Have you ever encountered a no win scenario that forced you to reset the game and start over?

Have you ever encountered a no win scenario that forced you to reset the game and start over?

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even as a kid I realized this game was a heaping pile of garbage
if you pass like 3 coins in one area of the game it softlocks you out of 100%ing the game

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Imagine not playing a fighting game where you can block in the air LMAO.

Imagine playing a fighting game where you have to jump strategically instead of constantly holding up like a retard LMAO

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>Play Jive
>Jump

WOOPS MAN IM SORRY YOU FORGOT THIS IS NO FUN ZONE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO JUMP WITHOUT GETTING PUNISHED BYEBYE HALF YOUR BAR LOL

Got to a savepoint in Last Remnant where I had to face a boss and I was severely underleveled. No way to get random encounters to grind a few levels so I ended up getting repeatedly beaten.

Still tried to beat him for a whole week, I got favorable enough RNG after maybe 20 hours, which was more than if I has resetted my save and reached the boss again.

I've had a horrible save point in one of the Bethesda games that just put me in a death cycle so I had to restart.

I wonder if this is actually impassable.

based, one of the reasons kof is far superior to SF.

In Spyro: Season of Flame, gems that rhynocs drop can fall into the water, making 100% completion impossible.
Smashed my Gameboy SP when i was a kid because this happened on the one of the last levels of the game. Only time I've ever raged at a video game.

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I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to win the game.

final fantasy tactics

The bosses scale with you. So you can't outlevel them.

In Persona Q, the final boss has a move that puts every party member on a death timer. The only way to extend this timer is with revive items/skills, but the game had been so braindead easy since nearly the beginning I didn't cramp my limited inventory or persona skill list with either of those. Seriously, I had spent the previous 30+ hours instakilling mobs and even the allegedly difficult FOEs were easy money for the last few chapters.

I was so fucking annoyed by this that I never returned to the game, I didn't really give a shit about the even more flanderized P3/P4 cast or the hungry bitch or bow nigger enough to care what happened to them.

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Fire Emblem 7, you can get owned pretty badly when the difficulty shits the bed at the last chapter.

I never beat StarOcean 2 because the final boss would do a tidal wave attack that did 9999 on every character, instant wipe out. I was level 117 and still couldn't beat it. I have no idea what to do other than grind and I was fed up by that point so I just sold it.

People said I turned his limiter off but I looked up how and I'm pretty sure I didn't do that on accident.

based

Just stopped doing tartarus after a while in first p3p run then I just couldnt beat hanged man/gun jesus

im pretty sure athos can solo light with forblaze and luna if you just kill uhai and the hero guy. other than them he doesnt struggle with any of the other guys.

you can easily win those scenarios, you guys are just trash.

Is it a good game though?

Yes. Still one of my favorite GBA games.

It's entirely possible that you did, if you left the final area after using the save point before the boss.

That, or you still had skills like Practice activated, which lowers your stats.

Practically every single RPG I ever played

RE4. I fucked up so badly that I had no ammo at the Salazar boss fight.

Dead Island, near the end of the game the game autosaved me over a pit of spikes that instakill you. While loading the game likes to drop your player model into the world so it was a death loop scenario I had no way (at the time) of avoiding. I didn't restart, I uninstalled.

Can't you just buy an RPG?

Dark Souls, first run, blind, just killed the huge rat while cursed, the game greeted me with toxic darts and poisonous mud.

I restarted and did everything right the second time.

Either way it's pretty shit programming by the devs if someone can totally unknowingly make their game unwinnable. There should be like a double confirmation prompt telling you such and such action is only for hardcore players.

Pretty much Sierra adventure game.
For example, in Space Quest someone offers to buy a useless hovercraft from you. If you agree, you can't win the game. You need to say no and then come back later when he'll sweeten the deal with a jetpack you need at the end of the game. Then there's The Colonel's Bequest where the game has a time system that advances as you enter rooms, so if you don't explore the game in the right order then it's unwinnable. Or how about in King's Quest 5 where if you don't throw a stick at a cat which is chasing a mouse across the screen for a whole 3 seconds then you'll be stuck in an inescapable death trap hours later.

I'm glad unwinnable scenarios are no longer considered to be a feature.

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Don't remember the name of the game, but it was a PSX RPG in which you basically had to fight your own team in one scenario and since I did autistic amounts of grinding it was literally impossible for me to win as I always lost in the first turn.

Fire emblem 7, Hector hard mode chaoter 29( Cog of Destiny).
There are many status staffs like berserker and sleep, and by that point of the game i didn't have a restore staff for some reason, they had some really good hit rate so cheesing with dodges was impossible.
I was forced to restart

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>King's Quest 5 where if you don't throw a stick at a cat which is chasing a mouse across the screen for a whole 3 seconds then you'll be stuck in an inescapable death trap hours later.

I remember playing it on NES and got to this part. Fuck Sierra. You have to already know ahead of time before entering the door that a) you need the stick ready to go, b) there will be a cat chasing a mouse inside, and c) you have to hit it with the stick instantly with no time time to think.

NO ONE is going to know this their first playthrough, and likely later when they get stuck are probably not going to realize it was because of the cat/mouse thing.

I think it was Romancing Saga on the PS2. The more you grind, the stronger monsters become. Eventually the monsters are boss level and you're still rocking leather shields and shit.

In fallout 1 I just got myself locked up by mutants at the military base. I couldn't find a way out and to load up a save from hours before.

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This and it also crashes alot on the PS2 version

That shit could happen in 3 too, if you killed the bug enemies in Spooky Swamp their gems would fall in the weird shallow water and be irretrievable. Also if you left a speedway after initiating the egg challenge but before actually getting it you would be unable to get it on future revisits.

Fire emblem
This one actually.

Got to last fight and couldn't do anything since last battle wiped a bunch of my good people. I couldn't do anything against the 1 hit magic people in the rooms and i was basically softlocked on that level.

not true until level 50 and then level 70
I had a problem with beating Gates of Hell until I went back and grinded a few levels

What's up with this "games can't have unexpected challenges" mindset so pervasive lately?

I mean, that's your own fault. Not only did you save in a terrible location, but you didn't make multiple saves.

Yeah, Athos was super overpowered so gaijins don't essentially softlock themselves in the final chapter.

Literally how, Athos can solo the map himself

Fallout 1 was a goldmine for this.

>recruit Ian as companion
>enter house
>he blocks doorway
>can't get him to move
>no choice but to kill him
>he's strong, you die first

Yes.
>be a cyclist
>can't ride on pavements (understandable)
>can't ride on road (due to dumbfuck drivers)
What the FUCK am I supposed to ride on?

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>challenges
>AHAHAHA YOU DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY PREPARE FOR THIS SO GET FUCKED SCRUB HAHAHAHA

just don't cycle lmao
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What the fuck is that guy's problem.

On the PC version the cat doesn't even appear until you fulfill a certain condition. In order to fulfill the condition you need to wander the desert for no fucking reason other than the developers put it in there (seriously, there's not a single character in the game that mentions the desert). It doesn't make sense at all from the perspective of the main character to go to the desert unprepared (you can die from thirst for example), with no map and no story-wise reason to do so (your family has been kidnapped and nothing makes it appear that the desert should be a point of interest). So you wander the desert, dying from random bullshit constantly - and for what exactly?

AN OLD BOOT.
AN OLD BOOT THAT YOU CAN THROW AT THE CAT.

Fuck old adventure games.

CAPCOM once delete my MHW savefiles

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Every enemy in the game has a BR ceiling you can eventually surpass, unless we're talking about the super superbosses who have such a high BR ceiling there's really not a lot to surpass, and BR doesn't even gauge anything in terms of growth either.

Dumbfuck who hates cyclists because they occasionally minorly inconvenience him, never realizing that they are actually reducing the amount of traffic overall because they're not in fucking cars. Almost certainly an American too. t. American

>can't ride on pavement
How is that understandable? Pavement is made to be rode on.

In skyrim main story you're supposed to go and talk to a guy in a prison cell. Due to a bug he refused to talk to me, so I had to set the stage of the quest through console.

Just restart the level LMFAO

Draw your sword, Ramza.

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In AvP the level with the Predator bossfight, I thought you had to escape the facility before he blew up and never thought to head bite him before he activated his self-destruct, which I only just recently learned was the intended method for completing the level. I also learned that I severely misremembered the Alien's pheromone mechanic.

Jesus you must be a mega brainlet

>ruins your run
nothing personal

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Roads are usually made with pavement. What are you on?

Funny thing is I can't really deny that

Drangon age inquisition. The game was a buggy nightmare from the get go and on the last boss it keeps crashing before I could kill it. Still havent beaten the game to this day.

There is post-game content in Final Fantasy 2 for the GBA where you play as some stupid priest that joins your party early in the game and then leaves midgame. In the post game he is the level and has the equipment that he has the moment he leaves your party. Too bad I grinded to 9999 HP and stats in the very first town before you get that guy and then I just ran from all random encounters. I never gave him any equipment either, in fact I took all his equipment from him. When I played the post-game stuff I died in the first random encounter and I am not sure if there is any way past that. I restarted but I got bored and stopped, never finish that post game stuff.

there's a part in Escape from Monkey Island where you have to lead a monkey across the island and the game has a top down perspective on a map for this part. I managed to get the monkey stuck in the corner behind some rocks. only had one save file and had to start all over again. I was actually incredibly close to the end of the game too

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In Onimusha 2 I saved right before a boss fight on some island or something with 1 pixel of health left in an area where I couldn't go back anywhere. I didn't have any other save states and couldn't beat the boss without losing 1 health.

>t. butthurt cyclist pussy

Cyclists are the scum of the earth. There's not a single group of people out there who acts more entitled and passive-aggressive than cyclists. I rejoice every time I read about one of you dying in traffic.

There's a sequence of other events that can only occur after reaching that point and leaving -- one of which opens the extra dungeon, where it's possible to grind well beyond level 100.

and then people wonder why adventure games are dead

*laughs in Necromancer*

Holy fuck cagie is ragie.

They may reduce traffic by being one or two cars fewer on the road, but they also slow down traffic causing the remaining cars to have to go slower and causing more jams.

Stupid fucking same face design and shitty grinding game.

>using necro for speedruns

>speedrunning on a hamster wheel

I know which boss you mean because I had the same problem. Fuck that entire section gangdantes I think?
>Need to fight boss 1 and lose hp
>After that its a trap room with 1 herb in a chest and then poison chips away at your HP
>After that its a save room with no enemies to fight and regen HP
>Have to fight this unkillable fucker with 1/4th hp
>Just save state scum until I eventually down him

I have no clue how many peoples games were just flat out over at that point because of stupid design. I finished 2 and it was complete and utter fucking garbage anyway so they werent missing out.

Cyclists are all wagies who battle their midlife crisis by (laughably) acting like a professional athlete.

I have never had a positive experience with a cyclist. They do tend to have that holier than thou attitude because they don't pollute.

I got softlocked in kingdom hearts when I was a kid, that sucked.

Based and kirkpilled

The Street Fighter 5 you are playing seems significantly different than the Street Fighter 5 that other retards and complainers online are playing.

All I've ever heard from complainers online about SFV is that jumping in is so rewarding and anti-airs are so inconsistent that people jump around like retards yet you seem to have the opposite problem.

How did you do this?

I can't remember much about it but I think that was it, yes.

>anti-air
>trade

I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to do.

I can't remember exactly, I know it happened in tarzan's jungle though. The cutscene that would start a bossfight couldn't trigger because I didn't do things in a particular order. And it happened a few times

PC or console? played it long time ago on console and never had this problem.

I believe the cyclist vs driver argument is one of those where both parties included are faggots with some decent people in them. At least we can all unite in hatred against skaters and motorcycle drivers.

I think the Greatest Hits version fixed those glitches along with adding more music.

>Whygraf
Came here for this.

yep oddworld two i accidently quick saved during a fatal fall and bricked my entire run
also then first time that i played solo ramza vs weigraf

His hair is obviously a platform

>Playing Etrian Odyssey 5 on hard mode
>Build my party to handle bosses well with good sustain and then building up to big damage bursts
>Have a pretty easy time throughout the whole game
>Then bump into this guy at the end of the post-game
>His whole gimmick is constantly respawning limbs every turn, and if he gets all his limbs back at once he does an instant kill move on all your party members
>He always starts with all his limbs so he starts the battle with the move
>My party has no good way to handle this gimmick and I can't keep up with the constantly respawning limbs because I don't have tons of AoE damage
>Party is all max level (Because that's expected at this point) so I can't outgrind him
>Don't want to rebuild my whole party and start the game over so I just quit
I'm still mad to this day that I quit over this gay baby boss. If I knew his gimmick from the start I could have easily built a good party for it.

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Good luck landing on it

How the fuck did you lose units in Blazing Sword?

This game.
I Got to the fight with sonia in the collapsing cave but I didn't really bother with archers/mages/flying until that point so I never finished it.

>jump forward, then move back towards the cliff because mario has realy good air control
>guile is a chargecuck and can't do the input right again after he whiffs, run past

ez

based.

You are supposed to play one of the that have anti-air lights with fucking retarded hitboxes so you get a free mixup aftewards like Chun-li or Bison.

Even if you were completely retarded with ramzas class advancement up to that point you can still just go back to your og class and yell yourself to victory

You can charge flash kick while you're in the middle of another flash kick.

What? You can start charging while still in the flash kick and do it immediately again when you hit the ground.

when he does the kick he lands in the lava and.dies.anyway

there are no street fighter games where the entire length of the move is longer than the charge time. there's a gap

Cyclists are faggots. Ride on bike paths, no one wants to put up with your slow faggotry on an actual road.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario.

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I don't think Mario has enough air control to jump halfway across that pit and then land back on the lefthand side in the first SMB.

this is the only EO super boss that I've managed to kill, mostly because they only change my party needed was changing the 1 sword masuro to a lmao4sword masuro.

Abyssel princess on the other hand can suck a bag of dicks
>randomly gets a free action that removes all your buffs and all of her debuffs, binds, and ailments
>3/5 of my party members specialize in that

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a dick

Im fine with those. Ive never seen a skater go 5mph in a 45, and ive certainly never seen a motorcycle do that.

Enjoy dying at 45 to a massive heart attack because the only exercise you get is jacking off to Rainbow Dash, wagie.

He wasn't a no-win for me on my first run in because I ended up having scream anyway but he did make me restart and level up way the fuck more efficiently

That's not true, the fierce version gives you tons of time, and in SF2 you can essentially chain them. In SF2 you'll usually do flash kick into sonic boom instead though. It just has a more noticeable recovery time now.

Ps4. Got a physical copy right at release.

RE Code Veronica can railroad you into an unwinnable situation with the character swapping and unexpected boss fights. It's very common for players to end up with 0 ammo in one of the tyrant fights.

Endgame of FE Conquest.

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That's really weird. I got a physical right around the same time, ps4 as well and I can't remember a single time the game crashed for me.

Everything after the house of Gemini

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hector hard mode has a bunch of stupid things like bolting spam and luna shamans

Curse is one of the most stupidly punishing things in DS1. There should be at least one purging stone in the depths that the player can't miss.

Yeah I remeber going online and expecting to see a ton of pissed off people but only seeing a minority complaining about bugs. And only a couple post about game breaking bugs like mine had. Idk what happened but it was bad I was hype for that game too.

I only bike on sidewalks. It's illegal but fuck if you want me to bike on the road then make a fucking bike lane. Until they do that I'm biking on the sidewalk

Is this I wanna be the boshy or something?

Well assuming you don't have a toaster you can always grab it and the dlc on pc. I never played the DLC so I might do it someday. Might even import my ps4 save.

Code veronica

Reminder that this put a whole company out of business.

>Fighting Zelda in quickplay

Ys 7 on the hardest difficulty. I never bothered to grind my other characters, but the final boss has you use all characters in back to back fights, and if you lose a fight it's all the way back to the beginning.

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Tarrant? You got internet in jail? lol

are you talking about the 2 part mission with Weigraf?

yes. Odin sphere on the hardest difficulty. Not the remake

RE1 director's cut. It was my first survival horror game and I had no healing and no ammo after killing the plant and was getting raped by hunters no matter where I went.

Its possible he just had bad gear / team composition. I was stuck on Vanilla Indalecio forever. With his limited off you have to be like level 200+ to beat him.

It was one of the first things I uploaded to youtube back in the day. lol

>There should be like a double confirmation prompt telling you such and such action is only for hardcore players.

Come on dude. Did you not even read the dialogue? It's pretty obvious that Filia dying is making Indalecio stronger. If you bothered to read the text that she says and HE says when you fight him.

SF2 have a bit of RNG on charge moves, isn't fixed like later games.

I had fond memories of it as a kid, was it really that bad?

he means SIDEWALK you fucking imbeciles.

save battery dies in cartridge

As old man murray stated, the answer to what killed adventure games is suicide.

Just ride your bike on the sidewalk would you rather dodge pedestrians or cars?

people obviously. my city has bike paths on the roads anyways. but youre a retard if you ride a bike on a main road.

You can't just solve all your problems by throwing money at it, user.

>dodging people
Lol no, they dodge me

In one of the Sims GBA games, if you repair a rocket and leave the area without taking it with you, the area seals off forever and you can never beat the game

Lol sure they do white boy.

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>be young user playing pokemon emerald
>accidentally delete starter which is my only good pokemon
>getanideapeg.
>look for my starter by the grass outside of the daycarecenter I deleted him at
>after an hour no luck
>save the game and decide to look for it later

Damn I wish I was ever that immersed/stupid. Early on I understood how mechanical games were and I could never treat games as real worlds like that

Age of Decadence was simply full of them for a while.
>Oh hey, you know how fighting even one dude can be pretty tough? Well, how about you fight a whole bunch of them
>Oh, and we stripped you of all your gear
>And no, you can't put it on in the middle of battle
>Fuck you

My man.

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Dark Souls 1 and Bloodbourne
When you haven't played in a while and halfway through your current character you realize you fucked up your build beyond repair and have to start over.
Not a really big deal but still pretty fucking annoying.

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In my mind I thought. He couldn't have gotten that far. Let me check my pokedex

I played Xenosaga Episode 1 and got to the part where the party lands inside the giant Gnosis ship or something, used most of my AGWS HP when getting through it, couldn't beat the boss later on. Had no earlier save files too.

>tfw you level up RES/END on accident

You can always level higher and then just build a separate character for pvp and co op levels. Both Dark Souls and Bloodborne are piss easy if you min max anyway.

I managed to have everyone survive except for one character in the final chapter simply because I had no desire to do both battles over.

Yeah fucking System Shock 2

yes, when you lose a life during a 1cc play you immediately reset

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Bethesda games almost require you to use at least 4 different manual save files at a time because bugs and shit.

When I was a kid I played Resi Code Veronica and didn't have ammo for the plane titan. Didn't know if that cargo chute thing was doing any damage to him. Pretty sure I had to restart that game a few times. Then I made it to Steve's transformation and I think I was too fucked to continue so I never finished it. Still thought it was a great game

apparently. i just remember rolling around jelly fish fields making that squeaky noise

Almost dropped the game during that sequence where you have to destroy the flesh hivemind or whatever the fuck that was. Almost had no ammo or healing.

Fallout 3. It was my first bethesda game and I knew nothing about it, so I got somewhere past Megaton without ever saving manually. I triggred an autosave and died instantly. I couldn't even live long enough to turn around and go back out the door. I've also done this with irresponsible save stating in emulators and not bothering to make real saves because it's slow.
That happened to me with system shock 2. It makes me wonder how designers avoid that. It never happened to me in Deus Ex and I've never spoken to anybody who had it happen either.