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[Kupfer]

For me it's Killzone 2.

It's 2009, a friend of mine had the game just before release and I got the chance to watch this spectacle on PS3 for a few minutes.
I was immediately blown away. It was the dark and dirty warshooter that I had only known from the TRAILER before and that I had been waiting for.

So a few days later I had the game too and I started playing Killzone 2 on Veteran to get the most out of the game.
It was hard, sometimes very hard, but all in all I got through it quite well and I never had the feeling of being treated unfairly by the game.
Often a handful of tries were enough to get ahead. I can remember being thrilled from start to finish and I was sure I would finish the campaign within a few days.
I was looking forward to telling my friends about my heroic acts of war.


Until this moment:

The Visari Palace, with its uninterrupted onslaught of rocket launcher-carrying, constantly firing army of Helghast. No rest, no safe haven.
For hours I sat at this fight and the small thought that the game was suddenly becoming unfair turned into a big frustration.
At some point I gave up in indignation, tried no further. Weeks later I still wanted to finish the game, but I couldn't get into the controls and the mood,
my only way out - I lowered the difficulty level.

It was not a satisfying ending for me. Not because of the story, but because I didn't make it.


Still today I must think about it.
I still think to myself today that I simply should have gone through with it.
10 years is a long time. Maybe I have enough distance now to try again...




What is your moment of shame when you failed because of your own expectations and the difficulty of the game?​

 

[Hendrick's]

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

Thats easy...Bloodborne

 

[Mista]

Souls/Borne thread. Lets go

YES YES YES YES! But I won’t call myself failed because I returned and cleared the shit out of it

 

[YukiOnna]

Dark Souls 1. Blighttown is a terribly designed area and I'm ashamed I quit the game at terribly designed area.

 

[Birdo]

Fuck the Tie Fighter segment.

 

[Nikana]

I have never finished Hook on the SNES. I got stuck at some part as a kid and couldn't ever figure it out.

I also got stuck on The Adventure of Batman and Robin in the SNES. Something with a blimp.

 

[Azelover]

Yep.. me too!

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

This fucking son of the bitch

 

[KingGhidorah]

InbeforeSekiroGenichiro

 

[Caffeine]

failure is the path to success especially in ninja gaiden.

 

[shenmue mugen]

Space Harrier 3D for the Sega Master System...it's an eternal blemish in my CV.

 

[tylrdiablos]

I got to the

Spoiler

Resistance Camp

boss in Nier : Automata back in May. After a few attempts I realised I had too few healing items and gave up on it to play something else.
Today I launched the game for the first time in 7 months. Spent a few minutes getting used to the controls again and then had another few attempts at the boss... To no avail.
About 20 minutes ago, I did some Google searches and it turns out this is a common stumbling block in the game. People seem to hate this area. There's nowhere to buy extra items and you basically have to reload an earlier save or lower the difficulty.

I'm determined to beat it.

 

[kyussman]

I won't lie,after finishing Dark Souls and Bloodborne(twice)....I was a bit bummed when I summoned to beat Sister Friede in Dark Souls III DLC,had never summoned before.....I just ran out of patience(and skill,obviously,LOL).

 

[Kupfer]

I got to the

Spoiler

Resistance Camp

boss in Nier : Automata

I stopped playing Nier:Automata because of Death Stranding, but I'm also determined to finish the game.
But i don't think I'm already at your boss, at least i can't remember.
The last beaten boss was

Spoiler: this one

I have to continue with Nier:Automata before i completetly lost it's controls and mechanics ...

Thanks for the reminder!


[EDIT]

I won't lie,after finishing Dark Souls and Bloodborne(twice)....I was a bit bummed when I summoned to beat Sister Friede in Dark Souls III DLC,had never summoned before.....I just ran out of patience(and skill,obviously,LOL).

Oh, I summoned all the time in DSIII, but I'm not ashamed. Also I never finished the game, because it just wasn't my kind of enjoyment.

 

[farmerboy]

Easy. Biggest regret and failure for me was not finishing Ocarina of Time. Came unstuck at the Water Temple.

Although a new girlfriend, who later became my wife, contributed to that.

 

[Saber]

I would like to list 2.

First one is a game called The Ninja, for Sega Master System. The game wasn't that hard for me mind you, I already reach the point for ending the game as a kid. The problem was...well, I couldn't read english properly. Because of that, I could never really understand the hint in the ninja secret scroll. Because of that I never beat the game when I was a kid...only as a teenager. I felt ashamed because of that simply detail I couldn't beat the game.

The second one is worse. The game is Asterix Obelix and The Great Rescue, also for Master System. The game is a better experience than the Mega Drive version, because of the mix of gameplay and it allows you to play with both Asterix and Obelix at the same time. It also didn't have(much) cheesy stages and stupid limited times.
I was beating the game as a kid, until I reach the boss of the third zone. The boss of third zone is a roman legate, riding a log of trunk with you floating on the water and your mission is to push him against the wall. The problem is, he is very fast and hard to push you against the wall. And once he pushes you around the wall, which takes about 3 seconds, you lose a life. I had no idea how to beat him...not in life I ever beat him as a kid. Year later, I play the game as a teenager and discovered through faq that in order to beat them, you have to mash A-B quickly as fast you can until you beat him. I did, but only once. I did beat the game, but this boss? Well, once I beat him I never did it again. Some said that he is harder to beat in the Genesis version...but I don't want to think about it.

 

[jshackles]

The game is tough as shit but the landing segments and the re-fueling segments really pissed me off to the point that I stopped playing it. Turns out it's pretty easy to do, but the game gives you no indication or feedback.

 

[SleepDoctor]

Metal Gear Revengeance

I quit on the final boss after about a week lol.

 

[Katsura]

I rarely feel ashamed for dropping a game. I dropped Bayonetta, for example, at one of the later stages (15 i think). Too many gimmicks and insta kill QTEs. That's bad game design in my opinion. There 2 games i somewhat regret not completing

Ninja Gaiden Sigma
I really didn't know what i was in for and i was turned off by all the supernatural nonsense. I enjoyed the first parts though. That and i couldn't bring myself to play a difficulty called ninja dog lol so after being completely owned again and again i just quit

Nioh
Again, too much super natural crap. I expected a samurai game with souls like mechanics and random loot, not giant worms and 2 headed dogs shooting lightning. I lost motivation to git gud because of it

 

[Nikana]

Easy. Biggest regret and failure for me was not finishing Ocarina of Time. Came unstuck at the Water Temple.

Although a new girlfriend, who later became my wife, contributed to that.

Clearly your priorities were wrong.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Cuphead on the normal mode.

I don't think I even got past half the game. Hard as shit.

 

[reconminicon]

Vanquish challenges. It broke my PS3. After I threw the controller at it.

 

[Nikana]

Vanquish challenges. It broke my PS3. After I threw the controller at it.

Gonna get that remaster I take it!

 

[lock2k]

Fucking Zero airplane mission from San Andreas. Managed to pass after 17 tries though.

 

[Vawn]

Dark Souls 1. Blighttown is a terribly designed area and I'm ashamed I quit the game at terribly designed area.

It had terrible performance on the PS360, but it's a great area otherwise.

 

[Mista]

InbeforeSekiroGenichiro

Easy.

 

[synchronicity]

I won't lie,after finishing Dark Souls and Bloodborne(twice)....I was a bit bummed when I summoned to beat Sister Friede in Dark Souls III DLC,had never summoned before.....I just ran out of patience(and skill,obviously,LOL).

Sister Friede is one of the best fights in all of Souls for me. But yeah, she's not a pushover. with her 3 stages - although only the last one is really tough imo.

For my answer I suppose I'd say I never got as far as I wanted in Spelunky. I loved the game, but I never really plumbed the depths and cracked it open the way I would have liked. I'm talking about the extra levels. I may go back and play some more someday.

Edit:

Vanquish challenges. It broke my PS3. After I threw the controller at it.

Yeah, that's another one. I struggled with those. I still think about going back to wrap those up though. Such a fantastic game.

 

[Jooxed]

1 year later i am still struggling with the below game, but damn I love the game, lore and atmosphere. Curse you Watcher Night and Hornet 2.0

 

[SkeletonQuays]

The game is tough as shit but the landing segments and the re-fueling segments really pissed me off to the point that I stopped playing it. Turns out it's pretty easy to do, but the game gives you no indication or feedback.

DUUUUUUDE!!!! FUCK THIS GAME! The landing and the tree segments were the freaking worst. I completely blocked this game from memory for over 20 years... now I'm having cold sweats at the thought of it again. LOL.

edit to add: I'm going to see if I can find a full playthrough now lol.

 

[buizel]

Hey You Pikachu!

Don't think it could ever understand our British accents .

I'll always remember the time I accidently knocked the N64 and Pikachus face glitched up so hard and started screeching we turned off the console quick as fuck

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Beat Bloodborne and yet gave up on Dark Souls 3. Got the biggest ass Whooping of my life. Stopped half way through with extremely low morale.

 

[reconminicon]

Gonna get that remaster I take it!

Maybe probably. But will be wrapping whatever machine in bubble wrap.

 

[ROMhack]

Have never finished Majora's Mask despite starting it THREE TIMES. Furthest I got was the water area and then I broke it somehow with no backup saves (emulated).

Killer 7 is close; got halfway through it twice before life got in the way. Unfortunately it's not exactly a dip in and out game.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Life.

I gave up a long time ago.

 

[Revolutionary]

Vanilla DMC3 is the only game I've given up on due to difficulty, because some sick bastard at Capcom thought it would be funny if the NA version of the game was harder than the Japanese version.

That said, the Special Edition they sell these days is significantly easier so I could boot it up some day and finish it. But I kinda regret not finishing the challenge on PS2

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I don't think difficulty has ever made me stop playing a game. Only a shit story or disgust for the series has made me stop playing a game. Or boredom.

 

[stranno]

Hey You Pikachu!

Don't think it could ever understand our British accents .

I'll always remember the time I accidently knocked the N64 and Pikachus face glitched up so hard and started screeching we turned off the console quick as fuck

Yo should try Seaman.

 

[Guileless]

Yo should try Seaman.

I remember going to a party in college, and it was pretty late and most people had left. Everyone still there was drunk and/or high. My buddy loaded up Seaman on his Dreamcast and started talking to it (as you do) and this girl nobody knew started freaking out and ran out of the house. Never saw her again.

 

[chilleverest]

The final boss kicked my 12 year old ass so much that the regret of not finishing and not being able to see the end in a legitimate way still hurts my feeling to this day.

 

[chilleverest]

 

[brap]

Dark Souls 1. Blighttown is a terribly designed area and I'm ashamed I quit the game at terribly designed area.

So glad I got to the boss without dying. Feels good.

 

[bellome]

The game is tough as shit but the landing segments and the re-fueling segments really pissed me off to the point that I stopped playing it. Turns out it's pretty easy to do, but the game gives you no indication or feedback.

I remember calling my father to help me in the landing segments. I was 7/8 yo.

 

[mcjmetroid]

Sekiro. Final boss.

I love the game but I really wish they calmed down in the final boss. I fought him a few times, looked up a strategy online and just said "life is too short" for this.

 

[Insane Metal]

Parasite Eve 2. The boss that looks like a penis.

Motherfucker.

 

[Spukc]

Hahaha wtf OP you played a game on E A S Y ?

Ignore list

 

[Sygma]

so many Alma hard checks failed, can't blame you for that one

for me its the old hunters, made the mistake of going in ng + straight up and got obliterated to oblivion by Ludwig for a loooong while after cruising through the main game ayyy

 

[mekes]

Natural Doctrine on PS4. The game was renowned for being a challenge and in truth, it really didn’t let up as it progressed. I bought the game because I wanted the challenge, and quit because of the challenge. It made me so irate that I deleted the save files

 

[Pimpbaa]

Sekiro. I can handle Bloodborne, but Sekiro was too fast for me. I felt the only way I beat some of the bosses was cheesing them.

 

[radewagon]

Demon Souls. I've beat all the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, but Demon's Souls was the one I started with and I could never beat it. I'd try again if it weren't for the rumored remake.