What games have bested you?

[greedostick]

I was thinking the other day that thre is quite a few games I have yet to beat. Mainly cause back in the day they were too hard. I am gonna tackle a few of these games the next few weeks and see if I can get some redemption. Here is a list of games on my S**T List that deserve my attention.

Solomans Key - NES - Made it to the last 4 stages. May be impossible.
Kid Chameleon - Genesis - I think this game was made by Satan.
Rush n' Attack - NES - **sigh**
Metal Warriors - Snes - I think I can do it!
Rolling Thunder - NES - Made it to the last guy. I think I can do it.
Chakan - Genesis - May be able to do it.

What games have you all been unable to beat in the past because they were too hard; and feel like you need to go back and put a whoopin in?

[Kid Ice]

R Type Delta

[maxlords]

Contra Hard Corps (Genesis) Can't beat that damned Zodiac boss

Mega Man 2 :( (NES) Always get smoked by the dragon. Bah.

Phantasy Star 2 (Genesis) Made it to Dark Force....underpowered, under-leveled. Never had the patience to make it again.

Blaster Master (NES) Again...just didn't have the patience for this one

Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) SO. DAMNED. HARD. Damn you wind....DAMN YOOUUUUU!

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) Controls are simply not for extremely left handed people. I can't switch look and move. I just can't.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS) I will beat this game some day. I will.

Eliminate Down (Mega Drive) Good gods is this shooter evil. Awesome...but cheap as hell.

Exile: Wicked Phenomenon (TG16 CD) It's awesome...but the enemies are SO hard. I got maybe halfway and no matter how powerful my guys get, the enemies are nigh invulnerable. They're ACTUALLY NIGH INVULNERABLE! </The Tick>

Xenogears (PSX) This one was the first RPG to beat me. It simply has more stamina than I do. It outlasted me time and time again...and I was weak....so weak...

Adventures of Cookies and Cream (PS2) Man....it is HARD to find someone that matches your skill level closely enough to beat this game in tandem. Try it sometime....you'll be screaming at each other in minutes...guaranteed. Easy way to ruin a relationship if ya need one!

[Ed Oscuro]

Nothing's "bested" me, I either decide it's crap or lose interest - or spend months playing it until I get through it (which is what's happening currently with Contra 4 and why I have yet to get a final review up, sigh).

[Mianrtcv]

Some of the games mentioned fit my list.

An arcade game that I like but don't excel at : Tutankham. I like to play when I can but I don't get anywhere near the recorded high scores no matter what I do.

[roushimsx]

Fuck Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. Even Vic Ireland admits they fucked it up in localization, and he always thinks he's right. I threw the towel in on that piece of shit.

[otaku]

To goddamn many! Chakan is the most recent I just picked up a copy for my genesis, god I suck at that game!

[Therealqtip]

Yoshi's Island DS, not bested just got ticked off at some of the levels. I have beaten this before but just recently tried again and can't just do it...Super Mario World...yea....

[Blitzwing256]

Contra Hard Corps (Genesis) Can't beat that damned Zodiac boss

Mega Man 2 :( (NES) Always get smoked by the dragon. Bah.



use the quickerangs on him, with or without turbo you'll beat him in about 3 seconds (same as gutsdozer)

[greedostick]

To goddamn many! Chakan is the most recent I just picked up a copy for my genesis, god I suck at that game!


Chakan is not easy. I made it really far in that one. I need to give it another try.

I managed to beat megaman 2 on hard, and ninja gaiden 2. Oddly I found ninja gaiden 2 the easiest in the series.

I have been meaning to pick up Cookie and Cream. Is that a fun game?

[greedostick]

I forgot to mention the Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. It's one of the few english gams for the tubo I have yet to own. Is it really that hard? I beat the first Exile for the Duo easily. You all make me want to find it more so I can play it. Something about rally hard games draw me to them. Maybe that's why I spent so much time playing Ghost's n' Goblins and Ninja Giden for NES.

[Aussie2B]

The best example I can come up with is Bikkuriman World for PC Engine. It's basically a PC Engine version of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, but it takes after the arcade original more so than the other home ports. That game is HARD. Like the original Wonder Boy/Adventure Island, the game slowly drains your life, which totally goes against the fact that this game was designed to be kind of RPG-ish, with a focus on exploring to find money, secrets, etc. And if you don't find all the secrets, you're pretty much screwed. There's no way to return to past levels either, and there are no continues nor any way to save the game. Worst of all, the final stage is this absolutely massive maze that is so tough to get through. I spent forever just trying to figure my way through it while still staying alive. I finally find the final boss, and he completely destroys me. Thank the heavens that there's a continue code which restarts you on the same stage with the same items and gold, but even that couldn't help me on the final stage. I tried again and again, and I finally beat the bastard. My boyfriend and I were both ecstatic, and I took a deep breath of relief....... and then he transformed into a new boss. Of course, I died, and I couldn't believe what happened. I knew I had no hope and I wasn't going to continue this futile attempt, so, without saying a word to each other, my boyfriend and I pretended like I had completed the game and turned it off. "Yeah..... great job beating Wonder Boy."

One of these days I need to give it another go and get all the secret stuff, which supposedly helps with the final boss.

[Malon_Forever]

I can't beat Solomans Key (NES) either. It's so hard. Other games would be;

Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels: I always got stuck at this one jump. I should go back to see if it's really that hard

The Adventure of Link: I can never bring myself to play it...

[Garry Silljo]

and ninja gaiden 2. Oddly I found ninja gaiden 2 the easiest in the series.


That's how I felt about 3. Even the limited continues couldn't hide that it was far easier than the rest.

[DefaultGen]

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[Kitsune Sniper]

Any bullet hell games. There's nothing fun about having to be pixel-accurate to survive. :P

[plastic]

Seemingly any R-Type (Super R-Type in particular), Radiant Silvergun, Thunderforce V all give me a lot of trouble.

[G-Boobie]

Radiant Silvergun. I can never get past the third level no matter how perfectly I play the first two.

Any Grand Theft Auto game. I absolutely hate any game that pits you against the controls; I usually get about ten hours in, lose a mission repeatedly to bullshit camera or aiming issues, break a controller, and rage quit permanently.

Legend of Mana. I just can't do it, man. I just can't do it.

[guitargary75]

Castlevania Bloodlines Genesis. I had to use the genie for that one.

[Raedon]

All the NES 'Bart Simpson' games

All the Amiga 'Shadow of the Beast' games. Man are they pretty but even with the unlimited lives hacks that came on some of the bootleg copies I still couldn't get threw them!

NES - The Goonies II - I just got fed up because I'd run out of lives.

NES - Wizards & Warriors - It's always on the top 100 nes games but it's a beast. I know I could have beaten it but I just couldn't find a reason to stick the cart back in. ♪♬ dun dun dun dun DUN DUN DUN DUN! ♪♬

Amiga - Dark Castle - Sure it only had 14 levels, but the rats and bats poisoned your ass! Then you got to go find some elixer. If you fall you don't die you get taken to a hard ass dungeon. This was around the time I picked up Eye of the Beholder and I just gave up and moved on.

[Sword_Of_Vermilion]

I have never been able to beat Cadash for the TurboGrafx-16 or the Genesis. I also agree concerning Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. From what I read somewhere Vic got some negative feedback on the first one for it being too easy, so he decided to make the 2nd one a little tougher and made it way too hard. I wound up giving up early in the game due to frustration.

[Ed Oscuro]

Any bullet hell games. There's nothing fun about having to be pixel-accurate to survive. :P
True. I also don't really like the way most of them look.

[greedostick]

The best example I can come up with is Bikkuriman World for PC Engine. It's basically a PC Engine version of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, but it takes after the arcade original more so than the other home ports. That game is HARD. Like the original Wonder Boy/Adventure Island, the game slowly drains your life, which totally goes against the fact that this game was designed to be kind of RPG-ish, with a focus on exploring to find money, secrets, etc. And if you don't find all the secrets, you're pretty much screwed. There's no way to return to past levels either, and there are no continues nor any way to save the game. Worst of all, the final stage is this absolutely massive maze that is so tough to get through. I spent forever just trying to figure my way through it while still staying alive. I finally find the final boss, and he completely destroys me. Thank the heavens that there's a continue code which restarts you on the same stage with the same items and gold, but even that couldn't help me on the final stage. I tried again and again, and I finally beat the bastard. My boyfriend and I were both ecstatic, and I took a deep breath of relief....... and then he transformed into a new boss. Of course, I died, and I couldn't believe what happened. I knew I had no hope and I wasn't going to continue this futile attempt, so, without saying a word to each other, my boyfriend and I pretended like I had completed the game and turned it off. "Yeah..... great job beating Wonder Boy."

One of these days I need to give it another go and get all the secret stuff, which supposedly helps with the final boss.

I use to have that game for PC Engine. I think I beat it in a few tries. I Do remember some parts being pretty hard though. I am a pretty big wonderboy fan though. So I probably played it until I beat it. I think I have beat all the wonderboy games. Dragons trap for sms was a tough one. The turbo grafx version seemed alot easier.

I forgot about Bart vs. the space mutants. My roomate and I always made it to the dinosaur, and never figured out how to beat it.

[shoes23]

Silver Surfer (NES) - I've tried so many times to beat that goddamn game. I figured I'd prove my gaming manhood by playing it a few times every night until I was able to finish it. I kept up the quest for 2 months playing at least 3 times every night and still didn't beat it. I even tried beating it with save states and it still handed my ass to me, the surfer is just to big and too slow. Never again will I play that game.

[modest9797]

DDR: Universe. I hate you.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Double Dragon I and II are easy enough. But DD3 is just too difficult. I can't get past the 1st stage. Maybe I give up too early? The controls seem sluggish, and the kicks seem awkward. I think I got to stage 2 when I was a kid, but I don't remember much about it. And what happened to at least 3 lives? I hate games with a playing curve this steep very early on.

[robo2]

currently struggling with

altered beast - for some reason cannot beat the last boss
gynoug - stuck on second last level in easy
punchout - on the last bruiser brother at the moment cant knock him down more than one- however only been playing this game for three days

[robo2]

26, do you not get extra lives by beating the bosses, you get to play as them for one life each

[FlufflePuff]

Ninja Gaiden (all of them) come to mind. I can make it to the final boss on 1 and 2, but I've never been able to beat them. Also was never able to finish Metal Gear on the NES.

[greedostick]

Did you like the part where you lose and you start all the way back at Jaquio. That was always my favorite part. Cauese then I got to play all those levels again where the birds flew at you on every jump over a pit. And those really cool wraith looking guys would throw the sticks at you if the birds didn't show up.

[Simply Dave]

Ironsword for NES.

I am 0 for 6,467,753 against that final boss(es).

[jcalder8]

Way too many to count.

Pretty much any Platformer that does not let you save.

[skaar]

Anyone beat One for PSX? The japanese version? :D

Also, this: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

Brutal.

[FrakAttack]

Sinistar. People always say, "That's the point!" but I'm not really that much of a masochist.

[Tommy]

Ren and Stimpy: Stimpy's invention. Couldn't get past those damn hippo's for some odd reason.

[Serragon]

Mach Rider -- unless you make your own track, of course...

[Nophix]

Ikaruga- That game is INSANE!

Metroid Prime: Corruption is on the list right now.

Need For Speed Underground 2- I don't know if it was more tedious or hard, but I couldn't make it past the first few upgrades.

[SegaAges]

Zelda 1 - the 2 headed dragon. You need to use bombs, but I am too lazy to go get them.

[Gentlegamer]

I used to be a master at Contra and Super C (NES), but Contra Hard Corps (Genesis) pwns me.

And I love it.

[CosmicMonkey]

I never managed to do Snake, Rattle n' Roll on the NES when I was younger. I tried the Megadrive version a couple of years ago, and it would appear my coordination had worsened over the space of 16 years. It brought about another session of 'video game tourettes', to say the least.

I'd also like to add that Ikaruga is an evil game, and should be used as an instrument of torture.

[Ruudos]

- Double Dragon (I've beaten Double Dragon II and III, but can;t beat the first game in the series)
- Burai Fighter
- Isolated Warrior

[greedostick]

Zelda 1 - the 2 headed dragon. You need to use bombs, but I am too lazy to go get them.

That's weak! I don't even think you need bombs. You are lazy.

Did anyone here manage to beat kid chameleon without cheating?

[BobaFettHotep]

Here are a few games that keep besting me

Nes: castlevania i always get killed by dracula
legend of zelda 2 cant get past the thunderbird

Snes: super ghouls and ghosts that game is just insane once you get in the underground levels

N64: Goldeneye near the end where you have to fight on the scafold and you climb down the ladder to fight the boss always get pushed off and die

[Julio III]

This year Sonic Rush on the DS has really got the better of me. I got through the game fine its just the last boss. I've put in a good few hours in different sittings but just can't do it. The best i've managed is to get him down to 3 hits left.

The game that most comes to mind though, over the last 10 years is TrickStyle on the Dreamcast. Both me and my friend bought it on Dreamcast launch day. The game was hugely fun but the last level completely defeated us... and continued to do so for years to come. Up until a couple of years ago we used to get together every few months and spend hours repeating that last level in the hope of victory but it never happened. I think my friend told me that a couple of years back he managed it single player. Since the beast had been beat we have never continued our sessions, even though i never witnessed it.

[MrSparkle]

fuckin zero wing bested me to the tune of a broken keyboard trying to beat it on an emulator (couldn't pull it off using save states even!). That was a few years ago so i think its about time to try it again! *stocks up on extra keyboards*

oh also half life 1 stupid final boss. I thought just like the gonarch that id unload everthing i had left and finally see this shit come to an end well good thing i wasted all my good ammo before figuring out you have to shoot all the crystals on the wall then use the jump pads to unload shit into the opening in his head! not really wanting to go back to the previous save to do it over, unable to do it with just the pistol and crossbow though... yea this game has bested me for sure.

[Therealqtip]

Oh when I got a sega when I was a younger child the Lion King freaking made me cry and everyone who tried to help me past the 3rd level or something (I wanna be king level) damn them monkeys and random timer if I can remember correct. and Mario3 I'll get far in a world and have to continue and I just don't feel like it.

[lanemeyer]

Body Harvest - Some damn level where you have to save some school kids.

[Scream And Fly]

NES Ghosts N' Goblins

[Bloodreign]

Twin Cobra/Kyukyoku Tiger- don't play it as much these days, but I can get tons of practice with Toaplan shooting Battle 1 for PSX. Very unforgiving game, though I don't think I'll give up on it anytime soon.

Fire Shark for Genesis- stage 8's boss has been a thorn in my side for years, refuse to play it on easy mode, but sooner or later I have to beat that stage 8 boss carrier.

I'd say arcade Gradius 2, but I'm getting closer to beating it in 1 credit, wiped the floor with it in 3 credits on the PSX Deluxe Pack, could likely do the same with the Saturn Deluxe Pack I own as well. As for Gradius 1, stage 7 has been my end every time, the one time I make it to the brain of the last stage, I was down to my last life, got inside the gates where the brain was, only for a bullet to eek in and hit me, game over. Since then I've not even got close to the brain, but I can consistently make it to stage 7.

As for Gradius 3 arcade, it will forever haunt me, Gradius Gaiden and Gradius 4 (which some find unfair as well) don't quite hold a candle in difficulty as Gradius 3 does, the SNES port back in the day I used to finish in a credit.

[Ruudos]

Oh when I got a sega when I was a younger child the Lion King freaking made me cry and everyone who tried to help me past the 3rd level or something (I wanna be king level) damn them monkeys and random timer if I can remember correct. and Mario3 I'll get far in a world and have to continue and I just don't feel like it.

That's the second level in The Lion King. 3rd level is the Elephant Graveyard.