Video games you gave up on soley due to difficulty

[mikespoff]

Solely due to difficulty eh? I would have to say Magicka. I know it's not that hard if you play with other people, however, that game can be extremely unforgiving if you play it solo and have no one to revive you. It is certainly possible to beat the game by yourself, but it's not easy at all. At least, not for a butter-fingers like me.

Yup, that was my experience too. Looked like fun, started out fun, but then the whole "whoops, you're dead!" thing got old quickly. Haven't gone back.

 

[EGtodd09]

OK, no one say Daemon Souls! (I refuse to use the s at the end of daemon ><)

Age of Mythology is pretty much impossible on the hardest, at least for me XD. I couldn't take it.

1) Isn't it "Demons Souls"?
2) I cheated in Age of Mythology after the second level, those cheats are SOOO FUN though.

 

[mikespoff]

Dragon Age: Origins, Amnesia, TF2, Mount and Blade. These are all the recent ones.

In Mount and Balde you kind of have to just start out by recruiting as many people as possible and fighting large groups of Bandits, then you move up to raiding villages or attacking Lords parties and then you start taking over Castles and town and such.
...And you may want to set everything to Easy.

Just started playing Mount and Blade and loving it. But it certainly helped to spend several rounds in the arena learning to fight in a big chaotic free-for-all. Only after I won (i.e. was last man standing) in the arena fights several times did I head out into the wilderness and battle the roaming bandits.

Also, after getting kidnapped several times I realised that you really need to start out recruiting people as often as possible - I didn't do that at first and it made my starting experience substantially tougher. It's the sort of game that frustrates you a bit for the first few hours and then you grow to love more and more as you get to know the mechanics better.

 

[mikespoff]

I enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins too much to quit (and I really did enjoy it on multiple playthroughs), but I did find the combat frustrating and switched it down to "Casual".

It ended up being far more fun that way.

 

[Reaper195]

Most games on harder difficulties. I don't mind a challenge, but I play games mainly to be entertained, not to see the same death screen over and over to the point in which my blood pressure is dangerously high. Then I just tell the game to naff off and go and play Just Cause 2, where dying simply means you nearly got to BASE jumping five hundred meters.

 

[Hypertion]

Thinking hard...... Ninja Gaiden 2. The difficulties above the second and first usually make me send my controller flying, Fun game though. Other than that tho I mostly fly through game play these days on any difficulty...

On that note I do quite often get bored due to games being too easy. Does that count?

On that note I saw Dragon Age and Mass Effect on other posts and since I can?t explain my confusion regarding.... won?t say anything at all. Quite a few of these examples I remember as a typical brief jog of Boredom.

 

[Zing]

Demon's Souls, DMC4

 

[archaicmalevolence]

when i was around 7 on the very first spyro. Spent weeks trying to kill the second (or was it first) boss. Arrgh still haven't tried since then.

 

[Bobbity]

Ninja Gaidan, on Xbox. Fuck, but that was hard.

 

[SamuelT]

Dwarf Fortress.

God, that game is brutal. Fucking zombie creatures...

Really? Just use magma and bladed weapons.

Well yeah. Now I know, but that was one of my first fortresses. I had no idea how to channel lava, or which weapons were best in what situation. That's what drove me away at first, but I tried again afterward.

 

[John Sheppard]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

 

[Ell Jay]

Lego Star Wars, the podrace.

 

[Harry Mason]

Dear whoever programed Alfred Chicken for the gameboy,
Fuck you.
-Harry

 

[navyjeff]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.
Battletoads.
Jurassic Park for SNES.
Ninja Gaiden for NES.

I'm sure there are plenty of others, but those are the ones that come to mind.

 

[mysecondlife]

my pride refuses to say I gave up on Demon's Souls. Lets just say I took a break from it.

But.. Ninja Gaiden... the need to focus the camera is such a frustration. Now it's collecting dust in my closet.

 

[mysecondlife]

Mass Effect 2 FUCK YOU SCIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

I usually retreat and then snipe. Scions get easier to deal with as you progress through the game.

 

[Jordi]

........
Oh, and also one of the first Tomb Raider games for the PS1. Me and my brother simply couldn't figure out what we were supposed to do.

Was that the one where she was a little girl? I could never figure out what to do on that game.

I haven't played Evil Twin for about four years now. I keep meaning to go back but I really don't want to have to use a guide for that thing. *Grumble, grumble.*

I just looked on Wikipedia (the game is at my mother's house), and I think it is actually the first Tomb Raider. She wasn't a little girl there. Not at all... ^-^ I'm sure it wasn't that hard, but I'm not so sure that at that age (10/11) my English was good enough to understand what was going on.

 

[llubtoille]

rock'n roll racing & skitchin for megadrive are the two that stand out the most,
rock'n roll - I couldn't get past the first level not last,
skitchin - the repair cost > reward = slowly bankrupt.

 

[chanceisshane]

The first Syphon Filter and the first Deus Ex.

Do not remember where I stopped in Syphon Filter but I got stuck in Deus Ex inside a warehouse with only a pistol since I was sneaking through the game. I got caught and did not have the firepower and ammunition to win the fight. I rage quit and have never gone back to it. On another note, I do have the new Deus Ex game pre-ordered since I remember the first being until that point.