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

First of all, I want to give props to Lehah to such a great topic. I'm kind of strapped for time at the moment, but I'll give you the one game in my gaming experience that I can never beat no matter how many times I try it.

That game is Spiderman & X-Men in Arcades Revenge for the Genesis/SNES.

I have never played a more ridicolous game in my entire life. I have not played this game in quite a while but its always been one of those games I always wanted to beat.

The first level is easy enough as spiderman but when it gives you option of playing the other characters level, thats when the games difficulty ramps up to the point that its even more insane.

There are two levels for each caharcter in this game. To this very day this is how far I've gotten in the game.

Spiderman (I can beat the first level, but for some reason I can't beat the rhino at the end of the second level. I remember shooting webs at him for about 45 minutes and it hadn't killed him. I don't know if thats how you kill him, but I haven't played the game in a while.)

Wolverine (I can beat the first level with wolverine with just luck against apocalypse, but for some reason I can't beat his second level where your running from the juggernaut. It seems like I can never move fast enough)

Cyclops (I haven't beat any of the two levels with this character. It is so easy to get killed with him and electrified train tracks everywhere. I haven't even made it to the first boss of the first level with this character.)

Storm (I can beat the first level with storm, but I can't come close to beating the second level with her, she has oxygen as energy and the moment you get hit with anything your oxygen decreases dramtically. It is such an annoyance trying to not get hit by anything while trying to prevent yourself from drowning.)

My personal favourite:

Gambit (You start off in the level with a giant spiked ball coming after you. If you hit it you eventually get killed. Your weapons are cards that can actually run out. You have to run to the end of the level, avoiding the steel ball, avoiding enemies, running for dear life, to make it to the boss. I have only ever made it to the boss of his first level once, and the only time I did it, I didn't have any cards left to use against him. I don't even know what to expect out of gambits second level .)

To me the difficulty of this game is utter bullshit, and I have never met anyone who has beat this game. I'm sure somebody on this forum has probably beaten this game. Easily my most frustrating game that I still want to beat someday.

In terms of double dragon III, I have played that game quite a bit and actually got quite far into it. The furthest I've ever gotten in the game is I faced against cleopatra, I found the trick to beating the three mummies. If you use your drop kick instead of your spinning kick the mummies can't dodge it and you can kill them without getting hit. That is still another game I haven't beaten yet.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I would have to say, that I have actually beaten Ironsword: Wizard & Warriors 2 and also Maximum Carnage. I didn't realize that people actually found those games quite challenging. Now obviously nobody is going to believe me because you either show proof or it didn't happen. A saying a lot of GFFers go by for sure.

In terms of Maximum Carnage, I think I beat the game but I'm not too sure. I vividly remember fighting Carnage by himself in a park of some sort with a large building you can climb up on in the middle and it was daylight as the last level. I think you could actually use both spiderman and venom to fight him and alternate between them if one got killed. It has been a long time since I've finished the game, but I know I played the game several times and picked many different routes to try to find the one that suited me the best. I also took the time to try to find the items that allowed you to continue. I also found one helpful technique is when you fight some of the earlier bosses that can't climb up and hit you. Just stay clinged to the wall and keep drop kicking the bosses, it may take a while but you can beat them with taking any damage especially against the umbrella brothers and bosses of that nature.

As much as your not going to believe me sprout, I have beaten Ironsword: Wizard and Warriors 2 but to be honest it is no easy feat by any means. When you have a small video game library being a young teen and all the other games are beaten. You just keep playing the game until you beat it. Lehah your absolutely right the game is utter bullshit, the way you jump makes the game so incredibly hard. I use to get stuck on the fire level all the time, but I guess through sheer patience I managed to beat it. I think what helps is when you know where your going which is a challenge in itself, because for each boss you have to attain an attack that will only work on the boss of that level. What is even more worse is the fact that the last level you have to fight all four elements, and they're quick and its not very easy to hit him. Its at least 13 years since I've beaten it but I do know I have beaten it.

Hey Lehah I managed to beat contra, but not actually on the nes. I actually beat the first contra game at the arcade. Is that even credible.

In terms of Contra III, I've beaten the game on easy and medium difficulty but never hard. It has been a long time since I've played it, but it is fairly challenging. The furthest I've ever gotten on hard difficulty was the motorcycle level and then my ass just gets raped.

There's nowhere I can't reach.