Gamers: what were some of your biggest 'controller throwing' moments from games you've played?

[Danger Mouse]

You know what I'm talking about. It's the point in the game when you say 'Screw this, man. I'm done. This is too much.' It could be either that the game is too damn hard, or something unbelievably stupid just happened, or you come to realize the game just plain ole sucks and isn't worth finishing.

I've chosen 5 from games that I've enjoyed as a kid and an adult. Please contribute some of your own.

1. Super Ghouls and Ghosts - YOU MEAN I HAVE DO IT AGAIN??

These games are notorious for being 'kick-you-in-the-ass hard.' Super Ghouls and Ghosts is no exception. It has good music, good gameplay, and interesting stages and bosses. It's hard, but not impossible. What sucks, though, is that you have to beat the game twice to beat it. That's right...when you reach the end of the game the first time, you get sent back to the beginning to find some stupid weapon that sucks ass. You have to do it all over again, but THIS time you get to do it with a worthless PoS weapon that isn't even worth the trouble. I never bothered finishing the game. No shitty 'Congraturation!!' screen is worth that.

2. Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories - Fighting Riku for the 5,000th time.

I love the Kingdom Hearts games. I was a total skeptic at first (An RPG featuring Disney characters? Are you kidding me?), but was hooked right from the opening movie. These games are fun to play and feature great storytelling...but sometimes they run out of ideas. Case in point? Chain of Memories. For some reason, they decide that you must REALLY enjoy fighting Riku, because he just keeps coming back for more punishment. It doesn't help that he's a pain in the ass to fight to begin with. Eventually you just get sick of dealing with him. The real kick in the ass comes when you get to play as Riku. You'd think Riku, at least, wouldn't have to worry about fighting himself, right? Wrong. Riku gets to fight himself twice. That's a total of six BOSS FIGHTS you have against Riku in the game. I'm sorry, but that's way. Too. Much. It'd be like playing Final Fantasy VI and having to fight Ultros four times, that'd be...oh wait, nevermind.

3. Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Brachyura

This giant crab really really really wants you dead. Easily the most frustrating and difficult boss in the Castlevania series. Ever. The only way to beat him is to methodically figure out every single move he does, then survive long enough to crush him with the elevator at the top of the lighthouse in which he is fought. Of course, he changes his moves multiple times over the course of the battle. You will die many, many times, but you will eventually win. But you will lose something in the process. Something you can never have back. You must live with the fact that you got your ass kicked 500 times by a giant crab.

4. Resident Evil 4 - Giant Dr. Salvador:

Resident Evil 4 is one of my favorite games. It's quite simply one of the greatest games ever made, even if it's not all that scary. Sure, there's not a zombie to be found, but 'Los Ganados' are a reasonable substitute. One that stuck out in particular was Dr. Salvador. Wearing a potato sack over his head and wielding a chainsaw, this lunatic would not stop until he's liberated your head from your body. Freedom!!! Anyway, I thought the good Dr. was bad enough on his own. But once you unlock 'Mercenary Mode' you get to meet a whole new Doctor. Standing at about eight feet tall, he wield a gigantic double-bladed chainsaw that is ON FIRE. He spins around frantically with the thing, figuring that eventually his massive weapon will find its way to your soft, vulnerable neck. Oh, and it will. Trust me. For anybody who has faced him, you'll know what I mean when I say I get a cold sweat every time I hear that crazy chainsaw of his in the distance.

5. Final Fantasy X - Yuna Doesn't Die.
All through the game, they have you thinking that Yuna's going to die at the end. Instead, the only two likable characters in the entire game die instead. I felt cheated. Yuna isn't the most irritating character in a Final Fantasy ever...that 'honor' goes to Ultros...but she is definitely the weakest female lead. They try to make her interesting, but only manage to make her ridiculously self-righteous and self-important. As interesting and cool characters are killed off left and right, we're left with her, the bigot with the stupidest hairdo ever, and the goth chick with the worst taste in clothing ever. Kimahri and Rikku are not worthy of mention, because they suck too much to be mentioned.
Did I spoil the game for you? Good. I just saved you hours of your life you never would've gotten back. Play FFXII instead.

[charlie and algernon]

1. any sports game when the compter decides "fuck you, no way you're winning this game"

You're team can be rolling along and suddenly it all goes to shit, you throw interceptions, can't stop their running back if you had 20 linebackers, or suddenly your hot pitcher can't get an out to save his life. :banghead:

[Danger Mouse]

2. I suck hard at sports games.

I can't win against the Podunk Wet Paper Sacks.

[charlie and algernon]

3. sometimes the Podunk Wet Paper Sacks are capable of slaying the ultimate all-star roster

go ahead, have fun with the rosters and create the ultimate team filled only with the highest rated players and then pick as your opponent the lowest ranked team. then watch said lowest rated team magically turn into the 1996 Yankees or the 1989 Niners and kick your all-stars' collective asses

[Danger Mouse]

6. i couldn't win with a team of robot ninjas.

in fact, I'd lose to the Detriot Lions.

[Broken_Hero]

14. Man, I know what you mean about pitchers who can't get an out

I got MLB 2007 the show, and around the 5th inning, I usually start hitting a wall, where I can get two strikes, but they always get a hit/on base...my pitch count is low, my energy is still good, but damn, its like the game system says "Hey now, lets screw with ya some"

I don't have much of an issue with Madden though, except that interceptions are being given out like freebies...I swear sometimes every damn pass I throw is intercepted in some crazy/messed up situation, where my man was open, but the Corner, or Safety can jump backwards, while not looking at the ball, and intercept my pass, or the linebacker who can jump 12 feet in the air to intercept....

[PVnRT]

19. Don't forget the CPU's circus catches

You know, when they throw into triple coverage and suddenly your defensive backs decide this would be a good time to take a break and the receiver catches the ball with his thumb while diving.

[charlie and algernon]

27. same in baseball

I still play MLB 2005 alot and like clockwork, there will come an inning where your team can't catch a ball for shit while the CPU's team is suddenly filled with Gold Glove caliber defenders. You know the inning is coming, so you just hope that you're far enough ahead that you can survive it or that there's enough innings left to make a comeback.

[ElboRuum]

66. What, you mean anything made by EA?

Sorry, but I won't buy another Madden game if I can break a run out into open space with Brian Westbrook and be chased down by a defensive lineman from the Cleveland Browns.

[Steven_S]

4. Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth

Level called Attack of the Fishmen. It was crazy hard and meant to drive you insane.

[Danger Mouse]

8. Anything relating to Cthulhu would inevitably result in madness, I'd hope.

:hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. I had that game but never finished it.

It really creeped me out.

[BulletproofLandshark]

5. I thought Ultros was cool.

That battle in the opera house is one of my favorite fights in the entire series. IMO the most irritating character ever in a FF game was Squall from VIII. What a whiny little punk.

[Danger Mouse]

7. I loved the Opera House battle too. I LIKE Ultros. He's just annoying.

As for Squall, you know what's funny? He's 1,000 times more likable in the Kingdom Hearts games than in FFVIII. Go figure.

[Chan790]

9. Not one specific moment but a general one...

tied to the absence of horses from The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.

TES 2: Daggerfall and TES 4: Oblivion have horses, so why doesn't Morrowind? It's never explained in game, but as a result navigating an island the size of Manhattan takes 2 hours. I'm not referring to doing any quests, I'm talking about flat-out walking from Sadrith Mora to the Telvanni towers on the western coast of the island. It's slower than real-time...it's like 10 miles...I can walk 10 miles in less than 2 hours and I have crap knees and am overweight...but we're supposed to believe that a hero in fighting shape can't?

[Danger Mouse]

10. Haha, good point.

I played Oblivion once, how could you get buy in such a huge world WITHOUT horses?

[Zornhau]

30. I vote for this one too!

nothing worse than getting some quest that you have to walk halfway across the map into bfe to get something/kill someone.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. The first stage of Gradius on the NES.

About halfway through the stage, there's a point where a bunch of lava rocks burst out from the ground that you have to maneuver your ship around.

I've tried positioning the ship in every possible place, but one stray rock ALWAYS hits it.

[Odin2005]

12. During an online game of Civilization 4.

I was the US, and nearby me were the Chinese. I had a recently build city that was at a strategically important location (my source of iron and ivory) and near that city was a newly built Chinese city. The Chinese sent a "Great Artist" special unit to their new city and gave it a "culture bomb" (boosting the city's culture level, expanding it's radius of influence), resulting in my new city being surrounded by Chinese culture. I lost my resources and the city soon revolted to the Chinese. :grr: I got my sweet revenge though, I went to war with them and conquered everything except Beijing.

The whole episode forced me to radically change by long-term strategy. While I was conquering China Rome was expanding in the interior on my continent, which is where I was originally going to focus on, building up a big land empire (favored by my civilization's "Organized" trait), but Rome's expansion in the interior forced kept me near the coast, thus I switched to taking advantage of my Civilization's "Financial" trait (NOTE: I edited the traits of some of the civilization leaders had, which is why I, playing as Washington, had the financial trait) and became a maritime and commercial power.

EDIT: Oh, and the gal playing the Romans eventually won. I couldn't make a dent in Rome during the Ancient period because of their Legions (3 Attack, 3 Defense), which are a tough nut to crack unless you 1. have a lotta Catapults AND Swordsmen (3 Attack, 2 Defense), 2. are Persia and have the Immortals (4 attack, 1 defense) at your disposal.

[surrealAmerican]

28. I wasn't going to reply to this thread until I read your post.

This reminded me of when I played an older version of Civilization (Civilization2 I think). They showed the map as a globe, but if you tried to go what looked like a short distance on the globe, it would send your unit(s) the whole way around the world to get there. Very frustrating, and would make you lose a game you would have won otherwise.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

40. I still remember Civ 2 moments many years later.

My clearest memory is of a huge world, on the hardest level, playing on Bloodlust, where you can only win by conquering all the enemies militarily.


I was gearing up for a massive naval invasion of Russia, my most powerful rival. I then noticed that my continent and their's (a big letter O, with an inland sea in the middle), was connected by a narrow isthmus. I decided on a land route through the isthmus, as it would be faster. I used all my settlers to quickly build a railroad up the isthmus, declared war, and quickly made advances into Russia. I had consolidated all of my forces where the isthmus connected to the O, and prepared a pinser maneuver around both sides of the O, when the dirty motherfuckers nuked their own captured city, destroying my entire invasion force. So both of our militaries were crippled, and it was left up to which ever could produce a new military faster. I won the momentum, and had almost completely overrun all of Russia before the game time ran out.

[PVnRT]

57. Fucking Mongols

That's what I remember most from Civ II. And losing coastal cities to global warming after starting nuclear wars.

[Broken_Hero]

13. Hmm,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for the NES....the last level, where you have to go through all these halls that are covered with razor blades/knives, and if you touch one, you get bounced back and of course, when you bounce back you hit another blade and get ping ponged to death, and facing Shredder at the end...bleh.

The Death and Return of Superman on the SNES...the first 5 levels or so are pretty easy, and then it gets ridiculously hard, and fighting Hank Henshaw at the end...bleh, just getting to Hank you have to use all your lives to get to him, and then he just slaps you around like your NOTHING...and here I am, I'm suppose to be Superman, and I'm getting punked.

Guitar Hero III on Expert-PS2, Dragonforce-Through the Fire and Flames...I have no idea how anyone can beat this song, ever....I won't ever beat, and I gave up trying months ago. The rest of the songs I can beat, but this one...bleh, if the guitars weren't so expensive, I probably would've cut through at least 10 of them by now.

GUN-PS2, the last boss, Macgruder(who is voiced by Lance Henrixson)...I fought this little ingrate, armored SOB for at least three hours, before I finally caved in and looked online to figure out how to kill him, and they way to do so, is so...not obvious, that if I didn't look it up, I'd still be trying to kill him today....The rest of the game was pretty good though, but Macgruder...bleh.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out-NES....one hit, and you are knocked the hell out, yeah thats fair, two hits, and you lost...bleh.

Thats about all that come to mind at the moment...

[DarkTirade]

52. Wait... you mean you actually got past that goddamned swimming timed bomb level?

I didn't think that was possible without cheat codes.

[Broken_Hero]

54. yeah, that part wasn't so bad, but the last two levels were hell

in a damn handbasket.

[Danger Mouse]

70. oh, it's possible, just unreasonably difficult.

it only gets harder, too.

[DarkTirade]

76. That level right there? That's my controller throwing moment.

Even with an emulator I've never made it through that one with more than one turtle left alive.

[cemaphonic]

15. PBEM Diplomacy

Was Austria in an unconventional (out of necessity) Austro-Turk Alliance. I was 2 turns from being able to decisively stab Turkey when he stabbed me, completely crippling my position. England won that game handily.

[coyotespaw]

16. First of all, Final Fantasy X isn't a game

it's a vaguely interactive movie which requires the rare pressing of the X button. Secondly, the worst controller throwing moments come at the end of any Mega Man game, when you have to figure out how to throw the most useless weapon in the game at one tiny little spot on Dr. Wily's latest end boss.

[Danger Mouse]

18. And it's not even a good movie!

My favorite is in Megaman 2 where Dr. Wily transforms into a creepy alien :wtf: and the only weapon that will hurt him is...bubbles. Somebody was smoking something wacky when they came up with that.

[IndianaJones]

24. Sephiroth battle, Final Fantasy Crisis Core. nt.

[Jamastiene]

17. Any golf game you can name does that to me.

The object of the game is so damn simple. Yet, I cannot ever get better at any version of it on a computer or game console. I've never tried it in real life. Screw that. I suck bad enough on the computer. The most fucked up thing about it is that I don't even really like golf. Yet, I cannot resist trying every golf game I can possibly find.

[Tom Kitten]

20. Have you tried Polar Golf or the Polar Hawaiian Tour Golf games?

Yeah they are also pretty damn simple especially if you play it over and over again but it's hard to even reach par for the course most of the time...Also doing it over and over gets boring after a short while, in the long run of things what really does it accomplish?

[PVnRT]

21. Zoma's castle in Dragon Warrior III

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

First, you have to crawl through this place, getting attacked by the most powerful monsters in the game, who at this point suddenly decide to score criticals on your Sage, THEN you have to fight three sub-bosses who are more powerful than anything else in the game, THEN you have to fight Zoma, who proceeds to shred you limb from limb.

I lost it quite a few times when I'd get attacked by a group of FireLionsFromHell with 809018342023458 hit points right before the final battle.

[TK421]

50. What character classes did you use? Just curious

I never went with the Fighter class, but just stuck with Soldier, Sage ( with main character ) and had pretty decent luck.


Edited: I just had to add that I spent COUNTLESS hours ( months?) on this game alone!

[PVnRT]

55. Hero, Soldier, Sage, Wizard

Kind of the standard configuration, but, still, it took hours to finally make it through to the end. One of the better NES endings, I might add. I know everyone else crows about FF, but DWIII is my all-time favorite RPG.

[Tom Kitten]

22. "Fate" no more

It came on my computer when I bought it as a "trial" installment, along with several other Wild Tangent Games...So, I tried it and got hooked, and bought the full game, it was challenging at first but pretty easy to figure out...It's a dungeoun game, and there are over two billion levels, but for most the game quest ends around level 40 or so...I liked the character I had and tried to reach level 1000 before quitting (this game started last April) but the game has glitches and today I totally screwed up...There's a time clock that resets the levels and a glitch makes it freeze after 72 hours so in order to continue the game right you need to use a hex manager and reset the code which I had done successfully several times before but tonight I made a mistake and forgot to back up my file so basically I'm screwed...Only option is to replace my file with the last saved one which was last June so I lost all my progress since then...But it the end run it just might make the game more interesting, I'm just using the same character and using the cheat codes just descended her 450 levels without all the experience she gained and she's doing OK...Got killed once but I was able to extract revenge by going back and killing all the monsters on that level...It's made the game more interesting for awhile but ultimately for what? It's funny how one can get attached to a game character you've made...

[RandomThoughts]

23. Those games all sound fun.

I miss playing computer games, computer is to old to run newer games, and I don't have a tv game system here. But if I get one, I will have to try some of those games.

Last games I played that had frustration in them with frustrating moment was

Fallout 2, once I got to the airport, could not figure out the exact method to move to next area.

It was a free flow game, which is good, you make the decisions of when and where you go, and lots of different ways to get through areas, but near the end, it was not like that. Seemed like it went back to having a perfect rehearsed trial and error method, like you talked about with the elevator.

[PVnRT]

25. I don't remember an airport...

...are you talking about the crashed shuttle? Or the oil tanker in San Francisco?

[RandomThoughts]

26. It was a while ago.

But in the game, it was the base, with the guys in the power armor.

It might have been SF, I think that is right.

I think there were helicopters there.

[PVnRT]

31. I think that's Monterey

I remember that the Enclave had a mainland base for raiding purposes, and you encountered it at one point. One speed method through the game is to go there first, infiltrate, and get power armor.

[Chan790]

33. Navarro. n/m

[RandomThoughts]

60. Not sure.

It might have been monterey, like I said it was years ago.

It was on the mainland, and it was an enclave base. I remember the island also.

That was a good game, it did a good job of action and effect, where the NPC's reacted to actions.

I also like the turn based combat, more thinking then just dexterity, the combat model was one of my favorites.

Henchmen, skills, weapons, bartering, stems, attitude, and of coarse the pip boy 5000!. That game was way ahead of its time, superb. If I still had a copy of it, I would play it again, great game.

Searching computer now, see if it is there... Looks like I only got links to it left on computer.

[Chan790]

32. Maybe the Navarro Base or the Abandoned Military Base?

If you haven't ever been to the Brotherhood of Steel base in San Fran. you have no idea how to move forward from the vertibird base at Navarro. Acquire by any means the vertibird plans and then take them back to the BoS in SF.

There is no purpose to the Military Base, it's the hardest "dungeon" in Fallout 2 and there is no real reason to go there, but it seems important so everybody fights to the bottom, kills the main mutant (the named one who makes more mutants over and over again.) and then nothing happens...so you're like "Now what?"

[PVnRT]

56. Yeah, it's Navarro I'm thinking of

I think you can get the Plasma Rifle in the abandoned base, though, so it's not a total loss. I don't remember a main mutant at the bottom making more though - that sounds more like The Master in Fallout (one of the creepiest fucking bosses ever).

[Chan790]

62. Melchior fancies himself another Master

The mutant Melchior is at the very bottom on level 4 next to a pit of green ooze...the ooze spawns Tough Nightkin, Centaur and Floaters. Once you kill him you to get a holodisk that gives backstory but it's not vital to completing the game.

[RandomThoughts]

61. yea that sounds familiar

I think I remember a device in the bottom that was not put in the game. But your right from memory I remember the stairwells and using lots of grenades on that level.

[Danger Mouse]

47. Oh, they are! I recommend all of them.

:D

[bikebloke]

29. Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Part of the frustration was my fault. I didn't know about quick save. So every time I'd get killed, I'd have to start from the beginning. Over and over and over....Eventually, I just played online before ditching it all together.

[TK421]

34. Final Fantasy 12...did you actually beat that thing?

I'm stuck in that fucking tower towards the end ( Pharos, I think its called ) and I keep getting lost and the fucking tower is never-fucking-ending!!!!@@!
I have decent weapons and armor for all of the characters, and I am STILL getting my ass handed to me by those fucking Dark Skeleton bastards...


edited to add: how can you NOT love Ultros? Yeah, he's just a stupid octopus, but the guy is a FF legend!

[Danger Mouse]

45. I DO love Ultros, but come on, he IS really annoying.

:P
I did beat FF12, and yes, the Pharos is crazy difficult. The whole game is crazy difficult.

[Inchworm]

35. Molten Core was a blast

The bosses were a bitch to master. Beer/wine/liquor helped keep me from throwing the mouse, but I went through several keyboards due to spillage.

A video showing most of it. ...and it's funny if you know the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zSps-3JTw

:hi:

[Forkboy]

36. Every level of Contra.

And there was a jumping level in Super Mario 3 that drove me nuts.

Other than that, I don't think I've gotten that upset at any games. Getting stuck just makes me even more determined to beat that fucker. And I WILL succeed. :D

[Danger Mouse]

46. I used to be able to beat Contra without the code. Back in the day.

:P
One of my all-time favorites.

[PVnRT]

58. ...

[DS1]

37. Sticky Bombs and Train Yard levels of Call of Duty 2 on Veteran level

Holy shit.

[Downtown Hound]

38. Gears of War on insane mode by myself

I have this game for my PC. I've beat it on insane mode with two players where you can revive each other, but with one? I can't beat the main Big Bad, General Raam. I've made it all the way to the end of the game but Raam simply kills me every time. I throw it in every now and again and take another crack at it, but the same thing happens every time. I get killed. And killed. And then killed again. Bummer.

[Shell Beau]

39. Here lately it has been Mario Kart.

I can not win one of the 150cc cups (maybe the star cup or flower cup). I will be so close to first on each race and at the very end (every time) something ALWAYS happens. It pisses me off to no end.

[BreweryYardRat]

42. For sheer aggravation, the new Call of Duty's Stalingrad level did it a few times.

Ugh.

On a bug note, VtM: Bloodlines. The whole damn game had way too many, but one that really pissed me off...nothing like being 2/3 done with the game and then discovering that there's a bug resetting the main storyline dialogue/automated main quest assignment to the 1/3 mark. I gave up and uninstalled after that.

[ACTION BASTARD]

43. Halo 3

There's a room that's full of just brutes that killed me so many times that it became a point of honor with me. I had to use hit and run tactics and luck to barely make it through and kill that last brute with the goddamn hammer.

Dead Rising (360)
The 3 convicts on the hummer. Goddamn I hate them with the force of a thousand exploding suns.

[Saboburns]

44. Yo

I think I know the place.

I found Halo2 harder than 3.

There were places on halo 2, on the legendary setting, that I tried way over 100 times to advance.

Whew. I found it better to stop hiding behind stuff and wade in with many melee attacks.

[ACTION BASTARD]

80. Thank God for dual wielding in Halo 2 & 3

Have you checked out the upcoming Halo:Recon yet? It's not Halo 4, because it takes place during the time period of Halo 2 & 3 and does NOT involved the Master Chief.

[geomon666]

48. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

One of my favorite games ever but one mission in particular pisses me off to no end.

Trying to recruit this fucking clown:


No matter what I do, I can't beat this shithead in a race and it's fucking aggravating.

[TK421]

49. OH GOD YES!!!!!! It took me forever to beat that asshole!

I think the key was not to go TOO fast, as I have found that he too will run into other cars (objects) that will slow him down, too.

I got ahead of him by just being lucky

[PVnRT]

59. I couldn't get past the boat race to recruit the Cubans

Still, my favorite of the GTA series. San Andreas and IV suck.

[ElboRuum]

65. Easy if you know the trick...

Just follow behind him and wait until he has to dodge something. Then hit him on the rear quarterpanel while he's swerving in front of you to spin him out. He doesn't recover well and you can get ahead of him and stay there if you concentrate on your turning to avoid hitting anything.

[Lucian]

74. I never had a problem with him.

:shrug:

[Lucian]

51. The 802974092847 time I fought Magus in Chrono Trigger.

He was a pain in the ass. But he turned out to be my favorite character.

[Danger Mouse]

69. I love Magus. I was totally surprised by his 'secret identity'...

probably because i'm a moron. :P

[Lucian]

72. Oh I was too.

I played the game figuring he was the last boss. But you're just starting the game basically when you beat him.

I hate how they call him the "fienlord" in the DS version of the game. x( Oh, and how they call the Mystics "fiends". :wtf:

[Danger Mouse]

77. The DS version is most likely closer to the original Japanese...

the original version of Chrono Trigger was translated by Ted Woolsey, who also translated Final Fantasy III, and was notorious for taking bizarre liberties with his translations. Hence, Kefka says things like 'Son of a submariner!' and other nonsense.
I actually like some of what they changed, Azala's last words to Ayla, for instance, make a whole lot more sense in the DS version.

[laconicsax]

53. Aztec level on Goldeneye (N64)

I spent forever trying to beat that damn level on 00 difficulty and I finally did it--the shuttle launch timer was down to 2 seconds and the fucking power went out. I was so pissed that I stopped playing that game for over a year and when I came back to it I couldn't even beat the level on the easiest difficulty.

I did finally beat that level two years ago when I was snowed in and had nothing better to do. Then, before posting this, I found a clip on YouTube of someone beating the damn level in 2 minutes. :grr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2O8hvDbXE

[Lucian]

73. Was that the level with Jaws and all the bosses with lasers?

I never had a problem beating that one on 007 level. I had a hard time beating the Archives in 1:20 on 007 level.

[laconicsax]

79. Funny, the Archives was never really a problem for me.

[WildEyedLiberal]

63. Dude I can't even get past the first village in RE4

And I smoked my way through all the other RE games, so it must be really tough or I just really suck. I think it's because I don't know where to go - there's that locked gate with the chainsaw asshole and then you get pinned between chainsaw asshole and hordes of insane villagers and death is inevitable.

I want to love that game because I love the rest of the franchise, but getting further than 30 minutes into it might help :shrug:

Also, the original TMNT game for NES, and Castle Quest for NES. Castle Quest is maybe the hardest game ever created.

[Danger Mouse]

68. There's a number of ways to make it through the village in one piece.

After the first house in the game where you encounter villagers, you'll find some crows on the path. Shoot one of them for a grenade. It'll be a huge help. When in the village, if you lure them towards you and stay near the entrance, you won't have to worry about any chainsaw maniacs. Use the grenade when they start to pile up. You only have to kill a certain number of them before the battle automatically ends.
OR
you can barricade yourself in one of the houses. This causes a chainsaw maniac to show up, but one of the houses has a grenade, a shotgun, and shotgun ammo, so that might make things easier.
Hope that info helps. :)

[WildEyedLiberal]

71. Ahh, thanks

Hahaha, maybe I can actually enjoy RE4 now :)

[Danger Mouse]

78. There are a number of spots that I got stuck at in that one..

feel free to ask if you ever have trouble.
Let me know if you make it through the village okay, too!
Don't forget to loot all the houses after the battle is over, btw. There are lots of goodies you can get, with no enemies to get in your way.

[ElboRuum]

64. Just about every level after the second in NES Battletoads.

That game is friggin' sweet. But every level, starting with the third (the jet bike, don't smash into a wall going 1324 mph, level), took me at least 10-15 continues to get the timing down right. More than one controller was mistreated in the making of win.

[sohndrsmith]

67. ... never've played one

but I loved doing the artwork for them back in the day... (sigh). Man that was fun creating creatures terrain and jewels and rooms and things all day... (sigh again).

[PBS Poll-435]

75. Echo the Dolphin

:banghead: :grr:

[Critters2]

81. Pong. Don't get me started! nt