Hardest Game Ever!
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Hardest game I couldn't beat for a very long time is Biometal. A pretty straight forward shoot 'em up with a last boss that doubles in health every time you dies, and with random fire all over the screen including a tale that can reach you anywhere, it's most likely you are going to die no matter how good you are.
The original Contra actually isn't really a candidate, a fact I surprised even myself with recently. I went and played it without the code and found it only took me about three tries - and all but the last ended because I was unsatisfied with how many lives I lost early on. I may have been able to eventually beat either run. Note that while I'm an above average player, I am by no means an amazing one.Ulquiorra4sama said:
That said? I'd go with Battletoads on the NES. Level 4 alone could qualify the fucker, especially with two players, where the death of either player will send you back to a checkpoint. Instant death traps and precision jumps EVERYWHERE, in a game with awkward controls. Pure maddening torture to all but the most patient and skilled players.
And of course, the game is flat out impossible with two players in one stage because of a glitch, if your definition of hard goes in that direction.
Any high profile championships of a competitive game.
Even if you're one of the best in the world, actually winning at a tournament such as Evolution is a hard ask.
And no, the "real" game isn't the arcade mode, nobody plays street fighter seriously against the AI.
Even if you're one of the best in the world, actually winning at a tournament such as Evolution is a hard ask.
And no, the "real" game isn't the arcade mode, nobody plays street fighter seriously against the AI.
A lot of people keep saying that unforgiving isn't hard, but then what is your definition of hard? Because a game where making a single mistake because of lack of skill can lead to death seems like a hard game to me. Games that require a lot of preparation and practice are hard, whichever way you look at it. Demon's Souls and Dark Souls are not games you just stroll through.TaintedSaint said:
OT: The Empire Strikes Back for NES and Super NES. Now this game was literally Nintendo hard. Including infuriating controls, level design and gameplay features. And, naturally, going through the entire level again when you died. Checkpoints? Bwahahaha!
DOOM 1 on nightmare because when you died you restarted with only a pistol and in nightmare the enemies you kill respawn after about 10secs making backtracking for secrets a *****....
I'm going to have to go with Bit Trip Beat. It's just cruel. It messes with your vision, the controls leave no room for error, and the levels take FOREVER.
Agre- wait, what? An easier version? I did not know that! But yeah, definitely one of the hardest games I've ever played.anthony87 said:
I say one of because I've played Demon's Souls. I still wanna give Dark Souls a try, though. I've heard it's a lot better, if not easier.
Yeah. They initially released Devil May Cry 3 but for some reason the Japanese "Hard" mode became our "Normal" mode, Japanese "Dante Must Die mode" was our "Hard" mode while our "Dante Must Die" mode was much more difficult.CrashBang said:
Everyone was saying how ungodly difficult it was and then they released the special edition where you could play as Vergil and they toned down the difficulty to be the same as the Japanese version.
"Hardest game evar!" is a subjective thing, honestly. Some games are easier for some people while others are harder. It all depends.
For example, bullet-hell games. Some people could never play them. They just couldn't adjust to the play style. While others master them to degrees that seem almost depressing.
Same goes for RTS games. Some people will find games like StarCraft exceptionally hard while others can dominate several players at once.
It's all relative.
As for me; and I've played a LOT of hard-as-hell games; the hardest game I've ever played was MechCommander 1. That game, on any difficulty above "normal", was damned near impossible to beat. I don't care how "good" or "tactical" you are, when a Raven scout mech can take down Atlas assault mech without trying, that's a God damned hard game. It's one of, if the only, game I've ever needed cheats to beat.
Still, it's "theoretically" possible to beat the game on the hardest difficulties. Even if I've never seen it.
[as a side note, I don't count piss-poorly made games that have some game-breaking bug or terrible controls in the "hard game" category. Bad game design and bad programming do make a game "hard", they just make it a shit game. I'm looking at you Dark Souls. Seriously, screw you From Software. You always were and will always be a terrible developer.]
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Might I add that, besides what I said above, some of the hardest games I've ever played were competitive multi-player games. Like Counter-Strike: Source, Quake 3, Left 4 Dead, and StarCraft.
I've competed in several high-tier tournaments for those games over the years and, as a result of the skill of the players I faced (team or solo), they made for the some of the hardest game-play experiences I've ever had. Not sure if you can attribute that to the "game" specifically, though.
For example, bullet-hell games. Some people could never play them. They just couldn't adjust to the play style. While others master them to degrees that seem almost depressing.
Same goes for RTS games. Some people will find games like StarCraft exceptionally hard while others can dominate several players at once.
It's all relative.
As for me; and I've played a LOT of hard-as-hell games; the hardest game I've ever played was MechCommander 1. That game, on any difficulty above "normal", was damned near impossible to beat. I don't care how "good" or "tactical" you are, when a Raven scout mech can take down Atlas assault mech without trying, that's a God damned hard game. It's one of, if the only, game I've ever needed cheats to beat.
Still, it's "theoretically" possible to beat the game on the hardest difficulties. Even if I've never seen it.
[as a side note, I don't count piss-poorly made games that have some game-breaking bug or terrible controls in the "hard game" category. Bad game design and bad programming do make a game "hard", they just make it a shit game. I'm looking at you Dark Souls. Seriously, screw you From Software. You always were and will always be a terrible developer.]
I hate to admit it, but I'm sometimes the latter. There've been plenty of occasions on maps like 2Fort where I kept the enemy sniper perch and choke points clear of everything. At times I actually felt so bad for the other team that I changed classes; usually to Spy. (course then within minutes half the other team goes Pyro and it's a clusterfuck of fire and fake spy corpses. hate that.)Combine Rustler said:
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Might I add that, besides what I said above, some of the hardest games I've ever played were competitive multi-player games. Like Counter-Strike: Source, Quake 3, Left 4 Dead, and StarCraft.
I've competed in several high-tier tournaments for those games over the years and, as a result of the skill of the players I faced (team or solo), they made for the some of the hardest game-play experiences I've ever had. Not sure if you can attribute that to the "game" specifically, though.
I'll take your Mushimisama Futari and raise you with Dodonpachi Daioujou Death Label (DOJ DL)on the PS2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCKZj2Xss9Acanadamus_prime said:
Its a special boss rush mode where you fight around 12 bosses no lives 1 hit and its game over. From what I understand that MON dude is the only person to have beaten it, watch his godly dodging skills in that promotional vid I linked
I have Mushimisama Futari (Bug Princess 2) for the 360, that Ultra mode in the vid is a bit out of my league i'll stick with the much easier Original and Maniac modes.
Has anyone here tried getting the Dark Boy achievement for Binding of Isaac? That shit is impossible. Also any pokemon game with the Nuzlocke challenge, with the bonus rule that you can't use potions.
Other than that I prefer to stay away from notoriously difficult games.
Other than that I prefer to stay away from notoriously difficult games.
I don't know. Do any of those bosses have an obnoxious laugh that you have to put up with?TrevHead said:
Ugh...I just bought that game and am having a weird glitch where Kyle's body duplicates. So there are three body duplicates sort of in a clump (it's not symmetrical). And the duplicates must have their own hitboxes, because enemies suddenly were extremely accurate against me (seriously, like 90% of their shots hit me now). Sucked the fun out of the game, so I quit.GeneralTwinkle said:I remember being very frustrated at jedi outcast, I still love it though. I tried reinstalling it recently and it didn't work, I had a sad. One of my favourite games, except for the nar shadaa level. Jesus, snipers everywhere
Really?!Vigormortis said:
Well, that is a surprise. I'm a HUGE Battletech fan, and I love the MechCommander games. I've played them both on the hardest difficulties and finished them without much problem. I don't mean to sound like I'm tooting my own horn here or anything, I just never considered any MechCommander game as, well... hard.
Now, playing Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries on multiplayer wearing only Elemental armour, though... now THAT'S hard!
That's really oddDustyDrB said:Ugh...I just bought that game and am having a weird glitch where Kyle's body duplicates. So there are three body duplicates sort of in a clump (it's not symmetrical). And the duplicates must have their own hitboxes, because enemies suddenly were extremely accurate against me (seriously, like 90% of their shots hit me now). Sucked the fun out of the game, so I quit.GeneralTwinkle said:I remember being very frustrated at jedi outcast, I still love it though. I tried reinstalling it recently and it didn't work, I had a sad
If you can fix it though, you really should try. The first few levels aren't very fun- You're stuck with a shitty blaster against stormtroopers who don't suck, but when you get your lightsaber and forcepowers it's probably one of the best star wars games, bar maybe the KOTOR series.
I mentioned the bug on the game's technical issues forum on Steam yesterday. Googling didn't help, looking up bug fixes for the game didn't help. I'm not very good at the technical side of computers (I can follow directions, but I can't really figure things out on my own). So I just have to wait and hope someone can help. That or I can start the game over. But I don't like the idea of restarting a game that bugged out on me, not knowing if the issue will occur again.GeneralTwinkle said:That's really oddDustyDrB said:Ugh...I just bought that game and am having a weird glitch where Kyle's body duplicates. So there are three body duplicates sort of in a clump (it's not symmetrical). And the duplicates must have their own hitboxes, because enemies suddenly were extremely accurate against me (seriously, like 90% of their shots hit me now). Sucked the fun out of the game, so I quit.GeneralTwinkle said:I remember being very frustrated at jedi outcast, I still love it though. I tried reinstalling it recently and it didn't work, I had a sad
If you can fix it though, you really should try. The first few levels aren't very fun- You're stuck with a shitty blaster against stormtroopers who don't suck, but when you get your lightsaber and forcepowers it's probably one of the best star wars games, bar maybe the KOTOR series.
I am still early in the game (Artus Topside). The duplicate bodies also show up (even in first person view) when I use the turrets to try to take out the AT-STs. They obscure my view, which makes aiming guesswork.
The gunplay does suck. There is almost no feedback for when you hit enemies. Even the first Dark Forces had a nice sound when you made contact.
Oh god yeah, I played ~30 hours of the multiplayer until I pushed myself to get the lightsaber. But even after that, you get some really cool and fun guns later in the game, along with some ridiculous and OTT force powers.DustyDrB said: