Beaten by a game,

[bossdirge]

I've had it, I am just not bloody minded obstinate enough to finish Demon's Souls. I am perfectly willing to admit that I suck at it. I have played it probably about ten hours a week for the past two months and still haven't beaten a second boss. There is no clue as to which route might be logically easier so I went with the second palace boss the tower knight. But I am tired of dying on my way to it over and over again. I have never rage quit, I just die again and sigh, eject the disc and work on something else. I am sure that if I sat down and meticulously planned my route to boss I could get there consistently, but that would take a lot of time and I would end up dying during the boss fight god knows how many times.

Demon's Souls is not an action game. It is a long and torturous puzzle game. There is no difficulty curve it's just ass stretchingly difficult throughout. Yesterday I died because I couldn't pause the game to answer the door.. wtf?

Anyone else ever play a game and get beaten by it?

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Demon's Souls beat me. I was 45 hours in and had beaten 1, yes ONE, world. And that was mainly luck and by the skin of my teeth. Then I felt I had hit a metaphorical wall I couldn't pass, so I stopped and played something else.

You could say that Alone in the Dark beat me, but I prefer to think that it just wasn't worth my time.

Calumon: Kingdom Hearts beat me. That last boss is harrrrrrrd... : (

 

[MAUSZX]

Yeah demons souls is a hard game, but I haven't quit yet. I'm pretty stubborn, so no rage quits.
Oh nooo I forget, Street Fighter 4. Really I rent that game and MAN i suck at fighting games.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I thought about this

When reading the title.

OT: TF2 Bots.

They're so fucking accurate, so vigilent, so responsive, and yet so stupid.

It's annoying to walk into a hallway, a bot Demoman launches you in the air with a direct grenade hit, then gives you another direct grenade hit while you're in midair.

 

[Bunclobo]

Bit of an oldie, but i could never, NEVER complete Star wars Jedi outcast.
That is, without cheats, but i don't feel that is the 'right' way to go with games.

 

[random_bars]

Anyone ever play N+? I swear, one of the multiplayer levels was physically impossible. Every time me and my friends would try to go through multiplayer, we'd hit that level, try it a couple times then just give up. It was ridiculous.

'The Waiting Game' was what it was called. Anyone remember it?

 

[BoredPixel]

Anyone ever play N+? I swear, one of the multiplayer levels was physically impossible. Every time me and my friends would try to go through multiplayer, we'd hit that level, try it a couple times then just give up. It was ridiculous.

Haven't player N+, I did however play the PC version (N). Gave up a while ago, but I'm thinking of going back to it. There are 100 episodes though, and I think each has 5 levels... which sounds like an insane amount of pain.

So I guess that beat me ... for now!

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Bit of an oldie, but i could never, NEVER complete Star wars Jedi outcast.
That is, without cheats, but i don't feel that is the 'right' way to go with games.

I had to play it through with cheats first, then i managed. God that game is hard :/

 

[The Wykydtron]

Far Cry 2, i got to the second map zone and the annoyance of having to stop driving every 2 seconds to look at THE worst map system ever designed by man finally got so bad I just had to stop playing

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Calumon: Kingdom Hearts beat me. That last boss is harrrrrrrd... : (

I thought you said you wanted to be the first Digiomon to win a game, but you couldn't because you couldn't reach the shoulder buttons.

 

[Engarde]

I think WoW has bet me, or at least my rogue. I know it has no bloody use, but Old Ironjaw, YOU WILL BE MINE.

 

[hecticpicnic]

"I wanna be the guy".I still have nightmares...such horrible memories.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Calumon: Kingdom Hearts beat me. That last boss is harrrrrrrd... : (

I thought you said you wanted to be the first Digimon to win a game, but you couldn't because you couldn't reach the shoulder buttons.

Calumon: That's what makes it so hard! Digimon World didn't use them, but without them on this, I keep looking the wrong way! :'(

Jack: Fingers and thumbs, the right way forward. ; )

 

[GundamSentinel]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I just couldn't do it. Really not my type of gameplay. I really didn't get very far, and I didn't have the bloodymindedness to persist.

Also, Heavenly Sword. The greater part of the game went just fine, but the final boss is just too annoying. 2 years later I still haven't finished it.

Far Cry 2, i got to the second map zone and the annoyance of having to stop driving every 2 seconds to look at THE worst map system ever designed by man finally got so bad I just had to stop playing

Yup, that one too. At about the same time. Damn those checkpoints every 100 meters with their X-Ray vision guards!

And I don't even have the nerve to go buy Demon's Souls. It looks so awesome, but I know I'll be so bad at it.

 

[Acidoctor]

Nethack. I have played that damn thing for over 200 hours. I was close to ascend once... Once!

 

[icame]

Demons soul's difficulty curve.

Personally I am a rotten bastard when it comes to being able to turn a game off when it keeps killing me. Just yesterday I got to a part in mass effect 2 (On insanity) where you in a very narrow corridor with barricades every few feet. Note I'm playing an infiltrator, so i have no shotgun. I get to a corner and there is a guy with a flamethrower directly behind a barricade. This was at 10:00. I turned the game off at 1:30 on a Thursday after finally getting by this part.
I may not be the best at most games but I'll be damned if I don't beat them anyway.

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

Persona 3, the emperor and empress, every time I try to beat them I mess up, usually because I forget to use attack down on the emperor most of the time or he recovers to quickly.

 

[Defense]

Persona 3 Portable has me taking a break because I just got to Tziah and fighting the boss on the 117th or so floor is such a pain in the ass. I need to get a party that can actually absorbs Ma/Zionga. I'll come back to it later.

Well, it's also really boring at times, but that's beside the point.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Ninja Gaiden 2 and Demons Souls have beaten me. I'll go back to them occasionally then get to the part which is stupid hard.

In NInja Gaiden 2 its the boss of Chapter 14 I think, two volcano turtles which explode when you kill them, which then kills you unless you block at a specific moment. The camera angle really doesn't help. In Demons Souls its the second boss as well, like the OP.

 

[Master Kuja]

Armored Core: For Answer.

Anyone who's played this game will know immediately what mission has me ripping my hair out and crying like a little *****.

For those that don't, but still know the game.
The Occupation of Arteria Carpals.
Hard Mode.

For those that don't know the game.

Spoiler: Spoiler alert, just in case.

That's the final mission in one of the game's several story arcs and, after the incessant murder of a silly number of people, five, count them, FIVE enemy Armored Cores decide to take it open themselves to beat your ass down.
Four of them are the top four pilots in the game.
The fifth is your very own Operator, disgusted at you for what you did in the last mission.

Sure, you can argue that you deserve it for taking that path, but seriously, that mission can fuck right off forever.