Video games you gave up on soley due to difficulty

[Elfgore]

Overlord that game had a crazy difficulty curve

 

[Daniel Park]

I forgot to mention the end of HL:Ep2. I don't think I ever made it past that.

Also, now that I think about it, I gave up on a lot of the old skool text-based adventures from Infocom. Y'know, Zork and the like... back before online walkthroughs existed.

 

[00slash00]

Final fantasy X. Why? I didn't like the game very much.... I grew sick of it at the end, when you're in sin. I then started to skip every single monster and still annihilated that queer ass wimp Seymour. Then I kept skipping monsters untill I came to the final boss. The whole game was too easy up till now (except yunalesca), so I thought I could kill him easy. I was wrong. He could attack twice each turn, almost killing me each time. As soon as I killed those pagodas, they started spinning again immediately the next turn. I stood no chance and kept dying in no time, 3 times. Not wanting to grind, I gave up on that damn game.

Perhaps its just because I'm a massive sad FF fan and am familiar with all the associated bullshit, but I find this absolutely shocking. I don't want to be nasty, but Yu Yevon is the easiest final boss in the entire series- you don't even have to grind up your levels to one-shot him.
Whenever people bring up the "what was the most disappointing boss fight" type thread, it's always, without fail, my answer.

The attack you need is called Zombie Attack; it's available to Auron first. Then you can sit back and watch it kill itself- no further effort required on your part.

i think hes talking about sin, not yu yevon. as with most ff games, the second to last boss is the real find boss. yu yevon heals you so it is literally impossible to fail that battle

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Prototype, solely because of the end boss.

Spoiler

Why are they attacking me when I'm trying to kill the thing rampaging across the aircraft carrier, whislt trying to stop the entire place blowing to Kingdom-Fucking-Come. [sub]Morons...[/sub]

i found the end boss to be the easiest part of the game. i wouldnt call it a hard game, i would call it frustrating as all hell! i spent most of the time shouting (why the fuck are you attacking me?! theres a monster the size of a small building right there, am i really the biggest threat?!

I had the wrong power upgrades and I spent too much time messing about having fun and elbow dropping civilians. I mostly tried to take it down with helicopters, but gave up before I had to end up buying a new controller.

 

[Kilyle]

Lately, I've been dumping games because they've been too annoying - meaning, I could get past this part if I kept at it, but why keep at it? There are better games waiting for my time.

But the only one I can remember dropping specifically due to difficulty (aside from a couple that I knew would be too hard before I tried them, like I Wanna Be the Guy) was Brave Fencer Musashi. I didn't get very far before I got stymied by a section where you have to jump from one side of a rotating 3d block to another, while being attacked by monsters, while over hot lava. A few tries of that and I said "This isn't the game for me."

Doesn't help that recently I gave the game another try, and couldn't get past the opening scene (where you run from a giant log or boulder or something, Indiana Jones style). When I can't make it through to the first save point, either the game's got problems or I'm just not in the right demographic.

On the flip side: I've been finding lots of casual games that are insultingly easy. I hate them way more than I hate difficult games. (I'm mostly trying them out on the advice of Extra Credits to study even bad games.) And I hate them even more when they force me to walk through yet another "how to click on things" tutorial.

 

[Vampire cat]

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

1) Isn't it "Demons Souls"?

Yes it is I guess, the a in Daemon is kind of worked in from school... And Demons Souls... If they are indeed talking about demons and not some guy named Demon, it's pretty weird to write Demons Souls, isn't it? I mean Demon Souls, it's referring to several souls of demons, Daemons Soul is referring to a single soul of a demon. What is Demons Souls referring to? Why the s after both words? My English may be lacking here, so if I'm missing something, fill me in! It also rolls very, very poorly off your tongue... The two other alternatives would be much better... Remove an S I say!

 

[E-Penguin]

I've tried so many times to play Oblivion, but I suck at leveling up so that my characters can actually fight. Someday, I hope to figure it out.

Simple, all your mayor skills should be the one you never use. This will keep the enemies low-leveled, while you become insanely powerful.

That's what I've heard anyway.

 

[cyber95]

Penumbra. I'm currently hiding behind cover, about five minutes into the game because I hear a weird noise and I'm too afraid to go any further. I'm kind of a wimp.

 

[Thyunda]

Prototype. I gave up on that while I was trying to defend the big pump from the Hunters. It frustrated me that I could barely knock them away from the pump, and they could just swat me away without a second thought.

 

[LazyAza]

Limbo, Dead or Alive 4, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, Street Fighter 6 and a bunch of other indi games I forget the names of. Also some rpgs (mostly jrpgs) I had little patience for.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Metro 2033.
I just suck at it, really badly.

 

[Poltergheist]

Monster Hunter Tri... WAAAYYY TO MUCH TIME INVOLVED

Final Fantasy XII... not a massive grinder when story is lacking

 

[Poltergheist]

Metro 2033.
I just suck at it, really badly.

Totes gets way hard fast... spesh by failure to explain direction

 

[Lerasai]

Psychonauts. I loved the story, characters, and art style, but the PC controls made the game way harder than it should have been and sucked all of the fun out of it. I ended up just quitting and watching a walkthrough for the rest of the story.

 

[theginger]

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.

Do you mean the campaign or skirmishes, 'cos on skirmish even titan level AI is really vulnerable to rushes. If you let them get going they curbstomp ya, but just thor dwarf rush and they get screwed. Campaign is doable, you just have to be fast at getting economy up in the later missions.

 

[carpathic]

Dragon Age Origins (though mostly it was because my computer died and changing my hdd meant that the game would no longer work properly).

Also, Burnout Paradise City. Stupid maps with roads that don't go where they should.

 

[Blaster395]

Difficulty rarely prevents me from getting through something with enough practice. I even managed to survive the OOO mod. The one thing I did have to give up on was Theme Hospital. In later levels epidemics just happen so fast that you lose too much money to be able to fix them.

 

[Ashcrexl]

so many games, because i operate under the assumption that if games are consistently pissing me off, i might need to try another.

most recently:
final fantasy dissidia
killzone liberation
resistance: fall of man on Hard