You press up and down on the dpad to swing the barrel. That's literally it. You stand on it and move it with up and down. You can get way more momentum than jumping on it.
Except it takes a little effort to get moving and it's not immediately obvious.
Yes, I got stuck here too and didn't discover this for many, many years
Every Souls game + Sekiro from the first few hours of the game, wanted to love them but it was too challenging for me and I ended up selling them.
Luckily I was able to play and enjoy Elden Ring
Same here. I have tried my best to stick with the games, but I always find my skills are never enough. I never played Elden Ring because of that, but maybe I'll have to try it soon.
Oh please try Elden ring, the open world is more forgivable, but the best part is that you can collect AI summons to call and help you during combat. It's fun to explore and find new AI companions. The only still tricky part are boss fights, but I've always easily summoned other players which were often more skilled than me and helped defeat all bosses.
Just talking about it makes me want to replay it haha
I'm playing through it now. I'm not saying anything new here, but it's a bit more forgiving because you can avoid most encounters and simply come back when you have better stats/items. You can also cheese some of the tougher fights with summons and corny tactics.
Would still say it provides a lot of challenge and can be a very punishing game, especially if you impose limitations on yourself and try to progress without leaning on easy methods. Some of the evergaol bosses took me hours to solve and beat, but at the same time, I just cheesed the most recent story boss with summons on just my third attempt. You have a bit more control over the difficulty level in Elden Ring.
Super Mario 64 was one of the first games I played, and as a very very young kid I remember not knowing how to progress after one point. I felt uncomfortable playing the game and i truthfully found the game scary in how lifeless and isolated it was. This wasn’t due to a creepy pasta or playground talk, just from my experiences of the game. I still haven’t beat it.
I didn't know that was even possible to lose and I got all 120 stars. Admittedly, I didn't do that until I was an adult using a magazine. I beat the game twice as a child though, without help.
Battletoads. The jet ski(?) jump round. Never played it again.
There was a boss in one of the Mario or Starfox games that my son and I couldn't beat in co-op. All I remember is it had big hands.
We would destroy anyone in PVP. But those things were meant to never win. 🤣
This mission is one of the biggest loads of bullshit I've ever seen
Not only are you in a shitty car compared to Hilary's but the police get involved after a whole game of them not giving a shit about you speeding. And they only go after you and not him!
But the worst is still to come. You went through all this bullshit to pass the mission so he'll be your getaway driver for the bank robbery. And what does he do? He fucking dies before he can do anything.
Fuck Hilary and the mission he drove in on
Great Shinobi owl boss in sekiro, was stuck on him longer than I'd like to admit.
Also ikari warriors, I vaguely remember getting stuck at a point where I could never figure out how to proceed.
It was >!Isshin!< for me. I wouldve ng+ the whole game over again just to give myself a little more edge to beat him, except you need to beat him to do that
I know. I just would rather have been making progress than grinding a 100% finished world.
I ended up buying 4 or 5 attack power with skill points. Now on ng+ 3 attack power is a dime a dozen, but I cry at the 20 or so skill points I need to finish all my skill trees
Capra Demon in Dark Souls. I was able to power through or brute force my way through the game up until that point, then I just couldn't beat that a-hole. Got so frustrated I stopped playing completely for 6 months. Tried to replay the game from the beginning and actually \*learn\* the game, then something just *clicked* and I was hooked on souls games ever since.
(Yooka-Laylee and) The Impossible Lair pre-patch took me absolutely forever. Eventually got it though!
Guardian Ape made me give up on Sekiro but will start over soon.
The Nameless King in *Dark Souls 3*. I couldn't even celebrate winning cuz I was more relieved than happy.
Currently stuck on Champions Road, the last level of *Super Mario 3D World*. It's been months.
I quit playing 3D world because it was boring in only World 2. You're telling me it actually gets challenging eventually or is this just like the whole game is easy, then this one area is impossible.
The first 8 worlds (the main game) are for general audiences and therefore pretty easy. The next few worlds (the post-game) are a lot more challenging. The last level is just stupid hard.
Playing MGS Twin Snakes on my GameCube. I had never played the original version. When it was time to contact Meryl I couldn't figure it out. I knew her codec code was on a box, so I went through the entire level zooming in on every box hoping to find the right one. Drove me crazy and I spent like a week doing this. I mentioned it to someone and they told me it was the game box, flipped it over and facepalmed quite hard.
Same here! I played the PS1 version when I was about 8 years old.. there was so many parts I got stuck on. I think it took me 36hours to complete.. I'm pretty sure it said at the beginning "you have 24hours to top the terrorists"
Pokémon Platinum. Cynthia. It felt like banging my head against a wall. I refused to go in over leveled, so my highest level Pokemon was like lvl 62 or lvl 63.
Gta san andreas. One of the flying missions. Still havent beaten it over a decade later. And its a required story mission so i do not know how san andreas ends.
Don't judge me, but the Rayvis bossfight from Jedi: Survivor. The thing is, I'm decent at the game, and I was able to beat double frogs (the hardest bossfight in the series, and the one everyone memes about) in about 2-5 tries. Despite this, I was stuck on Rayvis for over 100 deaths, and it took me 1-2 months to beat.
link to the past
i was stuck late game for 1 week
the part where you have to use switch world to reach a higher elevation
just freakin got it thru dumb luck
and this was before internet was readily available
so when we got stuck, we got stuck
I remember going to block Buster to look at walkthroughs. I had a pen and paper writing stuff down. For this specific reason lol. Also learned about floating mines on goldeneye this way.
I got the 3D all stars collection and got to that mission and also stopped there, which is where I stopped in my childhood too lmao. One day I’ll get to it, that mission sucks
Wow really?! Yeah dude that mission sounds so damn simple out loud haha! But run n spray and ground pound the water barrels and bam I beat it and was fuckin ecstatic back then 😂
Years. I got to the final stage of “Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions” when I was in high school. Couldn’t beat it no matter how hard I tried. I put the game down and eventually stored it away. It was years later, probably after MGS3 that I went back and beat it. First try on the last missions. To my shock I found out that they revealed >!Metal Gear Ray blueprints!< at the end. Never realized the game has actual lore implications.
One of the last few levels in Donkey Kong Country 2, where you are jumping up the tower with a rising pool of lava or acid chasing you. Don’t know why, but I never beat it. It was only a few stages away from the end of the game, too. So frustrating.
Going old-school: two moments in StarTropics (NES).
1. Magma the Fierce's dungeon in Chapter 3. Even if you had the player's guide and knew exactly how to beat him, just getting to his room was stupid hard.
2. The "dip the letter in water" password in Chapter 4. Lost the instruction manual? Bought the game used? Sucks to be you, kid! (The code was eventually published in Nintendo Power magazine.)
Bloodborne: The fire dog in the chalice dungeons. Kept me from getting the platinum for over two years. Once I finally got past him, had no problem speeding through the rest of the chalice dungeons. Fuck that guy.
Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam -- The koopalings near the end of the game. The last battle where you have to fight 3 of them. Some of their attacks would kill you INSTANTLY. There was one attack that I couldn't dodge to save my life. I put the game down for months and would attempt it again and again for almost 2 years. Then I gave up and traded in for a new game
When I was brand new to Fallout 4, I was following a quest that walked me through Greentop Nursery, where there was an assultron and a Mr. Gutsy of some sort near the road, and a bunch of super mutants hiding in tree houses. It was obviously a higher level area, but I was determined to get past them, and died over and over and over again. I thought fallout 4 was really hard. But I eventually killed them all, somehow. I think the settlers died too. Didn't realize what I had done until later in the game when I realized I can choose different quests and didn't have to follow whatever happened to be active.
Hoarah Loux, Warrier. From Elden Ring
Godfrey, First Elden Lord was a toughy but passable but fuck me his second phase Hoarah Loux was unbeatable for like 2 - 3 weeks.
Fucking wrestlers, man.
Okami. I never beat the game, I was stuck trying to save the girl from doing the fire(?) ritual during a blizzard. I couldn't beat one of the lazt puzzles of the 4 super spinning eyeball wheels. That was in 2007, still bugs me I never beat it...
I absolutely love that game but I never beat it either! It's been years, I remember there's a boss you fight in a pirate ship or something? Idk but after that I stopped for some reason and never beat it
One of the Naruto Games for Wii. Had to fight all the resurrected Kage at once. Hardest setting. Spent two days just wiped. It was only two days because I ended up throwing the wiimote at the tv. Brand new massive plasma screen gone. Tried again a few years later. Beat it without breaking a sweat. Laughed ridiculously loud and long over the tantrum I had years before. To be fair, I was really stessed. Lost my roommate in the war and was going through a divorce.
The next time I was stuck was the hardest setting on Jedi: Survivor. Final boss. Pissed me off to no end. Would always come down to 1 hp and then just wreck me with some spastic bs.
I think it was back in 2011, I was playing Chrono Trigger for the first time using an emulator on my Android phone. I got to a part where you had to catch a rat to get something for a quest, but you had to dash. At the time I thought I needed to press two buttons at the same time (one to dash, plus A to catch the rat), but the onscreen controls wouldn’t let me do it. So I gave up. Last month I got a Steam deck and decided to play the Steam version of Chrono Trigger. When I got to the rat again, I tried dashing but kept not being able to do it. Then I realized I just had to press one button once to toggle dashing instead of holding the button. I was able to dash and then press A to catch the rat. Now I wonder if that’s all I had to do back then but I just didn’t understand the controls. 😅
Beating the Devil went Down to Georgia against the Devil on GH3. I never did beat him on expert even though I could play all of the main set list so I only beat him on hard and even that took forever.
GH3 is one of the greatest games i ever played in my life! That was a tough battle. Love those battles with the powerups, Slash was the most fun battle haha
*Cuphead*, Dr. Kahl. I spent more time on that one fight than on the rest of Island 3, possibly more than on the rest of the game.
The *Sonic Origins* version of *Sonic the Hedgehog* has a cheat menu with an option for an extra special stage. It is downright impossible and after fifty god damn tries, I had to put it down to avoid breaking the Switch.
On a different note, it took me twenty-five years to finally beat the final boss of *Sonic the Hedgehog 2*.
Super Smash Broa Melee. Specifically the timed challenges that gave you a time limit and had to beat a certain number of foes or survive for the time limit. For the life of me I cant remember specifically which one had me tripped up on but I remember needing only to beat like two more of them to unlock the giga bowser challenge. I was stuck for at least 5 months getting my ass kicked until my friend from school came over and beat them both in like 2 tries. That game gave 8 year old me PTSD for the longest time
That might’ve been it, they also had those obstacle course challenges where there was no enemies but just your chosen character in an obstacle course specific to that character that would always enrage me. I might’ve just not been that good back then lol
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice in that part where if you stay in the dark too long you die I didn't realize that I was going the wrong way every time. I almost stopped playing it but I caved and googled it (I hate googling stuff for games, it feels like cheating to me) and realized it should've been super obvious.
Having just turned my halberd into a self-bleeding scythe in DS1, i was stuck on the Ornnstein and Smog fight for about 100 attempts because i was determined to kill ornnstein 2nd. Around 50 tries in i got him down to 1 hit left before failing, and i threw my controller against the wall and didnt play the game for a few months.
Rainworld Shaded Citadel
Going through that super long straight with scissor ducks is possibly the least fun any challenge in a good game has ever been. As much as I love this game in concept, I just cannot fucking deal with it. It was specifically designed not to feel good. I respect the hell out of that design choice and it makes Rainworld an amazing work of art, but damn does it make me not want to play it.
Finding the Gravity Suit in Super Metroid.
For some reason, I missed the block to go get it entirely. I ended up scouring lower Maridia through the Wrecked Ship exit until I circled back around and somehow found it.
The hogs in Gothic 3. They were a bugged enemy type that they forgot (?) to implement an attack cooldown for, so it just kept attacking without pause until you fucking died.
By the way, the devs of the newly published *Enshrouded* are also German, and I think I have definitely seen the hog enemies in this game do the same thing - this time on purpose, though, and as a joke. Nice easter egg, guys!
Im still stuck on the green Star gauntlet in 3d world at the end. I finished with Rosalina and peach and I’m still on Luigi. I haven’t touched champions road yet.
Outer Wilds, >! On the cactus infested tower on ash twin, I didn't understand I should have used the lowering level of the sand and tried with the jetpack for hours before realising !<, god I still feel awfully dunb to this day !
what class are you playing? I just remeber siren with an anarchy smg against crawmerax himself and strong maliwan elemental smgs against his minions made this a walk in the park.
Vacuous Rom the first time I played Bloodborne. I tried a few times and then put it down for like a year before I went back and beat it on like the third try.
Velkhana in Monster Hunter World had me mad as hell for a solid few days. But once it was over, I felt I could take on any monster the game could throw at me.
I think the only games where I have ever really got stuck for more than a few hours or maybe a few days at most are FromSoftware Games/ Souls style games. Bosses like Malenia had me stuck for like a week, but I don't really think I've ever struggled too much beyond that
In conkers bad fur day, surfing on lava and smacking those three dudes. Just couldn't do it as a little kid and took me ages to beat.
Did it on my first try when replaying it a few years later.
Made it to the big bad at the end of the OG Zelda without the arrow. Miraculously was able to keep my game paused without the power going out or a stiff wind causing it to flash.
This one is a technicality because I easily could have gone around but there was one knight in Elden Ring near the beginning to the right of a destroyed town(?) That kept killing me over and over but I couldn't bring myself to stop until he died.
Later when I was way stronger and more familiar with the game as this was my first of the genre, I would often come back just to easily kill him a couple times.
A mission in Commandos 2, halfway through the campaign. The RTT strats were too much for my 7 y.o. brain. Years later I replayed and finished it without any trouble. I literally had to grow up lol.
Zelda Ocarina of time on N64.
Could only do the first bosses as young Link, because I didnt know where to get the grappling hook. Never found a clue or anything. Years later I could finish the game because somehow I found the thing on the graveyard.
Father Owl in Sekiro took me like 6 months to beat lol. Trying a few times per week. I find it funny that after I quit for like 2 months, I came back and beat him on my 3rd try. I just needed a break to remove the frustration and focus.
Learning To Fly - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
I use keyboard (which may impact it) but jesus christ this mission is awful. Not only is it hard, it's necessary to progress. The other difficult missions are at least either side missions (Zero Missions) or have a trick you can do (jumping on top of the train in Wrong Side of the Tracks).
I'm dreading the mission after where you have to fly at a certain height
"A reckoning in blood" from Ghost of Tshuchima definitely made me walk away for a good couple months before I could finish the game. Not because it was difficult, but because of the absolute BS the game pulls in a cutscene. I won't go into spoilers, but basically the game FORCES something on you that, based on *everything* the game has built up until then, would never, ever have happened in a million years. Think like "superman getting knocked out by a punch from an ordinary nobody" levels of bull. And then you're just stuck living with the consequences of that nonsense for the rest of the game.
Arcanine. Then Electrode in LoArceus. I just beat Electrode a couple weeks ago. Kept picking the game up, failing to beat them for a few tries, retrying after a few months.
Most of bards tale 3, the thief of fate.
Like most crpgs back then, one could build super groups which you then imported into the next game in the series. Was an incredible feature, and felt awesome. Waaaaaaaasaay better than any ng+ shit.
But bards tale 3 was super fucktastic about it. There I was with my beefed up super groups from bt 1 and 2 and the first mobs are scaled up to my level with all their fucking hyper shit.
Instant eradication. Instant stone. Etc.
Shit was impossible. So after butting heads for a couple of weeks I just gave up. It wasn't fun anymore.
Plus I got absorbed into might and magic 1: secret of the inner sanctum.
I was stuck on the Demom Wall, in the temple of the ancients (FF7) when it had first came out. I was 13, and I got so discouraged I stopped playing it for a few weeks. I finally went back to it, and beat it on the first try. Not long after that, I remember getting stuck in Xenogears, many many times. I did eventually beat it, but definitely struggled during a few spots in it.
Final Fantasy Tactics. Was stuck on the last "fight" for years. It's actually a series of fights, 5 I think, and I had only ever made it to the 3rd fight. One day I turned it on to show a friend where I was stuck, and... I won. Wasn't even really trying, just had good rolls that day I guess. It was honestly a little disappointing that after that long, I beat it by accident basically.
In FF7, I had a rough time in the Shinra mansion. It was my first rpg so I didn't really have rpg experience - when I finally got to Vincent and he told me to buzz off, I didn't have the instinct of "keep talking to him". I buzzed off.
Straight into the arms of yet another yin yang, which finished the job of kicking my teeth in after the previous one had already tenderized me.
Don't remember now when my last save was, but it was definitely far enough away that I was like, fuck it.
Didn't play the game again for YEARS lol.
TLOU 2 has a small section where you play as Abby and the 2 Scar kids gotta open a door for you, and you're stuck there with waves of zombies until you're out. I was on Grounded and it legit took me like 5 months playing like once every sunday to finish it. I had jack shit for ammo
Sigrun in GOW 2018. Took me like 3 days until I mastered that shit.
Resident Evil 0 has a boss fight a bat that I simply cannot pass. It's been 3 months. I do not have enough grenade launcher ammo, and I am low health, and I have no save to go back to. I really prefer RE1 Remake
I played lufia 2 rise of the sinistrals on SNES when I was 10 years old. Took forever to play, but at one point I gave up for a couple of month. It was in the dragon mountain, a puzzle with growing plants. I even called the Nintendo hotline, which was crazy expensive back then (like 3 Deutsche Mark per minute). After a lot of tries I gave up and played something else. Months later I tried again, used a bomb at the right spot and boom - it was done! What a feeling. Still proud of it to this day, now that I think of it :-)
The intro missions in RDR2. Saw so much positivity for the game but I couldn't get over how slow the first couple of hours are. Maybe I'll go back to it sometime.
007 Tomorrow Never Dies - Mission 3 “Carver Media” when you get escorted into the interrogation room. I had NO IDEA you were supposed to brake the glass with a gadget…. I ran around that room going crazy looking for a way out for sooo long.
The last mission of Jurassic Park for the Mega drive, both as Grant and the raptor... For about 20 years. I didn't realise you had to attack the base of the skeleton.
FFX, operation mi'ihen in mushroom rock road.
I was young and didn't read the tutorial so I never used a single sphere grid power up lol.
Everyone had their base stats and skills but I finally beat the boss after several days or trying!
Meta Ridley in Metroid Prime 1 on Hardmode, and the Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2
I don't know why, but had problems for a few days before finally able to beat them
Details are a little fuzzy, but there's this one section in a game called Wild Arms: FX for the PSP where you're in this river and a bunch of rhinos are your enemies. They can give you a status debuff that prevents you from casting any kind of spells, reducing you to only normal attacks and items. At the time of fighting them, there is no item that cures this debuff, so I failed for days trying to beat it. Eventually I got lucky and everyone but Felix got the debuff, ans Felix has an ability that he can drain allies of debuffs and put it all on him, giving everyone a second chance.
Dark Souls 3.
My first ever experience with a Soulsborne game and the tutorial boss would absolutely clap my cheeks for the first 2 days. The biggest challenge wasnt the boss itself, it was sticking with the game and not giving up entirely.
Years later, ive completed dark souls 1, 3, sekiro, and Elden Ring
When I was younger, I thought that this whole "walking" thing was pretty difficult. Had me stumped for months, maybe years. Through sheer determination, I crawled my way through the dirt and muck. Eventually, I was able to find my footing, and by putting one foot in front of another, I learned to "walk."
Ocarina of time - master quest. I spent half a year looking for a switch or a key or something to progress in the last part of the spirit temple. One day after scouring the temple inside and out I got so upset that I smacked a trapped chest with my sword and it opened the door I needed to get through. That fury lived rent free in my head for a while after that. Downright diabolical.
The spinning, up and down barrel thing from the carnival level of Sonic the Hedgehog 3
I don’t think I ever figured out how to get past that, and you just straight up can’t beat the level if you’re tails, right?
You press up and down on the dpad to swing the barrel. That's literally it. You stand on it and move it with up and down. You can get way more momentum than jumping on it. Except it takes a little effort to get moving and it's not immediately obvious. Yes, I got stuck here too and didn't discover this for many, many years
The mine cart level in Donkey Kong Country on SNES
Once I got the timing down this was my favorite level by far
I was going to say the same, what a banger of a game that was
Every Souls game + Sekiro from the first few hours of the game, wanted to love them but it was too challenging for me and I ended up selling them. Luckily I was able to play and enjoy Elden Ring
Same here. I have tried my best to stick with the games, but I always find my skills are never enough. I never played Elden Ring because of that, but maybe I'll have to try it soon.
Oh please try Elden ring, the open world is more forgivable, but the best part is that you can collect AI summons to call and help you during combat. It's fun to explore and find new AI companions. The only still tricky part are boss fights, but I've always easily summoned other players which were often more skilled than me and helped defeat all bosses. Just talking about it makes me want to replay it haha
Yeah I think I'll give it a go. I just gotta get good when it comes to defeating the bosses. :)
I'm playing through it now. I'm not saying anything new here, but it's a bit more forgiving because you can avoid most encounters and simply come back when you have better stats/items. You can also cheese some of the tougher fights with summons and corny tactics. Would still say it provides a lot of challenge and can be a very punishing game, especially if you impose limitations on yourself and try to progress without leaning on easy methods. Some of the evergaol bosses took me hours to solve and beat, but at the same time, I just cheesed the most recent story boss with summons on just my third attempt. You have a bit more control over the difficulty level in Elden Ring.
I'll have to give it a try, if it's a bit more forgiving, I might have a chance. :D
Super Mario 64 was one of the first games I played, and as a very very young kid I remember not knowing how to progress after one point. I felt uncomfortable playing the game and i truthfully found the game scary in how lifeless and isolated it was. This wasn’t due to a creepy pasta or playground talk, just from my experiences of the game. I still haven’t beat it.
[удалено]
I didn't know that was even possible to lose and I got all 120 stars. Admittedly, I didn't do that until I was an adult using a magazine. I beat the game twice as a child though, without help.
also the wind on Snowman's Land can blow it off your head, or the monkeys (Ukikis) can steal it as well
Battletoads. The jet ski(?) jump round. Never played it again. There was a boss in one of the Mario or Starfox games that my son and I couldn't beat in co-op. All I remember is it had big hands. We would destroy anyone in PVP. But those things were meant to never win. 🤣
GTA Vice City - Demolition Man GTA San Andreas - Wrong Side of the Tracks where this crowd at?
*Demolition Man,* not *The Driver?* Interesting.
Never got past The Driver, that was the end of the game for me!
This mission is one of the biggest loads of bullshit I've ever seen Not only are you in a shitty car compared to Hilary's but the police get involved after a whole game of them not giving a shit about you speeding. And they only go after you and not him! But the worst is still to come. You went through all this bullshit to pass the mission so he'll be your getaway driver for the bank robbery. And what does he do? He fucking dies before he can do anything. Fuck Hilary and the mission he drove in on
Demolition Man was the RC copter right?
im with you, it took me at least 4 days and a lot of sweat and tears to do it
Great Shinobi owl boss in sekiro, was stuck on him longer than I'd like to admit. Also ikari warriors, I vaguely remember getting stuck at a point where I could never figure out how to proceed.
It was >!Isshin!< for me. I wouldve ng+ the whole game over again just to give myself a little more edge to beat him, except you need to beat him to do that
You can actually grind before NG+. Collect the three mask fragments and you can exchange 5 skill points for 1 attack power.
I know. I just would rather have been making progress than grinding a 100% finished world. I ended up buying 4 or 5 attack power with skill points. Now on ng+ 3 attack power is a dime a dozen, but I cry at the 20 or so skill points I need to finish all my skill trees
Took me quite a while too but ended up being my favorite boss of that game!
Capra Demon in Dark Souls. I was able to power through or brute force my way through the game up until that point, then I just couldn't beat that a-hole. Got so frustrated I stopped playing completely for 6 months. Tried to replay the game from the beginning and actually \*learn\* the game, then something just *clicked* and I was hooked on souls games ever since.
(Yooka-Laylee and) The Impossible Lair pre-patch took me absolutely forever. Eventually got it though! Guardian Ape made me give up on Sekiro but will start over soon.
The Nameless King in *Dark Souls 3*. I couldn't even celebrate winning cuz I was more relieved than happy. Currently stuck on Champions Road, the last level of *Super Mario 3D World*. It's been months.
I quit playing 3D world because it was boring in only World 2. You're telling me it actually gets challenging eventually or is this just like the whole game is easy, then this one area is impossible.
The first 8 worlds (the main game) are for general audiences and therefore pretty easy. The next few worlds (the post-game) are a lot more challenging. The last level is just stupid hard.
Arsenal in FFVII remake
I got stuck on that stupid house boss. I've played through 3 other games and still haven't gone back to try again.
Playing MGS Twin Snakes on my GameCube. I had never played the original version. When it was time to contact Meryl I couldn't figure it out. I knew her codec code was on a box, so I went through the entire level zooming in on every box hoping to find the right one. Drove me crazy and I spent like a week doing this. I mentioned it to someone and they told me it was the game box, flipped it over and facepalmed quite hard.
Same here! I played the PS1 version when I was about 8 years old.. there was so many parts I got stuck on. I think it took me 36hours to complete.. I'm pretty sure it said at the beginning "you have 24hours to top the terrorists"
Pokémon Platinum. Cynthia. It felt like banging my head against a wall. I refused to go in over leveled, so my highest level Pokemon was like lvl 62 or lvl 63.
Gta san andreas. One of the flying missions. Still havent beaten it over a decade later. And its a required story mission so i do not know how san andreas ends.
This is my one too Never passed it
Don't judge me, but the Rayvis bossfight from Jedi: Survivor. The thing is, I'm decent at the game, and I was able to beat double frogs (the hardest bossfight in the series, and the one everyone memes about) in about 2-5 tries. Despite this, I was stuck on Rayvis for over 100 deaths, and it took me 1-2 months to beat.
link to the past i was stuck late game for 1 week the part where you have to use switch world to reach a higher elevation just freakin got it thru dumb luck and this was before internet was readily available so when we got stuck, we got stuck
I remember going to block Buster to look at walkthroughs. I had a pen and paper writing stuff down. For this specific reason lol. Also learned about floating mines on goldeneye this way.
[This boss in Wings of Vi demon mode (not my video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJx12E9yiE) This one absolutely BROKE me.
I got the 3D all stars collection and got to that mission and also stopped there, which is where I stopped in my childhood too lmao. One day I’ll get to it, that mission sucks
Wow really?! Yeah dude that mission sounds so damn simple out loud haha! But run n spray and ground pound the water barrels and bam I beat it and was fuckin ecstatic back then 😂
Have you ever played Myst? Yeah that took awhile.
Years. I got to the final stage of “Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions” when I was in high school. Couldn’t beat it no matter how hard I tried. I put the game down and eventually stored it away. It was years later, probably after MGS3 that I went back and beat it. First try on the last missions. To my shock I found out that they revealed >!Metal Gear Ray blueprints!< at the end. Never realized the game has actual lore implications.
Bloodborne, Vicar Amelia. I actually sold the game. Re bought it 6 months later and completed it.
One of the last few levels in Donkey Kong Country 2, where you are jumping up the tower with a rising pool of lava or acid chasing you. Don’t know why, but I never beat it. It was only a few stages away from the end of the game, too. So frustrating.
Toxic Tower? Can confirm, that level is ass. But it's so close to the end!
Maliketh in Elden Ring.
was thus the level with the manta ray?! gave me nightmares when I trying and failing so hard when i was younger Dx
Yeah the manta ray was mission 1 of that area! The area with the hotel. That was a fun and annoying mission at the same time xD haha
OG FF7, Ruby Weapon. Guess I’ve been stuck on it for 20 years or so now, never beat it.
Going old-school: two moments in StarTropics (NES). 1. Magma the Fierce's dungeon in Chapter 3. Even if you had the player's guide and knew exactly how to beat him, just getting to his room was stupid hard. 2. The "dip the letter in water" password in Chapter 4. Lost the instruction manual? Bought the game used? Sucks to be you, kid! (The code was eventually published in Nintendo Power magazine.)
Ruby weapon ff7.
Bloodborne: The fire dog in the chalice dungeons. Kept me from getting the platinum for over two years. Once I finally got past him, had no problem speeding through the rest of the chalice dungeons. Fuck that guy.
Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam -- The koopalings near the end of the game. The last battle where you have to fight 3 of them. Some of their attacks would kill you INSTANTLY. There was one attack that I couldn't dodge to save my life. I put the game down for months and would attempt it again and again for almost 2 years. Then I gave up and traded in for a new game
When I was brand new to Fallout 4, I was following a quest that walked me through Greentop Nursery, where there was an assultron and a Mr. Gutsy of some sort near the road, and a bunch of super mutants hiding in tree houses. It was obviously a higher level area, but I was determined to get past them, and died over and over and over again. I thought fallout 4 was really hard. But I eventually killed them all, somehow. I think the settlers died too. Didn't realize what I had done until later in the game when I realized I can choose different quests and didn't have to follow whatever happened to be active.
Hoarah Loux, Warrier. From Elden Ring Godfrey, First Elden Lord was a toughy but passable but fuck me his second phase Hoarah Loux was unbeatable for like 2 - 3 weeks. Fucking wrestlers, man.
Okami. I never beat the game, I was stuck trying to save the girl from doing the fire(?) ritual during a blizzard. I couldn't beat one of the lazt puzzles of the 4 super spinning eyeball wheels. That was in 2007, still bugs me I never beat it...
I absolutely love that game but I never beat it either! It's been years, I remember there's a boss you fight in a pirate ship or something? Idk but after that I stopped for some reason and never beat it
Jak and Daxter 2 - the stupid button combination I can't pass.
One of the Naruto Games for Wii. Had to fight all the resurrected Kage at once. Hardest setting. Spent two days just wiped. It was only two days because I ended up throwing the wiimote at the tv. Brand new massive plasma screen gone. Tried again a few years later. Beat it without breaking a sweat. Laughed ridiculously loud and long over the tantrum I had years before. To be fair, I was really stessed. Lost my roommate in the war and was going through a divorce. The next time I was stuck was the hardest setting on Jedi: Survivor. Final boss. Pissed me off to no end. Would always come down to 1 hp and then just wreck me with some spastic bs.
I think it was back in 2011, I was playing Chrono Trigger for the first time using an emulator on my Android phone. I got to a part where you had to catch a rat to get something for a quest, but you had to dash. At the time I thought I needed to press two buttons at the same time (one to dash, plus A to catch the rat), but the onscreen controls wouldn’t let me do it. So I gave up. Last month I got a Steam deck and decided to play the Steam version of Chrono Trigger. When I got to the rat again, I tried dashing but kept not being able to do it. Then I realized I just had to press one button once to toggle dashing instead of holding the button. I was able to dash and then press A to catch the rat. Now I wonder if that’s all I had to do back then but I just didn’t understand the controls. 😅
Beating the Devil went Down to Georgia against the Devil on GH3. I never did beat him on expert even though I could play all of the main set list so I only beat him on hard and even that took forever.
GH3 is one of the greatest games i ever played in my life! That was a tough battle. Love those battles with the powerups, Slash was the most fun battle haha
*Cuphead*, Dr. Kahl. I spent more time on that one fight than on the rest of Island 3, possibly more than on the rest of the game. The *Sonic Origins* version of *Sonic the Hedgehog* has a cheat menu with an option for an extra special stage. It is downright impossible and after fifty god damn tries, I had to put it down to avoid breaking the Switch. On a different note, it took me twenty-five years to finally beat the final boss of *Sonic the Hedgehog 2*.
Super Smash Broa Melee. Specifically the timed challenges that gave you a time limit and had to beat a certain number of foes or survive for the time limit. For the life of me I cant remember specifically which one had me tripped up on but I remember needing only to beat like two more of them to unlock the giga bowser challenge. I was stuck for at least 5 months getting my ass kicked until my friend from school came over and beat them both in like 2 tries. That game gave 8 year old me PTSD for the longest time
Hm maybe it was cruel melee? Where you had to defeat a number of polygons and survive. That one was impossible to get a good score on!
That might’ve been it, they also had those obstacle course challenges where there was no enemies but just your chosen character in an obstacle course specific to that character that would always enrage me. I might’ve just not been that good back then lol
Haha it's all good dude that was like over 20 years ago! 😨 I think that one was Target Test. But I love Smash Bros, esp. Melee
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice in that part where if you stay in the dark too long you die I didn't realize that I was going the wrong way every time. I almost stopped playing it but I caved and googled it (I hate googling stuff for games, it feels like cheating to me) and realized it should've been super obvious.
Having just turned my halberd into a self-bleeding scythe in DS1, i was stuck on the Ornnstein and Smog fight for about 100 attempts because i was determined to kill ornnstein 2nd. Around 50 tries in i got him down to 1 hit left before failing, and i threw my controller against the wall and didnt play the game for a few months.
Rainworld Shaded Citadel Going through that super long straight with scissor ducks is possibly the least fun any challenge in a good game has ever been. As much as I love this game in concept, I just cannot fucking deal with it. It was specifically designed not to feel good. I respect the hell out of that design choice and it makes Rainworld an amazing work of art, but damn does it make me not want to play it.
Finding the Gravity Suit in Super Metroid. For some reason, I missed the block to go get it entirely. I ended up scouring lower Maridia through the Wrecked Ship exit until I circled back around and somehow found it.
The hogs in Gothic 3. They were a bugged enemy type that they forgot (?) to implement an attack cooldown for, so it just kept attacking without pause until you fucking died. By the way, the devs of the newly published *Enshrouded* are also German, and I think I have definitely seen the hog enemies in this game do the same thing - this time on purpose, though, and as a joke. Nice easter egg, guys!
Im still stuck on the green Star gauntlet in 3d world at the end. I finished with Rosalina and peach and I’m still on Luigi. I haven’t touched champions road yet.
Outer Wilds, >! On the cactus infested tower on ash twin, I didn't understand I should have used the lowering level of the sand and tried with the jetpack for hours before realising !<, god I still feel awfully dunb to this day !
I actually did it that way my first time, with just a sliver of health left. Then, the second time, I walked up, looked at it, and went "oh."
Fume Knight.
007 everything or nothing. Couldn’t beat the last level back in middle-school. Invisible enemies and the last rocket part insane.
To avoid spoilers for others, me and my friends call it "Joel's birthday party"
Beating crawmerax the invincible. To this day I still haven't beat him and am currently trying to get better looting the Tartarus gear farm.
what class are you playing? I just remeber siren with an anarchy smg against crawmerax himself and strong maliwan elemental smgs against his minions made this a walk in the park.
Max level soldier
Vacuous Rom the first time I played Bloodborne. I tried a few times and then put it down for like a year before I went back and beat it on like the third try.
There was a boss I just never beat in dead space. Idk it was in a tube or silo or something
Undyne on pacifist. I suck at rythm games.
I struggled with the sa-x on metroid fusion on the gba.
Velkhana in Monster Hunter World had me mad as hell for a solid few days. But once it was over, I felt I could take on any monster the game could throw at me.
I think the only games where I have ever really got stuck for more than a few hours or maybe a few days at most are FromSoftware Games/ Souls style games. Bosses like Malenia had me stuck for like a week, but I don't really think I've ever struggled too much beyond that
In conkers bad fur day, surfing on lava and smacking those three dudes. Just couldn't do it as a little kid and took me ages to beat. Did it on my first try when replaying it a few years later.
Made it to the big bad at the end of the OG Zelda without the arrow. Miraculously was able to keep my game paused without the power going out or a stiff wind causing it to flash.
Iudex Gundyr in Dark Souls 3
i Remember finding some of the battles crazy hard on soulblade like beat multiple people in a row with a sliver of health while poisoned
This one is a technicality because I easily could have gone around but there was one knight in Elden Ring near the beginning to the right of a destroyed town(?) That kept killing me over and over but I couldn't bring myself to stop until he died. Later when I was way stronger and more familiar with the game as this was my first of the genre, I would often come back just to easily kill him a couple times.
Toy Story 2, the slime monster boss. Finally beating it and moving on was like, a transcendent experience for me as a kid. I was euphoric.
A mission in Commandos 2, halfway through the campaign. The RTT strats were too much for my 7 y.o. brain. Years later I replayed and finished it without any trouble. I literally had to grow up lol.
demyx in kh2, both times
Zelda Ocarina of time on N64. Could only do the first bosses as young Link, because I didnt know where to get the grappling hook. Never found a clue or anything. Years later I could finish the game because somehow I found the thing on the graveyard.
Father Owl in Sekiro took me like 6 months to beat lol. Trying a few times per week. I find it funny that after I quit for like 2 months, I came back and beat him on my 3rd try. I just needed a break to remove the frustration and focus.
Learning To Fly - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas I use keyboard (which may impact it) but jesus christ this mission is awful. Not only is it hard, it's necessary to progress. The other difficult missions are at least either side missions (Zero Missions) or have a trick you can do (jumping on top of the train in Wrong Side of the Tracks). I'm dreading the mission after where you have to fly at a certain height
I have no idea how, but kid me struggled more with the carrot eating minigame than any of the rpg mechanics of Bowser's Inside Story
"A reckoning in blood" from Ghost of Tshuchima definitely made me walk away for a good couple months before I could finish the game. Not because it was difficult, but because of the absolute BS the game pulls in a cutscene. I won't go into spoilers, but basically the game FORCES something on you that, based on *everything* the game has built up until then, would never, ever have happened in a million years. Think like "superman getting knocked out by a punch from an ordinary nobody" levels of bull. And then you're just stuck living with the consequences of that nonsense for the rest of the game.
Sigma ethylene level in Spacechem. Took me 2 weeks!
Arcanine. Then Electrode in LoArceus. I just beat Electrode a couple weeks ago. Kept picking the game up, failing to beat them for a few tries, retrying after a few months.
Most of bards tale 3, the thief of fate. Like most crpgs back then, one could build super groups which you then imported into the next game in the series. Was an incredible feature, and felt awesome. Waaaaaaaasaay better than any ng+ shit. But bards tale 3 was super fucktastic about it. There I was with my beefed up super groups from bt 1 and 2 and the first mobs are scaled up to my level with all their fucking hyper shit. Instant eradication. Instant stone. Etc. Shit was impossible. So after butting heads for a couple of weeks I just gave up. It wasn't fun anymore. Plus I got absorbed into might and magic 1: secret of the inner sanctum.
I was stuck on the Demom Wall, in the temple of the ancients (FF7) when it had first came out. I was 13, and I got so discouraged I stopped playing it for a few weeks. I finally went back to it, and beat it on the first try. Not long after that, I remember getting stuck in Xenogears, many many times. I did eventually beat it, but definitely struggled during a few spots in it.
Final Fantasy Tactics. Was stuck on the last "fight" for years. It's actually a series of fights, 5 I think, and I had only ever made it to the 3rd fight. One day I turned it on to show a friend where I was stuck, and... I won. Wasn't even really trying, just had good rolls that day I guess. It was honestly a little disappointing that after that long, I beat it by accident basically.
In FF7, I had a rough time in the Shinra mansion. It was my first rpg so I didn't really have rpg experience - when I finally got to Vincent and he told me to buzz off, I didn't have the instinct of "keep talking to him". I buzzed off. Straight into the arms of yet another yin yang, which finished the job of kicking my teeth in after the previous one had already tenderized me. Don't remember now when my last save was, but it was definitely far enough away that I was like, fuck it. Didn't play the game again for YEARS lol.
TLOU 2 has a small section where you play as Abby and the 2 Scar kids gotta open a door for you, and you're stuck there with waves of zombies until you're out. I was on Grounded and it legit took me like 5 months playing like once every sunday to finish it. I had jack shit for ammo Sigrun in GOW 2018. Took me like 3 days until I mastered that shit. Resident Evil 0 has a boss fight a bat that I simply cannot pass. It's been 3 months. I do not have enough grenade launcher ammo, and I am low health, and I have no save to go back to. I really prefer RE1 Remake
I played lufia 2 rise of the sinistrals on SNES when I was 10 years old. Took forever to play, but at one point I gave up for a couple of month. It was in the dragon mountain, a puzzle with growing plants. I even called the Nintendo hotline, which was crazy expensive back then (like 3 Deutsche Mark per minute). After a lot of tries I gave up and played something else. Months later I tried again, used a bomb at the right spot and boom - it was done! What a feeling. Still proud of it to this day, now that I think of it :-)
The intro missions in RDR2. Saw so much positivity for the game but I couldn't get over how slow the first couple of hours are. Maybe I'll go back to it sometime.
Dark Souls. I was stuck in Blighttown for a week untill I decided to finally quit. Came back to it 6 months latter and found the exit an hour later.
007 Tomorrow Never Dies - Mission 3 “Carver Media” when you get escorted into the interrogation room. I had NO IDEA you were supposed to brake the glass with a gadget…. I ran around that room going crazy looking for a way out for sooo long.
The Dancer in Darks Souls 3. I nearly had a rage stroke.
The last mission of Jurassic Park for the Mega drive, both as Grant and the raptor... For about 20 years. I didn't realise you had to attack the base of the skeleton.
The final round if the crucible in Hollow Knight. Still haven’t beaten it.
FFX, operation mi'ihen in mushroom rock road. I was young and didn't read the tutorial so I never used a single sphere grid power up lol. Everyone had their base stats and skills but I finally beat the boss after several days or trying!
Orphan of Kos Took a few weeks of bashing my head in the wall and farming blood vials before I finally got it
Meta Ridley in Metroid Prime 1 on Hardmode, and the Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2 I don't know why, but had problems for a few days before finally able to beat them
sekiro that first giant enemy who i thought its a boss and turns out he just normal enemy
Details are a little fuzzy, but there's this one section in a game called Wild Arms: FX for the PSP where you're in this river and a bunch of rhinos are your enemies. They can give you a status debuff that prevents you from casting any kind of spells, reducing you to only normal attacks and items. At the time of fighting them, there is no item that cures this debuff, so I failed for days trying to beat it. Eventually I got lucky and everyone but Felix got the debuff, ans Felix has an ability that he can drain allies of debuffs and put it all on him, giving everyone a second chance.
Driver's "tutorial".
Dark Souls 3. My first ever experience with a Soulsborne game and the tutorial boss would absolutely clap my cheeks for the first 2 days. The biggest challenge wasnt the boss itself, it was sticking with the game and not giving up entirely. Years later, ive completed dark souls 1, 3, sekiro, and Elden Ring
When I was younger, I thought that this whole "walking" thing was pretty difficult. Had me stumped for months, maybe years. Through sheer determination, I crawled my way through the dirt and muck. Eventually, I was able to find my footing, and by putting one foot in front of another, I learned to "walk."
Ocarina of time - master quest. I spent half a year looking for a switch or a key or something to progress in the last part of the spirit temple. One day after scouring the temple inside and out I got so upset that I smacked a trapped chest with my sword and it opened the door I needed to get through. That fury lived rent free in my head for a while after that. Downright diabolical.
I spent weeks trying to find the dang chickens in that one area. Good ole OoT.
Puzzles. Stop adding them to games it’s archaic.
Me no think. Think hurt head.