Took me a week and a guide.

[quietchat]

While games have become more playable and easier to beat, there's no doubt that there are parts of the game, optional or neccessary, that can still be hard to do in some of these games. Take for example, The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask, where you have to find the 15 fairies in each dungeon for a goody. Or getting all of the skulls in Halo 2. How about being able to throw Bowser into the third bomb in Super Mario 64? Or simply beating a boss in the first Ninja Gaiden?

So, what have you had to do in a game, that you needed many, many hours to do and dedicate yourself to accomplishing, and still needed help?

Let's start off with somthing that would drive anyone crazy: BEATING ANY BOSS IN NINJA GAIDEN! We're talking x-box version, so you are aware. The bosses are hard, difficult, and only the most expericned fighters can play while avoiding damage. The first stage alone makes you want to tear your hair out, as you take out ninja left and right, only to fight your master... and get whooped by his numchucks. The second person though, That's waaaaay worse, with a long spear, extra fighters coming in to attack you, and he's even riding on a horse to give him speed and make him a harder target. The zepplin level gives you a huge guy that shoots lightning, and later on you gotta deal with tanks.

[analogZero]

I remember the ps2 remake of shinobi was a pain in the ass too. I could trudge my way through to the end, getting slaughtered along the way. I killed off the final boss once and never bothered to try ever again because it was so brutal and took so long.

rpg's are starting to get to the point that it'd be impossible to find anything worthwhile in the game without resorting to a guide or faq. ff xii was particularly ridiculous having to spend hours upon hours on completely random hunts to get one weapon. or getting best endings to games can be a hassle from time to time too. I guess that's just good marketing for guide sales.

[Koopaking]

The Pit of 100 Trials on Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door. One the hardest things I've ever managed to finish. DO YOU KNOW HOW FRUSTRATING IT IS TO SPEND 4 HOURS FIGHTING NONSTOP ENEMIES, AND END UP DYING ON THE 93rd FLOOR?? I DO!!!! Man that was really hard and it took me so long. I didn't stop playing until I beat it either.

[quietchat]

Who says there's no challenge in Nintendo?

Going old school, I always played Super Mario Brothers 3. I could almost always make it to the 8th world, and then Hell fell ontop of me. I NEVER made it past the 3rd world hub screen, I always got stuck on those last 2 levels, and since I couldn't beat them, there was no way to break the locks and keep going forward.

[analogZero]

Who says there's no challenge in Nintendo?

Going old school, I always played Super Mario Brothers 3. I could almost always make it to the 8th world, and then Hell fell ontop of me. I NEVER made it past the 3rd world hub screen, I always got stuck on those last 2 levels, and since I couldn't beat them, there was no way to break the locks and keep going forward.

there's buttloads of nintendo games that i just don't bother with because I can't even get past the first level, even with help and suggestions. those games and I are like oil and water. we don't mix.

[sousuke]

goemon great adventures for n64 i could never get pass this 1 gap on the 2nd to last lv an i still play it this game is the only game i have not beaten in my collection WTF!
also on ddr w/mat extreme mode i still cant beat max 300! an im a good ddr player

[quietchat]

Has anyone played Snake Rattle and roll? It's one of the first games to use an overhead, Three Dimensional viewpoint, and for a platforming game that makes it hard. You munch of spheres and try to keep from falling while you trek a mountain, and I don't know that I ever got past the 4th level, but man those were good memories.

[sousuke]

no i havnt but they companies need to make new harder games an not just fps games

[analogZero]

no i havnt but they companies need to make new harder games an not just fps games

good call. fps are alright, but lose their fun when some fairy jumps all over the place and shoots you once with a bb gun in the face and all of a sudden you're dead. good move. hey here's another fps.....with the same rules applying.....awesome. they have a game for limiting your shots and it's called golf.

[quietchat]

Golf games suck. You could repeat the same shot 20 times and never have the same result.

[Koopaking]

I can't believe I hadn't remembered this until now.

Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.

Took me over 2 years to beat, steadily going through levels. And it only let you save at certain points... ugh some levels I had to repeat over 20 times, just because I messed up before the save point appeared. The last world Monkey Mines is absolutely brutal. Talk about cheap deaths, and obstacles that come out of nowhere. In fact, King K. Rool was small potatoes compared to the rest of the game, at least I could save right before I fought him.

[quietchat]

I know, I think the farthest I could get on that game was Level 83, and then I couldn't get any farther, no matter how much I tried.

[solborimm]

sonic blue sphere, its impossible to finish without cheating, theres like a million levels to it, plus you would never know you can play it unless you go online.

[monsoon 10]

I can't believe I hadn't remembered this until now.

Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.

Took me over 2 years to beat, steadily going through levels. And it only let you save at certain points... ugh some levels I had to repeat over 20 times, just because I messed up before the save point appeared. The last world Monkey Mines is absolutely brutal. Talk about cheap deaths, and obstacles that come out of nowhere. In fact, King K. Rool was small potatoes compared to the rest of the game, at least I could save right before I fought him.

Say since you played it did you ever figure out how to find those "secret" levels?

[Dolly]

Going to every single available planet and doing every single possible mission available to you in Mass Effect. Now "that" was an effort for me. :dizzy:

[LoKiWorlD]

Kingdom Hearts
I don't know about anyone else but i really ReaLy wanted that ultima wep and the only way to get it...you had to create several other items. Well there was no way i was going to spend time writing down what item each creature dropped. So luckly i found a guide which was made by someone elses hard work(shout out:"Thank You!!") and it still took me a long time to get the job done. Maybe two weeks considering how much time i spend playing games.