/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.849924]

Times where a game made you feel stupid as fuck

>FFIV
>the fight against Dark Knight Cecil as the Paladin
>shit goes on and on, keep wasting all my recovery items just to stay alive despite the game saying otherwise
>finally beat the fucker
>talking with a friend later on, bring this up
>"how did it take that long? you were just supposed to let him hit you"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.849928]

>>849924
...this has happened to me. ...a lot.

[Anonymous No.849930]

>"A true paladin will sheath his sword"

I had no idea what "sheath" meant when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.849965]

>>849924
I had this guy whooped!! Wasted a lot of items. Even sharked it to see if it was possible to kill em. Dammit!! Thank Gad for multiple save slots.

[Anonymous No.849975]

>>849928
fuck that shit

[Anonymous No.849997]

In ocarina of time I got stuck at lon lon ranch because I didn't know you had to jump over the fence when riding Epona

[Anonymous No.850009]

You know what I like? JRPGs that actually awards you if you manage to defeat a seemingly impossible boss.
The Lufia series are good examples.

[Anonymous No.850269]

>>850009
Oh, man, I love that shit. It's too bad nobody ever fucking does it.

Nowadays I end up throwing myself against every impossible fight just for the challenge. They're usually far and away more fun than the regular battles.

The ones that don't just straight up kill you in one hit, anyway.

[Anonymous No.850293]

>>849965

[Anonymous No.850467]

>brave fencer musashi
>inside the restaurant's cellar
>forgot I could copy enemy abilities
>find cracks in the walls
>spend the next 2 hours looking for some type of bomb to blow them up
>you're supposed to use the ability from the enemy sitting right next to the fucking wall to destroy the cracked walls

[Anonymous No.850479]

>Kirby's Dreamland 3
> Find rooms with your friends
> Didn't know you had to do some cryptic bullshit
> See friend do it
> realize I dun goofed

[Anonymous No.850627]

Wasn't that the way you had to beat him in the Japanese version?

[Anonymous No.850653]

>>850627
No, it wasn't any different.

[Anonymous No.851617]

>Playing Megaman X
>first level
>wtf maverick hunter first boss
>kicking his ass
>goes on for about 5 minutes
>oh i was supposed to let him kill me
>mfw

[Anonymous No.851701]

>getting my ass kicked by Geese Howard
>after like 40 tries, realize he can't block a Burn Knuckle when getting up
>spam it, win easily
>mfw

[Anonymous No.851718]

>Kamelet Castle in Link's Awakening
>that door that slams shut on you in the room before the ball and chain knight
>break all the pots, jump around, throw bombs everywhere
>after about 10 minutes of frustration, I get mad and throw a pot at the door
>the door fucking breaks

[Anonymous No.851725]

>>851617
Oh man, it pisses me off so much the kids that will take like a couple hundred of these USPS stickers, draw the same stupid gang thing on it, and stick them all over the subway.

[Anonymous No.851767]

>>851725
Yea no joke I do not support this at all I just like the drawing on it

[Anonymous No.851778]

>>851725

I do this.

[JordanParks No.851785]

>>850467
Super Mario RPG, I was 7 at the time so yes I was stupid. The part where you get to Marrymore and need to break down the door with bowser to get in. I read it quickly and thought he said "this door won't budge, we need to find someway to break it down" so I thought he wanted me to get some bombs or something because I tried running into it at the same time as him and it didn't do anything. Spent like 4 hours filling my inventory with bombs by harvesting pure waters from ghosts in kero sewers and then figured it out sort of accidentally. Funny but stupid

[Anonymous No.851814]

>>851617
>Get easily defeated by a JRPG boss
>Hope that it was supposed to happen
>It wasn't, my team is just underpowered
Every time.

[Anonymous No.851816]

The top of my tv picture was cut off where it just kind of flipped upside down and the ff4 messages were tough to read so I just fought the dark knight too.

I don't remember beating him being a problem at all though.

Shame on square for taking out the darkness ability though. You don't even get why he died without it. Plus it was a strong ability that made things easier, not some shit like focus or cry or all the useless items they cut that was just clutter.

[Anonymous No.854348]

>Friend and I attempting to play and beat Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the first time ever
>Lose all neighbors but one 14 levels in
>Can't beat last boss due to not having enough resources and lives from all of the neighbors that we did not have

[Anonymous No.854363]

>>851814
>that one time you're winning and supposed to lose

[Anonymous No.854376]

>>849965
>the first battle with Garr

[Anonymous No.854378]

>Xenogears
>Forget after D-Block that L2+R2 boards Gears on the overworld
>Stumble ass-backwards into the Goliath Factory without Gears
>Manage to take out one enemy before dying
I did this twice before figuring out what to do.

[Anonymous No.854392]

>>854363
Fucking Beatrix. Worst of all, it happens THREE GODDAMN TIMES.

[Anonymous No.854391]

>FFVII
>Need to talk to a guy in the lobby of a building to progress the story
>Talk to everyone in the lobby, none of them are the right person
>Do it again, thinking I missed something
>Do it once more, just in case
>Get frustrated, give up
>Younger brother decides to give it a try
>Hits random buttons and, by chance, finds the right person
>The person was hidden out of view
>"Ha ha, anon! You're the stupid!"

[Anonymous No.854393]

>>854348

I hate zombies ate my neighbors because of the fact that zombies can literally pop RIGHT FUCKING UP BENEATH YOUR NEIGHBORS AND KILL THEM, AS SOON AS THEY COME ONSCREEN FOR YOU TO RESCUE THEM.

Ruins the entire game for me.

"Oh hey look, a ne-"
"Guess not, zombie spawned right beneath him and killed him."

Really fucking great. Just great. I don't even know why this game gets the love it does because of that one glaring gameplay flaw. I mean, the levels have some funny names, but... ugh...

[Anonymous No.854401]

>>849924
Not your fault, the game teaches you to fucking beat the living shit out of everything when the fight music starts, just WTF else were you supposed to do?

This is as bad as boss fights where you waste all your fucking items trying to fight him when your supposed to lose

Even more infuriating is fighting a boss that is absolutely fucking cleaning your clock, and earlier when playing you had a boss fight before where you had to lose, so you purposely give up JUST TO FIND OUT NO THAT THIS IS A BOSS YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FUCKING BEAT

[Anonymous No.854414]

>>849924
I never understood this. When I tried to just sit there and take a beating, I'd get my ass handed to me and the fight would never end. Instead I just go all out on him, takes a long time still, but he eventually crumples.

[Anonymous No.854417]

>Chrono Trigger
>Dinofortress
>To get to the next area you have to walk through doors that you cant see, almost no indication that they're there and they're on the bottom of the screen
>Spend a week playing the game over and over on and off going to every timeperiod and exploring
>Finally read a walkthrough
>Doesn't mention any secret passage, just starts talking about some first and second bosses
>Wtf
>Eventually accidentally walk through it

Seriously fuck that place

Even the music was fucking horrible, hands down my most hated area in that whole game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=A11eWGIasMY#t=46s

For the lucky fuckers that never knew the horror of hearing this on repeat

[Anonymous No.854419]

>>854417


Forgot the screenshot of the door

[Anonymous No.854459]

>>854417
>>854419
I'd heard of people being unable to leave their house in Pokemon because they didn't realize the mat at the bottom signified a door, but this one's new to me. Usually it's just that room with Magus's statue that everyone misses the door to.

Anyway, to contribute I had a rough time figuring out why so many expensive weapons seemed useless in FFL2. The instruction book didn't explain the concept of weapons based on different stats, and I was too stupid to figure it out.

I used the goddamn Prayer scroll til it ran out and it never worked once, cuz I never used it on anything undead. I thought maybe it was a cruel joke about the futility of praying.

[Anonymous No.854468]

>>854419
>>854459

ITT: Idiots.

[Anonymous No.854496]

>>854468


Shouldn't you be on /v/?

[Anonymous No.854504]

>>849924

I hate any fight where you have to get hit or die to continue.

[Anonymous No.854513]

>>854459
>The instruction book

Lemme guess. You paid $200 to get it complete with box, inserts and shrinkwrap to look like its never been opened. You're living proof that collectors are morons.

[Anonymous No.854520]

>>854513
>its impossible to have bought the game when it came out

[Anonymous No.854529]

>>854513
What implied that he had spent a lot of money? That game goes for like $15 in my local game store, and you can get boxes and manuals for stupid cheap online.

Also this - >>854520

[Anonymous No.854526]

>>854513
It was the nineties. I was a kid.

Like you, apparently.

[Anonymous No.854545]

>>854513

are you for real son

I was nearly done with college when chrono trigger came out

I have instruction manuals to my fucking atari 2600 games-thats ~1980 if you dont know about it

I never call people son, because I look 20 years old, but in your case it really applies

[Anonymous No.854546]

>>854513
you want some salsa with that chip on your shoulder?

[Anonymous No.854543]

>Dad just rented majora's mask for me
>got through the bomber kid stuff, i'm on the clock tower
>pick up the ocarina
>learn the song of time
>somehow after i learned it, my mind told me to press up left down instead of up right down
>tried to play it for 5 minutes
>got frustrated, looked up the song online
>still did it wrong
i had no excuse, I don't know what happened.
In my defense, my cousin couldn't figure out how the deku flower worked. he wouldnt hold a long enough for it to charge and pop him out correctly, somehow.

[Anonymous No.854561]

>>854513

If you were my child I would beat you senseless with a bag full of E.T. carts.

[Anonymous No.854592]

>>854561

Why are you mad at him?

That's what most "Mint collectors" copies are, some guy bought a near mint box, instruction booklet and game, cleaned them up, shrink wrapped it all

Fuck you can prove they are fake by opening it up, the SECOND you take off the shrink wrap the box edges ply open by themselves, proof of a previously opened box game, not to mention the contents of the box being all fucked up.

Always look at the shrink wrap CLOSELY so called "Collectors", if the shrink wrap is -FOLDED- at the back you have a much greater chance of an actual mint copy, if the shrink wrap is uniform across the whole box and has been heatshrinked, you're dealing with a repackaged game

[Anonymous No.854620]

>>854592

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Nintendo-SNES-Original-Controller-NIB-New-Box-Factory-Sealed-Near-Mint-/300924315875?pt=US_Video_Game_Controllers&hash=item46107ca8e3

Here is an example of a clearly pre-opened box that's been poorly fucking heatshrink wrapped

SNES stuff were not slice heatshrinked, they were folded plastic which was hot glued together -THEN- heat shrinked to make them hug the box

[Anonymous No.854623]

>>854592
why am I mad? Because he made an absurd assumption based on >>854459 using the phrase "instruction book" and proceeded to act like a complete tool.

Also why are you mad at me? I'm just one of at least 4-5 guys who have already ripped into the simpleton.

[Anonymous No.854630]

never beat the rhythm game in smrpg, the yoshi race

if I passed it, it was with a rapid fire controller.

its still unbeatable for me

[Anonymous No.854636]

>>854620
>>854592

Yes, the majority of us understand the concept of pre-owned shrink wrapping and professional Y/triangle fold packaging.

But thank you for providing the "spoken to like a child" feeling over the internet.

[Anonymous No.854646]

>>854592

were discussing the stupidity of his assumption about the instruction book reader, not the accuracy of his completely unrelated digression about prodigal collectors or shrink wrapping

people were shrink wrapping small bricks and returning empty boxes to walmart in the 80s

[Anonymous No.854672]

>>854646

I was going off his remark that 99% of "Mint" SNES games still in box you see for sale online are all bullshit, which is true, and I gave tips on how to point them out

I didn't read the post prior to it about NEEDING the instruction booklet, which is silly, of course you need the damn instruction booklet, I wish today's games even had them, we could get rid of the 20-60 minute BULLSHIT "Learning" levels that holds your hand for a fucking hour to "Teach you the controls"

[Anonymous No.854675]

>>849924
Fucking link to the past. I'm confident people fucking made games non initiative to sell guides.

[Anonymous No.854706]

>>854675

The only part I remember to ALTTP that was never explained was needing to get the amulets to open/cause specific things to happen in the game, till you found the amulets you were fricken stuck

[Anonymous No.854795]

>>854672
> "Teach you the controls"
This disparity is yet another reason why we're all on the board in the first place. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.854816]

>>849930
When I looked it up in a dictionary, it still made no sense to me. I very well couldn't defeat Cicil without my sword.

[Anonymous No.854896]

>>854816
I laughed. And I'm not calling you stupid or a (gasp) collector.

[Anonymous No.854920]

>>854392
Beatrix actually has a set HP value, and also has a timer I believe.

[Anonymous No.854972]

>>851725
>gang shit
ever heard of graffiti? protip isn't always to do with gangs

[Anonymous No.855635]

>>854795

I guess you didn't hear what I said?

I said I would rather have an instruction booklet then having the game tell me where to go and how to use basic game functions for a wasted hour of gametime

Its also because game publishers are fucking cheap as fuck, and tutorial levels are 10x cheaper then having a pack in manual with a game

[Anonymous No.855697]

>>849924
Can't really blame you for that... See, in the Japanese version the dark wave thing Cecil uses is an ability he has when you control him. It uses his HP. This makes it a lot easier to assume "Oh, he's going to kill himself with that move"... but since it was removed in the US release, yeah.

[Anonymous No.855709]

>>850009
>>850269
Hell yeah. These days I typically take 'impossible fights as 'challenge accepted'.

[Anonymous No.855717]

>>855697

I played the japanese version and I still didn't get it.

But with the way you explain it, it makes sense.

[Anonymous No.856626]

>>850009
The recent one is Crimson Gem Saga. On your New Game + try beating all the bosses that you were supposed die on. You won't beat the very first boss encounter, but the rest, you can win.

[Anonymous No.856678]

>>850009
The recent one is Crimson Gem Saga. On your New Game + try beating all the bosses that you were supposed die on. You won't beat the very first boss encounter, but the rest, you can win.

[Anonymous No.856731]

>>854513
You got buried as fuck because of your stupid comment. I hope in time you will come to realize what an idiot you are.