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I've beaten every story chapter in F-Zero GX on very hard except for the race with that Skull guy. I forgot his name because I hate him. Strangely, that's supposed to be the easiest chapter on very hard but he just gets in the lead 5 seconds in and I never catch up.
I can't beat this one mission in Advance Wars 1 near the start of the game where you're on a tiny island surrounded by water with 2 bridges leading out/in. I don't know why. I've beaten AW2 and Dual Strike with an overall S ranking, the mission shouldn't be a problem. I just can't do it though.
Aw, in Sonic 3/4 (you could like combine them into one mega long game as 4 started where 3 left off) I collected every sing Chaos Emerald and then went even further to collect the mega chaos crystals or whatever they were called so I became like hyper sonic or something. Man I'd run around faster than LIGHT (lagging images of me where I'd just been ftw) and like jumping then pressing the jump button again would send out this shock that insta-killed all enemies on screen. So much fun
You shut your fucking mouth.
I'm so sick of people slamming on that game like it's some sort of travesty. I honestly don't get it all, i thought it was a great follow-up. Sure it had some awkwardness to it, but find me a NES game that didn't. I mean, is it all because of the change in general direction? the "random" encounters? the fact that you had to jump?
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So not liking a game is the same as saying that it's horrible? 'Cause he didn't say anything about it being a bad game, just that he didn't like it.
I actually love that game and prefer it to the original.
Battletoads + Double Dragon was no problem, because it was fucking reasonable. And up yours, Castlevania III. You're awesome but brutal near the end.
Am I the only one who didn't find the original Megaman X hard? I popped in the cartridge a couple of months ago and blazed straight through it without losing a single life, and I got all the extras except for the Hadoken.
Xenogears - I just stopped right before the final boss. I'm not sure why, it was like a vacation or something and when I came back I never picked up the game again. Now I can't find CD 1
Super Ghouls and Ghost - Seriously.
TMNT - The original game was incredibly difficult when I was younger and such a departure from the other arcade style games that I began to interpret it as a sick joke. Hm, I wonder if I can still find my cartridge of that.
Snoopy Olympic Games (NES) - There's this river jump level. . .it can't be done.
It definitely felt like a cakewalk after going back and playing some of the NES games.
Oh, how I hate that game. I finally DID beat it, but not before cutting myself in places that I will not speak of while screaming in cursed ancient languages.
I've played that game so many times I can beat it with my eyes closed.
Hey man, I wasn't trying to troll him out or anything. But you have admit, it would be sorta naive to claim that the 2 are mutually exclusive. Expressing that you don't like something is basically the same as saying it's horrible. But this thread is about games not meta-physics.
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Maybe I'm a bit too big of a Megaman fan, but those don't seem too bad to me either. I could sit there and blast through 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the NES with nothing but the Mega Buster (okay, maybe not 5, that game was brutal). I know the NES is renowned for the vast amount of stupidly difficult games that were developed for it, but I didn't think that the Megaman series fell into that category.
Tiger-Heli doesn't end, does it? So many hours clocked. So much...giving up.
You too!
Hey, I had to compensate for never having been able to find X2 and X3 as a kid.
Fuck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCNgcMsrgmY&feature=related
This guy beat it. Somehow. By hacking the game.
Nah, not really. You can realize that a game is great and still just not like it. Happens to me all the time.
Edit: Batman and Robin for the Genesis cannot be beaten.
No, you're right, they weren't all that bad, but I leased ownership of my testicles to one and five for longer than I care to admit.
I remember playing 1942 for about four hours straight. By the time I was done all I could do was scream WHY?!?!?!?! every time a new level popped up.
The game is far from horrible, especially considering it's on the NES, but I just didn't like it. It was fun for a while, but for me, I stopped having fun fairly quickly.
I understand what you mean though. That game takes way too much shit, and I suspect a lot of the people who bash it are only doing so because that's what they hear from everyone else.
Even with a broken leg and nothing else to do I gave up on that game.
Nonsense!
Also, name a Sierra interactive fiction game made between 1988 and 1997. I can't beat it.
I'm looking at you, granny with revolver from Police Quest: SWAT.
Edit: I think these motherfuckers actually removed a save point. Those assholes.
This shit is crazy. A couple of times in Tourian you get triple-teamed by Metroids. That's exactly as fun as it sounds.
tsk tsk
You and me both. Vergil 3 haunts me. My favourite fight on every other difficulty and I can't get to it.
I'm actually thinking the key to it is royal guard and or gunslinger with remapped controls, since the default controls are too awkward to use it effectively.
Royal guard has the damage to kill them quickly, but you'd have to master the timing of the attacks of chess pieces.
I still can't believe how hard world 8 of Super Mario 3 is, I mean it's okay until you get to the last few levels before bowser's castle then miyamoto just does a big fuck you - mario world has nothing on 3.
and last but not least, try playing E.T. on NES...it's satan in cartridge form.
...how?
How the hell?
Load up Mario 3, I'll trash World 8 in a few tries. But how is Jaquio even possible to overcome? It boggles the mind.
I'm sorry sir.
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In my defense, I haven't played Mario 3 in quite a few years. As for Ninja Gaiden, pick a weekend you have absolutely nothing to do. Bind your hands to the controller and force yourself to memorize every single part of every level and you can do it, even Jaquio - just be sure to pack lots of band aids for your fingers.
extra controller or two wouldn't hurt either.
Battletoads is still a source of shame, I grinded that game for years, and finally got to the Queen Bitch. I never did beat her, though. After all that hard work. Fucking whore.
EDIT: Just to add - Mega Man 1-8? Easy peasy. Mega Man X 2-8? Not so much.
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And then it invariably gets drunk one night and beats the shit out of me again. And screws my best friend too, just because it's such an asshole.
Yeah, I think I probably made it up. But I'm not quite sure.
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If you really have a ton of trouble, I might suggest playing level two (skip the warp zone) and getting at least 3 or 4 one ups from hitting birds with the sword weapon a bunch of times, and also use the hold A+B+Down while hitting start to begin with five lives instead of three.
Oh yeah, and some people have mentioned the Clinger Wingers. There is one huge thing you can do to make it much easier, which I've always done. Every time you hit a corner turn thing, as soon as you see the sprite glitch slightly to indicate the bike is turning, pause the game. Hold the new direction, and unpause. Do this on EVERY SINGLE TURN. I almost never die on that, though usually fighting the orb itself I'll die once maybe twice.
Anyway, while I've been able to beat the Clinger Wingers for several years, the last stage took me a little longer. I finally beat it last week, first time I beat the game. I would say in total it took me perhaps 15 (usually with all three continues used on the last level) playthroughs on the final level before I beat it.
Oh yeah, one HUGE break you get - if you continue after reaching the Dark Queen, you start off fighting her again, rather than having to redo the tower. The Dark Queen herself is pretty easy, as long as you remember to never jump while fighting her and are good at headbutting. I died twice on her.
But yeah, Battletoads for NES was the game I always wanted to beat for a really long time. About 17 years I guess. Now I have. I felt pretty awesome after finally doing it.
Too bad the ending kinda sucks.