Be it a game that’s difficult in its entirety, or a particular challenge in a game that you just couldn’t complete.

For me, there are three that come to mind:

  • Super Hostile: Waking Up (Minecraft Custom Map, Hard difficulty). That damn water section…
  • Terraria Zenith Mode. Coming from someone to whom Master Mode is fairly easy, this was rough.
  • Calamity Death Mode (Terraria). I beat DoG (this was back when a headshot was an automatic death), but I just could not click with the Yharim fight. I also think burnout was at play here because that was a LONG playthrough.
  •  conciselyverbose   ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 
    6•10 months ago

    I had a lot of games on PS4 where the difficulty isn’t “why” I stopped, but the lengthy loads when I died was.

    I’m perfectly happy dying a bunch of times in a row, provided the deaths are fair and consistent. I have a big issue with waiting 5-10 minutes to replay a section that doesn’t last meaningfully longer than that.

    Getting a PS5 let me go back to a lot of those games and properly enjoy the brutal difficulty without the headaches.