gunsmoke on 16/4/2013 at 09:11
Thief 2. Soulforge. Eff that mission, I have never finished it to this day and don't care to.
Shadow of the Colossus and Ico collection. I had both of these games on PS2 (and now the gorgeous HD reissue on PS3) and quit both ~ midway through due to a difficulty spike or unsolveable puzz;e.
I never finished the first 3 DooM games, but I did power through DooM 3's Expansion "Resurrection of Evil". Loved that fucking game.
System Shock 1. I was horribly puzzle-stuck. Loved the game, but I had the game's dfficulty maxed my first time playing and it was too much. Got close to the end, however.
Warriors on Xbox/PS2. Dunno the specifics, just that it was unfairly hard.
Majora's Mask just blew my mind in both a good and bad way. I loved the bizarre as fuck atmosphere and dialogue but the entire concept refused to allow me to comprehend what the fuck was going on or what I was even supposed to be doing. I just wandered around in a haze until the moon's finale did me in time after time (no pun intended :))
Contra on Nes. Christ. I only know 1 person who beat that sucker without the Konami code.
faetal on 16/4/2013 at 09:53
I feel vindicated by other people saying they gave up at those flying missions. Could be a vsync issue - who knows.
Face it though Henke, you're just good at flying in GTA:SA :)
Ulukai on 16/4/2013 at 10:00
Quote Posted by Al_B
As a more modern example Super Meat Boy defeated me with the last levels. Loved the game to bits but eventually it became more frustrating than it was worth.
The "Dark" levels in particular had the knack of winding me up which was rather counter-productive as I generally like to play games to relax. So I stopped playing.
I nearly, nearly gave up on Vice City on the helicopter mission, but I think my love for the game (and the soundtrack) won through and I completed the mission, and went on the beat the game, after dozens of attempts.
Slasher on 16/4/2013 at 10:30
I had enough fun in GTA:SA just wandering around doing random things and causing mayhem, so not progressing in the plot past that point was no real downer for me. It sounds like what I really needed to do was use a gamepad or configure the game for my joystick.
faetal on 16/4/2013 at 10:43
Prior to those flying missions, the game was possibly in my top 5 games ever. Possibly still is for the reasons you mention, it just sticks in my craw that I didn't get to see past a certain point. I may go back to it one day now that I own a game pad and am not afraid to use it (thanks Dark Souls), but I may just wait and see what GTA:V is like first.
icemann on 16/4/2013 at 10:47
Quote Posted by henke
Playing PC games with a gamepad was a pretty outrageous concept back in 2005.
You do remember that joysticks were the primary way to play some games (ala flight sims) back in the 80s & 90s?
WingedKagouti on 16/4/2013 at 11:36
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Never finished Turrican or Turrican 2 either I don't think.
I never finished either, but one of my friends at the time did finish Turrican with me watching. No cheats either.
Jason Moyer on 16/4/2013 at 12:59
Quote Posted by icemann
You do remember that joysticks were the primary way to play some games (ala flight sims) back in the 80s & 90s?
Every computer I've ever owned (going back to 8-bit Atari and Apple ][) always had some sort of gaming peripheral plugged into it. In the 80's it was an Atari joystick or a trusty Apple-compatible analog stick (with a switch to disable auto-centering!!! Joy!!!!), in the 90's it was mostly a Gravis Gamepad Pro (remember when games used to come bundled with them? I must have had 10 of them) and later a Microsoft Sidewinder Stick for Descent/Freespace/X-Wing/Mig Alley and a Sidewinder Wheel for Indycar 2/Grand Prix Legends/NASCAR Racing. A few years later I had a Logitech Dual Rumblepad or whatever they're called for sports/platforming (and it lasted like 3 months, what a piece of shit). Now I have a Logi G25 gathering dust and, since xinput became the standard (thank god, first durable gamepad in ages), I have a couple wired X360 controllers that I use for everything.
Mouse and keyboard is king for shooters (which is partly why I find Binary Domain's broken mouse input so infuriating) and strategy games. For anything else, though, I've never understood not using a controller of some kind.
henke on 16/4/2013 at 14:20
Quote Posted by icemann
You do remember that joysticks were the primary way to play some games (ala flight sims) back in the 80s & 90s?
My first computer was a Commodore 64 so yes, I remember those days, but I fail to see how that's relevant to the discussion. We're not talking about the 80's and 90's. We're talking about PC gaming in 2005 and a game that required more complex inputs than a joystick could provide. If I had to pull a number out of my ass I'd say that for 90% of PC gamers back then, mouse+keyboard was the only thinkable solution. Hell, till this day there are plenty of PC gamers who see gamepads only as some kind of foreign tool of Satan, created only to dumb down our games and steal our women.
