What games made you hit the brick wall of difficulty?

rockman/ megaman Zero for GBA , I really wanted to like the series but I couldn't even finish the 1st one , the continue system is also retarded so not only did I not bother to finish the game but I never realy bothered with 2 and 3 in the series.
 
Shinobi for PS2. All hope i ever had went out the window when i somehow managed to screw up my continue and the furthest i could start from was that mall level (i was at techy looking building)..... God i remember it took me forever to pass that level and the fire levels (f'ing fire moth lady). Getting the chills just thinking about them lol.
 
Ninja Gaiden - Some people always say how easy it is if you learn a few tricks, but I thought it was hard even after reading said tricks. I was awed by it, but I was cowed by it too, it was a real bitch.

F-Zero GX - It looks awesome and it's really fucking fast. It's too fucking fast. I can't seem to like it enough to get better at it.

Gitaroo Man - This game is charming, but I think it's the hardest music game I've ever played. For me, it's almost impossible at times.

Megaman Games - I suck at all the real Megaman games. I don't mean all those RPGs and crap.
 
I couldn't beat Shinobi's final boss,he was bullshit though,it was more of a cheapness factor than it taking skill...

F-Zero kicked my ass although I was really good against my friends...
 
VF4:EVO. Trying to beat the highest ranked AI characters especially Vanessa and Wolf almost had me throwing my PS2 out the window. I guess it didn't help that I suck at buffering and throw escapes. :(
 
Loki said:
You mean the NES one or the X-Box version? The NES version Ibeat without getting hit-- suck it! :D The trick is to keep the jumping slash throughout the entire game. :P
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Oh, not the NES one. I find most 2D sidescrolling games easy. The Xbox one just wasn't easy. I just fall into the category of people who had to keep retrying parts over and over. I swore the game hated me.
 
bjork said:
The AI in Wrestlemania 2000 made me bite through a controller cord, and I never played it again in single player.

Jim Courier's insanely godlike tennis skills in Virtua Tennis encouraged me to rip the cord out of my DC controller, blowing all four controller ports... that encouraged me to buy a new DC and not touch VT ever again.
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Your DC controller port blew.. and You bought a whole new DC. You do realize that if you bought a 10 cent resistor and excahnged it in the controller port your DC would have worked again right.
 
Project Gotham Racing - I wanted to get all golds, but it got to the point where it was impossible.

F-Zero GX - I almost completely beat the game...but on Very Hard Story Mode I couldn't beat the level where you are escaping through the tunnel. I swear to God I had a perfect run, and the door closed on me. I threw my wavebird, punched my bed multiple times, turned off the game, took out the disc, and vowed to never try again.

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 - Never unlocked all the master levels on advanced and expert, but never really tried as hard as I did with F-Zero GX.

Ikaruga - I've beaten the game, but only because I played enough to get infinite continues. Anyone who can beat this game without continuing is probably insane. I think I eventually got up to where I could beat it with 4 continues or so.

Splinter Cell - Not really difficult, more frustrating than anything else. I saved at a point where I had basically no ammo or items left in my inventory, basically fucking myself over, so I just gave up.
 
Hitman said:
Your DC controller port blew.. and You bought a whole new DC. You do realize that if you bought a 10 cent resistor and excahnged it in the controller port your DC would have worked again right.
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That easy? I have one like that where do you get the resistors?
 
Shinobi - Till now, I have not reached the final stage yet. And unluckily, I managed to wipe out the save files. Not sure if I am going to start all over again. This game is pretty tough and one of boss(blind samuai and walk on water) owned me a couple of times.

Kingdom Hearts - It is not about the difficulty but the the control that drived me crazy. When I want to jump or move to point A, instead I jump or move to point B. Maybe due to my lousy fingers or items/walls constantly blocking my view. It get so frustrating that after 10 hrs of play, I give up and bought another game BOF: DQ. :)
 
Fuck ninja gaiden. I dont have time anymore for these hard ass games. I cant spend time trying to beat the learning curve. Jesus

After the 4th level i folded. God damnit wtf.
 
I get quite frustrated with difficult games, however, I usually push myself through them.
Certain games have a way of being cheap though. By having random events and unfair computer advantages that really take the control out of your hands. You can do everything text book, but in the end... because of some random thing... you come up short. THAT pisses me off.

The only game this gen I really put major hours into defeating was F-zero GX. To unlock all the neat extra machines you need to beat those chapters on Very Hard. Chapter 5(escaping from the tunnel) and Chapter 7(Race where 2 main bad guys ALWAYS win) were the worst. I believe I spent 5 hours straight trying to beat chapter 5 VH. I'd get within inches.. but then not be able to squeez through the closing doors. I did finally beat every chapter on all difficulties.. however, if I would ever have to do it again.. I'd immediatly decline. It was great when I beat it, I felt like I actually accomplished something, however, the eye strain and rage was enough to age me 10 years. I'm truely suprised my controller is still in one peice.
 
SpokkX said:
seriously I don´t see how people call ninja gaiden hard.. once you master the controls and blocking/counters the game is actually EASY..
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Yeah, Ninja Gaiden's not that hard once you get the hang of it and realize that only 2-3 moves are needed to coast through the game. It's a pity that I don't feel compelled to take advantage of its deep combat system--it had a lot of potential. I'm sure I'm gonna change my opinion of NG's difficulty once I go back and play through it on Hard :)

EDIT: I should mention Ikaruga and all of Treasure's shooting games as incredibly hard pieces of work. Shit, any shooting game usually pushes my pithy gaming abilities to their extreme.
 
Oh yes, the Mega Man X series (especially on SNES) was incredibly difficult. You pretty much needed ALL of the health tanks to beat the very last bosses.
 
Oh, I forgot. Abe's Oddysee was the only game I've ever given up on completely. I wouldn't even try. I don't think I ever made it out of the first area.
 
Extreme G3 (makes FZero look easy) is really hard, its impossible to avoid crashing in many instances.

Metropolis Street Racer that games unplayable.
 
Wario64 said:
Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden. I guess I'm not fit for ninja games :(
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Those two also gave me problem. Shinobi was just plain ugly and not what I was expecting so I didn't try for too long. I really liked Ninja Gaiden, but lost interest around the middle of the game. Difficulty was always surprisingly high so this probably helped make the game no fun after a while.

I heard the name Metropolis Street Racer in this thread. I don't think the game is really too hard, but there were some weird bugs in it and the AI was sometimes too dumb in the very last races, causing you too lose (crash into you and stuff).
 
Shinobi
Viewtiful Joe

PGR2 Golds and Platinums result in the opposition either spinning you out,ramming you into walls,or braking infront of you protecting the lead car. Damn.
 
Master Mode of Gitaroo Man is pretty rough. I wouldn't say I hit a brick wall yet, since I come very close to beating the second level many times, but I'm sure the next level, or another would be impossible for me.
 
Brandish!

I remember I sat there for weeks trying to figure out the puzzle with the pillars. Eventually gave up and never looked back. Damn KOEI, or maybe, damn me for just not seeing it.. Dunno if it in fact was difficult, but I just not could not see at that time.
 
Shinobi, particullarly the last boss. But after nearly a year, I beat his ass and it felt so good and right. It was hard, but I really don't dislike that fact or anything. Just really glad I finished it. Collecting the coins, though, that's another difficult task.
 
Astrosmash - Intellivision : After 750,000 points, there is never a moment where a guided missile is not on the screen, and all my hoarded ships slip through my fingers like sand. My final score always ends up being around 800,000. Somehow, my dad was able to break a million.

Yanya Caballista - Playstation 2 : I beat the game on normal difficulty to unlock the hard mode. There's no fucking way I can beat that.

Frequency - Playstation 2 : I was pretty good at rhythm games last gen, but this gen they're owning my ass. I'm not going to even try Gitaroo-man, I know when I'm out of my depth.

Defender - Playstation 2 : Awesome underrated 3D shooter. The hardest difficulty is a nightmare.

Nethack - Everything under the sun : No, I still haven't beaten it yet, after almost two decades. :(

Oh, and I was able to beat NES Ninja Gaiden without dying, so spare me the "new games are too easy" crap. :P Games with flexibility will beat out the ones with rote memorization when it comes to difficulty.
 
Since I still have a steady diet of playing old NES/Genesis games, no games really get so difficult to the point where I just give up. Actually, it seems with me the most challenging part of most games is trying to maintain my interest.
 
Dynamite Headdy for the Genesis. Has anyone even beaten the US version with all the special bonus points? I don't even see how. The game just requires me to be near perfect for too long, and I just couldn't hack it. Had to use the level code to beat the game, but that's without the bonus points, so I didn't get the real ending.

Also, any Battletoads game where one mess up and you're dead, then you replay the whole level. Requires you to be mistake free for a long long time.

Ninja Gaiden Xbox is not quite as difficult as those games. I'm not going to say NG is easy, but I beat it on normal, hard and the hurricane packs, and I'm far from the expert gamer. Not going to say it had a perfect difficulty curve either, but I enjoyed it. It's the way 3D action games need to be done imo.
 
Anybody who hasn't played Halo 2 on legendary, withe the possible exceptio of NG hurricane pack players, cannot understand the concept of difficult. Its so difficult, it makes you desperate and forces you to play most of the game like a post-op tranny in jail- hidin, duckin and runnin every chance you get cause you know you're gonna get raped if you dont. I have seen some of the "professional" Halo 2 videos and all that, BUT ANYBODY THAT TELLS YOU THEY DONT RUN FOR THEIR FREAKIN LIFE IS A LIAR. Its like eating very hot food-- There is fiery hot food with delicious flavor AND manages to make you sweat, and there is fiery hot food with little flavor other than just the fiery hot. Halo 2 on Legendary is right in the middle. Some of the other "Hard" games don't even start off all that badly, but On Halo 2, as soon as you get a gun and shoot your first Covenant grunt, ITS ON. The cairo boarding scene will most likely end up being the hardest checkpoint in the history of video games.
 
Uncle Dukey said:
I still can't beat Ghost N' Goblins :/
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This is the correct answer and bitchslaps ever other game listed here in terms of difficulty.*

*Actually only the last stage is difficult, the others are still harder then most games but the last stage is pure evil.
 
I was never able to beat Mike Tyson as a kid. I finally pulled it off a couple years ago thanks to the miracle of emulation. I'm beginning to think the NES pad was part of the problem.

Shinobi's last boss is stupid hard and one of the only times I've ever completely given up. I tried for 3 hours and never got him down past half his life bar. I sold the game.

I hit the brick wall with BEMANI games a few years ago... I just can't hold one rhythm with one hand and another with the opposite hand (which is a majority of > 5 star songs on everything after 3rd mix). I've been trying now for years. I've sadly come to the conclusion that I'll never be able to do it.

The last level of the human campaign in Warcraft III on hard was so stupidly difficult. I know people who can beat it pretty easily, but I just don't have the micro skills to pull it off. I tried it literally a dozen times over a week or so, honing my strategy and improving each time. Mal'ganis would still come and kill me every time, no matter how long I held him off. I could never seem to take and hold another base and would eventually run out of resources. Finally, frustrated, I just wanted to move to the next level, so I used a cheat to turn of the fog of war. Even knowing when he was coming for me, and with what forces, I still couldn't hold him off. I gave up after that.
 
Offtopic, but I just beat Alma in Ninja Gaiden on Normal. That was hard as she's so damn unpredictable. Really liking the game so far.
 
Conflict Vietnam - damn that game is hard and confusing one some levels, especially the one where you have to protect the Vietnamese girl who is showing you the way to the temple. Even when playing in co-operative mode with my brother we were having a hard time with this game. On other levels you would run around with no ammunition, I had to walk around with a knife because all the guys in my team where out of ammo or just using the worthless sidearm.
And we were playing on EASY! :(

Desert Combat II is a much better game.
 
I can beat about any game except for platformers or right to left beat-em ups.

The later stages of Earthworm Jim (fuck you "falling and gliding stages"!)

The aforementioned BattleToads (fuck you limited continues!)

Original MegaMan (The infamous "seperating" Cyclops Robot)

I don't think I ever beat the original Rayman either .. I sort of gave up once I died 4-5 times on the same spot.


My all-time greatest failure was not beating "Solomon's Key". I think I played it 4 hours a day for about 2 months, and couldn't get past the 47th stage. Maybe I will get the ROM one day and take another stab at it.
 
ToxicAdam said:
I can beat about any game except for platformers or right to left beat-em ups.

The later stages of Earthworm Jim (fuck you "falling and gliding stages"!)

The aforementioned BattleToads (fuck you limited continues!)

Original MegaMan (The infamous "seperating" Cyclops Robot)

I don't think I ever beat the original Rayman either .. I sort of gave up once I died 4-5 times on the same spot.


My all-time greatest failure was not beating "Solomon's Key". I think I played it 4 hours a day for about 2 months, and couldn't get past the 47th stage. Maybe I will get the ROM one day and take another stab at it.
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Heh another person for Battletoads. never did get through the first Earthworm Jim, part 2 was easy though.
 
The last 20 minutes of Breakdown.

What the hell is up with that final assault!? Such poopy controls...
 
Aika'svyse said:
Nice to see Friday the 13th mentioned, fustrated the hell out of me and battletoads showed me the definition of weak sauce. I liked the battletoads vs double dragons though, punching the women is the funniest animation I ever seen :lol
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Friday the 13th was pretty hard, with all those cabins. I found that if you could manage to find the Fire and Rake that it became easy. I found those by fluke.
 
Honestly I must say the Double Dragon III is the hardest game ever. I came back to this game 2 months ago and still I cannot get past the first elevator...which is only like 5 minutes into the game. I challenge anybody to this game it was just poorly made. Battletoads ain't got nothing on that game. Stupid Acclaim.
 
Like others have said, F-Zero GX. I played the crap out of it, but still never beat Level 7 in story mode, or unlocked any of the arcade tracks. It's just too damned hard!

Also, I never finished Perfect Dark, even though I reached the final boss. Just when you die, you gotta do the whole 20 minute stage over... and I HATE that stage so after 3 deaths, I just never tried again. Probably will beat it on an emulator so I can save just before I reach the final boss to avoid that frustration.

And all RTS games. I dunno, it's just the gametype I could never get good at, despite repeated attempts with various games. It stops being fun.
 
Spazbiohaz said:
Honestly I must say the Double Dragon III is the hardest game ever. I came back to this game 2 months ago and still I cannot get past the first elevator...which is only like 5 minutes into the game. I challenge anybody to this game it was just poorly made. Battletoads ain't got nothing on that game. Stupid Acclaim.
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Me and my bro beat the 2 player game years ago, which it's one of my favorite double dragons. Like about a month ago we tried to play it and couldn't get off the first stage. Game has great music and the final boss fight with Marion is cool.

ManDudeChild I never found the fire and the rake, it became all about walking around fighting the enemies and listening to the music :lol
 
Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits is also a little hard for me, too. I just need more practice, I guess. I was almost ready to take it back the day I got it.
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Just beat it the other day :D



Ninja Gaiden's Hurricane Pack (Team Ninja are some evil mofos)

Ikaruga (stuck on level 4 or 5)

Gaires (Genny)

DDR Ultramix and Fzero's Story Mode got me also.
 
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