After getting stuck in a game, what is your biggest Walkthrough, facepalm moment?

For someone who’s played video games as long as I have, there’s definitely an infinite amount of those.

Demon Souls – more of uncontrolled frustration. Fighting Tower Knight for the first time? I thought the same was just made impossible. Now, he’s almost pathetic.

Nier – The first “Fishing quest” you get requires you to be doing it in a specific area. Well, me and a friend decided to just run up to the first sighting of ocean water we saw and fish. We fished for about half hour and caught nothing but sea weed and rusty pales. Then we went towards the marking on the map… took 5 seconds to catch a fish.

RPG’s with wacky, annoying music – These seem to be infamous for doing this sort of thing, so that the music just plays on and on while your frustration builds and builds…

Silent hill 5 – Doing that sliding puzzle in the attic. I was sliding that puzzle around for ages.

The old Tomb Raiders – Forget it.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The water temple. Eehgh.

The list goes on and on, I’ll have to check back sometime.

Zelda: the phantom hourgass.
when you were suppoed to close and open the DS to make a print of a seal…

Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time – Shangra La, XP

The only one I can think of right now was on Champions: Return to Norrath, at the boss on the mechanical level. I just couldn’t figure out how to kill him, since every time I ran up to him he instantly killed me. I didn’t even think about using my throwing weapons.

OMG, @Disc2021

That water temple… it’s the only place in any of the Zelda games where you can be completely fucked.

I keep getting lost in the later versions of Halo.

The endgame in Half Life 2. I couldn’t find my way to the steps leading in to the palace/citadel. The walkthrough showed me just about the only place that I hadn’t tried.

Beachhead on the ZX Spectrum – I was 6, it made me cry with rage. I could never sink the Yamato.

More recently, the revelation that was playing Mariokart Wii with the nunchuk controller makes it so much easier to unlock Dry Bowser. I still hate the rubber-banding in it though. Nintendo did an awesome job of nerfing the bloody game.

@the100thmonkey Yeah, I only play with the nunchuck combo. Screw that stupid plastic wheel. Double Dash still hold a place in my heart that Mario Kart Wii can never fill.

I got plenty of examples but I’ll go with the most recent one…playing Luminous Arc, a tactical rpg with fixed battlefields that you can’t rotate like most respectable srpg’s have, sometimes it’s hard to see who will be affected by a multi targetting spell or attack, so I had to select one target, cancel, select the next, cancel and so forth to see how much damage/healing it would cause for all targets, or just to see WHO I was targetting since the camera is such crap…I did this for 30 hours of gameplay, until I figured out that you could just hit L or R to cycle through all affected targets and view their stats.

Goddamn.

@Seek_Kolinahr That’s exactly what I remember… being pretty much F’d in the A. I dont know how many sittings I spent trying to figure it out before just looking it up in a guide

Super Mario World. Can’t remember what level but he’s that wizard guy who fires crap at you and makes those turtles. He was so difficult. He kept teleporting too so it was damn near impossible to avoid him.

Oh also in Halo ODST. When I was following a marker to a certain thing that would jog your mans memory I couldn’t find the damn thing. I would follow the marker and I would look at the map and I was going crazy wondering why it wasn’t right infront of me.

Took me a long time to realise it was above me caught on a wire.

@LeotCol Yeah, that sniper rifle got me too for few minutes.

fuck that sniper rifle.

Earthbound. Moonside. I don’t know how people played that game without a walkthrough.

@muppetish Sounds like Siren. I tried to figure out what to do for about 15 minutes before I looked at the walkthrough, and apparantly when the girl says “Close your eyes” casually in the middle of this long drawn-out conversation she’s having with you, you are supposed to press some button that you magically know makes you close your eyes.