[ SECRET POST #2413 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2413 ⌋

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Comments

[feathercircle]

I can relate. I've been stuck at Thorny Towers in Psychonauts for ages because there's this one damn rolling jump in Fred Bonaparte's level that I just can't seem to make- and if that weren't bad enough, it's part of a fairly long platforming sequence and so every time I fail I have to start over at the beginning of the jumps.

[elaminator]

Man, FPS games are so much easier...

This reminds me of a particular Portal room! I hate anything where you have to retry large platforming sections. I freak myself out thinking about screwing up and probably only make it worse.

Trial and error is really the only answer, and it's an unsatisfactory one.

(Did you look up a walkthrough? Sometimes those can help a bit, even when you know what you need to do.)

[feathercircle]

Yes- and youtube videos. I know exactly what to do, I just can never seem to get the timing as close as it needs me to. If I could just shortcut back to that one jump or even somewhere near it, I wouldn't mind so much, but having to do all that platforming over and over to get back to it is just woefully tedious.

Then again, if I'm having this much trouble here I don't know that I'd ever be able to beat the final level- I've heard horror stories about that one from people who are better at these kinds of games than I am.

[elaminator]

Timing can be a real bitch in video games. It's often the trickiest thing you'll face!

Then again, if I'm having this much trouble here I don't know that I'd ever be able to beat the final level

Aww, maybe you will! I've felt that way before but ended up beating them. It can take a lot of persistence though, but sometimes you'll adapt to the difficulty level.

[ariakas]

Man, FPS games are so much easier

Depends on your style of play, I think. I've got a buddy who still can't beat Charlie Don't Surf in CoD4 on Veteran difficulty. And another who can't beat Heat. And I'm the one of only two people I know amongst a huge crowd of gamers to manage the entirety of WaW, solo, on Veteran.

[elaminator]

I can't argue with that. (Some FPS games are insane on their hardest difficulty setting and I don't normally go anywhere near them.)

But when I say easier I mostly mean that FPS games typically have difficulty settings and a lot of platformer type games don't. If you suck at Halo or Gears you can turn the difficulty down, but that isn't an option for all games.

[ariakas]

They don't? I seem to recall an easy mode in the DMC games, though I might just be misremembering.

[elaminator]

I think DMC has an easy mode, but some of the other games mentioned in this thread (Psychonauts, Portal, Mirror's Edge) don't. Of course that's a different genre of games and so it isn't terribly surprising, just saying it sucks when you aren't particularly good at one of those and get stuck.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't get Black Ops' Vietnam mission on Veteran. Such a paaaaain. World at War kicked my arse on regular, also.

[ariakas]

Oh maaaan, it's the hill, right? The one you have to get down to plant the charges on the barrels? That level is legitimately Old Nintendo Hard. (Though the rest of Blops isn't bad at all.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Infinite respawn never made me so damn mad. The rest of Blops wasn't so bad, but I stopped my Veteran run because I couldn't get through Vietnam!

[ariakas]

I'd co-op it with you if they hadn't taken co-op out for Blops >:E *grumblegrumble*

...And, uh, assuming you play on the PS3.

[(Anonymous)]

I know -precisely- which part of the platforming sequence you're referring to, and it was one of my proudest gaming moments when I finally cleared it. Good luck on your jumps in the future!

[scrubber]

Shit, I'm stuck at Thorny Towers too.

I'm passed that part somehow, but it still took forever because Bonaparte land is the most boring thing. Have you done the Bull land? It's the best.

Though I'm now having to climb Thorny Towers and ugh. Psychonauts has great level design, but it could be a little better here. So many "WHERE THE FUCK DO I GO" moments.