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

[skeeterm5]

I played Skyrim for quite a while and then went into one of the portal type things that pop up towards the end of the game. Unfortunately I got lost in there and could never find my way back out into the world. After fruitless hours of wandering around and around I gave up and never went back to it.

[toasty]

skeeterm5 said:

I played Skyrim for quite a while and then went into one of the portal type things that pop up towards the end of the game. Unfortunately I got lost in there and could never find my way back out into the world. After fruitless hours of wandering around and around I gave up and never went back to it.

Did you turn right? You should've gone left.

[Löyly]

DamnKraut said:

I utterly and completely suck at Bloodborne on PS4. Still stuck in very first level and have been killed countless times.
Funnily I had no problems with Dark Souls and love Witcher 3. But that Bloodborne stuff.... no idea how people can like it.

Bloodborne is the best of the Souls games.

[Mr.Jimbo]

TommoAE86 said:

Do you mean GTA: San Andreas? That one was really annoying but I scraped through. I struggled alot with the gold in the last mission of the driving school

Yes, think you're right actually. Still remember it fondly, so it didn't have too much affect! I don't think I ever finished GTA3 though

[chris watton]

I used to spend endless hours on games, from Sonic I the early '90's and the RE, Tomb Raider (1-5) and Silent Hill games in the late '90's. I even spent 70 or so hours completing Final Fantasy 7.

These days however, half a lifetime later, I just haven't got the patience to spend all of my free time on games, and worse, the new versions of my old favourites (RE and TR) requite a level of finger dexterity for aiming and shooting with success that I just do not possess (with the PS3/4 controller). I end up getting frustrated and turning the game off. Worse for the new TR re-boots, they now include these stupid quick time event button pressing sections - just where the hell is the fun in that. I also liked the GTA games, but once it gets to any shooting sections, I am less than hopeless!

I was so looking forward to the new Tomb Raider Anniversary game, an update of the original but with all new graphics, what's not to like! But I hated it, the combat was way too convoluted. I actually ended up using a trainer for one shot kills, as I enjoyed the exploration most, but not the dexterity required to try and kill foes.

I do keep buying the new games, but almost always give up after a couple of hours (even Uncharted 4), and fall back to Civ 5 and Total War games on PC. Perhaps I just have to accept that, in my 50th year, I have grown too hopeless at these games, along with a lack of patience - but I do still play the original Tomb Raiders and RE games quite regularly - they're like an old pair of comfortable slippers..

[Gecko1978]

ALexx Kidd Miricle world Sega master system

no save option level 8 in the castle and that was far as I ever got

took ages

GTA San Andreas because of a plain mission always hated thoes

GT3 you could only get 98% or some such becuase of a bug

Nimja Gaiden Sigma v last level ps3 could not escape the volcano so gave up

[Johnnytheboy]

I'm suddenly recalling the original Medal of Honour, which I definitely could not complete, because there was a point where you had to find an Mp44 to complete the mission.

When I found it, it was glued to the table it was sat on. Spent about 20 mins walking over it, pressing 'action' (whatever key that was), etc. then just gave up.

[Steven_RW]

chris watton said:

I actually ended up using a trainer for one shot kills, as I enjoyed the exploration most, but not the dexterity required to try and kill foes.

I do keep buying the new games, but almost always give up after a couple of hours (even Uncharted 4)

I competed in Counter Strike on the PC and was very comfortable aiming with mouse n keyboard. I can't force myself to re-learn all the skills to be good at aiming using a controller as such I just don't play any FPS games on console.

I found that the dark souls series were really challenging, had great exploration but didn't require FPS aiming skills using a controller. Maybe give them a go. I'm just about 40 and managed!

Skyrim or Fallout 3 are a couple of other options. All the exploration with no real reaction based fighting skills required.

Good luck.

Steven RW

[zebra]

ajprice said:

Another vote for the car park in Driver

It was the last mission that as a joke; the armoured limo with no power being attacked by much faster cars. I did finish that too though after 4 weeks effort.

[chris watton]

Steven_RW said:

I competed in Counter Strike on the PC and was very comfortable aiming with mouse n keyboard. I can't force myself to re-learn all the skills to be good at aiming using a controller as such I just don't play any FPS games on console.

I found that the dark souls series were really challenging, had great exploration but didn't require FPS aiming skills using a controller. Maybe give them a go. I'm just about 40 and managed!

Skyrim or Fallout 3 are a couple of other options. All the exploration with no real reaction based fighting skills required.

Good luck.

Steven RW

Cheers I actually have Skyrim and Fallout on PC, and still enjoy the occasional FPS on PC - but not on console. I watch my step son play the latest COD on PS4, and he manages to hit everything. I had a go and it was like I was disabled, couldn't hit a thing!

I think it has something to do with patience, as I would have stuck with any decent game half a lifetime ago until I mastered most aspects. Nowadays, I cannot do that. I simply cannot justify the massive investment in time needed.

I bought Elite Dangerous, thinking this game would suit me perfectly, even bought a new joystick to play it. (loved Freelancer, Mechwarrior, X-Wing etc.), but there were no real instructions regarding controls and gameplay, like the older games. I was told to look online and sift through seemingly endless tutorials - again, no time to do this. They should have incorporated a couple of 'hand-held' missions in the game. You should not have to close the game and find how to do stuff online with a £50 (at the time) game!

[SiH]

Flashback and Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga. Both beautiful games with graphics that were way ahead of their time (as I recall) but couldn't finish either.

[Jinx]

chris watton said:

I was told to look online and sift through seemingly endless tutorials - again, no time to do this. They should have incorporated a couple of 'hand-held' missions in the game. You should not have to close the game and find how to do stuff online with a £50 (at the time) game!

Don't worry about tutorials - it is actually a lot easier to fly in Elite Dangerous than it ever was in the BBC version of Elite - and more fun the Frontier.
As long as you have controls on your stick for the additional thrusters all the docking comes down to using these - for local navigation just use the left hand comms panel select what you want to fly to and hit supercruise/hyperspace (thrust up and then thrust back to 50% - keep it in the blue). System jumping can be in the same way or use the galaxy map.

[Guvernator]

I certainly played through several tutorials which taught you how to fly, navigate and even shoot some targets on Elite Dangerous. Have you tried those?

I do agree though that the option should be there for a little hand holding early on in the game if you so desire. Some structured missions to get you going on your chosen career path wouldn't have gone amiss perhaps.

[chris watton]

Guvernator said:

I certainly played through several tutorials which taught you how to fly, navigate and even shoot some targets on Elite Dangerous. Have you tried those?

I do agree though that the option should be there for a little hand holding early on in the game if you so desire. Some structured missions to get you going on your chosen career path wouldn't have gone amiss perhaps.

Cheers both - may try and give it another go.

This game (and the X3 space games) are akin to me spending a couple of years designing and developing a fantastic new kit, and not bothering to write any instructions or plans on how to build the damn thing, which has thousands of parts! It's mad!

[Steven_RW]

chris watton said:

I think it has something to do with patience, as I would have stuck with any decent game half a lifetime ago until I mastered most aspects. Nowadays, I cannot do that. I simply cannot justify the massive investment in time needed.

What about something simple then like Resogun? :-)

[Nom de ploom]

I'm not sure about a level but there was one game that we actually played in class as an accompaniment to reading the book.

"you see a pair of bulbous eyes"

"you are trapped in a dungeon"

"you do not have the key"

of course I am talking about the ZX spectrum version of The Hobbit.

impossible doesn't even come close - a whole class of 10 year olds' and their imaginations couldn't beat that game

[Sheetmaself]

I remember a Dizzy game which on the first screen i could not jump over the well to go right, could not go down the well, and couldnt go left as first screen.
Game may of been treasure island.

If anyone can tell me what i should of done?

[Steven_RW]

Sheetmaself said:

I remember a Dizzy game which on the first screen i could not jump over the well to go right, could not go down the well, and couldnt go left as first screen.
Game may of been treasure island.

If anyone can tell me what i should of done?

I think as you jump on the ground at that point before the well it says "strange, the ground seems hollow". I think if you jump on that same point again the ground falls away (Slides to the left..) and then you access a tunnel and get on with the game.

RW

[Sheetmaself]

Yes i definitely remember that message but for some reason never jumped again, would never happen today as could got to youtube for a walk through!

Oh well 99p wasted.

[Max5476]

I never completed super mario land on the original game boy - my first game and first console. The lack of a save feature meant I never had enough time, or enough lives.