I have this really old save file on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time where I basically tried to skip combat as much as possible, and it took me like 5 years to reach the final boss (compared to like two weeks on the other save).
Its been stuck there on the Shroob finale because it legitimately takes you like 40 minutes to clear the first princess and you have basically no one-ups or a useful amount of bros items, so you have to make every hit and dodge count.
I’ve seen several good speed runs of the game so it’s definitely doable, but it requires about 2 hours of perfect inputs, so I probably won’t be finishing it soon lol.
Celeste
There’s one screen that’s just keeeeps going in the very last level, shit took me like 20-30 hours spread over two weeks
i gave up on consort Radahn. but i guess they made it easier later with a patch? never went back to try again after trying to beat him for a week.
Rodney, the Wizard of Yendor
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I don’t think I’ve ever beaten Doom 2 without cheats or mouselook. I just can’t time those rockets correctly.
I got the Xbox port of this a few years ago, and the last level of Doom 2 was a bitch to play. I died so many f’ing times before I finally got it.
I’ve been a player of the original era DOOM games since the start and am pretty good on PC with a mouse and keyboard, but I’ve always found the console ports so much more difficult for some reason. On other games I can swap platforms and control schemes just fine, but my brain just will not accept the combination of DOOM plus a console controller.
I played Doom and even Quake with keyboard only. That should translate well to a controller. But maybe that’s why my brother always kicked my ass in death match.
I think I only switched to mouse look with Jedi Knight.
I’m the same way with Age of Empires II. My younger sister loves to play the Xbox port but I’ve played AoE since the late 90s when they were originally released on pc… I can’t stand to play it on a console.
Perhaps you might find it easier to archvile jump into the exposed brain and chaingun it to death.
I’ve been stuck deep in Bomberman '93 for about 15 years. It’s the boss level that starts with the multiple enemies on motorcycles and then progresses to a single boss who flies around the perimeter of the level and shoots fire. Every few years I’ll load up my save and spend an hour or two re-learning the fire guy’s patterns and making attempts, but never quite well enough.
I’ve heard Bomberman '94 is really cool, but I’m not allowing myself until I finish this one!
About 100 hours on the final boss of FF8 because I fucked up and saved right before the fight with basically nothing in my inventory. I repeated the fight for literal weeks, trying different strategies and item use patterns and stuff.
It was very rewarding to complete, but I’ll never play that game again.
Mike Tyson/Mr. Dream in Punch-Out!! (I did beat them with Game Genie though).
The final battle in Star Trek 25th Anniversary (before it was patched). It’s just not possible to win this!
A real Kobayashi Maru, you say?
Unintentionally by the developers, but yes, absolutely! Good one!
Joker in Batman for the NES. It took forever to get to him, and it was too easy to mess it up
Pure Vessel in Hollow Knight. I have a file that’s at like 111% and I just need to beat the final pantheon but I’ve never managed it. I don’t even know how bad Absolute Radiance is, I’ve never made it that far.
FYI the last pantheon isn’t a % point, if you’re at 111 you’re missing something else
Abs radiance is worse, but not just because it’s more difficult. It’s also a lot less fun, at least in my opinion. Think buffed Markoth kinda BS (which I just now realized, makes a lot of sense thematically/lore-wise).
Pure vessel was one of my favorite fights despite taking me many many attempts to beat.
Practice down below. He’s no harder than NKG. The real final pantheon takes so long I haven’t done it again since getting to radiance and losing. Instead i occasionally try to beat the first two pantheons all binds
Same. I think there’s something of a skill cliff here.
I got stuck on Absolute Radiance and my thumbs took a break and haven’t made it back yet. It’s been at least a year.
Sekero is just about my favorite game. I’ve completed it at least 20 times and will do so again.
I’ve beaten the Demon of Hatred 2 times and I never want to play that motherfucker ever again.
Killed him once legit and then cheesed him off the cliff on every subsequent playthrough. Fuck that boss.
When I was a kid it took me several years of owning TimeSplitters Future Perfect to beat the story despite playing it literally every day. Id first seen the game when I was younger and watched my older cousin play it and the zombie house freaked me out so much that it would get my panic going when I got the game myself at around 13. It wasn’t until I genuinely set down with the goal of beating it that I realizes it had not aged well at all in the high point of the zombie craze and was actually hilarious.
Easily my favorite game of all time and I can’t wait for TimeSplitters rewind to get to it. I still have my disk and of all things, the spot I used to stop it at is exactly where it throws a disk read error on my reclaimed Xbox.
Wasn’t a boss but an achievement in the original geometry wars. Score 10 million without dying. It took me about two years to get that and I would play it at least once a night if I could.
That game doesn’t get talked about enough. Geometry Wars was an incredible little game on the Xbox Arcade
Yep was good, didn’t care for the sequels
In Hollow Knight, the Grimm fight. I spent hours learning the patterns. I’m pretty sure that’s what created the drift on my joycons during that time.
Beating nightmare grimm is where I peaked.
It’s a perfect gaming mic drop.
