impossible game moments
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Surviving a hit from anything 30' or taller.
In Crystalis, the classic old NES game no one's ever heard of, the end boss. Is. Too. Easy. Just, ugh. Most anticlimatic boss ever.
In fighting games, when they do fatal things (like neck snaps) that 'only' do a whole bunch of damage. Or, in fighting games, when the 80 pound 12 year old girl character can hit the 350 pound huge-guy with a jab and send him four feet into the air, vertically.
Devil May Cry 3, the fight vs Lady. You're capable of catching bullets in your teeth, and this regular human is capable of outrunning you? And when you finally get her with the sword, the magical sword with the strength to use a motorcycle as an effective bludgeoning weapon... And it 'only' hurts a bunch instead of bisecting her? Wth?
Most hit point / life bar systems in general, really. Make it hard to hit them, not easy to hit them and hard to kill them. THAT is how things survive in real life.
In Crystalis, the classic old NES game no one's ever heard of, the end boss. Is. Too. Easy. Just, ugh. Most anticlimatic boss ever.
In fighting games, when they do fatal things (like neck snaps) that 'only' do a whole bunch of damage. Or, in fighting games, when the 80 pound 12 year old girl character can hit the 350 pound huge-guy with a jab and send him four feet into the air, vertically.
Devil May Cry 3, the fight vs Lady. You're capable of catching bullets in your teeth, and this regular human is capable of outrunning you? And when you finally get her with the sword, the magical sword with the strength to use a motorcycle as an effective bludgeoning weapon... And it 'only' hurts a bunch instead of bisecting her? Wth?
Most hit point / life bar systems in general, really. Make it hard to hit them, not easy to hit them and hard to kill them. THAT is how things survive in real life.
That's the odd part--it takes the same number of bullets as if you shoot the bad guy in the face. Of course, that's a separate issue. Granted, modern games seem to get the idea of a "head shot," but it's still just weird. In the bad old RPG days, you'd take 1 HP of damage from stubbing your toe, implying that if you stubbed your toe enough times then you'd keel over dead. It might be amusing, but it's also one of those things that reminds you that you're just playing a game with arbitrarily created rules.Heathen92 said:
- Alan
Virtually all boss fights where the boss is human yet takes an assload of damage before dying usually of the gunshot kind.
Just where does Mr. Freeman keep all his guns? That HEV suit must have some freaking deep pockets if he can hold a rocket launcher, a SMG, a machine gun, 2 types of pistols, a crossbow and so on, not to mention the fact that whilst carrying enough guns to start a moderately armed militia force, he can still jump and run like he's butt naked.
In Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64, I remember having the Golden Gun, but I would only aim for the hands or feet. Always fun to see somebody die instantly after only being shot in the foot.
Jet Force Gemini. The whole game was run&gun for the most part until right before the end of the game where it decided to make you run around all 20-something planets with EACH of your 3 characters to find every little piece of your big space ship to chase the final boss through space. Oh not that it even gives you any hints as to where any are. It's kinda like "You have 29 pieces to find throughout the galaxy. Go.
Jet Force Gemini. The whole game was run&gun for the most part until right before the end of the game where it decided to make you run around all 20-something planets with EACH of your 3 characters to find every little piece of your big space ship to chase the final boss through space. Oh not that it even gives you any hints as to where any are. It's kinda like "You have 29 pieces to find throughout the galaxy. Go.
SPOILER!MichaelAB said:
You are his literal biological son, when he was having a fling with the dancer from Eve's Garden, she sold the fertilised egg to Fontaine, and he had Suchong work you over to accelerate your growth and implant control phrases into your brain. It's pretty well laid out in the audiologs.
After banging my head ageist the wall for a few weeks I actually beat that game.hickwarrior said:
In games like dead rising for example it took me out of the game to see so many people looking alike... am I to believe that on that day for whatever reason a chunk of the population just decided they were all going to wear the same yellow shirt and blue jeans? No it was the idea to use a low amount of different models and textures to create a "mass population" that in the end looks like a cloning experiment that went bad.
Also any game where enemies come running at you then take part in the battle one at a time (Assassins creed), it doesn't matter if your back is turned and your in the middle of attacking someone else everyone will wait their turn.
The last mission for KOTOR on hard mode. i never finished it, after getting killed atleast 100 times i just gave up.
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Doom 3 on Nightmare mode.
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Doom 3 on Nightmare mode.
Interested enough that I downloaded the demo. In the hour I spent playing, I managed to get to the Bowser/Wart/Wily battle, and died a total of 86 times. There's something bizarrely addictive about the way it doesn't help you at all, and at every turn, does things in the least intuitive way possible, yet I kept playing!hickwarrior said: