"Fun" Hard and "Stupid" Hard

[MadeinHell]

Fun Hard
X-com/UFO (In europe) AT ANY difficulty (Superhuman is... well... superhuman ).

Stupid Hard
any TES game on "hard" setting, it's not getting hard, just cheap. And by cheap I mean increase your enemies health and damage twice and decrease your damage twice. It's not hard, just annoying I always play TES games on normal just because of that.

PS. Also another one for "Fun Hard" is:
Demon's Souls - Game is so well done that every time you die it feels like YOUR fault, not a game being cheap on your ass.

 

[Eldarion]

Devil may Cry 3= MOTHERF*@%ING A#%#&@%^ C*#@^& L*@(*#ING STUPID HARD!!!!

lol

I love that game. I have the special edition and everything. Thats fun hard for me.

 

[V161]

Fun Hard: ME2 on Insanity level is hugely satisfying with you make when you make it to the end of a level. The cutscene feels like a reward. The gameplay itself with the tactics needed for gunfighting aided by biotics is challenging but not split/second overwhelming to make it a chore.
Stupid Hard: CoD MW2 campaign was a pain. It just wasn't fun for me. It felt like something I had to endure just to finish the experience. It wasn't that it was this pseudo-chaos of war thing; it was just un-fun! Fail.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

Fun Hard - Super Mario, except Super Mario Sunshine and SMB Lost Levels. RE4's Professional mode, Contra 3 or Dead Space's Impossible (which doesn't really reflect its name).

Stupid Hard - Any of the uber-hard game modes like GeoW's Insane, RE5's Professional, Doom's Nightmare. Unforgiving error space and/or trial and error like R-Type, Contra: Hard Corps or Zelda 2, or continue-grinding wall-bashing games like Contra Rebirth's Nightmare mode, or the aformentioned RE5.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

Fun hard: Metal Storm (Google it.)
Stupid hard: Getting all of the achievments in Megaman 9. (Not getting hit? ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!)

 

[Mstrswrd]

Fun Hard: Demon's Souls

Stupid Hard: Demon's Souls (Old King Doran or False King Allant in particular)

And yet, both of those bosses have the easiest "Cheese to death" methods in the game (Hide to the left of the staircase, wait for Allant to walk over and turn around, gently walk up the stairs, poison him from a distance, walk back down the stairs. Repeat until dead. For Doran, from just outside the door, use Posion or Plague until he's dead).

Note that, unless you wish to lose much gamer cred, you must beat them at least once before using this method to prove you can. I mostly use this when I don't feel like fighting them again (for the 8th time, literally), and have other stuff to do, like write an essay (You only need to listen, and you'll be good).

If I was rude, I apologize.


Anyway, Fun Hard is, for the most part, the Touhou series... on normal.

Stupid Hard is the first Touhou game (Combine Bullet Hell with Arkanoid). Also, Every Ninja Gaiden game.

 

[Ashhearth]

Fun hard: Mass Effect 1+2 on Insanity. I know a lot of people had trouble with these, but using the right strategy and preparation they're actually a lot of fun. The battles are more drawn out and intense because you're that much more likely to die with one wrong move, but there was never an encounter that I thought "This is impossible!"

Exactly this for the fun difficulty because you get so into some of the shootouts.

Stupid Hard: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 the final boss. The thing is a god damn helicopter and while it's shooting at you with infinite ammo you also have to deal with terrorist minions that can shoot you in the head without batting an eye.

 

[team star pug]

Funhard: Multiplayer shooters. I just come back for more... kills that is.

stupid hard: Civ Rev on anything above and including king difficulty.

 

[Canid117]

I disliked the final boss from Prototype because of that damn tentacle explosion that would drain a full health bar. Normally I wouldn't have much of a problem except it took forever for your health to actually drain. Draining all your health with one attack? I can handle that. having it take thirty seconds so that you watched your character die slowly while there was absolutely nothing you could do? A dick move but I can still handle it. Having the attack spammed so you are going to die at least ten times? Fuck you Activision!

 

[Susano]

Fun hard?

Almost every hard difficulty made. I lap them up. I complete and enjoy hard games.

Stupid hard?

IWBTG.

My poor platformer skills probably aid the difficulty.

Wrong way round for me. I usually despise Hard difficulty modes, but IWBTG was so hilariously hard it was really fun.

 

[saintchristopher]

The only fun hard I can think of is Rock Band.

Otherwise I've never played a hard difficulty I could call fun.

 

[Skorpyo]

Oddly, my moments were both in F.E.A.R.

Fun hard: Any number of gunfights against rediculous numbers of enemy soldiers.

Stupid hard: 2 REVE mechs at the same time, with the SMG.

 

[Wayneguard]

Fun Hard: Levels without water

Stupid Hard: Levels with water

As a side note, water doesn't even have to be a key gameplay mechanic for it to make the level suck. take for example, the water room in RE4. It's the WORST FUCKING PART OF THE GAME yet the water is confined to little pools in the middle of the room. water is evil...

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Fun Hard: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 on the hardest difficulty. Me and a friend were playing it and laughing so much because of how much we died. Then when we finally beat a boss it was so much more satisfying.

Stupid Hard: That boss in FF8 where half-way through he switches types. It makes it so that the only way to do any real damage to him is to use healing magic on him. It was probably something they talked about earlier in the game I knowing me, it was the one part that I wasn't paying attention to, but that boss took forever with even my strongest GFs doing only 100 damage or so.

 

[RatRace123]

Fun hard: Dragon Age, a lot of the NES games, doing a no armor change run on one of the Ratchet and Clank games.

Stupid Hard: The second to last tower of lost souls challenge in Soul Calibur 4. Facebreaker, the harder difficulties on fighting games and RTSes.

 

[Cockney_Jesus]

Fun hard: World of Warcraft raiding! I love it! The first few attempts at the boss who pretty much kills you instantly. Learning the tactics then finally downing him and wondering why you found him so hard in the first place. My guild did one of the hardest bosses a few days ago, his hp was 2% when we all died! It was awesome though...and we got him on the next attempt.

Also WWF No Mercy on the N64. Most of my friends try expert difficulty and try to hit the computer with all the best moves straight away which just get reversed and they complain about cheating. What you're supposed to do is start with weak attacks and wear them down. I've had matches lasting over an hour on expert difficulty. So satisfying when you finally get the pin/submission!

Stupid hard: Oblivion on the hardest difficulty. I love that game but on hard it's just hitting enemies for absolutely ages over and over again, so boring.

Just plain annoying hard: Mario Kart Double Dash! The computer cheats so badly it's ridiculous! Getting weapons quicker than you, being faster than you in any car, always getting the best weapons etc.

 

[I Resurection I]

Fun Hard: Any moment in Dead Space, cause the rush of adrenaline i get trying to walk through a room of enemies create such dramatic effect that i can't help feeling like i am Issac.

Stupid Hard: The midget turned massive monster in Resident Evil 4. He has 2 different one hit kill moves and one of them you would need the reaction time of a fly on crack to dodge, and the one safe spot from this guy is infested with these spider looking things. Which would grab you and slowly drain your health for a good 15 sec, and were impossible to shake off.

 

[WorldCritic]

Fun hard: the final boss of Phantasy Star Online
Stupid Hard: Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja

 

[Lust]

Fun Hard: SotC on Hard.

Stupid Hard: God of War 3 on Chaos Mode. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!