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What are some of the hardest jumps you've encountered and why was it difficult?
Was it long

>> No.10909242
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>>10909215

>> No.10909259

Spawn on SNES, the wall jumping sections starting at 32:10 was too hard for me as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeED02vyCw&t=1930s

also lookin good OP

>> No.10909342
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Head Over Heels on me speccy.
pixel perfect jumps is an understatement, I've never sweated so much over a jump.

>> No.10909365
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>> No.10909371

>>10909365
>0:33
Yeah those frogs had it pretty tough jumping over Higgins for sure

>> No.10909410
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This jump says fuck your technical bonus, Joe.

>> No.10909413
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>>10909215
this one hard

>> No.10909421
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>>10909410
This one is worse, and they make you do it twice. And an enemy can just decide to say "fuck you" and throw a shuriken at you when you land on the second one.

>> No.10909583

>>10909215
There’s a jump in gargoyles quest nes that you have to pulse your hover midway through in a very specific manner or your hover won’t last long enough. https://youtu.be/CDGzCEqkXiw?feature=shared

>> No.10909605

>>10909259
It doesn't help that that game controls like ass.

>> No.10909632

I found half the optional items in Super Metroid to be infuriating to get, but I was playing through blind for the first time without the x-ray scope

>> No.10909705
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anyone who has played the game knows how fucking annoying this jump this

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>>10909215
there's another three block jump at the end of the bridge too, doesn't help that this is inbetween two hard sections. but at least they give you the stopwatch.

>> No.10909867

The jump from 2D graphics to 3D graphics was the most difficult.

>> No.10911110

>>10909731
Simon's horizontal jumping distance felt terrible in this game.

>> No.10911116

>>10909242
He's not even using a filter though, that's just a shittily encoded webm. You're so obsessed and broken you're swinging at enemies that doesn't exist. It's pretty fucked up.

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>> No.10911734

Skullmonkeys final level. I never even got that far, but watching a video of it tells me I would never have beaten the fucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmGmCkApxg
From 4:39 onwards, but very specifically 8:53 to 12:40 is a level of bullshit that would have had me raging.

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I don't think anything will top this. This forced me to look up a guide on how to make a single jump in a video game. That's nuts. I really doubt they expected it to be this difficult given how most things in this game don't function properly so it may not be fair to count this, but as is it's a bitch.
There was another jump earlier in the world where the jetpack guys may throw a shuriken at you while you're crossing a gap and that would instant kill you and it was just total luck whether that happened or not.

>> No.10911790

>>10911734
Whoops, that's just the first half. Here's the second half of the final level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdOPy2J2tiw
And from the start to 10 minutes is the complete bullshit. At least every other example in this thread(except Adventure Island) involves solid platforms that don't move around. Final level of Skullmonkeys is all about moving platforms that are only around exactly long enough to make the jump and not a millisecond more. And if you got the activation order wrong, you would fall to your death as the needed platform suddenly vanishes before you can land on it.

>> No.10911797

>>10909365
>>10909370
Ye gods

>>10909583
Imagine being a gargoyle. What would you even do?

>> No.10911804
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That impossible jump in Abe's Odyssey over the assblaster

>> No.10911810
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Even for Ecco, they must have realized this jump is so hard that they put a hidden passage nearby for people who couldn't make it.

>> No.10912959

>>10911797
>Imagine being a gargoyle. What would you even do?
Idk, probably a quest.

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>>10909413
That one is actually literally impossible without cheating or playing the yuro version

>> No.10913828

>>10909421
I had no idea you could do that, I just run and jump to the other side and very rarely die.

>> No.10913909

>>10911763
Just glitch that raghead out of the screen. Game is fucking with you? Fuck it right back in the face.

>> No.10913923

>>10913828
You gain a lot of pixels if you did this way and I thought it was the only way to make it through these jumps (either use wall jump at the start, or at the destination which is harder).

These jumps heavily depend on the position of the boat on the Y axis when you jump though, which is why I spend a lot of time waiting in the video

>> No.10914750

>>10909365
>>10909370
Man this was such bullshit, sure the whole game is hard but when you arrive at THIS last level and you go "This is it" and you die. Then, you realise that your hammer is gone and the game isn't giving you another one. Absolute pain.

I played Wonder Boy too, which was slightly easier than Adventure Island IIRC.

>> No.10914859

>>10909370
What's this c64 Wonderboy fanmade romhack fake bootleg homosexual garbage?

>> No.10914889

>>10911804
Aren't you supposed to run and roll so you go under rock? It looks like it blocks the Scrab.

>> No.10915013

>>10909365
This shit is just unreasonable.

>> No.10915303

>>10909215
bart vs the space mutants, on my sega. couldn't get pass through homer's platfforming-filled level due to the fucking jump system
I suppose nes' bart vs the world too to an extension, I just don't remember suffering with it (I remember suffering with the puzzle minigame, fuck that shit puzzle, never was good with it, and it's on resident evil 4 too, ashley's part)

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>>10909215
Maybe the ones in Brain Lord. The majority of the individual jumps aren't hard, but there's just heaps of them and you're falling down holes so often that it gets a bit annoying because sometimes it sends you back pretty far. In picrel the floor is also moving which makes it even harder. Maybe like a quarter of the game is jumping over gaps and between moving floating platforms and stuff, there's heaps of it. Still a decent game though

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This shit in Willy Wombat was infuriating. As if isometric platforming wasn't annoying as it is already, here it mixes fans AND converyor belts at the same time.

>> No.10915451

>>10913289
>>10909413
Really makes you wonder why in a lot of video games, you die when you hit water.
Like nobody ever learned how to swim, you need a special skill/item to swim.
Even turtles.

>> No.10915490

Every long jump in Xenogears.
>at least direction button, you are fucked if you have to use two, so the camera must be carefully aligned before each jump
>one button for running
>jump button, which makes it three, this if where a regular keyboard nopes out, because it can't detect an arrow and two letters pushed simultaneously and you have to rebind keys in an asswards way for it to work
>random battes keep happening while you align to jump
Fuck this game.

>> No.10915710

>>10909365
>>10909370
I would say no because 8-2 and 8-3 are unreasonably hard as well

>> No.10915716
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Fuck this section always and forever. I think this was the only green coin I gave up on.

>> No.10916353

>>10915451
This doesn't apply in TMNT though. The turtles swin in the dam level, before this sewer part.

The reason they get taken away is because the current is really strong here. Someone who knows how to swin will always get carried by strong current and likely drown, but I invite you to try it since apparently it's just video games which got it wrong.

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>>10911797
>Imagine being a gargoyle. What would you even do?
We live again!

>> No.10916785

>>10915451
>Really makes you wonder why in a lot of video games, you die when you hit water.
Because it's an easier solution than creating sprites and coding it all to be elegant

>> No.10916802

>>10911810
Shit, that reminds me of all the tricky jumps me and my classmate made while playing Defender of the Future back in the day. Especially in the Atlantis Lost stage, there is a crystal shard you need to collect and it's high in the sky on top of the structure. The game assumes you've mastered out of water jumping at this point.

>> No.10916810

>>10909215
First Donkey Kong Country game features levels where you have to be really precise in jumping to cross the gap. I think Stop'n Go station filtered me good.
I get that DK is a huge fuckin' gorilla but I just don't like games where jumps feel so heavy, it kinda breaks my reflexes.

>> No.10917067

>>10911116
>you're swinging at enemies that doesn't exist
And you're attempting to use a language you don't understand.

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>>10909731
>>10911206
Played these two recently, and yeah, what were they thinking?

>> No.10917090

>>10911206
CV3 is really good at making you think some back ground parts are platforms you can land on.

>> No.10917141

Castlevania jumps are the easiest thing. You always jump the same distance, a little over 2 blocks long (so about 40 pixels), there is no movement or momentum to fuck up. That people fail at this baffles me. You only have one basic thing to learn, that 2 blocks long distance, if you die on the same jump more than once you seriously need to get good.

>> No.10917187

Might as well ask here.
Was the first Castelvania any good or is it matured later?

>> No.10917192

>>10917187
it's one of the best

>> No.10917526

>>10916353
>it's just video games which got it wrong
Just because the game is correct doesn't mean it's right.

>> No.10917584

>>10909215
>What are some of the hardest jumps you've encountered and why was it difficult?
Super Mario World. To advance on the Star Road when you had to jump UNDER the goal marker.

Damn, I could never manage that one.

>> No.10917586

>>10909365
>>10909370
I had this game and I had to use a game genie to beat it. Shit was absolutely nuts. The controls were so fucking loose.

>> No.10917658

>>10917187
It displays its oldness in its shortness and simplicity, not in its level of quality. This isn't like say Mario where the first SMB feels like a stiff old antique compared to the third. Castlevania and Castlevania III are pretty much the same thing, except in that the latter is much bigger. And they're both awesome. (Not insulting SMB1 by the way - it's a good antique.)

>> No.10918119

>>10917187
I don't know if it's good because I can't beat it, but I enjoy the challenge.

>> No.10918162

>>10916802
Yeah Defender of thr Future has some really hard sections in general. It's frustrating that the first Ecco gets ported to all kinds of stuff which is nice at least because it rocks, but Tides of Time and Defender of the Future just seem forgotten.

>> No.10918378

>>10917584
Sacrifice a yoshi

>> No.10918810
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>> No.10919136

>>10918810
Emulator fag.

>> No.10919213

>>10919136
Fuck off

>> No.10920046

>>10918810
you're supposed to jump at the wall, press the other direction (samus will cling onto the wall for a frame) then jump again, and repeat
bomb jumping on the other hand, literally impossible

>> No.10920061

>>10918810
I had no problem with this when I first played SM, the real hell for me was trying to climb up the shaft to the spring ball cause you have to wall jump off one wall and there's those enemies at the top to mess it all up right at the end

>> No.10920103

>>10917067
>>10911116
You’re both tards. Now kith

>> No.10920148
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There's some gay jump sequence in Alundra 2 where you have to carry some gay ass wooden boxes across lava on moving blocks while fireballs fly at you and any damage means you have to start over

>> No.10920153

That fucking jumping puzzle in Dark Forces.

>> No.10920154

>>10918378
>Sacrifice a yoshi
Yeah, i know the technique. I just could never manage it.

>> No.10920167

>>10918810
>when I played Super Metroid as a kid I masterd that game
>Play it on the SNES Classic and get to that point I couldn't manage it
getting old sucks lol