Brutal games

[Geo Da Sponge]

Mount&Blade: Warband is one of the hardest games I've played in a while. Especially when you use manual blocking and disable quitting without saving.

It's not Nintendo hard; but playing for over a year in-game, building up a mighty force, finally taking a castle for myself, then having the ENTIRE Sarranid army attack it (the fight was about 150 vs 1500) and losing everything... that hurt.

That hurt like a *****.

Yes, Mount & Blade: Warband has a lot of difficulty customisation available, to the extent that the difficulty is represented by a percentage of the 'true difficulty'. Once you turn everything up to max you're playing under the exact same rules as the AI, which means you will be skewered by arrows or cut down in seconds, especially before you can buy a decent set of armour.

I have turned up the damage ratio for allies so that it's 1/1, but I'm still scared of having personal damage at anything higher than 1/4. In the large scale pitched battles, charging forward soon results in you catching the eye of a large number of enemies, and those Swadian crossbowmen are fierce.

 

[Faux Furry]

If you can get your hands on the Capcom Classics Collection or download it, Super Ghouls and Ghosts just might have the challenge you need (as well as some of the best synthesized music the 1990s had to offer).

If you can find some way to play Rockstar's adaptation of The Warriors, play that on it's hardest difficulty to have more than one kind of brutality heaped on you at once.

 

[Wolfgang Ravenna]

On the point of Mount&Blade, I would call it hard so much as depressing. I have not seen any game build you up so high and so quickly bring you down. It's saddening, truly. I would recommend it to anyone, but as for being hard, there comes a point where you're on top of the world. Just remember how easily that can be taken from you at any given moment.

I found the hardest game i played (And my repertoire is a bit limited) was Dragon Age: Origins BEFORE i patched it. Boss Fights were near-on impossible, and i was playing on Easy.

 

[Distorted Stu]

World At War on Veteran.... The grenades! Oh Lord the grenades!!!... [sub]make them stop..[/sub]

 

[Kahunaburger]

Syobon Action. Plus if you get a SNES game to work on your laptop (by completely legal means, of course) most of them are pretty hard by modern standards. Super Metroid, for instance, although it was apparently pretty easy for its time.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and SMT games. Devil Survivor is one of the easier ones for instance, and I found it pleasantly challenging. But I couldn't get through Strange Journey. I am just not on that game's level haha.

 

[Dfskelleton]

The original Splatterhouse was pretty brutal. When I say everything in the game is trying to kill you, I'm not joking. Yes, you've got enemies, but they're not the only thing trying to murder you.
Chairs will try and kill you, chandeliers will fall, knives will fly out of cupboards, spikes will shoot from the ground, water animates itself into monsters, picture frames will detach from the walls and fly at you, glass bottles will fall off shelves, giant logs will roll at you accompanied by flaming men running at you, and yes, even at one point you must fight yourself. All of this, and you can only get hit 4 times, and at that you only have 3 lives.

Another brutal game is probably Mortal Kombat II. Yes, it is brutal in a violent way, but damn, that shit was hard!

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I got one for you http://www.kongregate.com/games/Eggy/the-unfair-platformer, great fun until you put a gun to your head

Or try Meat Boy, it's really hard but not unfair, you will always see what comes your way.

 

[LostCrusader]

Demon's Soul's Hates you

no joke it HATES YOU and ME AND EVERYONE

Hard is what im getting across to you

Its REALLY HARD

this is why

If You die the Game gets Harder
if you die you lose your 'Soul's' there your currency
you can get the soul's back if you make it back to where you died, but die on your journey to your lost soul's and you lose them for good
You die and it cuts your Health Bar IN HALF and you still lose soul's
The Monster's do insane amount of damage
You don't have help? [if your not signed it]
Bosses are Hard
what else
oh yeah you Die and ALL the baddies re spawn
and on Halloween all the Monsters get EXTREMELY difficult

The First lvl took me 5 hours 1-1 it took me 5 hours

Loving all the love for demon soul's, I didn't think it was that bad. It just has the most brutal learning curve I've ever seen.
OT: I am currently enjoying all the "fun" of the latest mortal kombat. Seriously, why would they make a boss in a fighting game that has that much damage, damage reduction, and can ignore stun effects whenever he wants.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Witcher 2 is a PC game that you could try.It's quite difficult if you haven't played the original and start a new game on normal.

Gets easier after second chapter though,but you can always ramp up the difficulty if it becomes a cakewalk .

 

[Icaruss]

I fell a bit ou of place with this but feth it,any madden game on all madden(the highest diffculty) is fuckin brutal.Your entire D-line gets pancaked(knocked on their ass) every play, you've about 2 seconds(seriously) to get rid of the ball,every defensive player turns into ed reed(godly) when the balls in the air and fucking d-lineman and linebackers make one handed picks so often you wonder why your recievers drop so many that hit them right in the chest. oh and your team AI is so stupid it in all right should't even be allowed wipe it own ass for fear of accidently eating the paper.To put it simply it like being a foot race where the other guys been given rocket boots and you've just had your hamstrings slit, your only real chance is if the other fucks up royal.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Ninja Gaiden and Demon's Souls are haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!
But I so loved Ninja Gaiden "1" on XBOX. Can't seem to keep playing part 2 though!
Just get bored somehow.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

OT: I am currently enjoying all the "fun" of the latest mortal kombat. Seriously, why would they make a boss in a fighting game that has that much damage, damage reduction, and can ignore stun effects whenever he wants.

Yeah, I really hate Shao Khan at the end of story mode.
But what a great game otherwise

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

Mount&Blade: Warband is one of the hardest games I've played in a while. Especially when you use manual blocking and disable quitting without saving.

It's not Nintendo hard; but playing for over a year in-game, building up a mighty force, finally taking a castle for myself, then having the ENTIRE Sarranid army attack it (the fight was about 150 vs 1500) and losing everything... that hurt.

That hurt like a *****.

I quote this.

M&B combat works well enough as a genocide engine, and you'll have hours of fun in a pretty immersive world. But turn off save without quitting and the game can quite literally have your balls for breakfast. One slip can lose you EVERYTHING.
It's a game that seems to be of the belief that small mistakes are rewarded with something akin to pressing a "restart" button.
Best bit is that it's not hard in a "throw controller/keyboard at the monitor" way. It's challenging and fun, but doesn't make you feel like a pussy if you lose or that you ought to spend hours mastering the game to progress. It's luck and chance.

Realism done well.


Give it a go.

 

[Rossmallo]

La Mulana for face-rippingly complex and cryptic puzzles and very hard bosses, and Super Meat Boy for platform frustration turned up to 11.

 

[let's rock]

"one single life" For the iphone/ipod touch is the hardest game ever, you only get one life, if you die, game over, for good

 

[Stako]

Contra Hard Corps is the most brutal game I've played and beaten. And then we have Ninja Gaiden which is STUPIDLY hard... it's one game series that in my opinion has an unnecessary existance.

 

[TiefBlau]

I Wanna Be the Guy

No questions asked, balls to the wall infuriating toughness.

Some others:
Demon's Souls
Ninja Gaiden
Megaman
Touhou Series
Super Meat Boy

 

[Soxafloppin]

I found the new Castlevania to be really hard on Hard bastard difficulty.

Espcially trying to do the Trials.

 

[Alexander Cunningham]

HALLELUJAH! I found the holy grail of games with gang rape with a sword difficulty! deus! (the 1996 one)

 

[TheSquashedOrange]

Demon Souls on New Game plus is the literal definition of a nightmare. There are quite a few enemies that will kill you in one hit, even if your're at full health, in body form and are wearing heavy armour.