Which Is The Hardest Game Ever Made?

[ChromeAlchemist]

For retail games, either the original MDK (which had to be toned down I believe in future releases) or Ikaruga.

 

[j1-2themax]

For ones I've ever played, Superman 64 (although that may be more due to the colossal suck than anything else, I still don't think it's possible to beat that game without cheating.)
Hardest ever - Probably Battletoads.

 

[ntomlin63]

Tempest and Defender

 

[Lord Azrael]

Riven.

i did not think that there would be many people out there that would agree with me on this one, let alone many people who have even played in this generation. i have yet to encounter a world as complete and logically organized as the world of riven. it is truly the most immersive and complete virtual world ever created.

Riven is just a lead on from other insanely difficult games like the truly evil 'Zork' series, like when you had to make the man open the trapdoor by drinking with him without getting drunk or shooting him! That made me bash my face on the keyboard for weeks! And it was only meant to be the 1st 5 mins!

 

[Crimson King]

Myst III!
Maybe all the other puzzle games were just really easy or I'm just a moron but that game is hard! Too hard for me at least. -.-

 

[DirgE Almighty]

Paying super mario 64 when i was about 5, it still haunts me to this day.

 

[Flour]

Dwarf Fortress. It's easily the hardest game ever because you can't win.

I Wanna Be The Guy, if that counts.
Or some crazy Japanese games, like several shooters that make Touhou look tame and some ASCII art platformers I saw.
And rom hacks of games. Some of the Super Mario World ones are just insane.

IWBtG and those bullet hell games aren't hard. You just have to memorize patterns.

 

[McBurks]

I have never faced such a game.I usually can beat a game but If I dont like it,I just stop playing it.

 

[PirateKing]

Men in Black 2: Alien Escape. Couldn't beat the first level.
That game is so broken.

 

[Pubert Mcgee]

Im starting to think the hardest game is the legends of wrestlemania game on the 360 as i was just trying to get the medels on it and stone cold keeps opening a can of wupp ass on me!!!

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Battletoads.

 

[RobotoWorks]

Super Mario Frustration, I know it wasn't an official game but man, talk about impossible...!

 

[Ashbax]

Pac-Man. May sound stupid but I just cant get past the 8th level without losing all of my lives.

Tru dat. I can bareley get past the third level.

 

[Excludos]

Lol, Yahtzee's games!

Agreed. Its the only game I havent been able to play through with sheer determination (the bonus thingie, where you have to play through all the maps without a break between, ofcourse).

Other than that: Trackmania anyone?

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I've just seen some footage of I Wanna Be The Guy, and quite frankly, that game must have been designed by Hitler himself.

 

[Bohner239]

goddamn...MEGAMAN....WHY IS IT SO HARD... IT'S JUST A SIDE-SCROLLER

 

[Lyri]

Apparently using the search function is hard /obviousness

I wanna be the guy is reportedly the hardest game ever. I think it is, to be honest.

Nah it's hard but can be beaten with persistance. Personally I can't get to the 2nd boss but loads of people have finished it.

Because there's no limit to life's it actually turns out to be an easy game just like bioshock

IWTBTG is pretty much trial and error, you figure it out by dying and avoiding it the next time.
It's not difficult.

Tetris, statistically you cannot ever finish the game, so, I'll go with that.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I heard Megaman 9 is hard.

 

[dandahammer]

The first Red Faction on impossible is a beast. Can be done, but still.
Solar jetman on the NES.

 

[Teamsaber920]

The original Metroid. I've been playing video games for almost 11 years and that is freakin' hard.