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Vigormortis

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Iwata said:
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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.
Really?!

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! :p
Maybe I played an early version or something, but I recall having my whole lance of assault and heavy mechs taken down by two scout mechs when playing on the hardest difficulty.

And no, I don't "suck" at the game. Haha. The scout mechs were taking dozens of PPC and gauss-cannon hits but were barely losing armor. Meanwhile, my assault mechs would take a few laser hits and lose half their armor.

Maybe my game was bugged. I don't know. I just recall it being almost unfairly hard; given my mechs died to every damn thing thrown at them.

Coincidentally, I loved playing as the Elemental power-armor in Mech2:Merc. That was incredibly fun. ;)
 

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Of the games I play regularly, I'd say NetHack is the hardest.
I'm going to agree with this. Lots of "hard" games can be beaten in a few hours/days/weeks if you work at it. But Nethack generally takes years. I think Dwarf Fortress falls into the same category.
 

jjjonesy27

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Alien Trilogy for the Playstation.

I think my dad and I only beat it once without cheats, it took us weeks to get through the last act.
 

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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.
I'm going to go with games i actually have to make this fair.

Now i don't try to get hard games, frustration isn't my thing, which is why BIT.TRIP RUNNER has my vote. It's actually really fun... at least up until the fourth control on the last world (No not last level, last world). The game is farely simple, one button to jump, then you get one to slide, and then on to kick, but the problem is that once you get that final fourth button, which is reflect, everything just becomes a scrambling mess of trying to remember which button to press and when. I just gave up on the game after i got the the level after you get the fourth button just because of how confused i was getting. "STAIRS! *Jump jump jump jump* *Slide* *reflect* Slide* *kick* *jump* GAH WHICH BUTTON IS REFLECT"

Music is nice though. Good game.
 

him over there

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Ulquiorra4sama said:
I nominate the original Contra.

Old games were way more cruel than any game today. Dark Souls, take a fucking seat.
Well this guy can't beat his friends at Mario Party but look what he pulled off:
 

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him over there said:
Ulquiorra4sama said:
I nominate the original Contra.

Old games were way more cruel than any game today. Dark Souls, take a fucking seat.
Well this guy can't beat his friends at Mario Party but look what he pulled off:
Hm... maybe i need to try my hands at Contra again sometime. Because either my perception got clouded because of how young and inexperienced i was with games at the time or i just really suck at all things video games :/
 

KrossBillNye

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Hardest game I played?
TRY and finish that game without the cheating device. SERIOUSLY!

But it is a fun game though.
 

Guffe

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Isn't Desert Bus the hardest ever?
I mean drive bus from one stop to the other (8 hours straight real time) and there's a small something that makes the bus go a bit to the rigth all the time so you can't go afk and when you reach the bus stop? DRIVE ALL THE WAY BACK!!! adn again, and again and again...
 

ultrabiome

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Battletoads for NES.

and i've beat it, sans game genie :D (although it did take a lot of practice with a game genie first...)

i've also beat Silver Surfer for NES.

Edit: Super Meat Boy is hard, but you have infinite tries. That you can lose all of your progress and go back to the beginning is what makes the above games tougher.
 

kellhounds

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MW4 mercs on elite

this game was not difficult because the enemy had more HP and more effective weapons than you, such things were unaffected by difficulty settings. it was difficult because they hit CT every time and kept you rocking so you could not accurately shoot back.

and on top of all that the NPCs were really good at spreading your damage, and rarely exposed their CT

I still have not beat that game on elite.
 

BENZOOKA

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From what I've played, and have found at least glimpses of fun: Super Meat Boy. It gets so difficult you're going to be more focused on being frustrated than on the game itself.
 

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I still can't beat the NES Contra's without the Konami code :(
also the original Ninja Gaiden trilogy for NES, that last boss was impossible!
 

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Touhou, Battletoads, Contra, I wanna be the guy

And I agree to Nethack. It is not that its hard or anything, its just that absolutely random crap gets you killed for no apparent reason and with no way of avoiding it.
 

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canadamus_prime said:
I haven't played it, but it has to be this hands down

It'd be hard enough just putting up with that Boss's laugh.
well atleasst its a pretty death.....holy crap what are you sopossed to do against that?
 

Canadamus Prime

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xshadowscreamx said:
canadamus_prime said:
I haven't played it, but it has to be this hands down

It'd be hard enough just putting up with that Boss's laugh.
well atleasst its a pretty death.....holy crap what are you sopossed to do against that?
Beats the hell out of me, I haven't played it. I've only seen that video. Although according to one of the YouTube comments, apparently that game has a mode where you face 2 of that boss at the same time. Can't confirm that though. I have seen a video of someone beating that boss without taking a single hit though.