Have you ever gotten a game into an unwinnable/unfinishable state?
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At least five different times on Kotor 2, but that's because that game had sooooooo many glitches.
Also, you have to have a quest to go talk to the witch given to you by the count of Skingraad or whatever. Otherwise, she won't tell you anything.Kurai Angelo said:
Something similar did happen to me. I got the vampire disease and thought, this could be fun. 15 hours later I got sick of having to bite someone in order to walk around whenever the hell I wanted to. So I got the quest to get rid of vampirism, did everything the witch asked of me and at the very end when she was about to make the potion, she refused to acknowledge the presence of one of the reagents needed to make the potion. I think it was the bloodgrass. So, this being on the PS3, I couldn't console command it away and the ps3 doesn't offer the DLC that gives you a fountain that cures your vampirism. So I quit playing the game, over 30 hours of game play lost because of this stupid glitch.
The only time I can recall not being able to finish a game was through no fault of my own. My xbox 360 hard drive got wiped and I lost all my saves. The one I was most annoyed about was my level 28 mass effect 2 soldier that I had been playing for around 36 hours (it was on insane).
A couple of friends of mine have been playing gears of war (the first game) on co-op and cannot kill general raam on insane difficulty. Thats the closest example of an unfinishable game I can think of.
A couple of friends of mine have been playing gears of war (the first game) on co-op and cannot kill general raam on insane difficulty. Thats the closest example of an unfinishable game I can think of.
This happened to me in DOOM 2 left in a room with 6 or 7 of them pink things (can't remember there name but still) like 5 health and i would load kill maybe 1 of them if i was lucky 2, but never got to save it even after killing one. I gave up on it, my mate never played a game in his life i was only about 5 maybe 6 and he did it second attempt i was annoyed.nikki191 said:haha many a time back in the day.. especially with shooters.. oh you have 5 health left and no heath kits and 50 monsters
Seiken Densetsu (2? I think?). The one that was ported to the Gameboy in the States under the title Final Fantasy Adventure. After spending literally months doing figure-eights around every pair of palm trees I could find (and apparently was doing it incorrectly...); I had finally done it right and got into Medusa's cave. Or at least I think that's what that place was, it's been several years since I've played it; and almost 15 years since this specific incident. Either way, in-and-out of the dungeon and all was good. Went to the city, killed evil guy, dude plays a song, poison gas is cleared. Hurray! In the area where the poison gas *was,* I got poisoned by a monster. No biggie. Inventory? Where is my stock of Pure? What happened to those? I forgot to restock? The city is far away... I haven't saved since... since before Medusa's dungeon?! That was two (three?) dungeons ago? ... One of these monsters has to have a Pure on them.
Oh shit I just got hit really hard. ~200 hp left and dropping rapidly due to the poison. I went to turn off the Gameboy with the intent to start back before Medusa's dungeon... but I saved out of habit. I spent about another month on-and-off killing the few monsters I could before dying of poison trying to get something to drop some Pure. Never happened. So very sad.
Oh there's more.
About 10 years later... long after I had gotten rid of the game (more like I lost it and didn't really care to look for it since it was the only game I owned at the time that I was too frustrated with to play), I found the game just sitting in a bargain bin in a local supermarket. Original packaging and everything for like three bucks. I had a Gameboy color that was getting dusty so I decided it was totally worth it and I was going to beat the shit out of this game.
Nope. A dungeon about half-way through the game... way past the desert where I had gotten stuck earlier... there were two specific doors that needed keys to get through. I had *tons* of keys for the longest time since I bought 8 every time I reached a store... so I figured that I didn't need to buy anymore keys. This was a mistake. I hadn't thought about it until it was a problem, but I hadn't gone to a shop in a long time. Went through one locked door... went to another level of the dungeon... came across another locked door. Oh nuts, out of keys. Tried to backtrack so I could buy some more. The door I had opened earlier was locked again (presumably because I had left that floor of the dungeon). Spent ages, yet again, trying to figure out how to get unstuck. Found all of the breakable walls, that lead to treasure or stuff to fight. No alternate path out of the place. I even decided to check a walkthrough to make sure I wasn't just completely daft (which is totally against my personal gaming code of ethics... don't spoil yourself on the first playthrough). Turns out, monsters that rarely drop keys are likely to be found in dungeons that require keys. So I decided to just grind in this dungeon until something dropped a key.
Nothing. For months, if I were bored, I'd pick up the game and grind a bit more... hoping to get that key. Never. Got. Anything.
This time though I didn't give up. I just didn't play it again until after I tried playing Infinite Undiscovery. The first hour of that game was so utterly terrible that I decided it should take the place of "Game I own that I choose not to beat." Promptly, I went back to Seiken Densetsu and destroyed it with all I had learned.
<_<; Long winded... should sleep.
Oh shit I just got hit really hard. ~200 hp left and dropping rapidly due to the poison. I went to turn off the Gameboy with the intent to start back before Medusa's dungeon... but I saved out of habit. I spent about another month on-and-off killing the few monsters I could before dying of poison trying to get something to drop some Pure. Never happened. So very sad.
Oh there's more.
About 10 years later... long after I had gotten rid of the game (more like I lost it and didn't really care to look for it since it was the only game I owned at the time that I was too frustrated with to play), I found the game just sitting in a bargain bin in a local supermarket. Original packaging and everything for like three bucks. I had a Gameboy color that was getting dusty so I decided it was totally worth it and I was going to beat the shit out of this game.
Nope. A dungeon about half-way through the game... way past the desert where I had gotten stuck earlier... there were two specific doors that needed keys to get through. I had *tons* of keys for the longest time since I bought 8 every time I reached a store... so I figured that I didn't need to buy anymore keys. This was a mistake. I hadn't thought about it until it was a problem, but I hadn't gone to a shop in a long time. Went through one locked door... went to another level of the dungeon... came across another locked door. Oh nuts, out of keys. Tried to backtrack so I could buy some more. The door I had opened earlier was locked again (presumably because I had left that floor of the dungeon). Spent ages, yet again, trying to figure out how to get unstuck. Found all of the breakable walls, that lead to treasure or stuff to fight. No alternate path out of the place. I even decided to check a walkthrough to make sure I wasn't just completely daft (which is totally against my personal gaming code of ethics... don't spoil yourself on the first playthrough). Turns out, monsters that rarely drop keys are likely to be found in dungeons that require keys. So I decided to just grind in this dungeon until something dropped a key.
Nothing. For months, if I were bored, I'd pick up the game and grind a bit more... hoping to get that key. Never. Got. Anything.
This time though I didn't give up. I just didn't play it again until after I tried playing Infinite Undiscovery. The first hour of that game was so utterly terrible that I decided it should take the place of "Game I own that I choose not to beat." Promptly, I went back to Seiken Densetsu and destroyed it with all I had learned.
<_<; Long winded... should sleep.
This was a loooong time ago, but: Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS1.
I've heard that it's basically a thing, that lots of people had trouble with this one. The game was okay until about the halfway point (actually, not sure if it was actually halfway or toward the end because never finished it), the battles just started to become REALLY hard and there was no way to go back and grind/level because I was inbetween a series of compulsory plot battles, with super under-leveled characters. So.. I just gave up.
I've heard that it's basically a thing, that lots of people had trouble with this one. The game was okay until about the halfway point (actually, not sure if it was actually halfway or toward the end because never finished it), the battles just started to become REALLY hard and there was no way to go back and grind/level because I was inbetween a series of compulsory plot battles, with super under-leveled characters. So.. I just gave up.
This exact same thing happened to me! Only my game glitched too. I'd been dragging my feet all game once I worked out I didn't *have* to grind since everything's levelled, so Squall was lv21, Rinoa was lv18 and everyone else was lower. Get to Lunatic Pandora on the final disc, struggle like heck against Seifer, whine at my mate, he tricked out my junctioning for me so I could actually beat Seifer (I hadn't bothered with that either) and then I got stuck against Adel. ARGH!!! My GFs (summons) were all lv70-lv99, but cause attacking Rinoa in that fight is a BAD IDEA you can't really use them.canadamus_prime said:
The glitch I had was that everything in LP was only giving me 1exp when it died, so I couldn't really level either, and when you try to leave, Squall just whines that he has to save Rinoa. Urgh. I restarted, but my frustration wasn't helped by the fact that personally I would of left the whiny little cow to die anyway. >.<
Indubitably.Prof. Monkeypox said:
I just don't see why they wouldn't allow any of the beorc characters to be as strong as any of the laguz kings. Sure, they're legendary beast type people, but you're already taking on a GODDESS at this point in the game, so why cap everyone else's stats so low when someone like Ike, the epitome of Big Dumb Fighter, can outmatch any of the kings by himself on a good day? And I won't even get into the Nihil skill spam that damn near EVERYTHING in the game has by the end.
I found out on my very first playthrough of Fable 2 that I was physically incapable of completing the game. Though to be fair to myself that was because of the Bloodstone Banshee glitch which renders the game impossible in terms of moving forward with the story.
In terms of me fucking up a game so badly that I couldn't get through it, I did take a disastrous character build in Fallout: New Vegas once. I had been lead to believe it would work but the enemy AI doesn't react at all like you'd imagine real humans of being able to act.
Basically this build was one based around stealth and explosives. The basic deal is I would sneak around, capping fuckers with headshots with a silenced pistol, or setting explosive traps and luring hapless gangbangers into them.
The problem? The pistols you could get silencers for apparently aren't strong enough to penetrate someone's skull even at close range, human beings apparently became so irradiated that they gained eyes in the back of their head, personal sonar detection and super-human hearing so no matter how I tried to move, everyone nearby would hear me.
Oh, and apparently a silent pistol shot impacting in a wall, instead of drawing the target to the impact zone like any logical person would do, draws their attention to someone crouching out of their line of sight in the shadows on the other side of the room.
I partially blame myself, but mostly I blame the AI programming in that fucking game. Hell, even being a sniper had the same problem where people would somehow notice the small, crouched sniper firing a silenced round into the back of their friends skull from what must have, at some times, been something like a fucking mile away.
In terms of me fucking up a game so badly that I couldn't get through it, I did take a disastrous character build in Fallout: New Vegas once. I had been lead to believe it would work but the enemy AI doesn't react at all like you'd imagine real humans of being able to act.
Basically this build was one based around stealth and explosives. The basic deal is I would sneak around, capping fuckers with headshots with a silenced pistol, or setting explosive traps and luring hapless gangbangers into them.
The problem? The pistols you could get silencers for apparently aren't strong enough to penetrate someone's skull even at close range, human beings apparently became so irradiated that they gained eyes in the back of their head, personal sonar detection and super-human hearing so no matter how I tried to move, everyone nearby would hear me.
Oh, and apparently a silent pistol shot impacting in a wall, instead of drawing the target to the impact zone like any logical person would do, draws their attention to someone crouching out of their line of sight in the shadows on the other side of the room.
I partially blame myself, but mostly I blame the AI programming in that fucking game. Hell, even being a sniper had the same problem where people would somehow notice the small, crouched sniper firing a silenced round into the back of their friends skull from what must have, at some times, been something like a fucking mile away.
But it doesnt do it ALWAYS. That is why leveling and ,like you said, having high spirit helps.T-004 said:Actually Greiver's Shockwave Pulsar DOES do 9999 dmg, Which is why it is considered among the best of Quistis' Limit Breaks.SquallTheBlade said:
The trick to beating Greiver is to have VERY high Elemental Defense on everything and at least decent Status Defense on everything because then you actually absorb the attack
Twice; On my first runthrough of FFX, I got to Yunalesca (a ***** of a boss at the best of times), hadn't levelled up enough in the previous 2 areas, then got trapped inside the dome with no way back. Full restart required.
Second time was Deus Ex, a quick save glitch resulted in the Hong Kong area being reset to an earlier time, wherein an unhackable door lock was changed from a known 4 digit code, to an unknown 5 digit code. I had no way through the door and had to reset.
Second time was Deus Ex, a quick save glitch resulted in the Hong Kong area being reset to an earlier time, wherein an unhackable door lock was changed from a known 4 digit code, to an unknown 5 digit code. I had no way through the door and had to reset.
It was about 5 days before I actually realized anything happened the first time, since I was running around every night stealing things and trying not to get caught.Kurai Angelo said:
The next few times, no actually. I figured it was just way too simple for it to be fixed like that, so I tried to get the witch anyway. She never changed dialog, the *****.
No, I could find bloodgrass just about everywhere. The witch just wouldn't talk to me no matter what. I knew I was a vampire. The sun could burn me alive, but no combination of bribery, money, or reloading would get her to help me.Wakikifudge said:
Nope, I was on the 360 playing this. 2007, if I remember correctly...Spawny0908 said:
If only I had this advice...a few years ago, when I still cared about beating the game. Maybe I'd finally know what was so important about putting someone on the throne.