Hmmmm, everyone said System Shock 2 was near-impossible, but I got through it ok. You have to be VERY careful with weapons and ammo at the early stages though. And one major gripe (apart from the fact that every shotgun the Many's foot-soldiers have is broken when you try to take it from them, despite them firing at you with it just seconds before) - how come your shotgun and your pistol do roughly the same amount of damage, regardless of range? You'd think that a shotgun would do a lot more damage at close range, and a lot less at long range. Not the case.
Doesn't stop me recommending SS2 as one of the scariest games I've ever played though... Anybody who seriously got freaked out by FEAR (how?), try SS2 with surround-sound headphones. It will probably turn your hair white, but you'll enjoy it. Trust me on this. It'll work easily on Windows XP with a patch you can get easily online, although I haven't managed to get it working with Vista yet.
Unfair moments in games? You'd have to go back to the 64KB systems to find the worst ones. Racing games where if you so much as scrape another car's paint job, your own car immediately stops and bursts into flames... overhead-view driving games where the screen is so small, you can barely see three inches in front of your own bumper, yet you drive at light speed and die if you so much as hit a bush... overhead-view shooting games like "Rambo" and "Commando" where you only have to get hit once to die, but the enemies and bullets use up so many sprites that the computer can't display them all, hence deaths from being hit by nothing at all... Beat 'em ups where the enemies are psychic and move around like cheetahs on speed, while you crawl about trying to time your slow kick and punch attacks to the millisecond in order to actually hit the damn things.
Guys, compared to us ancient C64-ers, you had it easy. But "Last Ninja 2" and "Last Ninja 3" on the C64 are still two of my favorite games ever, so we had it good sometimes as well.
