If you can't beat the game - if you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser.
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amen revrendcanadamus_prime said:
really if I listed every gamei played and beaten I would be the most wanted Paper thief in the world
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shining Force.- I just quit randomly on it need to finish it
Light Crusader-ARGHHH ( translation: THE BOLDER PUZZLE IS IMPOSSIBLE))
Final Fantasy IV, because Edward is useless.
Also, as much as I love the series, the second Phoenix Wright game. Cross examining Moe the clown was a huge guide dang it.
Also, as much as I love the series, the second Phoenix Wright game. Cross examining Moe the clown was a huge guide dang it.
I don't do this, really. Truth is, if I decide to call off a game for a while for some reason of difficulty, I pick it up again and figure it out 'cause I'm stubborn and have some decent skills. I get weird inspiration to go with me tenacity. Some games, I've solved in my dreams - yes, as in while I'm asleep and dead to the world - and then woken up, moved the game on, and congratulated myself for doing it while cognative thinking should be impossible.
But I don't give up. Not really. I know exactly what has to be done, usually. In RPGs, it's time to grind. In strategy, it's time to come up with the most merciless attack since Stalin and Hitler. In puzzles, it's...well, I just work harder on those, but you see where I'm going with this. Just like Rule 37 - "There is no overkill, only "Open Fire" and "Time To Reload". - there is no can't, there is only back up a minute, re-think your options, and teach the game a lessen that it would never forget...assuming it had a thinky-memory-thing.
Come to think of it, I seem to recall that I HAVE thrashed the game AI to the point where it's as traumatized as a rape victim. Maybe it was the malice involved and the fact that I enjoy tearing into those hard bits and crushing them with sadistic glee when they decided to ruin the fun. I mean, I use to get really angry about Seymour from FFX. You kill him, then you kill him again, then you kill him a third time and JESUS FUCK CHRIST now he's inside the soul-eating monster shouting some crap about taking the beastie over from the inside. (This, of course, is put off by the fact that you can beat him with whatever summon creature matches his elemental tiles and the main characters hardly suffer a single hit.)
So no, I guess I really just don't have these moments.
But I don't give up. Not really. I know exactly what has to be done, usually. In RPGs, it's time to grind. In strategy, it's time to come up with the most merciless attack since Stalin and Hitler. In puzzles, it's...well, I just work harder on those, but you see where I'm going with this. Just like Rule 37 - "There is no overkill, only "Open Fire" and "Time To Reload". - there is no can't, there is only back up a minute, re-think your options, and teach the game a lessen that it would never forget...assuming it had a thinky-memory-thing.
Come to think of it, I seem to recall that I HAVE thrashed the game AI to the point where it's as traumatized as a rape victim. Maybe it was the malice involved and the fact that I enjoy tearing into those hard bits and crushing them with sadistic glee when they decided to ruin the fun. I mean, I use to get really angry about Seymour from FFX. You kill him, then you kill him again, then you kill him a third time and JESUS FUCK CHRIST now he's inside the soul-eating monster shouting some crap about taking the beastie over from the inside. (This, of course, is put off by the fact that you can beat him with whatever summon creature matches his elemental tiles and the main characters hardly suffer a single hit.)
So no, I guess I really just don't have these moments.
Can't be bothered to finish C&C 3. It made me realize that I will never enjoy an RTS on a console. Common knowledge maybe, but I still had hope until CC3.
Ouch.gamefreakbsp said:
I had to use a walkthrough at the part where you need to bomb the random rolling Goron in the mountain to progress the story.
They don't even give you a hint!
Never completed Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System because there was one part I couldnt get through, kept dying for BS reasons
Same with Panzoon Dragon Orta, seemed like a cool game at first, but later on it just seemed impossible to progress
Splinter Cell 1, yeah can't even begin, first mission put me off completely, didn't like how the game handled
LittleBigPlanet, just got bored after a while
Killzone 2, kept dying at the mission where you use a turret to try and defend your position, I'm not gonna waste my time passing some shitty mission that leaves you completely open and vunerable to enemies
Killswitch, just got too hard mid-game
Morrowind = ABSOLUTE SHIT, HOW THE HELL CAN ANYONE CONSIDER THAT GAME TO BE GREAT WHEN I COULDNT EVEN FUCKING HIT A STUPID RAT GNAWING AT MY FEET!!!?
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, impossible to beat on barely the 3rd mission
Otogi: Myth of Demons, couldn't beat that fucking giant centipede
Ghost Recon 2, same reason as Killzone 2
And a few others I may have forgotten
Same with Panzoon Dragon Orta, seemed like a cool game at first, but later on it just seemed impossible to progress
Splinter Cell 1, yeah can't even begin, first mission put me off completely, didn't like how the game handled
LittleBigPlanet, just got bored after a while
Killzone 2, kept dying at the mission where you use a turret to try and defend your position, I'm not gonna waste my time passing some shitty mission that leaves you completely open and vunerable to enemies
Killswitch, just got too hard mid-game
Morrowind = ABSOLUTE SHIT, HOW THE HELL CAN ANYONE CONSIDER THAT GAME TO BE GREAT WHEN I COULDNT EVEN FUCKING HIT A STUPID RAT GNAWING AT MY FEET!!!?
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, impossible to beat on barely the 3rd mission
Otogi: Myth of Demons, couldn't beat that fucking giant centipede
Ghost Recon 2, same reason as Killzone 2
And a few others I may have forgotten
I knew it was a DN quote from the moment I saw the title!
OT: I usually finish most of the game's I own, and if I don't finish them right away, I'll put them away for a month, then when I'm bored I'll walk into my closet of games, look for something to play, find the game, realize I've never finished it, and then pop it in. I occasionally have trouble remembering the story of certain games, but a quick look at the plot from wikipedia usually refreshes my memory.
OT: I usually finish most of the game's I own, and if I don't finish them right away, I'll put them away for a month, then when I'm bored I'll walk into my closet of games, look for something to play, find the game, realize I've never finished it, and then pop it in. I occasionally have trouble remembering the story of certain games, but a quick look at the plot from wikipedia usually refreshes my memory.
That's odd, both Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky are really short games. Brutally hard, but very short.Furburt said:
For me, I've got a couple. Operation: Flashpoint, and for that matter both expansions. Again brutally unfair, and I stopped caring after a while. Note, it's not actually hard, just, litterally unfair, somewhat intentionally.
Dungeon Siege 2, I stopped caring. Dungeon Siege 1, ditto.
Spellforce 2, I got about 75% of the way through the campaign the second time, and lost the hard drive, I'd only gotten about 60% of the way through the first time before that happened.
Heroes of Might and Magic 5, I just don't have the time.
The Witcher, around the start of act 3 or 4 the game feels like it looses direction for me and I wander off and get lost.
Pathalogic, yeah, its probably the single most interesitng and bizarre game I've ever seen. It's also depressing as hell.
And I saved the best for last: Titan Quest was a realy fantastic Diablo clone that really does expand on most of the design decisions of Diablo 2's team, while still improving many aspects of the genre. There was just one little problem: after the patch it seriously feels like it's impossible to beat the final boss. I spent about 3 hours on an attempt one time, got his health down a quarter of the way, screwed up, and got hit by one of his vampiric attacks, and that was three hours wasted. Oh, yeah, and the gimic to kill him quickly and strip off his bullshit instakill attacks? Yeah, they changed that in the patch so that it now actually BUFFS him further. Also, the gimic? Its drawing fire from him at one of four statues. It used to be you could destroy them or let him do it. Not so much now.
I usually finish my games, unless they bore me, in which case they are probably not worth mentioning. But yeah, recent exception: Demon's Souls. It wasn't so much the fact that the gameplay was hard, but the death penalties were so severe that it just made me ragequit after about 10 hours when I realised that about 60% at least of the souls I had collected till then had been lost. That's when I thought "maybe I should be playing something else that is less of a waste of my time".
Final Fantasy IV. It's a great game, but there's a rather horrible difficulty spike at the end: I was owning everything, then all the sudden I could barely survive an encounter. The only real flaw I've seen in the game so far. Hopefully I can go back and beat it someday...
MGS4. Gave up on this flying boss guy, because the controls are so fucking horrible
FFX. Got really close and then my PS2 broke
FFVII. Realised how overrated it is
FFXII. Same is FFX
Wolfenstein. Save got wiped
DMC4. Back tracking the entire fucking game isn't my idea of fun
CoJ. Stopped working and I sold the disc
GHWT. Setlist is CRAP (save a few awesome songs)
Mercs2. Baddly made
System Shock 2. I keep dying at the first fucking place
Digimon World. Baddly badly translated and glitchy as hell
FFX. Got really close and then my PS2 broke
FFVII. Realised how overrated it is
FFXII. Same is FFX
Wolfenstein. Save got wiped
DMC4. Back tracking the entire fucking game isn't my idea of fun
CoJ. Stopped working and I sold the disc
GHWT. Setlist is CRAP (save a few awesome songs)
Mercs2. Baddly made
System Shock 2. I keep dying at the first fucking place
Digimon World. Baddly badly translated and glitchy as hell
out of all my playstation 3 games I haven't completed Oblivion. Like others have said above this post, it is just so hard to get into and enjoy.
Ive completed about ...12 games in my entire life.
Diablo 2 (By complete I mean complete all difficulties and reach 99 - Online)
Fallout 2/3 (Far from all side quests)
Gears of War
Castlevania Symphony of the Night (170% or 180% I think I got)
Baldur's Gate 1/2+Expansions (I count it as one game)
Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds
The Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past
Resident Evil 5
Champions: Return To Arms
Thats all I can think of for now
I just give up on games before the ending..
Diablo 2 (By complete I mean complete all difficulties and reach 99 - Online)
Fallout 2/3 (Far from all side quests)
Gears of War
Castlevania Symphony of the Night (170% or 180% I think I got)
Baldur's Gate 1/2+Expansions (I count it as one game)
Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds
The Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past
Resident Evil 5
Champions: Return To Arms
Thats all I can think of for now
I just give up on games before the ending..
