Toughest Training Mission In Gaming

[Roger T. Houston]

I had Gold on all driving tests in San-Andreas, except the one where you have to drive a hopelessly over-steered car through San Fierro, and return, in one minute(?) without hitting anything. That was impossible.. Braking/steering= veering off hitting something, unless you more or less stopped. Steep hills and the way the game doesn't show the car right in front of until you hit it didn't help.

The most annoying thing about that game however was when flying the fighter, trees just "popped up" as you hit them, since the Xbox couldn't draw them early enough.. It was impossible to fly low with that thing..

 

[TheColdHeart]

The training mission of Driver on the PS1, maybe it was because I was quite young at the time but I couldn't do that "technique checklist" in the car park for my life. I had to get a friend to come over and do it for me. After 2 weeks of trying I finally got onto mission 1...

 

[Brokkr]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

I agree. I can't remember which game at the moment, but there was another old star wars flight game that had a training mission that you had to complete before you could start the game. It involved flying through a canyon and not hitting anything. I was never able to complete the training mission and thus never actually played the game.

 

[DYin01]

Driver! I was young back then, but pulling a reverse 180 was difficult. D=

 

[Darth Marsden]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

I agree. I can't remember which game at the moment, but there was another old star wars flight game that had a training mission that you had to complete before you could start the game. It involved flying through a canyon and not hitting anything. I was never able to complete the training mission and thus never actually played the game.

Sounds vaguely like Rebel Assault.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

i haven't come across any hard ones in a while

 

[Vortigar]

Completing all the training and tutorials in VF4:Evo.

Particular note of interest, fuzzy guard followed by a reaction low block.
NB. Block Akira's throw/66P/3P+K mixup after getting hit by PK ten times in a row.

And when you're done, you realize you've only done it for one character, there's 14 more, a lot of stuff overlaps but not all. By the time you've done them all with everyone you do have Evade Double Throw Escape Guarding, Fuzzy Guarding and multiple modified moves in a combo in your wrist though, leaving the application of proper tactics and timing to be perfected through competition.

Ninja Gaiden's practice mode? Wasn't it called challenge or mission instead of practice or training? That's why Guilty Gear's challenges don't count (beat a super charged infinite tension and burst possessing Potemkin who is immune to everything but the 8th hit and beyond in combo's with a Zappa (who is crap at comboing) who starts with 1 hp... ahem...)

 

[Brokkr]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

I agree. I can't remember which game at the moment, but there was another old star wars flight game that had a training mission that you had to complete before you could start the game. It involved flying through a canyon and not hitting anything. I was never able to complete the training mission and thus never actually played the game.

Sounds vaguely like Rebel Assault.

Yep that was it. I don't remember if it was the sluggish controls or what but I never made it anywhere close to finishing that first or second training mission.

 

[Roger T. Houston]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

I agree. I can't remember which game at the moment, but there was another old star wars flight game that had a training mission that you had to complete before you could start the game. It involved flying through a canyon and not hitting anything. I was never able to complete the training mission and thus never actually played the game.

Sounds vaguely like Rebel Assault.

Yep that was it. I don't remember if it was the sluggish controls or what but I never made it anywhere close to finishing that first or second training mission.

I was going to suggest Star Wars: Star Fighter, as it also has a canyon training mission I only barely managed to get through.. Second mission however was even more gruelling, and I never cleared that..

 

[Zac_Dai]

A and S Licenses were a ***** in Gran Turismo games, though I always got them eventually.

Have to agree with others about Driver, I rented that game and never made it to the first mission.

 

[Nargleblarg]

SKATE It took a while to get down how to use the moves and even longer to get them right.

 

[blunted]

definitely Driver, like others have said. I got the game from a friend and never even got to the main story in the year that I owned it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

...Very impossible?

 

[IndieRocker]

The licences in GT4 and GT3 and although its been said the tutorial in driver is harder than any of the levels

 

[ace_of_something]

The worst, though, was probably the original Driver. You had a time limit - 60 seconds, I think - to pull off this list of about 10 different moves while in an underground parking garage surrounded by cars and pillars. The best part was that you couldn't start the actual game until you finished that part. It was awful - why the hell would I need to have a donut completely mastered for a game where you drive around the city streets?

I was about to say that exact thing, I couldn't finish it which coupled with the long load time if you failed nearly caused me to make the playstation into performance art via a hammer. I think I had to wait until a cheat came out to skip that part before i could play the game.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Getting Veteran recommendation in COD4 . The 1st mission.

 

[karmapolizei]

The mazes in X-Wing. Just how impossible can it be?

...Very impossible?

I think even more impossible than that.

 

[Axolotl]

The Temple of Trials.

Worst opening ever.

 

[BmC]

Gran Turismo 4 licenses. I know it has been mentioned, but it's worth mentioning it 1000 times. The special license almost made me cry. And the one where you have to complete Nurburgsring with that old shitty Mercedes...
Good times!