Mortal Online: A painfully realistic fantasy sim. And if you get bored you can commit suicide and then eat yourself. I am not kidding.
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I'm a masochist; recommend games
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Try Prototype.
The game itself isn't particularly hard, but it is so mindcrushingly awful you'd have to loathe yourself for even considering playing it.
The game itself isn't particularly hard, but it is so mindcrushingly awful you'd have to loathe yourself for even considering playing it.
Sounds like Dark/Demon's souls would be right up your ally. XCOM and FTL are good too, although they can sometimes stretch towards the "THAT'S BULLSHIT" territory.
Good thing about my recommendation, is there's very little to no luck involved. All skill, just you and the game.
If a high-flying, obstacle overcoming, physics based side-scrolling motorbike game sounds fun, than you might consider Trials 2: Second Edition on PC, or Trials HD or Trials: Evolution on XBLA (maybe HD is on PSN, I forget). It's extremely hard. There are no difficulty settings, but the levels are tiered by difficulty. But, even the "easy" levels, specifically Trials 2's, can be very hard when you're new. There's also leaderboards and very difficult achievements. It'd probably take you hundreds of hours to beat every level--for comparison, I'd say an expert could complete every stage with no falls in just over an hour, maybe less. I'd say Trials 2 has more precise but harder to grasp control, but HD and Evolution have easier to learn control. They have identical controls, I'm talking about the physics system. Trials 2's is more sensitive, requiring more precision, than HD or Evolution's.
If a high-flying, obstacle overcoming, physics based side-scrolling motorbike game sounds fun, than you might consider Trials 2: Second Edition on PC, or Trials HD or Trials: Evolution on XBLA (maybe HD is on PSN, I forget). It's extremely hard. There are no difficulty settings, but the levels are tiered by difficulty. But, even the "easy" levels, specifically Trials 2's, can be very hard when you're new. There's also leaderboards and very difficult achievements. It'd probably take you hundreds of hours to beat every level--for comparison, I'd say an expert could complete every stage with no falls in just over an hour, maybe less. I'd say Trials 2 has more precise but harder to grasp control, but HD and Evolution have easier to learn control. They have identical controls, I'm talking about the physics system. Trials 2's is more sensitive, requiring more precision, than HD or Evolution's.
It's not legitimately difficult if all you're doing is rolling dice.PaladinofGuns said:
But yeah, a few Fire Emblem titles did come to mind when thinking of games.
I'm currently doing FTL ship runs. It gets legitimately intense on Normal with several ship loadouts (avoid Stealth A unless you like to gamble...fucking Beam Drones).
Beyond that, I can recommend most of what everyone else has mentioned.
(EYE Divine Cybermancy isn't soul-crushingly difficult once you figure out how hacking works and you remember to pack an armor piercing weapon..but seriously, fuck helicopter-spawns-out -of-nowhere)
One thing I would suggest then is Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure for the DS. Difficuly curve progresses fairly steadily as well.
Here is the box art:
(Side-note: Must switch mouse, right-click is completely unresponsive now)
EDIT: Right-click works better now, I swear this thing has a mood cycle. Should be looking for something more stable.
Here is the box art:
(Side-note: Must switch mouse, right-click is completely unresponsive now)
EDIT: Right-click works better now, I swear this thing has a mood cycle. Should be looking for something more stable.
You play just for challenge, or do you have narrative/theme/design preferences as well?leet_x1337 said:
For PC, I'd recommend roguelikes such as ADOM or Nethack. ToME4 is also good and has a tile set if you prefer that to ASCII graphics. Legend of Grimrock is a great new take on old-school dungeon crawlers. If you can handle really old-school rpgs, Realms of Arkania 1-3 are based on The Dark Eye system and are fairly challenging numbers games. If stealth is your thing, try the Thief series on hardest difficulty, no kills/knock-outs/detection, all loot found.
For DS, you might try Shiren the Wanderer: it's a port of a great SNES roguelike with really nice graphics and music. It's fun, it's really challenging to finish, and it's a great way to get a lot of use out of the DS. You might also have a look at The World End With You for its two-screen combat and hidden item challenges that unlock more of the narrative.
Luckily you can warp/rescue a unit to attack the boss, which causes Cyas to retreat.PaladinofGuns said:
Still, that is a really hard game, especially once you get to the escape arc in the beginning.
You own a wii, good. Find F-Zero GX for gamecube and play the story. Normal is a ***** by itself, but if you want true hell, play on hard and hope to hell you have fast reflexes. Like, really fast.
ohhhh...F-Zero GX is a total ***** of a game to play. So goddamn hard, and surprisingly so. Especially if you want to unlock the AX stuff, which you need to be a goddamn masochist to do. Some of those objectives are nearly impossible.Drummie666 said:
Also, try X-Com (pretty much every one, especially terror from the deep), Dark Souls, and Demons Souls, and the old school NES games, especially the Megaman games, and battletoads.
Don't try I wanna be the guy, or it's sequels, and offshoots. You might want to commit suicide after getting one death after another for hours trying to complete the same part of the level.
Those games are too hard for their own good, save your sanity.
Xcom is a good bet, even the new one. I tried playing it on 'impossible' mode and couldn't get past the first level. I'm actually not even sure if it's even possible to do so without aggressive saving and reloading. I would hide behind good cover, use all my grenades killing like 6 enemies, and engage them with my 4 soldiers vs their like two soldiers. And they still pretty much instakill one of my guys with every shot.
Witcher 2 Insanity Mode it actually used to not be that hard. I was like 2/3rds of the way through a playthrough when the Enhanced Edition came out and changed difficulty(or at least made quen not superpowered.) I died almost instantly because I didn't realize they had changed the game. I tried two more playthroughs on insanity both times I died and lost my whole saves after like two to three hours of work. The most depressing of which was being instakilled from full health in a single hit from a rotfiend.
Witcher 2 Insanity Mode it actually used to not be that hard. I was like 2/3rds of the way through a playthrough when the Enhanced Edition came out and changed difficulty(or at least made quen not superpowered.) I died almost instantly because I didn't realize they had changed the game. I tried two more playthroughs on insanity both times I died and lost my whole saves after like two to three hours of work. The most depressing of which was being instakilled from full health in a single hit from a rotfiend.
I didn't find this difficult at all, it's just about conserving ammo until you need it. Buy stealth gear and that pneumatic bolt gun that's perfectly silent and has re-useable ammo. Sneak around and shoot people in the head when they are alone, loot all the stuff and make sure you get your bolts back. Use a silenced pistol to take out lights from afar. When things get actually hard you will be able to just go straight up full auto and pretend like its call of duty. You can even kill the flying demons for fun, though I would recommend using the pneumatic rifle and being very careful with your shots.Doom-Slayer said:
Good to see I'm not the only one who likes hard games.
Quite a few suggestions:
Wii:
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. You like puzzle? How about puzzles resurrected from the era of ridiculously hard point-and-click adventure games? This game's kinda like that. It's not impossible, but it is HARD.
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. A great rail shooter game. I only got to the final boss because I turned the difficulty down to easy. AND I COULDN'T BEAT IT. AFTER CLAWING MY WAY TO IT.
And because I'm short on time: Ikaruga, Viewtiful Joe 2, any Trauma Center game, Metal Slug Anthology, BIT TRIP Complete, Alien Hominid, Strider, Alien Soldier, Kid Chameleon, Solomon's Key, A Boy and His Blob...
3DS/DS:
any Etrian Odyssey game, Bangai-O Spirits, Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber, Elite Beat Agents
PC:
Spelunky, Super Crate Box
Quite a few suggestions:
Wii:
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. You like puzzle? How about puzzles resurrected from the era of ridiculously hard point-and-click adventure games? This game's kinda like that. It's not impossible, but it is HARD.
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. A great rail shooter game. I only got to the final boss because I turned the difficulty down to easy. AND I COULDN'T BEAT IT. AFTER CLAWING MY WAY TO IT.
And because I'm short on time: Ikaruga, Viewtiful Joe 2, any Trauma Center game, Metal Slug Anthology, BIT TRIP Complete, Alien Hominid, Strider, Alien Soldier, Kid Chameleon, Solomon's Key, A Boy and His Blob...
3DS/DS:
any Etrian Odyssey game, Bangai-O Spirits, Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber, Elite Beat Agents
PC:
Spelunky, Super Crate Box
Play Call of Duty... with no hands!
I remember seeing a video of a disabled Call of Duty player who had to play with his... well I believe it was his chin. I cannot say for certain what part of his face or body but he could not use his hands! And he was not that bad, although he had to resort to camping for obvious reasons. I am currently trying to find the video.
I remember seeing a video of a disabled Call of Duty player who had to play with his... well I believe it was his chin. I cannot say for certain what part of his face or body but he could not use his hands! And he was not that bad, although he had to resort to camping for obvious reasons. I am currently trying to find the video.
Let me tell you something in a manner of Kaldaria's local(land where Mount&Blade is set):Keoul said:
"Dark Souls? Health restoring potions, sidestepping slow arrows, footsoldier enemies that have less health then you, roll/evades and no 100+ on 1 battles? What kind of a sacrilege is that?!"
