Multi Games you quit because you got stuck due to difficulty spike or part?

[The Eye in the Sky!]

I did play through one of those endurance races on the original PlayStation. I want to say it took me at least four hours. I was maybe a half dozen laps from the end, had a decent buffer in first place that was hard fought, and all of a sudden the screen went black. I looked at the console and THE CAT HAD SAT ON IT AND TURNED IT OFF! I'm pretty sure I literally cried and never played that game again. I'm sooo glad they moved the power button on later consoles.

Hahahaha, this reminds me of the one time my brother did an endurance race at the Laguna Seca raceway. I think it was like 70 laps or something, it was 2 or 3 hours long, the car he had was so fast that we lapped the entire field 5 or 6 times in the race... except for 1 on the cars he found out. On the last 3 laps he decided to do as many burnouts/slides/drifts as he could just screwing around, and at the start of the last lap he was passed by someone and position changed from 1st to 2nd. He never realized that there was one car that he never lapped and because he was messing around, his tires were essentially black on the UI meaning he had no grip at all and could not catch up fast enough to overtake that car. Finished 2nd for messing around.

We tag teamed to do a good half dozen of these in GT2, one being 8 hours. We did shifts to finish it, 2 hours a piece.

For racing games - GT2 is the pinnacle for me, but Forza 4 is next due to the Top Gear integration. Was huge into that show when it came out.

Back to the actual topic question - I can only think of a couple.

Baldurs Gate 2 - I was about 40 hours in and got myself locked into an area that I was way underleveled for and could not return, and back then I had never thought of making multiple saves. I tried restarting a few times but I just couldn't do it all again.

GTA San Andreas - Flight school I think. I failed so many times in the desert that I never finished the game. Only Rockstar game I never finished the campaign.

 

[Marlfox]

Battletoads had good pause music. End of post.

 

[Marlfox]

Widget for NES
Bart vs the space mutants for NES

Barts Nightmare on the Genesis was an absolute bastard too. Not a fun game at all. Harked back to the era of basically impossible NES games where there are death falls everywhere and there's a cluster of enemies onscreen trying to kill you at all times.

Damn those floating homework pages.

 

[shortkut]

Even with game genie as an adult I couldn’t really progress in Bart vs the Space mutants

 

[Marlfox]

Why oh why did you try

 

[Marlfox]

Ninja Gaiden 2
Trials series (those bike balancing games)
Megaman series

 

[Kat]

I miss the game genie and cheat codes. Sometimes I am just bad at a game and need infinite ammo. What happened to that?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I miss the game genie and cheat codes. Sometimes I am just bad at a game and need infinite ammo. What happened to that?

Games are too complex, I think.

 

[shortkut]

Why oh why did you try

Because I found it at my parents house a number of years back at my parents’ house and realized I don’t think I ever reached level/stage 2. Even with a gamefaqs walkthrough and game genie, I still did not reach level 2

 

[Mark]

I miss the game genie and cheat codes. Sometimes I am just bad at a game and need infinite ammo. What happened to that?

Right? That’s how we ALL ended up here. I’ve found cheat sheets printed out from middle school going back to 98-99 last time I went through my old boxes.

 

[shortkut]

Right? That’s how we ALL ended up here. I’ve found cheat sheets printed out from middle school going back to 98-99 last time I went through my old boxes.

I tossed those printouts, but I remember going to the library after school and using the limited free quota to print game genie codes from GW, before I even knew the forums existed. Most were from before the forums actually existed

 

[Mark]

I tossed those printouts, but I remember going to the library after school and using the limited free quota to print game genie codes from GW, before I even knew the forums existed. Most were from before the forums actually existed

Mine were preserved in a BINDER, my dude. I was serious about my cheat codes. I held onto it so when I have the time, I could take proper photos of them and preserve them. Now that we’ve got this place… I’ve got somewhere to post my old FFVII hints, Frogger level passwords, and other random shit like that.

 

[shortkut]

Mine were preserved in a BINDER, my dude. I was serious about my cheat codes. I held onto it so when I have the time, I could take proper photos of them and preserve them. Now that we’ve got this place… I’ve got somewhere to post my old FFVII hints, Frogger level passwords, and other random shit like that.

Mine just lived in folders

 

[Mark]

Mine just lived in folders

You took a shortcut, dude… that’s all. My GameShark is broken. Why? Same reason. I left it IN the GameBoy so neither would get dust in them instead of bagging it or something sensible. The box must have taken a spill and broke it clean in half.

 

[Op19]

Not quite a difficulty spike but I've never completed a Metroid game cause I get too lost and I hate it. And the same thing for Hyper Light Drifter.

 

[Marlfox]

Metroid and Super Metroid I drew my own maps. Metroid Fusion it was always clear where to go. Prime Trilogy I definitely wandered around lost a fair amount. Didn't mind that short term as I'd use it to hunt collectibles I'd missed. If I was really stuck I used a walkthrough guide to help.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Not quite a difficulty spike but I've never completed a Metroid game cause I get too lost and I hate it. And the same thing for Hyper Light Drifter.

I have completed only one Metroid game, Metroid Prime. I had to force myself to actually TRY to put forth effort into figuring out where to go after landing on the planet. A strategy guide definitely helped me.

Same with Windwaker, I think I got stuck on Dragon's Roost somewhere and gave up for a while. Which is funny because escaping the prison island the first time was more of a pain in the ass thsn anything on Dragon's Roost Island. That game I heavily leaned on the strat guide. I can't imagine completing the Triforce shards section because that was a pain in the ass WITH the guide, would have been impossible without the guide. I can't imagine how many hours it would have taken for me to complete it without the guide.

 

[Marlfox]

Triforce Shards aren't very hard, Tingle gives you a map showing where they all are, and it's one of the few maps in the game where each piece gets crossed off as you collect it, so you don't forget which ones you took already.

 

[Boots]

I think I've only ever completed 1-2 Zelda games. I've played them all.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I think I've only ever completed 1-2 Zelda games. I've played them all.

I've only completed two Zelda games. Twilight Princess and Windwaker. I made it pretty far into Link to the Past before I got stuck. Somewhere after the entire overworld is altered.

 

[Marlfox]

Ah that could be it then, Zelda games are my bread and butter, I’ve been gobbling them up since I was 10

 

[Boots]

I have a tendency to get right to the boss's door and quit.

 

[Kat]

I think I've only ever completed 1-2 Zelda games. I've played them all.

I've spent so much time playing BotW but I've never finished it or even gotten halfway, I'd guess. I think I've finished a couple of the shorter ones though.

 

[TD]

Honestly?

Most FPS games nowadays. 20 years ago?
Loved them, now? I'm terrible at them.

 

[Smacktard]

I haven't ever quit a game because it was too difficult. I came close a few times: Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2, Sekiro (notice a pattern?), Rain World, El Shaddai, Furi... just kept hammering away at them until something "clicked", and many of these ended up becoming some of my favorite games ever. Ended up platinuming all of the above.

I *may* have cheated a bit when I used save states in Castlevania: Bloodlines and Super Castlevania IV.

 

[Raine]

El Shaddai

Oh dear. This is on the shortlist of 5-ish X360 games I had intended to blitz through post-Armored Core VI, have always heard it's an incredibly unique experience but never anything about difficulty/table flipping. Should do this one first so the others can help me unwind, mayhaps.

 

[Smacktard]

Oh dear. This is on the shortlist of 5-ish X360 games I had intended to blitz through post-Armored Core VI, have always heard it's an incredibly unique experience but never anything about difficulty/table flipping. Should do this one first so the others can help me unwind, mayhaps.

The first time you play through, the bosses and some encounters can be very frustrating. When you get a hang of the mechanics though, the game becomes easier. I found the hardest mode to be easier than my first run-through tbh, with the exception of one or two specific bosses that just melt your health. It's definitely unique. I wouldn't call it a great game, but it's interesting.

 

[Op19]

I think I've only ever completed 1-2 Zelda games. I've played them all.

Its funny Id consider myself a "Zelda fan" but I've only beaten Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild. I would have beaten Twilight Princess but a save mishap happened and Tears of the Kingdom I plan to go back to at least.

 

[Jawneh]

I just remembered something amusing. I got stuck in alttp at the second (desert) dungeon. I knew where to go, but couldn't. Come to find out, I never went back to Shahasrahashahrahahhahaa dude and got my running boots. Sure, I was like 8 or 9 at the time and only knew a couple words in English (and probably only swear words), so I had no idea to go back after beating the first dungeon. From there on I spent days or probably weeks going around everywhere else before I finally ended up back there somehow. I might've even set the game down for a while too. Not sure on that detail.

Looking through my Steam library real quick

I never fully beat Baba is You. I got to the last area and then it really started to get hard. I probably could complete it, but it started to get to the point of sitting there for over half an hour per level to beat them.

Magicka. Hecking fun game with a some buddies, but I think accidental friendly fire lost all of us that game. Loads of laughs though, so it doesn't really sting much.

Mirror's Edge. I think I got stuck in one level where I had to get through an area with a bunch of people shooting at me. That game also was headache inducing for me, so that didn't help with trying to figure the game out. Welp.

 

[Smacktard]

I never fully beat Baba is You. I got to the last area and then it really started to get hard. I probably could complete it, but it started to get to the point of sitting there for over half an hour per level to beat them.

You just reminded me. I'm stuck in the space world, there's a couple levels there I haven't finished. And a few others in other biomes. I've never made it to the end of the game. I'll return to it one day. It's such a good puzzle game.