Times you got stuck in a game.

caspa307

LuckyFinigan wrote: »

A more recent one for me would be playing Max Payne 3 on hard.

The part on the roof of the hotel when everything's collapsing

got a bit frustrating after about 20 attempts.

the where the dude pops up with a rocket launcher? GRRR:mad:

SeantheMan

Any Lucas Arts Adventure game. Monkey Islands, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle.
Most recently Braid and Dark Souls :P

LuckyFinigan

caspa307 wrote: »

the where the dude pops up with a rocket launcher? GRRR:mad:

I think there was a guy with a rocket launcher at one point. There was also one of those heavily armored guys which has you pinned down, its nearly impossible to get a shot at him.

caspa307

LuckyFinigan wrote: »

I think there was a guy with a rocket launcher at one point. There was also one of those heavily armored guys which has you pinned down, its nearly impossible to get a shot at him.

thats the one im thinking of! wasnt even hard just awkwardly frustrating

Schwiiing

Spartan: Total Warrior. Final boss battle with some greek god. Took me a few hours to do the previous 13 missions in 1 go and 2 weeks and 2 TVs to do the last 1. Demolished a controller and a TV in the process.

AnCapaillMor

Extermination on the PS2, resi type game got to near the end and couldn't figure what to do after that, ran around the whole map several times to no avail.

Gargoyles in demons souls, just a bloody tough fight, finally made some headway into the gargoyle and a 2nd popped up.

Josey Wales

I just remembered that I gave up on Dark Souls earlier this year. I was enjoying the game but I got to a point that I could no longer progress and I think it was very early too. I had a few different paths open to me but every way there was an enemy I couldn't beat. I remember asking for tips in the big thread here about the game but it was no use. I was even levelled way, way over where I should have been at that point according to people who now the game well.

It's a shame because I was enjoying it.

Skerries

I had to give up on Splinter Cell: Double Agent due to this annoying puzzle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOt1Luc_7Fs

also never finished Far Cry because of the end of game baddie

CastorTroy

Schwiiing wrote: »

Spartan: Total Warrior. Final boss battle with some greek god. Took me a few hours to do the previous 13 missions in 1 go and 2 weeks and 2 TVs to do the last 1. Demolished a controller and a TV in the process.

The fecking escort mission was the part that made me use Action Replay. Seriously, if I'd heard "Spartan, help me" one more time I was just going to kill him myself. Actually, I think I did.

I stopped either GTA 3 or Vice City when I got fed up of trying to fly the remote helicopter through the multi storey car park. At least I took a break but other games have gotten in the way since

BopNiblets

GTA San Andreas, the car dealer ship near your garage, you had to do some fancy 360° ramp flip to unlock it.
Gave up on PC, I think it was for console controllers only or some crap.

Mr.Nice Guy

I got stuck very early in Red Dead Redemption trying to beat that chick in the horse race. I heard 'I trust you're not gonna be a gentleman about this' over and over and over. Unfortunately there was no option to pull out a gun and shoot her horse in the leg so I never managed it. I think there was an option to play on in the game even without completing this objective but I was too fed up to do so.

blaa85

Dozen Wicked Words

Been stuck lots of times, but the one that still annoys me is the Heart of Darkness on the PS1. I think I got right to the end, or very near. You have to fight a seemingly endless supply of the baddies, coming from both sides of the bridge. Just could not do it, thinking about it now maybe there was something other than the shadowy baddies I should have zapped but didn't at the time and haven't played it since, too traumatised.

caspa307

blaa85 wrote: »

:mad: blood is actually boiling right now

ancapailldorcha

I tried Demon's Souls on NG+ a while back and it's a good step up from the first playthrough. In Dark Souls you can upgrade your armour. The fact that you can't in the original means you're stuck with the same equipment against significantly tougher enemies with little or no improvement on your part.
Parts of Far Cry, namely the first Crow fight drove me to the point of shutting down my laptop for fear of throwing it across the room.
The Feral Chaos manikin in Dissida 012 is also really nasty unless you set up certain characters in a certain way.

richymcdermott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orZrlc-gGUY

Actually making my blood boil thinking about this mission again :mad:

:pac:

dastardly00

IIRC in Colin McRae Rally (the first one), you had to finish in the top 6 of a rally during the season in order to progress to the next rally. The rally of Sweden took me months to complete!

Duggy747

Castlevania: Simon's Quest

What a cryptic fùckin' game that was. Constantly throwing holy water just so you won't get stung by a see-through block that drops you to your death.

Nody

Eye of the Beholder 2 - Silver Tower level 4. It was a huge maze with illusion walls, buttons to be pressed at one end to open the doors in another, areas where you'd be flipped 180 degrees and all walls looking the same (illusion or not) with creatures with 75% damage reduction chasing you (except in a small time window). Never got through that level until I got hold of a map.

Big Knox

Nody wrote: »

Eye of the Beholder 2 - Silver Tower level 4. It was a huge maze with illusion walls, buttons to be pressed at one end to open the doors in another, areas where you'd be flipped 180 degrees and all walls looking the same (illusion or not) with creatures with 75% damage reduction chasing you (except in a small time window). Never got through that level until I got hold of a map.

Only played through it again recently and that level still gets me. :mad:

The one game that comes to mind for being insanely difficult and having numerous rage inducing moments is Shadow of the Beast 2.

The game was well ahead of it's time and easily one of the best games of it's era but man was it unfairly hard. Imagine Dark Souls with one life, no bonfires or estus flask and you get the idea!

titan18

In GTA:San Andreas, the flight school series of missions. Thing pissed me off more than any other.

some random drunk

Zelda Ocarina of Time - The Forest Temple.

There's this bit on a stairwell where you're supposed to shoot arrows at paintings on the wall. You have to shoot when you see a ghost in the painting, but if you go too close the ghost disappears.

There's nothing in the game to suggest you need to shoot at them and I'd already discounted them as I'd shot at them before just for the craic but must have had my timing off by a milisecond. Spent about a week wandering round and round the forest temple in frustration, looking for what I was supposed to do. Drove me absolutely bonkers.

That segment is 30 secs in to this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kec-Pcr5x40

Retr0gamer

Nody wrote: »

Eye of the Beholder 2 - Silver Tower level 4. It was a huge maze with illusion walls, buttons to be pressed at one end to open the doors in another, areas where you'd be flipped 180 degrees and all walls looking the same (illusion or not) with creatures with 75% damage reduction chasing you (except in a small time window). Never got through that level until I got hold of a map.

Use graph paper

Stompbox

I seem to remember taking yonks to find the unmanned Raptor in Zone of The Enders.

Soby

SeantheMan wrote: »

Any Lucas Arts Adventure game. Monkey Islands, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle.
Most recently Braid and Dark Souls :P

With the signpost

Sgt Hartman

This bastard section from Zelda:Majora's Mask. I could never ever manage to save the girl from being abducted by the aliens and I stopped playing it as a result:mad:

Canis Lupus

Great game but the level design of either Jedi Knight 1 or 2 (can't remember which) was often as frustrating as ****. Some levels had me running around for ages looking for the way forwards.

gimli2112

Downloaded FF7 for the PS3. Had finished it several times before. Played about 3/4s way through and put it away. When I came back to it much much later I couldn't remember what I had to do next. Wandered round the map for months.

I got seriously stuck in RE1 with the paintings on the wall you had to click switches in a certain order. I'd rant at mates in pubs who hadn't a clue what I was talking about. Turned out it had a pretty easy solution but I nearly went mental trying to figure it out.

saiint

Josey Wales wrote: »

I just remembered that I gave up on Dark Souls earlier this year. I was enjoying the game but I got to a point that I could no longer progress and I think it was very early too. I had a few different paths open to me but every way there was an enemy I couldn't beat. I remember asking for tips in the big thread here about the game but it was no use. I was even levelled way, way over where I should have been at that point according to people who now the game well.

It's a shame because I was enjoying it.

same happened to me
although i didnt give up :d
trust me when you complete the game
you could start a new game and youd end up finding it very easy to play
although im stuck on ng+ damn boss is too hard and no one is my level to help me

razorblunt

Ocarina of Time the water temple level, I cleared it first time, came back to the game about a year later and for the life couldn't remember how to get past a certain section. One day I sat there for 20 mins just looking at the screen wondering how expensive a new tv would be if I threw my controller through it, when my dad walked in:

"What are you doing?"
"Ah stuck on this level for the last week and it's wrecking my head"
"Are you trying to get onto that ledge?"
"Yeah, why?"
" Why don't you use that hook on the wall (or something to that effect)?"
".............. get out Dad.<proceeds to use the hook on the wall>"


I have a feeling he was sneakily playing my games, I remember when I was 7 and he randomnly suggested a game of NBA Jam on the MegaDrive, game went to overtime and I just about beat him 107-104, still think he may have left me win that one!