What is the hardest game you've ever played?

[Starke]

Far Cry 1 on hardest anyone?
And STALKER series on expert.

STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl isn't that difficult, even on Master. It just involves an entirely different style of gameplay than you use on easy. Clear Sky is, but only because of how much the devs changed between versions.

I'm going to throw out Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, but that may only be because I never played it enough to get the hang of it.

 

[Vance Maverick]

Probably Elmo's Magical Number Quest for the N64...

 

[Vance Maverick]

Really?

 

[Vance Maverick]

Really?

 

[Vance Maverick]

Sorry, for some reason it double posted...

 

[FreakyRO]

OMG battletoads!

Yes, Battletoads, Golden Axe (Master System) and the Super Star Wars series are impossible.

Seriously Battletoads was a fuckin ***** me and my brother almost came to blows when one of us would fuck up.

Ha! the possibility to hit each other in the two player mode was the worst part. That always ended in actual violence.

YES! I could avoid hitting my friends until level two. The level when you're rappelling down the cliff face, or something like that. That level would always end in toad on toad violence.

 

[Grae]

Ikaruga. I had to be 15 or 16 at the time. That shit tore me up. My dad bought it for me on a whim one day, and a week later we took it back, we just couldn't deal with it lol.

 

[minoes]

OMG battletoads!

Yes, Battletoads, Golden Axe (Master System) and the Super Star Wars series are impossible.

Seriously Battletoads was a fuckin ***** me and my brother almost came to blows when one of us would fuck up.

Ha! the possibility to hit each other in the two player mode was the worst part. That always ended in actual violence.

YES! I could avoid hitting my friends until level two. The level when you're rappelling down the cliff face, or something like that. That level would always end in toad on toad violence.

Hi.

well, for us the violence started from the very beginning. I don´t even know why we kept playing the damn game.

Welcome to The Escapist.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Radiant Silvergun, followed closely (and unsurprisingly) by Ikaruga.

 

[Klagermeister]

I'd say Golden Sun,
Considering I wasn't a high enough level...
When I got stuck in the final boss's lair.

 

[GenHellspawn]

Caeser 3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_3]: The most apparent difference from the other games on this list is that it does not betray it's difficulty in any way, until you play it.
You see, in other city builder games made by Impressions Games, the people could actually be satisfied with where they lived. If you gave them food, water, shelter, culture, and diversions, they were happy.
Not in Caesar, oh no. One second there's massive unemployment, the next there are too many vacancies. They complain about being bored, you give them theaters, then they complain about food, you make more farms, and it all equals out to a vicious cycle of unending unhappiness.
If I was living in ancient Rome, I'd be hard-pressed to leave a city with clean water, a steady food supply, and gladiatorial combat.

 

[theultimateend]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES

That one where you go underwater at some point and you have to make it through tunnels that are one pixel taller than your turtle and if you touch the anemone's above or below you you INSTANTLY DIE.