Hard, but fair... what is the hardest game you have played.
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I would argue that I wanna be the Guy isn't fair. Anything with one-hit kills and unskippable cutscenes is not fair.
Unfair: I Wanna Be the Guy isn't supposed to be remotely fair. It's part of the homage to ridiculous older games, taken up to 11. Cut-scenes are skippable though. They're Delicious Fruit, not apples.
Ninja Gaiden. Just Ninja Gaiden.
Most shoot-em ups, especially the Danmaku kind. Raiden for requiring superhuman reflexes. Touhou games for example, manage to cross the line. If you're good at them, they're a fair challenge, but some of the later bosses are just absurd.
Fair: It's been mentioned already, but Monster Hunter. Really the only things cheap in that series is the frustratingly limited storage space in the older ones, and the hitboxes on a couple of the bosses. (Plesioth, you know what you did)
A lot of Roguelikes (Nethack, ADOM, Elona) are absolutely brutal unless you know exactly what you're doing. Once you get past the vertical wall of the learning curve and stop doing stupid things, you have a much better chance of getting through.
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Ninja Gaiden. Just Ninja Gaiden.
Most shoot-em ups, especially the Danmaku kind. Raiden for requiring superhuman reflexes. Touhou games for example, manage to cross the line. If you're good at them, they're a fair challenge, but some of the later bosses are just absurd.
Fair: It's been mentioned already, but Monster Hunter. Really the only things cheap in that series is the frustratingly limited storage space in the older ones, and the hitboxes on a couple of the bosses. (Plesioth, you know what you did)
A lot of Roguelikes (Nethack, ADOM, Elona) are absolutely brutal unless you know exactly what you're doing. Once you get past the vertical wall of the learning curve and stop doing stupid things, you have a much better chance of getting through.
Happy first post to Me.
Well...I'll say Resonance of Fate for the moment, but now that I've figured out how everything works, it really isn't that hard. If I had answered this question when I still only had about 10 hours clocked on my file, then I would've described the game as cruel and brutal.
I have yet to play Demon's Souls for this very reason. I own it, but I'm afraid of how badly it's going to beat me. Dx
I have yet to play Demon's Souls for this very reason. I own it, but I'm afraid of how badly it's going to beat me. Dx
i once beat bahamut in FFVIII while so drunk that i am preatty sure i passed out in the middle of it and regained concioussness just in time to heal up and beat him. i also found 7 gold skulltullas in LoZ:OoT with the sound broken on my N64. that was a lot of slowly crawling through every dungeon looking for anywhere i thought the programmers might hide one of those things.
The original Ninja Gaiden on the NES.
Hard as hell, but if you are inspired, you can literally run through the entire game without having to stop except for, maybe, five times in its entirety.
Sorry about that, but most modern games don't even compare in terms of fair dificulty, mostly because they are afraid to put off players of this generations.
And don't even play the nostalgia card here, because I only started playing this game two years ago.
Hard as hell, but if you are inspired, you can literally run through the entire game without having to stop except for, maybe, five times in its entirety.
Sorry about that, but most modern games don't even compare in terms of fair dificulty, mostly because they are afraid to put off players of this generations.
And don't even play the nostalgia card here, because I only started playing this game two years ago.