What do you do when faced with an exceptionally dificult level?

[Innegativeion]

I never let difficulty in games make me quit. If I face a particularly difficult sequence, I make it a point to persist through until at least the next checkpoint. Power through. Persist. I refuse to let the game beat me or force me to quit. I'll quit on my terms when I'M DONE WITH YOU DAMN IT

*cough*

yeah. I try not to quit unless I'm between levels.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Die, and quit, but I keep coming back like a victim in an abusive relationship. Oh, X-Com, why do you treat me so?

 

[Smeatza]

I ask the internet for help.

 

[SeatedSkeleton]

Good news everyone!

Is it strange that I read that sentence in the Futurama professor's voice?

OT: I usually take a few hours/ a day to keep myself from getting overly frustrated, then give it another go.

Nope. did exactly the same.

same on both counts in fact. i also turn the game off take a day or two and come back ready to roll. it usually works a treat, whether its dark souls or the last few challenges on tiny wings.

 

[kortin]

Keep playing. It's how I play Super Meat Boy and will continue to do so (granted, that's how it's supposed to be played). But yeah, I keep trying until I get tired of it. In which case I will set it down and try again later.

 

[wintercoat]

Depends on the type of game.

If it's a FPS/TPS, I'll save scum my way to victory. Nothing makes me happier to be a PC gamer than quick save.

If it's an RPG, I'll go grind out a few levels if possible, until I can roflstomp the enemy to pieces. If it's not possible, I'll usually end up pissed, put the game away for a while, come back, devise a strategy to get past whatever's being a *****, then beat the level in a few tries.

If it's a fighting game, I'll just stop playing. Fighting games tend to get my blood up faster than other games, so I tend to call it quits rather early with them.

In TBS/RTS/SRPGs I'll try different strategies which never end up work, then I lower the difficulty.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well many of the games I play are open-based RPGs, so I tend to just head somewhere else and return when I'm strong enough to conquer all and send all foes tumbling into the deep black depths of the afterlife.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Never surrender, never look back! That's mine and Simon's fighting spirit!

^This. I just keep playing till I beat it. I find when I stop a game due to frustration, I'm less likely to come back to it.

Switch it off and put it aside until a day when I have nothing planned. Then I spend all day at that tough sum'*****. Hasn't happened in years though due to the genres I most often partake in.

>Difficulty in genres

And games are all around easy as can be now... That helps. The last difficult part I had was in God Hand

 

[AndrewF022]

Put on the heaviest most epic music I have.. usually power metal or some sort of trailer music score (like Two Steps From Hell), grit my teeth and power through until I win.. can't pussy out and quit or read a walkthrough, gotta man up and face it head on!

 

[Zanderinfal]

I try to work through the problems moment by moment, tweaking my tactics and try to find any patterns of behavior, etc. In the end I try to make the game in levels or checkpoints, inching my way forward.

So, very slowly but it gets it done in my books.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

I try again a few times. Then I adjust my tactics and try again a few more times. Then I consult a walkthrough and try again. If that doesn't work I turn it off and try again the next day. If I still can't beat it, I turn it off, tell myself that I'll get around to it eventually but I never do.

 

[Professor James]

when i play mw3 i usually go for recruit so i can't help u with your pursuit of veterin perhaps you should try the forums

Um, I think you misunderstood a couple things.

 

[DoPo]

when i play mw3 i usually go for recruit so i can't help u with your pursuit of veterin perhaps you should try the forums

Um, I think you misunderstood a couple things.

Erm...um...and yeah, I also think you necroed that thread.

And all to answer...how should I put it - a person with two digit number of posts yet who is on their last warning before a permaban. They have some...interesting posts in their history, too.