Hardest Game Ever!

[Varil]

Are you saying Battletoads, a game which the developers couldn't complete, is a bastard game? Battletoads' feelings are hurt.

Battletoads shouldn't have been such a jerk to me in my childhood.

 

[Simonoly]

Plok on the NES.

Where are my fucking limbs?!

 

[Vanquisher2000]

No FPS's yet? Unreal Tournament 3 on insane without glitching or Co-op on the 360. It's relatively easy until you get to the capture the flag levels. Your teammates can neither defend nor attack properly and the enemies do double damage, have double health and near perfect accuracy as well as the ability to cheat by choosing their spawns. Getting the flag means you will have to fight upwards of 10 enemies to escape because of their cheating letting them instantly respawn ahead of you when you kill them, and if you get back to your half where they aren't allowed to spawn, they use the translocator (teleport gun) to catch up to you in about ten seconds. If you survive, the enemy probably have your flag by now, in which case you're doomed. If they didn't grab the flag and you're still alive, congratulations! Now you have to do that 3 times while your teammates either:

A: Run in and die (Attack order)
B: Sit around eating all the pies before giving the enemy the flag (Defence order)
C: Get in the way and do nothing helpful (Follow me order)
D: Wander around aimlessly (Any other orders)

Oh, and this starts at level 3 of 41

 

[TheGreatAndPowerfulZOG]

->Isn't I Wanna Be The Guy
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-(would probably also accept Super Meat Boy or some obscure bastard old school Nintendo Hard Game)

Punishment II's harder.

 

[fish iron4]

Darks souls

OH DEAR GOD NO

 

[chinangel]

Your story it began because YOU DIED!
Dark Souls.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

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.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Can anyone say Battletoads: Battlemaniacs?

 

[shrekfan246]

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting the OP to say a game that I beat when I was ten.

OT: Hard because of terrible design/buggy out the ass: Sonic '06 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_%2706].

Legitimately hard (though sometimes to an unfair degree): I Wanna Be The Guy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_wanna_be_the_guy]; Super Meat Boy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Meat_Boy]; Demon's Souls [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%27s_Souls]/Dark Souls [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls].

EDIT: I think this one transcends normal categorizing, really. I think most people would agree it's unfair in its difficulty, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who genuinely enjoyed the challenge? Battletoads [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads].

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Ninja Gaiden (the original) probably fits in there somewhere, and I've personally never been able to beat any of the old Super Mario platformers (raised on Sonic here). I'm sure I could probably come up with a whole bunch more if I really tried, especially for the terrible design section, but I can't really be arsed to do it.

 

[Lunar Templar]

I'm a say Battletoads.

and its not even the 'fun' kind of NES hard, its the shitty kinda hard with cheap kills all over the place

 

[tacotrainwreck]

->Isn't I Wanna Be The Guy
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-(would probably also accept Super Meat Boy or some obscure bastard old school Nintendo Hard Game)

And that's exactly why I'm nominating Astyanax... or Ninja Gaiden

 

[Scarim Coral]

The SNES gameSuper Ghouls and ghosts.
With so much stuff going on and your character only got two hits and it's game over. Til this day I can never get passed the first level.

 

[gritch]

Ghosts'N'Goblins on the NES. It's impossible I tell ya'! DX

I second that vote. The first time I got pass the first level I about wet myself.

 

[Woodsey]

Driver 2, why? It was at points such a buggy and laggy mess that I broke 2 copy's over it (first kept crashing in Havana, second copy didnt work at all) on my third copy I actually managed to finish it....
.... 10 years after release....

This link will show the most ridiculous mission of them all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVNmuB16vgk

A friend of mine had a Playstation when we were younger, and neither of us could even finish the car park tutorial in the first game.

OT: Ninja Gaiden 2 was a fairly miserable (and short-lived) experience. I think I got to the second boss on the horse and then gave up.

 

[AKDread]

I have to say Ghosts n Goblins from the good ol days
Demon and Dark souls is in second though

 

[Quicksilver_Phoenix]

Can a game be considered hard because of it's players?

Because if so, League of Legends. I really *want* to like that game. I honestly do. But 9/10 players i've played with/against are either so bad that they cause their team to lose or massive jerks who stop the game being enjoyable. It's not fun for either team if someone wins because the other team was really bad or their team was unfairly good ( or had players with full runes/masteries).

I want to play more and enjoy it, but I lose most of my games for no good reason. It's far too hard because of it's players.

 

[TaintedSaint]

Dark souls is not hard its just unforgiving. people who think its hard are too impatient or come to a situation unprepared.

 

[Yopaz]

QWOP.
Seriously.
That game is impossible.

Questing the World for One Piece? I'm unfamiliar with that acronym.

Its the keys that you use to play the game, the name of the protagonist and the name of the game.
QWOP Qwop and Qwop respectively. Google it, and try to make 100m

I managed 100m on my 5th try or so. It's not that hard, it's just boring.

I think I will stick with I Wanna Be The Guy for this thing. Of course there's Tales of The Abyss for PS2 on unknown where there's a boss that actually takes several days to beat and all attacks kill in one hit.

Also I don't understand people who wants to say Ninja Gaiden 2 is so incredibly hard. It's hard, but it's not that hard.

 

[Garyn Dakari]

The hardest game I have ever encountered was Star Wars Jedi Knight Outcast II. Because the levels are sooo long and you don't know where anything is.

Both of it's predecessors, Dark Forces and Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight were much harder, IMO. The series actually got progressively easier as it went.

Anyway, hardest game I ever played, is either Super Meat Boy, or one of those old Sega Master System games that I don't remember the names of. Seriously, a few of those were almost impossible. Hardest in recent memory though, is definitely SMB.