Topic: Hardest Challenges in any game

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You know why number 3 is hard? Because the game's code doesn't allow it.

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Yeah, those "lose to move on" battles can be tricky to figure out...

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Battles like that can be won, but it's really hard. Personally I've never heard of someone winning such a battle without the aid of a cheat device.

And the Budokai Tenkaichi battles that you have to "lose" don't count, because they're not scripted to be impossible.

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Battles like that can be won, but it's really hard. Personally I've never heard of someone winning such a battle without the aid of a cheat device.

No, I'm pretty sure that the code quite literally does not allow you to win.

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Well, if you're SUPPOSED to lose a scripted battle, I'm quite sure that it's impossible to win, or else the plot wouldn't be advanced properly.

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Well, if you're SUPPOSED to lose a scripted battle, I'm quite sure that it's impossible to win, or else the plot wouldn't be advanced properly.

Some games have decent enough writers that they can make both scenarios work. I'll take Chrono Cross as an example. Spoilers party!

Spoiler about Chrono Cross, major plot elements (click to toggle)

When you reach the top of Fort Dragonia with your team, Lynx will use some trick to switch Sage's body with his. Shortly after, you enter a battle, as Lynx, against your own team. Ouch. This is a battle that you're supposed to lose (three against one isn't a good start). However, if you're playing with a New Game +, it's entirely possible that you're strong enough to manage to defeat your team. If that happens, the game will move over to a cutscene where Lynx (in Sage's body) launches another attack to take you over anyway.

Edited by Dr. Cossack on September 15, 2007 at 0:32:41.

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hardest challenge I have done
1. beat Moloch on the first try on easy in morttal kombat deadly alliance.(Reptile)(complete)
i would have beaten everybody without losing once but i lost to Kitana and Quan Chi.
2. beating ALPHA-152 on easy one round perfect in dead or alive 4.(ayane)(copmlete)
Im not sure how i did that though
3.conquest mode for mortal kombat deadly alliance(complete)
it was hard doing some of the longer combos.

Edited by omegaX on October 11, 2007 at 4:19:38.

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