/vr/ - Retro Games

Turtles on NES - the water level

or

Micro Machines 2 on Mega Drive - The Bathutb & Toilet Seat tracks

Fallout 2.

>Cybernator
>Third level

Those fucking guns that pop out and shoot at you and all those little cunts inside. Ugh.

The entire intro and first town of Arcanum: Steamworks & Magick Obscura.

I absolutely love that game but it is agony to make my way through those first few sections.
Especially because I have the misfortune of being a completionist.

>>811146

The Temple of Trials is easy. If you have a character that isn't combat focuses you can just run to the end. No combat is necessary.

Batman NES
Like half of the bosses

>FF5
>Atomos

Lagoon.
Fighting Thimale.

Earthbound.
Fucking dusty dunes desert.

>>811171
He's not immune to sleep. An even cheaper way is to use Dischord and then Level 5 Death.

>inb4 water temple durrhurr so hard
SM64
Wet-Dry World

The Great Bay area is the worst part of any Zelda game ever.

>>811214
>Complains about complaining about water levels
>Hated level is a water level
>Easiest 3D water level in history

>>811227

He was talking about the Water Temple. Not water levels in general.

>Sonic 2 on Game Gear
>Zone 1 (Underground Zone) Act 3
>Boss on first zone is hardest in the game for some god awful reason.
>Turns off Game Gear and plays NBA JAM: TE until batteries die in 6 minutes.

Rinse & repeat until I was smart enough to get a Game Boy for portable video gaming

Just dont play the game you guys. DONT DO IT!

>StarTropics
>last parts

Well, actually. The fact that there were [spoilers]aliens[/spoiler]. As a kid I didn't understand that until the end and I was very disappointed and furious. I don't even remember if I beat the game at all or just quit out of sheer frustration and disappointment.

>paper mario
>dry dry desert
>golden sun
>lamakin/ suhalla desert
>final fantasy adventure
>very hot dessert

i fucking hate deserts

>StarTropics
>last parts

Well, actually. The fact that there were aliens. As a kid I didn't understand that until the end and I was very disappointed and furious. I don't even remember if I beat the game at all or just quit out of sheer frustration and disappointment.

>>811354
Why does that bother you so much?

Full Throttle

That part where you have to beat the other bikers. I don't know how I did it the first time, I never completely understood that section of the game.

>Metal Gear Solid
>endless backtracking

>Crash Bandicoot 3
>fucking scuba/jetski/plane levels

>>811485
Going back to get that fucking sniper rifle.

>Zombie Revenge

That part where you've got to pull the train breaks while defending yourself against zombies is fucking retarded hard by yourself.

Battletoads on the NES - level fucking three

Thank god they toned down the difficulty for the Genesis version. It`s still challenging, but at least you won`t get stuck at level 3. You`ll get stuck at level 4 instead, unless you hit that 10th wall warp spot.

The sewer level.

Doesn't matter what game.

>>811538
Zelda TP had a pretty cool sewer

everybody's answer

>Playing through Oracle of Ages
>Time for Goron Dance

Haven't touched it since.

>>811547
Exception to prove the rule maybe?

>>811178

That game had me at swinging the sword. Seriously, they should have kept the bump system instead of going with what they did for the SNES version if they were going to give you a butter knife.

>>811552
Is it anything like that Subrosia dance in seasons? That shit was easy tho

>>811485

Plane levels were fun as fuck unless you dragged on too much and ended up surrounded by enemy planes. I agree the underwater levels were kind of annoying and had those horrible huge eels with deceiving hitboxes, though.

>Sonic the Hedgehog
>Labyrinth zone

>Sonic 2
>Metropolis zone

>Medievil
>The ant nest
>The goddamn ghost ship and its overpowered pirates

>>811568

Apparently it's harder, but I know it's not optional.

FFVII

Kalm Sephiroth flashback

The Lifestream

>>811485
>Those fucking temperature controlled cards

That game was full of padding.

>>811129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhsacIcTHSE

>>811147
>Playing Cybernator
>Not Assault Suits Valken

Spyro, the flying levels on the first game.

Not even that hard in the end, just really annoying.

>>811549
WHY CAN'T THE TURTLE SWIM?

>Jet Force Gemini
>Tribals

>>811351
>not liking Dry Dry Desert
I bet you didn't explore, did you?

>>811527
I never had trouble with the Turbo Tunnels. I don't have problems until the Snake Pit.

>Any 2d Sonic game
>The water levels

>>811597
I have a save on my ps1 memory card of just after the fucking kalm flashback so I don't have to sit through it again next time I replay it.

Unfortunately I miss midgar.

>>811129

Final Fantasy 1
Grinding in Elf Land

Mario - the underwater levels

>>811214

Wut? wet-dry world is freakin' cool, with a real good idea in it.

Breath of fire 3.

That fucking desert.

>>811672
>Final Fantasy 1
>Grinding in Elf Land

Marsh cave was bad...

Ice cave with the mind flayers (instant death physical attack) was horrible. Even the canoe ride to the ice cave was dreadful.

>Majora's Mask
>The whole beginning of the game

I did it so many times /vr/. I just can't do it anymore.

Great game though.

>>811713
I don't mind the desert it doesn't take long if you know what to do. I just don't want to go through the kid phase of the game again.

Any RPG with unavoidable random battles, especially with easy to dispatch enemies.

One thing that Earthbound got right.

>>811146
Easy mode. Besides it's at the start so if you fail that part you already know your character is shit. Just press 1 and sneak. No fighting. And explosives opens that one locked door.

>>811129
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKpLjxdRcHs

>>811294
I completed Sonic 2 GG when I was a kid, with all the emeralds - ha!

Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday.
What is it with videogames and water levels?

>>812136
>What is it with videogames and ice levels?

>>811171
Really? That guy wasn't shit compared to that one boss that needed all three enemies to die at the exact same time or the dead ones would regenerate to full health.

Ugh.

>>811129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7Z2zdu9Zw

(not retro, but) Final Fantasy X- that fucking Evrae boss.

>>812167
Blow up all the walls, die, come back, they're still gone.

>>812213
You can just grind for money, and come back later with a better weapon to the arena

Not myself, but I have two friends who love Final Fantasy 6... until they get to the WoR.

>tfw too casual to beat Donkey Kong on one life

>>811129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWCjR6YL4M

Jet Set Radio

Racing Beat

>>812154
>boss that needs all three enemies to die at the same time

they have like 8000 hp each, and they lack heavy type, so Odin kills em, or Zenninage can kill them all in like 2 or 3 turns.

>>811351

Suhalla desert was a pain, but at least you got some good equipment out of it

I almost never go past the Yellow Devil in MM1.

Cleanly beaten (i.e., no select trick) the game before, but getting past him is the only thing that actually requires me to buckle down; mostly re-memorizing his pattern and getting in the rhythm. Aside from that, he's just a tedious boss to fight. Very, very, very fucking tedious boss and probably the longest fight in the whole series.

>>812498
Are you doing a buster only run or something? The Thunder Beam fucks him up good.

>>812515
Even with the Thunder Beam, it still takes a while to beat him. I'm too proud to use the select trick, and if I'm playing through MM1 I'm usually just doing it casually, so by the time I run through the Robot Masters, I never have the interest to sit through the fight most of the time.

>Megaman X
>intro stage is soo painfully slow without dash

not that big a problem, but it seems to drag on forever.

also I almost always stop at Sigma when I'm playing on a console, I can never beat the fucker for some reason

>>811129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrjR4ZD6rQ

I think that the first level in Banjo Tooie, Mayan Maham or whatever, is areally bad way to start an amazing game. Its way to wide open, plus you have to learn a bunch of random moves and things before you can do anything.

I started a new file a while back and quit after like 10 min of that level.

Wonderboy in Monsterland

>Ice Castle

Shit is not just slippery, it's ice covered with butter and anal lube slippery

And later the screen with the readjusting platforms, where if you fall you fight the same miniboss over and over.

>>812525
Are you missing your shots or losing repeatedly or something? It seriously takes less than two minutes to take him down.

>>812554
Usually I lose at least once because I always forget his pattern, but that's not really a big deal.

It just feels like it goes on for a while because there's a long pause between when he's vulnerable.

>>811485
>MGS
I don't know. I played it again knowing I wouldn't want to go through that but surprised it was over quick. If you know what to do it isn't THAT bad.

>>811485
You can get the PSG-1 earlier than the fight so you don't have to backtrack.

>FFIX
>Fossil Roo

Didn't really make me lose interest, but lord is that section slow and tedious.

>>811129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v41sXqDFkfU

>>811129

- OoT: Water Temple
- Mega Man 2: Quick Man's beams
- Sonic: Water levels
- Shadows of the Empire: Sewer level
- Final Fantasy 8: Space

>>812596
This, I have beated MGS like 6 times and you can do it in less than 3 hours, so a little of backtracking isn't that bad.

Every jrpg where you cannot play as the main character for whatever reason and end up having to use the characters you never used and never leveled so you have to grind for hours and hours just to get to the next part and never use those characters again afterwards

>>812178
>mfw little kid and trying to figure out how the FUCK to even hurt this cunt
And then it's like the easiest boss in the damn game once you get a clue.

Anyway...Baldur's Gate II, the first dungeon/part of the game. I've just...I've just done it so many times. It's short but it's just, ugh. I love the game dearly but that first section just murders my motivation to start a new game.

>>812615
what part?

The Very Loooooooong Cave

>>812167
I think every Mega Man has this for me. I still beat them now and then, but they all have a moment where more often than not I just stop and play something else, instead.

>>812178
Dude, that shit's nothing.

>>812525
This is how I feel exactly. I love Mega Man to death, but these days I generally just run through the Robot Masters and quit. I've beaten them all dozens of times, I don't need to do it again for the challenge.

>>812547
Speaking of Banjo, in Kazooie I generally take a nice long break when I get to Rusty Bucket Bay.

Half-Life. Barely counts but the tram is terrible.

>>812750
How little where you?

I was 10, so maybe older than you, but that level spells out ricocheting eggs so fucking blatantly it's obvious.

>>812294
Tell me moar.

I've been meaning to play this one for a while now.

Kiddie mode:
This baby on 00 agent, Control.
Fucking Natalya wouldn't even give you her magnum to help a bit. Bunker II was hell too.

Fucking Natalya.

>want to replay Streets of Rage 1
>remember the last stage

why are the ninja chicks so difficult

>>812932
I love Bunker II, pretty much the only "stealth" level I've ever enjoyed. You got leave that bitch locked up until the end. Control just sucks.

>>812821
I got it new, and at that point I woulda been...seven. So a bit younger, and too stupid to realize what you were supposed to do at first. It's amusing because I was pretty awesome at the game otherwise. I just distinctly remember a 'what?' moment with Naval Piranha.

>>812765
Please no. Just, no. ;_;

Illusion of Gaia - Mu and the shipwrecked part
Ristar - air swimming in 6-1
Xenogears - prison

>Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
>The Japanese castle level

Man, fuck those ninjas and samurais.

>>812961
>why are the ninja chicks so difficult

Dude,I know them feels. The stupid ninja /ballerina bitches in the last level of Strider (the crazy anti-gravity one) ALWAYS fucking get me.

>>812182
hes easy brah, stock up on Al-Bhed potions and keep up buffs

admittedly i had trouble with him first time i played it

>Green Hill Zone
"Aw man. Just like old times."

>Marble Zone
"This place was okay."

>Spring Yard Zone
"Yes! God this place was fun as hell! It's like playing pinball! What else is..."

>Labyrinth Zone
*Turn off Genesis*

I would end up depriving myself of the excellent Starlight Zone for much of my youth.

>>811129
Black and White
mission 4

>>811552
Oh you fucking wuss. Pressing Left, Right and A to a rhythm isn't hard unless you're some kind of spastic.

>>811294
I played it on Gems Collection. Oh man.

>>812182
only really annoying boss was FUCKING SEYMOUR FLUX GODDAMN

Trying to get the starting power ups and energy tanks in Metroid

Zelda ALttP - Misery Mire

Though maybe not. Every time I replay, I'm filled with dread at the thought of that dungeon, yet once I'm there I finish it a lot faster than expected. Maybe the boring as fuck first two dungeons are better picks.

>>811129
RE4, village attack in the first chapter.

>>811294
I thought the sumo pig boss in Green Hill Zone was harder, as a kid. At least if you got a game over on the first zone you had to redo two relatively easy acts, and you didn't have to play at any spring-location guessing games when getting to it.

>>813127
Holy shit, Mu. Fuck everything about Mu.

>>813147
I hate fighting ninjas

these Wolverine guys are almost just as bad with their crazy dodging moves

>>811214
You can skip like a gigantic portion of Water Temple.
It shouldn't even be listed ever.

>>813141
Vampire dragon was worse than dragon daimo, stop being a bitch.

Valkyrie Profile, all them unskippable cutscenes, especially the ones at the beginning

>>813785
>Make a save after all the unskippable cutscenes at the start
That's what I usually do in games with terribly tedious intros.

It doesn't help later, but at least you get past the initial hurdle

>>813772
The only bad part of the water temple is having to open up the start menu constantly to put on/take off the iron boots.

>Perfect Dark
>Air Force One: Crash Site

Fuck that level. Huge open space full of respawning snipers, featureless terrain that makes it nigh impossible to navigate, on top of an escort mission suddenly heaped on halfway through.

>Wolfenstein 3D
>Realizing how many fucking levels there are

I still play it once in a great while, but I haven't seriously tried to play the entire thing start to finish for a long time.

>Metroid
>Norfair

Lots of enemies that move in wavy patterns that make them impossible to shoot in the tight corridors. And fuck those dragon enemies, there's no avoiding that shit.

>>813793
more like NOTFAIR AMIRIT

>>813797
You made me laugh but I'm still terrified of Uboa. Now I'm just confused

Super Mario Bros.
That dick move in the seventh castle.

>Donkey Kong 64
>Owl's fly-through-the-hoops-game
>Having to beat original Donkey Kong twice
>Mad Jack

>Link's Awakening
>You got a COMPASS

>Super Mario RPG
>Always have 999 coins
>Can't forget Musty Fears' flag locations or Sunken Ship password
>Rerolling to get Belome's treasure room before Monstro Town

>>813672

It's annoying as shit and I don't want to do it.

>>813780

I meant the ninjas and samurais, not dragon daimo.

And honestly the Vampire Dragon (and his dungeon for that matter) wasn't that difficult if you just kept in one corner and jumped whenever he approached from underearth.

>>813860
this compass has a new feature...

>>813793
>dragon enemies
if you mean the one's that jump out of the ground, then just duck.

And the fucking level reappears twice more after the first a couple of levels later.
Now that I think about it, the entirety of earthworm jim 2's level compositions all make me not want to play it

Final Fantasy IX

>the entirety of disc 3 and 4
>Queen Brahne dead
>Kefka being an annoying faggot
no thanks

>>811145
>get a pirate copy of some version micro machines in the 90s
>suddenly computer won't boot
>asks for "enter original disk for micro machines" or something
>repairshop couldn't fix it either

>>811351
>not liking Dry Dry Desert and Lamakin Desert
what the fuck is wrong with you?
The music in both those areas was top-tier and there was a shitton of things to collect in DDD.

>>814086
>IX
>Kefka

>>811351
I always turn off Paper Mario once I reach the Shy Guy town because I have never made it past that world.

>>815162
>purposely depriving yourself of chapters 5 and 7
It's like you hate fun. Those are the best chapters in the game.

>>815162
That was one of my favourite chapters in that game. It was just so wacky.
To be honest, I feel the same way about Chapter 6 though, but I stick it through just for Chapter 7.
Seriously though, finish that chapter, you're missing out hard.

>>811549
y cant turtle swim!!!

>>815162
Please do what >>815169 and >>815193 say and finish the goddamn game, it's fantastic

The chase scene beforehand was cool but fuck this area

>>812750

>Baldur's Gate II, the first dungeon/part of the game.

I've seen this thread come up before, and I always come back to this so hard that I can't even come to close to matching it with any other game.

>Link's Awakening
7th dungeon
>mario golf on gbc
the mushroom kingdom tournament
>sonic 1, 2, and 3
Marble Zone, Metropolis Zone, and Marble Garden Zone
>Dr. Robotniks mean bean machine
level 6
>F-Zero on snes
to this day i cannot beat White Land II
>Super Mario RPG
FUCKING Bowyer.
>Mega Man 2
Wily Stages
>Turtles in Time
the FUCKING train level
>Earthbound
ugh fucking Moonside confuses the shit out of me every time
>Ocarina of Time
it was the water temple til i found the way to skip most of it, but now its the Shadow temple.
>Sonic 2 (game gear version)
Underground Zone act 3
>Golden Sun
the FUCKING deserts
>MGS1
the part where you had to backtrack to get the PSG-1 but in Twin Snakes they place a PSG-1T (from mgs2) in the room before where you fight Psycho Mantis.
>Final Fantasy 8
the prison
>Oracle Of Seasons
THAT FUCKING SUBROSIA DANCE. I COULD DO IT EVERYTIME AS A KID AND I CAN NEVER DO IT NOW. FUCK.

>>815470
I'm with you on White Land II, I don't know how you're supposed to make the jump.

Also there for all the MegaMan games, I always get to the end fight of every game just to give up after a hundred tries against Wily.

>>815470
Continuing:
>Goldeneye 007
Silo, Streets, and Frigate on 00 Agent are impossible.
>DK64
that factory level
>Yoshi's Island
the last world and all the extra levels
>Zombies ate my neighbors
the whole fucking game past level 4 is just plain torture
>Half-Life 1
On A Rail
>HL1 Blue Shift
Focal Point
>HL1 OpFor
The Package

>>811182
>dusty dunes desert

When the bus breaks down, or at the monkeys?

Goddamn monkeys. There are worse fetchquests but that one always struck me as the definition of unfun. Get your own cheeseburger you damn dirty ape.

Pokemon Red/Blue
Mt. Moon and Rock Tunnel

>>811154
I have the same exact problem with that game, anon. And feel the same as you.

>>811783
>the canoe ride
The river monsters in FF1 always seemed like they were super hard for shit XP and gold.

>>811581
>Labyrinth Zone
Fucking this.

>quackshot

Everything about the Tah Mahal. Even knowing the exact route to go it's like URGGGHHHHH

>>815498
>give monkey a cheeseburger
>gift box behind it has the same fucking item you JUST FUCKING GAVE IT

>>815582
The sea part.
Tentacools everywhere

>>815990
>Not the entire 3rd Act
Fuck those little spear weilding niggers

>>815395
Backtracking: the Area. Also, the mining game. Unfortunately, there's a lot of nice shit to pick up in Fossil Roo so you gotta do it all if you're a completionist.

>climbing that building

>Sonic 3 & Knuckles
>Casino Night and Marble Garden zones

Fuck those red barrels and fuck Egg man's Marble Garden boss.

I love Skullmonkeys but Joe's Hot Dog Factory is tedious and annoys the shit out of me

Batman on NES. Can't get past level 2.
Super Ghouls and Ghosts. Everytime

>Aladdin on SNES
>Escape the Cave of Wonders

>>811129
Rainbow fucking Ride and inside the Cuukoo Clock

This almost never happens to me because by the time I start playing the game I reach "that" part and have to relive it once again because I didn't remember the first time.

This is probably what I get for suppressing all those horrible memories.

>aw hell yeah, let's play DKC3 again guys
>wait, fuck how many birds are there
>there was a lost world but I can't remember where all the DK coins are
>I don't even know what the fuck I am doing to this final boss guys

>>811154
>>815601
Same problem, in fact just two weeks ago.

>>811636
i actually got stuck there the first time i played paper mario, i got lost and explored for days. desert areas in general are a huge turn off for me i just dont like the way they look and the music is not god-tier its the same in every game, its just music that sounds like heat. sword of mana has a great desert theme because it doesnt fit the area.

>>815990
I didn't hate Act II except for the palace levels and Maggot Lair. The rest was pretty solid.

>>816036
Act III is probably my favourite area in the game just for the ruins and Kurast areas. But the sewer levels were terrible and terrifying with those exploding bone fetishes.

>>816020
Really that applies to any area with unavoidable random encounters.

>Inner Worlds
The fact that everything outside Wizard's World was shit. Wizard's World was amazing with great music and they blew it later on. Those fire worms were op as fuck too.

I have yet to unlock the 4th cup in F-Zero X

I really envy people who can play ANY role-playing game more than once. I just don't have the attention span to go through all that dialog and leveling a second time.

>>816432
It's easier with games that have customization. Final Fantasy V comes to mind when I want to use stranger classes.

>Final Fantasy X
>Cloister of Trials

Hated every one of them.
Not hard, but fucking irritating to re-figure out after having not played for years.

>>817268
>re-figure out

dude, the trials are linear as shit.
and there's only one possible one you can fuck up at, the rest you have unlimited tries to clear.

>>817270
Truth. Still hate them.
I didn't claim my hate was logical... just grinds my gears.

>>812807
I liked Rusty Bucket Bay. Something about the music made it neat for some reason.

>Crystalis
>CLING CLING CLING CLING CLING

>>815498

Actually, the entire cave of monkeys can be completed within the cave. Every item a monkey asks for can be found in that cave. The only things you really need to get elsewhere are a Large Pizza and the first two items that the first two monkeys ask for. After that, you're set to go through the whole cave in one try.

blaster master, the start when you are stupidly under-powered.

System Shock 2

>CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

>want to beat Earthbound
>Oh right, those fucking trees.

Every time.

>>818381
To be fair, it's the end.

>>815470
>hating the train level
>not hating prehistoric turtlesauras and Slash
Why is this guy so fucking hard?

>>818392
FUCK those trees! Goddamn that game has a steep difficulty curve...

>>818420

Hi.

>>811215
fucking thank you

>>811645
Hydrocity was fun. Funky music too.

>>812750
Targos in IWD2 for me. Me and my brother have gone through that part so many damn times. It was our first cRPG. We know literally every in and out of that whole chapter.

>>816049

also the FF headquarters, that damn robot boss.

>>811171

Just get a couple Samurais and GPtoss it to death

>>811796

>the kid phase

I thought it was slow as hell.

>>818392

>The department store

Those fucking coffee cups, goddamn.

>>818891
Those coffee cups made me ragequit last time I tried playing through Earthbound. Fuck those guys.

Bevelle Temple or the Gatekeeper boss fight in the ruined Zanarkand Dome, FFX.
Backtracking to get the sniper in MGS 1.
The fucking Deku Butler race in Majora's Mask.
The drowned corridors of the Big Shell in MGS 2.
Grinding up, killing caterpillars to refill your E-Tanks just before Sigma in Megaman X.
Backtracking through any level in Shadowman. (All the environments are so fucking massive for N64 standards, so it's always a chore.)