Hardest game ever.

[jacobythehedgehog]

Ninja Gaiden Black

 

[MorphingDragon]

Doom on the hardest difficulty.

The ultimate Doom remake levels. !@#$. You die so quickly.

 

[General_Potatoes]

I don't think anyone will agree with me but.... The first kingdom hearts. I just finished it and man, to me this game is damn hard.

 

[Richard Po]

I vote for Touhou!!!

 

[DannyJBeckett]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2. 19 years, 3 different console ports, and I STILL can't do the last level.

 

[wgreer25]

Ninja Gaiden, the first one on the NES.

Ditto, and I actually did beat it. The ultimate in controler chucking fury.

 

[joest01]

A good hard game is one that gives you the mechanics to dominate it and then throws a real challenge at you. Often changing things up on different difficulty settings. The Ninja Gaiden school of games (DmC, MGR:R, Bayonetta) fall into this category.

Then there are platformers that require precision timing. Often those are an exercise ion repetition. I will never beat the bonus level in Rayman origins, and probably will never get past that level (one of the later ones, circular) in N+ I got stuck on. But here too, the real criteria is how technical the game is. If the controls blow then it might be difficult, but for all the wrong reasons.

*.souls falls more into the latter category. Learn the level. And for the most part just don't rush into it. With the covenant of champions, DS2 does try to set foot in the first category, heck if you want you can try and SL1 a souls game with just a dagger, but I dunno, I love the games but I just wouldn't put them in the same category as a MNM or revengeance run.

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

These weird titles aside, I found the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games punishingly difficult. I still haven't gotten anywhere significant in any of the ones I own.

Do yourself a favor and get the Complete mods for the series. Not only do they fix a ton of bugs and update the graphics, but it also adjusts the difficulty curve making the game easier to get started and more difficult at the end.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

DID YOU JUST SUGGEST A MOD ON THE FIRST PLAYTHROUGH.
HNNNNNNNGGGGGG.
Sorry. I just thnk that's pretty stupid.As a somewhat experienced stalker I have to say playing whit a mod on the first playthrough is one of the dumbest choices someon can make.
The mod changes the atmosphere and some core gameplay mechanics so that's why I have to recommend playing vanilla first to really understand and apreciate what each and every mod changes.

He also recommended Complete, which actually makes the game easier.

Personally, if you're going to mod it, I'd recommend AMK. Makes the game harder. Because you don't play STALKER to have a good time.

Mmm...Electro-Chimeras.