Hardest game ever

[Souplex]

It seems to me that games have ceased to be challenging. Games are being made easier and easier every year and it is harder and harder to find games with Mega Man's perfect "tough enough to make you want to beat it" difficulty. Then there are the games that hit the mark but keep going. This thread is devoted to those games.

Some rules:
1. The game needs to be hard by design and not other factors.

2. The game should still be winnable by skill. No traps that are literally impossible to know are there without having played before or having outside help(I want to be the guy) or simple porbability cannot be factors.

3. Games that people have a chance of knowing please.

Now that we have that out of the way my hardest game ever has got to be Metal Slug 3. If you can beat this game solo with no cheats and no continues you are the god of videogames.

So gimme your two cents on the subject.

 

[-Seraph-]

Summer Carnival 92 "RECCA" for the NES.

/thread

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Well...never played them as I hate hard games...but I heard the older Castlevania games were brutal.

 

[PersianLlama]

Contra games probably, Megaman games second.

 

[-Seraph-]

Every game listed so far may be challenging, but no where close to my pick. If you can beat RECCA (think ikaruga but super fast) then you really ARE a god among gamers.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

The indie game scene is your friend!

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

I Wanna Be The Guy has technically been beaten as proved by YouTube, however it is definitely 'Go F*** Yourself' hard. It's also free, give it a swing and feel what true pain means. It's sorta like Metroidvania except linear, each room is a giant death punch.

 

[PersianLlama]

Every game listed so far may be challenging, but no where close to my pick. If you can beat RECCA (think ikaruga but super fast) then you really ARE a god among gamers.

I need to try this RECCA, I know I won't beat it, I just want to see how hard it is.

 

[Lewrawen]

Kaizo Mario or Syobon Action, they make me want to cry.

 

[Raregolddragon]

The gameboy games where you played as Zero. Normal mode was just stupid hard and there idea of hard mode was Hellish

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

In terms of sheer bastardness I'd say Unlimited Saga.

It killed my love of SaGa...SaGa Frontier 1 was the second best RPG on the PS1, next to Legend of Mana. And 2 was beautiful...with a great story, but lacked the awesomeness of monster party members and mechs. Unlimited SaGa...I couldn't get through the least user friendly game ever and failed every battle.

 

[-Seraph-]

Every game listed so far may be challenging, but no where close to my pick. If you can beat RECCA (think ikaruga but super fast) then you really ARE a god among gamers.

I need to try this RECCA, I know I won't beat it, I just want to see how hard it is.

http://www.coolrom.com/roms/nes/3440/Summer_Carnival_%2792_-_Recca.php

enjoy the pain. I have not touched it in a while but the furthest I have gotten was almost to the end of stage 3 before game over...and there are only 4 stages. After you do if it (if you can) you get to play through those 4 stages but HARDER and more shit on the screen making it rather inhuman. Still a fucking awesome fun addictive NES game.

 

[K.B. Troopa]

I Wanna Be Th....oh, you beat me to it. Crap.

Well, in that case, the later levels of La Mulana and Cave Story will have to do.

 

[Captain_Planet]

Well the community for Trackmania is inhabited by sociopaths. Some of the tracks are proven to be possible (they have to be when verified), but you would never guess this when you try them out.

 

[Samirat]

"You Have to Burn the Rope"

I just can't beat the final boss.

 

[searanox]

Of all the games that can actually be beaten the first time through, without prior knowledge, I'd say Contra or Mega Man 2, or similar. There are a lot of harder games, but most of them require you to die and retry the same thing over and over to make progress. Both of those you can beat the first time provided your reflexes and coordination are good enough.

 

[N-Sef]

RECCA does indeed look fun, I'm always looking for the next shooter challenge.

I'd say the hardest game I've played is probably Batsugan or DoDonPachi: Daisoujou. Both shooters, and both incredibly hard.

 

[Souplex]

Yeah, this looks moderately manageable. Metal slug 3 however is not. You will die. A lot.

 

[-Seraph-]

RECCA does indeed look fun, I'm always looking for the next shooter challenge.

I'd say the hardest game I've played is probably Batsugan or DoDonPachi: Daisoujou. Both shooters, and both incredibly hard.

prepare to be fucking addicted, that video explains the game perfectly. If i had home brew on my PSP, well...I would be one happy gamer. I have yet to find a game more difficult that i couldn't beat aside from ikaruga. Even Super C was marginally easier...and that's saying something...