When you come to a part in a game that is too difficult, what do you?
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Depends. Sometimes I will just rage and try again later. I'll find sometimes that if I just come back later, I can beat levels that were giving me trouble in one shot. Sometimes, if I get lost I'll look up a walkthrough for one level or something and make sure I'm doing it right. But I never lower the difficulty. I don't know why, but I consider lowering the difficulty worse than looking up a walkthrough.
Ask my wife for her thoughts (if it's a puzzle game), Have my wife (or a friend) give it a try, check online for tips, cheat (though that's rare), try again another time, rage quit (like I did with Mass Effect b4 somebody told me that the squadmates come back to life after combat. I kept restarting the areas thinking they would stay dead like that guy from the first mission.)
Edit: forgot to add "quit and return later"
Edit: forgot to add "quit and return later"
If it's a boss, I try to kill them a few times to learn their moves--The best example of this was the latest one of my feats: the last boss of Prototype, because it required dodging and a hell of a lot of planning. Took me 4-5 tries, but I finally learned the right strategy to beat that bastard once and for all. I hate timed boss battles because it's difficult to adhere to the same strategy you've been doing the rest of the game, and then it throws a brick wall in front of you because the boss is mostly resistant to your normal strategy or does what you do better.
If it's a level in a game, it depends on what I'm stuck on: a puzzle in the game, or difficulty with finding out just what to do. A puzzle in a game may go one of three ways: trial and error until completed, if that isn't working then I look it up, and if that isn't working I just quit, like with Tokobots. The second level has a puzzle that after about 10 trial-and-errors I finally snapped, turned off the game, and deleted it from my PSP. However, if I can't find out what to do I look it up, and if that doesn't work I quit and say "Fuck you game, it's not my fault you didn't tell me what to do."
In RTS games, I generally just change my strategy because most times that's really all it takes, and in games like Plants vs. Zombies it's a matter of changing plant line-up. Again, it depends on what I'm stuck on and what type of game I'm playing--shooters generally involve me getting stuck on a fight, puzzles generally involve getting stuck on a puzzle, RPG means I need some type of new weapon, armor or the like, and strategy games involve patience and re-thinking.
If it's a level in a game, it depends on what I'm stuck on: a puzzle in the game, or difficulty with finding out just what to do. A puzzle in a game may go one of three ways: trial and error until completed, if that isn't working then I look it up, and if that isn't working I just quit, like with Tokobots. The second level has a puzzle that after about 10 trial-and-errors I finally snapped, turned off the game, and deleted it from my PSP. However, if I can't find out what to do I look it up, and if that doesn't work I quit and say "Fuck you game, it's not my fault you didn't tell me what to do."
In RTS games, I generally just change my strategy because most times that's really all it takes, and in games like Plants vs. Zombies it's a matter of changing plant line-up. Again, it depends on what I'm stuck on and what type of game I'm playing--shooters generally involve me getting stuck on a fight, puzzles generally involve getting stuck on a puzzle, RPG means I need some type of new weapon, armor or the like, and strategy games involve patience and re-thinking.
I'll stop playin for a while and talk about it to my friends and see what they have to say.
then I just keep trying till I win.
Persistence is the mother of success........and a walkthrough guide is the father.
then I just keep trying till I win.
Persistence is the mother of success........and a walkthrough guide is the father.
I never just give up. I will keep at something even to and beyond the point of frustration. It always feels much more rewarding after overcoming the challenge, though. It's also the only way you can discipline yourself to do something gruelling like learn fighting moves in a beat em up when you've never played it before. However I find walking away for a break for half an hour or sleeping on it and coming back with a calmer, more focused mind always helps. I don't play anything else until I overcome the challenge or I won't stick to it.
I continue through, hoping I will eventually pass what ever part Im stuck at...
Unless its mind numbingly difficult, then I might just quit
Unless its mind numbingly difficult, then I might just quit