I never had to grind before a single boss in Dark Dawn...until him. I got my ass kicked in a few turns, spent a while grinding until every character was level 60, and then I kicked his ass in a few turns. I may have overdone it.soren7550 said:
What games have you given up on due to difficulty?
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Braid, there where a few puzzles that I just couldn't figure out and I was too prideful to look up the solutions online.
I had to restart from the beginning after I came up against the first boss, I had played the whole game stealthily up to that point and just could not beat him.0takuMetalhead said:
The Hitman HD Collection. I basically ended up paying $50 for Blood Money (again) because SA and Contracts are MUCH challenging and unforgiving than I was expecting. Mostly owing to incredibly slow walking speed, sneak mode being too slow to stalk enemies with, and the noise made from sprinting having ridiculous range even on the lower settings. I don't have the patience for games with SO much trial and error.
Not to brag, but i have beaten that game atleast once when i was younger.-Samurai- said:
Fuck that game. I never beat the first mission.
The thought of it is enough to make me lose my cool even now.
But yeah, it's not very well designed.
As for me, Nocturne. Years ago i beated it, and this year i decided to give it another playthough. I quitted at Dante.
I never did kill False King Allant in Demon's Souls. I happen to REALLY enjoy playing as a faith/melee build, much more than any other type of play, but he also happens to have massive resistance to the types of damage a faith/melee build inflicts. The only way around it is either repeating the extremely repetitive level and boss fight until I become so comfortable with his attack pattern that I watch the battle unfold every time I close my eyes, or grinding until my controller wears down from friction. Or, I could start over again as a much more boring character type. None of those options appeal to me, although I keep telling myself I'll return to beat him one of these days.
Actually any time I heard that scream and more than one or two of those things charged at me all sense of tactics or smart gameplay went out the window. I don't know why but those things ripped all sanity away and I just start swinging wildly.ThoughtlessConcept said:
I've never given up on a game because it was hard, purely because It just got so shit I could no longer continue playing, two fine examples of this are Dead Island, a buggy at best shitty 3d survival horror "thing" that fucked up melee combat, the one thing it should of been good at and it just became to terrible to play and The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings, with controls so shitty and attacks that would of been better had you just hurled your stupid white haired ass at them and a character I hated with such a burning passion I literally took pleasure in not letting that cloud of 1s and 0s get revenge for his fallen king
Ninja Gieden Sigma 1.
I don't know what they did to 'normal' but the first level was pretty much unbeatable for me, the first, fucking, level. I could understand the game being hard on a higher diff, but it was on normal, and I'd been playing NG Black a lot before then, so there's no logical reason I should have been getting me ass taken apart like I was.
took it to game stop and traded it in for Folklore, which was much more enjoyable.
I don't know what they did to 'normal' but the first level was pretty much unbeatable for me, the first, fucking, level. I could understand the game being hard on a higher diff, but it was on normal, and I'd been playing NG Black a lot before then, so there's no logical reason I should have been getting me ass taken apart like I was.
took it to game stop and traded it in for Folklore, which was much more enjoyable.
Tutorial? There are no tutorials in those games. They tell you nothing except the controls.krazykidd said:
Yeah, those are both games that I haven't finished either. I think I got to chapter 5 in Resonance of Fate,
but then one mission was just far too hard, so I must have been doing something wrong. I wouldn't know.
One game that I constantly stop playing is Super Mario Galaxy 2. It's the Perfect Run. I can't get that star.
I get really close then screw up because of the Hammer Bros near the end, then I rage quit.
Dragon's dogma, I play RPGs for the story and that game was stupid hard, I'd fight a group of enemies and they'd all be okay, then one nearly indestructible git would one shot me, and this would happen every time I walked ten metres, and I can only heal with some specific herbs.
Heh, that Dark Souls remark was quite nice. Tho the thing is, i don't remember that fisherman assault part being that difficult, as in i never wanted to give up at that part. I remember re-doing it several times, but i also remember it being one of the most exciting set pieces in the game, and it was downright horrifying, especially the first time. I remember getting so damn frightened i couldn't use the controls correctly, and died quite fast. But again, I played it a very long time ago, and i was quite young, so i could just maybe not be remembering it correctly. And it could be that i had the difficulty level the lowest possible. I did that quite often when i was younger.Zen Bard said:
Some of the ultra cheaty AIs from Soul Calibur 3. Some of them cheat so blatantly obviously it made me sick. Most every fighting gave has really bullshitty AI on the high skill level, but SC3 is in a league of it's own.
More recently, Super Hexagon. My first sitting, I played it for about 18-20 minutes before I stopped due to frustration, and my longest record was just 27 seconds survived.
More recently, Super Hexagon. My first sitting, I played it for about 18-20 minutes before I stopped due to frustration, and my longest record was just 27 seconds survived.
Totally. I didn't even get past Picture Land. There was a bit where you had to jump through a apace between a group of pencils. Never managed to make it. And the last attempt was made fairly recently.scorptatious said:
Hmmm. Can't seem to think of any others.
Honestly, I would say Dishonored, mostly because I wish not to get the horrible ending, but I don't want to kill peopl ether, and stealth is not my strongpoint at all. Also I would say Far Cry 3 near the end, but maybe that's because I lost interest..
Let's see... I have two examples. Sort of. First one was the first Gears of War's final boss. I died about thirty times without even getting through that shield thing of his (which apparently required one of my least favorite weapons in the game to penetrate, with no clue given that this was so) and it was the final straw for me abandoning the entire series. Mindless and unrelatable characters, bland visuals, nonexistent story, and unkillable bosses? Fuck. This.
Second game (chronologically first) was Silent Hill 2, but not because of difficulty; Once I got to the randomly-generated labyrinth, I froze up. The rest of the game had been creepy as all hell, but the prospect of actually getting lost there was more than I could handle.
Second game (chronologically first) was Silent Hill 2, but not because of difficulty; Once I got to the randomly-generated labyrinth, I froze up. The rest of the game had been creepy as all hell, but the prospect of actually getting lost there was more than I could handle.
I have never beaten Total War Shogun 2 with the Uesugi clan on legendary... to my great shame... the last few patches have made it EXTREMELY difficult to do, even with an excellent strategy.LookingGlass said:
That said, I stopped playing online due to 14 games straight, it felt like the opponents where as tough as soggy tissue paper... no challenge and no time to grind (sit around), waiting for matches, only to dispatch poor players to "get" bracketed into a decent match. That said, arranging matches old school works well.
If you have not tried it... Fall of the Samurai is an absolute masterpiece... the whole trilogy is excellent though. Probably one of most recommended games in recent memory.