Have You Hit a Gaming Wall?

[wraggster]

Stephen Totilo, at MTV Games, has hit a gaming wall. At the newly un-flashed Multiplayer site he talks about the bane of gamers everywhere, what developer Jamie Fristrom calls a 'shelf-level event': a gaming wall that makes it hard if not impossible to complete a game. While a lot of gamers can overcome difficulties to reach the end credits, there are some frustrations that can suck all the fun out of play. He cites the bosses from Final Fantasy X and Super Paper Mario as dealbreakers. I personally am playing through God of War again, and the incredibly frustrating spear trap in the 'Paths of Madness' section of the game never fails to provoke hysterics. Have you run into any such obstacles lately? What game obstacles have caused you toss away a controller in frustration and swear off a game entirely?

via /.

[iniquitous_beast]

I remember my first gaming wall. It was the first boss on Earthworm Jim 64. The rest of the game had been tolerable for me, young as I was, but that damned marble-collecting minigame that they called a boss fight left me turned off to that game forever. I beat the boss once, got so happy that I puked, then found out that the next boss was just a harder version of the same boss fight. I was broken.

[Emeriastone]

FFX-2, the place where you have to gown down 200 floors in Beville and play for 2 hours and you suddenly hit a 90 degree difficulty curve. Note that it isn't needed to beat the game, but to get 100% completion for videos you can just watch on youtube.

[FireStag]

One game that frustrated the heck outta me was Gauntlet 2... did that game ever end? It was fun but like 5 hours later and your on lvl 126 you start to wonder.... wtf?

[10shu]

One game that frustrated the heck outta me was Gauntlet 2... did that game ever end? It was fun but like 5 hours later and your on lvl 126 you start to wonder.... wtf?

eheheh...the same happen to me...
did anybody ever finished that game?

however, the last boss of axelay is my gaming wall

[Zargon]

Disk 3 of Legend of Dragoon. At one part, you get sent through a one-way teleporter that has a save point on the other side. I saved and continued on my merry way. Later, you fight a boss that happened to be much stronger than all of my characters. One of them was blind due to me not bringing anything to cure that ailment and not knowing I could buy his Dragoon spirit at a shop. Too weak to level up, too weak to be the boss, and no way of returning t the other side of the portal until I beat her.

[Veskgar]

My first gaming wall was in the original Zelda game for the NES. The last Dungeon (9) where you must face Ganon was incredibly diffucult for me. Navigating that dark dungeon and trying to locate the silver arrows, red ring, then Ganon was very hard for me.

Pathetic now that I think back to it. But I was a very young kid. I went back years later and once and for all, defeated Ganon.

I never did play through all of the 2nd quest though. I'll be doing that now on my PSP thanks to NesterJ.

[Shadowblind]

Sephiroth on KH1 and 2 got me quite annoyed. That boss did, however, make the game fun for about 5 more hours of leveling up.

I think we all might agree that making a game too easy is better then making a game thats too hard.

[darthclone]

mega man all of them for some reason ive never been able to defeat sigma

[jezzick]

i dissagree shadowblind, a very hard game is much better than an extremely easy 1. and the final boss of mgs3 (boss) was freakin' painful. i never really beat her, i just got bored and sold the game