Was there a game you REALLY had to give up on?

[Nautilus]

LivingMetal said:

Nautilus said:

Really?I find the pacing perfect!By the way, Im also playing through it.I mean sure, you get stuck once in a while somewhere, but then you just say "fuck this part" and go somewhere else you still didnt go, make that part, and by the time you return to where you got stuck, you end up powering through it!

Im currently at Anor Londo at the fucking dual boss.Where did you stop?

Blighttown... TWICE!  It wasn't so much of being stuck on one place but more so the "process."  I'll explain.

The first time I went into Blighttown, I was cautious.  Very cautious which did pay off because I ALMOST got to the boss almost unscathed. And I'm (or was) using a walkthrough.  But I was cautious to use a walkthrough during Blighttime because it's not that I could pause the game to take time reading what I was coming up to.  Now, I was about to tackle the boss with NPC assistance, but then I read this thing about the Great Hollow.  I'm the OCD type so I had to check it out.  Well, it took a while, but I was able to eventually collect all but one item in the Great Hollow.  But during that process, I became cursed WITHOUT a comsumable to alieviate the curse.  So hallelujah when I finally reached the bottom of the Great Hollow only to find that I had to fight that Hydra again in Ash Lake.  It was fine the first time, but at half life, I wasn't going to make it.  But I was able to trek passed it to find the Gaping Dragon.  But that was a dead end.  I heard you could teleport from bonfire to bonfire, but I have yet to receive that ability.  So I had to go from the Gaping Dragon, through Ash Lake, up the Great Hollow again, through the swamps of Blighttown, and finally found an exit via the Valley of the Drakes.  And I did all this with only half life so I wasn't ready to fight the boss anymore. 

With a glimmer of hope, I bought a purging stone to allieviate the curse, another purging stone in case I get cursed again, enhanced my character by learning spells, killed the merchant to get the uchigatana, grinded grinded grinded grinded grinded for souls, and enhanced the uchigatana.  Because after all I went through, I need to go back to Blighttown, collect items I missed in Blighttown, kill the boss, ring the bell, and defeat the Hydra.  I better be prepared.  So the last thing I did was purchase 100 heavy arrows.  So I went back to Blighttown via the Depths.  And again, I was doing quite well, and by that time I had used up half of my arrows.  But guess what did me in?  Not a ghoul, not the swamp, not a basilisk, not a boss, but a careless step from a high scaffold that resulted in my death.  And I purposely did NOT use the bonfire in Blighttown because I didn't want the enemies to respawn so I ended up back at the Bonfire in the Depths so I had to go back into Blighttown and do it all over again with only half the arrows I started with.  Forget it!

I can relate to you.Its imensurably frustrating when you die an idiotic death(read:fall off a cliff because you pressed the wrong button at the wrong time or by aciddent.Lost time of how many times that happened) after doing a region almost perfect or really well.I once almost got stuck on the Tomb of the Giants.After being able to defeat the boss that multiplies himself(I think his titles is the Catacomg Lord or something of the like) I went to the next area.And by Dark Souls style, it kicked my ass with the first two enemies I found there.But since I was determined to beat that area too, and thinking that those two enemies were the exception, I rushed through the area to the bonfire, so that when I died, I didnt have to trek all the way down and pass through all those enemies.But doing so, I did the worst mistake so far: I got trapped in that area.To the right, there were those giant skeletons that simply destroyed me in two strikes, and to the left had those giant dog- like skeletons, that killed me in almost one hit.It was rage inducing.It took me more than 20 deaths(and almost the full morning) of random tries trying to find the way back(since i Jumped off a few cliffs to reach the bonfire) and also develop a strategy to not die along the way.

Wether you want to return to this game later or not, I suggest to do it like I do:Play the game at your own pace.I dont really get people when they say they dont have enough "time" to finish a game.Dont get me wrong, I know it gets extremely complicated when you have to work and sustain a family(financially and emotionally) like you do.But why is it so wrong to take months to finish a game?Every now and then, I play a game that takes around 60 to 70 hours to finish, and I really dont mind taking 3 months to finish it.That was about the time that it took me to finish Xenoblade Chronicles.If you dont like that, I understand.Otherwise, I dont see the problem.After all, gaming is not a job.You dont have a list to go through to "check off" a number of games before the end of the month.Just take your time and enjoy the game at your pace!