Hardest game you have ever played??

[ProfJohn]

I love the graphics and the looks of the game, but man it is fricken hard as hell.

Have to play the same spot over and over trying to find that one guy that keeps killing me.

The reviews for GRAW 2 say it is even harder. I thought we played games for fun, not to be tortured.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Baldurs Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal with the Ascension mod on the high difficulty setting.

 

[angry hampster]

Civ IV. I've never gotten to future tech without cheating.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Baldurs Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal with the Ascension mod on the high difficulty setting.

I'll agree with that one, fights that were no problem before the MOD are near impossible after the mod.

 

[CP5670]

Most of those old arcade clones in the early 90s were way harder than anything we get these days. Same goes for some adventure and puzzle games from that period. I remember it took me a year each to beat Lemmings and Fate of Atlantis back then.

Among FPSs, Thief 2 is the hardest one I've played, although Descent 3 on the insane difficulty comes close. Far Cry (on at least the veteran difficulty) and the Splinter Cell games are fairly tough too. I generally like FPSs to be on the harder side as long as they aren't completely unmanageable. They make you put some thought into various gameplay situations and give you a greater feeling of accomplishment when you manage to complete them.

Neverball from the free games thread is very difficult as well. I've been playing it for a few months now but haven't reached the end yet. Although I have been stuck on one level for almost half that time.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: CP5670
Most of those old arcade clones in the early 90s were way harder than anything we get these days. Same goes for some adventure and puzzle games from that period. I remember it took me a year each to beat Lemmings and Fate of Atlantis back then.

Among FPSs, Thief 2 is the hardest one I've played, although Descent 3 on the insane difficulty comes close. Far Cry (on at least the veteran difficulty) and the Splinter Cell games are fairly tough too. I generally like FPSs to be on the harder side as long as they aren't completely unmanageable. They make you put some thought into various gameplay situations and give you a greater feeling of accomplishment when you manage to complete them.

Neverball from the free games thread is very difficult as well. I've been playing it for a few months now but haven't reached the end yet. Although I have been stuck on one level for almost half that time.

Castlevania ... way back when was pretty hard [80s] ... it took some pretty precise moves and the damn check points sent you waaaaay back and when you finally got to the Count, you had to fight like 3 increasingly more difficult versions of him ... but at least the Ending was cool and quite "worth it". ... it also reminds me that Ghosts and Goblins [Capcom] was pretty hard too [arcade and n64].

The only thing difficult i found about Thief2 was getting lost on those big maps. FC did get hard near the end and Stalker was tough also on the harder difficulty levels.

Recently ... Hg:L is damn near *impossible* to complete the 2nd time thru on Nightmare after you top out at level 50 but the NPCs don't.

 

[Dacalo]

Battletoads for NES. I couldn't beat that fucking game for the life of me. I am very persistent and loves challenges too, as I beat Ninja Gaidens on NES and other notorious games.

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: apoppin
The only thing difficult i found about Thief2 was getting lost on those big maps. FC did get hard near the end and Stalker was tough also on the harder difficulty levels.

I remember there was one level in Thief 2 that was simply maddening in that respect. It was the one where you had to track down that guy in a huge network of caves. I must have spent 10 hours on that level alone, and I'm usually pretty good at navigating through these kinds of maps. (got plenty of experience from the Descent games )

 

[irishScott]

Myst II: Riven

Took me 8 months without a walkthrough or help of any kind. In a portion of my free time. (maybe 6 hours a week or so)

/Thread

 

[Gusty987]

Falcon 4.0 without a doubt

 

[Craig234]

Heaven & Earth (puzzle game from Buena Vista), and the Myst series, which I view as correctly played as scenery, as you get a walkthrough and see the pretty pictures and music.

 

[Coldkilla]

Operation Flashpoint
Armed Assault
Falcon 4.0
Combat Flight Sim 3 Online with 100% realism option set.


^^^ Best games ever made IMO!

 

[livingsacrifice]

I always thought GRAW was harder than GRAW2. Um hard games.. only one I can think of right now is the new Ninja Gaiden games for the new systems, they are so hard it's incredible.

 

[Anubis]

ikaruga

 

[JorynnRace]

In recent memory? Stalker.

I know that the game supposedly gets "easier", but that first mission put such a sour taste in my mouth that I haven't picked it back up yet.

In my mind, a first mission or level shouldn't take you 20 tries before you figure out how to play it.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: CP5670
Most of those old arcade clones in the early 90s were way harder than anything we get these days. Same goes for some adventure and puzzle games from that period. I remember it took me a year each to beat Lemmings and Fate of Atlantis back then.

Among FPSs, Thief 2 is the hardest one I've played, although Descent 3 on the insane difficulty comes close. Far Cry (on at least the veteran difficulty) and the Splinter Cell games are fairly tough too. I generally like FPSs to be on the harder side as long as they aren't completely unmanageable. They make you put some thought into various gameplay situations and give you a greater feeling of accomplishment when you manage to complete them.

Neverball from the free games thread is very difficult as well. I've been playing it for a few months now but haven't reached the end yet. Although I have been stuck on one level for almost half that time.

Castlevania ... way back when was pretty hard [80s] ... it took some pretty precise moves and the damn check points sent you waaaaay back and when you finally got to the Count, you had to fight like 3 increasingly more difficult versions of him ... but at least the Ending was cool and quite "worth it". ... it also reminds me that Ghosts and Goblins [Capcom] was pretty hard too [arcade and n64].

The only thing difficult i found about Thief2 was getting lost on those big maps. FC did get hard near the end and Stalker was tough also on the harder difficulty levels.

Recently ... Hg:L is damn near *impossible* to complete the 2nd time thru on Nightmare after you top out at level 50 but the NPCs don't.

Castlevania on the NES when I was a kid was the hardest game for me...I recall beating it finally and NO ONE was around to witness the castle falling during the game credits!!

Other than that...Golden Eye on the N64 on the hardest Level was another bitch to beat.

 

[ayabe]

Bayou Billy for NES, one of the few games that I've never beaten, might try an emulator now. Got to the last boss about 20 times, but always, always ran outta gas before the end.

 

[tigersty1e]

I hate how your teammates in GRAW will get your back... a mile away.

I'm always in the action while the other guys are like 500 feet behind me. I shouldn't have to manually order them forward to have them engage the enemy.



BTW, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 for the NES is by far the most difficult game ever. No saves and no continues made this impossible.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Baldurs Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal with the Ascension mod on the high difficulty setting.

Ditto for me as well. First GRAW was kinds tough also. GRAW 2 was not even close.

 

[shortylickens]

There were a crapload of NES games that totally kicked my ass and I could never get beyond the first level. That was back in the day when they didnt do thousands of hours of playtesting.

As for Windows and DOS:
Z for DOS, on CD. It was a nifty little RTS with a very simple resource and build system and it was hard as hell in later levels. The Win98, 3D accelerated sequel was called Steel Soldierz, and it was also a good challenge.

On windows in the Turn-Based-Strategy department:
Age Of Wonders series, Heroes of Might and Magic, Disciples 2 and pretty much any similar TBS. They always get really tough in later stages.

RTS's:
Act of War on some of the larger maps with a med or hi difficulty. There is no speed adjust, there is no unit limit, and the AI can make many more decisions per second than any human could.
Warlords BattleCry 1, 2 and 3. If you lose your hero you lose the game, and in later missions the enemy always makes a beeline for your hero.
Evil Genius: There is supposed to be a magic balance like can be found in the SimCity series, but I never found it.
Along those lines: Simcity 4. I never could find that special balance which enables me to make a profit. All the other games I could do it.
Homeworld 1 and Cataclysm. I barely managed to beat number 2 and the other games were just too damn tough. Even if I cheated and gave myself a million resources I could never pump out units fast enough to beat some of the tougher levels.
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Same as Homeworld, you have to do everything perfectly or else you're screwed.
O.R.B. Same as the above, only even harder. I couldnt even beat the first real mission.

The later missions of Total Anihilation and Supreme Commander: Like Act of War, the enemy AI can keep track of a lot more stuff than I can. I just cant be brutally efficient enough to beat it.

Overall worst would have to be an NES game with poor game design and crummy controls. Maybe TMNT 1, maybe Karnov, maybe Magician. I dunno. Something like that.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Other than that...Golden Eye on the N64 on the hardest Level was another bitch to beat.

No it wasn't... Then again all of my friends came to me to beat it for them so they could unlock eygpt/all weapons mode so it might have just been me : )

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Other than that...Golden Eye on the N64 on the hardest Level was another bitch to beat.

No it wasn't... Then again all of my friends came to me to beat it for them so they could unlock eygpt/all weapons mode so it might have just been me : )

no it was pretty easy, the only hard level was the Conrtol room on 007 mode

 

[tigersty1e]

Goldeneye was cake.

 

[Golgatha]

Mega Man 3 on NES, Metal Gear Solid 3 on PS2, Devil May Cry on PS2, Contra Shattered Soldier on PS2, Contra 3 on SNES, and Final Fantasy Tactics (ok, not hard but you had to grind between battles to get through the next story battles quite a bit).

 

[Anubis]

Contra 3 was not hard