The hardest single player FPS...

[Uncertain]

Surely every Rainbow Six game ever made? I'm sure I gave up playing Ghost Recon after dying about 20 times without actually having seen a single enemy.

On the other hand, there was an army base of some kind right at the beginning of Shadow of Chernobyl, and my first act in that game was to clear it out. I eventually killed them all, then discovered that the guards just respawn afterward. ;_;

 

[plastic_window]

Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl

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Its hard because you have the durability of a sheet of paper, it's hard because ammo is about as easy to find as a plot in pac man and it's hard because radiation fucking everywhere.

But fuck it, I love it.

None of that would have mattered to me if I felt that I had the slightest bit of control over what direction my bullets would go when I shoot. It seemed, to me, to suffer the same problems as Fallout's gunplay - every time you pull the trigger, it seems like there's a dice-roll to decide whether it hits someone or not.

Also, sometimes the most difficult thing about STALKER is trying to carry on. You'll have accomplished so much - in a game where it's hard to accomplish anything - and then the game will crash, leaving you back at square one with everything to do all over again.

Maybe it was just my crappy system that I tried to run it on, but STALKER seemed to have more gameplay issues than difficulty ones to me. I would have been willing to stick with it if the gunplay felt more like an actual shooter as opposed to a slot-machine, and if the game didn't delete all of my progress whenever it felt like it. The low ammo, the volume of enemies, the low health - it would've been managable for me if I could at least feel as though I was playing the game, as opposed to it just fucking with me constantly.

By the way, this was all the long way round to saying that I agree with you. The hardest FPS I played on normal was STALKER, too :3

 

[Platypusbill101]

I thought Borderlands was pretty tough if you didn't grind to level up or go co-op.

That´s odd. I skipped many of the missions and I thought it was still pretty easy.

 

[Count Igor]

Aww...On Normal?

This means I can't say World At War.

I'm going with Farcry on 360.

Stealth game where the AI can see you anywhere...Hard as fuck.

Not surprised they can. You're wearing a pink Hawaiian shirt!

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

Operation Flashpoint, seriously the AI can headshot you from the bottom of a very steep hill, and you can't even look up properly!

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I second Crysis for two reasons.

1) The weapons just don't seem to do crap to the enemies, IE. Unless you headshot every time, you have to pump a half a clip into one guy.

2) The Koreans and Aliens kept using their secret weapon on me. The Processor Buttfuck 9000.

 

[Sixcess]

Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl

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This is also sitting on my bought not yet played list. It looks fascinating but its reputation for being hard as hell is a bit intimidating.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Pfft, all of you fail with these so called "difficult" fps'. Aliens Trilogy, now there was a hard fps! That was back in the day when we only had a d-pad and had to use TWO seperate buttons to look up and down! You guys don't know anything about hard!!

Killzone 2. It shouldn't take fifteen bullets to drop one guy. And there are dozens of them. And they are all really smart.

This is also a valid answer. That last assault on Visaris palace, and the final fight with Radec and all of his goons. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[Weaver]

For me it was the first Rainbow 6 game. My trained operatives with all the latest SWAT technology are clearly nothing against these construction workers with handguns.

 

[Sacman]

Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl

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This is also sitting on my bought not yet played list. It looks fascinating but its reputation for being hard as hell is a bit intimidating.

Don't worry, if your familiar with PC FPS' you should do fine, though most FPS' now a day don't train you to know that bullets are something to be avoided... also you need survival skills, just a little to know how to balance your inventory and figure out that fighting every enemy head on isn't the best battle strategy when your out numbered and out gunned... also download S.T.A.L.K.E.R. complete 2009 mod it get's rid of a lot of the bugs that are still present...<.<

 

[C95J]

Out of what I have played, either Borderlands because I just found that the most difficult for some reason.

Or Just Cause 2, only because I used to run into every gunfight like a maniac, which usually ended up with me getting killed.

 

[Jonny49]

Resistance. Both of them.

They won't die I tell you!!

 

[Crossborder]

I've heard that Clear Sky is a lot harder. Haven't gotten around to playing it yet tho, still messing around in SoC. It's awesome!
Edit: ninjad by OP! D:

Don't bother and skip straight to the third game. Clear Sky was a mess.

You haven't actually played it, have you?
Everyone always says to skip Clear Sky, but I played it, and with the latest patch there's less bugs than in SoC.
It's a shame, but under the bugs lies a really solid game. It still has the atmosphere and locations of SoC, with all the gear upgrading of CoP.

 

[thedeathscythe]

Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl

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Its hard because you have the durability of a sheet of paper, it's hard because ammo is about as easy to find as a plot in pac man and it's hard because radiation fucking everywhere.

But fuck it, I love it.

This, and ammo is money, so you feel your wallet dying with every bullet you shoot. I love the game too though, 5 bucks for both games?! Hell yeah! You won't find a harder shooter on normal difficulty than Stalker.

 

[thedeathscythe]

For me it was the first Rainbow 6 game. My trained operatives with all the latest SWAT technology are clearly nothing against these construction workers with handguns.

I also say this. Played it on N64 coop with my buddy, and I gotta say, every enemy can see you from so far, and hit you with deadly accuracy from a rooftop 100 yards away with a handgun. We had to memorize the layout of the enemies and pretty much make zero mistakes. Fun game, though...

 

[Owlslayer]

Ghost Recon was hard as hell if you didn't play it right...
How many times did i die in that game, Jesus. Enemies were so damn accurate from miles away, and at the start, most of the time 1-2 bullets were lethal.
Some here say that S.T.A.L.K.E.R was hard. I don't really remember any parts that were difficult, except in the end. I even had to use some cool grenades there. But after i got this one automatic weapon, i kinda kicked ass...it was amazingly accurate and killed all enemies really fast. Bullets did ran out at the very end (i mean, when i ran away from the reactor).

 

[bawkbawkboo1]

I found Farcry 2 pretty hard...

 

[Mittens The Kitten]

metro 2033 was pretty rought