CONFESSIONAL: What's that (beatable) game that you've just never been able to beat?!

[quote name='KingBroly']Metroid Prime

I just don't have the courage to go through that next to final room of Metroids. I'm that close and yet am scared of electronic beings. You know what? I'm going to go beat it right now.[/QUOTE]

This is mine too. The damn boss is too tough, and it takes too damn long. If you could just pick up the fight at the boss, I'd have beaten it by now. As it is, I just never had the patience to ever try it more than once in a sitting, which hasn't been good enough.

The old-school game for me that falls into this category is Iron Sword. I got all the way to the part with the little floating elemental heads, but I have no more lives/continues left on my password. It blows to get that far and have to start over. I never had the resolve to do it.

Phantasy Star II used to be on this list for me , but I was going to be damned to spend the time to get all the way to the end and not finished. I eventually beat THAT mother brain (and dark force).
 
I don't think I ever beat any nes games except contra and rampage. I guess I just liked playing the game.
It wasn't until the snes I started focusing on beating a game.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Metroid Prime

I just don't have the courage to go through that next to final room of Metroids. I'm that close and yet am scared of electronic beings. You know what? I'm going to go beat it right now.[/QUOTE]

That's another big one I still haven't beaten. I'm right at the end but I just can't quite beat that last boss.

There's also a good sized list of RPGs that I'm very close to the end on, but for whatever reason just haven't brought myself to finish. Some notable games on that list include: Xenogears, Xenosaga, Breath of Fire V, Dragon Quest VIII, FFVIII, FFXII, Lunar 2, and Lufia 2. Most of them I could probably go back and easily finish, but I won't remember what the hell is going on and end up starting over, getting to around the same point and start the whole cycle over again...
 
[quote name='optimusprime']The old-school game for me that falls into this category is Iron Sword. I got all the way to the part with the little floating elemental heads, but I have no more lives/continues left on my password. It blows to get that far and have to start over. I never had the resolve to do it.
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Now that you mention it, I don't think I ever beat Ironsword, either, though I know I got past all 4 elementals to that last mountain stage, or whatever it was. :(

I've also never beat Wizards and Warriors, but I think I could if I tried. I just never really tried, because I didn't own it until recently. My wife beats it easily though.
 
[quote name='coltyhuxx']Beating it a second time around I can't imagine. I did beat Loki the first time but when that bitch was like "find the real bracelet/charm/whatever" I decided I was going to be single.

For some reason, in the NES version, around level 3 or four (the underground caves) when you fight the dragons on the bridge is just so freaking hard for me. Then the game gets easier for a bit and then it's just ruthless.

Nothing like falling on a torch when you have daggers late in the game.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I beat Super Ghouls N Ghosts, including playing through a second time and beating the end guy with the bracelet (which was a total bitch). It's the NES version that I find impossible. (You don't have to play through the NES version twice do you?)
 
A lot of the ones mentioned I could never beat. Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Blaster Master are ridiculous.
 
[quote name='Jeoff']A lot of the ones mentioned I could never beat. Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Blaster Master are ridiculous.[/quote]

I've never met anyone who could beat Zombies Ate My Neighbors, after the giant baby and the leatherface monsters you run out of continues
 
[quote name='coltyhuxx']
Here's another one I've NEVER been able to beat. BLASTER MASTER.

I remember telling my mom that I "hated her" when she unplugged my NES from (unofficial) standby mode when I was at school. No saves, no passwords=brutal wear on the TV and the NES.[/quote]

Ooooh yeah, I did that, too! I got up to the second form of the final boss in the game, and he just kicked my ass. I ran out of continues and I lost the will to play that game. Hard as hell, no saves, and it took me 2 days with an overnighter for the NES to finish.

Other games I just haven't completed: Final Fantasy X-2 (lost interest), LoZ: Majora's Mask (lost interest), Viewtiful Joe (lazy), Advance Wars 2 (too much commitment)...and that's about all I can name right now.

I hate to leave games hanging - I forced myself to complete the horrible Wizardry V - Heart of Maelstrom for SNES even though my top team was annihilated in a fire trap in Hell and burnt to ashes (unrevivable) and I had to start over. The game has no conclusion and my motivation to see it conclude made me essentially start over. You would save manually, but the damn game had a feature that would save the game in the event you reset or turned the power off. So if I made a bad move and my whole team died, and I turned the system off, there's a 50% chance I'll turn it back on and have my team dead in the Maze somewhere.
 
[quote name='Jeoff']A lot of the ones mentioned I could never beat. Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Blaster Master are ridiculous.[/quote]

I also never beat Tyson in Punch Out. Another game that I could not beat that comes to mind is Metal Gear Solid. I could get to Metal Gear Rex and get halfway through the battle, but for some reason I could never beat that bastard.

It took me until The Twin Snakes came out for the GC to go through the game again and finally beat it. I think the difficulty on TTS was easier though because I beat Metal Gear on my first try.

For those of you that couldn't beat Blaster Master...my mom beat that game, and I am not kidding you. She was obsessed with it for a long time and would play the hell out of it. We played with an NES Advantage joystick so maybe she was using turbo or something to help her out.
 
[quote name='lebowsky']For those of you that couldn't beat Blaster Master...my mom beat that game, and I am not kidding you. She was obsessed with it for a long time and would play the hell out of it. We played with an NES Advantage joystick so maybe she was using turbo or something to help her out.[/quote]

Man, that makes me feel even worse.

You can add me to the list of "couldn't beat SMB" and "couldn't beat Blaster Master" people. Hell, I probably haven't beaten half of my old NES games ... but I've still got the NES, so I'm going to get through them one of these days.

Also, FFVII. Got probably halfway through, put it down for a while, and could never get back into it. I think I just need to motor through it one of these days.
 
God Of War. I was doing just fine until it gets to the part where you have to swim to the left and duck into the pits to avoid the oncoming spikes. I cannot do it. I tried over and over, but something about that sequence has my number. I haven't tried it in about a year now, maybe I'll go back and give it a go.
 
Dear Lord, some of these confessions scare me! Perhaps sometime I'll find my nemesis game and be able to sympathize.
 
vagrant story. whatever i did with my gear/weapons, i cant beat the last boss. played him for over an hour once and didnt defeat him. and i dont want to play all the way through it again. though i should.
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']I've never met anyone who could beat Zombies Ate My Neighbors, after the giant baby and the leatherface monsters you run out of continues[/QUOTE]

Exactly. I thought this topic was more about games that most people beat that you personally couldn't/didn't.


Anyway, regarding ZAMN, this is pretty much the only game I think of that I not only wanted to use a Game Genie with, but actually was more fun with a Game Genie (I'd say most cheat devices make a game so easy it's not fun, etc).

There is a specific code that allows you to collect extra of each item that you run over (e.g. more than 10 pieces of silverware when you stand on the silverware item). That's all that was needed. No invincibility, no level skip, no easy enemies, no extra lives. Just more ammo and the game is suddenly both incredibly fun and beatable, all 70 (or however many) levels.
 
Final Fantasy VII, which is possibly my favorite game of all time, but I've never beaten it. I've poured literally 70+ hours into it, and I just can't get through the last part. I've gotten all the way up to Safer Sepiroth, just can't fucking beat it. Damn you FFVII! YOU ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']Final Fantasy VII, which is possibly my favorite game of all time, but I've never beaten it. I've poured literally 70+ hours into it, and I just can't get through the last part. I've gotten all the way up to Safer Sepiroth, just can't fucking beat it. Damn you FFVII! YOU ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE![/quote]

FFVII is my wifes 'cant' beat it' game. She's at Sephiroth, she just cant beat him. I think she missed out on a bunch of shit thoughout the game that probably would have made the end alot easier, but she refuses to start over, so she just gave up. I dont think she had a strat guide when she first started playing, that would have helped.
 
[quote name='Buster Rod G']That's another big one I still haven't beaten. I'm right at the end but I just can't quite beat that last boss.

There's also a good sized list of RPGs that I'm very close to the end on, but for whatever reason just haven't brought myself to finish. Some notable games on that list include: Xenogears, Xenosaga, Breath of Fire V, Dragon Quest VIII, FFVIII, FFXII, Lunar 2, and Lufia 2. Most of them I could probably go back and easily finish, but I won't remember what the hell is going on and end up starting over, getting to around the same point and start the whole cycle over again...[/quote]
I also have several RPG's that I didn't finish. Trouble with those game is if you stop playing you forget where you're at and it's almost impossible to get back into it. I never finished FF X-2. I got close to the end but stopped to play that dungeon with 100 floors or whatever it was. I kept getting killed by one of the bosses on the later levels then gave up. I've also never finished Breath of Fire III, FF VIII, The first Lunar game, and Ogre Battle. I also never finished Parasite Eve for the PS1.


EDIT: You can also add Dragon Warrior II & III for the NES to the list. I almost quit on Dragon Quest VIII but I knew if I stopped I would never finish it.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']Dear Lord, some of these confessions scare me! Perhaps sometime I'll find my nemesis game and be able to sympathize.[/quote]

Of course we had to have the the one asshat thread crasher that claims to be "above" everyone else because he can beat everything.
 
[quote name='Chitown021']Of course we had to have the the one asshat thread crasher that claims to be "above" everyone else because he can beat everything.[/QUOTE]
Yep. I sure crashed this thread. :roll:

Moron.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']Yep. I sure crashed this thread. :roll:

Moron.[/quote]
I'm not the moron that can't read thread titles. The title of this thread isn't "Boost your self esteem by gloating about being able to beat every game in existence".

It's just like around Christmas when CAGers would create thread for Wii availability in the hopes of finding one. You'd get those one or two ass clowns that would jump in there with remarks like "You're still trying to get one? I got one on launch day!" "You're just plain lazy if you haven't gotten one by now!"
 
[quote name='Chitown021']I'm not the moron that can't read thread titles. The title of this thread isn't "Boost your self esteem by gloating about being able to beat every game in existence".

It's just like around Christmas when CAGers would create thread for Wii availability in the hopes of finding one. You'd get those one or two ass clowns that would jump in there with remarks like "You're still trying to get one? I got one on launch day!" "You're just plain lazy if you haven't gotten one by now!"[/QUOTE]
Dear God, I post one comment pertaining to the discussion at hand, and then you attempt to derail the thread by calling me an asshat and changing to discussion to the difficult time you had getting a Wii.

Why the fuck do you have to take this thread so fucking seriously? Jesus Christ, what's up your ass?

I'm done with this discussion.
 
Police Quest 3 for the PC (trying not to use any walkthroughs), still have not beaten it till this day. I think the furthest I gotten was up to the wife being mugged.

Timesplitters 1 for PS2. I'm playing on the hardest mode. I'm on level 4 now for the past months.

Any of the Final Fantasy series ( I think I'm impatient during cutscenes/animations/etc.) I think I'll just end up watching movies of people playing the game instead. FF7, I got as far as saving Aerith the first time. FF8, I stepped outside of town. FF9, I watched the intro. FFX, I got to the first sighting of SIN. FFX2, watched the intro. Actually, I think I'll go and play FF7.
 
[quote name='pcktlnt'] FFX2, watched the intro.[/QUOTE]




hahahahahaha, that's about as far as I got too.
 
I also have never beaten SMB. The 8th world just has me too frustrated to continue.

FFTactics is one that I also have never bbeaten, but for more reasonable reasons. I spent 2 years grinding in that game so I could get a certain "SOLDIER" to a respectable level (made him a secondary time mage so he could teleport and use quick charge for his limits), and then one fateful day, my memory cards get stolen.

;-;

I swore profusely, and I came close to tears, even. I mean, why my memory cards? Why not the games? They were closer to the exit to my room than the memory cards were!!
 
Nah, I think it was wrong to jump on Pyro this time, even though he is a moron, he didn't say anything wrong.

Too bad about Lunar for me though, I was really getting into it.
 
Wow, I am surprised by so many listing SMB. It's just not what I would have expected from most. Honestly, most games I start with the intention of beating, I do eventually beat. I say with the intention, because there are certainly game I start and play for a while and lose interest or don't even like. I couldn't care less about finishing those. I remember the original Ninja Gaiden taking me forever to beat. I am still proud of that victory. I never beat Ninja Gaiden 2 or Zelda 2, though. I think mostly because I never owned them.
 
I the only games I flat out couldn't beat, not because of losing interest (Metroid Prime, FF8) are the Resident Evil games, with the exception of 4. Those games are fucking impossible, I get anxious every time I use a bullet or health item because I fear I'll never be able to beat the game because I should have saved it for later.

I have friends that feel the same way. The whole game is nerve racking because you fear running out of items. Just thinking about it makes me anxious.


Edit: I should not that I own all the Resident Evil games on various systems to overcome my fears... It hasn't happened yet.
 
I completed Ninja Gaiden 1-3 on the NES back in the day but for the life of me, cannot get even close to finishing Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox. Its just not happening. The dude riding th ehorse in one of the first levels is the death of me *every single time*.

Then there's the spider boss thingie in Devil May Cry 1...
Fire Emblem 1 on the GBA, the next to last map. I have tried and TRIED but cannot progress beyond that point. Which is strange, because the game came easy for me up until that brutal spot.

Prince of Persia XBox - I have played up until this one point twice then get frustrated and stop. Anytime I go back to it I cant figure out what I was doing before and just give up, yet am too stubborn to start over yet again.

Despite being one of my fav games of all time - Final Fantasy III (SNES) - I have never finished it. Never. I have played through til the end where you have to split your party into pieces to fight off the last of the bosses but cannot advance because of low level characters and find level grinding to be tedious and horrible. But three times I have made ito there and loved the story up until that point.

There was an NES game called Legacy of the Wizard where you switched between different characters. I remember "visiting" the dragon boss alot (you could see him but couldnt reach him) but never finishing the game. Despite renting it many times and enjoying playing it, nothing ever compelled me to figure out how to defeat it.

Blaster Master - could never leave my NES on long enough to get through it.

But I have proudly beat other games that have been the bane of existance for others on this forum it seems like Zelda 2, the Mario games, Wizards and Warriors, etc. So I dont feel too bad.

For some reason alot of games seem HARDER these days. Have I just lost my twitchy reflexes or are they as jacked up in difficulty as they seem? I loved the shooters RType, Gradius V, Panzer Dragoon Orta and Ikaruga but can't complete them whereas back in the day I took down Thunder Force 3, Gaiares, Arrow Flash, Axelay, etc with ease.
 
Sonic 2. Always get stuck on the second chemical plant variation. I've been playing it on and off since I was like 4 ( was one of my first games).
 
[quote name='Punk_Raven']Sonic 2. Always get stuck on the second chemical plant variation. I've been playing it on and off since I was like 4 ( was one of my first games).[/quote]

I've never been able to beat Sonic 2 either. Hell, getting past Metal Sonic was an accomplishment for me.
 
Wow, not to sound like a biotch or anything, but I can't imagine not being able to beat Sonic 2. I used to play through it several times a day (I was like ahhh 10-11) something like that, big difference than being 4 I know... Sonic 1 was soooo much harder.
Never beat the first SMB though so I will join the others in the hall of shame on that one.

And yes, the second chemical plant thing SUCKED but had some rockin music. I loved the music on that stage (and most of the game really). Sonic 2 just had great music, very underrated where the soundtrack is concerned there.
 
I've also never beat Super Mario Bros. I've never beat any of the Castlevanias or Metroids. I've never finished a Resident Evil either and I gave up on God of War. I do tend to finish most of my RPGs though.
 
I never really beat a lot of classic NES games when I was younger. I was way into Ninja Turtles, and had all their games, and those are what I concentrated on.

Sonic 1, I have beat, thanks to the handy-dandy level select code. The rest of the Genesis Sonic games became my bitches.
 
That come to mind right now:

Mario 2
Mario World
Dragon Warrior
Zelda
Zelda II
Zelda: Link to the Past
Punch Out
Megaman 2
Elite Beat Agents(that last song sucks)

I'm sure there's tons more. I think back on it, and I'm pretty sure when I was young I'd play games a bit but I would leave my brothers to actually beat it and I'd just watch. It was easier and more fun for me that way I guess.
 
Many NES games. I remember having lots of trouble with Wizards & Warriors, uhm Rush N Attack.

The Zeldas have always giving me trouble. I remember drawing out maps on graph paper for these. I really enjoyed playing them on the NES and liked playing Zelda LOTP on my GBA but could never quite muster up the intelligence or time to finish it.

With the PS2 the GTA's have been ginve me trouble. my gta:vc disc just crapped out and I didnt care enough to get a new one, and I've been playing San Andreas for well over a year now and am probably only 75% (story) done. I imagine it owuld take me a life time to actually get to 100% completion in this game.
 
I think one type of games I'll never be able to beat is fighting games. I dont know why I keep picking up the Street Fighters, Mortal Kombat's, Def Jam, DBZ Budokai, etc. i'll be able to beat a few characters but there's always one that stops me every time. I can never either remember all the crazy combos or just have the manual dexterity to move the controller one way while pushing three buttons at the same time.
This should also be a seperate thread. "what games do you keep getting even though you know you're no good at them?"
 
I never beat the original TMNT for the NES if I remember right. Also never beat Deadly Towers but that game was so crappy I never really wanted to.
 
Yeah. It's pathetic isn't it? I always miss the jump and fall into the chemicals. And yes, the music from sonic is awesome.
 
[quote name='eldergamer']I think one type of games I'll never be able to beat is fighting games. I dont know why I keep picking up the Street Fighters, Mortal Kombat's, Def Jam, DBZ Budokai, etc. i'll be able to beat a few characters but there's always one that stops me every time. I can never either remember all the crazy combos or just have the manual dexterity to move the controller one way while pushing three buttons at the same time.
This should also be a seperate thread. "what games do you keep getting even though you know you're no good at them?"[/quote]

I'm the same way. I love playing fighting games but I'm not very good at them. That doesn't stop me from collecting them though. Fighting games that kick my ass are of course Street Fighter II and Dead or Alive 4. Everyone knows Street Fighters AI is incredibly difficult. I do fine with DOA but then get demolished by that friggin Alpha boss at the end. I didn't have that much trouble with Dural in Virtua Fighter.
 
[quote name='Chitown021']I never beat the original TMNT for the NES if I remember right. [/QUOTE]

That game is pretty much impossible - right up there with Ghosts N Goblins and Battletoads. Too many cheap deaths and impossible jumps in TMNT.


I remember I used to play Rush N Attack all the time when I was kid, but, looking back, I guess I sucked. Whenever I would make it to level 4 (rarely), I was so proud. Never even got to level 5 (out of 6).
 
Only game that come to mind are the Mega Man games NES/SNES. Never played the ones for PS2/Xbox ect. I have beat some of them mostly the Mega Man X's games, but most of the time I get to the end can't beat it and quit.
 
I thought I knew Sonic 2 very well, but what are you guys talking about with the "second Chemical Plant Variation"? Act 2 of Chemical plant (thus, the 4th level), the Oil Ocean Zone...?
 
[quote name='daroga']I thought I knew Sonic 2 very well, but what are you guys talking about with the "second Chemical Plant Variation"? Act 2 of Chemical plant (thus, the 4th level), the Oil Ocean Zone...?[/QUOTE]

I think that is the level they are talking about. I remember that level being tough but ironically thanks to tails I beat it. :applause:
 
I remember being frustrated with CHemical Plant, but I always made sure to get Super Sonic by that time. Even though I could never activate it, because something annoying would always hit me. Hence the frustration.
 
I remember beating Sonic 2, but I only had 2 Genesis games(other was the great Gunstar Heroes) for like 4 months so I played it all the time when I was younger.

Never did beat Sonic 3 though, just never got around to playing it much.

Another game I never beat after hearing about you guys mentioning Sonic 2 is Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast. I got really far in it, but I was trying to unlock Super Sonic for after I beat it. I got fed up playing as that damn Big the Cat, so I just quit playing the game all together.
 
Def Jam: Fight for NY, the 2 on 2 fight at the end of the game. First time i ever had to hand the controller to someone else to finish the game for me.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']I remember being frustrated with CHemical Plant, but I always made sure to get Super Sonic by that time. Even though I could never activate it, because something annoying would always hit me. Hence the frustration.[/quote]Chemical Plant was the second world in the game. ;)
 
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