Post by: Mashiro on July 13, 2007, 12:56:51 PM
For me it would have to be a single moment in A Link to the Past on SNES. I had gotten the game and got to the point where you see Agahnim teleport Zelda to the dark work.
Afterwards Agahnim shifts backwards behind a curtain where the fight ensues. However, as a kid (and I don't know why to this day) I thought he flew UP not backwards.
So I spent a very....very...very long time searching Hyrle for Agahnim. Fed up I gave up on the game. It wasn't until a year later that my best friend played the game and swiped the curtain to reveal the door to fight Agahnim. My jaw dropped and I felt really stupid as I had never even tried to slash away at curtains.
But hey on the plus side I finally got to finish the game and it became my favorite Zelda =)
Post by: King of Twitch on July 13, 2007, 02:57:01 PM
Last day of 6th grade I asked another friend and he mentioned something about killing everything in a room. So I had to go to that one room and kill the bat, the spinny thing, and some wizard in a certain order to progress finally. It was a great day.
Post by: Bill Aurion on July 13, 2007, 03:20:07 PM
(Aha, everyone's had a Zelda one so far...
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Post by: Chozo Ghost on July 13, 2007, 04:09:00 PM
Post by: stevey on July 13, 2007, 04:59:58 PM
Post by: Adrock on July 13, 2007, 05:05:49 PM
More Zelda:
It took me over a year to beat the final boss of Link's Awakening because I didn't know you could jump over his arms with Roc's feather. I finally beat it with half a heart by walking back and forth at the bottom of the screen. Greatest gaming triumph ever....... until like the first or second week of high school when a friend I met told me how to beat the boss.
Then, in Ocarina of Time, I was stuck in the Forest Temple for about a month because I missed the eye switch that untwists one of the hallways. F-ing lame.....
Post by: Mashiro on July 13, 2007, 05:10:49 PM
and Stevey I too got confused at that part haha.
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 13, 2007, 05:17:37 PM
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I consider Super Metroid my favorite game, but when I first played it, I couldn't for the life of me, figure out how to Space Jump. My neighbor's cousin had to teach me how to do it.
More Zelda:
It took me over a year to beat the final boss of Link's Awakening because I didn't know you could jump over his arms with Roc's feather. I finally beat it with half a heart by walking back and forth at the bottom of the screen. Greatest gaming triumph ever....... until like the first or second week of high school when a friend I met told me how to beat the boss.
Then, in Ocarina of Time, I was stuck in the Forest Temple for about a month because I missed the eye switch that untwists one of the hallways. F-ing lame.....
I had the exact same problem, I remember how amazed I was when I seen it actually done. In fact before I learned it I considered that area where you run into the friendly green creatures to be a trap that you couldn't get out of lol.
Post by: KDR_11k on July 13, 2007, 07:09:37 PM
My memories of serious Zelda stucks weren't embarrassing because it seemed more like the fault of the game to me:
1. First dungeon of Link's Awakening, the first time you have to push one of those black blocks to open a door: How would I know that those things can be pushed?
2. Wind Waker: Couldn't proceed with the triforce collectathon because I couldn't find the kid behind the gravestone in the search quest and without that the teacher wouldn't give the necessary quests.
3. Ocarina of Time: I needed Gamefaqs to figure out those walls in the basement of the forest temple could be turned. But that game was so full of frustration anyway that I couldn't be bothered to continue playing it after I beat the forest temple.
Metroid also had its annoyances:
1. Super Metroid: Since I bought it used on a flea market (with a semi-broken battery, grrrr) it took me forever to figure out how to use the morph ball since I didn't notice that crouching is triggered by a tap instead of holding down.
2. Metroid Prime artifact collectathon: Two hints were translated wrong, usually the highlighted words are part of the room name but for two artifacts they weren't and instead pointed to other rooms. One was the lava area one that pointed at "seas of fire with two pillars in them" ("Feuerseen") but the seas of fire room was translated as lava seas and another room with two pillars and lava was called fire sea. The other was the artifact in the XRay visor room, the hint mentioned a "wet grove" ("feuchte Grotte") and there was a room named grove near the ship (with water in it, too) whereas the right room was called Garden of Life.
Post by: MarioAllStar on July 13, 2007, 07:14:03 PM
I got through several dungeons and reached the Face Shrine dungeon, but got stuck on a particular room. On this map, it is the third panel in the first column. For months I did not know how to open that door, so I just gave up. Later, when I went to my grandparent's house for a few days, I decided to start over since I had forgotten all the things I had done before.
It turns out the door opened with bombs.
Post by: Mashiro on July 13, 2007, 07:19:06 PM
Post by: MarioAllStar on July 13, 2007, 07:26:56 PM
Anyway, back to embarrassing stories...
Post by: blackfootsteps on July 15, 2007, 10:35:15 PM
Post by: EasyCure on July 16, 2007, 06:47:50 AM
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Hmm, mine's from Zelda OoT, it was the pre Forest Temple quest to get the hookshot, I didn't know you could pull the graves around in the Kakariko Graveyard. I was stuck for easily 2 weeks just running round getting angry at Sheik.
have you never played ALttP???
Post by: Ian Sane on July 16, 2007, 07:10:30 AM
I do have an embarassing LttP story of my own as well. The first time I played it was at a friend's house. My friend had not gotten very far. All he had done was beaten the first castle area and rescued Zelda. I was really unfamiliar with games like Zelda. Everything I played before was all linear levels so exploring around was a lot of fun. I read all the signs and one of them was Link's wanted poster. Well I didn't recognize it as a Link and starting looking around the map to find the guy in the wanted poster. I figured finding him would get me a new item or something.
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on July 16, 2007, 08:23:03 AM
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Originally posted by: blackfootsteps
Hmm, mine's from Zelda OoT, it was the pre Forest Temple quest to get the hookshot, I didn't know you could pull the graves around in the Kakariko Graveyard. I was stuck for easily 2 weeks just running round getting angry at Sheik.
have you never played ALttP???
That's where a lot of this stuff comes from, I'll bet. Many things that are part of the Zelda paradigm aren't really explained, and you only really know what to do in some cases if you're familiar with past Zelda games.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 16, 2007, 03:30:45 PM
Sony at E3 2006
Post by: blackfootsteps on July 16, 2007, 06:39:14 PM
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Originally posted by: blackfootsteps
Hmm, mine's from Zelda OoT, it was the pre Forest Temple quest to get the hookshot, I didn't know you could pull the graves around in the Kakariko Graveyard. I was stuck for easily 2 weeks just running round getting angry at Sheik.
have you never played ALttP???
Nah I never had it on my SNES, despite the fact that I owned and loved Link's Awakening. Weird I know. After OoT I went back and played the others, problem rectified.
Post by: KDR_11k on July 16, 2007, 10:54:28 PM
Post by: Shift Key on July 16, 2007, 11:10:34 PM
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Most embarrassing Gaming Moment:
Sony at E3 2006
Piecharts are hawt. Therefore you are wrong.
Post by: blackfootsteps on July 17, 2007, 12:14:13 AM
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Didn't you already get to push gravestones in the original LOZ?
I never personally owned a NES as a child because we didn't have a TV. I only had my Game Boy!
Post by: vudu on July 17, 2007, 07:52:26 AM
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Post by: Svevan on July 17, 2007, 10:44:59 AM
I didn't get stuck in Twilight Princess, but I did make a boner mistake: I went all the way from the top of the Temple of Time to the bottom without a statue. I didn't think it was necessary. I had to climb back to the top and bring the guy down to continue. I don't much like that temple anyway.
Most embarrassing of all: I got stuck in RE4 for over a year. It wasn't a dumb mistake or anything like that, I just could NOT beat Krauser during the knife fight. Yeah, it's a cinema scene, but every time I played it I would miss the last quick button press. I revisited the thing for a week, then once or twice every month, left the game sit for a few months, and finally, either at the end of 2005 or in the beginning of 2006, I decided to go back and beat it. And I did.
And what's most embarrassing is that I almost never finish games, especially RPGs. I don't want to tell you which games I haven't finished, you may actually think less of me.
Post by: Kairon on July 17, 2007, 11:14:46 AM
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In Twilight Princess' Temple of Time I didn't know I could make the statues I controlled with the Dominion Rod attack by pressing the B button. I'm not sure if I missed the instructions telling me that or if I was just supposed to figure it out myself. I was trying to beat the game without ever resorting to an FAQ. I was stuck for about two hours before I finally gave up and looked up the answer online. I was pissed I had wasted so much time on something to stupid.
That's not an embarassing moment. That's one of the several things TP FAILED at.
Post by: blackfootsteps on July 17, 2007, 02:50:14 PM
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I'm pretty sure you push gravestones in Link's Awakening, too.
Ha, yep I reckon you are probably right. My failure is inexcusable!
