Hardest Game Ever!

[ultrabiome]

Battletoads for NES.

and i've beat it, sans game genie (although it did take a lot of practice with a game genie first...)

i've also beat Silver Surfer for NES.

Edit: Super Meat Boy is hard, but you have infinite tries. That you can lose all of your progress and go back to the beginning is what makes the above games tougher.

 

[kellhounds]

MW4 mercs on elite

this game was not difficult because the enemy had more HP and more effective weapons than you, such things were unaffected by difficulty settings. it was difficult because they hit CT every time and kept you rocking so you could not accurately shoot back.

and on top of all that the NPCs were really good at spreading your damage, and rarely exposed their CT

I still have not beat that game on elite.

 

[BENZOOKA]

From what I've played, and have found at least glimpses of fun: Super Meat Boy. It gets so difficult you're going to be more focused on being frustrated than on the game itself.

 

[go-10]

I still can't beat the NES Contra's without the Konami code
also the original Ninja Gaiden trilogy for NES, that last boss was impossible!

 

[DFDelta]

Touhou, Battletoads, Contra, I wanna be the guy

And I agree to Nethack. It is not that its hard or anything, its just that absolutely random crap gets you killed for no apparent reason and with no way of avoiding it.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

I haven't played it, but it has to be this hands down

It'd be hard enough just putting up with that Boss's laugh.

well atleasst its a pretty death.....holy crap what are you sopossed to do against that?

 

[xshadowscreamx]

i thinknever got past the 1st level in ghost and goblins/ghouls on the snes when i was like 8ish

 

[sextus the crazy]

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. It's certainly the hardest strategy game I've seen in a while.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't played it, but it has to be this hands down

It'd be hard enough just putting up with that Boss's laugh.

well atleasst its a pretty death.....holy crap what are you sopossed to do against that?

Beats the hell out of me, I haven't played it. I've only seen that video. Although according to one of the YouTube comments, apparently that game has a mode where you face 2 of that boss at the same time. Can't confirm that though. I have seen a video of someone beating that boss without taking a single hit though.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I would say the original .Hack series, ESPECIALLY the boss battles, fuck those were hard!

 

[SeeIn2D]

Well the hardest part of a game I've ever played is the Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Time Trial on Gran Turismo 5. I've never even heard of anyone finishing that with the gold trophy. As for the hardest game ever, I'd say it's I Wanna Be The Boshy. Watch pieceofpiesoftware play that game on youtube and you will get angry for him.

 

[porkins]

The hardest game I have ever encountered was Star Wars Jedi Knight Outcast II. Because the levels are sooo long and you don't know where anything is.

Duuudee, I agree, the levels were somewhat long and hard, but I seriously LOVE that game. It was so memorable. I think it's probably the 2nd best PC game I've ever played.

Now, the real hardest game is Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. Good luck getting past level 2.

 

[The_Lost_King]

If you're going to call a game the hardest ever, you need to go into more detail.

If you ever played Jedi Outcast you would know why. I hate puzzle games though soooo.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I nominate the original Contra.

Old games were way more cruel than any game today. Dark Souls, take a fucking seat.

I second this.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I nominate the original Contra.

Old games were way more cruel than any game today. Dark Souls, take a fucking seat.

This, all the way.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Contra: Hard Corps.

ONE LIFE! ONE HIT! BETTER DODGE!

 

[BernardoOne]

I nominate the original Contra.

Old games were way more cruel than any game today. Dark Souls, take a fucking seat.

Well this guy can't beat his friends at Mario Party but look what he pulled off:

To be fair, Mario Party its completely(and I mean completely) luck-based.

On topic: I Wanna Be The Guy, easily.

 

[dfphetteplace]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES.

Fuck that shit.

Thread winner! That game was so damn hard. I couldn't do it without the Game Genie.

 

[Trivun]

When I was a little kid, the later levels on the first Crash Bandicoot were pretty evil. That being said, I had a habit then (that I still have now) of trying to get everything in a game, 100% completion - in this case, it included getting every single box in order to get all the Gems as well (and get the good ending with Tawna without having to kill Cortex on his blimp).

Nowadays, I can't really think of a really tough game that I own. Except certain missions on Halo Wars. Although, I did used to have the first .Hack// game, Infection, which I then got rid of - not because I didn't like the game (I thought it was pretty great), but because boss fights took forever, spending a literal hour fighting before I get the chance to use Data Drain to remove the invincibility, and then fighting another full hour just to get the boss's health down to zero. To this day I'm still not sure if I was simply doing it wrong, or if that really was the way those boss fights were meant to be...