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

[Professor James]

I'm trying to beat carrington institute defense on perfect agent from perfect dark and this mission is insane! All the enemies have basically more then double the health and can kill me with 1 second of fire. To make matters worse, bullets have knockback and the map has a bunch of narrow routes. The icing on the cake is infinitely respawning enemies. I've probably tried this level 50 times by now.

But enough about me, what do you do during a difficult mission?

 

[piinyouri]

Get pissed usually and quit.
Games aren't worth the frustration.

Also trying to unlock things in Perfect Dark probably removed 2 years off my life expectancy with how high my young blood pressure probably got.

 

[jizzytissue]

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

 

[tippy2k2]

Well it depends on WHY I'm doing this.

Is it because I'm trying to play through the game? I will drop the difficulty because I just want to play. I have no problem taking the hit to my pride and knocking it down.

Is it because of the "prestige" of beating it on the highest difficulty? I bang my head into that wall until one of us breaks. I will break the game into chunks and continue beating the wall until that wall falls or I get so frustrated that I just give up.

I spent dozens of hours going through CoD4 on Veteran (breaking it in chunks by doing mission by mission or checkpoint by checkpoint pending the difficulty of the missions) because I really liked the game and wanted the ability to "brag" about it (brag in quotations because you really don't brag...it's a neat accomplishment but I doubt anyone actually cares

 

[ohnoitsabear]

I usually stop playing, do something else, and don't go back to the game for months.

I'm not normally a fan of difficult games.

 

[bobmus]

I'm actually a really bad single-player gamer. I like to feel like God and run through easy mode slaying everything. Pretty much the only game I ever played on the highest difficulty was Halo 3.

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

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.

 

[Goofguy]

It depends on what I am trying to achieve.

If it's my first playthrough of a game, then I'll attempt it probably around 5-10 times before quitting for the moment. Then I'll come back to it the next day, usually to better results as all I needed to do was sleep on it.

If it's a subsequent playthrough of a game, be it on a harder difficulty level and/or just being a completionist, then I'll be less inclined to keep trying. Kind of a "ah fuck it, I already beat the damn game" attitude.

 

[Iwata]

Persist until I make it. I can't honestly remember one single instance where a game's difficulty made me quit. And I make it a point to avoid going online to find answers or FAQ's or anything like it, I enjoy sorting it for myself. But then again, as I stated elsewhere, I play games almost as much for the challenge, as I do for the game itself.

 

[dan-wah]

Work at it till it's done, though it took me, like, a week to beat the Arkham City Joker, Titan thug, Abramovici, Regular Goon fight on hard..... had to rage quit multiple times.

 

[Professor James]

Good news everyone! I finally beat that level after 60+ tries. Now on to the next rage inducing levels.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Drop the difficulty, consulf a FAQ, or use my sheer power of amazing stupid persistence and eventually do it. Ususally the second, though.

It took me a month to get past the Rancor in KOTOR. Eventually, I supa'-grinded to LVL 20 and killed it, after lots of effort. The game then crashed because there was no code for after that happened.

I am a persistant bastard, aren't I?

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Most of the time I just keep at it. Sometimes rage can lead to an explosion of skill that breaks me through it, whereas other times I go away, wait to calm down, and run through it as calmly as I can, and suddenly find that it's much easier than I thought, I just got wound up becasue I'd been playing all the previous levels and just run into a block.

And of course sometimes I rage quit, but I think there are only about four games in my entire life I have completely stopped playing because I was so enraged at them.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Drop the difficulty, consulf a FAQ, or use my sheer power of amazing stupid persistence and eventually do it. Ususally the second, though.

It took me a month to get past the Rancor in KOTOR. Eventually, I supa'-grinded to LVL 20 and killed it, after lots of effort. The game then crashed because there was no code for after that happened.

I am a persistant bastard, aren't I?

Which Rancor? I can't remember any rancors in the first two games I couldn't kill. Sure they were hard but the game never crashed on me afterwards.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Drop the difficulty, consulf a FAQ, or use my sheer power of amazing stupid persistence and eventually do it. Ususally the second, though.

It took me a month to get past the Rancor in KOTOR. Eventually, I supa'-grinded to LVL 20 and killed it, after lots of effort. The game then crashed because there was no code for after that happened.

I am a persistant bastard, aren't I?

Which Rancor? I can't remember any rancors in the first two games I couldn't kill. Sure they were hard but the game never crashed on me afterwards.

He's referring to the Rancor in the sewer section when you're trying to sneak into someone's base and this guy is guarding it. You're actually suppose to use this oder and gernade together on a corpse nearby to kill it but I guess brute force works too.

Anyway, when I get pounded real hard I just take a break and come back to it later. I was getting rocked by this one blacklist driver in Need for Speed: Most Wanted and just gave it a day. Next time I played, I took him down in 3 tries apposed to... 25 I guess.

 

[Reginald the Butler]

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.

 

[RagTagBand]

Throw controller, turn off console, fap.

 

[F'Angus]

Keep on playing and hope to power through.

If that doesn't work after a couple of hours then I'll quit and not come back for a month.

 

[bobbele]

Retrying. Sometimes I sit over an hour on a level that takes only 2 Minutes to complete.

 

[krazykidd]

Persist until I make it. I can't honestly remember one single instance where a game's difficulty made me quit. And I make it a point to avoid going online to find answers or FAQ's or anything like it, I enjoy sorting it for myself. But then again, as I stated elsewhere, I play games almost as much for the challenge, as I do for the game itself.

This is my answer also . More it's more likely that if the game is difficult , i will enjoy myself more .