ITT gamer PTSD triggers

>>714238374 (OP)
I was convinced this level was impossible as a kid. I used to watch the title screen demo of the adult Simba levels and always wondered how much fun those might have been if I got to play them.

The giraffes weren't the hard part. The fucking ostrich run was. Seriously, to this day I don't know what they wanted for the double jump sections

>16-bit platformer with pretty graphics and decent core gameplay
>obscenely difficult gimmicky mini-game sections that 75% of the game is gatekept by
Name a more iconic duo

>>714241509
Same. I probably beat level 1 about 800 times as a kid. Always got cockblocked at the fucking ostrich run.
The game was so fun to me though it didn't really bother me. I was used to games during this time period being mainly levels 1 and 2 or even maybe 3 before I ran out of lives.

>>714238374 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9svMa42lw
Fuck this game.

>>714238374 (OP)
No, the worst was The Return to Pride Rock Stage. What monster makes a maze stage with respawning enemies that late into the game!?

>>714241206
its not impossible but its like a hundred times harder if you're playing the snes version, where you can't ledge grab onto the hippo's ear so you're forced to platform over the lily pads
>>714241509
>Seriously, to this day I don't know what they wanted for the double jump sections
you jump once over the pink hippo (with the ostrich) and then jump again in mid-air as simba off the ostrich over the bird's nest
the parts where there are two bird's nests and no hippo you have to duck under the nest

>>714238374 (OP)
play the dos version its way easier and i think technically the best out of all the ports

>>714238374 (OP)
>>714238461
>>714241598
Also all three of these

>>714238374 (OP)
Man I never managed to beat this as a kid. I remember one time I got pretty far, and then my shitty 486 got a division by zero error and got booted back to DOS. Shit was nasty back in those days.

>>714241598
Speaking of which. Whoever designed this mini-game deserves to die a painful death. They then deserve to burn in Hell for all eternity for making us do it THREE TIMES

and the rc missions

Escaping the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin sucked too.

Just watching this on TV put me on edge every time the player managed to get further than a few levels. I hear the input lag was terrible for those actually playing it as they had to input commands on their telephone while watching the game on their TV (it ran on an Amiga machine at the broadcast station). I got the PC version when it was released and even with no lag it was hard as hell. I don't think anyone in my country managed to win the grand prize ever, think I saw someone make it to the final level once.

>>714241771
>you jump once over the pink hippo (with the ostrich) and then jump again in mid-air as simba off the ostrich over the bird's nest
See the thing is as a kid I did that and still fucked up. But looking at a gameplay video now (and with the benefit of high-definition and not blurry CRT) I realize the problem was the bastard devs offset the pink rhino to the right for the double jumps, so it's not just the normal rhino jump plus one, it's a completely different jump altogether. That shit is fucked up to do to a kid.

>>714242630
my 00 agent run ended on this mission
i think i have like 50+ hours just on this game on the switch version

>>714238461
I just finished Dark Souls 2, and didn't have much issue with these fellas.

>>714238461
Those guys can GET FUCKED

>>714242758
Were you on the Scholar edition? It's way worse than vanilla

>>714242724
Every so often I get the urge to replay Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, but then I remember my old N64 sticks give me carpal tunnel and all the replacement sticks have awful sensitivity which makes aiming impossible.

>>714238461
Wait, don't these guys have like no poise whatsoever? They flinched from every attack. I smacked these guys with a Fist weapon.

>>714241598
Intentional design as these types of platformers usually had low sales Vs high rentals, so the philosophy is make it as hard as possible so kids keep begging to re-rent. It's an extension of arcade coin-gobbling cheese

>>714242363
not every day that we see Hugo Délire on /v/

>>714241598
Earthworm Jim is 100% a game that nobody actually fucking played. I swear everyone vividly remembers earthworm Jim fondly but nobody who actually played the fucking game can say anything other than "good art good music"

>>714242695
offset to what, the tree that's just a background texture?

>>714243251
i made it to hell (the 2nd level?) and got scared and took it back to blockbuster

>>714243251
I had both games and even had a complete collection of the toys at one point. Never finished either of the games. People probably don't have much to say about them since they're in the Battletoads category where nobody ever saw past the first couple levels due to getting filtered by a frustrating mini-game section. I can at least get decently far in 2 before Puppy Love drains all my lives. I don't think I've ever beat Down the Tubes in 1.

>>714242079
Genuinely don't know how anyone struggled with this one. It's obviously unsatisfying to watch smoke miss constantly, but if you just follow the train you cannot fail
The plane mission with the radar is the real filter

>>714243876
A lot of the time he doesn't even shoot and it feels like RNG if you pass or fail.

>>714238374 (OP)
Almost the whole game

>>714243067
The Finnish TV host (Taru Valkeapää) was my childhood crush and the reason I have an eternal soft spot for redheads.

>tfw had the game boy version of this
>fully beat it and while I do remember this being a little difficult I still got through it
>even beat the game multiple times
>find out there was console versions years later and people thought it was difficult
Which version was the hardest?

TERMINATED

>>714241623
HOOHOOOWAAAHAHAAAA
MAAAAMAAA
HOOOWAARBLARBLGARBL

>>714242328
Isn't this one intentionally bullshit? Like sometimes they just will not go in and you have to chase a different one.

>>714242363
This art style makes me angry.

>>714242630
Bond I...

>>714238374 (OP)
I never beat that level. There was some bit with a tree where I just had no idea what to do. I think you had to latch on and jump a particular way, can't remember its been 27 years.

>>714242917
emulate the games with the mouse and keyboard patch and marvel at how stupidly easy they become

>>714242051
Tommy Tallarico really wanted you to listen to the cool MIDI he downloaded from the internet please understand

>>714243251
I only ever once got up to the snot bungee boss. I always died in the underwater levels.
Also I never understood why there were businessmen in hell when I was five years old. I now understand they're lawyers and I now understand why.

>>714241598
>>714242051
>the sub part
>the escort mission part
>the fucking factory level
>the fucking final level
This game sure knew how to rustle my jimmies.

>>714241206
they made it impossible because the game was out before the movie so they had to create a block of some kind so kids wouldnt discover the ending.no i am not making this up there is an interview that confirms it

>>714242051
Every time I see someone struggle with Puppy Love is because they don't use the rotate and dive moves and only try to move left and right.

>>714246769
I'm glad I was never able to get past the vehicle section in Down the Tubes so I didn't have to actually learn the escort mission level. I level selected to it one time and I couldn't figure out how to get the dog past the first jump.

>>714247023
just whip 'im.
It's still a bitch to get through.

>>714242079
I honestly did not realize people struggled in these games until much later in life. Was I just a god gamer? The only mission I ever had problems with was the car bomb mission with love fist in vice city no idea why

>>714247883
The meme train mission is really easy unless you edge right next to the train where BS is unable to aim properly and keeps clipping the train instead of the gang members, and the RC missions mostly suffered from wacky controls and the initial release version having a way stricter fuel gauge time limit.

The one truly miserable San Andreas mission is Freefall because it's several minutes of literally fucking nothing (you don't even get to watch the landscape roll by because you're flying against the out of bounds barrier) before the target appears and you only get a single shot at the pointlessly tight window of opportunity, miss that and it's nearly 10 minutes to reset the mission into the same stage.

>>714243251
i rented it a couple times and the crack noise it makes when that damn glass ball hits a wall is still burned into my mind

>>714248295
Freefall also has the added bonus of partially corrupting your save data due to a bug which improperly sets exploration flags for out-of-bounds map sectors. This is what the territories glitch is. Though it doesn't have much of an effect only going out this far and rare for the bug to ever actually do anything harmful.

>>714242630
Fuck this mission!

>>714246171
>Objective 1 failed

>>714238374 (OP)
i always wanted to fuck those giraffes

>>714238374 (OP)
I played the megadrive version recently and it made me realize that it wasnt an all around shitty game, just that the SNES version is dogshit.

>>714238461
Theres a metric fuckload of them

>>714249895
Reminds me of hot summer afternoons after school getting a headache from the heat.

>>714238374 (OP)
>doodoodoo do dadoo da doo
>oh i just can't wait to be ki-ACK

Not any particular area, but this entire game gave me rickets. I had the Genesis version though, not this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P86I5GgsLZM

>>714249248
I always had my Dad or Mom kill the butcher for me

>>714250161
kek

>>714241206
i could believe it

>>714238374 (OP)
the funny thing is a while back i replayed the game as an adult thinking maybe i just sucked at it when i was a kid. Nope, the game is fucking brutal. Used the debug console to get unlimited lives and some of those levels are hard as fuck. Even with invincibility you can get killed in a couple of the adult versions of this level when you're in the lava caves.

Eventually I was able to beat it after dozens of continues, but it was more an exercise in frustration and putting up with bad controls and bad level design just to say i did rather than actually enjoying it.

>>714238374 (OP)
based
>>714238461
>souls slop
fuck off

>>714249895
i really hate how this one is memed into oblivion. Its not hard and its really not that confusing once you remember to check your damn map/compass.

The only reason people get lost here is because they constantly forget about/miss the small key thats through the passage in the central pillar. You enter the central pillar from the bottom when the water is down, climb it until you can raise it, *AND THEN* you need to drop back down and the path will be open where it was previously blocked by a hidden platform.

We all figured this shit out eventually as kids. It was hard the first time you fucked it up, then when you knew or if you were smart enough to look at the map/compass it was pretty straight forward. HURRRR WATER TEMPLE LE HARD fuck off back to plebit

>>714250086
fellow Arizonian

>>714241935
I remember hating this but it wasn't too hard after some tries.

>>714251336
It's considered hard because raising and lowering the water.
>oh fuck I missed a key
>better raise it twice in 2 different spots to reset it back to second level where the water allows me to get to that rea
>k got it time to do the same thing to raise it back to maximum height

>>714251336
retards are extremely terrible at 3D movement and thinking which is why all modern games are flat open world slop where you barely even enter buildings anymore, even zelda.

>>714238374 (OP)
??? This lvl was easy on megadrive

>>714238374 (OP)
Trouble with the trolley eh?

>>714251454
It really isn't a particularly difficult section but the music when you're running out of time is really intense and there's some weird jank going on with the underwater controls and hitboxes so it feels a lot more stressful for a kid than it should be.

>>714251336
>We all figured this shit out eventually as kids. It was hard the first time you fucked it up
please take your meds.
This is what the thread is about, things we remember as being difficult and frustrating when we were kids.

>>714238374 (OP)
Never found this bit hard, it was always blown out of proportion.

boost guardian

>>714252251
it wasnt difficult or frustrating as a kid though? Maybe if you are retarded, but when i said we all figured this shit out when we were kids it was more saying most of us had no guides and didnt really get stuck here for a prolonged period of time. Neither myself nor any of my friends even considered the water temple difficult or a point of getting stuck for a long time when we were younger. It wasn't until the internet became much more main stream and plebit got a hold of that shit when i really started seeing the rise of OMG 'MEMBER DA WATER TEMPLE?? SO HARD! IMPOSSIBLE! Its like a fear of clowns, most people didnt find it that difficult but will pretend to have just to fit in with other retards who they perceive to be the majority.

>>714249248
>>714250520
The whole game was PTSD for me the first time playing, I didn't realize you're supposed to restart for enemies to respawn, so I just had a whole inventory of health potions and no good weapons except for Butcher's cleaver. To this day I still despise Diablo likes.

>>714246983
For me it was the homing rocket fucks. Lock-on sounds still give me PTSD.

>>714238374 (OP)
>*lights go out*
>*happy cowboy music is now serious violins*
FUCK

>>714251931
Most of those underwater sections gave me nightmares. The metal sharks could glitch and follow you everywhere, too.

>>714238374 (OP)
For me it's the Scar fight, I could NEVER beat him. I know you had to throw him off, but it would just never work.

>>714251931
I don't remember having trouble with the trolley eh?.
But this one. It's extra funny that you have to do it twice.

>>714241792
Oh wow, I must have rented this from Blockbuster because I have some kind of memory of it.

>>714249446
That stage was insanely long.

>>714238374 (OP)

One of my first rages when it came to games. I think I even remember AVGN mentioning T2 driving being one of the largest piles of shit in gaming.

>>714251931
>>714253384
I really miss when these studios made colorful fun games. Sony California really saps the soul from a team of nerds.

>>714252410
Felt

>>714238461
for me its frigid outskirts

>>714253732
>hear the first shot
>strings start playing
>nervously sweating and spazing trying to find them before the second shot
>but its always too late

Yeah nah, I'm good.
I've never gotten the true ending to this shit.

>>714238374 (OP)
The developers admitted they added that level to prevent kids from beating the game on a single blockbuster rental. Many such cases.

>>714242051
The dog was an allegory for women. Expects way too much and one tiny mistake leads the deranged individual to freak out.

>>714243251
>Earthworm Jim
>Battletoads
>Comic Zone
These all decent games at best that are vastly overrated. They all suffer from the being overly difficult for no real reason except to pad the game that was the norm back then. If they were just tweaked a little bit they would be great.

>>714254721
Does this strategy even work? I doubt that gamers tend to pay more rental fees to beat the game.

>>714238374 (OP)
I feel like an absolute chad for beating the SNES on all difficulty modes.
>>714245850
Same with this one, with both the controller and the Sega Menacer. Easy peasy.
>>714249446
I'll never, ever beat this game even with the always-charged weapons mod. Shit's impossible unless you dedicate your life to it.

>>714251232
>UWAHHHHH someone put a hard frustrating game in da frustrating game moments thread
>baby MAD
>UWAAHHHHH

>>714238374 (OP)
I beat that game when I was 5 or 6 on the SNES.

>>714238374 (OP)

>>714255007
It didn't because Blockbuster sold GamePro magazines with cheats to easily beat them in a weekend. I remember factoring that into my rentals at that time since sometimes it came down to the wire before the rental time was up and I would usually want to rent something else the next time vs the same one again.

>>714255146
I really wanted to like this game, but was too fucking dumb to understand the combat in this game

>>714238374 (OP)

>>714254673
if you beat it once beating it again is usually not hard because the game drills every scenario into your head.

>>714238374 (OP)
Eat at Joe's final stage from Rayman

>>714246983

>>714241792
Is that the one with the dentist level too? Where the exposed nerves are a hazard that makes the ceiling chomp down on your ass.

>>714255402
Fuck those fishes

>>714241792
I remember all of the Ren & Stimpy games being either absurdly difficult or way too easy. This looks like one of the easy ones though.

>>714242363
Scandi bro?

>>714247015
True but even when you're doing everything right it's still basically Stress: The Level.

>>714242079
>replay SA after years
>get to this mission, start shitting it
>stay a little bit out to the aide of the train so Smoke can hit them
>clear it first try before it even gets to the offroad bit

>forgot about the RC missions
>complete fucking nightmare to control
>any minor mistake and you have to restart
>there are multiple mandatory ones
>have to listen to David Cross be an annoying dickhead the entire time

>>714247883
Were you playing for 100% or just to beat the game? The only hard parts of classic GTA for me were mainly the RC missions, some of the dirt bike missions, and the races. But most of those things were optional.

i will never not be mad

>>714238374 (OP)

>>714256028
Suck fucking fun on legendary.

>>714242630
its not any easier if you try it today either
>>714246194
is it really goldeneye if its double digit fps?

I loved this game but it creeped me out as a kid. Some music tracks, like pic rel and the Mansion made me uneasy. Then there was the overall uncanny valley of the prerendered areas, like Overdell, Ancient speed zone (die faster of old age btw), Misty trees, Ice sanctuary etc. Finally, as a kid I found it really unnerving how far the roaming digimon could follow you. Compared to some ps1 adventure games where the area of attention for enemies was very short.

>>714245046
DSP is that you?

>>714255080
no you fucking didn't

>>714252251
>we
Go the fuck back

>>714241598
Actually there was an hidden oxygen tank, behind a wall rock.
So much easier when you know it, no rush needed.

>>714256252
Well yeah I did, it really isn't that hard. Pilotwings was harder than this shit.

Ice Cave sucks shit. Instakill Sorcerers that can paralyze the whole party, Mages that have a 90% ambush rate and rape you with partywide spells stronger than anything you've seen before, wolves and dragons that also cast partywide spells, undead enemies that can paralyze those they hit, cockatrices that can turn you to stone, and all of this shit in the same dungeon. You can't even Exit out when you get the Floater because you need to classchange to do so, and classchange is locked behind the Floater.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you're resetting a ton just to get a run through that doesn't end in your asshole being blown open by any of the above enemies.

What the fuck were they thinking?

>>714243251
I did, on PC where I could savescum. And even then I never actually beat it.

>>714256002
I replayed the final stage just to shoot him.

>>714243251
I've beaten EWJ1. The two trouble points is the sub until you know about the hidden air refill and Snot a Problem. For Pete's Sake isn't that bad.

>>714242051
I didn't mind puppy love but the fucking balloon escort missions filter me hard.

>>714256028
rocket launcher flood

This fucking quest make me want to break my fucking controller so bad.
When I found out you unlock an even harder version of the quest right afterwards, I wanted to break the game.

>>714243251
I played and beat the first two on Genesis without cheats. The first one was the better game but honestly isn't anything special anymore. At the time it just stood out because of the smooth animation, strong character design and kitschy humor. The second game was kind of alright but has too many gimmicky levels in a misguided attempt to offer something new. I liked the first game at the time but I'll probably never play it again.

>>714256028
I had bad enough time on heroic with 1 and 2 I think I would actually kms playing on legendary. I remember a level in one of the games where you start in a room with some tanks I think and 2 of those hunters spawn? Wooooooooooooooow.

>>714238374 (OP)

>>714251931
this one's easy. the only mission i ever had trouble with was the saving cavemen from dinosaurs one.

>>714259536
I once spent a solid couple of weeks trying to beat this game without cheats or guides. That level took up the largest portion of the time, and I got to a point where I could fairly consistently get through it (as in close to 1/10 tries), but it drops you into the final boss which you have to do in a specific sequence with no clues and if you die you have to redo the whole level again. I never beat it and probably never will. But this is another game where the developer admitted to making it too hard because they were worried about kids beating it in a single rental.

>>714245046
I replayed Jak II a couple years ago and for the most part I was a lot better than I was as a kid. But the part with the tank in the fortress where it goes to the tank's POV and chases you fucked me up for way too long - I just kept dying or falling.

>>714238374 (OP)
Shadow of War, the part where you have to defend the walls or some shit and there's this big fight with OP uruks and a wyvern as well

>>714260403
This fight wasn't that bad. I spent much more time on that terracotta fight because those dudes hit like trucks and are immune to lots of effects, in a tight environment

>>714238374 (OP)
I actually managed to beat this stage as a kid during a rental, I think the Hakuna Matata level is as far as I got after that. I don't think I reached the boss of that stage because I remember being surprised to find out it was a gorilla.

>>714238461
That shit might be somewhat annoying but it's no where near as bad as the Alonne gauntlet in that one DLC

>>714243251
I owned both of them as a kid, and although I liked them at the time, "good art good music" are the only things that held up. Being able to shoot in eight directions and use a melee attack helped it stand out against Mega Man, but now we know about then-obscure games like Gunstar Heroes and Alien Soldier so the shooting controls look clunky in comparison. The first game's obnoxiously difficult in parts and the second is up its own ass with minigames, which again was novel at the time, but doesn't help it stand up to scrutiny.

You just kinda had to be there. Earthworm Jim looked like a technological leap and a leader in innovation at the time, but other games caught up to it, and thirty years later it's hard to give it props for getting there a month before Donkey Kong Country.

>>714260664
The problem was never that it's hard. Only that it takes fucking FOREVER. The game constantly spawns those fucking little blobs. They constantly move over some surfaces that slow them. You just fucking wait for things to happen. It's what's fucked about Larian games. THERE IS NO FUCKING SPEED UP OPTION. WHY.

>>714243251
I got to the water level during a rental. Couldn't beat the final submarine section in time.

I beat Earthworm Jim 2 entirely during a rental, and was disappointed by how easy it was.

>>714238374 (OP)

>>714260836
Anybody who couldn't get past the second level wouldn't have made it past the falling log waterfall in hakuna matata.

>>714253360
iirc you had to jump on him and beat the fuck out of him a bit, then he'd retreat to the right side of the stage where you could grab him and throw him off.

>>714260085
trouble with the trolly, eh?