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Have You Hit a Gaming Wall?

Posted by Zonk on from the that-was-the-brick-against-my-face dept.

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?

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  1. So.... maybe we need to get rid of the by Broken+scope · · Score: 3, Funny

    the cheats in games. They have made gamers weak.

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    You mad
  2. The Same thing Happened to me in EVE Online by popo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    ------ The best brain training is now totally free : )
  3. Re:I don't quit. by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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    Demented But Determined.
  4. That last guy on Space Invaders by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... he's just too fast.