Do you ever just surrender to a hard game?

What I mean is this: You've tried and tried and tried to complete that one thing, be it an optional dungeon, boss, puzzle. That one last really hard thing to get every mode, character, or option, only to fail every time and time again. You've realized that it might be beyond your skill, and with a noble heart, admit defeat.

Do you respectfuly decline, or do you continue no matter how much you realize you may never get it?

You've just described my reltions with AOF2, but I will never stop!

Yep...
Stupid DW VII.
i finally gave up on it...
And i refuse to use a St guide.
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LoL,i surrendered to colony wars:veangence.Too hard and frustrating.
Virtua tennis 2k2's hardest difficulty setting can make you go crazy.

yeah, i guess i've done that before... mainly because I grow board if that happens. I can't really think of any games I've done it with though... it usually happens to me when you have to go back in a game and collect stuff you missed aka Rayman 2

GOLDEN EYE 007-N64
Never been able to finish it <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

You know what there are many games i have completed on the hardest level such as shodown 2 aof 2 beating geese too,all the kof's and fatal fury 2 but when i played world heroes 2, i could not beat neo dio for shit, that was 7 years ago, i recently purchased the game again and still couldnt so i gave up <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">
its funny as he is a piece of piss to beat in perfect ,I also gave up on aof 3 as i hated controls and lost 8 times in a row to the bos, so i just sold it <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">not worth keeping a game i wont play.

Shadowman - fuck that's hard. it's nice, but it'll drive you crazy one day. bought it 2 years ago and STILL unable to complete it. oh well.

Originally posted by kacak2020:
<STRONG>Shadowman - fuck that's hard. it's nice, but it'll drive you crazy one day. bought it 2 years ago and STILL unable to complete it. oh well.
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One of my most painful yields was to Chakan the Forever Man on the Genesis. There was one part close to the end I just couldn't get past. I didn't want to give up cause that was a cool game. But that one part that I can't even remember was just killing me.

Jeff

Bomberman 64...
The Rainbow Palace just pissed me off too much. The gold cards were a challenge, and the armor piece things were tough to get at times, but the Rainbow Palace, let alone the last bunch of gold cards....argh..

Originally posted by SoloFenris:
<STRONG>One of my most painful yields was to Chakan the Forever Man on the Genesis. There was one part close to the end I just couldn't get past. I didn't want to give up cause that was a cool game. But that one part that I can't even remember was just killing me.

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I remember that game very well, he was a dark character and most of the back grounds were purple <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">i miss the genesis <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

winning over gouki on SF ex plus alpha on hard level is a nightmare to.

i forgot to put - shinobi for the genesis. bloody labyrinth!! ( stage 8 )

Neo Geo games: finish every games at least once before shelving them, except for puzzle games, and JPN reading games. I do not like those JPN reading games, and the Magjhong games.

AOF 2... the biggest pain in the ASS!

The beatmania like section of Incredibile Crisis! I can't get past it.

Last Blade 2 on level 8. Only played it twice at level 8. Never again. I'd sooner beat Gill in 3rd Strike on level 8 before I get past the first opponent on LB 2 at level 8 (Especially if it's Kaede.)

Originally posted by Daisuke Jigen:
<STRONG>The beatmania like section of Incredibile Crisis! I can't get past it.</STRONG>

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That game, although pretty annoying is probably the funniest game I've ever played. I just hate that button-massing in the elevator. Oww.. thumb cramp.

Yes, many many times.. I must be a lightweight.

Elevator level of Incredible Crisis
Phantasy Star II
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Any Castlevania game except II
KoF 94 (F*** you, Rugal!)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Guilty Gear X

ninja turtles for the nes...the first one.....errr...that game was hard..though that could jsut be because I was younger back then....but nothenless i remember some pretty ridicluosly hard parts in that game..........hmmm......i suppose other than that i can't think of a game that was hard, only a few select things in certain games....i suppose the most recent was beaten the one shadown in sonic adventure 2....the dragon one...with all those bubbles.....arrhh.....i just didn't know how to hit him for awhile...that was frustarting.

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i have had my troubles with games but i never surrender. Lords of Thunder on PSE SCD whooped my ass hardcore. I always do better on games after i set them down. Like with Tennis 2k2 after playing for hours i seem to start to suck. I had to just let it sit and come back to beat the lvl 4's. Probably the game that gave me the most trouble was a hell hole called Bayou Billy for the NES. Maybe it was cuz i was like 10 but that game owned me. Went back to it 2 years later and stomped it first try. I think the frustration factor really hinders my skill.
I remember turtles on the NES, that was one of my holy grails as a child. I ran around for hours after beating that.
Nother one that got me was MDK2 for DC, just because it was time consuming and smart.

DAMN THOSE SMART GAMES.

I don't know if I've ever just given up a game cause it was too hard, but rather apathy. I remember the first TMNT game on NES, which was.. sheesh.. 11 years ago? Something like that. I got very close to the end, I was at that base (sorry, I can't remember ANYTHING about the game. Not even that big guy's name with the brain in his stomach) that you always saw underground on the cartoon. I didn't feel like starting all the way over, so I just quit the game and never played again. Not because it was too hard, but because I didn't want to go through the whole damn thing again.

But I HAVE stayed up for more than 3 hours straight fighting Geese on Fatal Fury 3 on the hardest level until I got past him.. Then blew through Yamazaki and Jin..

[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: SonGohan ]

Ah yes! I remember TMNT for the NES. That (along with TMNT 2: Arcade) I had just about given up on (that was about over 10 years ago). Solomon's Castle, The Legend of Zelda II, The Last Werewolf (or something along those lines), and Captain America and The Avengers were a few other NES toughies I gave up on. Final Fantasy I (also for the NES) was another one I never finished; since my party was composed entirely of Warriors, I could never get past the third-to-last boss (I think his name was War Mech).

Some Super NES games I gave up on were UN Squadron (never could get past the later levels), Cybernator, Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (kept on running around in circles, not going anywhere), and Final Fight (if only they had two-player mode and the ability to fight as Guy, then things would've been different).

Vindication will soon be mine, however, thanks to the fact that my friend (and long-time next-door neighbor) Shawn managed to hold on to many of these games and systems (and since there's Internet access in this day and age, I can make use of the many FAQs available). Soon, I'll be able to take back those many hours of my childhood lost to those ultra-frustrating games. Vengeance will be MINE! <IMG SRC="smilies/veryangry.gif" border="0">

By the way, vgmuseum.com has pics of endings for various games (just in case you ever wondered what the endings for those too-tough games looked like).

Also, Verbatum, didja ever get that birthday poster I e-mailed ya?

[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: insaneben ]

geez, i just thought about tmnt for the first time in years..
yeah that game was incredibly hard
i paid full price for that game..never beat it

Peter