the hardest game you ever beaten?

[The Funslinger]

The game of life, biatch. When I was three I came down with an illness that basically made me allergic to my own antibodies. Basically my internal organs started getting damaged by them, and they had to defibrillate me. (I am currently fine, and exercising to join the Royal Marines.)

Okay, I just felt like telling that story, in all seriousness probably uh... the first Crash Bandicoot?

You know how it was, games still had lives, and that bitching retro setup. It was a long-ass one, too with those islands and whatnot. Fucking loved Hogwild!

 

[WorldCritic]

I wanna be The Guy
and
The Impossible Game

I don't want to talk about how much I screamed.

 

[Vhite]

Gothic 2 with Night of the Raven. Bitter but still fun.

 

[ZeroDotZero]

what is the hardest game you ever beaten beat?
personaly i don't play many hard game just because i lack pacience. but i beat VVVVVV this weekend so i am happy i got 1986 deaths and i still need to find 6 more trinkets i know one area Veni Vidi Vici is the hardest to get so i will attempt to get it last.

I was thinking 'VVVVVV' when I opened this thread. It might be hard, but it isn't all that long. There were a few real pain in the ass trinkets though (Veni Vidi Vici and Edge Games are the prime offenders). Super Magnetic Neo will always be remembered as being a super hard game I beat, but I was very young at the time. The people who play it on Youtube seem to have trouble though, so maybe it isn't just the age thing.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

F-Zero Gx, all cups on Master, all Story mode missions on the Hardest difficulty. I can still finish all but the diamond cup without any continues too. I play so aggressively I always have plenty of lives mind, so I never get a game over at any rate.

I was struggling to think, but this... so much this.
Especially the story mode, even on normal it was difficult because the AI cheats so much, so on hard mode it was almost impossible at times

But yeah as for winning the cups, the best way to win was taking out the competition in the first 5 seconds of the race, alot of the time you didnt even need to win any races if you could stop your competetors winning.

 

[Riddle78]

Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.

You try taking on an AT-ST with nothing more than a lightsaber!

Beat ya to it. It was FUN.

OT: I played,and beat,All three Supreme Commander 1 campaigns on hard. On easy,the missions are pathetic. On normal,time consuming. On hard? The caption should be "This difficulty level isn't even remotely fair"

Over one hundred UEF T3 Strategic bombers. With about 75 T3 Air Superiority Fighters. Coming for my base within fifteen minutes. I was Cybran. At least it happened in a skirmish against a Supreme AI.

 

[CBanana]

Touhou Project: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on Normal with Reimu (A) & Marisa (B). Bullet Hell games are fun but can be pretty difficult.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams. I really hated that pompous jackass in the white suit.

 

[Dyme]

Probably Zombies Ate My Neighbors on SNES. At least considering that I played through it when I was 8 with my brother who was 10 years old. With no passwords. We were just pure bossmode and there was a weekend where our parents weren't around. Good times.

 

[lee1287]

Er, Gears of war 2 on insane? Though twas easy... I give up on hard games

 

[Tharwen]

Call of Duty 2 on Veteran. I remember it being very, very hard. Also, I'm 17 so I missed out on pretty much anything pre-PS2 (including all the really difficult classics I keep hearing about).

Incidentally, my first post on this site was about how I'd just completed that.

 

[Fleeker]

Battle Toads or Ninja Gaiden (original)

 

[Android2137]

Beat VVVVVV with all 20 trinkets 3 times. The last time was in flip mode, but the Veni Vidi Vici area was as hard as the first time for some reason (the 2nd time through was almost 4 times as quick). Maybe it was because my brain was hardwired for right way up.

(Edge Games and Prize for the Reckless were also difficult, but Edge Games wasn't so bad the 2nd and 3rd times. Prize for the Reckless was annoying every single time though.)

 

[Android2137]

Trauma Center: Under the Knife

What makes it so hard to play is you're using the DS and if you're heading toward the end of some of the ridiculous surgeries, your own adrenaline will be your undoing. I could only play this game in half hour increments or so because I'd be shaking too hard trying to do everything fast enough.

Oh man I know what you mean. Paraskevi took me so many tries. I had finally defeated it and was just applying the final bandage when she suddenly "died". I wanted to scream at Angie and Victor, "Y'KNOW, NO ONE'S GONNA DIE JUST BECAUSE I TAKE AN EXTRA 2 SECONDS TO APPLY THE BANDAGE!" And I only finished X1 Kyriaki with literally 1 second to spare.

 

[mexicola]

Gothic 2 with Night of the Raven. Bitter but still fun.

Did you play Gothic 1 before? Familiarity with the series makes a world of difference when you first start otherwise it takes a while to learn that hard way that you can't go around just killing shit as you please (until you level up enough at least.)

OT: I'll go with Blade of Darkness. It stands out in my memory as the game I stuck with the longest even though I failed miserably time and time again. Then again that was 10 years ago so I wasn't exactly at my gaming skillz apex.

 

[loc978]

All time? Probably Battletoads. It's just a little bit challenging all the way through, but they don't give you enough resources to make many mistakes without starting over from the very beginning.

Recently? Super Meat Boy. The overall platforming challenges toward the end of Meat Boy are pretty insane, but the infinite lives they give you makes it just a matter of time until you succeed, and once it all it takes to move on. Still, hell of a challenge.

 

[4RM3D]

Touhou Project: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on Normal with Reimu (A) & Marisa (B). Bullet Hell games are fun but can be pretty difficult.

That's an understatement, well at least for Touhou Lunatic difficulty. I saw a YouTube movie of someone completing Lunatic mode flawlessly. Impressive. (I also like watching near impossible DDR (and related) songs with a perfect score.)

Anyhow, my hardest game... Hmmm, recently I haven't played anything that was especially difficult. The only challenging games of late are Resonance of Fate and Mirror's Edge. Both on the highest difficulty.

I did try BlazBlue on the highest difficulty setting. That was... different, wow. But I am not really into fighting games. So I can't really put that on the challenging list.

 

[kinggamecat]

I have a few I can think of:

Sly Cooper 1

LBP (I think that level in the tundra makes this game applicable to hardest games)

[PROTOTYPE]

inFAMOUS

Probably gunna post more later.

 

[Denamic]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma on hard.
And there's an even harder difficulty setting.
Jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick.