Hardest.Game.Ever
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Any game can be the hardest ever if you set it to the highest difficulty, put on a blindfold, turn the volume off, face the other way and operate the controller with your mouth. That makes things very.... complicated.
Honestly though, I can't pick a hardest game right now but I have played a bit of STALKER Clear Sky and got shredded to bits so I'll just say that.
Honestly though, I can't pick a hardest game right now but I have played a bit of STALKER Clear Sky and got shredded to bits so I'll just say that.
I would say the original X-Com even though the difficulty in that game is balanced like a seesaw.
At the beginning you will get horribly slaughtered by a single alien crawling out of the wreckage of a scouting UFO that you just shot down in flames, but as soon as you unlock the psychic lab you pretty much win every mission by just looking at an alien.
The only thing that could still happen would be someone getting horribly raped by the Chryssalids.
And I mean that LITERALLY.
For those of you who haven't played the game, Chryssalids are pretty much a straight ripoff of Xenomorphs from Alien with the exception that there are no airlocks to throw them out of, and they're more or less immune to bullets.
The game tells you that they're weak against explosive ammo after you actually manage to kill one and survive... But that's a load of bull because you can shoot them in the face with an auto-cannon firing HEAT rounds the size of a soldier's thighs and they'll barely even notice.
Not to mention that they usually find any civilians on the map before you get even halfway across the street and that's when Mr. Shit and Ms. Fan are so aquainted they should just get married already.
Basically, Chryssalids grab people, inject them with paralyzing venom and then shove an egg through the closest orifice before setting the zombie-like husk stumbling towards their former loved ones while being eaten alive from the inside out by ANOTHER Chryssalid.
And that's the aliens that play fair.
Most other aliens like to shoot you when it's your turn. Not to mention that while you start with rifles that might kill some of the squishier aliens in one hit, if you're lucky, while the aliens' standard weapon is a plasma cannon that will burn straight through even an advanced power armor and can be fired on "burst" setting.
It's still a really awesome game though, and it's on Steam. Really cheap. You just have to fix the damn DOSBox settings so the game stops lagging. (Limited to 8000 cpu cycles and can't be raised above that point without editing the config file yourself. The game runs smoothly for me at about 12000 cpu cycles. >_>)
At the beginning you will get horribly slaughtered by a single alien crawling out of the wreckage of a scouting UFO that you just shot down in flames, but as soon as you unlock the psychic lab you pretty much win every mission by just looking at an alien.
The only thing that could still happen would be someone getting horribly raped by the Chryssalids.
And I mean that LITERALLY.
For those of you who haven't played the game, Chryssalids are pretty much a straight ripoff of Xenomorphs from Alien with the exception that there are no airlocks to throw them out of, and they're more or less immune to bullets.
The game tells you that they're weak against explosive ammo after you actually manage to kill one and survive... But that's a load of bull because you can shoot them in the face with an auto-cannon firing HEAT rounds the size of a soldier's thighs and they'll barely even notice.
Not to mention that they usually find any civilians on the map before you get even halfway across the street and that's when Mr. Shit and Ms. Fan are so aquainted they should just get married already.
Basically, Chryssalids grab people, inject them with paralyzing venom and then shove an egg through the closest orifice before setting the zombie-like husk stumbling towards their former loved ones while being eaten alive from the inside out by ANOTHER Chryssalid.
And that's the aliens that play fair.
Most other aliens like to shoot you when it's your turn. Not to mention that while you start with rifles that might kill some of the squishier aliens in one hit, if you're lucky, while the aliens' standard weapon is a plasma cannon that will burn straight through even an advanced power armor and can be fired on "burst" setting.
It's still a really awesome game though, and it's on Steam. Really cheap. You just have to fix the damn DOSBox settings so the game stops lagging. (Limited to 8000 cpu cycles and can't be raised above that point without editing the config file yourself. The game runs smoothly for me at about 12000 cpu cycles. >_>)
Farcry 1. The game gets too fucking hard later on. Example - those mutant beast things that charge after you have an unfair melee range, and the part where you're kicked out of a plane with barely any ammo (and then on) was all completely impossible for me and I HAD to shamefully cheat. This was only on skill level 3!
Some classes are initially much harder than others.L3m0n_L1m3 said:
OT: Demon's Souls and Ninja Gaiden series come to mind but only because they are recent. Basically every game pre-memory saves and didn't use metriod-esque passwords were ten times harder than any modern game. Don't get me started on arcade games either, some of those were brutal.
Megaman X4 anyone?
My friends used to challenge people to survive more than 3 seconds on the Marine Base level. It's a forced side-scroll level and you fall down a pit if you don't jump immediately when the level begins, and you have 0 warning of that.
Actually, Megaman in general is a crazy difficult franchise.
My friends used to challenge people to survive more than 3 seconds on the Marine Base level. It's a forced side-scroll level and you fall down a pit if you don't jump immediately when the level begins, and you have 0 warning of that.
Actually, Megaman in general is a crazy difficult franchise.
All of the metal slug games were pretty frustrating -_-. On that note, most relatively challenging arcade style games with an "x amount of lives and then game OVARRRR" system can get really ball-breakingly annoying.Souplex said:
Restarting on death is standard in the Roguelike/Mysterious Dungeon genre.Kanlic said:
Combine that with Very long lists of possible deaths [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/ways_to_die.html], and you have a bit of a nightmare...
eh.. i know, i really suck at gaming. perhaps that's why i stay well away from shootersyersimapestis said:
*shrugs*