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Games you dropped because they were way too hard

Not going to lie....Drakkhan for the Snes. I played a beat Zelda II before I hit double digits in age, I thought I could take anything on! Nope! I didn't have a clue what I was doing, what was going on, and I was dead before the next morning.

The music is nice, though.
 
I stopped trying to play the DLC of Dark Souls 2 on new game +. I decided to try and be primarily a magic user and i find the bosses to be too fucking difficult, even with summons.
 
Spelunky. I got to the secret boss twice, failing both times. I stopped playing after that (there were other games that needed to be played).
 
Siren (PS2)

I really wanted to like this game. Really cool horror setting and interesting gameplay ideas like being able to psychically see what your enemies are seeing, but fuuuck was this game hard. I think I gave up during a part where you had to play as some old guy with a rifle and the whole level was filled with snipers that could kill you in one hit and see you from a million miles away. Enemies also couldn't really be killed as they would simply come back to life after a little while.
 
I like Bloodborne and Darksouls 3, but when I reach bosses that just feel too fast for me, I give up. I don't think I have the dexterity or reaction time for them.
 
I never beat Sinh from Dark Souls II without summons. Total bullshit, beyond the point of fun. The only Souls boss I've never beaten solo.
 
Xenoblade Chronicles... A GREAT game, loved every minute of it until I faced Disciple Lorithia. Couldn't beat him after numerous try
 
Advance wars on the DS, got maybe halfway through the game I think and then just couldn't get any further. Although I was basically a toddler then.
 
Recently the Sunken Crown DLc in DS2 Sotfs made me quit. Not hard in a normal way, but some of the hitboxes are so ludicrous, without fail, that couple with the "genius" idea of Adaptability and floaty movement...not worth it. I will go back to it at some point but it reminds me of why I dislile Ds2 a lot in the first place.
 
Dynheart said:
Not going to lie....Drakkhan for the Snes. I played a beat Zelda II before I hit double digits in age, I thought I could take anything on! Nope! I didn't have a clue what I was doing, what was going on, and I was dead before the next morning.

The music is nice, though.
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Same... Though I only had it for a week, I sort of gave up because I had no idea what I was doing. Maybe I was too young or impatient to read something but I had no idea what I was supposed to do lol the game had dungeons I guess but I never had much luck finding them or knowing which I needed to go to. Had no idea what I was doing...

Game was pretty awesome... the big open world, exploring, the music...

But I'd basically just wander around until some dragon or gypsy or lightning would come out of the sky and kill me lol.
 
It pains me greatly that I'll probably never beat 'Fucking Donkey Kong' Country: TF. It's so good but it just kicked my ass too badly too often.
 
Recently, Alien Isolation comes to mind. Not really hard, just too nerve wrecking between the Androids and Alien who constantly found me.
 
The Last of Us, fuck this shit, I really suck at this game and I have no time to die and restart 5 times on every sections, I need to make progress with every session that I play so I just quit, too bad because the story was really good, I might watch a let's play someday to finish the story.
 
Max Armstrong said:
The Last of Us, fuck this shit, I really suck at this game and I have no time to die and restart 5 times on every sections, I need to make progress with every session that I play so I just quit, too bad because the story was really good, I might watch a let's play someday to finish the story.
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Were u playing grounded mode or something?
 
La Mulana, definitely. I'm not one to be defeated often but that game just took it out of me.

Too much aimless wandering any time you miss even the slightest of details.

It's certainly NOT the "Dark Souls of 2D Metroidvanias." I could actually beat DS and it wasn't cryptic as all hell.
 
Because they were hard? None.

Because they weren't interesting or fun? Plenty.

Games I didn't complete during the rental window and didn't extend? A large number of NES hard games. I'm looking at you Bayou Billy.
 
Shambala said:
Were u playing grounded mode or something?
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No, pretty sure I was playing normal, I just really sucked. I didn't have fun with this game at all, I just kept wishing a new cutscene would pop out because that was the best parts, I hate zombies and I hate stealth and crouching from brick wall to brick wall and I hate dying every couple of minutes and having to restart all over, so this game really wasn't for me unfortunately, because the way they presented the story was really exciting but all the time I wished someone else was playing.
 
I still to this day cannot beat
Shadow Mitsuo
in Persona 4 Golden. I even tried again today.

I did it on PS2 somehow, once...
 
Shinobi (PS2).

Ninja Gaiden Black (beat it on hard) and Dark Souls were totally my jam, but the patience and timing required in Shinobi were just too much for me.

I'm assuming we're just talking about games we actually liked, right? There's plenty of stuff I dropped due to a combination of difficulty and indifference.
 
Demon's Souls.

I quit on my first game, but a friend of mine played it months later and made it very far (I was watching and got very interested in the game again). Did my 2nd game with a different mentality and thank god I did because I was hooked to the series.
 
Dwarf Fortress. I studied for that game like it was the SATs, but to no avail. I learned enough about it to know that it is one of the most interesting games ever made, but I was never able to see through the Matrix.
 
Bloodborne. After 5 hours to get throughout the first boss, I realized I'm too old for this shit. Gaming is not a job. I want to suck at it if I want to.
 
FTL, but mostly because I could just never beat the final boss. I could usually get to him easily enough, but I could never clinch it. I should check it out since I know it got a big update a while back.
 
This thread made me feel better about myself and my Bloodborne platinum :D

I quit Nioh during the last beta because there was something in the combat I just wasn't getting, much in the same way that it took me 5 or 6 hours of getting thrashed in DS & BB before it 'clicked'. I'll probably pick up Nioh at some point and give it a good bash though.
 
Drakengard 1.
I got all endings except ending E. I can't believe how many hours I lost trying to get all the weapons. Without a guide it's quite literally impossible. With a guide it's maddening. That's what I get for playing a Yoko Taro game. Never again.
 
Robocop VS Terminator on the genisis, game gets ridiculous after a few levels and the final boss takes forever to kill, never did beat him. I eventually just gave up on it.
 
I never completely finish super meat boy. I finish every normal levels but the later dark world levels were way too much for me.
 
Metal Gear Solid 3. I wanted to get into these games; they're highly regarded, hear nothing but praise.
Well I saw that they are not chronological in release order, so I bought them all (currently don't have V).

I started with 3. I can't even get across the bridge at the beginning. Get shot.
I tried multiple times.
 
Might as well admit it: never got past the castle in RE4 back when it released on GameCube because I hit a wall with ammo/resource depletion. Stick aiming on a controller has never come naturally to me, and I always intended to run the game again on the Wii with motion aiming, but after all these years I've never set aside the time for it. Since it gets ported everywhere anyway, I would strongly consider double-dipping on the Switch if we ever get an HD release with gyro support.
 
Hmm... I dropped Um Jammer Lammy. Gotta try that again... Also couldn't finish Space Channel 5. Maybe I just suck at rhythm games :p. Also almost all NES games. I don't have much patience for retrying if I have to replay a somewhat long-winded section, so when I had to start from the beginning I'd just not try again until weeks or months later.

In modern times, I won't even try the Souls series. Seem way too punishing for me to enjoy them.
 
In recent memory only Spelunky and Volgarr the Viking. Reached the last area of Spelunky once, but by then I didn't feel like going through the other areas again each time I died. Feel like beating that game was at least doable, just dropped out.

Volgarr on the other hand is just plain brutal.

edit: I have La Mulana, now because of this thread I never want to start it lol
 
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