Hardest games you've played

Started by Vyothric, February 03, 2013, 03:53:05 AM

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Mire Mare

Agree with Ninja Gaiden on Xbox 360. I found this utterly unenjoyable to play as the difficulty ramped up not too far into the game.  I felt neither the inclination or desire to play it after that.

I'm sure this one isn't that hard but I've been playing it most nights during this month, but I cannot, yet, get to the end of Rush 'n' Attack on the XBLA!

Final game ill mention now, also on XBLA, is fraking Spelunky!! Aaaargh! Damned annoying little game.

Vyothric

Been a while since I updated this. Some of the Batman games I've tried lately have been pretty hard (see first post).

TL

The 2600 and 7800 versions of Double Dragon are bloody difficult, especially compared to the super easy versions on other systems.

TrekMD

Quote from: "The Laird"The 2600 and 7800 versions of Double Dragon are bloody difficult, especially compared to the super easy versions on other systems.
I never found these versions of DD to bee that difficult.  A game that I do find difficult is Rolling Thunder, though.  I have the ports for the NES and the PSP and both are difficult to play.  The PSP version is even harder!

Going to the final frontier, gaming...


sloan

I have lots of systems and games, but two NES titles immediately come to mind:

Ghosts and Goblins
Castlevania

Both are maddeningly difficult and make you want to fling them through a window.

Arethius_RGC

Jaguar
Tempest 2000 too hard for me
Zero 5 too Hard for me
Iron soldier 2 - could defeate the boss by using the cheat codes but could never beat the mission 19
Alien Veruss Predator - only finished with the cheats
Blue Lightning - never get through the last mission
Rayman  - Could not pass thorugh the first big Scorpion

Xbox 360
Darksiders 2 - not fun at all lost my interest in it
Magna Carta 2 - some bosses impossible to beat...
Clash of the Heroes impossibel on some mission
Ikaruga - impossible to get hrough the 3rd Boss
Venetica - made a mistake once 1 I have to start over...

PS2
Astro boy : never could defeate the final boss
Battle Engine Aquila: getting too hard for me
Dirge of Ceberus - Final Fantasy VII - Lost my interesset in the game
Final Fantasy X : got disgusted by the evolution system
Final Fantasy XII - lost my interest in it -  should retry
Ghsot Vibration - could never defeat the final boss
Legaia 2 - lost my interessed - should finsih it
REz - could never get the 100 % at area 5
Transformers - lost interesst on it - should retry was a fun   

Playstation
Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain - Was quite fat but never finished - should retry
Castlevania : Symphony ofg the night - Xcould never get eh 200.6 %
Ghost in the Shell : Could never get thought the 5 or 6th level
Iron soldier 3 : could never get thorug level 15th
Tail Concerto : Could never get though the last section
THe Adventure of Alundra: I saw the ned at a friend house could never finish it my self
Tombi : Get disgusted by the diffidulty

Megadrive
Altered Beast could finsih it with a frined but never alone
Beggar Prince -  Went quite far but not finished
Shining Force - never finished
Shining force 2 - never finished
Sonic 2 - Never beat the final boss
Rocket knight - Never get the ginat robo-fight
Quakcshot - Never defeated final boss

Xbox
Halo - Never finished the covenenant vessel
Steel Battalion - Never get through mission 3

Dreamcast
Blue Stinger - never get really interested by the game
Deep Fighter - could never defeat the giant moskito
REsident Evil Code Veronica - never finsihed

Game Cube
BAiten Kaitos - Never able to defeat one Boss (actually 3 in he same fight)

PC
Heroes of Might and Magic - Never play through the solo campaign
Zuma - Never finsihed the final Temple

CD-I
Kether - never enough live to finish the game
Link the face of Evil - Need A CD-i which saves data

PS3
3D dot Heroes - Can not pass the Fire temple

GBA
Golden Sun - Can not find the entrance to the final temple
Shining Force the Resurrection fo the Black Dragon - lost interest in it

Satrun
Panzer Dragoon Saga - One boss unbeatable
Night - Can nopt get through level 4 (score is too low)

PSP
Puzzle quest - Can defeat final boss
Star Trek Tactical Assault - Never get though mission number I don't know with the klingoms

Amiga CD32
Rise of the Robots - Cannot defeat the final boss (in Easy)

Master System
Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck - Never got through the 5th level
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World - Cannot get thourg level 4
Golden Axe Warrior - can not find entrance to the 7th temple

Tapwave Zodiac:
Legacy - always issue with battery life errasing all my data

Nuon
Merlin Racing : Need one Key to unlock race number 21

N64
Zelda Ocarina Of Time - Can not play after the Dragon Boss

GameBoy Color
Zelda - Link Awekaning - don ot remember where I was

3DS
Zelda Ocarina of Time - ... I do not like this game

Arethius_RGC

Just after posting I realized that I was wrong

The hardest games I ever played are mostly shmup butn ot only, here are some examples:
- Zero 5 (Jaguar) could only unlock 4 levels
- Every Extended Extra (PSP) one of the few game that give the will to destroy my PSP while playing (specially that mother f****r 3rd boss)
- Tombi (PSone) cute but extremely hard
- Space INvaders Extreme (PSP) could pass thourgh the 3rd level

Rogue Trooper

Dark and Demon's Souls PS3-Tough but very rewarding and look on my mates face when he saw i'd finished it and he'd given up, priceless, plus his kids were in awe of me, lol.

Iron Solider 3 PS1, just seems unfairly pitched.

Cannon Fodder Jaguar-my slow moving troops wading through water, being shot by RPG's from guys off-screen, not fair :-(

Ninja Gaiden Xbox-punishing bitch, but i came to love her.

Crimson Sea Xbox-Invisible alien level did my swede right in.

Blue Stinger DC swimming section just bloody awful, gave up.

Tomb raider PS1 Awful, awful controls.

Metriod prime GC, so i'm locked on, gun powered up, waiting to fire, BAM! hit by electro bolt, put hand in front of face, lock-on etc lost.

Dropship PS2 and apache A.A PS3 fer fecks sake it's just me VS every damn thing in creation, i loathe this escort/protect missions.

G'N'G PSP strewth!!!!!

MDK 2 DC Bloody hell! had to download a saved game to VMU to get anywhere, ditto with DC Ecco.

Monty On The Run C64.Going back to it now, man i must have had ninja pixel perfect platforming skills as a youth, sadly lost now.

Darksiders PS3-gave up on 1st boss due to horrendous control scheme for lock-on/special attacks.

God Of War 1+2 PS2/PS£, i'm crap at QTE's, add in PS Dual shock dead zone issues and disaster unfolds.

Arethius_RGC

Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"Darksiders PS3-gave up on 1st boss due to horrendous control scheme for lock-on/special attacks.

Darksiders ? Come on it is quite easy ... Which boss exactly the first one or the firsto ne after you are send back on earth ?

Other wise I forgot

Ninja gaiden 2 on Xbox 360

Grand Prix Challenge on PS2 control are just too touchy

Power Drive Rally on Jaguar the second skills test is nearly impossible...

Rogue Trooper

Quote from: "Arethius_RGC"
Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"Darksiders PS3-gave up on 1st boss due to horrendous control scheme for lock-on/special attacks.

Darksiders ? Come on it is quite easy ... Which boss exactly the first one or the firsto ne after you are send back on earth ?

Other wise I forgot

Ninja gaiden 2 on Xbox 360

Grand Prix Challenge on PS2 control are just too touchy

Power Drive Rally on Jaguar the second skills test is nearly impossible...

Dunno about Darksiders being 'easy' i just found it an utter ball-ache to play, in terms of boss fights.It was 1st fight on earth, you vs Dargon type lass, controls were awful and each time you died, which i did often, you had to trek back, sit through unskippable cut scene shit, listen to same old speech, only to die, rinse and repeat.Though F-this.Gave game away to a mate.

Ninja Gaiden II however, i sailed through and completed.Each to their own.

Arethius_RGC

Funny to see which games are difficult to some are easy to others. 

Shadowrunner

Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"
Quote from: "Arethius_RGC"
Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"Darksiders PS3-gave up on 1st boss due to horrendous control scheme for lock-on/special attacks.

Darksiders ? Come on it is quite easy ... Which boss exactly the first one or the firsto ne after you are send back on earth ?

Other wise I forgot

Ninja gaiden 2 on Xbox 360

Grand Prix Challenge on PS2 control are just too touchy

Power Drive Rally on Jaguar the second skills test is nearly impossible...

Dunno about Darksiders being 'easy' i just found it an utter ball-ache to play, in terms of boss fights.It was 1st fight on earth, you vs Dargon type lass, controls were awful and each time you died, which i did often, you had to trek back, sit through unskippable cut scene shit, listen to same old speech, only to die, rinse and repeat.Though F-this.Gave game away to a mate.

Ninja Gaiden II however, i sailed through and completed.Each to their own.

I had the exact same experience with Darksiders so you're not alone RT.
The game was fairly easy up to that point but I got pissed off at that same boss and turned it off and never played the game again. It didn't help that the game was a huge Zelda ripoff and I have gotten bored with every Zelda game I ever played and never finished one of them.

Rogue Trooper

:-) Glad it was'nt just me.I found the 'difficulty' to be finding the desire to continue playing the game past the point i got stuck.75% of the time i'll leave a game, for months, hell even years and return to it, this however? interest killed stone dead.I was told it was like a modern day Soul Reaver game, so hopes were high, but nope, fell at 2nd hurdle for myself and killed any interest in the sequel.

Thing is today? i'm not exactly going hungry for games, got pile of shame on so many formats, if game kills interest off early on? it be f*cked.why would i want to spend time struggling to get past an early stumbling block, if they could'nt even sort the basics out?.Just was'nt going to happen.

Shadowrunner

Yeah that's how I'm starting to look at games these days too. So many games I want to play and there just isn't enough time. If I find I'm not really enjoying a game what's the point in playing more? Might as well move on to another game in the pile.

Rogue Trooper

Quote from: "Shadowrunner"Yeah that's how I'm starting to look at games these days too. So many games I want to play and there just isn't enough time. If I find I'm not really enjoying a game what's the point in playing more? Might as well move on to another game in the pile.

Most recent case in point for myself:

Mate at work lent me:Sniper Ghost warrior II on 360, just as he had the previous game, i don't care if it is powered by Cry Engine III, it's awful, been deleted from my HDD, going back to him in the morning and i'm moving on.....