Is there a game/level you just can't complete?

Is there a game/level you just can't complete?

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Robster

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1,402 posts

176 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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I'm finding maybe as I get older some games I just can't complete! Metal gear solid is one example , couldn't do the harder missions, the ones where you can't be seen, traded it in

ezi

1,734 posts

185 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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All of the STALKER franchise, combat is hard as nails.

Xaero

4,060 posts

214 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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I've never been able to complete Tetris.

davepoth

29,395 posts

198 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Much less these days - games are made much easier now (or have easier difficulty options) so that all players can experience the whole story. I remember back in the old days that some games were virtually impossible, with very limited save points and a low number of lives.

Zorro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQnbYkoEQk

The Goonies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRqQE76Nc0

The Nur

9,168 posts

184 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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To be honest, I only actually started completing games during the PS/N64 era. Rare I find something these days I can't finish.

Hoink

1,424 posts

157 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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There were quite a few games I couldn't complete back when I was 8 on my old Amstrad. Wanting to defeat them and have the final say, I revisited a few of these recently and even with another 30 years experience still got stuck (often at the same point). Perhaps I'm just rubbish.

My most frustrating game's were Eye Of The Beholder 1 & 2. I think it was 2 where I got stuck/lost in a dungeon and I just couldn't find my way out...spending ages trying. I still have those saved amiga games in the loft.

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Abe's Odd World. The most annoying game possible.

The only recent one was Witcher 3. It's fantastic, the story and graphics brilliant, but I found that the in depth RPG was just too far in depth for me. It takes hours upon endless hours, which was enjoyable at first but wore away with time and I barely discovered the majority of the game. I couldn't leave it for a week and come back to it or jump in for half hour and make progress so I gave it up.


ZedLeg

12,278 posts

107 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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The only one I had trouble with recently was Shadow of Mordor, some of the nemesis boss fights I messed up at the beginning levelled the orcs so much that they could've probably taken Sauron down themselves laugh.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Loads. biggrin

defblade

7,395 posts

212 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Almost every pint-and-click adventure ever. Especially Lucasarts'. I never realise you have to combine the hamster with the rubber pipe and use the whole thing to unlock a vase which opens a portal to the kitchen....

Engineerino

281 posts

164 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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When a kid, the first car park mission in Driver.

I still have trouble achieving gold licenses in Gran Turismo!

BRISTOL86

1,097 posts

104 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Gods

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Saturday 9th July 2016
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Showing my age now but Sir Fred on the Spectrum. Such a load of bugged to heck crap that I pestered my parents for. Could barely get past the first couple of screens let alone finish it

Steven_RW

1,727 posts

201 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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defblade said:
Almost every pint-and-click adventure ever. Especially Lucasarts'. I never realise you have to combine the hamster with the rubber pipe and use the whole thing to unlock a vase which opens a portal to the kitchen....
LOL.. I liked that. Monkey Island (finding the sword master..) I didn't know to follow the shop keeper so I had to work out the crazy maze all by myself. Took a LOT of wrong turns till I lucked it out.

Oddworld - Abes Odyssey: I managed to complete it when it became one of the free games for PSN+ on PS4. Took me A LOT to get past some of the tricky jumping over mines and so on at the end. Having just co

Dark Souls: I went through the whole game never parrying and the final boss is much easier beaten if you parry. I gave up. Completed DS2 twice and DS3 twice and Bloodborne including DLC twice but not gone back to finish DS1 yet. I will do though :-)

RW

J-D-Stagpump

145 posts

101 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Borderlands 2 Ultimate Vault Hunter mode.

Just can't seem to play it without getting killed every 5 seconds. I could drag my way through but there is no fun in that.

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Final mission on Watchdogs. To the point I have stopped trying hehe

TommoAE86

2,659 posts

126 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Engineerino said:
I still have trouble achieving gold licenses in Gran Turismo!
This, but I always completed the games. I can't do GT5 though, the PP/AI mix is just too hard for me to get through with a controller and default car setup.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Jet Set Willy. Never got past level 1. Damn thing seemed so slow and unresponsive.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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The older I get the more easily I give up.

I used to worry away at games that foxed me, now I just think "sod this" and go back to a game I know.

It's this that stopped me buying FPS: several in a row, I'd hit an obstacle, switch the game off and never get round to going back.

I think Doom 3 may have been the first - when you go in to Hell and meet that big boss.

Crush

15,077 posts

168 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Engineerino said:
When a kid, the first car park mission in Driver.

I still have trouble achieving gold licenses in Gran Turismo!
God I hated that mission rofl