Most FRUSTRATING RPG moment (Thread 1 of 2)

**SilverSwift** · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2057

Two defining moments for me...

#1: Star Ocean 3: Til The End of Time. Basically, anyone who's played the game (and I mean really played it), only a few words are needed. Freya. Two hours. 500K health left. Ether Strike. Death.

To the rest of you, Freya is the uber-boss of the game, takes at least one hour to defeat, and that's if you're awesome. I whittled down the HP from 60 million to 500K, and then got nailed right at the death...aaargh! Still haven't beaten Freya to this day. >_<

#2: Xenosaga 2. Far less epic, but just as annoying- the first fight with Albedo, inside MOMO. Again, Xenosaga players will know it well...the regenerating arms just stumped me for an age, and I was underlevelled as it was. I kept using my usual conservative healing techniques, and therefore I never did anything to him. Took me a loooong time to understand what to do, and even then he was majorly tough! Definitely a pain-in-the-ass boss if I ever saw one.

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**Blehgopie** · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 1218

I'm stuck at Adel in Lunatic Pandora in FF8, probably due to not leveling my characters properly. The kicker is that all mobs accessible at this point in the game are only worth 1 exp, so I can't level up. This was like 4 or 5 years ago, and I haven't played since.

Maybe I can level my guys, and someone knows how?
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**Dreyvas** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: Cleveland, OH

**greatcodo27** · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:44 am Post subject:

The funny thing to me is that I maintain that I sucked bad at FF when I was into it, like really into it from FF7 to FF9, I just played through and knew virtually none of the basics of RPGS and such, but didn't encounter a lot of difficulty in beating them. That said, I never 100% completed them really, like in 7 I didn't beat the weapons, I beat the underwater one, but only because of gameshark, it was a weird glitch, because I had infinite life on but cloud was killed with the first hit, but I had infinite limit break on, and tifa and cait sith (I'm not joking, this was my party, I told you I sucked) just repeatedly did limit breaks forever and they weren't attacked again, I even just let the game go on by itself until the weapon was killed.
As for frustration, without a doubt, Diablo 2. Coasting through parts so easy then out of nowhere something casts some sort of curse on you and you die in a second, I could eat the keyboard when that happens. Ohh and retreiving your corpse thereafter, just as entertaining. That and those little stygian dolls in act 3 that explode upon death, so nice to die on account of them, yay!
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**catfish7** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 927 Location: North Florida

**greatcodo27** · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:07 am Post subject:

I totally forgot the gold chocobo, that definately goes on the list as well
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**Razzmatazz** · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:46 am Post subject:

FYI For those of you who can't beat Yunalesca in FFX, her 3rd form pattern is Mega Death, Hellbiter, Hellbiter, Mind Blast, Hellbiter, Mega Death, repeat. Any of the Hellbiters could also be Curaga or regen. I would know. I spent 90 minutes beating her without the Sphere Grid, Overdrives, Aeons, Customizing, Escaping, or Blitzball also without a No Encounters Item. Trust me on this pattern.

Strangely enough, my most frustrating moments happened in FFX. The first one was against none other than S. Natus (The one in Bevelle). This was in the challenge I mentioned earlier (no sphere grid, no summon, no...) so getting to him was a pain in the ass. Then, once I get there, the little bitch kills me in two turns! Pissed me off big time.

Second most frustrating moment (more so than the first) was, surprise surprise, Yunalesca. 70~ish minutes into the battle. Same challenge. I switch out team zombie ( to take mega death). Well, they arem't zombies. No worry, her pattern says hellbiter comes next. Lol no. Against all odds (there's less than 10 % chance of this) she uses Curaga. I threw the controller into the wall. The bitch killed me, she had only thousands of HP left

And here's two things I would've expected to be said by now. Choccobo Catcher and the Butterfly game. Seriously, the god damned Choccobo trainer cheats!
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**Fisch** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 9

Anyone else here ever played azure dreams? There was only a single 50 floor dungeon, and every time you went in you dropped to level 1, and could only bring 5 items. You have pet monsters that dont delevel, but they use up energy as they go along, and if you dont bring in ungodly weapons with you, there worn out after 10 floors tops, becouse you can only bring in 5 items. Unfortunately, there were traps which made your weapons lose power, so you had to use a gold sword the whole time, since its immune, but if you die in the tower you lose em forever anyway. About a hundred hours in, ive tempered a gold sword with +25 attack power, after making it to floor 44 in my last attempt, and a damn pick pocket monster steals my sword right before the levels floor collapsesand it kicks me to the next one.

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