vegeta1215 wrote:That is exactly what I had to do! I had my brother play with me in all my 100cc, 150cc, and Mirror Mode races. Having an extra human player to replace a computer player helps a lot - plus my brother is way better than me at Mario Kart. (one of the few games he's better than me at, hehe 😃) He was the one to always take home the gold, while I usually got bronze (or worse)
my roomate and i tend to get his girlfriend and one of our mutual friends over so we run two people on two carts. being able to throw punches helps alot, especially on some of the levels with narrow tracks and no railing. as well as being able to fully utilize the super mushroom
as for the topic? i know i've been frustrated with several video games. alot of RPGs. most recently it's been jedi academy, but i've been finding my way through that better than i did JKII.
Hey, Hypercrash, you mentioned two of mine: Ninja Gaiden and Bubble Bobble. I used to play the hell out of them when I was a kid, and beat them both, but I can't get anywhere near beating Bubble Bobble now, and the end of Ninja Gaiden just whoops my ass. Very frustrating. I mean, I've done it before, but now... I guess I'm just slipping in my old age.
Another one is Bionic Commando. I beat that as a kid, too, but I really don't know how I did because I can't get anywhere now.
I think the most frustrating time I ever had, though, was in the original Metroid. Being lost in the bubble-area for hours on end with that maddening music looping over and over again was annoying as hell. Its a toss-up between that and this one area (I think it's Kraid's) where there's a long hallway with a couple of fake blocks in the floor so you fall if you don't jump at just the right spot. If you do fall, you have to spend the next five minutes making your way back to that hall, only to fall again. Ugh.
I know this is an old thread, but it's my thread darn it, so I'm digging it back up! Anyways, I accomplished a great feat today, one that many find nearly impossible - I finished all the Story Mode chapters from F-Zero GX on Very Hard. Now I have every AX racer unlocked! 😃
Besides Goki, is there anyone else that has done this?
I made in SSBM 6549Ft. in Home Run Contest and I filmed it. (with Ganondorf)
I can't get the "No damage Clear Bonus" so I don't have Diskun... 😞
I get stuck on a couple of RPG battles, but otherwise... I don't tend to have many of those moments. The last one I remember having was defeating the Vizier in Prince of Persia : Two Thrones. It took me so long to figure out! I can do it like *clicks fingers* now, but that first time, when I only had two life upgrades... ugh!
Oh, I remember another one. It was in Warcraft 3, one of those 'protect this character for 10 minutes' missions. I had a nice setup of turrets and warriors all lined up, but over the course of the mission they kept getting destroyed and killed. Right at the end, the enemy broke through... and the ten minutes ran out (completing the mission) literally just before my character was about to die. He had like 3 health. So yeah, that was a nice 'Oh thank God! Thank you Jesus!' feeling.
Haven't had many recently though. I only tend to get them on boss battles as a rule, and I don't get that far in many games..!
My most frustrating moments:
- Super Mario World, beating the 8 specials
- Super Mario RPG, Culex (I gave up on the beetle game)
- Age of Empires 1, getting started on the greek campaign
- Myst, the "maze" to return from the "rocket land", and many others
- Riven, many places
- some more from Myst III and Uru.
(Though the Myst series ones do give you a real feeling of satisfaction when you get them. Also once you know how you think "that was so obvious".)
- Advance Wars DS, hard campaign (still working on it. Jugger, I so HATE you).
I beat a Wavedash freak in SSBM as Link, and without constantly using Spin Attack. It's frustrating as hell when your opponent can wavedash very easily and you can't. @_@'
Tales of Symphonia:
Beat Abyssion on mania without alldivides!
frustrating moment?
beating the final Hero story mode race in Sonic riders.
I had no Idea how to do a high jump, and there was one shrp turn that constantly killed me.
I played that race at LEAST 57 times. then when I did beat it, I won by about 2 seconds. You can imagine how good beating that race felt. :drool:
another frustrating moment: Beating the last boss of Golden Sun 2...
The boss likes to use the following strategy: Djin storm (stuns all my status enhancing cretures) or guard aura which divides all damage done to it by 10.
then it like to follow it up with Cruel ruin (super powerfull attack that hits everyone) then it does Cruel Ruin again...
it took me AGES to beat it...
Finally beating Mega Man X; after getting the hadouken attack, the final stage was quite easy until I fought Sigma's final form. It took I don't know how many times to finally do it. (and if I would have taken another hit, I would have lost again)
another is when I finally beat Atomos in Final Fantasy 5, I had to level up like nuts to even scrape by, and when I finally beat him, I was left with only 2 characters still alive :angry:
Darth Marsden wrote:The last one I remember having was defeating the Vizier in Prince of Persia : Two Thrones. It took me so long to figure out! I can do it like *clicks fingers* now, but that first time, when I only had two life upgrades... ugh!
When I got to the Vizier I had all but one life upgrade, but it still took me over 10 tries to beat him. I just couldn't get the timing right to initiate the speed kills (plus those swirling rocks kicked my ass) After playing Warrior Within I went back to play Two Thrones again, and that time I beat the Vizier on my first try, go figure :shrug:
This is the worst:
Complete Super Smash Bros. (N64) In Very-Hard difficulty using only 1 life!!!.
I accomplished this by using DK. I was a maniac.
I did this because some guy told me that if I completed it in Very-Hard using only 1 life you could get Metal mario, obviously, He didn't appeared.
This happened when I was 8.
Beating Alma in Ninja Gaiden(Xbox). Given what equipment you usually have around that time and the amount of life, this boss fight is a bitch. Her attacks are also brutal, especially when she traps you in a "bubble" and beats you then kicks your ass to the ground. That can take anywhere from a third to half your health. She's also good at dodging your attacks, even when using the flails, which most strategy guides seem to recommend using, but I have better luck using the Flying Swallow attack with the Dragon Sword.
Took me around...15 tries to beat her. Now it's quite easy.
There was one mission on Trauma Center: Under the Knife. I tried it so many times, I almost broke my DS in half out of frustration.
There was also the boat mission in Fire Emblem on the GBA. It took me forever to beat it with out losing any units.
But my most amazing accomplishment was getting all 150 pokemon in Blue Version. Until my friend saved over it. I was so pissed.
The final assault challenge in Time Splitters II. It was in the robot factory,and there were thread lasers everywhere and you only had one ally. It took me forever but I finally beat it with a gold. It took me two solid weeks.
Archibaldo wrote:But my most amazing accomplishment was getting all 150 pokemon in Blue Version. Until my friend saved over it. I was so pissed.
Lol. I feel your pain. I had, what 140 something of the little critters, then my older cousin secretly played it, and deleted my file. He of couse denied ever playing it. 😡 I was 12.
I once had 149 Pokemon on my blue version, including MEW, but I "accidentally" caught MissingNo and it messed up my entire game, I couldn't get the Coin Case so I wasn't able to buy Porygon, and nobody had an extra Omanyte (I had Omastar but I didn't had Omanyte), It always multipled my 6th item with MissingNo, and ocasionally caught a Lvl 145 Clefable, which I gave Rare Candies and rose up to Level 255.
My uncle sold the game, I was so sad.
I only got my 151 Pokemon because I borrowed a friend's Game Genie. I really wanted to finish that game legitimately, but my friends at the time were abusing exploits and the game genie in order to super-crack their PvP monsters. I got drawn into it, and one thing led to another, and I finally justified my cheating by telling myself it was the only way I was getting Mew.
My most frustrating gaming moment was when I tried to complete all of Goldeneye on 00 Agent mode. Many frustrating battles were overcome until that level near the end, you know, the one you do with Natalya and you get ambushed from all sides while she works on the computer? Never beat that part. No matter how hard I tried, Natalya got killed. Considering that if you lose there, you have to start the level over which will gobble up another half hour of your life. I gave it up.
These days, when I game, I shy from frustrating tasks. It isn't important to me anymore to get 100% of everything. It isn't even important to me that I beat most games, because they can only hold my interest for maybe 2 weeks before I get burnt out and never play again.
That's why I like Half-Life 2. The game isn't frustrating in the least. It isn't that hard to beat it on the hardest difficulty. There is nothing to unlock. It's all about the experience and taking down some Combine.
Yeah, I'm alternating between Breath of Fire (the SNES version which I'm emulating on my PS2 so that I have the whole series on one console), GTA San Andreas and Half-Life at the moment. Whn I get fed up of one (BoF's random battles, GTA's constant killing of me and HL's repetition) I just switch to another one.
I do, on the other hand, have to get everything in an RPG, much to my iritation. The logic goes: 'I could just have fun, but I'll only have 3 of 50 collectamables, and that's gonna bug me...' It's not so much in other types of games (except GTA... and there's so many things to achieve in San Andreas! Unique Stunts, Horseshoes, Photo Spots, augh!), but RPGs get me every time. The sad thing is, I keep doing it. Every single time. I can't stop. Someone help me..!
I used to be very big on "collectamables" with RPGs myself. With every Final Fantasy game, I had to max out and find everything. Then I learned that doing such means I can wipe out the final boss like he's nothing, and I get to fight a really powerful Weapon-ish monster, for a reward that is either crap, or something that I really don't need anymore because all the other enemies, even the final boss, like I said, is already a pushover.
I just want to see the ending.