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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Mikintosh on 20 Jun 2005, 19:57
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It just occured to me that most of the games I own that actually have an ending I've never actually finished, and often I just abandon them. Does anyone else have this happen to them? Repeatedly?
WHERE I GOT STYMIED:
Super Mario Land 2 [GB] (Very last level vs. Wario)
Banjo-Kazooie (whatever that ship level is after the haunted house)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (the giant snow level)
Pokémon Stadium 2 (Ultra Cup Round 2)
Super Mario Sunshine (somewhere in the middle; the whole thing runs together for me)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (this inhumanely long Triforce chard search near the end)
Tony Hawk Underground (the part where you're in the hotel or somesuch...my memory is failing)
Halo 2 (Sacred Icon)
I could list a lot more, but it's just really sad.
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Every FF Ever.
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Every FF except 1 and 6.
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i liked the Final Fantasy games, am i a freak?
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I just got too lazy to play them. I get about 2/3rds done and either A. I'm bombarded by school shit or B. I stop caring.
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Yeah I got up to Final Boss in X, and I was just like Whatever. Same in 8
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I can't stand not finishing games. It drives me crazy. Even if I am sick to hell of playing the game. If I've invested the time to get(anything, really. not just games) started, by fucking god I'm gonna finish it.
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I can't stand not finishing games. It drives me crazy. Even if I am sick to hell of playing the game. If I've invested the time to get(anything, really. not just games) started, by fucking god I'm gonna finish it.
Very true; I'm sure that if my video game skills had ever progressed past the age of eleven, I'd have the same attitude. Platforming games are really the toughest for me; if my Mario or Banjo or Link misses the same ledge over and over again and I can't figure out how to do it and the player's guide doesn't help and it takes 15 min. to get back to the same spot (or in the case of Majora's Mask, simply having no idea where you are and not desiring to restart the entire game), then I tend to just put it off to the side and put in Super Smash Bros. for a while. I do go back, eventually, and whittle down the levels remaining until I get to the end; that's pretty much the only way I finish my Pokémon and side-scrolling Mario games.
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I also totally got stuck in Oddworld:abes Oddesy and Metal Gear Solid. It wasn't that I couldn't get any farther, I just didn't want to beat the game and get the bad ending, so I stopped playing. I must have tried that damn electric shock thing like 100000000 times.
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Miki: Quoting the person directly above you is for the no.
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oops, double post
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I think the only games i've ever actually finished were FF 1 and FF 9. i always hit some point where it's going to take me hours of leveling because i got too far too fast and i just can't bring myself to do it.
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Miki: Quoting the person directly above you is for the no.
Damn. I haven't done the whole message board thing since 2000, give me time.
[ponders why the hell he would even do that]
Um...look, a distraction. [runs]
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Let's see...stuck...stuck...stuck...
Vagrant Story. I didn't power my weapons up and got way too far, so every hit did 1 damage to like...every enemy.
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I got stuck on some wannabe Myst ripoff because it actually had points in which you could *die*.
Puzzles + boring story + death for no reason = stupid.
What else...
Goldeneye was one. I'm not a fan of going pop every five minutes because I'm not skilled with a controller. As a result, I'd enter the cheats and run through just for the story. But as we all know, in Goldeneye, if you have the cheats on, you can't progress in levels. And I didn't feel like entering those ridiculously long and complicated controller-codes to unlock all the levels.
I never finished the original campaign of NWN. I just can't do it. It's so... Bland. I haven't finished SoU either, but that one isn't entirely fun for a while. (C'mon, start as a Fighter and you can't pick up Full Plate until after you get to town. To get there, you have to get past a few kobolds that are readily able to hit you, and therefore kill you. Fairly annoying, if you ask me.)
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NWN...I have trouble playing through the first chapter. Getting past the first few hours of chapter 2 is unheard of.
Also, HALF-ORC BARDS FTW BITCHES
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The one game that really stumped me was Viewtiful Joe. That game is freakin hard. I just stopped playing after I got to the Shark boss.
What difficulty level were you playing in Halo 2? I beat it a while ago on Normal, and I'm playing it right now on Heroic.
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NWN...I have trouble playing through the first chapter. Getting past the first few hours of chapter 2 is unheard of.
Also, HALF-ORC BARDS FTW BITCHES
HotU wins over all the rest. The story is actually compelling, and the action is challenging, but not overly difficult. Plus, you start at level 15. That's a plus and a half. I hate starting at 1st level. They're boring and tend to die five seconds into most combat situations. Especially arcane casters.
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i liked the Final Fantasy games, am i a freak?
No
There's a thread on them. Only freaks don't like FF
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i liked the Final Fantasy games, am i a freak?
No
There's a thread on them. Only freaks don't like FF
*Get's a marker and spells out F-R-E-A-K on foreheard*
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Games I got stuck on? Resident Evil 2 and 3, Super Mario Sunshine, a number of others that I got bored of as well.
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I'm a little stuck right now, actually - I'm playing the PC version of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and I'm having an incredibly tough time passing a mission called "freefall", where I have to fly out to meet a plane halfway across the ocean, get behind it, and fly into a corona behind it's tail.
Seeing, however, as the plane I'm flying is a Dodo (ssingle engine prop crop-duster) and the plane I'm trying to catch from behind is a twin-engine private jet, I'm having a little trouble trying to fiugre out how the hell I'm meant to catch up a plane that can move faster than my plane.
Not fun.
I never leave a game unfinished, though - I WILL beat this mission, eventually.
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The one game that really stumped me was Viewtiful Joe. That game is freakin hard. I just stopped playing after I got to the Shark boss.
What difficulty level were you playing in Halo 2? I beat it a while ago on Normal, and I'm playing it right now on Heroic.
[hopes quoting in itself is not frowned upon]
Yeah, Normal. My experience in FPS games is mostly limited to Doom, the Descent series, and the original Halo at others' houses, so I don't quite have the skills. I haven't given up, but progress is slow to come by.
I've realized it's actually faster to list the games I've beaten:
Super Mario (Bros. 2 & 3, World, 64)
Pokémon (RBYGSCSaRuFi, Stadium)
Zelda (Ocarina)
Which is literally less than 1/4 of the games I own. Sigh.
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I'm not very game-savvy,and I must say, my friends /still/ won't stop laughing at me for this.
I got stuck...=blushes= in FF7, right after rescuing Red, on the elevator. I can /never/ beat that part.
So says the best friend of someone who /still/ has the schoolwide highscore in every vid game comp we've ever had.
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I've been stuck in every FF I've ever played, although I managed to beat most of 'em. (IV4LYFE!)
I'm currently stuck in Half-Life 2, partially out of fear and partially out of having no time.
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Fucking goddamn Quest for Glory IV. There were so many bugs in that game that it was basically impossible to beat unless you got a walkthrough and did exactly what it said.
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I'm currently stuck in Half-Life 2, partially out of fear and partially out of having no time.
I'm stuck in halflife 2 too. Partly because of steam, partly because it's a crap game and I can't be bothered.
(yes I am still bitter)
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Yeah, at that point I thought you could have the VTOL jet you steal from the mililtary in your hangar. I am having trouble remembering.
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Wind Waker: The temple with Makar, I just don't know where to go.
FF VIII: This one thing that you fight.
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Legacy of the Wizard. omfg is that game hard.
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About Legacy of the Wizard:
http://www.bigcheesepress.com/keller.php
Scroll down a bit.
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i don't so much get stuck in games as get bored towards the end as they game designers stop thinking of new & interesting ways to challenge you and instead start just throwing more enemies at you.
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Blaster Master stopped me dead at about level, uh ... four or five. I never got past the ice one, and could only get through the third one on luck. There was this one boss there that was really only feasible to kill with the most-charged-up gun, so if you didn't get him on the first try you were whipped.
There's plenty of games I haven't finished, but not many that have defeated me — among them, BM still sticks in my head.
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The last level of Driver is my kryptonite. Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl...
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Of the FF's I have yet to finish(of those I've played) IV(got so damn far, got bored, forgot what I was supposed to do), V(I've watched the opening vid), VI(I find it difficult to play for extended periods using an emulator and can't be arsed to buy anthologies), VIII(just have to fight the last boss), and X(underleveled and got stuck on the airship headed to bevelle and cant beat that "dragon").
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About Legacy of the Wizard:
http://www.bigcheesepress.com/keller.php
Scroll down a bit.
my my my. never heard of anyone beating Legacy.
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The one game that really stumped me was Viewtiful Joe. That game is freakin hard. I just stopped playing after I got to the Shark boss.
What difficulty level were you playing in Halo 2? I beat it a while ago on Normal, and I'm playing it right now on Heroic.
I'm stuck on the damn last boss, you can't even touch him :(
I am kinda stuck on resident evil 1, its less of a stuck thing more of a can't be bothered thing to be honest...
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I never finished Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast, and I've kinda given up on Disgaea on PS2
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This thread prompted me to take on my old Nemesis 'Vandal Hearts'. I beat the utter snot out of everyone.. I dunno how I didn't finish it the first time... now the sequel, that thing is just stupidly stupid and hard. Bosses that heal 25% each turn anyone?
Now onto FF IX, and THIS time I'm gonna pay attention to earning abilities!
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Meh, i suck at any c&c clone. Never completed any of them. Apart from that, never met an rpg i couldn't beat.
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I finish most of the games I get, but this does remind me of a rant I made once to a friend. I was getting all annoyed by how some games feel the need to abruptly ratchet up the difficulty by several orders of magnitude right at the end boss. Take Jak3: I eventually managed to beat that game, but I was stuck at the final boss for a while, because the final boss is WAY harder than anything else in the game. At the time I was disputing the notion that a game should get harder as you progress (somewhat esoteric game design discussion, plus the definition of "harder" is kind of mushy.) But even taking as an assumption that games should get harder as you progress, how does it make any sense for the entire game up to the final boss to have a consistent level of difficulty, and then the final boss is harder than the rest of the game combined?
The most notable (but not only) game in which I'm stuck at the final boss is Beyond Good and Evil. That's a really good game (I recommend it to any PS2 owners who haven't played it) but the final boss is hard as nails. You play through the boss in several "stages" of combat; one stage is a sequence of insanely fast monsters you have to fight through, and then you have to go through that section again, only with the controls reversed. WTF?!?
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The last boss in beyond good and evil really is very hard, did it on 3rd try that whole bit with the reversed controlls annoyed me, also I had very few healing things, basicly had to not get hurt once, beyong good and evil is an underrated game.
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I think games are just getting easier. I play these games, complete them and go 'Wow! I'm a god!'. Then i go back and play old games that used to cause me loads of problems. The idea is i must be a better gamer, cuz i kick loads of ass in new games. So i go back, play older games, and get my ass handed to me. New games = easy, old games = difficult
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I agree most new games are much easier, authough I bought the remake of metal gear solid and I kicked ass this time arround and the only noticeable difference is a few new moves and the graphics.
Lots of games are far too easy by yesterdays standards, I played some NES game the other day and they are as hard as they were for me when I first played them.
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I'm a little stuck right now, actually - I'm playing the PC version of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"
Try to get a better plane. If you can't do that, check the marker for the plane on your map. Then adjust your height is neccesary.
Are you willing to use cheats? You can get a better plane that way.
Dude, there are Shamals (the same make of plane you're trying to catch) right next to the hangar. The game requires you, however, to use the fucking Dodo. There's a big blue arrow above it, and that's the only plane you're allowed to complete the mission in - the plane you're meant to be catching doesn't manifest into the game world unless you get into that specific Dodo, and you fail the mission if you leave that plane for any reason.
Which is a bit fucking crap, truth be told. I'd sooo much rather grab a Hunter and blow the fucking thing out of the sky than muck around with trying to catch the bastard thing in a bloody Dodo....
had a bit of fun lately, mind - I found what would appear to be the only jumbo jet in the game parked in a hangar in Las Venturas airport, so I took it out for a spin. Maxed out my flying skill just keeping going in a straight line, trying to find Liberty City, eventually gave up and tried to land in San Fierro, but the bloody wing tips scraped a runway-side sign, and the plane blew up.
And NO, I do not cheat on my first time through a game. EVER.
I agree most new games are much easier, authough I bought the remake of metal gear solid and I kicked ass this time arround and the only noticeable difference is a few new moves and the graphics.
Lots of games are far too easy by yesterdays standards, I played some NES game the other day and they are as hard as they were for me when I first played them.
A list of games you may want to try if you want a challenge:
Ninja Gaiden (on hard setting, you die a lot. On hard setting, ninjas come to your home, slaughter your roommate, and then beat you to death with his spleen...)
Tony Hawk's Underground (both 1 and 2, but especially number 1 - the final skate-off between you and your rival is INSANELY difficult)
Freelancer (Some of the big battles during the storyline still get me sweating when I replay them, and I'm fucking GOOD at that game...)
The Temple of Elemental Evil (Steepest. Difficulty curve. Ever. The damn thing throws giant frogs that can eat and instantly kill your characters without much trouble at you as one of the first damned encounters of the game, immediately followed up by a small army of bandits - all while you're still only a first level party)
The Lord of the Rings - the Third Age (no matter how good you are, and how much you train the party, I guarantee that the bad guys in the most recent chapter you reach will always be a genuine threat. I've seen the GAME OVER screen in that game a great many times)
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I destroyed freelancer inside 2 days. It is one of the easiest games i've ever played
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Slacker. I ripped through the storyline inside one day.
four battles that really slowed me down, however:
1: Escaping from Bretonia, and you run into a whole fleet of Rheinland capitol ships, and it's you, a heavy fighter, and three light fighters versus a battleship, three cruisers, five gunships and about ten wings of heavy fighters.
I was flying a Bretonia heavy fighter with starkiller torpedo launchers, four skyrail Bs and twinned cannonball missile launchers, advanced thrusters and a level 4 shield. Took out a battleship and a cruiser, but the first three or four times, I went down pretty quickly.
2: The return to Liberty, when you first encounter the prototype heavy fighters with Nomad weaponry. owch. To make that battle easier, btw, don't be tempted to mount Order shields: They're graviton-based, and Nomad weapons do double damage to graviton shielding. Buy a good pair of shields on Kyoto, and stick with those until the end of the storyline, but buy an Order shield anyway - once the nomads are out of the way, the Order shielding's better for post-storyline playgrounding.
3: Tekagi's Arch.
4: The battle of Toledo, when you have to destroy two nomad battleships to progress.
My toughest battle ever in that game, however, was near planet Malta - Single-handed versus twenty Bounty Hunter Hammerhead class level 9 heavy fighters. That wasn't fun at all.
Those battles still get me sweating when I replay them, and I'm a damned good player by now...
As for Tony Hawk's 1: Max stats, and it still took me two hours of try-fail-restart-try-fail-restart-try-fail-restart...
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In recent memory I've failed to complete:
Abe's Exoddus (my memory card got wiped and I really couldn't be bothered starting again.
Final Fantasy IX - had to return the borrowed fourth disc... damnit
Grandia - just got bored
Final Fantasy X - I'm up to the last boss but I've been trying to beat Omega... which is not fun.
GTA: San Andreas - I'll go back to it, I promise!
Most of the time my attention gets distracted by a shiny new game, and sometimes I just can't be bothered going back to finish older ones. Grandia was probably the worst offender - most slow-moving RPG storyline I've seen.
There have been quite a few lesser games that I've given up on too. Does anyone else find that as you age, your tolerance for bad games goes way down? I remember the days on my Sega Master System, trying for hours to beat Ghost House. Man that was a crap game, but the mere fact that it was a game meant that I had to finish it. These days I'd give up after two minutes!
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my friend and I have a system where we put of aa game when we get stuck and come back to it later and seem to beat it easily. The only game i remember getting stuck in is Metroid 2 for the GB.
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Does anyone else find that as you age, your tolerance for bad games goes way down?
Hells yeah, when I was younger I'd slog my way through any shitty game but these days I just don't have the time/attention span for it. I always find myself hiring games and giving up on them after about 5 minutes.
I blame the game developers - hardly anyone makes original games anymore, especially not for consoles. Take Tony Hawk for example, the first two were great but then they released about 15 more sequels that were pretty much exactly the same game. Gran Turismo was fun back when modifiying your car in a racing game was a relatively new concept (let's not forget Street Rod), but playing GT4 I found myself thinking "This is exactly the same as GT2, only more linear"
P.S. Yeah NZ!!
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Hmm, I don't know. I think games are certainly more in depth these days, and there's a lot more room for originality, even if you just think of the different genres that have popped up since the "3D revolution". Back in the day every second game was a platformer, and all you had was a jump button and a punch button, but boy did I plow through them.
I do definitely have less time on my hands now, but even so, if a game is anything less than great I usually won't bother with it for more than 10 minutes, if at all.
I have less appreciation for sequels too. Something like MGS3 is cool because I find those games to be pretty damn original, but Gran Turismo is a perfect example of a series of very good games that I haven't touched since number 2 back on PSX.
Another example: I loved Soul Reaver on PSX, but took one look at the sequel and decided I wouldn't bother.
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Final Fantasy X - I'm up to the last boss but I've been trying to beat Omega... which is not fun.
A few tips:
Firstly, there's nothing in the game that's not a genuinely easy match, if you use Yojimbo's "Zanmato" attack, which will instantly defeat anything, regardless of how many HP it has, or wether it's immune to KO effects. It might be considered a bit of a cop-out, however. Doing it properly is much harder.
Oh, and if you think Omega is hard, but enjoy the challenge, then I suggest that you tackle the dark aeons, and take on Penance (international english language version only)
second - if you want my advice, then I suggest that you give Yuna as many black magic spells as you can - it's much more effective to have a combined black mage/white mage/summoner on your front line at all times as opposed to swapping her back and forth with Lulu. Plus, her "magic" statistic is higher (it needs to be in order to overcome the party's high Magic Defence stat.) which means that she does more damage with black magic than Lulu will.
Third: Tidus' overdrives are your friends - use his overdrive moves fifty times in order to unlock the move "blitz ace" which is the second most devastating attack in the game, after Dark Anima's overdrive (which is just stupidly powerful).
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That's true, we definitely have a lot more genres to choose from now. What annoys me is games that conform to the genres completely and fail to bring anything new to the table - and the only reason developers can keep making these types of games is because people are stupid enough to buy them.
The thing that distances MGS3 from other sequels is that they kept it interesting by introducing new features that actually changed the gameplay from the previous releases.
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Switchblade:
Yeah, I know about all the Zanmato stuff, and I was trying to do it without. Maybe I should just shut up and use it - that'd teach that dang Omega... teach 'im good.
Don't even get me started on the dark Aeons...
Unfortunately I'm not one of those types that clocks 200 hours on the game levelling up everyone until they're SUPER ULTIMATE HARDCORE!!!!111!, so fighting these sorts of bosses tends to give me a headache.
I do have Blitz Ace though, I should add.
Mr Putter:
The EA-style incremental updates are pretty bad, but then they always have been. I think the problem arises from developers' fear of leaving an established franchise alone and starting afresh. It's much easier to make a sequel, and it's more commercially viable, but it does contstrict them to the format of the original game to a degree, no matter how outdated the original concept may be. Nobody ever wants to screw with the established fans (except Hideo Kojima, maybe, which is another reason why I think MGS is so good), so developers keep churning out Tony Hawk games and yearly FIFA soccer updates.
Take for example the Tenchu series. I really enjoyed the first game, but the sequels left a lot to be desired in my opinion. Basically they were trying to fix the problems of a somewhat unweildy game design instead of taking their ideas and starting on something fresh and unique. It's this kind of unadventurous thinking that produces the most unappealing, boring and industry-stagnating games.
... woah, that turned out to be ranty-er than I anticipated... heh.
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Agreed. I was at an EA pre-release thingy a few weeks back - unsuprisingly all the games sucked and the chicken made me sick. All in all not very impressed....
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second - if you want my advice, then I suggest that you give Yuna as many black magic spells as you can - it's much more effective to have a combined black mage/white mage/summoner on your front line at all times as opposed to swapping her back and forth with Lulu. Plus, her "magic" statistic is higher (it needs to be in order to overcome the party's high Magic Defence stat.) which means that she does more damage with black magic than Lulu will.
Giving Yuna black magic is irrelevant if you go through her entire section of the sphere grid, because she will pick up the white magic spell Holy; it is a super powerful attack. It costs a lot of MP, but that leads to my main suggestion: make sure to give both Yuna and Lulu weapons with the 1 MP ability (ie. spells only cost 1 MP to cast, no matter what.) You can customize that ability onto a weapon by using Three Stars items (for more info, google 'ffx faq' and look on gamefaqs' equipment remodeling guide)
EA-style incremental updates
I actually read a speech given by the head "creative" director for EA in which he explained that the acme of game design to them is not about coming up with new games but rather modifying existing games.
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Going old school on you:
Festers Quest.
Anyone else ever play this evil game?
In this game you played Uncle Fester and you ran around shooting aliens I believe. Doesn't sound too hard right?
Well, there was no save! I spent alot of time looking how to save in that game, either it was something they didn't put in or I'm an idiot.
Anyway, I played the game for probably two days straight, leaving the game paused when I had to eat or what not. I get to what I think is the last boss, start fighting and BAM!
the game locks up. I can't figure out what is wrong until I felt the top of my NES, it was amazingly hot. I guess the thing overheated.
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Often the reason why some older games are more difficult is they were just ports of arcade games which were designed to be as hard as they could or impossible to beat.
Man, I remember Festers Quest. The most annoying thing I can remember was the fly/mesquito type enemies that would drain your stamina or something so you moved more slowly.
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Plus not being able to save in those old games kinda sucked (in hindsight)! Remember having to write down passwords, and getting one digit wrong and having to start the game all over again? Good times.
Mr Putter, I am confused by your reference to "the chicken".
Going back to FFX: It kinda annoyed me that at a certain point in the game holy took over as the best offensive magic full stop. That sorta thing tends to happen in FF games - once you've got Knights of the Round why do anything else (aside from the fact that it takes twenty minutes to do)?
Also, the 1MP ability is very useful, I agree, but it kinda makes all the MP points you've gained during the game redundant... I don't know, just a bit annoying.
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Giving Yuna black magic is irrelevant if you go through her entire section of the sphere grid, because she will pick up the white magic spell Holy; it is a super powerful attack. It costs a lot of MP, but that leads to my main suggestion: make sure to give both Yuna and Lulu weapons with the 1 MP ability (ie. spells only cost 1 MP to cast, no matter what.) You can customize that ability onto a weapon by using Three Stars items (for more info, google 'ffx faq' and look on gamefaqs' equipment remodeling guide)
True, but "Holy" only turns up if you spend a few hours working towards it in a nice tough training area (such as the Omega dungeon). Whereas I managed to give Yuna the second-level black magic spells shortly before tackling the chocobo eater on the Mi'ihen highroad, at the expense of the four Black Magic spheres that I'd been saving without any other good use to put them to, and without having to deviate from her usual progression at all or work especially hard at it.
Frankly, I've always had a minor dislike of the sheer number of characters in the game - seven characters? Only three of them are worth it. Kimahri flat-out sucks, Lulu becomes useless if you give Yuna some black magic, and Rikku and Wakka are both pretty limited in their utility, and Tidus can basically replace both of them, given a little bit of care and attention to detail. Only Yuna, Auron and Tidus are at all worth bothering with, IMO. Those three could handle the entire game solo if they didn't become seperated in the middle.
I also recommend using the advanced sphere grid, and doing a little extra training at Kilika, and using that to snap up "steal" and "use" for Tidus (it's only about a fifteen sphere deviation off course) - it makes a surprisingly big difference throughout the game.
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Y'know, I always wished I had gotten 'use' for some character other than Rikku, so that she wouldn't be the only one who could use Al-Bhed potions. That alone was the main reason I ever found Rikku useful in battles.
Personally I prefer Kimari to Auron because of speed (Auron is slow.) But once I customized 1 MP Cost for both Yuna and Lulu, my main lineup for all battles was Tidus, Yuna, and Lulu.
And yeah, getting Holy takes a lot of training. But since he (she? I don't even remember who brought this all up in the first place) is going up against the Omega dungeon boss, I was assuming that the characters are all pretty advanced.
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Auron's slow, yeah, but there are remedies to that: like Haste, and Slow. Sending him off down Tidus' sphere grid path after he's maxed his own one out also balances the speed off.
My version is wearing a bracer with the auto-haste, auto-phoenix, break HP limit and auto-regen properties, for example. My versions of Yuna and Tidus basically have the same things, except that theirs both have "Ribbon" instead of auto-regen. They all have their ultimate weapons (fully unlocked) and even Yuna does straight 9's when she hits something with a basic attack, unless it has a stupidly high defence. Tidus and Auron do straight 9's to anything.
My problem with Kimahri is that's he doesn't really provide a fixed role - he's a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, whose development is determined by what you want to do with him - and though he may be faster than Auron, he doesn't hit as hard, neither is he as quick as Tidus or Wakka. Similarly, his magical abilities are inferior to those of Rikku, Lulu an Yuna. He's a cool enough character, and "Mighty Guard" if and when you learn it, is a really cool move, but he never functions properly at the front of the party, because anything he can do, somebody else does better.
but to each their own, I guess. I've got the three most important characters - Tidus, Yuna and Auron - so completely maxed out that it's simply not worth it to bring the other guys into play - anything those three can't handle, none of the others will, either.
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@Gryff
Oh sorry, I meant that the chicken kebabs gave me food poisoning. Don't worry EA aren't trying to re-make Frogger or anything...
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Ah, that makes more sense!
I had scary visions of a generic 3D platformer with "The Chicken" as the main character!
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SUPER PUNCH-OUT!
MAN THAT LAST BOXER IS HARD
Seriously does anyone know how to beat him?
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zelda. ocarina of time. water temple.
i've beaten the game many times, but my sister got herself stuck in the water temple... we have tried to get her out of it so many times but i don't think it's possible. it's like she used the door keys in the wrong order and now the part where you need the two keys to get to the mirror/lake-ish room to fight shadow link is only half opened and there's nowhere else to go. it seems unlikely that this problem would arise though. i think i'm just dumb.
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FFXI, leveled up so goddamn much early in the game that by disc 3, i just didnt give a shit anymore. Beat zorn and thorn in 2 hits. Got bored, put it away. I have yet to beat FF tactics advance, mainly because i cant sit at a computer for hours on end playing due to forums and AIM. The only game i ever really got STUCK on was Riven. Myst was confusing, but riven, i just said screw it.
The most notable (but not only) game in which I'm stuck at the final boss is Beyond Good and Evil. ... but the final boss is hard as nails. You play through the boss in several "stages" of combat; one stage is a sequence of insanely fast monsters you have to fight through, and then you have to go through that section again, only with the controls reversed. WTF?!?
Dude... I beat that boss on accident. I was trying to show my brother how to hit him, and just started destroying him. It was fun, but still hella easy
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Well aren't you just the biggest badass ever. [/bitter]
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Only freaks don't like FF
I actually found that all the FFs after six were..basically the same game. and I lost intrest in them completely.
*KlonoaWahoo Thinks of how Legend of Mana beats FF games 7-10 in its art and originality..and wonders if saying this makes her a freak
as for games Ive got stuck in? Elder Scrolls III morrowind. I gave up after I became a Evoker in the Mages' Guild. I just didnt know whattodowheretogoclassicmorrowindproblems ACKPFFT. x_X
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I'm a little stuck right now, actually - I'm playing the PC version of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and I'm having an incredibly tough time passing a mission called "freefall", where I have to fly out to meet a plane halfway across the ocean, get behind it, and fly into a corona behind it's tail.
Dude i don't know if you're still stuck on it, which i doubt, here's what you do, fly towards the marker and get the dodo as high as possible. When you reach the jet and inevidably overtake it, stay calm and turn around slowly when your directly behind it, drop to gain speed and if you've timed it right, you decending so quickly should give you enough speed to fly into the corona.
One game that i am stuck on, and i just cannot get past is Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox, theres a part where you have to kill a tank, its a boss and you have exploding arrows and armor piercing arrows....after about a month, i got the tank, but then a second spawned. Now getting past the first is hard but achieveable but its impossible for me to beat the second.
Also, just yesterday i finsihed Tanker for Metal Gear Solid 2, i didn't even bother because i thought it was too hard when i first bought it, but i really enjoyed it.
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Also, just yesterday i finsihed Tanker for Metal Gear Solid 2, i didn't even bother because i thought it was too hard when i first bought it, but i really enjoyed it.
The rest of the game is good except for comms and cinematics. Playing as Raiden is alright, but him talking is not. Also, if you can get someone to play the naked Raiden level for you, it would be in your best interests. Unusually, my favorite part of that game was the final boss fight...
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I actually played plant. I finished it in about three days. I don't know why but i enjoyed the conversations between Raiden and his girlfriend. The comms and cinematics got a little annoying but i didn't find too much wrong with it. I still don't get the ending.
Did anyone else shoot the seagulls on plant and then get chastized by Raidens girlfriend?
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i got stuck in dmc3 and gave up
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I don't know why but i enjoyed the conversations between Raiden and his girlfriend.
I thought those conversations were hilarious. What an awesome send-up of the kind of ridiculous melodrama you see in anime and other comics.
It's funny how apparently other people didn't have as much trouble as I did in certain games (eg. Beyond Good and Evil,) but then people have trouble with a game I breezed through (MGS2.) Different people are good at different things.
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Dude i don't know if you're still stuck on it, which i doubt, here's what you do, fly towards the marker and get the dodo as high as possible. When you reach the jet and inevidably overtake it, stay calm and turn around slowly when your directly behind it, drop to gain speed and if you've timed it right, you decending so quickly should give you enough speed to fly into the corona.
Thanks for the tip, dude. I'll try and remember that when I get back to that point in the game (Due to stupidity, I accidentally overwrote that saved game with a new game.)
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Well aren't you just the biggest badass ever. [/bitter]
aww, cmon, you know im not being mean
hell, you'd beat it easily too if you played videogames as much as i did then
i dont play as much anymore, but i still play alot.
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i got stuck in dmc3 and gave up
I'm still stuck on Devil May Cry one. After about a year of having given it up, I came back to it and ended up switching the machine off in a huff after dying about five times ;).
Stupid man-with-guts-and-honour....:p
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FEAR. Just couldn't care enough to do it.
Doom 3; I played for three hours, tops.
Oblivion... Just got buggy, and I didn't care to backtrack far enough to fix it.
Titan Quest
Armies of Exigo
Raven Shield
The Movies
Civ IV
Vampire - The Masquerade Bloodlines
Then there were the games that were great, but over far too quickly. Company of Heroes, Hidden and Dangerous 2, Hitman Blood Money, HL2...
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Fucking goddamn Quest for Glory IV. There were so many bugs in that game that it was basically impossible to beat unless you got a walkthrough and did exactly what it said.
I played through that damn game 12 fuckin times before I didn't encounter a game breaking bug. Luckily fan patches have fixed every problem there ever was for it, and I still play through the enitre series on occasion.
I've gotten stuck in practically every single platformer that has item collection. Which means all of them. Though in my defense, I'm a completist and it feels wrong NOT to collect all the pretties and it seems a small chunk of collectibles are always in places that make no sense.
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I never completed FEAR, mainly because most of my gaming time is at night and I am a baby.
Never bothered beating Doom 3, because of hella-boringness.
I could never beat the plane level in the original Super Mario Bros. for the Gameboy. I hate that level.
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I never did beat Legend of Zelda II: Link to the Past. I got to the final boss, where you're supposed to use Thunder, but always died. Then something happened to my cartridge, or my NES (this was like 13 years ago), and I never played it again. The few times I've gotten a ROM of it, it was always buggy and froze up every so often and the saves never worked.
If you people haven't beaten FFX yet, just get Tidus' and Auron's ultimate weapon. Makes the game so much easier. Like, too easy. I was appauled at how easily I ripped through the final fights.
...damn this work thing and wanting to go play video games!!
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I got stuck in Star Ocean (the PS2 one) I just cannot make this puzzle work for me, which sucks because IO kind of liked the game.
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Hmm I don't think I have ever not finished a game except if it was a rental and I didn't have enough time. It took me a long while to beat tartarus on ledgendary Halo2. He has about 5x more HP than he should due to a defect on my disc. You run completely out of ammo before he's even on half health. It took me forever to finish the last part of NWN because I had a lvl 15 mage and for some reason it wouldnt let me rest! I had used all my spells up and hadn't got a savegame in a decent point. Was hell funny using up all my massive stockpile of scrolls on the final boss.
Oh Actually I never finished the original privateer. Either something was broken or I got stuck at some point of the storyline.
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Doom 3. I hated those monster closets.
Like, you would walk into a room, and you'd see something shiny (a gun / healthpack/ armour etc). Pick it up, and a monster would jump on you OUTTA NOWHERE and take you out.
The best example of this is when you first get the shotgun.
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I never completed FEAR, mainly because most of my gaming time is at night and I am a baby.
DOO EET
Best game ever.
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Worst game ever.
Fixed that for you.
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Not really, all your opinions are shit, as a Mr. Hocking would say.
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That may be true, but I carry the bigger bat.
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That may be true, but your bat is shit.
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Nobody wants to get hit by a shit-bat. It smells, and leaves a smear-stain.
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Thief 2, Sabotage at Soulforge. It's an amazing mission, but it's so large, difficult and nightmarish that I found it difficult to continue (and I got sidetracked by all the fan missions available for it). I'm still not sure whether I'll just pick it up where I left off or start the whole game anew.
There are lots of others, of course, but that's the one that's really in the back of my mind now.
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Only time I can really remember getting stuck and giving up was with Silent Hill at the moth boss fight, but it was a case of saving over my old data in a horrid spot. Where you've raped and plundered the land of ammo, used most of it and are stuck entering a bossfight. If there had been a button that ripped off wings though, I woulda had 'im.
(First post... a swing and a miss!)
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Haha, speaking of bad save spots, I saved Oddworld: Abes Oddessy when there were a few bullets coming towards me.
Somehow, after about 50 tries, I managed to dodge them.
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Oh man, I definitely did that in Oddworld too. Pain in the ass.
My friend and I both got stuck in Painkiller. There was this giant hole in a hallway, filled with fire. All the guides were just like "Jump over it!"...but we couldn't. Anyone play that game?
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Yeah painkiller is zombie killing goodness, but i got stuck for a fair bit on ruby weapon in FF7, i had everything you could get but i didnt think of the knights of the round combo for a while, plus he kept taking cloud out of the battle
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I never progress beyond a certain point in Oblivion - I hate having oblivion gates around, so my inclination is to level myself out and do all the fighters guild quests before going to Kvatch.... but then I wind up having to wade through daedroth, spider daedra, storm atronachs and all other manner of unholiness where before there were only scamps. and because that gate was set up with the assumption you'll be far more powerful than the stunted scamps, you wind up being drastically outnumbered by some of the nastiest foes in the game.
so... I either put up with having to fend of daedra periodically as I wander around the world, or I have a fun time sandboxing but then find the story mode almost impossibly difficult.
The solution I've found was to take the skills I DON'T use (marksman, speechcraft, stealth, security, mercantile, athletics and acrobatics) as my primaries, and then powerlevel the skills I DO use. That way, I become teh leet pwnstick while sandboxing, and still find the story mode acceptably easy.
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I still have nightmares about the hoverbike races in battletoads. Never did finish it. That whole game was impossible.
Almost as bad, Halo's Truth and Reconciliation level took me almost two months to beat on legendary. The first room of the ship with the stealth elites and the big room with the dropships were the big sticking points. After that, the rest of the game seemed easy.
One of the races in GTA: San Andreas, Freeway I think, got the better of me. It's a highway race in a Super GT, but the computer has faster, better-handling cars.
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Oh man, I definitely did that in Oddworld too.? Pain in the ass.
My friend and I both got stuck in Painkiller.? There was this giant hole in a hallway, filled with fire.? All the guides were just like "Jump over it!"...but we couldn't.? Anyone play that game?
Yes! Though I get stuck at the giant dude with the hammer - hes one of the bosses. Gimmie the level though, and I'll see how I did it.
Oh wait, I think I lost my savegames went my HDD went splodey... 'kay, it might take me a while, but I'll see what I can do. ^_^
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Some of those puzzles fucking NAILED me... This, of course, is in the day before walkthroughs on the internet. Trying to triangulate the location of the labyrinth on Crete? Insane!
In fact, LucasArts games had some mind-bending puzzles. Sam and Max, anyone? Or how about the Monkey Island series?
LOOM? God DAMN that was ridiculous.
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I'm stuck in Primal. Not on a puzzle or anything, but because I can't find the stupid door into the final control room thingy in Aquis. I've spent, like, seven hours swimming around this thing trying to find the door in, but I can't find one, and Skree can't get anywhere near it, so I don't have any idea what to do. I even downloaded a walkthrough to try and find the door, but all it says is "Swim through the door" and doesn't even give any clue as to where it is.
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Someone in the "Best Game" thread mentioned Cave Story (http://www.gameflaws.com/cavestory/), and I'm playing through it the hard way, where after you beat the final bosses in the regular playthrough, you end up in a ridiculously hard secret level with an even more ridiculously hard FINAL final boss. So far the best I've done is getting to the second form of the boss (he has five). I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to finish this; it's incredibly difficult. To think that some people are good enough at platformers to attempt a speed run of this level (and boss) makes me slightly ill.
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Starcraft.
And I still am.
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Got stuck and quit Majora's Mask a year ago. Last night, I TOOK REVENGE
GARGANTUAN MASKED FISH: GYORG
(http://users.skynet.be/alegis/gyorg.jpg)
(http://users.skynet.be/alegis/gyorg2.jpg)
This sonuvabitch wasn't easy. Especially that there's a game timer and when lost had to do the dungeon again. 2 minutes were ticking, only a quarter of HP AND SUCCEEDED.
Now continuing!
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I don't know if you would define it as "stuck" exactly, since the progression of the game itself ran smoothly. Back in the day of the N64, when Zelda: Ocarina of Time was still fresh off the shelves... I tried for weeks to get a perfect score of 2000 on the Gerudo horseback archery course. My best? 1980, I think. I never managed it. The whole business sent me spiraling into a period of eye twitching frustration. I kept telling myself that it was just a question of averages. I could make all the OTHER shots, so surely I would-- in time-- manage to nail those last two. Bah.
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i got stuck in neverwinter nights in that town with the little girl and her stupid diary.
it was pretty near the end, and i was like "oh fuck this shit."
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Yeah I got up to the last boss in NWN and couldn't beat her,
SOU I didn't bother and I finished Hordes of the Underdark (which was the best one I think).
BloodRayne I got up to the last boss and he kept growing bigger and bigger, just gave up in the end.
Half Life 2 I got up to the zombie level (Ravenholme? I think) and just couldn't be bothered playing it anymore, never really like FPs games.
Lords of Magic I played for ages and gave up cause Balkoth was just to powerful.
Command and Conqueor: Tiberian Sun never finished it with either GDI or NOD, always used t oget stuck on the same missions.
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Blood Rayne was one of the easiest games ever, except for that final boss. It turns out, what you have to do is shoot his heart (which is contained withn the dude's skeletal body) about 15 gazzillion times. Do this before time runs out, or he kills you, or the other dude kills you, or the game doesn't like you, etc, etc. Nobody I have talked to ever pulled it off.
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Ravenholme (HL2), goddamn i had to use the gravity gun all the time in that level, ammo was really rare. But after that it got really good. You should play it again.
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Hmm I never really got into HL 2, some of the levels were cool, like that jet ski level but I dunno I just never "got" it when playing, something about the game just alienated me. Not suprising though, most First Person Shooters have that affect on me. I think the reason is when I was a kid I was obssessed with Doom and Quake, especially Quake, I used to overclock my 486 so I could get decent performance in Quake. I just absolutely loved that game, the weapons, the atmosphere everything about it was perfect. Then all these games like Sin and Half Life started comming out where they tried to append storylines onto FPS's and it kind of ruins it for me. I dunno I thought Unreal was pretty good it had a bit of a backstory but it still had that Quake feeling to it, the rest of them just kind of bug me. I guess when I play a shooter I want to run charging at hordes of monsters with a shotgun not sift through a heap of backstory and complete missions.
If I want a story I'll play an RPG, which I happen to love :)
I dunno maybe I'm just weird, I absolutely love Quake 3 and Unreal tournement, but of course they're multiplayer rather then single player fps's
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I remember being stuck at the very beginning of Sam and Max for months untill I realized I was meant to use Max on the cat to get the orders, which led to one of the most hilarious video game scenes I ever saw.
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lets see here games i got stuck in
rayman
darkcloud
halo
paper mario (the first one)
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i got stuck in final fantasy 7.
i hate random battles so i avoided them as much as possible, levelling only as much as i needed to (which proved to be not enough)
needless to say I got stuck at the bottom of the golden saucer, because i couldn't beat barret's friend, because i was out of potions, broke, couldn't level up any further. it made me so pissed that i very nearly didn't finish the game.
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One game comes to mind... my Dad beat it, but I know I never did:
The Original Prince of Persia
Now THAT game owned...
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Oooh fuck yeah, what was the level where you walked through the mirror and had to fight yourself (level 6 I think) that was my favorite part.
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there was this weird space fleet controling type game, that i got stuck in, but that was mainly cause it was SO DAMN CONFUSING!!! but i usually dont get stuck in games often, mainly cause i dont have enough time TO get stuck but also cause all i really need is a quite cool down and then im back and ready to get past the point of no return!!
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That mirror level crazy! Prince of Persia was amazing... they just don't make games like THAT anymore...
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Games Ive A: Been stuck on.
B:Given up On
Final Fantasy 8
Resident Evil 4
Dragoon Legend
DDR( I just stopped Playing this One an Sold it)
Banjo Kazooie.
and Mario 64
Older games are Much Harder.
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Haha, so many to list.
Metroid Prime
Halo 1
RE4
Tons of RPGs
And many more that I probably can't remember.