Levels you couldn't get past.
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People keep mentioning TMNT on the NES and Battletoads too. And while I won't go as far as saying they were easy, I would just like to point out that I beat both.
However, the most recent one has to be The Evil Within. This game pretends to be a survival horror and thus limits the amount of ammo you can find. The game then goes and throws you into several ammo sapping shooting gallery arenas and a couple of really tough ones towards the end of the game. Then right after those, it pits you against two Safehead enemies that are definition of the word 'bullet sponge'.
I tried everything I could to beat these guys, sometimes managing to kill one but using all my ammo up and after killing one the room fills with blood restricting your movement. Because I couldn't move quickly and had no ammo, I got killed by the other one. I tried every combination of ammo to beat this area, eventually coming to the realisation that I simply did not have enough ammo to kill these Safeheads without starting the game again. I quit and will never know what the hell that game was about.
However, the most recent one has to be The Evil Within. This game pretends to be a survival horror and thus limits the amount of ammo you can find. The game then goes and throws you into several ammo sapping shooting gallery arenas and a couple of really tough ones towards the end of the game. Then right after those, it pits you against two Safehead enemies that are definition of the word 'bullet sponge'.
I tried everything I could to beat these guys, sometimes managing to kill one but using all my ammo up and after killing one the room fills with blood restricting your movement. Because I couldn't move quickly and had no ammo, I got killed by the other one. I tried every combination of ammo to beat this area, eventually coming to the realisation that I simply did not have enough ammo to kill these Safeheads without starting the game again. I quit and will never know what the hell that game was about.
I never managed to beat the final boss of Secret of evermore on the snes. That's the best i can do sorry.
On the SNES: Mickey's Magical Quest (the boss after you take down the lift to Fire Grotto), The Lion King ("Be Prepared", couldn't even beat it with cheats on), Tiny Tunes (the sci-fi level), Beauty and the Beast (what was probably one of the final levels)... I did eventually beat Mickey, and the Lion King by skipping that one level.
On a more embarrassing note, I never made it past the first boss in Devil May Cry.
On a more embarrassing note, I never made it past the first boss in Devil May Cry.
In Undertale, I couldn't beat Asgore. I had to get my brother to beat him. He was too fast with his fire for me.
Also, in Super Mario 3D World, I can't get past the level where you have to ride the rolling block. It's a little too hard form.
Also, in Super Mario 3D World, I can't get past the level where you have to ride the rolling block. It's a little too hard form.
I never beat Sturm in Advance Wars. There was one time I managed to push my way across the river, but a combination of his meteor strike while also getting all his vehicle reinforcements basically took out my entire army. Even if I did recover, I didn't want to keep dealing with him.
Dark Souls also eventually beat me down. I can't remember the name of the place, all I remember is finding the process of getting to the boss very easy, but the boss seemed designed to punish builds based around speed and dodging (which mine was). The result was a lot of time fighting the same enemies over and over again to the point I could probably have done it all blindfolded, only to then consistently lose at the boss. The game stopped be fun to play, and the world didn't seem that interesting (it was still relatively early in the game I think). So I put it down and haven't looked back.
I'm still sort of waiting to see if Dark Souls 2 does the same thing, but a few changes to that game seemed to have remedied the issue. At the very least, I've seen and done a lot more in that than I ever did in the original, and the whole game seems far more engrossing than the first as well.
Dark Souls also eventually beat me down. I can't remember the name of the place, all I remember is finding the process of getting to the boss very easy, but the boss seemed designed to punish builds based around speed and dodging (which mine was). The result was a lot of time fighting the same enemies over and over again to the point I could probably have done it all blindfolded, only to then consistently lose at the boss. The game stopped be fun to play, and the world didn't seem that interesting (it was still relatively early in the game I think). So I put it down and haven't looked back.
I'm still sort of waiting to see if Dark Souls 2 does the same thing, but a few changes to that game seemed to have remedied the issue. At the very least, I've seen and done a lot more in that than I ever did in the original, and the whole game seems far more engrossing than the first as well.
Final boss of Undertale Genocide mode. It's not just hard, it's stupidly hard. I had a few goes at it (and by a few I mean about 20) and I just wasn't having fun. So since I was pretty sure I was never going to beat it I used cheat engine. And you know what? I was totally right. After seeing all of the boss's attacks there was no way in hell I was going to beat it without hours upon hours of practice. No regrets. There are some people on youtube who have done it without taking any damage at all but I question whether or not they're actually human.
Another one is that God damned Flyin' King level from Earthworm Jim 2. It plays like Zaxxon but instead of just getting to the end of the level you have to awkwardly push a bomb all the way there without it getting blown up or getting yourself killed in the process. So annoying.
Super Meat Boy doesn't have a particular level that I can think of but it does eventually reach the point where my skills aren't able to keep up with the difficulty curve. Areas where I've given up are light world Cotton Alley and dark world Hell.
The final boss from Sonic 2 still ruins my day. I've replayed the Mega Drive Sonics so much that I find them pretty easy for the most part but that boss is still a roadblock. The main issue is that you have no rings and therefore no health and it's really east to hit his spiky arms when trying to attack him.
Elana the Squalid Queen from Dark Souls 2. I've only beaten her once and that was with the help of another player. All the other bosses in the game I've beaten solo apart from the couple I haven't fought yet (Aldia and the Ivory King's two tigers) but Elana was just way too frustrating.
Another one is that God damned Flyin' King level from Earthworm Jim 2. It plays like Zaxxon but instead of just getting to the end of the level you have to awkwardly push a bomb all the way there without it getting blown up or getting yourself killed in the process. So annoying.
Super Meat Boy doesn't have a particular level that I can think of but it does eventually reach the point where my skills aren't able to keep up with the difficulty curve. Areas where I've given up are light world Cotton Alley and dark world Hell.
The final boss from Sonic 2 still ruins my day. I've replayed the Mega Drive Sonics so much that I find them pretty easy for the most part but that boss is still a roadblock. The main issue is that you have no rings and therefore no health and it's really east to hit his spiky arms when trying to attack him.
Elana the Squalid Queen from Dark Souls 2. I've only beaten her once and that was with the help of another player. All the other bosses in the game I've beaten solo apart from the couple I haven't fought yet (Aldia and the Ivory King's two tigers) but Elana was just way too frustrating.
DAMN THAT MEAT-CIRCUS. DAMN IT TO HELL!Spider RedNight said:
Ahem... so, yeah. Psychonauts is a REALLY easy game... until this one last level. I tried it for, i think, two-and a half hours. Then i watched the outro on youtube and was done with it.
You have to time it when he comes down from his stomp. There is a moment right at the bottom of his squat, his arms are all the way back, and there is no way to get hit. You just have to hit him when he is in his standing stance, once he starts moving you will get hit.SmallHatLogan said:
I think I found the airship boss the toughest.
The way I did it was to be the robot toaster dog, charge up the level 3 attack and unleash it. Shit did about 3k damage if memory serves me correctly. Had the human equipped with the rocket launcher and went back to controlling him for rebuffs and healing. If the animation for the dog's attack got interrupted mid-fire, it would allow the dog to fire again. If you had the correct circumstances, the dog would fire his level 3 attack multiple times. The best I ever managed was 5 consecutive shots in one charge but, it was still an easy boss fight for me.Lufia Erim said:
I've never managed to get past the second asteroid shooting section in Dead Space. I was really enjoying the game up until that moment but I ended up finding it so frustrating that I snapped the game disc in half.
The second mission of Mechwarrior 3 Pirate's Moon.
From what I understand, it's impossible since every time I'd use jump jets to cross the canyon and finish the mission my mech would simply topple over like an idiot and be destroyed by the 10 mechs chasing me.
From what I understand, it's impossible since every time I'd use jump jets to cross the canyon and finish the mission my mech would simply topple over like an idiot and be destroyed by the 10 mechs chasing me.
As a kid: MegaDrive: Zero Wing (famed for the "All your base are belong to us") - I couldn't get past the third level, no matter how hard I tried.
Currently: PS1: Parasite Eve 2 - penultimate boss (a big pink blob thing), I've breezed through my replay of the game taking down every other bad guy and challenge with ease, maxing out nearly 100% of the mountain of secrets it has, but this boss keeps kicking my ass, bit like it did back on my first play through.
It's currently put on the shelf whilst it learns to behave before I have another crack at it.
Currently: PS1: Parasite Eve 2 - penultimate boss (a big pink blob thing), I've breezed through my replay of the game taking down every other bad guy and challenge with ease, maxing out nearly 100% of the mountain of secrets it has, but this boss keeps kicking my ass, bit like it did back on my first play through.
It's currently put on the shelf whilst it learns to behave before I have another crack at it.
Okay, I just fired up Sonic 2, used the level select to jump to the last level, and beat him in 10 minutes. I feel very stupid.Glongpre said:
I can do just fine in Allegro Presto, until the third part, where near the end, you have to jump on tiny, slippery platforms, and it requires perfect timing. And even worse, there are enemies you can barely hit on those platforms.FPLOON said:Same... and then, afterwords, I would forget how I got passed it in the first place whenever I replayed said level...VG_Addict said:
Other than that, most of the Nickelodeon THQ games had, at least, more than one level that were very hard to pass... and yet... Also, I still remember getting lost in both Deep Jungle and Traverse Town in the first Kingdom Hearts game... Plus, progressing passed Al's Toy Barn in the PC version of Toy Story 2 has, still, eluded my grasp to this day...
A few days ago, I fired up my old file of Crash Bandicoot 3 on my PSP. I remembered I was trying to get all of the gold relic time trial rewards to see if there really is an extra bonus to doing that. Except for 3 others I haven't tried yet, I found out I'm still stuck on High Time, the 13th level of 25 regular levels. I can't even get within 1 second of the gold time. Most of the level is hanging off monkey bars, switching between the bars and walking (which is wonky and sometimes Crash lets go for no good fuckin' reason) and dodging the typical platformer perils.
I still can't get past any section of Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, even the second level, because of the damned jackal snipers. The little bastards can literally insta-headshot you while facing the opposite direction (bullshit of the highest order there). Every other section is doable with enough perseverance. The snipers are just textbook examples of fake difficulty.
I've given up playing any God of War game on the highest difficulty. I got to the final boss in GoW 1 (where the Kratos clones swarm you) and just can't beat it. All of the other games also make you so sluggish in hard mode that I don't even want to try getting past the intro sequences.
For years, I've also skipped Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3/S3&K, just because of the Barrel of Doom. (The stupid thing is counter-intuitive to how Sonic directly interacts with every other manipulable object in the franchise.) I just glitched past it with the jump trick (or glitched into Knuckles area) and played that save file over again. I finally learned the proper way from either a friend or a magazine right around the time the Sega Saturn was dying. Maybe I'm an idiot (and I was maybe 8 years old) for not trying the simplest solution in other games, but I sure have plenty of company.
(And yes, the airship boss is the worst for me, too.)
I still can't get past any section of Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, even the second level, because of the damned jackal snipers. The little bastards can literally insta-headshot you while facing the opposite direction (bullshit of the highest order there). Every other section is doable with enough perseverance. The snipers are just textbook examples of fake difficulty.
I've given up playing any God of War game on the highest difficulty. I got to the final boss in GoW 1 (where the Kratos clones swarm you) and just can't beat it. All of the other games also make you so sluggish in hard mode that I don't even want to try getting past the intro sequences.
For years, I've also skipped Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3/S3&K, just because of the Barrel of Doom. (The stupid thing is counter-intuitive to how Sonic directly interacts with every other manipulable object in the franchise.) I just glitched past it with the jump trick (or glitched into Knuckles area) and played that save file over again. I finally learned the proper way from either a friend or a magazine right around the time the Sega Saturn was dying. Maybe I'm an idiot (and I was maybe 8 years old) for not trying the simplest solution in other games, but I sure have plenty of company.
Thanks for the tip. If I ever try to finish the Stairfax Temperatures file I've put on hold for over a year, it certainly will come in handy. I used to put the controller down and hammer on it with my index finger, for the two times you had to do that stupid test.CandideWolf said:
You actually can hit him when he is standing upright. It just requires a good running jump, the right timing, and throwing caution to the wind. I've seen people take ol' 'buttnik out in less than a minute that way.Glongpre said:
(And yes, the airship boss is the worst for me, too.)