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Games that hate you...
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Alright, what are some games that are so terribly designed at certain difficulties (or the only difficulty there is, 0_o) that they feel like you are hitting a brick wall while playing them?
I would say... Jak II. That game was terrible with it's insane difficulty spikes. Then, when I finally beat it and got all those Precursor Orbs, Heroic was practically a kick in the face.
Also, MGS3's European Extreme (or even regular Extreme) was masochistic. Considering that the shooting was fundamentally flawed anyways, bosses were near impossible to beat and most weapons would take multiple shots to kill enemies.
And yes, this thread will probably die in torrent of "L2P", but hey, it's subjective...
I would say... Jak II. That game was terrible with it's insane difficulty spikes. Then, when I finally beat it and got all those Precursor Orbs, Heroic was practically a kick in the face.
Also, MGS3's European Extreme (or even regular Extreme) was masochistic. Considering that the shooting was fundamentally flawed anyways, bosses were near impossible to beat and most weapons would take multiple shots to kill enemies.
And yes, this thread will probably die in torrent of "L2P", but hey, it's subjective...
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Yes, its a busy RTS on a console where units are in regiments that have vulnerable flanks... But on top of that you couldnt save mid-mission, or trade wargear in any convenient way (Your fighter was stuck with that Cape of Enlightenment or some crap).
Holy shit. It was totally not meant to be played that way.
But I actually think, it's really just a ploy to drive DS sales. You damage the touchscreens so badly that you just have to buy a new one, after throwing the old one into the corner in anger.
Again, they're not really hard overall, but I feel like they hate me because the computer can make the most ridiculous maneuvers with the lowest chance of success and seem to succeed every time. Meanwhile it's the opposite for me.
For example, in FFT it would give you your percent to hit before you confirm an attack. I would seem to miss a LOT when I'd have 85%+chance to hit, meanwhile the enemy could launch an attack that has a 12% chance to hit and get me 2-3 times in a row.
Or in valkyria chronicles where an enemy lancer would pick off my scout with a rocket from 100+ feet away (this happens a LOT). But these type of things always seem to happen at the worst possible time.
I come away thinking 'man, this game hates me.'
Until the Chrysalids come out.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Company of Heroes
I seem to catch a lot more pathing AI issues than other people, my vehicles suffering the worst. I don't even move them in difficult areas, but it ends up leaving my units separated and exposed. I still love that game though.
Joan d' Arc
This PSP hit struck me as pretty cute and even a little fun, except that I kept smashing myself against difficulty walls and suffering an unusually high number of critical hits. Yes, I kept my armor updated and my skills trained up, and it was still a shut-down. Just plain old bad luck. I'm still into it, just more in a masochistic sense.
Counter-Strike: Day of Defeat
Yes, Day of Defeat only. I'm normally competent at FPSes, ranging from middle to high rankings depending on which game it is. Except CS: DoD. No, see, in DoD I'm the team leper, and I'm pretty certain everyone gets a big {SHOOT ME NOW} symbol on their HUD maps. I can't say whether it's a lack of skill or bad luck. I'd say skill but, again, I'm pretty good at other shooters.
Poker
Yeah, not computer-specific, but I am awful, awful, awful at Poker. I can't bluff, I can never catch a break with the cards (in spite of practice and a proficient knowledge of probability), and no matter how much Kenny Rogers might play in Winamp, I do not know when to fold, walk away, nor run.
Monk in D&D 3/3.5 Edition
I've tried it twice; the first time I died to skeletons. Yeah. You know. CR 1/2 Skeletons. The second time I died to what turned out to be a level 2 rogue. I've been playing D&D in some edition or another since I was 8 (about 17 years ago), but the Monk class in third edition is not my friend. Note: this does extend to Neverwinter Nights, and Neverwinter Nights 2. It's not just the tabletop game.
I can probably think of more, but those are games that, despite any experience or skill level, seem to hate me. These are different than what I consider to be hard games because I can either tell that it's not just bad luck, or I know a lot of other folks who have the exact same trouble.
Street Fighter against the computer is pointless, anyway. God invented the internet for SSF2T: HDR.
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This. I rented this a few years ago, and couldn't get past the very first race in story mode. I consider myself a pretty skilled gamer, but fuck that.
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See, I got to the final level of BT...but F-Zero GX? Fuck that.
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Seriously. It took me a million tries just to kill the locust that drives the hijacked rig. My rig was pushed off the cliff so very often.
Dude.
Now, if you couldn't beat the second chapter, then... OK. You really need to figure out the trick for that one, but the first?
Anyways...
Dawn of War hates me. I want to turtle. I just want to sit in my magnificent base and slowly build up the most awesome force ever. It's not the most competitive way to play, I know, but I just like building up pretty bases. And in most RTS's I can get away with it. Not so in DoW, however, oh no. The constant scouting and attacking often leads to me wiping out the enemy before my carefully planned base is even halfway off the ground.
I mean tossing in some free world roaming shit is all well and good. But don't make all the vehicles control like they are on ice, and then have these absurd multipart missions with no checkpoints. At least in GTA you could SKIP some of the missions that were too hard or obnoxious.
They took a delightful little platformer and made a right cock up of it.
Yeah.
Jak II got under my skin a little bit.
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i dunno. im not pro or anything but i do have skills but these games just dont want me to play them
I still have the whole series.
I've only ever replayed the first one.
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I can't even get past the second level. That shit is intimidating.
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Prime 3 made up for it, though.
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Yeah, that fight was fantastic.
The fight AFTER it was a bitch-fest.
You must have blotted it out of your memory. I can't blame you.
Final fantasies 7, 8, 9 and 10 I failed to complete all of them because I run in to a brick wall of difficulty before the final boss and I give in. In fact until recently I'd never completed a final fantasy game in my life (finally beat 12!).
Dragon Quest - Journey of the Cursed King, never have I found myself so incompatible with a game. The enemies get stronger with you so as I played the game it felt like I was getting steadily weaker and weaker until I couldn't continue.
Yea, Dark Samus was a monster to beat. She wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that she is right after the Ing Queen. But yea, a monster of a fight that does much damage to you. :P
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At least they gave you a checkpoint in between the two - they wernt that cruel.
I never really understand the hate for Ing Queen, I beat her first time. Now Boost Guardian? That guy is a prick.
Yup, the Boost Guardian to me was one of the worst boss fights in the history of the MP trilogy. I died at least ten times before I finally beat him.
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Hard combat? Check
Horrible camera to artificially increase the difficulty? Check
Randomly freezing after boss fights that you narrowly beat but haven't been able to save yet? Check
Man that game gets me mad.
Also: any roguelike.
So I was terribly excited about Advance Wars: DOR for the DS. Finally, a strategy game that allows me to take my time. Guess what? I suck at it. I got stuck on the 3rd mission, which is just shy of a tutorial. I've tried several times to pick it up again, and I get whipped every time. So I inevitably go back to playing Puzzle Quest.
This game was the hardest game I have ever beaten. I don't usually yell at games, but I was cursing the devil whore that birthed this monstrosity at the top of my lungs the entire time I was playing it. And the ending sucks.
Also, I agree with the Final Fantasy comment. I can always get to the last boss with minimal effort, only to get to a part where I can't go back and grind levels, and can't face the boss at my current level. I usually put it down for a year or so, then start it up again, thinking, this time it will be different.
It never is.
I've never heard about that game. Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat sure, but never Counter-Strike: Day of Defeat.
I'm pretty sure that the Cruel Brawl game mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl hates every single living being in existence.