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Super Ghouls and Ghosts for the SNES. After spending weeks playing it over and over and over, and finally reaching the end of level seven with, I think 7 lives, and finding out that you can't just go on to the final level, nooooo, you get sent back to level one and have to go through the first seven again before you can face level 8.
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Yes! Because the character "missed" something. That was a bullshit way to extend the life of the game.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
Serious Sam, which was fun, until I reached a stage that I seriously don't think can be beaten without using a cheat. You enter an arena, and thousands, literally thousands, of the skeleton guys attack. Then a hundred or so minotaurs. Then a few dozen of the mid-level walking things. Then a few of the big bads.
Now, there are two platforms in the middle, each with a backpack full of ammo, but it isn't anywhere nearly enough to kill the 39,000 bad guys they send after you. It would have taken six, eight, ten backpacks to take down all of these guys. I only know about the last two or three waves of bad guys because I eventually went god mode and it still took like 30 minutes because there was no freackin ammo.
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The only way I succeeded at that game was to play it multiplayer, so you have effectively infinite respawns. One time Coppertop and I played it multiplayer and I cranked up the difficulty to 200% and another 100% for each player who joined the game. We stopped after Coppertop and I ended up standing on two pillars shooting down at the endless stream of Kleers (skeleton guys) below us, 20 feet down.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
Trying to get the music puzzle right in the original Myst. All of the puzzles in that game were straightforward and reasonable. But this one was pure torture for someone who is effectively tone deaf.
God I love the glory days of the adventure game. I played the original Gabriel Knight game for a couple of months before finally solving it satisfactorily without a hint guide.
Gilda
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Gabriel Knight, that was a good game. Loved the first one, wanted to play the other ones, but never got a chance. Loved the part: Spoiler:
where your uncle sacrifices himself to put blood into the sacrificial altar. Brought a tear to my eye. Man, I should find that series and play it again. Myst annoyed me. I was expecting 7th guest type puzzles and instead, my friend and I beat it in 2 days. Good puzzles, but too subtle for my taste.
And I should addend, almost all escort missions in games suck. AI is almost never up to par, enemies are almost always vastly superior, and the player is almost always forced to run around like a chicken with his head cut off.