"This **** will not beat me."

[Jandau]

Most recently, DOTA2. I'm a long time LoL player, but when I got my Beta invite it was like running straight into a brick wall lined with spikes. And the spikes are rusty so now I have tetanus as well...

But I stuck with it, found what works and what doesn't. Heck, I'm still finding it. But 70 games later, I'm sitting on a positive Win/Loss ratio and even when I lose a game, I'm usually not the main reason. Also, for some reason I can't seem to lose a game with Viper (8 wins, 0 losses).

All in all, it is satisfying and I can see myself get better at the game, I can see myself NOT making the same mistakes and can see how much better stuff turns out as a result.

 

[Vrach]

Well, it was pretty much my ongoing mentality when I played WoW back in TBC (and somewhat in WotLK). Also happens in Battlefield 3 sometimes (though I haven't played it in a while, waiting for AK) when I get the short end of the stick team-wise, I go into "fuck you all" mode and try to up my gameplay as much as I can/create some opportunities and such.

Aside from that... dunno, from time to time in singleplayer games. Can't think of many examples off the top of my head, it's usually just certain points that you get through, but are annoying while you're just banging your head against the wall try after try as you keep failing.

 

[CleverCover]

Most recently it was one of the puzzles in ilomilo.
Took me a good hour to figure it out and a million resets, but I conquered that damned puzzle.
And then I began another one, cuz I secretly hate myself.

 

[MiskWisk]

Halo 3's cortana mission on legendary solo. Absolute piss take but I did it. Eventually.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, on Sith Master difficulty

Kazdan Paratus was a damn hard boss, but I persisted and wooped his ass

Bah, he wasn't too bad on that difficulty. I personally had more problems with the proxy as maul cos pretty much as soon as he started a combo on you, you may as well restart the fight.

Really? I found Maul easy, I just spammed the same few moves every few goes and he hardly got a chance

I pretty much did the same with Paratus while lobbing anything not nailed to the floor at him.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Zelda 2 - Adventures of Link.

That fucking game will not beat me, no matter how many XP eating enemies they throw at me and no matter how many times I have to repeat that final freaking Temple. I beat it though. I beat the Hell out of it! I didn't even have to rely on the corner-glitch for the entire Dark Link encounter.

 

[jbm1986]

Any game on the hardest difficulty /end thread

Kidding aside, for me I think it's Dark Souls or Ninja Gaiden, or the last boss in any fighting game. I think it feels kinda rewarding to overcome any challenge in a game.

 

[Khanht Cope]

Not long ago, I was interested in finding exactly which review that quote is from; it's one of my favourites. I thought it was from Too Human; but apparently not. I watched about 2 dozen vids looking for it.

 

[rob_simple]

Fighting Colonel Radec in Killzone 2. I died so many times that I thought it was a supposed to lose battle.

If he hadn't been the last boss I'd probably have stopped playing altogether.

 

[Erana]

I have trouble with most 2D action games and Guitar Hero.
I mean, I have trouble beating the first dungeon with the original Legend of Zelda, but accidentally stumbled into the Cave of Ordeals in Twilight Princess and beat it on my first try with relatively little issue.

 

[anthony87]

Devil May Cry 3 on Dante Must Die mode.

hardest thing i have ever acomplished in life

Initial release or Special Edition?

After doing it when the game was first released, doing it again on the Special Edition was much easier.

 

[LetalisK]

Honorable mention goes to Halo 3. That was my first FPS and my introduction to the genre, and the basic FPS control scheme was kicking my ass. But I was determined to finish the game, so I eventually did. On Easy.

Fortunately, I'm now actually good at the game as well as FPSes in general.

*foam* I hate FPS gamepad control schemes and the device in general. It would take me a good 5 seconds just to aim at a guy and if he moved I'd have to start all over again, usually dieing a lot even on the easiest difficulty unless I was running around with just a shotgun. Then I bought my nifty little keyboard/mouse adapter and it feels just as smooth and right as if I were on a PC.

OT: Morrowind, right now. Not because its actually difficult, but I'm bound and determined to play all the way through that game before advancing to Oblivion and eventually Skyrim.

Speaking of the ads on the site right now, God of War had a few instances of this with me I believe. Darksiders too.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Resident Evil 4 on the hardest difficulty. Even the button mashing quick time events are sped up making them so incredibly difficult that it took me close to 45min to get past a simple "evade the boulder one".

 

[loc978]

in the form of image macros...

Spoiler: Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy won't beat me!

SMB:

ME:

SMB:

, *****.

ME:

...okay.

Spoiler: I Wanna Be the Guy

I Wanna Be the Guy won't beat me!

IWBTG:

ME:

 

[ElPatron]

Any game on the hardest difficulty /end thread

PES 5 and 6 were a lot more bearable in 6 star difficulty than in 3 stars.

The "normal" difficulty had impossible defense lines, slower but more planned attacks and after you managed to survive a 0-0 tie for 89 minutes they would score and ruin your whole game.

It was frigging impossible on Normal.

 

[Daymo]

I just started the binding of Issac and while a lot of difficulty is to do with the power ups, it's a challenge to get as far as you can each time even if the game decides that it will give you the worst possible combination of items.

 

[Moose]

The plane mission at the end of Call of Duty 4. God knows how many times I heard that beep noise! At least the mission was short so I could have multiple attempts in the space of a few minutes.

All I remember is finally getting to the end of the mission after countless tries and then accidentally shooting the hostage in the head, eurgh.

 

[DocMcCray]

Super Smash Bros Melee challenges 50 and 51. I got so pissed that I snapped into a zen zone and beat them both with only about 30% damage and no lives lost. I will *never* be able to replicate it.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I don't have any real single player examples. Or maybe I do. Master Ninja difficulty and Dante Must Die/Bloody Palace are kinda given. I would not give up till I got to the end, but not all of it was impossibly difficult in the first place.
Some Devil Survivor/Persona 4 bosses were roadblocks for a while, but hell if I let them end my game. Same goes for getting gold on Catherine puzzles/bosses.

When playing BlazBlue online and I meet someone who's just a bit better than me but I can take a round off of him, I want to win even more. I don't care if both of my Bursts are gone. Enough tries and I will get a good win. Shame the last person I beat this way was a rage quitter, but that's besides the point I guess.

 

[MortisLegio]

Killzone: Liberation. Other than my PSP broke while I was playing it (I dropped it onto concrete while walking home), I couldn't get passed this spider tank boss. Made me stop playing that system all together.

 

[Justyn Stahll]

Dragon Age : Orgins
Fighting the Archdemon with Allistar, Ogrhen, Morrigan, and Myself a dwarf warrior. On the Hardest difficulty, with pretty garbage equipment.

Everyone died except Morrigan, who I won with.