Fufufu, such nostalgia

I forgot, I better make him in porn!

You're way ahead of the curve my friend -salutes-

Honestly, he is in my opinion like Link. Goes through a fuckton of trouble for very little, so he probably deserves something for it.

Agreed, although he is one of many such unfortunate souls ~.~;

I dunno now, what list of characters have this issue, actually. We need to compile 'em. And a general concept of what qualifies as 'goes through hell for little gain' thing.

Hrm, a good point- I guess the first step is to decide whether repetitive tasks that you will inevitably have to do again the next game qualify.. If such things do count then a LOT of characters would make the list ^.^ Pretty much any character that appeared in more than one game, really.

Hmmmm.....I'd think on a game by game basis then. Since some only ever get one or two games, aswell.


I'd think a major qualification may be how hard the game actually is adds to the 'oh god damn this' effect. Else even if they did say, go to hell, or such, but the game wasn't so hard comparatively, the tasks they do become just not as trying. So Higgins getting screwed over so much is akin to battletoads screwing you over. But say, whassis name, Kratos going to actual hell is not very problematic in comparison.

Ah yes, now I follow! From an actual gameplay perspective.. I'll be rollin' that thought around for a good while and hopefully have some character suggestions for the list soon.

Hehehehe, alrighty!

Here are a few that might be worth considering;

The guys from Contra (NES/SNES)

Pacman

The guy from Ninja Gaiden

Karnov

The guy from Wizards and Warriors

The guy from Ghouls and Ghosts

The Doom marine from the first game(In the other games he had a decent ending but in the first game his reward for each completed campaign was to find that he was headed into an even harder fight).

Was digging through some old games to see, noticing most of them are NES games which tend to be near insane, hah!

I'd say those are good ones as 'annoyed heros' hehe. Goddamn ghouls and goblins.

Ah yes, seconded ^u^

Oh, the Startropics guy, also! Just remembered him. FFFFFFF.

So true, he even had a password to use halfway through the game that you either had in the booklet or just plain didn't have ^.^;

FFFFFING SUB C



Also that whale was annoying to get through.

-nodnod- Someone clearly had their head in the wrong place while designing that maze.

Never passed the first world; but I was 7 for my defence haha

Hahaha! I still can't beat it.

I was better later at Alex Kid x)

I took part in a community contest to see who could get furthest in this game, bonus poitns if you beat it.

Noone beat it. BI

NOONE BEATS IT 8I

Yeah, first was beatable, and third.


But 2?


YEAH GOOD LUCK THERE.

I can get to last levels, volcano top areas usually, but goodbye, end of game there.

skateboard always annoyed me, it was like, its an extra hit, but it makes you FUCKING FAST OH GOD EVERYTHING IS FLYING AT YOU

BLEEEEggplant.

Yeeeeep.

Eggplant!

Heheheh!

They need to make a new one of these!

I think they did, only it was not so good!

FUCK YOU EGGPLANT AAAUGGGH FFFFUUUUUUCK!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Back when games were about gameplay. Oh the adventure island series. Specially enjoyed the soundtrack to Super Adventure Island.

I agree there, Super Adventure Island had some really snazzy tunes in it!

I'll have to you tube it up. Back when you could just sit back, enjoy a fun platformer and the jams. . and no bugs. ;P

Oiiii, yarr.

I remember hacking the game as a kid to have a jump that would only end if you released the button. Would jump over ALL the stage. And without hitting certain items to get time back on the clock, it would sometimes take MINUTES for Higgins to finally fall from the deepest cosmos and off the bottom of the screen.

SPAAAAACE HIGGIIIIIINS!


would that make him a science Higgins?



A...HIGGINS BOSON?

Yes and yes.

I've only ever played Super Adventure Island 2 for the SNES, but I've gotta say, I love that game to bits.

I rented it once as a kid back when there were video rental stores before the days of Netflix and Gamefly. But since I'd never played a Metroidvania style game like that before, and since those rental games didn't usually come with the instruction manual because the last person to rent it didn't put it back in the box, I had no idea what I was doing.
Well many years later, I got a Wii and hugged it forever because IT IS AWESOME.
Downloaded that game onto the Wii and finally got to enjoy it; and boy did I ever.

The damn thing was retardedly hard on an NEs thanks to terrible hit detection and hard as balls levels at some points!

Makes you wonder how it became popular enough to spawn further sequels, eh?

The challenge, probably!

It's the only reason I can see, quite honestly. Though the whimsical thematic premise certainly makes it approachable and entertaining as well.

I have the super Adventure island series ones too, it's silly and fun, but also irritatingly hard.

All the conventional Adventure Island games are hard, yeah, but I thought Super Adventure Island II was comparatively easier, given the shift in style.

Yup, the rpgish ones were veryyy much easier.

They're the ones I personally prefer.