Name a video game that you could not beat

[ynotravid]

Originally posted by: quizzelsnatch
this thread needs to die. lock it please.

Lemme guess, you had a bad experience with Punch Out and you're tired of people bringin it up.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Ikaruga.

 

[ModeEngage]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64

f*cking Water Temple.

Amen to that.

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Beau
Duck Hunt.

Duck Hunt has an end?

nope, but I did get to round 60's or something when I was kid. (w/o sitting right next to the tv). All I remember was that I was high on sugar and had an itchy trigger finger.

 

[Anonemous]

oh yea, never beat xenogears. damn memory card kept erasing my games... that game takes like 40-80 hours to finish too.

 

[ynotravid]

Originally posted by: Anonemous

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Beau
Duck Hunt.

Duck Hunt has an end?

nope, but I did get to round 60's or something when I was kid. (w/o sitting right next to the tv). All I remember was that I was high on sugar and had an itchy trigger finger.

I remember being dissappointed about how if you shot the dog, he didn't come hobbling out of the grass all bandaged up like in the arcade version.

It's funny but my mom would not let us pretend to shoot ducks so we were only allowed to play the clay shoot.

Of course that didn't stop me from playing it at the 7-11 down the street :evil:.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: jfall
Notice how most of the games listed are older games (mostly NES). Were the games harder back then or what?

Yep, today's games are generally FRIGGIN EASY compared to back then.

Most of today's also allow you to adjust the difficulty...

Originally posted by: Evadman
Mike Tyson's Punchout. That really pissed me off. I am now pissed off enough that i am going to go find my NES.

I think I'm going to do the same...mind you, my NES is (hopefully) in my parents' garage, 1500 miles away

Of the games mentioned, I've beaten Kid Icarus and Goonies (II)...most of the games you all mentioned, I never played

 

[Squisher]

Redneck Rampage

Those three robot things and the lack of cover just made me give up.

 

[ynotravid]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: jfall
Notice how most of the games listed are older games (mostly NES). Were the games harder back then or what?

Yep, today's games are generally FRIGGIN EASY compared to back then.

Most of today's also allow you to adjust the difficulty...

Games nowadays are either too easy or too hard because:
1.> To appeal to more people games need to be able to be played by people who are um... gamingly challenged.
2.> They realized they could make serious money selling stragey guides.

Either way the game gets beat.

 

[b0mbrman]

Hmmm...was there ever a way to "beat" Pirates Gold!?

I played that a lot and never got to a screen that said anything to the effect of "Ye win!"

 

[gw186]

I could not get past the end of Far Cry. I finnaly gave up and cheated.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Jynx980
Ikari Warriors, I remember that one, you get to the end and nothing happens, shoot at the wall thats it.. what a fvcking reward!

I had the same problem.. for a while. Let me guess, you "beat" the game, and then couldn't get out of that room with the desk, right? As it turns out, there are actually *four* world levels, not just three. You have to grenade some of the squares in front of the evil dictator's desk, one of them will reveal a hidden stairway leading to the fourth level. (SNK is kind of well-known for using evil dirty tricks at the end stages/bosses of their games. See Athena for another example.)

Originally posted by: Jynx980
Russian attack was impossible, even with game genie codes. Is it rush N attack or russian?

Technically, "Rush 'N Attack", but considering the locations, Siberia, etc., and the Nuclear missile at the end.. well, you be the judge. Interestingly, there is also a slightly differently-named arcade version called "Green Beret" as well. I was pissed that I was never able to get to the hidden underground tunnel that was pictured in one of the issues of Nintendo Power. Something about using the grenade launcher to explode a mine, uncovering the stairway to the hidden tunnel. I don't know of anyone else that was ever able to access it either. I think that it may have been removed from the final version of the game. (Many games have things removed - I decoded the password system for Faxanadu, and was able to obtain a number of items that way, that were removed from the game.)

Originally posted by: Jynx980
Reading some of the controller throwing/biting posts make me laugh. The anger and frustraion that makes a young boy throw or bite a controller has got to be pretty high. One time my brother jammed a snes conroller through a tv screen while we were playing street fighter 2.

Knowing how strongly CRT screens are made, I have to call Shens on that one. If that were true, it's unlikely that your brother would even be able to see at this point, with the tube imploding suddenly, and then the force blowing all of the sharp glass fragments back at his face. (Violently cracking open a vacuum-filled CRT is a highly not-recommended activity.)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: bleeb
R-type III

That game is insanely difficult. I cheated - I used a Naki "Saver" cart for SNES, it's an SRAM cart that effectively gives you realtime state-save/load (like an emulator) on a real SNES. I'm normally pretty good at "shooters", but that game I needed a little help on. I rationalized because I can easily make it to the difficult (reverse-scrolling) level, with maxed weapons, playing straight-through, but once you die at that point, it's almost worthless to keep playing, and you're almost better off starting from the beginning again. So the save-cart was saving me time, effectively, not anything else. Not quite like a game genie, and letting me outright cheat.