Getting stuck on a level.

lahalane

I'm currently stuck on a level in Candy Crush that has highlighted more than ever to me that the game is solely about blind luck...it's still so bloody addictive though.

Anyway, what was the worst experience for you of getting stuck on a level or part of a game that you found impossible to get past?

For me it was level 48 in Zombies Ate My Neighbours for the SNES. I can still picture the boss in that level perfectly even though it was over 15 years ago...it haunts me.



*Apologies if this thread has already been made but I couldn't find it when I searched

jacksie66

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tim3000

Just tonight Burn em out on Cod WaW 90 mins just to get through a 10 minute level. Best bet try then take a break when you get frustrated come back to it later. Though nowadays we have video walk-throughs kinda takes the challenge out of it I guess.

Kiith

Homeworld- In the 2nd mission, you have to send a probe to find the Khar Selim. I always sent the probe as soon as the mission started, and could never beat off the enemy fleet that attacked with the limited number of fighters i had. Was bloody infuriating. I eventually gave up on it, and left it for around a month. Went back, and realised i could take my time and build up a fleet before sending the probe. Cruised through it, and Homeworld now sits in my all time top 5 games.

Thank god i stuck with it :P

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

tropico 3, the mission where you have to get 85 population happiness

i still only ever beat it because

for some reason the soviets offered me a drug that would boost population happiness by 10% at the very end

every other time i've tried it, that never happened and I can't beat it.

riffmongous

Not exactly a level, but Adel at the end of disc 3 in ff8, I couldnt find a good area to level up near her in Lunatic Pandora and eventually I had to restart the entire game

All of Dark Souls. Every. Single. Level.

djkeogh

Got stuck on the Four Kings in Dark Souls and ended up giving up on it. Have intentions of getting back to it but feel like I'd need to learn the game again at this stage in order to get back to the skillz I had before.

I'll definitely get back and beat that boss but it's just a question of when.

Retr0gamer

djkeogh wrote: »

Got stuck on the Four Kings in Dark Souls and ended up giving up on it. Have intentions of getting back to it but feel like I'd need to learn the game again at this stage in order to get back to the skillz I had before.

Put on the best armour you have (Havel's armour set with Havels Ring works great). Stroll in and hack away while your super poise stops you getting knocked over. Heal when needed. Easy when you know how.

riffmongous wrote: »

Not exactly a level, but Adel at the end of disc 3 in ff8, I couldnt find a good area to level up near her in Lunatic Pandora and eventually I had to restart the entire game

Got me as well. It's actually a super easy boss fight. If you did find somewhere to level up you'd be boned anyway since every enemy levels up with you. The problem is that she is the first boss where summons are utterly useless. If you are playing the game wrong and only using summons then you'll be screwed. However if you are junctioning magic properly you only need physical attacks for the majority of the game and will rip through her. The problem with the game is that it's so complicated that it doesn't really communicate how important junctioning magic is.

ancapailldorcha

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Put on the best armour you have (Havel's armour set with Havels Ring works great). Stroll in and hack away while your super poise stops you getting knocked over. Heal when needed. Easy when you know how.

I went for the Dark Wood Grain Ring and the crest shield for blocking their magic. This was before the DWG ring was nerfed mind.

Will I Amnt

Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy. Catch 200lbs of fish. I can't for the life of me get anywhere near it. The input lag on my TV is nasty, not helping at all.

deathrider

I'm currently replaying a bunch of old games that I could never beat. Amongst them is a level in one of the PS1 Tomb Raider titles which used to just leave me completely lost. Got back to that same part the other day to find that, once again, I've absolutely no idea where to go.

Will I Amnt

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy. Catch 200lbs of fish. I can't for the life of me get anywhere near it. The input lag on my TV is nasty, not helping at all.

Just passed it there That was stressful.

C14N

Raining Blood on expert on Guitar Hero 3. The only story-mode song I can't do in that game.

Back on Zelda Wind Waker, I got stuck near the start at Forsaken Fortress in the stealth section. I ended up just not playing the game for years because of that.

I came back eventually though and got almost all the way through it only to get stuck at the Wind Temple right before the end. The NPC partner gets stuck in a sort of prison where there is a big rock blocking the way in. I spent about an hour trying to figure out what to do next and just gave up. I remember trying to use an IGN guide but back then, the Wind Waker guide was for subscribing members only. Instead I took to Amazon to buy the official strategy guide for about £20. The delivery date said 4-6 weeks (from the UK) which seemed insane but I just gritted my teeth and paid for it. About 7 weeks later I start emailing asking where my guide is and they tell me it's not coming (I don't know why) and they refunded me the money. I was so pissed off about that.

At some point though I went back and realised you just have to wear the iron boots and hookshot the big rock to make it fall over and boy did I feel like an idiot for not noticing that :pac:

riffmongous

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Got me as well. It's actually a super easy boss fight. If you did find somewhere to level up you'd be boned anyway since every enemy levels up with you. The problem is that she is the first boss where summons are utterly useless. If you are playing the game wrong and only using summons then you'll be screwed. However if you are junctioning magic properly you only need physical attacks for the majority of the game and will rip through her. The problem with the game is that it's so complicated that it doesn't really communicate how important junctioning magic is.

Yeah I played when I was in 1st year of secondary school and looking back now I didn't really have a clue what I was doing the first few times, in a way it was actually a good thing because playing games was much tougher and because I wasn't using any sort of levelling strategy or tactics beating the tough bosses was so much more satisfying

Josey Wales

Deleted User wrote: »

All of Dark Souls. Every. Single. Level.

I came in to post this exact thing.

So I will say the third boss in Outland. A great game and a shame I didn't get to see it through to the end.

richymcdermott

last boss in prototype

**** countdown based missions

PickledLime

Trying to get the "Zone Zeus" trophy on Wipeout HD (get to level 75 in Zone Mode, bearing in mind that Phantom speed level is only the 35 zone), I can get to level 70 fairly consistently before my eyes feel like their going to fall out of my head.

The kicker is I managed the "Beat Zico" and I'm stuck on this. Damn Wipeout.

gimli2112

Playing through FF7 one time too many. Took a break for a few months. When I came back I'd no idea what I had to do next. Spent weeks wandering aimlessly round the world map

penev10

At the very end of Y's The Vanished Omens on the Master System theres a room filled with poisonous gas where you need to figure out a puzzle. Played it a thousand times as a kid and couldn't suss it out. It's literally right at the end, it gives you the key for the final boss.

Replayed it a few years ago via emulator and still couldn't figure it out! (with a guide and all!)

Retr0gamer

Y's is ridiculous for having crazy puzzles like that. I got the recent remake of Y's 1 and 2 and the developer actually gave a full walkthrough in the manual of the first game because the puzzles are so obtuse. Thankfully after that game it got a hell of a lot better.

muppetkiller

Raid over Moscow on C64 !! Spend weeks trying to get out of the Hanger (Very first bit) and could never do it. Without any manuals to go on or Idea what the hell you were supposed to do it drove me utterly bonkers.

Picked it up on the iphone recently and realized it's just as difficult lol.
Controls were just awful.

GK1001

Sorry about the sketchiness but it is a good while back....Monkey Island...can't remember whether it's 1 or 2 but I think it was 2...had to find some combination of items to thicken your spit to win a spitting contest...i hovered over every item in every scene to see if some option to act would present itself...days lost...it was at least a year before I found out what I had to do and went back to it...pre internet...deary me

Irish Halo

GK1001 wrote: »

Sorry about the sketchiness but it is a good while back....Monkey Island...can't remember whether it's 1 or 2 but I think it was 2...had to find some combination of items to thicken your spit to win a spitting contest...i hovered over every item in every scene to see if some option to act would present itself...days lost...it was at least a year before I found out what I had to do and went back to it...pre internet...deary me

Wasn't just the mix of grog, you had to spit when the wind was blowing behind you as well ...

jacksie66

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764dak

Level 70 on Candy Crush is unbelievable.

Grayditch

ancapailldorcha

Manus in the Dark Souls DLC and the final missions of the first 2 Driver games spring to mind.

Grimebox

I seem to be playing the same map in counter strike for the past 15 years, de_dust2 is tough

alexonhisown

Level 165 candy crush. Been stuck on it for weeks.

wyrn

I always get stuck on stupid things but at least you can resort to walkthrough guides and youtube.

I can clearly remember the pain and frustration of Hugo's House of Horrors 1-3. You can to type commands and there were only a select few that could be recognised and you had to be able to spell. It's where I learned how to spell pumpkin. Oh and god forbid you come across an item you'd never heard of, like a dumb waiter (no google or wikipedia searches in those days, out with the giant dusty encyclopaedias).

They were great games but I got so stuck in them and never could finish. I looked up the walkthroughs a few years ago and it kills me how straightforward it was after all. Grrr.

Oh and Penelope, worst girlfriend ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CT6UL3F3w

Jikashi

I used to get stuck a lot in the Sandopolis pyramid's infinite sand slides in Sonic and Knuckles

Vojera

I got stuck at Demon Gate in FF VII. I had never played any game where your character leveled up before so I was waaaaaay underpowered. There was nowhere to grind nearby so I had to start the game again.

Same with FF VIII. I got onto Disc 4 and wasn't strong enough to beat the bosses so I had to start all over again. It taught me a lesson about having multiple saves if nothing else. On the upside I learned the junction system inside out and back to front.

Agricola

Goro, the boss in Mortal Kombat 2 springs to mind. Just ridiculous.

wandatowell

Agricola wrote: »

Goro, the boss in Mortal Kombat 2 springs to mind. Just ridiculous.

Is that the guy with 4 arms?


W@nker

Agricola

wandatowell wrote: »

Is that the guy with 4 arms?


W@nker

Thats him!

BadmanRiddim

As w chap I was stuck for about a month on the first level of "Jedi Power Battles" on PS1. Stuck with it though cos I was such a big star wars fan. Great game too....

cherryghost

danthefan

Artorias in Dark Souls.

Doubt I'll ever finish the game tbh.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

artorias is all timing. now granted dark souls in general is all timing but artorias is the most perfect expression of it. he's tricky, and i've never tried him with anything other than a rolly rolly stab stab high dex character but if you can keep yourself from getting flustered he's well doable.

Sinfonia

Irish Halo wrote: »

Wasn't just the mix of grog, you had to spit when the wind was blowing behind you as well ...

And you move the flags too, don't you?
The one that got me the most was probably when the monkey was to be used as a monkey wrench. I nearly put my f*cking foot through the screen when I figured it out/tried it and it worked. I couldn't make that comic leap of logic that they went with. Still, in hindsight it was good. I love Monkey Island.

I also had trouble with FF7 as a 13 year old..
Ran away from most fights, because I wasn't arsed/wanted to get on with the story, then got to Lost Number and couldn't beat him.

Came back to it in my 20s, fought every small fight, and presto, every boss was a piece of piss!

GTR63

In Monkey Island 2 where you have to go through those doors with the skeletons on them. I know I follow the song but I just can't manage to do it.

super_furry

Also - "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ!"

I like how there's a bit of reference to that in the new GTA.

ionapaul

I didn't have much of a problem with Artorias in Dark Souls, beat him without summoning help about about eight or nine tries, but Kalameet... that took me a good few nights. I only played the game earlier this year, so perhaps the PC community was smaller than after it was released, but it sometimes was quite a wait to be able to summon other players. Even with two players to help, Kalameet was really tough for me! I basically try to stay out of the way, use my flask occasionally to heal up the other two doing the grunt work, and run in now and then to whack the big lizard on the tail with my Life Scythe +5. If I tried to take on Kalameet myself, I always got my ass handed to me. Definitely the toughest boss in Dark Souls from my perspective.

Thinking of other games I've had to quit because of difficulty:

- Ultima Underworld II (got stuck on one of the other dimensions and couldn't progress no matter what I did)
- System Shock (got stuck in a cyberspace section, the controls were such that I just couldn't beat it)
- There are about two levels in Sonic Generations that I just couldn't complete. Still finished the game (as you didn't have to complete every single level in each section), but it felt like a hollow victory...

I'm sure there are lot more, particularly from back in the pre-internet walkthrough days.

Jikashi

cherryghost wrote: »

briany

I don't remember ever getting particularly stuck in Sonic 2.

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Here's one. Neo City on Shinobi for the Game Gear. You weren't getting past that without a guide.

ScumLord

You can't get stuck in games anymore. I'm playing Tomb Raider at the moment and if you stand still for a minute Lara basically tells you want to do.

Sinfonia

Two moments in Grim Fandango:
1) Planting the arrow sign in the right spot in the woods
2) Using the forklift to stop the elevator

Went insane trying to get them right, then decided I must have somehow been wrong about what to do (which I wasn't), so I went off trying everything else (which was no help).
Eventually couldn't take it anymore, checked out the situation online, turned out they were both just glitches! The raaaaage!

CastorTroy

Archimedes escort mission in Spartan Total Warrior. I ended up finishing it using an Action Replay disc I had.

Take everything that annoys you about escort missions, put them all in one level and you get this. To this day the shouts of "Spartan, help me" haunt me.

cherryghost

briany wrote: »

I don't remember ever getting particularly stuck in Sonic 2.

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Here's one. Neo City on Shinobi for the Game Gear. You weren't getting past that without a guide.

That's because it's Sonic 3.

Dynamo Roller

TMNT, that ****ing underwater level with the electric seaweed drove me insane.