Times you got stuck in a game.

titan18 · 29-10-2012 1:32pm

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

some random drunk · 29-10-2012 3:49pm

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 · 29-10-2012 3:51pm

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 · 29-10-2012 5:58pm

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

Soby · 29-10-2012 6:47pm

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 · 29-10-2012 7:01pm

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 · 30-10-2012 2:29am

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 · 30-10-2012 8:56am

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 · 30-10-2012 10:13am

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 · 30-10-2012 10:34am

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!

Doctor DooM · 30-10-2012 11:43am

After weeks of trying I just got past the wind section on Death Mount in Chrono Trigger on iOS. I thought it'd be a fun way to play a classic I'd never gotten round to. I thought WRONG.

The touchscreen is so poor and Sqeenix put so little effort into the port that no concession is made. If you are not as accurate on the screen as you would be on a pad, you aren't getting up that mountain.

I literally had to retrain myself how I hold a mobile device in order to go from run to walk and not scoot out into the wind at the right time.

donalg1 · 30-10-2012 11:48am

I remember I rented out Silent Hill for the Xbox and was stuck after about five minutes of the game, I remember just walking around trying to get somewhere but couldnt get anywhere other than the little street I was on. I gave up after an hour of trying, a fella I worked with told me to get it cause it was so good, so when he asked me what I thought I just said yeah its pretty good alright, (couldnt tell him I just walked around a street for a while then gave up)

Kerplunk124 · 30-10-2012 1:26pm

Pretty much every Final Fantasy, I always get stuck somewhere for ages

Penn · 30-10-2012 1:28pm

I still haven't been able to complete Sonic 2. I just can't beat the final boss. This has been going on for about 18 years.

Headshot · 30-10-2012 9:24pm

im currently pulling my hair out from play serious Sam 3. Im playing it on the hardest difficulty and taking on a huge huge space ship while harpy's, skeletons and suicide bombers trying to take me out

its driving me nuts

prettyrestless · 30-10-2012 9:31pm

I'm ashamed to admit I got stuck in Spyro the Dragon on the Haunted Towers level for years. It was only a few years ago that it occurred to me to just google it and I finally finished the game.

weemcd · 30-10-2012 9:51pm

End boss in fight night champion Isaac Frost, you actually aren't allowed (you can but you will be ko'd fairly quickly) to hit him for the first 3 rounds, just move, that's all you can do. Then you have to land 75 body shots in 2 rounds, after that you can apparently put an end to the fight.

I'd say I've tried this fight over 2/300 times and furthest I got was about 6 rounds. Real dirty cheat of a boss, you can't hit and if he touches you you are on the canvas in no time.

All I could think about when playing it was just pressing eject on the ps3, walking outside and throwing the disc like a frisbee as far as the fúckin thing would go.

Haven't touched it since. The sign in for EA to download fighters that other players had made never worked either (something I was very interested in) 2 things that fúcked up an otherwise great game for me.

TPD · 30-10-2012 10:01pm

BopNiblets wrote: »

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.

Had that same problem myself, stuck on the 360 flip. It's a graphics setting as far as I remember, vsync or some equivalent. The physics engine was built around a certain framerate it seems :P

ShiverinEskimo · 30-10-2012 10:29pm

After well over 200 attempts at doing the Mile High achievement in Modern Warfare on Veteran I finally made it to the top of the plane - then shot the hostage instead of the terrorist.

I'm still not over it.

blackwave · 30-10-2012 11:08pm

Not strictly stuck as I could still play the rest of the game but the first race on the top gear track in Gran Turismo 5 where you have to drive a Samba truck and pass out 11 other drivers was incredibly frustrating particularly when you are using a controller like me. I had about a couple hundred goes at it probably left it for nearly a year now and came back to it last week and managed to finish relief would not begin to describe how I felt

GarIT · 30-10-2012 11:29pm

prettyrestless wrote: »

I'm ashamed to admit I got stuck in Spyro the Dragon on the Haunted Towers level for years. It was only a few years ago that it occurred to me to just google it and I finally finished the game.

I never got stuck in Spyro but wasn't there a hidden dragon in that level that they put there just to make it hard to 100% the game. The only way you could have found that dragon is to have known about it. It was in all the cheat books back in the day.

EoghanIRL · 31-10-2012 12:25am

The new portal on Xbox , every fücking level on mp and sp, even on my second play through

Kirby · 31-10-2012 7:13am

some random drunk wrote: »

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

The music changes, there is blank portraits on the wall, the room is tiny and has nothing else in it..... and the ghosts (poe's) snigger at you as you approach. Frankly, I'm thinking you would have missed a giant arrow or sign post telling you what to do.

There are many people who struggled with Zelda OoT but nearly all of them on the Water temple as you could screw yourself over if you used the wrong key on the wrong door. The forest temple's only legitimate problem was a hard to find small key near one of those fighting plants that alot of people miss.

CastorTroy · 31-10-2012 12:16pm

Kirby wrote: »

The music changes, there is blank portraits on the wall, the room is tiny and has nothing else in it..... and the ghosts (poe's) snigger at you as you approach. Frankly, I'm thinking you would have missed a giant arrow or sign post telling you what to do.

There are many people who struggled with Zelda OoT but nearly all of them on the Water temple as you could screw yourself over if you used the wrong key on the wrong door. The forest temple's only legitimate problem was a hard to find small key near one of those fighting plants that alot of people miss.

Funny thing is, I actually finished OoT on the 3DS and did the Water Temple without the Blue Tunic. That was fun. I just forgot where to get it. Same reason why I never got Biggoron's sword at all or Epona until before the desert. Really surprised a guy I know who plays the game a lot when I told him. Don't think he knew it was possible.

But when I started replaying it years ago on the gamecube, I was at a part where I kept going around the fire temple, I think it was, looking how to progress. I text the guy I mentioned above and he told me to make a jump that I didn't think Link could make and it worked.

chopperbyrne · 31-10-2012 3:47pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

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.

Probably Jedi Knight II. Really big maps that most of the areas looked really similar and no map.

Kirby wrote: »

There are many people who struggled with Zelda OoT but nearly all of them on the Water temple as you could screw yourself over if you used the wrong key on the wrong door.

You could not get stuck in the Water Temple regardless of which order you used the keys.

Kiith · 31-10-2012 3:57pm

First time i played Homeworld, i couldn't get past the 4th (i think) level to save my life. I had to send a probe to investigate an area, and once i did i got attacked by a huge fleet. A couple of Ion frigates and a Carrier iirc. Totally smashed my fighter fleet, and i just couldn't get past it.

3-4 months later, i tried again and just didn't send the probe. Let my harvesters just gradually get to where i needed to go while i built up my fleet. By the time they attacked me, i had a fleet 3-4 times their size and wiped the floor with them. Couldn't believe how easy it was

Delighted i did finish it, as it's still in my top 5 games of all time.

Kirby · 01-11-2012 8:07am

chopperbyrne wrote: »

You could not get stuck in the Water Temple regardless of which order you used the keys.

Untrue chopper. This line gets banded about on zelda support forums and is actually wrong.

There is a block at some point in the dungeon that, if moved the wrong way, blocks you from retrieving one of the keys unless you have the hookshot. If you don't save, you can technically reset your 64 and do it again but if you saved.....you are boned. That's not even mentioning when people fell through the bottom of the map when hookshotting. There were plenty of ways to glitch the crap out of that temple.

They fixed it in the 3ds version.

Star Lord · 01-11-2012 9:28am

Kirby wrote: »

Untrue chopper. This line gets banded about on zelda support forums and is actually wrong.

There is a block at some point in the dungeon that, if moved the wrong way, blocks you from retrieving one of the keys unless you have the hookshot. If you don't save, you can technically reset your 64 and do it again but if you saved.....you are boned. That's not even mentioning when people fell through the bottom of the map when hookshotting. There were plenty of ways to glitch the crap out of that temple.

They fixed it in the 3ds version.

Which block is this? The one in the + shaped corridor? I think it's still possible to do it, it's just tricky, and involves changing the water level.

Optimalprimerib · 01-11-2012 9:46am

CSSE09 wrote: »

*Sigh*

There was about 5 or 6 parts in that game that had me stuck.

The dance mission that was only available at a certain time and when you did win the van, you had a 4 star cop rating so it was still a balls.

The part you mentioned.

A glitch while waiting for someone outside her house in a gimp costume

All of the model airplane levels.

GtaIV also still has me stuck for being so boring I fall asleep just thinking about it.

I was also stuck for months on Zelda ocarina of time, never thought of using the master sword, bought cheat books and all and could not figure it out. My friend cleared it for me first time.

kksaints · 03-11-2012 8:51pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

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!

Yeah If you went off on that snow rally that was the rally as good as over.

Turtyturd · 04-11-2012 2:08am

Spent hours stuck in this as a kid.

Most recently I was stuck on the Benezia fight in Mass Effect, ended up restarting the game and doing all the side missions before that fight and then completed it first time.

And while not technically stuck the 'If they came to hear me beg' achievement from Halo Reach had me trying for hours to pull it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqGxNhmJS7Q

unkymo · 04-11-2012 2:25am

CptMackey wrote: »

The last level in driver 1. What a nightmare. Took me
A good solid 2weeks to finish it.

Never mind the last level, the first level was worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5222FMMkgY

SeantheMan · 04-11-2012 2:42am

Eventually did it after 100's of tries, great game !

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

wagon_repair · 04-11-2012 2:23pm

prettyrestless wrote: »

I'm ashamed to admit I got stuck in Spyro the Dragon on the Haunted Towers level for years. It was only a few years ago that it occurred to me to just google it and I finally finished the game.

Tree Tops

Gbear · 04-11-2012 2:38pm

Kiith wrote: »

First time i played Homeworld, i couldn't get past the 4th (i think) level to save my life. I had to send a probe to investigate an area, and once i did i got attacked by a huge fleet. A couple of Ion frigates and a Carrier iirc. Totally smashed my fighter fleet, and i just couldn't get past it.

3-4 months later, i tried again and just didn't send the probe. Let my harvesters just gradually get to where i needed to go while i built up my fleet. By the time they attacked me, i had a fleet 3-4 times their size and wiped the floor with them. Couldn't believe how easy it was

The thing about that game is that once you knew how the enemies spawned you generally got the measure of them and then stole all their ships to use in your own armada, making a lot of the later missions progressively easier.

Kiith wrote: »

Delighted i did finish it, as it's still in my top 5 games of all time.

Another one, took me about 2 weeks to finish the second last mission with the asteroid. Had to start the game again because my fleet at the start of the mission wasn't big enough (not enough stealing!:))

This game. Utter madness.
About 1/3 of the way in I just gave up and followed a guide to it word for word.

It made not even the tiniest wigglesworth of sense. Made up for it with the brilliant Eric Idle doing the voicework and the writing being brilliant.

K.O.Kiki · 04-11-2012 5:41pm

unkymo wrote: »

Never mind the last level, the first level was worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5222FMMkgY

I actually sold my copy of Driver because I couldn't get it even after 30 minutes of playing! :mad:

Really bad game design IMO, they should've brought in outside testers on a regular basis to recheck the difficulty.

Or, y'know, not made Yank-tanks handle like sh!t! :pac:

Stompbox · 05-11-2012 12:21am

What game is that screenshot from, Gbear?

Agricola · 05-11-2012 1:09am

Picked up Dead Rising 2 recently and now stuck in it. I am NOT accustomed to old style save systems and time limits like this. Im now in a situation where I cant beat a boss because Im not leveled up enough and I can't go away to level up because the time limit on the mission will expire meaning Ill fail the main campaign...... :mad:

I am way too old for this kind of shít.

Star Lord · 05-11-2012 1:17am

Agricola wrote: »

Picked up Dead Rising 2 recently and now stuck in it. I am NOT accustomed to old style save systems and time limits like this. Im now in a situation where I cant beat a boss because Im not leveled up enough and I can't go away to level up because the time limit on the mission will expire meaning Ill fail the main campaign...... :mad:

I am way too old for this kind of shít.

The Dead Rising games aren't quite that old-school. When you die, you still keep all your experience points and level. They know you'll die, it's just a matter of getting used to the idea of it!

Cargin · 11-11-2012 2:32am

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, at the battle for Helm's Deep. Honestly spent about 4 hours at it. I think the game eventually took pity on me.

SeantheMan · 11-11-2012 1:12pm

I completed this as a kid game, probably because you had to back then through persistence, no saves and games were too expensive to have 100's for choice

I then visited it a few years ago thinking. ..I'm an adult now ...my skills will be so much better and I will fly through this.
I turned it off in rage after 5 mins.

I obviously must have learned the exact pattern as a kid

Worst section !! - and this was the FIRST level

Edit: just watching through this again now I realise the theme is a version of "GhostRiders in the Sky"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1r8EH3tIXI

Gbear · 11-11-2012 11:09pm

Stompbox wrote: »

What game is that screenshot from, Gbear?

Woopsie, missed this.

It's from "Discworld".
It was a point and click adventure game based on the fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett (brilliant btw, read them!) with the most circuitous and brain-rending puzzles that you'd have to be totally insane to have been able to figure out half the time.

You'd have to do something like click a coconut tree to dislodge a coconut, get a butterfly net hanging in a psychiatrists office, mix the coconut with wine and then use the coconut wine to get a troll drunk so you can sneak into his shop to steal a frying pan. And then use the frying pan as part of a dragon detecting device. I'm not exaggerating all that much with the mentalness.

Grimebox · 11-11-2012 11:52pm

12-11-2012 8:14am

That mission in GTA SA where you have to fly a plane at a certain height over half the map or else you get detected and fail. The noise of that plane plagued my family for a week.

chrislad · 12-11-2012 11:00am

SeantheMan wrote: »

I completed this as a kid game, probably because you had to back then through persistence, no saves and games were too expensive to have 100's for choice

I then visited it a few years ago thinking. ..I'm an adult now ...my skills will be so much better and I will fly through this.
I turned it off in rage after 5 mins.

I obviously must have learned the exact pattern as a kid

Worst section !! - and this was the FIRST level

Edit: just watching through this again now I realise the theme is a version of "GhostRiders in the Sky"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1r8EH3tIXI

I'm actually getting angry just thinking about it. I finished it years ago on the MegaDrive, and like yourself, fired it up a few months ago thinking the same - wrong, wrong, wrong!

Times you got stuck in a game.

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