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Games that you had no idea what to do in as a kid
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Any western RPG until mass effect and listening to kat bailey when it all clicked.
I was too absorbed in jrpgs at the time. I hated the god awful battle systems and found it really boring going around being nice to everyone.
I didn't realise that yes the battle systems were utter **** compared to jrpgs but it wasn't the point of the game. Role playing the character and not feeling like you had to be nice to everyone was where the fun was.
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I learned to play that game with a NeGcon, that's where the real men were at!
And the Magic Knight games were impenetrable to me, aside from the first one, Finders Keepers.
Spellbound, Knight Time, lovely games but I had not a clue what was going on.
+1 on the Dizzy games, I fecking hate them!0 -
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Rory Gallagher wrote: »Some Pirate game on the PS1.
Hadn't a ****ing clue what was going.
Overboard?
Loved that game but I hadn't a clue what I was doing either.
Looking at it now, I wonder if Ubisoft used it as inspiration for Assassin's Creed naval battles.0 -
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Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »The Sentinel still bewilders me.
yeh could never figure it out either, something about getting your sentinel higher than theirs or something
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this.
No clue, and still no clue.
That's the first one that sprang to mind. I remembering renting it for my PS and raking up a huge bill because I refused to bring it back until I figured it out. A weird bitter-sweet feeling when you finished it.
Another one was this..._30.png)
Although in fairness I think my patience was at an edge after the 24 floppy disk loadup. :mad:0 -
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The Pheasant2 wrote: »Kurushi for the PS1...to this day I still don't know what a kurushi is or what the hell they wanted from me.
Same situation here followed by the game telling me I had an I.Q. of 0
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Eye of the Beholder, so many f*cking grey walls all looked the same...eventually tried to draw out a map on paper got a bit further but then gave upAnother one was this...
Although in fairness I think my patience was at an edge after the 24 floppy disk loadup. :mad:
Was that Star Trek 25th Anniversary? Was flying along on that then got stuck, tried wandering around the same planet for about a forthnight then gave up, still bugs me0 -
J. Marston wrote: »Overboard?
Loved that game but I hadn't a clue what I was doing either.
Looking at it now, I wonder if Ubisoft used it as inspiration for Assassin's Creed naval battles.
I had this game as well but it seemed straight forward to me. I do remember there were loads of different weapon types and some enemies could only be killed by a certain weapon so maybe that was confusing? It was a great game though. Got it with my PS1.0 -
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Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.
Great game though once I got past that!0 -
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Dragons Lair was one for me. Never really got to grips with what i needed to do.
This was where you started in the game on it seemed impossible to get across without dying for me. I did eventually get through the gate after a long time and umpteen attempts by some fluke.
This is what you faced when you got through the get and i never got past here. Could never figure this out at all.0 -
Two games for me growing up
As mentioned above, Ecco the Dolphin.
We had it on the mega drive and I remember just speeding into jelly fish and jumping over cliffs, never had a clue what to do. Plus, there was this giant octopus that used to scare me so I would turn it off...
Then there was Battle of Olympus on the NES, I remember just jumping around the Forrest with the wooden stick hitting everything that came at me. Good times.
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Sulla Felix wrote: »Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.
Great game though once I got past that!
OMFG! I've just searched the entire internetz looking for this! I saw this thread and this instantly came to mind (though I couldnt remember the name!) had this on the C64 and could never get past the firsat screen. You'd walk along, jump a few rocks and stuff and get the the end where there was a gate or something, but no way of getting past! I was 9 when I had this, and it obviously affected me deeply.0 -
I enjoyed them, after I cheated and entered a poke for infinite lives
Ah, pokes. I remember getting them on covertapes (remember them?)
You want me to what?
Oh wasn't that the part where you had to time it so you land just as his mouth shuts then you have to jump off again right away?
One of Dizzy's main problems was he had a habit of roling when he landed, usually straight off a ledge or into something that would kill him, which seemed to be everything.0 -
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The Incredible Machine. Had it for ages on an old PC. For the first year or so I remember not having a clue what things did, just lashing **** together in freeplay and if it did something, happy days.
Eventually I actually bothered to figure out what you're supposed to do and tried clearing the challenge levels.0 -
Sulla Felix wrote: »Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.
Great game though once I got past that!
I didn't realise you could kick the worm things to kill them so I learned their routine and then jumpied over them at the right time, took me ages especially with the lion thing chasing me
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I finished the recent rerelease of Another World about 2 years ago. The annoying thing about the game is you could be playing for ages then die and the checkpoint could be miles away if you are goingthe wrong way. The game only checkpoints if you are playing it right.
I got horribly stuck on a part where the obvious route was too the right while the solution was to fall off the bottom of the screen through a hole, the same holes you'd been trying to avoid up to that point.
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Sulla Felix wrote: »Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.
Great game though once I got past that!
Came out on Steam last year as a port.. which it looks like this is a shot from not the original0 -
Good to know I wasn't the only one who got stuck on Another World
As well as the first screen, when that ship you and your buddy are in crashes into the arena. You are supposed to, eh, defend your ship somehow with your defense turrets, I think. But the controls didn't really respond to what was happening on screen. And I think you had to eject before the ship detonated/was destroyed?
Anyway, I was 9 years old at the time playing this, and could not understand a thing that was happening on screen. I knew you had to press a sequence of buttons in correct order at the right time, but only passed that section through trial and error, without really understanding what was happening. I cant remember how long I spent at it, but it felt like freaking ages, probably best part of a day lol!
Couldn't get past that frickin bear at the start either, for ages. More trial and error. Remember this was the first game of its type that I had played, I was more used to controlling characters like Sonic than Lester. So, to me, the control scheme was probably the most alien thing about another world.
Despite all that, totally worth it!0 -
Zelda : A link to the past for me was one, well only at the end. I never worked out the need forthe silver arrows
I remember getting stuck near the beginning of shadowrun too but for the life of me can't recall on what exactly
Must go back to those two gems now I'm reminded of them.
Think someone mentioned Dizzy earlier in the thread that gets +1 from me0 -
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