Getting stuck on a level.

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.

n1ck

First level of original Tomb Raider... Locking the butler in the freezer, I just always kept restarting so I could do it again and actually never left the house other than to do the obstacle course!

Driver on the PlayStation, that tutorial was hard and also Gran Turismo 2 final time trial for the special licence in Monaco, what a ragefest that was!

corcaigh07

Revenge of Shinobi, that bloody maze!

briany

cherryghost wrote: »

That's because it's Sonic 3.

My mistake. What level of 3 is this tricky bit on?

Retr0gamer

briany wrote: »

My mistake. What level of 3 is this tricky bit on?

The noob barrel, it's in the screenshot posted. I never got stuck on it but a lot of people get to it and don't realise you have to keep pressing up and down to make the barrel move up and down more. It was never really explained to the player that you could do that.

Unearthly

Vojera wrote: »

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.

Same with me for ff7. I was so stubborn that I must have tried that boss fight 100 times each time breaking my heart

Jikashi

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The noob barrel, it's in the screenshot posted. I never got stuck on it but a lot of people get to it and don't realise you have to keep pressing up and down to make the barrel move up and down more. It was never really explained to the player that you could do that.

IvySlayer

San Andreas.

Zero

Enough said

Gulliver

The asteroid section in Dead Space. I must be getting old or my reaction times are shot, but I just can't do it.

I never finished a Dizzy game on C64.

I think games today are easier to finish in general (except Dead Space). I remember when you accepted that you just weren't going to finish a game. Hell, I remember when games didn't have an ending, just reset (Centipede on Atari 2600).

Jikashi

IvySlayer wrote: »

San Andreas.

Zero

Enough said

Curse you Berkley, curse youuuuuu!

ScumLord

The original Operation flashpoint (now ARMA) could never finish the last mission in that game. It was genuinely hard though, I knew what needed to be done but I let my country down time and time again.