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Rafux on 07 November 2012

And of course this nightmare fuel:



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NightDragon83 on 07 November 2012

Gave up on Dracula X: Rondo of Blood because I keep barely making it to the boss of the 6th stage and getting my ass handed to me.

Also gave up on Zelda II for years before finally going back to it when I got the limited collector's edition on the GC, and finally was able to beat the game legitimately thanks to the save-anywhere feature.

Edit:  Other games I were never able to beat legitimately:  Ninja Gaiden (the original), Snake Rattle & Roll, Star Wars on NES.



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Farsala on 07 November 2012

Thats hilarious. You know why?

Because I recently quit Star Ocean: Till the End of Time for PS2. Because I blazed through the game then got save point right before the boss. Tried boss and realised I was not high enough level= end game.



enditall727 on 07 November 2012

The last boss in Heavenly Sword is fucking ridiculous. I took that bitch back because i couldnt beat that boss for shit. I just looked up a video on youtube of somebody beating that bastard



UltimateUnknown on 07 November 2012
BasilZero said:
Persona 1 on PSX long time ago but that quickly was changed when I played Persona 1 Portable on the PSP :)

Ho boy. I just started it on PSP. This may turn out horribly.



 

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smroadkill15 on 07 November 2012

Super Meat Boy. I know for a fact, I will never beat that game.



TheShape31 on 07 November 2012

Most recently, The Impossible Game.



Veknoid_Outcast on 07 November 2012
ebw said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
No recent games, but a handful of older NES games. Games were just so much more difficult 25 years ago.

I think the most recent was Castlevania III, which I downloaded on Virtual Console. I played the same level a dozen times, memorized every move and enemy, but I still couldn't make it past the level boss.

There are definitely some paths in Castlevania III that are harder than others (I've found Sypha is the easiest to win with).  My two banes from the NES era were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first one, before the series became all beat-em-ups) and Blaster Master.  In both cases the last levels were just too much, I couldn't even get to the boss.  Thinking back, I must not have had any Game Genie codes to give me an edge back then.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....what a nightmare. I also had a ton of trouble with Top Gun.



theRepublic on 07 November 2012

I was around 7 or 8 years old when I got this game.  It was just too damn hard for me.  At that age, I don't think it was even a fair fight.  I don't think I ever made it past the second level, and I rarely could even make it past the first level.

It is the first and only game I ever traded.



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mantlepiecek on 07 November 2012

Perfect Dark Zero - It is such a bad game, that whatever skills you have to learn to complete this game is worthless. So in a sense I did gave it up because of its difficulty, at least if the story had progressed after a while and I wasn't stuck I wouldn't have gave it up.

I did complete the final boss in star ocean : Last Hope though. Ridiculous boss which took a ridiculous time to kill, you need to use that healer girl well. There are some other strategies but I forgot.

Any game where I find an extremely difficult level, I just move on to another game for a while and come back to it after some time, usually completing it. Some good examples of that - folklore, uncharted DF, Demon's Souls, and a bunch of others I am forgetting.