Whats your trick to pass current stuckage?

[Tull]

Assuming we already figured out what we should do...

Me personally i sleep on the sections im stuck on, if not some hours of retries does the job.
After the sleep i pass it 70% on the first or second try.
The remaining 30% usually demands more retries or sleep.
So i need to sleep on it to pass it.

[Fierce_Deity835]

Assuming we already figured out what we should do...

Me personally i sleep on the sections im stuck on, if not some hours of retries does the job.
After the sleep i pass it 70% on the first or second try.
The remaining 30% usually demands more retries or sleep.
So i need to sleep on it to pass it.

Yeah, sleep is the key.

[Eltigro]

I usually get angry a few times and just keep trying. Usually I'll get through it, but there are a few games that eluded me after weeks of trying and so I haven't picked them up since.

[Joxe]

I just keep trying, I do it since I tend not to start the game after I've not passed a stuck part. The last boss in Sonic & The Secret Rings is a great example were I tried him several times and never beat him, so I switched the Wii off and went to bed, just to never start the game again.

[Kanti 3000]

I usually keep trying untill I finally give up and cry in frustration.
And then I abandon the game and forget about it untill I rediscover it again a few months/years later only to get stuck again. At which point the circle continues.

[Turbo D]

Give up and declare the game stupid and unfair. :)

Seriously. I look up a FAQ. I have no shame anymore about this. I only have so many hours a week to devote to game playing, I'm not going to waste them being frustrated on some stupidly hard part of a retro game.

Some of these old games are brutal!

[Eltigro]

Give up and declare the game stupid and unfair. :)

Seriously. I look up a FAQ. I have no shame anymore about this. I only have so many hours a week to devote to game playing, I'm not going to waste them being frustrated on some stupidly hard part of a retro game.

Some of these old games are brutal!

I do declare some games unfair. But those are mostly sports games (like those CPU controlled outfielders who are always right in the exact spot they need to be to catch a ball hit to the outfield, they should have to run like you do.)

As far as looking things up in a FAQ, usually when I declare myself completely stuck, a FAQ won't help. It usually isn't because of some trick I can't figure out or puzzle, but because of something that, for some reason, I just can't get around. In the GBA game Metroid Fusion, there is a part where the bad Samus (forgot its name in the game) is chasing you and you have jump and shoot and bomb and get to the end of a room to get away. No matter what I do, I can't seem to make it, the bad Samus always kills me. So I haven't played that game in probably a year. It just seems like sometimes I am just not fast enough on the buttons. I guess I'm just old. No FAQ for being old, is there? I'm gonna google that...

[Iam Canadian]

I stubbornly keep trying until I either pass the part or I'm driven thoroughly insane.

[Yossarian]

Give up and declare the game stupid and unfair. :)

Seriously. I look up a FAQ. I have no shame anymore about this. I only have so many hours a week to devote to game playing, I'm not going to waste them being frustrated on some stupidly hard part of a retro game.

Some of these old games are brutal!

Motion seconded. I'd love to be a purist but there is only so much time and sometimes you need to know when the problem is whether you can't solve a puzzle or whether the sequence is notoriously hard and needs superhuman reflexes. I'd also like to see the rest of the game.

Most brutally hard retro game I have played was Jet Set Willy (remake) on mobile. A game that needed pixel perfect jumps and timing ALL the time. Ugh.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

I stubbornly keep trying until I either pass the part or I'm driven thoroughly insane.

I do this, too. I'll say things like "I'm not going to sleep tonight until I finish this part, even if I'm up till 5:00 AM." And I'll actually do it (I'm very stubborn). I'll usually get through after a while of trying and trying again.

[Iam Canadian]

I do this, too. I'll say things like "I'm not going to sleep tonight until I finish this part, even if I'm up till 5:00 AM." And I'll actually do it (I'm very stubborn). I'll usually get through after a while of trying and trying again.

I'm rather OCD in that I have a really hard time putting down a game if I'm stuck at a part, as my sheer determination (or stubbornness, your choice) won't allow me to give up. If I try to walk away, it will just gnaw at me.

Oh, and I never turn down the difficulty level. Ever.

[pdRydia]

1. Keep at it. Stubborn as a mule, my granma said!

2. Rest--play another game, do something else, eat, nap or sleep--and come back to the game later. This works especially well with puzzlers like Lolo, where sometimes you get stuck looking for the solution in one way and need to look at it from a different angle. Sleep is just about the only thing that works for games requiring quick reaction times (some platformers) and concentration (logic puzzlers).

3. FAQs. Some games I get immense satisfaction out of figuring something out on my own. Some games just **** me off. And some games are in Japanese! I'd have never figured out I needed to hold down Y in Milon's Doki Doki Adventure. :0