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Have You Hit a Gaming Wall?
Stephen Totilo, at MTV Games, has hit a gaming wall. At the newly un-flashed Multiplayer site he talks about the bane of gamers everywhere, what developer Jamie Fristrom calls a 'shelf-level event': a gaming wall that makes it hard if not impossible to complete a game. While a lot of gamers can overcome difficulties to reach the end credits, there are some frustrations that can suck all the fun out of play. He cites the bosses from Final Fantasy X and Super Paper Mario as dealbreakers. I personally am playing through God of War again, and the incredibly frustrating spear trap in the 'Paths of Madness' section of the game never fails to provoke hysterics. Have you run into any such obstacles lately? What game obstacles have caused you toss away a controller in frustration and swear off a game entirely?
the cheats in games. They have made gamers weak.
You mad
I have been trying to overthrow the leader of an enemy corporation,
so I've been camped outside his house with a can of mace and a box
of Chips-Ahoy for 3 days now, but I think he went skiing.
God this game is frustrating.
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Heh, I'm (in reality) very similar when faced with a losing situation online. I like to make a defeat as fun as possible, I was into Counter-Strike for a while and I've been in some pretty 1-sided situations. I remember once where I was on the terrorist team in the office level. We were completly random strangers and the CT team was a tourney clan. Whooping us bad, to say the least. So I made it fun next round, I stabbed the hostages just enough to keep them alive, tagged the wall with a spray, and stood there in between the hostages. They always came to the hostages last, and there I was. They had one guy left, we had one guy left. They're guy the shot gun, I didn't have the money to pay for armor. He came up, saw me standing there and ducked back. Then ran at me, and killed me like I was afk. I hit the ground and so did the grenade I had been holding the entire round. BLAM! There went the hostages and there went the knifing CT! The whole server had a good laugh and called it a draw!
Demented But Determined.
I feel his pain. I've hit the wall on Nethack; I been playing for a week and I haven't beat it yet.
Years. And years... and... years...
I've known geeks who have played NH for longer than me, and never beat it.
Seriously. I'm at the wall in "Twilight Princess", I got sick of the "save the caravan" one, previous to that was the first time (early on) where you had to follow the Orc guy, and beat off his armor, on horse back... I through my Nunchuck, and stopped playing for a week. Now I'm on another week without playing, its not hard, its just tedious. Everytime I get ready for some hot Zelda lovin', I put in Warioware or Wii Sports instead. Not that I'm complaining, I enjoy the challenge of the impossible. If it is anything like Diablo 2, some night I'll get smashed, pull an all-nighter, wake up and realize I beat the game.
Oddly, I did this in WoW all the time, beating critical quests and raids at 3am while hammered on Jim Beam. I think my guild must have thought I was permanently sauced.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
... he's just too fast.
Yup, I totally agree. Talk to any hardcore gamer during the NES era, and just mentioning "Battletoads" is likely to incite anger and rage. Total pain in the ass.
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Funny thing is that I was finally able to get past the stupid racing level by memorizing all the jumps exactly. However, I always gave up after the next level (which involved a bunch of snakes and more jumping), because after dying, I didn't want to go back through the blasted game again. Talk about being burned out
-- jchenx
I got sick of the "save the caravan" one, previous to that was the first time (early on) where you had to follow the Orc guy, and beat off his armor
Are you playing the hentai version? I played through the entire thing and never had to beat anyone off.
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in that game, I was always hitting the wall!
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