Games you've played the hell out of but never beaten

[durias]

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

[Shatterhand]

The Chaos Engine , Amiga version.

I've reached the last boss many times, and never managed to beat it. To be honest, to this day I still have no idea of how the heck that thing can be beaten, though I know one guy who claims to have finished the game with every possible combination of characters.

Alien Breed 2, Amiga version.

This one hurts me a lot. The game came in 3 disks, and it was an extremely hard game. The levels were splitted in 3 different buildings... I used to play this with a buddy of mine (Cooperative 2 players games are great), and we were really excited and we had finally reached the military building (The last one)... when the game asks for disk 3, I insert disk 3..... and the game just fails to load.

Ohh, those were the times, when half of the games failed because floppy disks were shitty, or the cracked games weren't completely cracked

[Acid King]

... when the game asks for disk 3, I insert disk 3..... and the game just fails to load.

Such is my experience with Shogo. Great anime inspired first person shooter that always got stuck in a continual loop during a cut scene when loading a certain stage about 3/4 of the way through the game. Even the most recent version, which I don't think was ever updated for XP, does not work properly on my computer.

[Shatterhand]

I've played Shogo a bit in a friend's house, it seemed to be a nice game. I even thought about buying it once, it was one of those games that were widely spread around here.

[FRO]

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

Here, here. Could never get past Super Macho Man...

[MA7]

Rez. I have no problems with any part of the game, other than the final boss. It's been so long now I reckon I must have created a mental wall stopping me from ever doing it... The worst thing is, a friend picked the controller up and cleared it first time! It was his first go on the game, went straight in at the last level and BAM! done.

Disgaea. I've levelled characters up to what I thought were high levels, then faced the final FINAL boss, who I couldn't even scratch. I doubt I'll ever grind away & level up enough to beat her.

KOF/SNK bosses cause me no end of trouble. There's plenty of cheap bosses out there I've never beaten.

Metal Slug series. I don't see them as a game to concentrate on and 1CC. Creditfeeding, guns blazing, that's the way I do it

[Shatterhand]

Oh, come on. I finished Rez in my first go too. Stupid game, it's damn easy and shallow. If it wasn't by the whole "music experience" and the vibrator thing, the game would went completely unnoticed.

At least Lumines gave me the "music experience" coupled with some interesting gameplay

[MA7]

Yes I know, I can barely live with the shame. I don't know what the problem is, just can't do it

[Fighter17]

Any manic shmup.

[Turrican]

The Chaos Engine , Amiga version.

I've reached the last boss many times, and never managed to beat it. To be honest, to this day I still have no idea of how the heck that thing can be beaten, though I know one guy who claims to have finished the game with every possible combination of characters.

I completed it using these two parties:

-Gentleman and Navvie
-Navvie and Thug

Being a gentleman means you'll go faster than the NPC and will be able to pick up all the best stuff. (also, don't upgrade you ally's speed). If you use some guide with detailed maps, perhaps the map special power is useless, then I'd suggest the Brigand.

With Navvie and Thug you are both at the same speed, but you also are the strongest available.

Ohh, those were the times, when half of the games failed because floppy disks were shitty, or the cracked games weren't completely cracked

Don't tell me, I have an impressive record of unfinished games on amiga due to faulty copies... Damn piracy

[Pirate1019]

Disgaea. I've levelled characters up to what I thought were high levels, then faced the final FINAL boss, who I couldn't even scratch. I doubt I'll ever grind away & level up enough to beat her.

Transmigration is your friend.

[Shatterhand]

I would usually pick Navvie and Preacher. Those health items were very useful.

I usually didn't had too much trouble with the CPU partner "stealing" my power-ups, I would usually reach them before, even with the slow Navvie. Brigand was also always my second choice.


Like I said, I've reached the final level a fair amount of times.. but I never figured out how to beat the "generators" from the Chaos Engine. They kept shooting those energy balls at me, and I could never get close enough to shoot them.

Excellent game by the way. Shame about the sequel though...

[MA7]

Transmigration is your friend.

Yeah I've been doing that, it was a bloody revelation when I first realised what transmigrating did for you. I've now reached the point where the only thing left is trawling through the item world and hitting Cave of Ordeal simply to level up enough to kill one last enemy. Sod it, I have better things to do, like Guwange! Ha Ha, I've still got Makai Kingdom and Disgaea 2 sitting on the shelf too

[The Coop]

Road Rash on the Genesis. I got to the final set of races, and won two of them with fourth place or better. The last three, for the life of me, I can not win. You have to go so fast, on two-way roads that are very busy, and I always wind up wrecking my bike. I've owned the game since shortly after it was originally released, so that should give you some idea how long that game's gone unfinished


Another one is Burnout 3. I've completed every race and crash scenario, except for the last two races. That F1 car is so squirrelly and hard to steer, it makes for a seemingly never ending torture test as it keeps the final victory just out of reach.



Oh, and I did see the ending for Road Rash by using the Game Genie a couple years back (frustration got the better of me), but that doesn't count as beating the game.

[Jon]

Here's another vote for Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Played the crap out of that game and never saw the ending.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Punch Out! here too. Also, I've never seen the endings to Mega Man 2&3, Ninja Gaiden 1&2, Friday the 13th, and Life Force to this day despite having played the hell out of them.

[Lordstar]

Disgaea. I've levelled characters up to what I thought were high levels, then faced the final FINAL boss, who I couldn't even scratch. I doubt I'll ever grind away & level up enough to beat her.

Transmigration is your friend.

Yeah im only up to the 3rd boss and im already doing this saves me grinding in a huge block of days and days worth. I dont have a EU PS2 just my sexy Sakura pink PS2 so i only play when im at my mates house and he is being an unsociable bastard with his Maxed out FF11 Mithra

[Leandro]

Descent 2. I still own the game, but have never beaten it... Too damn long.

And ironically, it's one of the few PC games I own that is a original copy... ha

[Never_Scurred]

Descent 2. I still own the game, but have never beaten it... Too damn long.

And ironically, it's one of the few PC games I own that is a original copy... ha

Oh shit..I still have that and the first one....I wonder if I can still play 'em on my pc.....

[Turrican]

Like I said, I've reached the final level a fair amount of times.. but I never figured out how to beat the "generators" from the Chaos Engine. They kept shooting those energy balls at me, and I could never get close enough to shoot them.

Maybe my memory fails me, but perhaps you had to take down four pillars before facing the chaos engine itself... lowering down a barrier or such...

Anyway, the Gentleman develops the first aid iirc - and he has some health more than the Preacher.

[The Coop]

Descent 2. I still own the game, but have never beaten it... Too damn long.

And ironically, it's one of the few PC games I own that is a original copy... ha

Oh shit..I still have that and the first one....I wonder if I can still play 'em on my pc.....

If they give you trouble, grab DOSBox. It runs both quite well on my P4 3.0GHz machine. If you need help, check here for setting it up, or throw me a PM.

[Shatterhand]

Like I said, I've reached the final level a fair amount of times.. but I never figured out how to beat the "generators" from the Chaos Engine. They kept shooting those energy balls at me, and I could never get close enough to shoot them.

Maybe my memory fails me, but perhaps you had to take down four pillars before facing the chaos engine itself... lowering down a barrier or such...

Anyway, the Gentleman develops the first aid iirc - and he has some health more than the Preacher.

Yeah, that's the problem. When I said "generators" I meant exactly those four pillars. Each one was in a corner of the level, kinda inside of a room... when I get close to one, it starts to shoot energy balls at me, and all I could do is turn 180o and just run like hell, never getting close enough of the pillars to shoot at them. Trying to go kamikaze on them always lead me to dying before I could shoot.

Anyway, not that I feel like going back to play this game again. This was like... ooh... 13 years ago? (At those times I feel older than I really am) It would be too much troublesome to get past all those levels again, the game is huge! But I still rate it as one of the best games I ever played, top-notch stuff, gameplay, graphics and sound-wise.

[SuperGrafx]

Dragon Power - NES

Good lord that's a hard game.
Came close to finishing it, but the weak ass collission detection and constant life draining takes its toll.

[Turrican]

Yeah, that's the problem. When I said "generators" I meant exactly those four pillars. Each one was in a corner of the level, kinda inside of a room... when I get close to one, it starts to shoot energy balls at me, and all I could do is turn 180o and just run like hell, never getting close enough of the pillars to shoot at them. Trying to go kamikaze on them always lead me to dying before I could shoot.

Anyway, not that I feel like going back to play this game again. This was like... ooh... 13 years ago? (At those times I feel older than I really am) It would be too much troublesome to get past all those levels again, the game is huge! But I still rate it as one of the best games I ever played, top-notch stuff, gameplay, graphics and sound-wise.

Hmm. Well, this game has passwords. I can give you mine for the last world if you feel daring enough. And if you just closed the Amiga inside a drawer, I've been that crazy to play it on Megadrive too

[Shatterhand]

PASSWORDS ARE FOR N00B I ONLY ACCEPT ONE CREDIT CLEAR.

heh

I didn't close my Amiga in a drawer. MY A600 had a peaceful death some years ago (a few months before I bought my first PC, in 98)... I couldn't find anyone here to fix the machine (Even though the machine was produced here for a brief period, it's more obscure than, say, the MSX around here), so I kept its body in the hope I'd find someone to fix it someday.

a couple of years ago my house was infested by termites (it was a battle to get rid of them), and AMAZINGLY (and some people usually don't believe this) they made an ugly damage to the A600... It seems they don't "ate it", but they drop some substance on the wood to make it softer so they can eat it.... and they dropped this thing on a lot of non-wood stuff, including my A600. (It's disgusting to say the least).

So, I had no option but to throw it away. It was a sad day....

I still plan to buy another Amiga machine someday.. I still have all my floppies safely stored (though I bet they aren't working anymore), but they are so damn hard to find here in Brazil... and when you find one, even a Vanilla A500, the asking price is absurd.

And I hear in UK people find working A500s on dumpsters .... heh

[Pirate1019]

Transmigration is your friend.

Yeah I've been doing that, it was a bloody revelation when I first realised what transmigrating did for you. I've now reached the point where the only thing left is trawling through the item world and hitting Cave of Ordeal simply to level up enough to kill one last enemy. Sod it, I have better things to do, like Guwange! Ha Ha, I've still got Makai Kingdom and Disgaea 2 sitting on the shelf too

Haha, If you have better things to do then spend hours transmigrating, then you misunderstood the point of that game . Personally, I'm only at chapter 6 or 7, and the only reason I'm not farther is because I hate the item world, so I spend a vast majority of my time just leveling up my characters in the regular stages, which doesn't give me the ubered-up weapons.

[klausien]

Rez. I have no problems with any part of the game, other than the final boss. It's been so long now I reckon I must have created a mental wall stopping me from ever doing it... The worst thing is, a friend picked the controller up and cleared it first time! It was his first go on the game, went straight in at the last level and BAM! done.

That's because you're too good at it. Rez is a game that gets harder the better you play. Thus, novices can do better than expected on tough parts. If you kill every enemy with as much chaining as possible, the bosses can get pretty cheap.

I love that game.

My embarassing contribution is Super Mario Bros. Yes, the first one. I'm positive I could do it, but just never have. I think the mean reason is that I didn't get a copy of the game until about 10 years ago. If I'd had it when I was a kid, I'm sure I would have turned it inside out. My NES came with Gyromite and Duck Hunt, and I initially had an SMS.

Castlevania III is another one. though that game is pretty hard. I recently got the Jp original, so I may beat it soon. Grant's unlimited daggers might make it possible.

[Gozer]

Viewtiful Joe for the Game Cube. I've tried many times to get past "The Magnificent 5" chapter. I always fail when I face another joe. I have come close to beating him though. I refuse to drop the difficulty.

Casltevania 3 would be one. This game kicks my ass all the time but I love playing it so much.

[Daigohji]

I still plan to buy another Amiga machine someday.. I still have all my floppies safely stored (though I bet they aren't working anymore), but they are so damn hard to find here in Brazil... and when you find one, even a Vanilla A500, the asking price is absurd.

And I hear in UK people find working A500s on dumpsters .... heh

Yeah, old Amigas go for next to nothing on eBay over here. Why don't you import one? The A600 uses an external PSU, so if you just plugged the PSU from your old A600 into a UK Amiga, I imagine it should work without needing a voltage converter. Don't blame me if your house burns down, though...

[Acid King]

Castlevania III is another one. though that game is pretty hard. I recently got the Jp original, so I may beat it soon. Grant's unlimited daggers might make it possible.

That's the only Castlevania I've owned and never beat. I busted my ass on the game when I was a kid, trying different paths, different characters, the works. When I did make it to the final stage, I never managed to beat Dracula. A friend of mine lost my only copy of the password to get therewhen I lent the game to him. I was devastated.