Discussion What have been your hardest gaming challenges in 2024 so far?

[Zzero]

So you buy a platform that's overwhelmingly shitty shovelware games, bad AAA ports, + indies and are surprised you're having trouble finding games to play?

This is the first year in the Switches 8 years of life where they have literally nothing for me. Its been a good ride until now but them holding back Switch 2 and replacing it with nothing leads to a super crappy year.

 

[peter42O]

Divorce is the solution; show her the door.

Hahaha. That would be a solution if I was married. lol

 

[Dr Bass]

Finding something to play. Literally, what a downer of a year.

This was exactly my post.

Animal Well was really good and quite thoughtful however.

 

[JAHGamer]

FF7 rebirth genji trials. Harder than any souls game i've played that's for sure.

Souls games are easy af. FF7Rebirth has real difficulty, the kind of difficulty that makes you a better gamer, which Souls games don't do at all. I wanted to go for the platinum in Rebirth but just gave up, the game aint worth the stress.

I have literally negative interest in precision platformers. I would rather watch paint dry. Stellar Blade and 7 R aren't on PC yet. Over on Switch we got a Good Feel game (faaaart) and a bunch of ports.

The only 2024 games I've played so far this year are Pal World and the Riven remake. Both were okay, and thats being real generous with Riven.

Ballatro looks good though, been thinking of pulling the trigger on it for months now.

Check out Skull and Bones

 

[Muddasar]

Crash Bandicoot 4.

More challenging than Elden Ring especially towards the end.

Ridiculous for a platformer.

 

[voke]

I have been trying to beat Kingdom Hearts 2 on Critical Difficulty with the EXP Zero ability equipped keeping me at level 1. A level 1 critical run basically.
I'm a little more than halfway through and am currently stuck on three boss fights: The Experiment, giant genie Jafar, and Xaldin, and I keep getting my butt kicked due to how incredibly delicate Sora is. Does not take much to get killed.

You are living through my life in 2005-07 when I obsessed over KH2.
Swear KH2FM critical mode and BBS critical mode is what prepped me for Demons souls way back lol

 

[Gamernyc78]

Last boss in Elden Ring DLC was annoying for awhile but eventually i destroyed him.

 

[2spooky5me]

Finding something to play. Literally, what a downer of a year.

Try some demos, across all the platforms you own.
I found some older/semi-new gems that way.

 

[RE4-City]

Does anyone here know how to beat the El Gigante in RE5 on Chapter 2-3 on Professional Difficulty? I did it 15 years ago on PS3 but cannot for the life of me beat it on PS4.

Edit. Damn PS4 overheated and shut down. nevermind

 

[Summer Nightmares]

Trying to reason with @Nhomnhom. unattainable platnium tbh.

Damn, black Joel. I forgot about him

 

[Summer Nightmares]

Getting disciplined enough to platinum Hades. Im so proud of it, and I enjoyed the game SO much.

 

[Nym]

 

[ethomaz]

Sackboy Big Adventure final challenge… still not beat it.

 

[RE4-City]

Ok trying to beat a squad mission on Foamstars is the hardest challenge of the year so far.

first of all nobody is playing the game so you will end up waiting for close if not more than an hour to match up with somebody
second once you match up with somebody the game automatically starts and it will just be two players in a 4 player mission.
and lastly thanks to that the mission doesn't scale in challenge depending on how many players are in the party so the odds of making thru all 10 waves is damn hard even on normal. I don't even want to think about how hard the squad mission is on hard.

 

[Orangee]

Started NieR Automata on very hard. Everything one shots you.
Probably the hardest vidya I ever got to play, but damn did It improve my real time decision making skills, aswell as my reaction time : p

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

Finding something to play. Literally, what a downer of a year.

Me too! Been sparce for me, especially with many games I was interested in being pushed to next year (KCD 2, No Rest for the Wicked, etc).

EDIT: An where the F is MGS Delta!