hit kills normal man of wars as well as being immune to those. So how do you kill it, you lose your dignity, go to a guide, find a video that says forward cannon it when it tries to rams you, and counter ram it with a 35 percent chance of doing it. Then you hope it jumps in the air so you can Dmg it's weaker lower hull which rarely happens, and if it does the ship has a better chance of air jumpi ram you, or you turn ship's back perpendicular to it's side, and fire barrel praying it won't be able to ram, or broadside you, than you repeat the above. It took me Atleast 10 tires to get it right, and 4 with the information from the video.
He must have read Psycho Mantis' book: "Ticking Off the Player-It's Easy!" Oh did I mention Psycho Mantis, and how he reads your memory card, and dodges every single bullet unless you switch controller ports? And half the time it doesn't even work!Naqel said:
Yeah i beat it though it took me longer than i expected. It was 2 of the enemy types that require different approaches to everything else and once i learned what i was doing i got past it...there was 1 particular section on the 3rd level i think that had me retry about 100 times...even caused me problems when i went back looking for snouts. After that though it wasn't till the final boss that there were any problems...and the boss wasn't that hard except for the achievement that goes with it.Gorfias said:So, did you beat it? Did you use Keyboard and Mouse or Controller?CannibalCorpses said:Lol...it [Alice: Madness Returns] was hard on easy? I thought i was bashing my head against a brick wall on some sections because i hadn't played on easy to get all the upgrades before attempting the hard run. The game has gone up some more in my estimation
As noted in other posts: some games are just hard. This is more about a spike in difficulty.
I'm pretty lousy at this stuff, much as I love it. Another one that spiked for me: Crysis 3. I'm walking around taking out bad guys, picking up big weapons and blowing up stuff. Now I'm in some jungle, surrounded by snipers who, if I somehow kill them all, I still have to contend with turrets that pop out of the ground and appear indestructible. Man I need cheats!
I always play with a controller on 3rd person games...mouse and keyboard suck
Daaaamn, same here. That bit inspired some serious rage in me, and looking back on it, I don't see how "you MUST use this gameplay mechanic that thus far hasn't been used or explained" ever got past playtesting. I think I eventually got past it by playing as Super Sonic and hammering it down with the Bubble Shield, and even then there was a 50% chance of glitching into the wall (dilemma time! Hard reset and restart from the beginning of the level, or wait 10 minutes for the time to run out!).Chemical Alia said:
The most ridiculously uncalled-for difficulty spike I can think of is the first fight with Murai in Ninja Gaiden. An absolute exercise in frustration. Just about any boss in the DOA series as well. What the hell is it with Team Ninja and cheap bosses?
I agree with the Sonic 3 one. Took me forever to figure out how to do that as a kid. I don't even remember how to do it. I think it stumped me for years, actually. So frustrating. I might have actually used the Internet, as this was in the early 2000's. Still, that's some bad level design.
Haha, this validates my experience. I blamed myself for years, it was a dark time. I think I originally got past it the same way as you, and then one day like, 18 years later, I discovered the up and down arrow thing and how that made it super easy. That was the day that Sonic betrayed my trust and died in my heart.Batou667 said: