"Easy" part of a game you struggled with?

[Titanguy654]

Has there ever been a seemingly mind numbingly easy part of a video game you couldn't get past? Maybe it didn't look that hard, maybe it was a tutorial level, or maybe your friends all laughed at you for not being able to complete that small task that they completed without blinking. Or maybe I'm the only one who has had to live down these shameful experiences? God, I hope not.

My example was one of the first parts of "Metal Gear Solid." Getting inside the building was just so f-ing difficult for me! I would always get gunned down EVERY time I tried to get in. Even when I actually made him get inside, I had about 80 bullets up my ass.

Anybody care to make me feel better with stories of shame?

 

[megapenguinx]

First: Welcome to the Escapist!
Second: I fail so hard on timed missions at the very beginning of games.

 

[Ultress]

The moving pillar section in portal always screwed me up.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm simply gods-awful at timed missions in anything unless it's "hold position until the timer runs out". I'm much better on defense than on offense in just about every genre.

 

[TheZapper]

I found the first level in hitman 2 (not the tutorial) incredibly hard to do stealthily. I could never get past the gates, even after dropping all my weapons and dressing as a postman. It was a lot easier and a lot more satisfying to just shoot eveyone in the face.

 

[Avaholic03]

The moving pillar section in portal always screwed me up.

Pillars? You mean the moving platforms?

Mine is also from Portal. Getting the "out of the blue" achievement. Seems like a simple concept: always go into orange portals so you exit out the blue side. But that took me days of frustration.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

There was a bit in Castle Crashers which I couldn't beat for some ungodly reason.

In the end, a friend of mine who has NO EXPERIENCE WITH VIDEOGAMES WHATSOEVER snatched the controller from my hands and did it for me, flawlessly.

Biggest, Fail, ever.

 

[5stringedbandit]

The tutorial of Headhunter...... yeah... I suck at that game that badly.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

I found the first level in hitman 2 (not the tutorial) incredibly hard to do stealthily. I could never get past the gates, even after dropping all my weapons and dressing as a postman. It was a lot easier and a lot more satisfying to just shoot eveyone in the face.

The delivery boy ran me over. And I got shot for that.

 

[Titanguy654]

I'd like to add another one, now that I think about it. The sneaking mission(s? I haven't beaten the game) was nearly impossible for me in Valkiriya Chronicles. I think I just suck at stealth.

 

[Chribbdizzle]

The first time, and every time after that, I played a FPS on a console. Jeez, can't get my head around it, even if it slowly is getting better.

If you want a specific game, insert random console-shooter here...

Edit: Yes, the stealth missions for me too. I avoid those games like the plauge.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Escaping from the temple in Assassins Creed. It was to dark. I couldn't see anything.

 

[dmwr]

The tutorial of Assassains creed, thought i had to tap B, those ladys vases KEPT SMASHING, it took 4 people in the room with me ( ALL GAMERS ) till we figured what was happening.

Wow, i thought i was the only person who did that.

 

[Deathsong17]

The tutoriol on Assasins Creed where you have to push past the crowd carrying pots on there heads. I didn't realise you had to hold square...

 

[Sable Gear]

The tutorial of Assassains creed, thought i had to tap B, those ladys vases KEPT SMASHING, it took 4 people in the room with me ( ALL GAMERS ) till we figured what was happening.

This. The direction it gives you is "press" not "hold", when holding B is what you actually have to do.

Also my first visit to Acre in AC. Damn those archers...(The roofs are emtpy in Damascus, you don't get any warning of the coming danger there)

 

[OniSuika]

The big worm boss near the beginning of Lost Odyssey took me an age.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Zelda Oracle of Ages second boss and Goron dance. Then again I was like 8 when I got it.

 

[Flour]

Loony Park in Painkiller. BOOH or Overdose, can't remember since Overdose just copied the level and added some different enemies ans a worthless card condition.(destroy all objects, with one object hidden from view and impossible to get to)

First wave of enemies, easy.
Jump over pit of failure pit of death.
Reload, try pit again.
Reload, try pit again.
Spend ten minutes looking for other entrance before noticing the game felt sorry for me and produced a bridge.

Never had problems with that jump after that time.