Games where you were woefully wrong in your choice of difficulty?

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I mean with enough patience even the most noob of players can beat games on hard since you have the ultimate weapon of all "save game" and "load game" nothing can beat you if you have these 2 at your disposal.

 

[J.F.C]

Zone of The Enders 2 on Hard broke the Square button on my Dualshock 4 from how hard i was pressing it from all the frustration. Thanks Konami.

 

[Blamhammer]

I was playing Ys Seven on...normal. My old gamer thumbs could not deal with the final boss.
I just watched the ending on YouTube and came to the conclusion that I was never gonna beat it.

 

[Ikagura]

I was playing Ys Seven on...normal. My old gamer thumbs could not deal with the final boss.
I just watched the ending on YouTube and came to the conclusion that I was never gonna beat it.

I think you were simply underleveled, I remember spending 30 minutes before Scias as usual for an Ys game.

Oath is much harder.

 

[Blamhammer]

Oath is much harder.

Oddly enough I managed to finish Oath. It must have been the darn levels.

 

[prnzo x BOOZE-o ka-BEER-o]

on 2D/3D fighters, 2D plats, metroidvanias, n sometimes sh'mups - unless I'm in overwhelmingly bad health circumstances - I pick the hardest difficulty (if applicable, as obv 8-bit n back often lack an option screen) unless there's a specific legit reason to do a lower difficulty setting first. when I'm on, my twitch reflexes are reliable n stubborn to hang on for dear life through a lot of chaotic gaming clusterFuQx n pressure matches n buLLet heLLs. I don't think that's very much to commend myself for, in n of itself - I've been dealin with those challenges all through the entire 80's/90's decades in every single formative year of my life

on... basically all other genres - I won't usually lower the difficulty, but I won't raise it either (unless the game was playtested by Elmo n Cookie Monster xD ). I have always struggled with innate aptitude for cognitive reasoning (though it has gotten worlds-better over the years - particularly the last few) n I have MS/tardive dyskinesia so I am not the best mouse or analog-stick wielder n can get unnerved n wracked with intense pain very quickly tryin to take accurate headshots runnin around in an FPS. it doesn't help that I had a mentality more in common with Japanese gamers when the advent of 3D gaming came along - they were buggy, unimpressive garbage to me with porn-quality voice-actor skills, grainy colors, obnoxiously banal n attracted casuals that I already got into fist-fights with over taste in music arguments (which was stupid but I was young n self-medicating so - crap happened)... n then my beloved art was growing in popular appeal into the artistic euthanization slaughterhouse of mass-appeal pandering compromise (me bitter much over business sensibilities defecating on anything healthy n innovative in [any given] therapeutic gem of arts/entertainment? naHHHH OFC NOT xD but at the same time I understand the unsavory but necessary, paradoxical codependence of ball & chained dynamic opposites)

...also, 3D peripheral awareness is not natural to me in gaming format - which further pushed me away from polygonal-based titles... I am still a 3D gaming klutz to this day though not nearly as inept as back in the day. me bein a bull-in-a-china-shop in especially stealth-oriented games is just art imitating life I suppose xD I go in with a 'play for fun n laugh at my incompetent F-ups'-esque attitude. obv I avoid playin FPS or other multi-player with egomaniacal lunkheads - or associating with anybody like that in any other social multi-media interface format. a good thing about negative online interaction is that if you have a disorder-driven overreactive temper towards obtuse population-control-candidates - it helps you get in the habit of taking the higher road, walking away resolutely extricating yourself from the dysfunctional situation, n moving on with your life. IRL these days you run a probable risk of significant legal repercussions if you give someone a quick but harsh reality check. n that tuff-guy stuff is weakness - I feel that way as well. I spent all my years up until I was zoned for a HS in the Vegas ghetto being a space-cadet introvert. obviously unavoidable varying-degrees-of-cruel will show you life had other plans (nah I dont necessarily believe in fate but am open to being wrong about everything at any given time if something jarringly 'gamechanging' happened in the world)

ok got too far out into tangents n personal stuff so I'll stop this here. as with most of my posts - I apologize if I come off too heady, verbose or guilty of 'abject flowery'. I have a habit of 'going for it' with conviction with little regard for how others might react, n I think that has both a positive n dubious side to it, so - I apologize for the latter. when the mania calms down (christ I hope it's soon) I'm sure my posts won't nigh-qualify for mini-novellas. thank you to anyone who bothers to read my stream-of-consciousness drivel but it's sure af not nonsensical. anyone who reaches that conclusion has a reading comprehension issue - gomen na sai for feeling that way. weird Saturday, ne? startin to think I need a gag tied into my mouth to shut up n my fingers in unwieldy giant mitts to stop typing xD but I stand behind my rants or whatever I naturally end up doing - for better or worse. or worst. (<-- a line I'm using too much but if the glove fits...)

 

[Ian Naxieas]

A friend and I played through Left 4 Dead 2 on Expert our first time through. It was... an experience. Hoo boy. It didn't go dreadfully bad most of the time, but there were some parts we were stuck on for hours and hours. We managed in the end, but it was quite a struggle at times.

Thinking of Halo, this one is kinda mean. x) I was babysitting one of my mom's friend's kids when he was around six I believe and we both wanted to play Halo. Well, I wanted to play on Legendary because I was having too easy of a time and he didn't have a choice but to go along with me. We actually did pretty well up until the infamous Library level when we were stopped dead in our tracks. Things turned sour. He started throwing tantrums whenever he died and I kept getting murderized by just myself, but I wanted to finish it regardless. He stopped playing and I bashed my head against it for awhile before giving up. I hope whoever designed that level steps on some Legos with bare feet, though I probably deserve the same fate as well.

Any difficulty other than what would be considered Normal in the Civilization games. I've played the series for hundreds and hundreds of hours. Occasionally I'll feel a bit spicy and decide to bump up the difficulty a couple notches and I end up getting humbled quickly. I have similar trouble with the Total War games. I enjoy both of those series, but ultimately I'm not that great at them.

Similar to above, fighting games in general. Again, I can handle normal, but any time I've tried going higher has resulted in disaster. I'm too impatient and button mash too much to be actually good at the genre.

I've modded the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games more times than is probably healthy. The last few times I've used modpacks from Wabbajack. They almost always recommend or even start you out on the higher difficulties, in addition to being rebalanced to be harder. I can't handle it and I don't know how people can. You die in a matter of seconds! Miliseconds if you're unlucky enough to aggro a group. I suppose it gets more reasonable once you're better equipped and have some levels under your belt, but I don't even know how to get that far. x)

Like above, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod community is just filled with masochists. Misery is a very apt name for that (in)famous mod and all the rest are just wolves in sheep's clothing. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a series that is very important to my boyfriend and even though he's great at the games, he agrees the difficulty from the mods is just bullshit.

To continue the trend, RTS games in general. I have difficulty even on normal with them, let alone anything above that. My ability to multitask and focus on so many units and skirmishes and base building and... and... it's just all bad. I can do okay at a handful of them, but most are far beyond me. I remember playing a VS bots game in Starcraft with a friend and my lack of skill pissed him off so much that he refused to ever play with me again. x)

The Fire Emblem games on Lunatic and even Hard at times. When a single point in Speed will determine if your character is useful or useless because they can't double, it's too much for me, especially with the random stat growth. I will also turn off permadeath if possible, because I'm weak.

Once upon a time I was actually pretty good at F-Zero GX. Not amazing, but none of my friends could stand up to me. I was good at everything below Master, but once I hit Master I started hitting a brick wall. I managed the Ruby Cup on Master, but couldn't get past the Sapphire Cup on Master. I beat all the Story stages on Normal and most on hard, but Very Hard was too much for me. I think I simply hit my skill ceiling. I'm proud of how far I got though, it's not an easy game.

Ninja Gaiden: Black on Master Ninja was just not meant to be. I got a bit into the game, but it was just proving too much for me.

Shinobi and Nightshade. I just don't think I have fast enough reflexes.

Wow, that's a lot of games I'm kinda bad at.