Current Events > Do you ever get stuck on video games nowadays?

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Not stuck as in confused about what to do. Not talking about optional bosses. I'm not talking about struggling to get the grade you want on the highest difficulty either.
I'm talking struggling to even see the story through because of the difficulty. Does that still happen?

Between games being easier and the internet showering people with strategies and exploits, I feel like it's become rare to encounter a challenge you can't circumvent in a lot of games.

Yeah, doesn't happen at all anymore. If I don't finish a game it's usually because I got bored of it or play something else.

Last game I droped because it was getting to hard for me must be Ecco the dolphin for the PS2. If I remember correctly I was simply too slow for one of these timed door openers at the end.

Not really. I also didn't suck as a kid so it didn't happen there either.

Karovorak posted...

Last game I droped because it was getting to hard for me must be Ecco the dolphin for the PS2. If I remember correctly I was simply too slow for one of these timed door openers at the end.

Were you playing it recently or did this actually happen back in the PS2 days? My go-to example from back then is Jak 2.

ellis123 posted...

Not really. I also didn't suck as a kid so it didn't happen there either.

I was gonna say you missed out, but that not really's kinda vague. Wonder what that means.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

I was gonna say you missed out, but that not really's kinda vague. Wonder what that means.

It's a fancy way of saying "No, I don't get stuck." At least I don't for any real length of time.

First boss in Returnal whooping my ass both on PS5 and PC

MacadamianNut3 posted...

First boss in Returnal whooping my ass both on PS5 and PC

I just gave up on Returnal last week. It was taking like an hour to get to about as far as I had in the last run and it just felt like the game had no respect for my time.

MacadamianNut3 posted...

First boss in Returnal whooping my ass both on PS5 and PC

I looked it up.
I could see this catching people off guard. It's like Shmup patterns in a TPS.
But it's pattern learning so a video can teach you. And some people in the comments look happy to learn about that health refill ability.

I'm currently stuck on the Dracula fight in Castlevania: Dracula X. One of the most obscenely difficult fights in a series full of obscenely difficult fights.

No. Games are way easier nowadays and also feature less annoying bullshit

once and a while but it's always due to bad quest design

I gave up on Metroid Prime because I just couldn't beat the final boss. This was after almost pulling my hair out fighting Ridley earlier.

inb4gitgud

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Were you playing it recently or did this actually happen back in the PS2 days? My go-to example from back then is Jak 2.

It happend back in the day, during PS2 era.

Usually I play may game on hard, so in the worst case I just reduce the difficulty and am done with it.

Oh, now I remember that I wasn't able to finish my Fire Emblem 3H maddening new game classic run for the Azure Moon route. The last mission destroyed me hard.

I haven't tried in awhile, but when I was playing (probably 3 years ago), I don't know if I have the physical dexterity/response time to finish Ori and the Blind Forest. That (what I think is the) last level is grueling.

If/when you go back and play games from 10-15 years ago, you quickly realize just how much hand-holding happens in current games. I'm playing through the first Mass Effect and it does a terrible job of letting you know what you're supposed to do, how to navigate menus, etc. The mini-map is completely useless

Ryven posted...

I gave up on Metroid Prime because I just couldn't beat the final boss. This was after almost pulling my hair out fighting Ridley earlier.

Oh that's sort of nostalgic. I remember having that kind of difficult time with Prime 2. Boost Guardian and Spider Guardian mainly. I heard they got nerfed in the Wii re-releases.

Ryven posted...

inb4gitgud

Kind of funny you mention that. Dark Souls is the game people famously say that for, yet it's also the one where you can brute force through it by just going somewhere else and levelling. I don't think you can really back yourself into a corner in those games.
Maybe if you got to Anor Londo and somehow managed to have all your weapons and armor break you'd be in trouble.

I gave up on Cuphead and Metroid Dread due to the difficulties of their penultimate and final bosses, respectively.

Think I tried playing Catherine last year and it totally kicked my ass with those puzzles, I couldn't get very far.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

I'm currently stuck on the Dracula fight in Castlevania: Dracula X. One of the most obscenely difficult fights in a series full of obscenely difficult fights.

Scratch this statement, I just beat the SOB.

When a game stops being fun, I stop playing it. That's how it is.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

Scratch this statement, I just beat the SOB.

I watched a video of a guy beating him pretty easily with good positioning and throwing axes, but the way you hyped him up it sounded like you were invested in the challenge so I stayed quiet.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

I watched a video of a guy beating him pretty easily with good positioning and throwing axes, but the way you hyped him up it sounded like you were invested in the challenge so I stayed quiet.

It seemed nigh impossible, but once I figured out the right positioning with the cross I beat him without getting hit.

for me, it was almost Sekiro. The shinobi hunter enemy with the spear almost filtered me and I legit thought I was not going to beat that game ever, but then the game just clicked with me when I realized you shouldnt play it like a souls game.

Unless it's bug related, no never.

It's more because of confusion, but I started Anmesia the Bunker on hard and probably have to start new on normal, because it's really heavy on using your resources wisely. A bit annoying if the optimal play is to just always carry a brick with you because other stuff you can throw does not damage locks or doors.