Ever Hit an Invisible Wall Because You Were Playing a Game Incorrectly?

[7eve70rd]

I'm thinking specifically of strategy RPGs where misunderstanding a game mechanic means hours spent playing were the education and you had to restart.

What was that game for you?
Did you use a GameShark or Cheat Code instead of restarting?

 

[Zerpina]

Oh.. once or twice...

 

[PacGuy]

I'm thinking specifically of strategy RPGs where misunderstanding a game mechanic means hours spent playing were the education and you had to restart.

What was that game for you?
Did you use a GameShark or Cheat Code instead of restarting?

Shin Megami Tensei: If
I was playing through all of the old school megami tensei games basically in a row and If.. was the last one. I was going for the best ending and had up to that point beaten every challenge through levelling and strategy, I had very good demons and my party was at least in the early 90s or whatever close to max was. I just could not beat him and I knew it would take grinding, and at that point the grind was fucking SLOW. So I cheated the last few levels and put my party up to 99 and stomped him so I could be done with it.

 

[MrYesterday]

Morrowind.

 

[Guinea]

I had to restart Final Fantasy 10 the first time I played it because I saved right before a boss that I was way too underlevelled to beat and there was no way I could grind EXP. It was this bastard right here:

 

[bjork]

In my memory, I got the Luca Blight fight in Suikoden II without sharpening my weapons and could not return to an earlier point to do so, so I was stuck there. I wound up selling it before I ever went back and did another run

 

[TheMinuMaster]

In my first five hours of Demon’s Souls I got destroyed by enemies I definitely wasn’t supposed to be fighting, and I somehow managed to ruin every World Tendency in the process. Another funny one was the first time I played the Ghost Rider game on PS2 — I didn’t even know you could level up. No idea how, but I still managed to beat the whole thing.

 

[7eve70rd]

Shin Megami Tensei: If
I was playing through all of the old school megami tensei games basically in a row and If.. was the last one. I was going for the best ending and had up to that point beaten every challenge through levelling and strategy, I had very good demons and my party was at least in the early 90s or whatever close to max was. I just could not beat him and I knew it would take grinding, and at that point the grind was fucking SLOW. So I cheated the last few levels and put my party up to 99 and stomped him so I could be done with it.

I will mention

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked​

because I enjoy the game and feel a difficulty spike towards the end punished me.

I look at the time spent getting towards the end and not having the demons/skills to reach day 6 as a fun journey and my team died. That was a bad ending but I was satisfied with it. I'll take my written notes and begin a fresh play thru.