Games that defeated you.

[I Max95]

Dark Souls...Undead Burg

need i say more?

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Hopefully this isn't considered too far offtopic, as I already answered the question earlier, but:

I'm playing as a Warrior because, honestly, I hate Mages. Except for Morrigan. She's just awesome.

There's actually an OP character sub-class that basically turns mages into warriors. Its called Arcane Warrior and you can get it from the ruins in the woods where the elves are. It lets you use your magic for armor equipping requirements, so you can wear warrior armor and swing swords. Then you just cast a bunch of buff spells on yourself and end up being invincible.

I wish there was a way to kind of grind in this game...other than going back and forth all over the map.

If you donate certain equipment in your camp, you get EXP for it. The elven ambassador or whatever his name is, will accept elfroot which you can buy really cheap in bulk at the elf camp(so long as you didn't kill them all.) Which if you make one of your mages create lyrium potions(http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Money_Making_Guide#Making_Potent_Lyrium_Potions) for profit, you can donate and get high level really quickly. Though it's not always the best idea, because monsters scale to your level.

 

[That One Six]

Dullahan (Golden Sun: The Lost Age) especially when he used the Djnn Storm spell. Nothing I did can make fully withstand against his attacks.

Gotta summon rush him if you want to win. Put all your Djinn on standby, then just summon everything you can with your first four, let them die, and do the same with the next four. Took me two tries to beat him with that strategy.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

In GoW 2 fucking Thesseus (I only stopped because my controller broke under mysterious circumstances...)

I had forgotten about that until now. Thanks very much. I did beat him in the end, but it took weeks. He was ridiculously hard.

 

[FreezingFlames]

Pac-Man. Too hard. I can barely get past the first level without losing 2 lives.

 

[Beautiful End]

More snipeth

Spoiler: Ohhh...

I do have that ability right now; Arcane Warrior. But only Morri could use it at this point. I'll keep it in mind, though. (I'm mostly a brawler/tank in all my games)

And I didn't know you got experience from helping them. I figured that would change the outcome of the final battle or something (I haven't finished the game) and I was just doing it just for being nice. Although at the moment, I'm using all my elfroot to create healing potions so...I'll have to think about this.

Thanks for the tips! This is probably one of my favorite games out there and I still don't know much about it. If I had played this game a couple of years back, it would be a completely different story. Guess it's time to do some research!

OT to avoid report: Uhh...I forgot about Dead Space 2. I played the game for like 5 minutes and then I returned it. See, I hate scary games. I'm a wuss, what can I say? But I heard this game was cool so I gave it a shot. First minute of playing it and I was confused with the story. But okay, it was a sequel so I had that coming. Then as soon as I can control my character, something jumps out and kills me. My SDTV tried to tell me how to play...but it was a SDTV so I couldn't figure it out and I died.
This happened about 3 times until I gave up completely.

 

[Uikri]

I consider myself a completionist and like to squeeze every drop of value out of my games, so i tend to play on the hardest difficulty after a normal or hard (if I'm feeling masochistic) play through of any given game to enjoy a challenge and say ii finished it. There are however some exceptions... Some soul crushing control breaking exceptions...

For me its always been the God of War series on the highest difficulty. I always think its a good idea, but then i hit a wall that i keep bashing my head against until i relent and admit defeat.

In GoW 1 it was the Ares fight (so...close...)
In GoW 2 fucking Thesseus (I only stopped because my controller broke under mysterious circumstances...)
In GoW 3 the Cereberus Breeder and those Satyrs near the end (seriously just NO)

So have any of you ever come across a game that just utterly defeated you?

Megaman Zero Collection. They made a Hard Mode, for a series that DIDN'T NEED A FRACKING HARD MODE! That, and I never finished the second game onward. I just got completely and totally burned out on it.

 

[Faladorian]

psychonauts. that fucking meat circus level at the very end made me rage quit and never come back

Thank you! I beat the level, but with a blood pressure to rival the compression of a black hole! And the difficulty of the rest of the game was so low, that spike in challenge was way too much.

OT:

Borderlands, for being WAY too boring. 5 hours. Five hours of gameplay before I uninstalled it.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. ALMOST defeated me. But damn if I hadn't spammed sonic blade the last 6 hours of that game I would have given up. Not to mention, it was SO boring... coming from somebody who loves Kingdom Hearts. At least recently.

Donkey Kong 64. Couldn't beat it when I was like 8 and then I lost my copy. Too hard for back then.

Any Pokemon game. Never beaten any of them. The difficulty doesn't lie so much in beating the bosses at the end, as in does in the patience to actually play a pokemon game all the way through and level up six pokemon. Such torture.

And, more specifically, the Elite Four in Pokemon Black. Nope.

The Pit of 100 Trials in Paper Mario 2 (yes I'm shortening the title) out of sheer boredom. Got to level 70-something and realized "this isnt fun."

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. I gave up out of sheer boredom, but apparently there was a boss not two steps from where I quit. And that boss caused my girlfriend to be defeated by the game out of difficulty. Go figure.



Actually... if I'm going to keep going with games I gave up on because they were boring, well... we'd be here for days.

 

[Gunner 51]

Dark Souls...Undead Burg

need i say more?

That's the really easy part of the game. If you should ever venture down to the inky blackness that is the Tomb of Giants will you truly know defeat.

When you get there you can't see more than three feet in front. There's not much room to dodge things lest you plummet to your death. Even if you block, you could still take a free skydiving lesson care of the giants.

Oh, and that's before the area boss. (Gravelord Nito)

 

[Uikri]

Dark Souls...Undead Burg

need i say more?

That's the really easy part of the game. If you should ever venture down to the inky blackness that is the Tomb of Giants will you truly know defeat.

When you get there you can't see more than three feet in front. There's not much room to dodge things lest you plummet to your death. Even if you block, you could still take a free skydiving lesson care of the giants.

Oh, and that's before the area boss. (Gravelord Nito)

You forgot to mention Blighttown. Arguably harder than Tomb of the Giants.

 

[auron200004]

That's the really easy part of the game. If you should ever venture down to the inky blackness that is the Tomb of Giants will you truly know defeat.

When you get there you can't see more than three feet in front. There's not much room to dodge things lest you plummet to your death. Even if you block, you could still take a free skydiving lesson care of the giants.

Oh, and that's before the area boss. (Gravelord Nito)

Yeah, I remember my first time playing through, I rushed through that area because it was essentially one giant clusterfuck (haha, get it? because there's bone giants everywhere). Add on the lack of visibility and it's ridiculous.

I never really understand the hate about Dark Souls some people have. In my opinion, it's a true masterpiece. It's not even (that) difficult. If you know how to play, switch up your playstyle, then it's just fun.

Ornstein and Smough as a melee character on the other hand...

 

[EHKOS]

Crawmerax on solo. I brought in three 69's and they did all the work. (I was level 69 too though)
Every Megaman game ever, I just cannot beat them. I came close in 8, but the last stage was a gauntlet and I could NOT survive long enough into it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Dullahan (Golden Sun: The Lost Age) especially when he used the Djnn Storm spell. Nothing I did can make fully withstand against his attacks.

Gotta summon rush him if you want to win. Put all your Djinn on standby, then just summon everything you can with your first four, let them die, and do the same with the next four. Took me two tries to beat him with that strategy.

I tried that but it didn't work for me. In saying so I only did it a few times but not repeatedly.

 

[Hop-along Nussbaum]

I know I'm showing my age here, and don't friggin judge me, but...

ZORK.

 

[Xannidel]

Donkey Kong 64, that damn Donkey Kong arcade in the Frantic Factory level. Not only do you have to play it to get the golden banana for DK but you gotta play it AGAIN for the Rare coin to open the final boss.
Hell I couldn't beat it the first time so I doubt I could beat it twice.

 

[esperandote]

All RPG I've played, mostly Xenogears and Vagrant Story.
Devil may cry 3, i just got up to thw twins.
I wanna be the guy, I couldn't beat the guy.

 

[The Smoking Gun]

That's the really easy part of the game. If you should ever venture down to the inky blackness that is the Tomb of Giants will you truly know defeat.

When you get there you can't see more than three feet in front. There's not much room to dodge things lest you plummet to your death. Even if you block, you could still take a free skydiving lesson care of the giants.

Oh, and that's before the area boss. (Gravelord Nito)

Yeah, I remember my first time playing through, I rushed through that area because it was essentially one giant clusterfuck (haha, get it? because there's bone giants everywhere). Add on the lack of visibility and it's ridiculous.

I never really understand the hate about Dark Souls some people have. In my opinion, it's a true masterpiece. It's not even (that) difficult. If you know how to play, switch up your playstyle, then it's just fun.

Ornstein and Smough as a melee character on the other hand...

Ahh Gravelord Nito... The only boss that made me shit bricks harder than him was Four Kings although to be honest he is kind of a chump if you're a pyromancer

1: run up
2: iron skin
3: combustion till dead

Anyways agreed 110%, Dark Souls IS a masterpiece... One of my favorite games of all time infact. Cannot wait for Artorias of the Abyss later this year

To everyone else thanks for a great read (and for making a list of games to avoid)

 

[eggy32]

lost oddysey...the boa snakes noooooooooooooo

What were the boa snakes? I don't remember them.

Anyway, the game that defeated me was Final Fantasy IV. I got up to the last boss but I was ridiculously underleveled. Unfortunately there was only one decent dungeon for grinding but all the enemies in it were too hard. So I just ended up watching the end on youtube.

 

[Javinho]

Mine was Final Fantasy 13, it wasn't hard or anything but it was so damn boring. I just hated it so much.

 

[I Max95]

Dark Souls...Undead Burg

need i say more?

That's the really easy part of the game. If you should ever venture down to the inky blackness that is the Tomb of Giants will you truly know defeat.

When you get there you can't see more than three feet in front. There's not much room to dodge things lest you plummet to your death. Even if you block, you could still take a free skydiving lesson care of the giants.

Oh, and that's before the area boss. (Gravelord Nito)

wasn't easy at all for me

combat was a crap shoot, occasionally i could defeat all the undead soldiers and make it to the end but the boss always beat me because by that point i had pretty much run out of health potions and only had an inch of health left at all, not only that but i kept stumbling into places i shouldn't have, a graveyard full of unkillable skeletons, a pathway that seemed like an alternite way to the end but just revealed a crowd of zombies that bullrushed me, an unassuming tunnel that ended in a giant armored knight who killed me within seconds of discovering him.

i played through the level over and over, dying incredibly cheap deaths from enemies off screen that i didn't even see chucking bombs, and from the stupid fact that my shield didn't block for shit. some of my best tries were when the AI glitched and did something it wasn't supposed to, like fall off of high places or charge at me alone while their companions stay behind blissfully unaware of my presence, it's a sad thing when a game is only playable when it's broken

and lastly, i could overlook all of this if the story had made me the slightest bit interested, if it had actually caught my attention, but no, i didn't understand what was going on and with the world so bleak and uninviting i didn't care what happened to anyone in it, least of all the character i was playing as

you like the game, fine, but don't pretend that just because it gets much worse that undead burg isn't fucking hard, the whole game is fucking hard, i may be getting too worked up about it but Dark Souls is a game that flatout pisses me off, especially when i hear people praise it