Moments Where You Almost Gave Up in Great Games

[Nothing Tra La La]

Earliest example I can remember was the damn witch-doctor monkeys in the Jungle Book game for the SEGA. Cut me some slack, I was like six!
Another oldie was fighting Xemnas in KH2. Took me 13 (ironically enough) attempts my first time playing.

More recently, No More Heroes proved to be a *****. Bad Girl in the first game continually whooped my ass until I finally just restarted the entire game to level up more before confronting her again. Then, the boss fight in NMH2: Desperate Struggle against Million Gunman where you fight as Shinobu. That was TORTURE. It made me rage so hard. Felt so good to finally shank that old bastard.

 

[CommanderL]

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.

Yep this so much this bought it thought it was utter crap a month later i gave it another change _i ended up putting fifty hours into that week

 

[Death Carr]

Batman: Arkham Asylum.
The final scarecrow part where your screen goes all weird. I freaked out, leaped out of my chair and turned my Xbox off. When I went to replay it the next day, it did it again. I was convinced my disc was screwed up and I would never get to finish it. It wasn't until Arkham City was about to come out, that I looked it up and realised that it was intentional.

 

[LookingGlass]

There's a mission about 2/3 of the way through Valkyria Chronicles which made me want to kill something. It's stopped me from playing the game again (so far) despite how much I loved the rest of it. If I remember it correctly, you have to survive a a few turns without getting killed by an invincible female enemy who insta-kills anyone she can get line of sight on.

 

[Catfood220]

Batman: Arkham Asylum.
The final scarecrow part where your screen goes all weird. I freaked out, leaped out of my chair and turned my Xbox off. When I went to replay it the next day, it did it again. I was convinced my disc was screwed up and I would never get to finish it. It wasn't until Arkham City was about to come out, that I looked it up and realised that it was intentional.

Yeah, you are not the only one that thought that something was wrong with the game when that happened (which was hightened by the fact that the game had crashed earlier on in the game). When I realised what had happened, I liked it, it was a nice homage to the insanity moments of Eternal Darkness.

 

[Nazulu]

Diablo 2 - I hate the underground little passage ways in the desert stage filled with all annoying enemy's. Sometimes I think of it before replaying and it stops me.

 

[IrateDonnie]

The Bunker in Uncharted. Yeah...I don't handle horror well in games at all, and that was such a sudden and unwanted shift.

Was that the part where the zombies showed up? That was where I stopped playing the first Uncharted.I still haven't gone back to try & finish it. I've hated horror games ever since the first Resident Evil when the damn dog jumped through the window.
Another game that really creeped me out was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.,I was going through a tunnel or something & some monster jumped out & started screaming at me & I said fuck this shit...I haven't played it since. I never made it past Croc in Arkham Asylum either,too tense for me.

 

[Catfood220]

There's a mission about 2/3 of the way through Valkyria Chronicles which made me want to kill something. It's stopped me from playing the game again (so far) despite how much I loved the rest of it. If I remember it correctly, you have to survive a a few turns without getting killed by an invincible female enemy who insta-kills anyone she can get line of sight on.

Yeah, that is a huge pain in the arse as she turns up just as you take out the second radiator on the huge tank. Ok, try to take out all the machine guns on the side of the tank before Selvaria turns up, that will make life easier. Move all units that aren't lancers towards the base at the oppposite end of the map, there is a load of scenery to hide behind where she can't see you, this should keep useful units like Rosey and Alicia alive so you have the extra movement points.

Do whatever you do to take the first 2 radiators out, when she turns up, use your tank to shield your lancers (and whatever other units, you want at least 1 engineer to keep ammo and health topped up) from Selvaria's attacks, her attacks will have very little effect on the your tank and whenever she gets close the Edelweiss's machine gun will automatically stop her in her tracks should she make a move to get you as well as taking out the troops that come as her support too.

Now, if you have played this smart, you will of left the radiator on the side opposite to the way she comes until last, you can use the Edelweiss as a shield against her and the big tank, you won't take much damage and you can use your engineer to repair your tank. Take out the final radiator and the enemy can't use their main cannon, you should be using the debris in the battlefield to slow down the tank, without the main cannon they can't blast through the walls you put in their way which means they're going nowhere, leaving them to your mercy. Of which you have none.

Hope this helps, this one of the tougest battles in the game.

 

[figday]

Amnesia The Dark Descent.

Will get back to it, someday..

urghhh

 

[figday]

EDIT : double post :/

 

[BLAHwhatever]

Well, my parents bought me a copy of Zelda on Gameboy.
I was 8.
I'm german.
Game was in English.
No way to understand the clues that guide you through the dungeons.
I screamed at my gameboy "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DOOOOOO?!", read the manual 100+ times, a goddamn dictionary in hand, (again, I was eight), tried to translate the in game texts, failing horribly.
Played it again when I was 16 or somesuch after rediscovering the cartridge and beat it in a few hours.

I still can feel the rage and disappointment echoing from the past.

 

[Mordekaien]

I recently began to play Fallout New Vegas DLC Dead Money. Don't judge me.
I am very close to rolling another character.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

The flying missions in San Andreas

I hear ya, bro.

As for myself:

In Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, there's that one bit where you're sailing to Devil's Reef and you get attacked by the fishmen. Then they run away as some wizards on the coast start summoning tidal waves to drown you. You have to hit them with the ship's canon through the rain and fog on an island in the distance, in a time space with just enough time to fire one shot in between waves that beat you to a pulp. The Steam version is essentially unplayable at this point, because a glitch in the game makes the wizards practically invisible. I gave up on the game for over a year until I found a mod that allows you to skip that part. Then during the end portion of the game where the submarine fires a torpedo at the underwater city and you're supposed to escape it as instantly lethal debris falls all around you, there's this part at the gated tunnel where you have a 1/100 chance of passing through without being crushed to death. After around 40 tries at getting past this part I just gave up and looked up the ending on youtube.

And then there's that part is System Shock 2 where you need a certain amount of points in a skill to proceed, but have no warning of ahead of time...

 

[LetalisK]

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.

Yep this so much this bought it thought it was utter crap a month later i gave it another change _i ended up putting fifty hours into that week

Warband is one of those games I visit every so often for a little bit. I'm always put off by how unbelievably useless the allied AI for the Lords is and end up just taking another long hiatus from running back and forth across my lands defending what the lords are too stupid to defend instead of expanding.

 

[Shuguard]

I almost quit playing dark souls after dying maybe 10-15 times on Ornstein and Smough, but i eventually figured out after a short break that i could block Smough's super lightning fat arse attack. Then i found the largest rack of all racks and there was rejoicing.

 

[Deadyawn]

Metro 2033 is one of my all-time favorites so far, but it was a near miss on that one.

The first time I tried it out, I was dumped into the game's bad level, and... It's odd that such a great game have that big a nadir right in the middle of it.
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.

All of the things I liked about Metro 2033, the immersion, the psycological aspect, the ruined vistas... Everything, is absent in that level, and it's just like playing a boring, regular FPS where you get killed alot inside a concrete cupboard. Only to be rendered helpless and getting a beating by two nazis you evidently missed in a cutscene. Uuuughh...

I'm glad I gave it the benefit of doubt when I found it in the sales-bin. That level can go to hell, but the rest of it was worth the tedium.

I did that level just yesterday and I got so sick of trying to sneak past all of them so I just gunned them all down. It took a while but I got it done.
But I am quite enjoying it.

 

[chadachada123]

I got stuck in Ocarina of Time years and years ago, and never ended up beating it until the 3DS remake.

I think that's pretty much it for me. Most games I either got bored or plowed through, as far as I recall.

 

[mysecondlife]

Mass Effect 2, the collector ship in insanity mode. Squad mates kept dying and I was low on med kits.

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

..and I was about to go to bed.

I'll probably be cursing Aries in my sleep

 

[SilverBullets000]

I did give up on Skyward Sword becuase those damn trials where you have to collect those damn tears are so damn tedious. Damn!

When I was little, I hated playing Super Metroid because I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Then I got older and tried again, and beat the game. One of the best games I've ever played too.