Here's an interesting question: Have you ever played a video game that was literally too hard for you? What made it so difficult - was it a particularly challenging boss, gameplay mechanics, fiendish puzzles, or something else? How long did you attempt to overcome it before you gave up...if indeed, you gave up at all?
I think that one game that was just too hard for me was Chameleon Twist for the N64, I tried, but failed every time.
I'm a gamer with patience and with skill, and with those traits together very few hurdles are too high. Although I'm sure it's happened to me, I don't remember the specific last time a game was actually "too hard" for me outside of the elevated post-game challenge. Just fake difficulty sometimes breaks it for me. You know: bad control schemes, poorly planned perspective changes, pure-chance survival obstacles; those unwise game dev choices. It's kind of strange, really. Most games I play seem perfectly difficult for me. As if the devs are watching secret gameplay videos of me and discussing "What is Zero's learning curve and skill level? Let's set the Hard-but-not-Insane difficulty setting to exactly that.
I'm ashamed to say that a lot of games have bested my skills. I improve my skills nearly every time I play games, showing myself that I can move beyond challenges that may have eluded me earlier. It's not often that I will leave a game behind to not ever come back to it. I will sometimes quit within a few minutes of a game, if it becomes a little too challenging for my tastes. Or if it just doesn't make sense. A few games that were too hard for me, are : Dark Souls, certain levels in Mario Odyssey, rogue-like genres, and quests in ESO that aren't marked for low-level players. To name a few.
Cave! Story! I'm just so bad at these kinds of games but I wanted to try. I somehow managed to get all the way to Hell (the level. Also the place.) but after months of trying I gave up. UnU
Games that were too hard for me? New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I've been doing a 2-player run of it, and we haven't even got past the first world. We always (somehow) both die in the Castle. Seriously. Splatoon 2 Hero Mode is next. I almost game-overed at the second boss... and people say it's easy! I'm so not ready for online...
Puyo Puyo Tetris! I’m awful at puzzle games, and Puyo Puyo Tetris is no exception. It just requires too many frame perfect button presses to get anywhere.
