The hardest FPS of all time, making a list

[A Weary Exile]

...any FPS game that gives you a targetting reticule a mile wide that your bullets hardly ever go near the centre of.

Halo is very guilty of that, especially with the assault rifle. It's still not that hard though.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

...any FPS game that gives you a targetting reticule a mile wide that your bullets hardly ever go near the centre of.

Halo is very guilty of that, especially with the assault rifle. It's still not that hard though.

True. I meant more along the lines of the first Ghost Recon, where even firing a single shot never guaranteed it going where you thought it should and dying came quickly. Halo had the benefit of shields and health and encouraged you to charge in all guns blazing so a single bullet going awry wasn't an issue. Guess I just got too used to Rainbow 6 Vegas and the idea of precision aiming on all weapons so long as you used them properly, oh, and Counter Strike.

 

[Dirty Saint]

CoD:WaW - on veteran, it wasn't exceptionally hard except for one thing......
Psychic FUCKING grenades.........and usually a dozen or 2 of them at a time. ~.~

 

[Carnagath]

Redneck Rampage was pretty sick, at least that's how I remember it.

 

[mendokusai]

System Shock 2 and Deus Ex were quite a handful.

As were the original 3 Rainbow Six games and the first Ghost Recon.

But really nothing beats you harder than Operation Flashpoint (In America, you beat game. In Soviet Russia of Operation Flashpoint, game beats YOU!). Seriously, it was murderous.

I can't believe Halo on Legendary shows up on the list, true, it's challenging, but when compared to the above, it's like a walk in the proverbial park.

 

[A Weary Exile]

...any FPS game that gives you a targetting reticule a mile wide that your bullets hardly ever go near the centre of.

Halo is very guilty of that, especially with the assault rifle. It's still not that hard though.

True. I meant more along the lines of the first Ghost Recon, where even firing a single shot never guaranteed it going where you thought it should and dying came quickly. Halo had the benefit of shields and health and encouraged you to charge in all guns blazing so a single bullet going awry wasn't an issue. Guess I just got too used to Rainbow 6 Vegas and the idea of precision aiming on all weapons so long as you used them properly, oh, and Counter Strike.

Never played Ghost Recon but RSV2 is one of my all time favorite games, one of the better FPSs out there I think. Except the online play is very akward because people barely ever use cover, which defeats the purpose of the game. It like COD except you can actually strategize your assault instead of relying totally on skill gained through repetition.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Quake 4 on hardest difficulty

 

[A Weary Exile]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a nightmare, Vegas 2 is damn near impossible on Realism mode, and Doom 3 pissed me off

Rainbow 6 Veagas (1 and 2) were both difficult (meaning I died alot) on the hardest difficulty.

Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 on Realistic setting. It's a one shot kill kinda thing anyway.

Really you guys struggled at rainbow 6 ??? I did all the terrorist hunts realistic lone wolf and only required a coop partner once(final gunship battle)

Seriously, I found COD WAY harder because of a lack of a cover system. I've beaten all the Terrorist Hunts on solo realistic and the campaign but I still find many parts of COD much harder than RSV2.

 

[Mewick_Alex]

Halo 2 rather than Combat Evolved. The difficulty curve in Halo 2 on legendary was wierd, I remember having a fairly easy time on some of the final levels, but I NEVER managed to do the first level. It was psychotic.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Halo 2 Legendary is supposedly harder than Halo 1 Legendary. I say supposedly because I do not care about punishing myself in my FPS games. Now God Hand/DMC3, that's a different story.

^Drat, ninja'd in the SAME MINUTE.

 

[Cherry Cola]

The really short FPS part in Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy). The controls just suuuuuuuuuck, it's really hard to do that one good.

Bad design doesn't qualify as difficulty.

Shame.

 

[Cmwissy]

While open to interpretation - The hitman games - Go into first person and do it the shooty way on the hardest difficulty.

You'll wish you had the CoD regenerating life.

 

[Joshimodo]

Playing bloody Call of Duty: World at War on veteran. Thousands upon thousands of grenades laser-designated into my face.

Really? I did it on Veteran pretty easily, just kept moving and shooting for the most part.

My hardest FPS have to be Uncharted 1 and 2 on Crushing and all the ones you've already said.

COD2 and 4 were quite hard on their Hardest difficulty too.

I've yet to find a CoD game difficult. Seriously, they aren't. Even Mile High was pretty easy after a few tries of trial and error.

I don't know your description of it, but FPS games need for be from, well, the first person perspective. Uncharted 1 and 2 are third person.


I'd have to say Halo 3/Halo 3: ODST on Mythic difficulty. Seriously, that is just abusive.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

The original Brothers in Arms. I don't care what difficulty mode you play it in. In fact, choose the easy one. I dare you. You'll get your ass pumped full of lead so much that your controller will break.

 

[k3v1n]

CoD 2 is pretty fucking hard ooh and ninja gaiden II(xbox360 version, not ps3 easier version) anyone? even in the "normal" setting it was hard as fucking hell, I dnon't want to imagine it in the master ninja setting

 

[VanityGirl]

Halo 2 and 3 on mythic difficulty were harder than Halo 1 on Legendary.

Isn't Mythic just Legendary with every skull turned on?


OT: CoD:WaW, it's the biggest pain in the ass on veteran. Also, Gears of War 2 on insane, while not an FPS, (it's a third person shooter), it is very difficult on Insane mode.

 

[Syphonz]

Any FPS with a health regeneration game mechanic should be immidately wiped off this list. As there is no challenge in any of them.

 

[Doktor Merkwurdigliebe]

Medal of Honour : Allied Assault

*that fucking sniper map*

any game made after this one is easy by default.

Oh, wait - Unreal Tournament Classic on adapting difficulty.

 

[WrongSprite]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a nightmare, Vegas 2 is damn near impossible on Realism mode, and Doom 3 pissed me off

Rainbow 6 Veagas (1 and 2) were both difficult (meaning I died alot) on the hardest difficulty.

Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 on Realistic setting. It's a one shot kill kinda thing anyway.

Really you guys struggled at rainbow 6 ??? I did all the terrorist hunts realistic lone wolf and only required a coop partner once(final gunship battle)

So did I, but it took me a fair while, and I died a lot. I expect you did as well. Please don't be cocky.