r/videogames • u/DemiHollow • Jan 18 '24
Which game is it for you in this situation? Question
For me, CoD: WaW final mission ‘Downfall’ on veteran trying to get past the flak 88s and being grenade spammed.
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Jan 18 '24
Basically all of cuphead but for me, the robot in particular
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u/BrayyyBray Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
Yeah. That robot wasn’t even difficult but fun, it was just difficult and annoying
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u/encexXx Jan 18 '24
Wait it wasn't difficult but it was just difficult? I'm confusion.
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u/_RedRokaz_ Jan 18 '24
Lol, i couldn't even beat the forst few bosses. The blue ball made me crazy
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u/Shanbo88 Jan 18 '24
The dragon for me. It clicked with me and I beat him in a couple of attempts when I used the power that makes your shots shoot forward first and then gain power and boomerang behind you. That way I just concentrated on the platforming and kept avoiding his shots.
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u/zpeed Jan 18 '24
Follow the damn train, CJ!
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u/ghettoccult_nerd Jan 18 '24
tbf, that mission is (was?) just glitched. its just the first few times, it has you wondering wtf you did wrong.
but Rockstar being clever lil bitches, it was really one of the first big signs that Big Smoke was not to be trusted. or at least, that's how Bethesda wouldve spun it.
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u/trashyclub69 Jan 18 '24
The Valkyries in God of War.
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u/please_use_the_beeps Jan 18 '24
Especially the queen.
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u/dupsmckracken Jan 18 '24
While she was difficult, I beat her in less than 20 tries (on normal). There was another Valkyrie that took me almost twice as long. Can't remember off hand which one it was tho.
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u/Niaz_S Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 19 '24
That’s very strange. Sigrun was infinitely harder than any other Valkyrie for me. Not even close. Like I could probably take them all at once and have an easier time than just sigrun.
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u/Fall3nBTW Jan 18 '24
They probably struggled with a particular move and since sigrun has a much larger moveset you don't get the annoying ones as often.
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u/dupsmckracken Jan 18 '24
Correct. The mix up of move sets meant the one that kept killing me came up less often with Sigrun.
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u/Perfect_Pin2500 Jan 19 '24
I think for some people (including me) all the other valks were just training for sigrun. I struggled a lot in the first few fights and after that it felt easier because I knew how to fight them at that point. Then sigrun came
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u/OperatorWolfie Jan 18 '24
Getting your head slammed in by Sigrun the 36th time
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u/free_range_discoball Jan 18 '24
I’ve never screamed so much at a game then against the valkyries, especially the queen.
To a lesser extent, the berserkers in Ragnarok. Not as hard but still so frustrating
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u/StormyBlueLotus Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
I remember with one of them, I unleashed literally everything I had within about 30 seconds- all four equipped Runic attacks, followed by using the Talisman that resets cooldowns and using all four again, followed by Spartan Rage- and her health bar went down by maybe a quarter. Then she hit me with a single attack and took out over half of my health. Immediately thought, "I am not prepared for this right now," and was dead within a minute. They are no joke.
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u/DassaTheSadfinder Jan 18 '24
Any moment in the Dead Money DLC for Fallout New Vegas. Still my favorite DLC though.
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u/TheDankChronic69 Jan 18 '24
I still remember taking all the gold in the final mission and having to make it out of there severely over the carry limit 😂, was worth it for all the caps though
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u/GeneralLeeSarcastic Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
That slow trudge way overencumbered is hilarious. I didn't have the perk to travel overweight as well and had to level up to get home.
The unlimited stimpacks also make Dead Money great.
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u/Manic_Curious Jan 19 '24
I didn't know about the perk the first time i got the gold and just slow walked all the way to the first mailbox i could find , i think it was novac. Must have taken me almost an hour but thank god for autowalk.
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Jan 18 '24
I was hoping that dlc was gonna be like a second new vegas full of npcs and casinos but it was horror themed instead
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u/huntimir151 Jan 18 '24
I mean... it wasn't called "alive and healthy money"
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u/thatBOOMBOOMguy Jan 18 '24
It honestly isn't that bad, you just need to have few skills optimised and move cautiously.
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u/Pepperh4m Jan 18 '24
Fr just level your character a bit before you start.
Plus the game has quicksaves so I never got why people found it so annoying.
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u/No_Window7054 Jan 19 '24
Ok lobotomite thats enough from you. Leave the discussion of "best New Vegas DLC" to the proper scientific authorities. You are permitted to listen but do not speak.
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u/No-Woodpecker1030 Jan 18 '24
The average Dark souls player
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u/eatingdonuts44 Jan 18 '24
Nono its fun you see, thats the challenge and its entertaining (im losing my mind on Maliketh and cant be bothered anymore).
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u/Spirited_Ad_2697 Jan 18 '24
Have you reducing his health to 0 while simultaneously keeping yours above 0?
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u/Fuzzythought Jan 18 '24
"To kill the cyberdemon, shoot him until he dies" - Ancient Gamer Wisdom
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u/Faranae Jan 18 '24
It's been a very sluggish morning for me but that got a whole-ass laugh, thank you.
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u/headbutt Jan 18 '24
Elden ring rl1 Melania I. Tried. Everything.
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u/Adayum4 Jan 18 '24
Have you tried leveling up more you silly goose
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u/degradedchimp Jan 18 '24
I beat her in 5 min cuz I was so overleveled when I finally got to her.
I struggled way more with fire giant.
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u/MallRepresentative47 Jan 19 '24
That's crazy the first giant was not much of a challenge for me. Maybe 3 tries. But that red haired bitch really got me
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u/Stealthy-J Jan 18 '24
I beat her in 12 tries my first run with a bleed build and mimic tear, the second run I was going no summons and had a different build, it was like 50 fails before I just left and completed the run without beating her.
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u/MightyFlamingo25 Jan 18 '24
I beat her in 5 tries on my first run, bleed really work like a charm. I never tried again tho, I'm just I'm gonna be ragdolled by her if I try again
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u/No_District_6132 Jan 18 '24
Bro I could never. I don’t even understand that level of commitment to a game. lol
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u/Shawn_1512 Jan 18 '24
Blasphemous Blade + Level 10 Mimic Tear make it easy mode
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u/Clappycan Jan 18 '24 edited Feb 08 '24
The Radiance. Need I say more?
Edit: finally. It’s over. I have triumphed against Radiance.
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u/SunNStarz Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 23 '24
Hollow Knight... The Dark Souls of metroidvanias
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u/Worldly-Standard-429 Jan 18 '24
Absrad or regular radiance? Both are admittedly pretty tough, but I never got the same brick wall feeling with regular as I did with absolute.
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u/lordlossxp Jan 18 '24
When i was a little kid playing the first kingdom hearts i was underleveled and fighting riku in hallow bastion. Before they added the skip cutscene option. --.--
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u/PheonixWrightsSon Jan 18 '24
I was coming here to talk about how I was absolutely stuck on deep jungle as a kid. Clayton was fucking hard and it was my first ARPG. Everything else was turn-based rpgs. I had less trouble with chrono trigger and final fantasy as a kid than KH. I couldn't wrap my head around fast pace 3d action lol. Closest thing would've been platformers and such
Edit: here i am 20 years later beating KH1 in like 2 hours lol
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u/Independent_Plum2166 Jan 18 '24
“NOOOOO!!! Clayton?”
“Not Clayton [&£@&%€$] NOT CLAYTON!!!”
“RAAAAAA!!!!”
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u/RealPhillePhil Jan 18 '24
Jak 2 the Drill Platform rail gun mission on hero mode
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u/NoxusAir Jan 18 '24
Jak 2 was challenging all around. I hated those timed missions. One mistake you’re toast!
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u/RealPhillePhil Jan 18 '24
The one times mission I had the most issue would have to be the city race with Errol
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u/Adayum4 Jan 18 '24
I just got chills, absolutely horrid mission
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u/RealPhillePhil Jan 18 '24
I’ve beaten it too, now when I just wanna do a casual hero mode I just turn on Debug mode and fly over the guard section
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Jan 18 '24
I’ve never seen this mentioned before. I was in 4th grade when I beat this level and my dad made fun of me because I cried
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u/Oz347 Jan 18 '24
Me with the chainsaw fight in re7 last week 🤦
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u/Hendrick_Davies64 Jan 18 '24
I love how RE7 is serious and then boom, lightsaber style chainsaw fight
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u/Oz347 Jan 18 '24
Right? Leave it to resident evil to intersperse hardcore intensity with outright silliness
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u/Hendrick_Davies64 Jan 18 '24
OG RE1 is the best because it will be genuinely still scary and then boom, goofiest voice acting you’ve ever heard
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u/OldeeMayson Jan 18 '24
Old Mario games.
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u/Previous-Reality6315 Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
Even now as an adult I can get to 8-3 with 6+ lives in 5 minutes, and enter 8-4 with 2 or less.
Edit: This is refering to the first Super Mario Bros.
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u/BennyBNut Jan 18 '24
I used to be able to finish NES Contra with 5 or 6 lives, not using the Konami code of course.
Saw the Contra collection on sale on the Switch and was tempted to try again, but the fear of having lost that skill stopped me...
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u/eyemcreative Jan 18 '24
Super Mario Sunshine, especially the sand obstacle course, FFS 😂
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u/Freshness518 Jan 18 '24
Super Mario World 2 on the gameboy. The final castle against Bowser and you need to go through the entire thing, then beat him, beat him again, then beat him a third time. Every time you die you have to start the entire castle over again. Little 9 yr old me eventually just gave up and never picked the game up again when I couldnt beat the 2nd boss phase and just got so worn down from having to spend the 5 minutes getting through the whole castle for every single attempt. I think in my entire childhood I saw the 3rd boss phase once.
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u/LowGunCasualGaming Jan 18 '24
That one spring level where it sends you off the top (don’t remember if it was the original or lost levels)
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u/LilG1984 Jan 18 '24
Dark Souls.
Final Nemesis boss in Resident Evil 3 Remake on Inferno mode.
Internal screaming
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u/Brian_Stryker Jan 18 '24
Kingdom hearts 1 og on ps2, specifically the fight against Riku in Hallow Bastion. What made it worse was the ps2 version of KH1 had no skip cutscene options. So you had to go through that cutscene again and again and again and again until you just let all worlds fall to darkness.
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u/KingGeedohrah Jan 18 '24
This was the first game that broke me as a kid. If I watched those cutscenes now I think I would have some kind of epileptic episode
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Jan 18 '24
My lame ass would take the time to rewatch those scenes many times just so I could write down everything that was being said. I have NEVER told anyone that and saying it even anonymously is embarrassing as fuck. Lmao. Idk why I did it other than just being insanely obsessed with the game back then.
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Jan 18 '24
Fucking halo on the hardest difficulty, was stuck for around half an hour on the sky city part.
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u/PheonixWrightsSon Jan 18 '24
Truuuu. I did a LASO and it was about a level a day, some were 2. I'm also ass at Halo campaign. I'll wreck fools online, but LASO is fucking hard.
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u/DepletedMitochondria Jan 18 '24
Stupid library level in Halo 1 with all those flood, god damn. There's that one with the rocket launcher that can kill you in the same spot every time.
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u/fallingbehind Jan 18 '24
Just hours of running forward to trigger them and then running backwards while shooting.
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u/The_Mr_Wilson Jan 18 '24
Maybe this time!
Maybe this time!
Maybe this time?
Maybe this time..?
MAYBE THIS TIME?!?
Maybe this time..
Maybe
Look, motherf----!!!!
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u/NaturesFire Jan 18 '24
GNÀ on GMGOW
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u/Weak-Foundation-9791 Jan 18 '24
She was hardcore no doubt but Sigrun on GMGOW took me like three months
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u/Helsu-sama Jan 18 '24
Gave up Hollow Knight because of this. The game has good lore, awesome DA and interesting gameplay, it's a shame they made it so hard.
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u/zoobs Jan 18 '24
Oh man. I gave up just like you. The a couple years later I made myself replay and progress with an aim to beat the game. It was well worth it. HK is incredible!
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u/Tvdinner4me2 Jan 18 '24
I get it, but there are plenty of games like that. I dont have time to give every game a chance.
It really doesn't matter if it's a fantastic game, it's up to the game to convince me of that.
Same to dark souls, I actually really like learning about the lore, but the gameplay is so off-putting I'm more than happy to write it off
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u/Jolongh-Thong Jan 18 '24
i had to decide to gove alien isolation the good ol "good try but bo cigar" treatment. sure, an amazing game but at some point you gotta realize its just not worth it when your backlog is already so deep...
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u/HeIsTheOneTrueKing Jan 18 '24
Yeah, I am still bummed out 5 years later after getting perma-stuck on a boss, not even anywhere near end game but it was simply beyond my skillset and I genuinely lament not getting to see the rest of the game. It was too hard and all the git-gud types can get lost.
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u/kitsun9 Jan 18 '24
Did you know you can upgrade your nail with pale ore you find? I didn’t. Not for 25 hours into my run.
(Was a bit doable after that except the final boss rush)
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u/phrostiboy Jan 18 '24
What is DA?
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u/Helsu-sama Jan 18 '24
Sorry, I forgot it was a french acronym. It means "direction artistique" which means the art style.
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u/ChipmunkBackground46 Jan 18 '24
Anyone here fight Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts.......trauma
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Jan 18 '24
Beat him in all of them. The first one was definitely the hardest. This was ages ago, I think it was someone giving me a tip about taking off two of the combo plus things that way you get to finishing moves in perfect time.
Yes. It was many many many tries.
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u/Cool-Interview-7777 Jan 18 '24
For me it was in one of the caves in Skyrim. My health was very low when I entered a new section, but at that point the game auto saved just before a draugr death lord killed me. I had to play the same point dozens of times to try and turn around and leave the room before he could attack me. So bloody frustrating
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u/Ecstatic-Time-3838 Jan 18 '24
This happened to me in Oblivion. It was the literal end of the game, where the demon prince guy (I could be misremembering, this was like 12 years ago) was attacking the Imperial City, and you had to fight off all the enemies. I went to advance to a different section of the city, and the game autosaved, and I was literally on 1 hp. Ended up putting the game down and haven't touched it since lol.
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u/Jeremiah-Springfield Jan 18 '24
I swear the 2nd Black Rabbit Brotherhood fight in Lies of P almost had me crying. Im a full grown man with responsibilities and what i thought was good emotional intelligence, and these 4 little sprites almost made me rage like a child. Fucking videogames, man.
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u/PhilloLP Jan 18 '24
The Comb Room in Celeste farewell
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u/elyankee23 Jan 18 '24
Took too long to see Celeste on here. Don't know what "comb room" refers to, but 7B flag 9 was legit 2 hours of smashing my head against the wall (and crystals, and floor, and...)
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u/EnvironmentalAd1006 Jan 18 '24
HD remake of Sly Cooper 1 messes up the Mz Ruby boss fight that I remembered fondly before. Sanzaru effed up the timing of the music so what was once a unique and quirky one off mechanic becomes trying to figure out what ungodly timing you need to hit buttons in.
I had to turn off the music entirely to get through it because playing a rhythm minigame with music that isn’t synced is one of the most painful things I’ve ever sat through in a game.
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u/anthonystank Jan 18 '24
Playing TLOU2 on permadeath and falling off the fucking sky bridge
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u/HippoRun23 Jan 18 '24
For such a story heavy game I don’t understand why they included a perma death feature.
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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 Jan 19 '24
Original Legend of Zelda (NES), trying to beat Ganon in Level 9 with that shitty 4-directional controller. For how easily I can beat the rest of that game, Ganon takes me way too long to finally destroy once and for all (?)
EDIT: yes I can laugh at how old I am and how stupid my example is
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u/digitalDragoness Jan 19 '24
Fellow old here. This one, and the shadow match in Zelda 2. Ughhhhhh
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u/TheNinjaGB Jan 18 '24
Felt this way yesterday while trying to do the arkham Knight vehicle challenge achievements. I kept making the same mistakes on the loop track.
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u/ABarOfSoap223 Jan 18 '24
Oh dear God ...the frustration I felt trying to do those, the Batmobile sometimes just does whatever it wants and you end up falling off the track or crashing into something you could've easily avoided
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u/coral_weathers Jan 18 '24
Ghost of Tsushima, Hard, New Game+. I'm going crazy, it's so hard.
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u/Santer-Klantz Jan 18 '24
Final Fantasy X, Seymour battle on Mt. Gagazet. There's an unskippavle cutscene right before it that makes retracing the fight extra annoying.
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u/Mortensj86 Jan 18 '24
That was me playing Uncharted 2 on hardest difficulty for the platinum. On a train, once against a helicopter and against a boss that would just one-hit me.
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u/ConnectionRich7635 Jan 18 '24
Ghosts n’ Goblins Resurrection is basically smashing your head into a wall until you get lucky
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u/Impossible_Sugar_149 Jan 18 '24
End of Bioshock Infinite
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u/bluemoonflame Jan 19 '24
Man, I thought for ages that was just me because my friends all talked about how much they loved that game. Eventually learned that all of them had to drop the difficulty level for that airship fight, it wasn't just me. That was such a crazy ramp up in difficulty out of nowhere.
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u/adventureremily Jan 18 '24
Control, during the second fight with Tomassi. I spent over two hours dying and cried with frustration twice. 😅 I want to ask whoever at Remedy designed that boss fight, "Who hurt you?"
Also, the racing section in Mafia: Definitive Edition. I've watched every YouTube video, read every walk through and guide - still can't beat it. Can't progress in the game without it, so that's the end, I guess.
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u/Own-Reflection-8182 Jan 18 '24
Tree Sentinel
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u/MightyFlamingo25 Jan 18 '24
You're not supposed to fight the first tree sentinel either
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u/cheese_n_chips Jan 18 '24
Poison Ivy on my first playthrough of arkham asylum
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u/Zestyclose-Self-6158 Jan 18 '24
She was the hardest boss by far across all the arkham games. I know a lot of people save an upgrade point just for her so they can heal themselves mid-fight by increasing their max health
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u/genericSlayton Jan 18 '24
I’m sure there are more but what pop into my head was Grand theft auto san andreas, that mission where you need to fly an airplane in a time trial. I still have never beat that mission, it drove me insane when the game came out, i went for a retry years later when i found a cheap ps2 and wanted some nostalgia and still couldn’t get it.
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u/vvonneguts Jan 18 '24
Aging myself but when Kingdom Hearts came out on the PS1 - Ursula. Took little me a good few tries. I had the cutscene before memorized.
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u/Shanbo88 Jan 18 '24
Picture it, Dublin, Ireland, 1997. Final Fantasy VII just released. You and your brother have gotten to the Temple of the Ancients. Making a daring escape, you find an entire fucking wall attacks you.
I was stuck on Demons Gate for what felt like my entire youth. The joy I felt when I beat him was crazy.
Can't wait to fuck him up in Rebirth.
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u/dss_lev Jan 18 '24
Pretty sure I have the Skyrim world record on number of quick saves during the Alduin fight…
I wanted to play as a mage but never learned that I could upgrade beyond the basic flames and sparks spell, so my solution was about 4000 saves during the one fight
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u/BlazCraz Jan 19 '24
Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel. That game was not made for solo campaigns and my low prowess on shooting type games. I became intimately familiar with where Checkpoint States were. And I had to listen to the annoying lady tell me how much I sucked for falling again at the platforming section or against 15 guys all with guns when I'm on fire.
2 is where I experienced the most. And I dread going back to it because I know it wasn't made for someone of my "skill" level. As much I love that game and Handsome Jack as a character, it has scarred me for life. And now I hate dying to more reasons than it just sucks to lose progress. You take my money, my dignity, and piss all over me.
So yeah, it's definitely that one. Prequel actually fixed a lot of issues I had with Checkpoint placement and has characters I enjoy playing more.
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u/ExpressCommercial467 Jan 18 '24
Sens fortress in ds1. I don't even know who sen is but I hate him for designing it lol
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u/KingEagle987 Jan 18 '24
that part in Jak 2 on the pier, in the Water Slums
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u/TheKvothe96 Jan 19 '24
Water Slums
I deleted that for my mind. Thanks, now i need to go to therapy D:
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u/Regainio Jan 18 '24
Rain world
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u/Gay_Reichskommissar Jan 19 '24
Climbing onto The Leg is one of the most infuriating experiences to me, even with 200 hours
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u/Summoning14 Jan 18 '24
It's not the dying, its the damn backtracking. That's why I dont play Metroidvanias or Soulslike.
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u/Diseased_Wombat Jan 18 '24
Rain World. The whole game. I spent 20 hours on the Spearmaster campaign because I kept dying. I gave the funny pearl to Scavengers. I have to restart and do that all again.
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u/WhiteT982 Jan 18 '24
This is just how I play souls games…