Games that beat YOU!

[dashv]

Many of us like to talk about the games we've beaten.

But what about the games that beat you?

It could be anything from Nintendo hard and you just gave up, to a game breaking glitch that ended your reign. Heck we'll even count lost, deleted, corrupted saves that screwed your game over so bad you just said "to hell with it!" and never went back.

C'mon vgcollectors. Spill. What's games have beaten you!?

[pacpix]

One game instantly came to mind for me.

Ghostbusters II (NES): Being as it was one of the earliest games I purchased for my NES, I played this a ton and perfected all of the stages up until the Statue of Liberty section.  I usually had enough lives stocked to barely make it through that section and then would instantly die on the last level every single time.  Couple that with the fact that there is no pause button and I eventually gave up on the game after a week or so of constantly playing.  I have not played that game since then and have no desire to.

Wizardry 1 almost beat me when I died at the final boss in one round due to an extremely unlucky random event.  I had spent months creating parties, hand drawing dungeon maps, taking every permadeath loss no matter how unfair, and then it all ended with a cheap shot.  I planned on never playing again, but when I woke up the next day I was so pissed that I leveled a new party all day and beat the game ha. Now I'm a wimp and play with save states (Wiz IV not included).

[dondetti]

I really love Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, but I could never finish it more than once. And in the fine G'nG tradition that means you didn't actually finished it if you did not play through it twice.

When I rebought it recently I could not even get past the third stage. I don't even think I'm that bad as a gamer, I get along with the tougher platformers on the SNES just fine. But this game is crazy hard, even on easy!

[kamikazekeeg]

There were a lot of those old NES games that I could never beat.  I remember Battletoads being nuts, Ghouls N' Ghosts being tough, there was kind of a bunch cause some of those old games were just stupid hard lol

More recently Dragon Balll Xenoverse almost beat me cause it was gonna get to the point I was gonna have to grind for 5 to 10 hours to try and overpower the story mode, but thankfully I realized I could just cheese out the enemies by going Super Saiyan 2 and spamming a powerful area attack blast that allowed me to take out large chunks of health with each blast.  I hate having to beat a game like that, but when they force me to grind on their annoying side missions with annoying AI and annoying combat, I'm gonna take the path of least resistant and rely on the cheapest move I can find lol

[gf78]

Section Z for the NES.  No matter how long or hard I tried, I never could get very far.

Ghosts & Goblins, Ghouls & Ghosts and any other game in that series.  Hellaciously hard stuff.  I remember playing the first NES release and getting killed about 20 times by Firebrand in the first level!   

Demon's Souls.  I got super pissed at this game early on and just quit it altogether.  F this game!

X-Men by LJN on the NES.  Just gotta love how your mutant powers "run out" after two pew-pew shots.  The characters look like melted gumdrops sloshing around and the game was a physical manifestation of hell sent to torture younglings who loved the comics.

[redblaze57]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma series

[turf]

I've got quite a few that just suck and I don't play them.  I do have a shitload of NES games, after all.  That said, there are a few good games that have me beat down.

I still can't beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
I've been playing the game for nearly 30 years.  I love it.  It's one of my favorites, but I've never beat Iron Mike.

[gf78]

I've got quite a few that just suck and I don't play them.  I do have a shitload of NES games, after all.  That said, there are a few good games that have me beat down.

I still can't beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
I've been playing the game for nearly 30 years.  I love it.  It's one of my favorites, but I've never beat Iron Mike.

LOL...tried to play this not long ago and Glass Joe made me his bitch.  I beat it back in the day tho.

[fighterpilot562]

red dead revolver, I tried so hard to beat it, but never did.... Finally mission and everything too.

[abe]

The original Assassin's Creed on the PS3 beat me with boredom. Never finished it and likely never will.

[fighterpilot562]

The original Assassin's Creed on the PS3 beat me with boredom. Never finished it and likely never will.

I gotta agree with this one, the first one was so repetitive. I remember mid game, I stopped playing. The only reason I went back to beat it was cause AC2 was announced and decided to go back and beat it. That was such a grind.

[turom]

Demon's Souls.  I got super pissed at this game early on and just quit it altogether.  F this game!

One of the greatest games ever made !!! Give it a second chance

[aliensstudios]

Mega Man and Bass is one of the most arbitrarily difficult games I've ever played, to the point where I wanted to throw my Game Boy out the window.

[rayne315]

Bubsy 3d remains to this day the only game i have ever returned for my money back. Whats worse about it was it was so un-memorable to me that i cannot remember anything about it without looking up images or videos about it. I think I only played it about 10-20 mins.

[abe]

The original Assassin's Creed on the PS3 beat me with boredom. Never finished it and likely never will.

I gotta agree with this one, the first one was so repetitive. I remember mid game, I stopped playing. The only reason I went back to beat it was cause AC2 was announced and decided to go back and beat it. That was such a grind.

It's a shame it had to be that way, since I was having fun with it for what was probably around the first half of the game. Eventually, it just stopped being fun and I gave up.