Which Is The Hardest Game Ever Made?

[Ripshot]

level 1, ok, level 2, not too bad
level 3, hard, level die, game over.

 

[Zydrate]

GTA:San Andreas and their flying segment. The game just comes to a complete halt and I haven't been able to beat it at all. It's hard enough flying normally with their sloppy flying controls, but when they make entire storyline-missions based off of it, I find myself completely incapable.

 

[Tjebbe]

If you had asked "What's the hardest game to beat" I would answer Pac-Man because there is no ending, in the original version. But the hardest game would be Battletoads.

Actually, it is generally accepted that you 'beat' Pac-Man when you reach the level where the level counter overflows (aka the kill screen). This has been done by several people. But if a game has no defined ending I'd say that you can't count it when you're talking about games that are hard to beat.

For me (i.e. from the games I've played) it's probably Ikaruga, or IWBTG on hard. There was also this one version of Tetris where they put in an algorithm to always give you the worst block for the current situation...

 

[DYin01]

Hmmm... Probably battletoads or when i first tried to do GTA III minus cheats.... took me years

GTA 3 is not hard, honestly. If you need cheats to complete that, you have to work on your gaming skills.

 

[arc101]

GTA 3 is not hard, honestly. If you need cheats to complete that, you have to work on your gaming skills.

It is when your 10

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

For retail games, either the original MDK (which had to be toned down I believe in future releases) or Ikaruga.

 

[j1-2themax]

For ones I've ever played, Superman 64 (although that may be more due to the colossal suck than anything else, I still don't think it's possible to beat that game without cheating.)
Hardest ever - Probably Battletoads.

 

[ntomlin63]

Tempest and Defender

 

[Lord Azrael]

Riven.

i did not think that there would be many people out there that would agree with me on this one, let alone many people who have even played in this generation. i have yet to encounter a world as complete and logically organized as the world of riven. it is truly the most immersive and complete virtual world ever created.

Riven is just a lead on from other insanely difficult games like the truly evil 'Zork' series, like when you had to make the man open the trapdoor by drinking with him without getting drunk or shooting him! That made me bash my face on the keyboard for weeks! And it was only meant to be the 1st 5 mins!

 

[Crimson King]

Myst III!
Maybe all the other puzzle games were just really easy or I'm just a moron but that game is hard! Too hard for me at least. -.-

 

[DirgE Almighty]

Paying super mario 64 when i was about 5, it still haunts me to this day.

 

[Flour]

Dwarf Fortress. It's easily the hardest game ever because you can't win.

I Wanna Be The Guy, if that counts.
Or some crazy Japanese games, like several shooters that make Touhou look tame and some ASCII art platformers I saw.
And rom hacks of games. Some of the Super Mario World ones are just insane.

IWBtG and those bullet hell games aren't hard. You just have to memorize patterns.

 

[McBurks]

I have never faced such a game.I usually can beat a game but If I dont like it,I just stop playing it.

 

[PirateKing]

Men in Black 2: Alien Escape. Couldn't beat the first level.
That game is so broken.

 

[Pubert Mcgee]

Im starting to think the hardest game is the legends of wrestlemania game on the 360 as i was just trying to get the medels on it and stone cold keeps opening a can of wupp ass on me!!!

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Battletoads.

 

[RobotoWorks]

Super Mario Frustration, I know it wasn't an official game but man, talk about impossible...!

 

[Ashbax]

Pac-Man. May sound stupid but I just cant get past the 8th level without losing all of my lives.

Tru dat. I can bareley get past the third level.