Games that made you throw in the towel...

[hellraiser]

Lets hear about um guys... The games you just couldnt beat.
Pissed off wife/girl friend, broken controllers ,late hours and holes punched in walls I want to hear all about it.

Mine is mega man 7... Im on the last boss and just cant do it. Its been months. Ive come close but nope... I swore id beat them in order and the x series is collecting dust just waiting... Argh!!!!@_@


So what game gets under your finger nails???

[Smashed Brother]

Playing through Godhand (PS2) on Hard mode. I know it can be done, but I really don't have the patience to even begin cracking that nut.

[InsaneDavid]

Kingdom Hearts. Oh look, I slid off another platform I was firmly planted on.

THERE. IS. NO. EXCUSE. FOR. BAD. COLLISION. DETECTION.

At least it was fixed in Kingdom Hearts II, which just made me want to try to play the first one again. :shameful:

[staxx]

Gradius 3 Arcade, no such thing as up up, down down left right left right b a. Oh no, you die you may as well stop playing. Plus the game is not forgiving at all. Even Gradius IV was much easier.

[Emperor Megas]

Silent Hill 4: The Room - Not because it was difficult, but because it sucked so much ass.

Resident Evil Zero - Again, I quit because I simply lost interest. I love survival horror games, but RE0's partner system ruined the atmosphere for me and the game ended up boring me to tears.

There are a ton of games I shelved because I didn't really care for them, but these two were different in that I had very high expectations for them. I typically complete the games that I play, so when I shelf one in a series or genre that I'm a fan of, it's noteworthy.

Also, most bullet hell shooters. I enjoy them for their aesthetic, but I never put in the time to learn all of the bullet patterns, and since I never continue in arcade style games, I never end up beating them.

[bartre]

Mega Man X4 - I can breeze through the whole game - up until the last stage - with either character. I just can't beat the last version of sigma. Still love that game though.

Zombies Ate my Neighbors - not HUGELY hard, but it's just so damned long. that, and the fact that you have 10 neighbors to rescue, and the losses stack between levels.

[Parodius Duh!]

Holy Diver for the Famicom, cant pass level 4, and it took a long time to get that far!

[SpaceHarrier]

Silent Hill 4: The Room - Not because it was difficult, but because the second half was the same as the first half but in reverse.

Guilty Gear X2 - I-no is a bitch. Eff her and that guitar spam attack. Controller go SMASH! (had a pic somewhere..)

Top Gun (nes) - Doesn't matter how well I played a stage, I never could land on the damn aircraft carrier. Except once on accident. Haven't played this game in years, man I should see if it's still as hard.

[Steven]

Mine is mega man 7... Im on the last boss and just cant do it. Its been months. Ive come close but nope... I swore id beat them in order and the x series is collecting dust just waiting... Argh!!!!@_@


So what game gets under your finger nails???


Ironically, MM7 is the only MM game I've beaten so far, go figure. The last boss in MMX gave me fits, and he's supposedly real easy too. Might have to give him another go at some point. Dr. Wily in MM7 is easy if you use a certain weapon...

I'll state the obvious: Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts

[j_factor]

Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. Anyone that's tried to progress in that game will understand why.

[megasdkirby]

Ghost and Goblins. Seriously. It was the only game that made me want to destroy it and send it to where it belongs: hell.

[Swamperon]

Sonic & Black Knight.

I actually enjoyed Secret Rings, despite a few flaws and played it thoroughly. But this.. eugh. The sword fighting does not work, it's dull, repetitive and is not in synch with the motion controls. I got to the Blaze boss fight and just gave up.

It remains the only 3D Sonic game I haven't completed. Maybe one day I will but meh...

[jrokshady]

Super Mario Bros. 3 World 8

As a kid I tried to get past it hundreds of times. Didn't beat it until 1997.

[Rob2600]

The first thing that comes to mind is the Ninja Gaiden series on the NES. I've been able to get to the final boss in the first one, but could never beat him. I get almost nowhere in the third one.


Top Gun (nes) - Doesn't matter how well I played a stage, I never could land on the damn aircraft carrier.

Once you get the hang of it, landing on the aircraft carrier is very easy. (Keep in mind, when the game tells you "Up," you actually have to press down on the d-pad, and vice versa.)

[Graham Mitchell]

Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. Anyone that's tried to progress in that game will understand why.

I guess victor ireland admitted somewhere that when they ported that over they accidentally fucked up some code somewhere that threw off the difficulty balance. I could never beat the grim reaper boss, even after hours of grinding. Too bad because it's actually a good game.

Legacy of the Wizard has haunted me since 5th grade. I try and try, but to no avail. Xemn's area was the final straw.

[PentiumMMX]

Mega Man 8

I managed to beat all 8 robot masters and got to Wily's fortress...only to be stopped by one of those stupid hoverboard stages, which just had to be the 1st stage up in his fortress. No matter how many times I tried, I couldn't get past that part; leading to me throwing in the towel and skipping to MM9

[Steve W]

Ghost and Goblins. Seriously. It was the only game that made me want to destroy it and send it to where it belongs: hell.

Amen. I tried to get through that damn game and couldn't make it, over and over. What was worse was my brother made it to the end after repeated tries. I could only make it about two-thirds into the game at best.

Futurama on the Xbox. The game was fairly fun to play until you had to play as Leela and go through a room with pillars that sink into lava, jumping from platform to platform. The problem was that the camera wouldn't keep up with you, so you'd eventually jump into lava and die. I went from having something like 17 extra lives to nothing in just a few minutes. Gave up on the game after that.

[Kitsune Sniper]

That fucking final boss stage in Sly Cooper 1.

Oh sure, I can shoot the bastard down. But getting to Clockwork while platform jumping, on a timer, with lasers shooting at you? And if you die, you have to do it all over again, INCLUDING THE FUCKING SHOOTING SEQUENCE? (A good FIVE MINUTES)

FUCK YOU, SUCKER PUNCH. THAT'S NOT HOW YOU MAKE A GOOD GAME.

[heybtbm]

Chuck Norris Superkicks (2600) and Last Battle (Genesis). No idea how a human could finish those games legit.

[NE146]

I've pretty much mastered and beaten all the G&G games, all the NES Ninja Gaidens, the Mega Mans, and I even finished Top Gun.

However I do remember giving up on one game.. Actraiser 2 on the SNES. That game was impossible to me. :p

[Emperor Megas]

Silent Hill 4: The Room - Not because it was difficult, but because the second half was the same as the first half but in reverse.AMEN! Such bullshit.


Chuck Norris Superkicks (2600) and Last Battle (Genesis). No idea how a human could finish those games legit.Last Battle is actually somewhat easy once you understand the order in which you tackle the stages, and once you learn the patterns to each boss encounter. With that said, I never actually beat the game. It's weird, because I actually love the game, I just never comment to it. It's something about the mellow music that makes me just want to chill out when I play it, and not take it too seriously. I'll play it every so many months (or years, in some cases), and will forget the patterns, but get my fix, so I won't continue to play it again for some time.

I thought that it was an amazing game to have when the Genesis first released. It was during the advent of the popularity of Anime in the states, and Fist of the North Star was a pretty huge deal with my group of friends. Last Battle was the sort of game that was awesome to play in small doses between Phantasy Star II and Ghouls 'N Ghosts sessions.

[jammajup]

Alien Soldier On Megadrive/Genesis,i love games but not bosses and this game is like some sort of Boss-fest ,after playing this i feel like i could punch through walls and flip cars aver with one hand it gets to me so much,,,GGrrrr lol

[InsaneDavid]

Exile: Wicked Phenomenon. Anyone that's tried to progress in that game will understand why.

Agreed. Exile 2 is the flat out definition of a broken game.

[Emuaust]

Super Ghouls and Ghosts is the only game ive ripped out of the console while still turned on and thrown across the room.

[Blitzwing256]

I guess victor ireland admitted somewhere that when they ported that over they accidentally fucked up some code somewhere that threw off the difficulty balance. I could never beat the grim reaper boss, even after hours of grinding. Too bad because it's actually a good game.

Legacy of the Wizard has haunted me since 5th grade. I try and try, but to no avail. Xemn's area was the final straw.

You don't actually have to use xemm at all, you can beat his stage with the daughter (lyll i think was her name) theres one spot where you have to use the jump boots then mid jump switch to the matlock and break a brick to the right) then you can beat the level as her MUCH easier than with xemm.

[Gameguy]

Lure of the Temptress. Usually when I play adventure games I play them through to the end, but I gave up on this one as it really got annoying.

To make the game seem more realistic the characters are able to freely travel through the game and talk to other characters. You can never find them when you need them, they just keep moving to another part of the game before you can find them. Plus the game map is circular with several paths to travel between different areas, you can just keep missing them for 10 minutes or more at a time. Combine that with boring characters and an uninteresting plot and you'll see why I didn't bother to play though it.

[drmay]

Contra Hard Corps and ANY Mega Man game.

[SEGA_Queen]

Sonic & Black Knight.

I actually enjoyed Secret Rings, despite a few flaws and played it thoroughly. But this.. eugh. The sword fighting does not work, it's dull, repetitive and is not in synch with the motion controls. I got to the Blaze boss fight and just gave up.

It remains the only 3D Sonic game I haven't completed. Maybe one day I will but meh...

For me it's the exact opposite. I love SatBK, but I hate SatSR. The fact that you have to earn decent controls (stupidest idea ever), and are forced to play every mission (including the crappy "don't break anything" ones) to proceed ruined it for me.

[kupomogli]

Sonic Adventure. I've only played a single stage and already disliked it, but after beating Robotnik in the second part I couldn't find where to go to get to the second stage so thought it was a good time to quit the game.

[shopkins]

I'd like to be one of those people who can say they beat Ghosts N' Goblins, but I just can't do it. I can only get about halfway through.

I gave up on Batman: Dark Tomorrow for the Xbox because it was just so bad and the bosses were so unbalanced. It was a shame because I was trying to beat every superhero game of that generation.

And I gave up on Ninja Gaiden Black for Xbox. It just got too frustrating after a while and it put you so far back sometimes if you died at a boss.

[The 1 2 P]

The first thing that comes to mind is the Ninja Gaiden series on the NES. I've been able to get to the final boss in the first one, but could never beat him. I get almost nowhere in the third one.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. For Ninja Gaiden 1 I can get to the final boss but I could never beat his first form(and he has three I believe). And Ninja Gaiden 3 is the only game of the original three that I can't easily run thru the first 3 levels or so without dying. I only played NG3 a few times but I couldn't even get pass the first boss.

I'm also going to add Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes because I'm currently playing thru it now. If you like shady ass platformers were you are falling to your death 70% of the time you jump, simple yet unbalanced puzzles where you know the direction to turn the analog stick but turning it the same way ends up having different results each time and also being required to shoot multiple targets without the assist of an aiming reticle(except on secondary weapons) then this is the game for you.

Since this game is based on the cartoon network series I figured it was for kids. Well I'm sure it is but I can't imagine many kids under the age of 15 beating this. I haven't completely given up yet but it is beyond frustrating.

[jdc]

The end boss in Final Fantasy 8. All I've ever heard is stuff like...."oh, my buddy beat her no sweat"....."you just have to get Squall's whatever whatever whatever"....."she's pretty easy, all you have to do is...."

All I know is that I survived for over two hours as the bitch took every single last party member, item and ability away from me until I had nothing to heal with as she kept taking me down to one lousy HP. I still have my save file right outside her door, and I've never brought myself to step on through and try again. Easy, my ass. It still pisses me off.

[gameofyou]

Magician Lord on the AES.

[Porksta]

I usually do not attempt to beat a game. If it is tough and I cannot beat it after a few tries I lose interest. I have so many games that I have never played I just move to one of those. Then maybe a month or so later I will want to play the game then remember that I was stuck at a part and decide to play something else.

Although I do remember playing Ninja Gaiden Black and wondering why everyone thought it was a hard game as I was coasting through it. Then I got to level 3 or so and realized why everyone was complaining.

[todesengel]

Magician Lord on the AES.
This fucking game. I got to level 4 and after an hour said fuck it. Those frog enemies are bullshit.

[Graham Mitchell]

This fucking game. I got to level 4 and after an hour said fuck it. Those frog enemies are bullshit.

It's a beautiful game but I don't think it's humanly possible to beat it. I think level 4 did me in as well.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Magician Lord isn't a game. It's concentrated SNK Boss Syndrome.

[shinobimusashi]

Sega Joe Montana Sports Talk Football, for Genesis. Nice running commentary, and some great looking player sprites with a full season mode via password, but the broken passing system, and poor collision detection make it too difficult for its own good.

For a 1991 release that game was years ahead of its time, and I really, really want to like it, but at the end of the day I find it unplayable. I threw in the towel on this one for sure.

[Lanzo]

I remember being little and never being able to beat the game Marko for genesis. I would always get to some circus level and some bastards blowing fire or something would kill me every fucking time. That and the end of God of War 2 cost me a ps3 controller.

[hellraiser]

Ironically, MM7 is the only MM game I've beaten so far, go figure. The last boss in MMX gave me fits, and he's supposedly real easy too. Might have to give him another go at some point. Dr. Wily in MM7 is easy if you use a certain weapon...

I'll state the obvious: Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts

Dude... I hear you loud and clear.... and still cant do it.
I landed up cheating sometime around a month into not beating him.

(Start montage now)

Looked up some vids on youtube... studied my foe. Looked up strategy guides... researched my foe. Went to cheating forums....took notes on my foe. I WAS READY!!!!!!!!!

(End montage now)



After gettin to Dr. Wily maxed out on e-tanks and my weapons filled to the brim....

I GET MY ASS WHOOPED!!!

[emceelokey]

Strider. I just rmemeber it was one of the later levels and the problem was with some platforming issues where you just had to be precise but there were also a bunch of enemies going after you at the same time as well.

[Ponyponypony]

My two are:

Top Gun on the NES. Screw landing the plane, I can't even get to the part where you have to land it. I've never been past the third stage.

And Clive Barker's Jericho on the xbox. It started out promising, but when they thew in the crazy RTS/FPS/Squad-based Tactics portion I immediately lost all interest. The controls were wonky, and adding more of them made me frustrated beyond belief.

[turbofan1]

Final Fight- sega cd.Cant see how anybody could beat this game with out some type of cheat code.

Sonic The Hedge Hog 1&2-sega genesis.Spent hours playing both of these games,could never beat either one.

Battle toads-nes.Game was so damn hard,couldnt ever get past the damn hover bike stage.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

The end boss in Final Fantasy 8. All I've ever heard is stuff like...."oh, my buddy beat her no sweat"....."you just have to get Squall's whatever whatever whatever"....."she's pretty easy, all you have to do is...."

All I know is that I survived for over two hours as the bitch took every single last party member, item and ability away from me until I had nothing to heal with as she kept taking me down to one lousy HP. I still have my save file right outside her door, and I've never brought myself to step on through and try again. Easy, my ass. It still pisses me off.


lol i think i beat her in under 3 minutes, that game is seriously broken, there are alot o f different strategies to become a god basically & none that will help you now lol, not unless youre really low in levels


what i discovered really early on (purely by accident) is that leveling squall to about 20 levels where youre supposed to be in the game while keeping everyone weak (im talking like level 6 or 7) breaks the way enemies scale &they only scale up to the weakest members of your party, add to that the fact that by now you should have all the gf abilities to stat boost you characters & final weapons, & youre pretty much unstoppable, i was like a level 70-80 squall going up against basically a level 7 final boss, that & having irvines final weapon using the last ammo whatever it was called resulting in 9,999 damage every time you pulled the trigger and you have quite possibly the easiest boss battle in history


if you have an earlier save, revert to it and kill off your party minus squall, and level him & him alone to something like 15-20 levels higher then go back & tackle the sorceress, having the final weapons (ideally for just irvine & squall ) will cut the time fighting her to almost nothing, get irvines last ammo too, forget wat it was called, that alone will make most of the battle breeze by

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

Top Gun on the NES. Screw landing the plane, I can't even get to the part where you have to land it. I've never been past the third stage.


I used to fly "up" for each stage. If I remember correctly, when your heading up, the enemies can't kill you. You just keep doing that until you get to the boss.

[pseudonym]

Final Fantasy 8 isn't that difficult. That card game was much more annoying.

[sheath]

Crystalis on NES, after the fourth time I had to check a FAQ to figure out which random sequence of towns I had to backtrack to and which random villager to talk to just to unlock the area I already knew I wanted in to. I was genuinely enjoying the game up to that point too.

There are also dozens of action games that I haven't finished because they employed the "challenge" of starting the entire level over after every death, and a hand full that start the level over after a continue. Shinobi on PS2 comes to mind, as does Maximo.

[Baloo]

Aside from the already-mentioned Mega Mans and Super Ghouls N' Ghosts, I'll have to go with Casino Kid and Wall Street Kid by SOFEL on NES.

The games are so ridiculously designed that they're practically impossible to beat. Casino Kid is an extreme luck grindfest, where you have to play hands upon hands of Blackjack until you bankrupt the dealer, which could take forever as it just goes back and forth until you give up in the tedium.

Wall Street Kid is just difficult. It's hard to raise so much money, regardless of how much money you invest in the best stocks, it seems I can never make enough money to buy the house by the end of the month.

[Holger Czukay]

Mega Man 1. It may have started one of the best series in gaming history, but this game is really buggy and unpolished. After falling to my death for the hundredth time on Wily Castle 2 (usually from picking up a powerup and getting pushed to the side as a result) I gave up. And I've beaten Megaman 2 thru 6, and 9.

Also, amazingly enough, Mega Man X2's final boss. I used the right weapon, got him IN THE RED, and died. SHIT.

Raining Blood on Expert in Guitar Hero 3 was pretty awful, but I got past it. That boss battle with Lou Cifer almost made me break the guitar controller over my knee.

Shin Akuma and God Rugal in Capcom Vs. SNK 2. Fitting tribute to SNK's bosses by Capcom, anyway.

[heybtbm]

Final Fantasy 8 isn't that difficult. That card game was much more annoying.

The card game is excellent as long as you don't play the wrong people and pick up any goofy new rules.

[Aussie2B]

I've done a pretty good job the last few years of finally finishing some games after years of them sitting unbeaten actually. It was really satisfying beating stuff like Boxxle and Wario Blast.

I've never beaten Kirby's Pinball Land legitimately. I've beaten it by using the code to go straight to the bosses, and that's good enough for me. It's way too annoying to fall out of the boss rooms over and over.

I put a decent amount of effort into Rad Racer, but it gets way too cheap.

I love the arcade original Bubble Bobble, but I can't get farther than around 60-70.

I don't think I'll ever earn the Mario statue in SimCity on SNES. I don't think I'll ever have the patience to not use the money code either.

I believe I got to the last stage in Hiouden, but after many attempts, I came to the conclusion that my file was just screwed. I had barely gotten through the few battles before that one, and I knew my situation was only growing worse. For all I know, part of my problem could be language barrier related since I was playing the cart rather than the fan patch.

[The 1 2 P]

I put a decent amount of effort into Rad Racer, but it gets way too cheap.

With a little practice that one gets alot easier. Now RC Pro Am on the other hand, gets super cheap the further you get. I think I got to the second to last level once but I didn't want to go thru that all over again and never went back to beat it.

[exit]

Futurama on the Xbox. The game was fairly fun to play until you had to play as Leela and go through a room with pillars that sink into lava, jumping from platform to platform. The problem was that the camera wouldn't keep up with you, so you'd eventually jump into lava and die. I went from having something like 17 extra lives to nothing in just a few minutes. Gave up on the game after that.

I remember that part of the game and it was rather frustrating, but I remember there was a trick to it all and made things less frustrating. It was something stupid like standing in the very beginning of the room and waiting for the pillars to provide the path for you. I think I did that part about 5 or 6 times until I figured it out, not sure if it was intentionally done like that or just overall bad level design by the developers.

[Collector_Gaming]

With a little practice that one gets alot easier. Now RC Pro Am on the other hand, gets super cheap the further you get. I think I got to the second to last level once but I didn't want to go thru that all over again and never went back to beat it.

this

i once gotten very far in that game.

but the game got so cheap that the cpu's car was so rediculously faster then yours that you couldn't do anything

so after that i never played it again

since that.. i had sour feelings about racings games. i mean i still play them and love em *in fact i am playing through Forza 3 right now* that when ever i see a car that shouldn't beat me just scream by me like i am standing still i say to myself "the computers cheating again to beat me" although now a days with physics and stuff racing games have now i can just "P.I.T Maneuver" them to get em out of my way lol

[Scissors]

I know I put a significant amount of effort into both Hydlide and Ninja Gaiden, but could never beat either of them. It's been a while, so I don't remember exactly where I got stuck in Hydlide. As for Ninja Gaiden, I got to the final boss 3 or 4 times, but couldn't beat him.

[Retronick]

Megarace! The first half of the stages are cake, then they litter the later tracks with damned ammo-drainers. Not enough control to avoid them effectively, and not enough time to smash every car into the sidewall. Great big pain in my ass. I actually just picked it up again and tried to beat it, but quit on the orbital junkyard, wrote about it on my blog recently as well if anyone doesn't know the game I'm talking about:

http://www.retronick.com/2010/12/megarace.html