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i hate: really hard computer games
i don't mind a bit of challenge in a game, but when games are too hard its all a big annoying rip-off.
if it's gonna cost up to £30 then i want value for money!
not having to endlessly repeat the same damned sections because the designers think trial and error gameplay is essential for ever section of the game (whereas the ability to pause or save the game at reasonable points is a luxury they can live without)
But...
the feeling that you get when you complete the section is amazing. I'd rather have a really hard game then a really easy one.
same here
i find easy to complete games really dissapointing and a waste of money, I want something with a bit of duration.
I wouldn't
I like finishing things more than getting angry.
Yes...
but you're a little stresspot ;-D
Me, I try to think it out, although usually the best thing is to leave it and try again the next day, that always seems to work.
HOw many controllers have you smashed?
me = 10 plus
not for a while though.
although i accidentally punched the printer a few months ago. a VERY uncharacteristic outburst of frustration.
Zero
Honestly.
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I once choked someone out with a cord for being Eddie Gordo in Tekken. Does that count?
STAND UP YOU CAPOEIRAING CUNT
Yes, Stealthy.
Yes. That counts.
Eddie is an annoying button-basher's paradise fuckhead.
I could do his 24-move combo at one point.
Yeah.
me and my friends proved...
that you could repeatedly headbutt the controller and still look good playing as Eddie.
Now Yoshimitsu, he was a hard bastard.
I was that guy with the spikey hair
Harishmu or something?
Seriously I ruled so hard as him. I could juggle people to death and time the 90% death fist to perfection.
Hitachi?
HIHACHI
Heihachi Mishima
Oh god...
I now remember how we wasted a whole summer playing Tekken 3 and Quake 2 on the Playstaion...
Thanks John.
...
i LOVED tekken so much, I got pretty riled on occaision, got through a few controllers. I mean there was a beach ball game! :D
GON!
YES!
I remember that little dragon guy thing!
He was shit
But he'd come up when we played 10 vs 10 random character games.
There
was a panda too as i re-call! Ah happy days.
Oh god.
That stupid big panda.
That dragon was well gay
As you only do like low attacks at it.
hey don't dis the panda
...probably contravening all the animal cruelty laws with that one though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_3
I googled it...yes, yes i am sad.
i very rarely,
complete computer games, ive probably only completed about 2 in my whole life, once it gets too hard i just lose interest.
What are you playing
Soapy?
I've not completed that many...
a few zeldas, a few final fantasies, metroid prime...
spyro games
ace. oh and some mario games
and old amiga ones.
I never completed final
fantasy. :(
I have completed alone in the dark 3, doom, doom II, red alert, settlers, castles....hmmm probably some more too.
we had an amiga 32 games system.
settlers!
i love that game
a true classic
you can probably pick it up for a fiver in game.
oh also i completed tomb raider and more recently a csi game.
I remember completing Secret Of Mana
Against this white dragon - exciting times...
Cool
the older games were the best in my opinion. I was a big tetris fan, that's not a game that can be completed though sadly :(
oh and lemmings i completed that too. Also a flight simulator game and something with all terrain tanks...cant remember what they were called...hmmm
Spyro = only thing I've completed
sadface.
The happiest day of my life
was when I completed Zelda 3. Then I felt a little sad.
I have this at the moment
with Commandos 3. But then I did only spend a fiver on it so I can't get too annoyed. Though the previous two had the challenge level about right this one is ridiculous. There are time limits now. I don't like missions with time limits.
games like
doom, tomb raider or alone in the dark 3 are good because they're hard in places but you always have the option of cheating...
but surely cheating defeats the purpose
i used to hate when people would play games with all the cheats on, whats the point? youre just cheating yourself. its no way to live your life
I don't cheat.
But there is always the option for people like soapy.
i only start using cheats
when the game is all but dead to me and the only other enjoyment i can get is from cheating.
also ive remembered the only 2 games i think ive commpleted were Shenmue and Resi Evil 2. i felt empty afterwards. So many hours devoted to it and then its just over just like that, no reward.
omg you completed shenmue?
What happens at the end? Does he avenge his father's death?
no from what i remember
you have to kick about 20 peoples asses at the end but the main bad guy gets away and you have to go find him in shenmue 2(which i never completed)
im stuck on the call of cthulhu right now
it has no cheats :'(
i really want to play it and revel in it's creepy lovecraftian atmosphere and unveil the secrets of its plot, but i'm stuck and this makes me want to not play
its doubly frustrating because
im usually quite good at games like this too.
Never buy Theif 3
fucking impossible piece of shit. Too damn addictive, mind.
i once bought double dragon
for the amstrad and completed it first go, it took over 6 hours though cos the characters moved so slow
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Was it Fahrenheit by any chance? What a pile of shit. For some reason the developers of this title felt that pressing a direction and having a character walk in that direction - like every single other game ever made - wasn't good enough and decided to have a system whereby there is a button to 'push' a character in a direction and then you press left or right to turn them - which in effect is a lot like trying to controll a snooker ball by pushing it with the cue.
And then there's the game itself. It was supposed to have some amazing plot. However, what plot there was is hamstrung by the fact the game is structured like a Choose Your Own Adventure book - so when your character gets into a situation - and he will, often - there are 10 different options to choose to get out of it. 9 will get you killed or otherwise end the game. So basically you have to go through the whole rigmarole of pressing continue/waiting for game to load about 5 times on average before you can advance the plot. And when there's a situation where time happens to be against you and you have to combine the aforementioned quirks with the ludicrous control interface, it quickly becomes apparent that there can be no reward worth putting yourself through this game.
Needless to say, I played that shit for about 30 minutes.
Fahrenheit = 0/10. Fuck off. Forever.
Haha
I finished that on Snes. It was ace.
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You just do the... thing...
...I remember that game. Weren't all that.
There was a game called Dynamite Headdy though. That was BASTARD hard. Japanese style. But the ending made it well worth it. And it had the best soundtrack I've ever heard on a computer game too. Came out in 1994, but I can remember every note now.
GTA!
*sniggers*
Only joking! You're lovely.
...
You need Jack Bauer, pansy!
...but I never played any GTA games right either. I play San Andreas, turned on the harrier jets and just went around blowing shit up and laughing maniacally. For about 3 hours.
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24 is your answer to everything.
forbidden siren
the hardest game. ever. it's also quite terrifying, and really good, but just so stupidly difficult and frustrating.
This is why I don't
buy consoles or games. As soon as I have to do something more than once I feel like I'm wasting my life and go do something else. Consoles should exist soley for the purpose of multiplayer football games.
No way!
My favourite games of all-time are the most difficult - LoZ: Ocarina Of Time, Metroid Prime, Mario 64 etc. - because the feeling of achievement and satisfaction when you complete the game (or even a small part - e.g Water Temple in Zelda) is amazing. For me, it's the best thing about gaming.
Value for Money = challenging games, that take ages to finish. Or a game that has amazing multiplayer (Goldeneye, 007 Nightfire, Mario Kart...). Not games that you can complete in a week or so, and never go back to.
I hate hard comupter games too.
I get bored of the mega long life-absorbing ones. Zelda Ocarina of Time is the only exception to this.
I bought Shenmue on the Dreamcast, and it made me want to rip my face off with boredom. Worst buy ever.
Sonic 1 on the master system was the first game I ever completed, and you could do it in a couple of hours.
My favourite game ever is Time Crisis 2 and you can complete that in about 20 minutes, if you're amazing like me. My mis-spent youth was in Arcades. :(
I liked shenmue
mainly because I don't like computer games very much. Most of the time I would completely ignore the objectives and basically wander the streets aimlessly, stroking kittens and playing darts and stuff. I miss that game.
Yeah, that's what I just did
I went into the arcade and bars and stuff loads.
Actually it was alright until I got stuck, and couldn't actually get any further because I'd missed something out miles earlier in the game. That made me angry, and now I just resent it generally.
*shakes fists*
I had the same 'stuck'
situation on both Shenmue 1 & 2 and never completed either. It was nice though, almost liberating - once I realised I couldn't get any further without going back and doing lots of work I felt able to wander the streets without pressure to do anything productive.
Ocarina of Time wasn't all that life absorbing
I remember getting it for Christmas and comnpleting it before new year. It was still the best game I've ever played though. I couldn't be more excited about this Friday :D
It was reasonably so...
For me anyway.... I don't really go in for those type of games that much. But Ocarina of Time is brilliant.
Actually thinking about it, there's a few life-absorbing ones I've liked. But generally short is better. Jet Set Radio RULED. that was the most perfect length ever.
I haven't bought any games for years. :(
dreamcast
lol.
was shenmue that one with incredible graphics, but the most pointlessly dull gameplay, consisting of giong around and pressing buttons in time for fight sequences?
yes, yes it was
Basically yes.
And Dreamcast was AMAZING. Truefact.
nooo
shenmue is probably my favourite game of all time, it was actually amazing!
Better to pay £30 for a challenge
than £30 for 6 hours spent tapping buttons in a daze.
Better to pay £4 down the market if you ask me.
good with role playing ones
closure! yeah
Oblivion
on the 360 is by far the best role-playing game I've ever come across. It's truly mind-blowing.
THE GAME OF LIFE
Apart from that had an end. Which didn't involve dying. Stupid.
Well...
in multiplayer games can last forever and still be loads of fun, we still play Mario Kart on the SNES loads.
Aladdin
was a great game though. :)
im playing zelda:wind waker at this very moment
and i ahve to revert to walkthroughs every five minutes. im shit at adventure games. despite this im finding it to be a fecking beautfiul absorbing game.