Moments Where You Almost Gave Up in Great Games

[Nuuu]

No reason for most games, i just usually quit a game cuz i get bored for no reason, and just never head back to it for a long time, like the time when i spent a lot of time 100% a game, then i got bored and quit pretty much right before i got the last item for 100% besides the final boss.

 

[an874]

The last boss of God of War 1 on the highest difficulty. Finally beat it, but it was pure torture.

 

[Skoldpadda]

I almost gave up on Sephiroth because I really had to pee. But I beat him, and even sat through the ending movie and the credits (I never skip the credits). Then I peed.

 

[Grygor]

I almost gave up on Sephiroth because I really had to pee. But I beat him, and even sat through the ending movie and the credits (I never skip the credits). Then I peed.

So what exactly was keeping you from pressing start to pause during the battle?

 

[Emiscary]

Boss battle against Shinobu in No More Heroes. That woman had my number.

Of course I then proceeded to whoop her ass following a brief intermission and a muffin.

 

[Jingle Fett]

The strength test in Star Fox Adventures was ridiculously hard at the time, near impossible. Since then I've prided myself in my ability to button mash really really fast. My friends actually had me beat it for them...

Before that, there was also getting that high score in Jetpack and beating the original Donkey Kong in DK64. Beating those games gave you some special coins which was the only way to beat the game. It was brutal.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Well there was Final Fantasy 13. I made it to chapter 11, wherein the game supposedly gets good and...it didn't. Before that though, there were a few bosses (who according to FAQs were piss-easy) who I couldn't get past...despite having hit the level caps at the time.

GTA San Andreas. I almost quit playing that game because of the stupid, difficult, tedious, unskippable racing missions. I ended up quitting in the end though because of the stupid, difficult, tedious, unskippable flying missions. For fuck's sake game; I've been flying in-game for hours and had a high-level flight skill!

 

[Evil Smurf]

test chamber 15 in portal 1. This has caused me to put the game on hiatus for tf2

 

[Quaxar]

Well, I was just robbed of my gigantic medieval british empire by a sudden unexpected game crash where I hadn't saved in ages... I still think I'll give Civ V another chance though. But not right now.

 

[XMark]

The first time I played the demo for the original Deus Ex, I thought the controls sucked and everything looked ugly.

Later on I re-downloaded it and gave it another shot, and got all the way through the demo. Got completely hooked and bought the full game and it still stands out in my mind as one of the best games ever.

 

[rob_simple]

The strength test in Star Fox Adventures was ridiculously hard at the time, near impossible. Since then I've prided myself in my ability to button mash really really fast. My friends actually had me beat it for them...

You've just reminded me that I actually did quit that game during the test of...bravery, I think it was? It was the one where you had to keep the little Tony Hawk's balance meter in the middle but the camera would swing around wildly while you were doing it so you'd end up pushing the thing left or right to the end and having to reload checkpoint, climb a ridiculously long ladder and sit through a cutscene to start the whole stupid thing over again.

Sucked because I was really enjoying that game, otherwise.

GTA San Andreas. I almost quit playing that game because of the stupid, difficult, tedious, unskippable racing missions. I ended up quitting in the end though because of the stupid, difficult, tedious, unskippable flying missions. For fuck's sake game; I've been flying in-game for hours and had a high-level flight skill!

That game had the absolute worst flying controls I've ever seen in my life, I easily spent two hours trying to do the training mission where you have to fly around a mountain because it expected me to do a loop with pinpoint precision which invariably sent my plane straight smack into the aforementioned god damn mountain.

 

[Ljs1121]

The strength test in Star Fox Adventures was ridiculously hard at the time, near impossible. Since then I've prided myself in my ability to button mash really really fast. My friends actually had me beat it for them...

I completely forgot about that game. The strength test nearly made me call it quits for good. But that feeling I got upon finally succeeding... no amount of addictive drug could ever produce the same euphoria.

 

[piinyouri]

Metroid Prime 1

Fighting the ice area boss.
My finger hurt so bad from the length the fight had went and having to continually keep the lock-on trigger held the whole time, I almost quit when I had the thing to less than 2/3 of it's health.

 

[StraightToHeck]

I gave up on Arkham Asylum's first Scarecrow section, due to a combo of stress at forced stealth and lack of checkpoints; had to enlist a friend to do it for me, and then didn't touch the game for over a year.

Then a few weeks before Arkham City came out, I decided to revist it and breezed through the rest in two nights.

So glad I didn't give up on it.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/337998-titan-quest-immortal-throne-windows-screenshot-cerberus-tries.jpg

Someone, somewhere, just broke down in tears.

(It's Cerberus from Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, by the way.)

 

[zachusaman]

Mount and Blade: Warband. It's so ugly and user hostile and awkward to get started in I almost binned it in disgust after the first hour or two.

Then I decided to give it another chance and ended up lost in it for over 200 hours.

oh god this freaking game.. you start out with nothing, running away from a group of 5 bandits, then soon your riding on a horse with 200 knights in your army as you devastate a faction..

oh, and dark souls, every god damn boss fight.

 

[BartyMae]

It was the Frontlines-level, where you attempt to infiltrate the neo-Nazi's territory from the communist tunnels, by sneaking past the frontlines between the two factions at war. It's... Awkward, to say the least. You need to sneak past the reds, find the way through a pitch-dark shaft filled with poisoned air and then gun yourself through half of Tverskaya.

I just knew you were going to mention that level. It really was the rotten part of an otherwise juicy apple. An apple that would sometimes partially explode in your face, that is, but delicious when it doesn't.

Um...you guys realize you can sneak through that entire level without being detected, right? Or that you can sneak-kill everyone, too, (though that's much harder)? In fact, it's possible to do that with every enemy human encounter in the entire game. Love that game...have played through it several times.

(edit) In regards to the topic...uh...nope, can't really think of anything at the moment. Sorry!

 

[shadyh8er]

I did give up trying to beat Resident Evil 4 on Professional. But then my brother did it. Turns out you don't have to kill every enemy you come across! Who knew?

Also almost gave up on God of War 2 on Titan Mode. Made it through the endurance run thanks to "Never Enough" by Five Finger Death Punch playing on the radio.

 

[piinyouri]

Metroid Prime 1

Fighting the ice area boss.
My finger hurt so bad from the length the fight had went and having to continually keep the lock-on trigger held the whole time, I almost quit when I had the thing to less than 2/3 of it's health.

The sheegoth or that giant golem thingie?

The giant golem I believe.

Whichever was the final boss of the area.
(Been awhile. I may have to play Prime 1 again.)