[General Discussion] Games You Can Never Beat But Keep Trying Anyway

Some of us occasional gamers are masochists. We get a game, play it endlessly and just can't seem to beat it. It may be a boss, it may be a level, it may be because we suck at gaming. List some games that you have just never finished, despite trying as hard as you can. Keep in mind, this is about unnecessary difficulty - not bugs or game errors.

1.) Double Dragon III - This game is tough as a swallowing a box of nails. I beat the first game and had a co-op win with the sequel, but I don't think I've ever met someone who's beaten Double Dragon III. Everyone I know agrees that its way harder than it needs to be and at my best I could get to Egypt, but never to the final boss.

2.) Contra III The Alien Wars (GBA) - I love love love Contra III. Everything about it is twice as manly as John Wayne, three times as badass as Lee Marvin and rocks harder than Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast. I beat Contra III for SNES *once*, years ago - in middle school and a couple years back watched my friend beat it on its hardest difficulty, which was like watching someone destroying Satan.

But even my friend agrees that the GBA port is too fucking hard to beat. No bombs, the new levels are painfully made and you can't switch weapons. Contra III was hard enough but the handheld port is beyond human capacity.

3.) Final Fantasy IV - An entire generation of RPG players enjoy this game but I think most of them will agree that theres large sections of this game that go from mild to retardedly difficult. Is there any other game that takes a 90 degree turn quicker than the set-up to the Dancing Calbrena boss fight?

4.) Fury3 - The infamous MS buy-out knock-off of an amazing game (Terminal Velocity) was about as good as it was easy. Instead of giving the enemy pilots discernible intelligence even for the time, MS decided that more was better and the result was a bigger digital pile-on than the Matrix Reloaded's Burley Brawl.

5.) Sky Kid - I'm the only person in the world to play this NES game before it was available on the Wii, I think. Its a fun little WWI pilot game, where you have to bomb targets like battleships and bases - but some of the levels go on endlessly. That is - you have to dodge flack canon fire, and other fighters - then pick up a bomb, fly it over your target, drop it and then fly through the last half of the level. That doesn't sound too bad until you remember that theres long sections where you have to avoid giant, towering walls of earth what you can't fly around.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie

Battle Toads, any of them. I haven't played them in forever but no matter how many times I tried I could never get past the speedbike stages.

Augh. A lot of bad memories come to mind when you mention that game - mostly from Double Dragon Vs Battletoads (or whatecer it was called) for the SNES

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Maximum Carnage and Spiderman & X-Men in Arcades Revenge were incredibly fucking stupid tough. I totally forgot about Maximum Carnage (mostly because it was a rental) but I don't think there was a comic book game made that made me swear as much as that one...

...until I got Arcade's Revenge for the Gameboy. That game is something you do when you hate yourself, like sticking a loaded gun in your mouth with the trigger tied to a door handle. The only one I beat was Cyclops and only because he's the easiest character to use since his optic blast was a ranged weapon and you could take out the Sentinel by crouch, jump, shoot until you beat him. Fuck the rest of that game; I remember thinking how Storm's level was like the underwater level in the first NES Ninja Turtles game except harder than a fag's prick at a daycare.

Also - has anyone ever played Spider-Man 3: Invasion Of The Spider-Slayers for the Gameboy? If anyone here can tell me how to exit the fucking abandoned building that Electro is in before the place explodes, you'd be answering a lifelong question of mine.

I also forgot to mention Ironsword: Wizards And Warriors 2. You know, the game with Fabio on the cover? I think I got to the first boss once. ONCE. You had to go up a mountain and then into a world of clouds. Except they werent clouds because you couldnt walk on them, you fucking slid all over the place like a janitor mopping up after a scat movie.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by mortis

1.) Contra - It seems that no matter what I do, I get punked early on. Ecah and every time.

Contra, like Contra III and Final Fantasy Tactics, is a game that turns boys into men. If I can beat Contra (and I'm not much of a gamer), so can you. If you were born at or before 1989, I think this is something everyone needs to do.

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Originally Posted by Chaotic

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie on SNES.

And I thought I was the only person who played that sack of shit.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've beaten Punch Out - but this was back when the game was still available in stores. I really doubt I could pull it off again, but each guy had a set number of moves. Once you saw two moves, you could usually figure out if you could throw a punch.

Tyson was incredibly hard to beat because most of it is just dodging and survival.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?