Hardest.Game.Ever

[Gyrefalcon]

I would say Shogun: Total War. You could be doing well in the battles but if your heir died you would still lose. Tricky.

 

[jebus4you]

trivial pursuit. those questions are for geniuses

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Head Over Heels on the Commodore 64. That game schooled me like no other.

 

[Nouw]

DOW:SS. The Space Marine race is the simplest. All others fail. 3:30 hours to finish a Tau Home Base HQ! My first base got destroyed half way through. I made another one from scratch with a servitor. On a tau emplacement. It was a bloody good battle! But ( typical ) DOW:SS save file ran away. Starting from the beginning with SM again!

 

[ayuri]

desertbus it is impossible you have to play in a game with no scenery no pause button and 8 hours to get one bloody point

 

[malestrithe]

A boy and his blob (the original NES version)

Seriously. You thought this game was hard? I was able to beat it the first weekend after I bought it.

I would say Battletoads, but I played the Japanese version of it and it was way easier than the North American version. It was quite beatable.

My choice for difficult game is Bayou Billy.

 

[malestrithe]

http://old-wizard.com/top-10-ways-to-tell-if-youre-good-at-video-games
my life's guideline

All except 1 and 2.

 

[evilartist]

Life : the game. The graphics are nice but it's hard as fuck, and there's no continues.

I concur. Life doesn't even let you choose a difficulty setting. It just automatically selects difficulty, class, abilities...and not even any custom facial features--it randomly picks that, too! This game is ass; not even worth a rental. Rent MW2 instead.

 

[zamble]

Getting people to use the search button is the hardest game ever!

Tee hee, I post that every time I see this topic.

Man, could you at least read the original post before doing it?

Done. Still not convinced this is at all new.

You basically took, "Tell me what you think the hardest game ever is (and, it is implied, you are free to elaborate as to why)" and replaced it with "When considering games and why they are hard for you, elaborate what you think the hardest game ever is and elaborate as to why."

The first sign should have been when the type of replies you received looked identical.

Personally, the answer isn't all that simple for me. "Hardness" comes in many flavors, and some are more legitimate than others in my book. If you can beat a game only by memorizing patterns of where the bad guys are going to spawn, I'm not sure I'd call that gaming skill so much as memorization skill. Most "hard" games (like I Want To Be The Guy or insane smups) fall into this category, but I'd call that "faux hardness."

I think the real hard games are the ones that really make you think deeply and don't give you patterns to memorize. Perhaps getting the Amulet of Yendor in Nethack.

By reading all those other posts, I wanted to do something different. I tryed. And, at the end, try to get some conclusion for this, for myself mostly, but anyway...

 

[Macgyvercas]

Ghosts and Goblins is ridiculous.

Fuck, Ninja'd.

That game is pretty hard, considering you have to play through twice and it's harder the second time around.

 

[chronobreak]

By reading all those other posts, I wanted to do something different. I tryed. And, at the end, try to get some conclusion for this, for myself mostly, but anyway...

How are you going to reach a conclusion when the topic is so subjective?

 

[zamble]

{content}

By reading all those other posts, I wanted to do something different. I tryed. And, at the end, try to get some conclusion for this, for myself mostly, but anyway...

How are you going to reach a conclusion when the topic is so subjective?

I don't know...

Wait and see!

 

[Pm0n3y]

Ever heard of Mushihimesama futari?

Have you seen the last boss?

Can you say Overkill?


...yeah.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

There's this Tetris game for the Sega Genesis called Dr.Robotnik's M&M Challenge or something. FUCK THAT GAME!!

I also hated Sonic Spinball with a passion

 

[tjdrummer13]

well hardest boss battle ever is definately blinx time sweeper [number 1 i think], the boss at the end.

He basically sends you back in time to fight every boss that you've fought in the game and then you have to come back and fight him, if you die at all you have to start again. i got up to the last guy and then got killed.....fucking stupid battle, if you won balloons would probably pop out of the roof and every girl from playboy magazine would burst into your room to be forever your sex slaves.

if that didn't happen i would probably break my tv.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

Ninja Gaiden Black... on the hardest dificulty. Those ***** spider clan ninja's merc'd me so many times I gave up

 

[Asymptote Angel]

It's clichéd, but CoD4 on Veteran was far harder than anything else I've played.

 

[Altio]

No question hardest game ever is I Wanna Be The Guy

 

[minidevil921]

the flash game called qwop