Have you ever given up on a game because it's too hard?

The only game I can recall giving up on is Ghosts N' Goblins (NES). I played it a couple years ago, on a real NES. Kind of a misnomer I guess because I did beat it, but then, when informed by the game that I have to play through the whole freaking quagmire again, through a denser quagmire, no less, I promptly turned off the NES, took out the cartridge, put it in its drawer and have never touched it again. The raw difficulty of that first loop was enough for me. My petite thumbs can't take that crap twice. Tokuro Fujiwara is a sadist for creating this nightmare in a cartridge.

Anyhoo what about yooz guyz? What made you give up? Or are you simply incredible and pound every digital chumscrubber into submission.

No.

However I have stopped playing many a game because I wasn't enjoying it.

Some people feel if they bought a game they have to put in the time, make the investment worth it. I'm a little different, my time matters more, and I'd rather be playing something worth playing. Not a piece of shit.

Most definitely. My time on this planet is too limited to waste on a game that I am not enjoying.

You weren't enjoying because it was too hard? Which game?

The only game I recall stopping because I just didn't like it is that first Assassin's Creed. Awful game. I usually have a good feel for what I like, but I really botched it that time.

But then, eventually, I went back and finished it, because I'm borderline pathological with finishing what I start. It's a gift and curse, mostly curse.

I think I hit a wall on some Advance Wars missions and even though I liked the game before that, I wasn't able to finish the mission after trying over and over, so I gave up and moved on.

@nod_eclipse_: Ironically I played the first two Assassins Creed games, back then had a different mindset. That all changed after beating Dragon Age 3. Want a shit game.

At least with the Assassins Creed games I can see who the audience is. DA3? Don't know who that's for, but they've got garbage taste.

I can't just complete shit games anymore. Give any game I'm unsure on an hour or two and then think why I'm playing, if I don't have a good reason? I'll drop it without a care in the world.

Yea a few that I can remember off the top of my head:

Sekiro

Cuphead - such a great game that I am so bad at. I got to the final island but never got to the final boss.

the Ori games - these games are truly infuriating for how nice and pretty they look

Yes, several times. Ninja Gaiden (NES), Cuphead, Nioh, Ikaruga and Shovel Knight.

Only one I can think of is Dragon's Lair for the NES. Was just a port of an arcade game designed to eat coins. Extremely cruel difficulty coupled with really sluggish controls. So infuriating.

I don't give up on hard games, unless I am not enjoying them of course. I have completed Ghost'n'Goblins on Commodore 64, which, unlike the NES version had no continues but only four levels. I have also completed the arcade version using about 8 million continues, lol.

There is nothing worse than trying to complete a game, not because you really want to, but because you feel obliged to. That especially applies to games you paid a lot of money for and don't really enjoy. That's what I like about Gamepass : Uninstalling a boring game doesn't really cost you anything.

I can't think of any game off the top of my head but if I find a game too hard, I am not enjoying the game.

same

Yeah but it's been awhile.

There are games I haven't been able to beat ... but I don't know that I've officially given up on them just yet.

I've gotten to the final boss on DK Tropical on 2 separate playthroughs but haven't beaten him, still have hopes I can at some point.

Playing NG2 Black right now on Master Ninja. On Chapter 2 atm and it's rough, doubt I'll progress much further... maybe if I didn't have a job.

Blaster Master on the NES. It was difficult in a way that I was unable to finish the game and I had a limited number of continues before it is Game Over. Like most games in the late 1980s, I cannot save my progress in Blaster Master.

Yeah but it was a long time ago with some NES game or two. Nothing that’s recent comes to mind though.

I liked the world in DA3, but everything else is.....yeah. Lackluster, to say the least. Didn't even bother with 4.

I played Dragon's Lair once, on some old dusty arcade cabinet. Very, very, VERY frustrating experience haha. Didn't feel difficult as much as the player felt purposely handicapped.

The checkpoint spacing annoyed me.
Love Samurai Jack so maybe go back, but it did piss me off.

Only game was Sekiro. Just can't get the parrying down.

Last I can remember was Metroid Prime when I played the GC copy in my Wii nearly 20 years ago. Quit on the boss after numerous attempts and never went back.

Everything else it was too difficult to stay interested because it was soooo boring.

@onesiphorus: I beat Blaster Master by adding a common sense save system using save states. Basically like a checkpoint system. I've been meaning to eventually go back and do it without saving though.

Ghost House & Black Belt on the Sega Master System & Stranglehold on 360 are the ones that comes to mind immediately.

Demons Souls on PS3. Then i came back one year later and it became one of my faves of all time.

Never because a game was too hard, but pretty often if I'm either not having ING fun or just ready to move on.

Yep, whether it is because i'm not having fun or because even if i'm liking the game, i don't have the time, skills/patience to properly learn and finish the game.

An example of not having fun is the latest Captian Tsubasa game, is probably not that hard once you get the hang of it, but the game is just too frustrating and not fun at all, i gave it a few chances and i was not having any fun ... i remember watching a few tutorials, then i play a "training" game and i was not able to score a single goal after 5 "training halfs", even worst, i wasn't learning anything ... so yeah, wasn't having fun, i just stop playing it.

An example of a game i like but didn't have the patiente was Xcom 2, i really love the concept, but there is just too much stress and too many trial and errors and brutal punishments ... and i was actually having fun but each session was getting longer and longer and i wasn't even at the half of the game, so i eventually stopped, great game, but too time consuming due to difficulty.

Happy ending.

Only if it doesn't have more to offer

Oh yeah.

I try it out for long enough to feel I've gotten my hour-per-dollar ratio worth of fun, but yeah...I generally give up on games that are too hard. Or boring. Or annoying to play.

I like my power fantasies, my open-ended sandboxes, my wonderfully lazy city builders or factory builders...I like more intense games as well, but generally I don't find joy in a challenging video games.

Which is funny because I am a very competitive person when it comes to sports, card games, board games, and general competition.

Yup.

Kinda, sometimes i plan to make another playthrough on the hardest difficulty, but i decide it's not worth it.

@nod_eclipse_: I'd give Inquisition a point for presentation; visuals and music.

As a game it wasn't to be enjoyed it was to be endured.

& no one bothered with DA4, so you're not alone.

Before I learned that it was an arcade game designed to eat coins, I thought it was just a cruel joke made to piss people off. They lure people in with the pretty graphics and animations, only to give them the worst gaming experience ever.

I think it's weird that they never took their time to make the games OK to play back then. Dial back the difficulty, add perhaps a healthbar so you don't die from one hit, make the controls more snappy, and it would've been a fun game. They only needed to make a few tiny little changes to make the game fun, and they didn't bother.

@onesiphorus: Blaster Master and its sequels are available on Evercade cartridges. All Evercade systems do allow for save states, to my knowledge. So if you wanted to give it another go, you might want to try with Evercade.

Sekiro, just couldn't.

Lies of P I managed fine though.

Definitely not. There have been challenging games, but none I gave up on. The closest I could think of is perhaps Pac-Man Adventures on the Sega Genesis. That hang glider level, I tell ya.