Right now:
Crash Bandicoot Nsane trilogy, FFX-2, Cyberpunk 2077, DMC V.
Noita. I don’t see how a single person has beaten it. Wand building is basically a game within the game (and I don’t get it – ditto for potions), the character is squishy with barely any healing mechanism, and every playthrough is randomized so there’s not a lot to learn from your mistakes. I guess it’s not a casual game (what I usually go for). I can’t see anyone getting any better at it if they only play it a few hours a week and watching just as many tutorial videos.
This game is brutal but man do I love it. There are so many RNG factors that can make or break your run. But when you go God mode boy is it satisfying. Dunkorslam YouTube videos are your best friend to learn how to get your first win.
Happy to see noita here, it belongs
After 1500 hours I beat nightmare mode, but still haven’t beaten the 33 orb kolmi
The unmodded experience absolutely isn’t a casual game. Due to the semi random nature of the game I actually rate it harder than dark souls.
It doesn’t have the same roadblock encounters souls games have but you can learn how to pass them in the souls games. However in Noita you need to learn the systems and then use your knowledge of the systems to bypass the problems in a more dynamic way. For example I wanted to carve a path through lava. Usually I’ve done it with a freezing spell, but I didn’t have it. Instead I had found lava to blood spell, so I turned parts of lava to blood which then reacted with the rest of lava to create volcanic rock, which I then dug through.
For a more casual experience I recommend using mods for whatever gives you the most trouble, because there’s a lot of that can give you problems. You can learn at your own pace because it does get easier the more you get used to the systems in the game.
I definitely recommend experiencing Noita, it’s one of the most unique games I’ve ever played. It’s so unique I actually have a hard time putting it into a specific genre. I usually just call it a roguelite Metroidvania. It starts out as a roguelite but the more you play it the more it becomes like a Metroidvania where there’s usually a specific mechanic preventing access to other areas but there can be multiple solutions to the mechanic and your solution depends whatever things the roguelite aspect of the game gave you.
There’s a steam workshop mod which puts a checkpoint in all the temples, this let me beat it, the base game only that is, no challenge runs or secret bullshit, haven’t even attempted that.
I do enjoy setting everything on fire and exploding myself though. I played a fair few hours on and off.
It’s a very hard game. I really got into it playing with the Noita Together mod, and the Spell Labs mod when I was playing solo, to really figure out the game. Then once I felt I had a good grasp, I beat it, did the sun quest, eventually beat 33 orb Kolmi… Lost all my progress and had to do it again.
If you can’t tell, I love Noita, but I fell in love with the wand building first. Spell Labs has excellent tutorials on improving your wand builds too. But I now have modded the game, so I’m not a casual player of it either.
The same game 99.999% of people that played it are stuck on: Super Ghouls n Ghosts
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Accidentally triggered the Woman’s Lot DLC and now I’m stuck in a stealth section vs a town of angry Cumans that I just cannot figure out.
Infuriating.
jfc man… god i want to love that that, i want to play it but i got stuck so many times, randoms kills sends you back 30-60 min back… how many times can a man take this shit?
i tried few times but could never go few hours without some bullshit. i really hope they fix this shit for new game.
Hollow Knight
I’ll probably pick it up again next time I’m stuck in bed sick for days. I don’t think I remember where I need to go next, or all of the techniques I’ve unlocked, though…
Ori and the Blind Forest
See above.
Hollow Knight for me also… I’ll resume once I find the damn paper maps I drew while exploring, I moved house and they’re somewhere…
Not right now, but on the original Baldur’s Gate, it autosaved when I had like 1% health right before a boss. There was no chance of getting around that. Totally screwed me over and I gave up.
If you still have that save file, you might consider tasteful use of an editor to give yourself a chance. If not though I’m sorry to hear that. BG1/2 were a huge part of my childhood and my longtime favorite villain came from the second.
Space Engineers.
It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.
Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.
For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.
But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.
Ooh, I have that game too!
Baba is you. Every couple months I’ll take a crack at it, maybe solve 1 or 2 more screens, get stuck again. Love the soundtrack
This reminds me that I am stuck on Dev is You, level 19! Probably been stuck for a couple of years now. Now I need to go and try again.
Was trying to think of one recently and this is the one, although I have it on mobile as a train-ride pastime. Still stuck on the puzzle I’m on.
Valheim. I think the game needs to scale better when playing solo.
The meadow was a simple and chill starter level.
The forest was a lot harder, but still reasonable. I struggled with the boss, but I managed.
There was a plains biome on my way to the swamp, and after checking it out I learned quickly that it’s not somewhere I should set foot again for like a million years. It took me quite a few tries (and boats) to get my stuff back.
The swamp was really hard, but I pulled through, mostly by simply avoiding those huge lumbering root-looking monsters. I had to cheese the boss by firing a million arrows from my boat where he couldn’t reach me.
I got insta-pasted while searching for silver in the mountains, and it’s pretty far from my main base, that’s where my body still rests. It’s been well over a year since I last launched the game.It’s an incredibly great game, but having to gather all the metal for my gear from scratch is just so demotivating.
While the Plains and Mountains biomes were rough, Mistlands was my breaking point. Steep slopes with fog and fliers all at the same time killed my deaire for progress between not being able to see things and the difficulty of hitting things on slopes.
But those early biomes are a blast!
Unless they changed it in an update, the fighting mechanics are also a major hindrance. Last time I played you can’t hit stuff that isn’t on the same plane as you with any sort of accuracy. Love the game and have dropped hundreds of hours into it but every time my friends and I went in we got burnt out by the time we reached the plains.
Outer Wilds
Reviews of the game are fantastic (“this is the best game I’ve ever played” - everybody) but trying to fly that damn spaceship is so hard. I also heard there’s tricky platforming later on, and if you mess up you gotta start waaaay back. I did not grow up with video games so I’m terrible at that kind of thing. I should just give up and watch a playthrough but apparently that defeats the whole point of the “incredible” story, which is the only thing I’m here for in the first place.
I guess I’m just holding out for someone to release an assist mode or something.
Same here. I just replied to another comment about it. Outer Wilds was incredibly frustrating for me and I quickly abandoned it.
Yeah, same here. I don’t disbelieve those who love it, but I just couldn’t get into it because it felt so unintuitive.
Agree. I hear that you basically must use controllers, but I HATE those things. So I ditched the game, couldn’t even control the spaceship on the very first planet in the training section.
Flying tips:
Always lock on to your target planet. For example, if you’re wanting to fly around Timber Hearth (home planet) instead of jetting off to someplace else, lock on to Timber Hearth first. This lets you use the ‘match velocity’ button to bring yourself to a stop any time you start feeling out of control. Use it a lot.
Until you have a hang of the controls, the landing camera can be helpful for exploring too. It doesn’t tell you this but when you’re in the landing camera, the flying mode changes too: the ship will automatically orient itself so that the feet (and landing camera) are pointing straight down (again, make sure you’re locked on to the planet).
Now you can stop worrying about pitch and roll completely. Don’t touch them. Just use the right trigger gently to hover, go up, or let go to fall a bit. Use the left stick to strafe around the planet. If it’s small like the moon, it can kinda feel like just rotating the ball beneath you to look at the surface.
The landing cam also has a cute little altitude meter that I didn’t notice for the longest time
Edit: feel free to message me in the future if you do give it another go and have any questions, I’d love to help you experience it. I wouldn’t worry about any ‘platforming’ in the game, if something is physically very challenging it’s usually not the intended solution. It is also usually very clever about any long trips to get back to where you were.
There is an assist mode to go from one planet to another, but I guess you’re having a hard time when navigating around the planet…
Once you’ve selected your target planet on the map (or select the planet by looking at it and pressing L3) you can then autopilot to the planet with up on the d-pad (tells you top left of the screen). Landing is a bit tricky but you can definitely just slam the ship into the ground, as the loops are short it’s not the end of the world if it gets beat up. Pressing square or x to activate the landing camera can help too.
Autopilot will sometimes zoop you into the sun. You have to kinda get into the headspace of orbital mechanics to make it work right. That game is wondrous.
That’s true, fairly easily avoided by holding the up or down trigger until you’ve got a clear line of sight to your target before engaging autopilot.
I play a fair amount of games, and picked this one up because of all the hype. I probably played 5-6 hours, but the game just did not grab me. I’ve tried 2-3 times to get into it, but it’s not clicking.
Disco Elysium. It is so good, but I think I would rather have read the book.
I got the remaster of We Love Katamari when it came out summer of last year. While I wouldn’t exactly say I’m “stuck” (I quickly and enthusiastically completed the main game and 100%ed all the achievements) there’s a bonus level in which you are asked to gather one million roses and I’ve only got around 40,000 so far. While you can continue building this up over time, I’ve no idea how many years of blowing the occasional hour on it this goal will take.
Some games I can’t just cheat/hack so it’s easier fore with my disabilities, currently only one I can think of is outer wilds where it’s completely timed based.
I hate how games say they are so accessible friendly yet are designed to be incredibly difficult. Although I absolutely love it when games let you alter a lot of the game from the start, to make it as easy or hard as you like.
I gave up on Outer Wilds too. I got so frustrated with the controls, changing perspective, and the timing that I just dropped it after a couple hours of play.
So many…
FF7. Got all the way to Sepiroth, lost once and never retried. That save game is long gone so I’d have to start from nothing if I wanted to finish it.
FO3. After I left the vault the direction of the game was very open ended so I just kind of sputtered about, not really getting into the main quest.
BG2. I put a lot of hours into this game but I thought my the combat was wicked hard and certain side quests took way too long so again I couldn’t really get into the main to storyline.
Sounds like I won’t be playing FF7 at all anymore:
FF7 remake.
I just wanted to get out of midgar and now I gotta Chocobo network between cities? Ugh… No thanks.
Midgar was worst part of the original, and it’s dragged out and much worse in the remake… But at least I got to do squats in a gym with gender ambiguous NPCs like every anime fan craves, so I guess that’s cool /s.
The original is so great, but this one is just grinding with gender and sexuality issues turned up to 13.
Wow, Midgar was my favourite part of the original FF7! I remember thinking the whole game was going to take place in Midgar.
Really? I remember being so jazzed the first time I got to run cloud on the open world.
The only thing I enjoyed about midgar from the original was the flashbacks to sephiroth, and remake substitutes with the ghost stuff.
Same here! I spent a lot of time in Midgar, so it felt like the whole game could take place there. But stepping onto the world map was an amazing experience partially because of how amazing Midgar was to me.
I played it as a kid in the 90s though, so that might’ve coloured my interpretation of it.
I’m also playing ff7, but the original for PC heavily modded. I’m also hunting for chokabo, and I hate it.
The Chocobo breeding is the best and worst part, because it’s so satisfying when you get the gold one.
Fallout 4. Playing for the first time, and have done everything except for the main questline and DLCs. I started losing interest in playing, but I want to eventually get through the main story. Taking a break and playing some Rimworld before returning to the wasteland.
I do that with almost every open world RPG, except that I never end up going back. I love Fallout 3/NV, FO4, Oblivion, Skyrim, Baldur’s Gate 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3 and yet I have not finished a single one of them. I’m not really concerned about finishing them. I had a lot of fun playing them until I didn’t. 10/10 would buy again.
