Hardest games of all time

[GrJohnso]

I immediately thought of the old Infocom games as well. Zorks were tough... Leather Goddess of Pheobes(sp?) too.... Old school...

As for more recent games, hmmm... the first time I tried to play a FPS game on a console it just pissed me off... Once I got the controls down, not too bad but it was a bitch for someone raised on K&M controls and not consoles...

 

[Unmoosical]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: Anubis
Ikaruga

Another vote for Ikaruga.

Actually, it's the hardest game that doesn't make you want to tear your face off. You want to keep playing. You want to be better than the game. Not because it's a challenge, but because it's a weird blend of awesome and a challenge, unlike IWTBTG.

Another vote for most badass game of all time....I mean hardest.

 

[Robert Munch]

Karnov on NES
Shadow of the beast on Genesis

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Atreus21

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Any of you guys ever beat Myst without a walkthrough guide?

I did. I was too poor/stubborn to actually buy a walkthrough and didn't have internet to get an FAQ. Man, I remember playing Myst, Riven, Seventh Guest... I remember seeing Seventh Guest running on a computer in a Radio Shack or something, had no idea what you were supposed to do except that once in a while when you walked down the hall you saw a ghost. Heh heh.

7th Guest. Man.

Remember Phantasmagoria and its cheesy gore?

I remember seeing it in stores. It had a Mature rating ! Another box design I remember pretty clearly was Day of the Tentacle. I remember $30 or so was the going rate for a Lucasarts adventure game, but the box was an three-sided triangular box. Man, I wish I kept the box, it was pretty kick ass.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Any of you guys ever beat Myst without a walkthrough guide?

Yeah. I didn't have the internet when I played Myst, so I didn't have access to a walkthrough (which is the only way I know for sure that I didn't use one). I thought the game was rather boring though (but very pretty).

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: Ganeedi

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Any of you guys ever beat Myst without a walkthrough guide?

I actually thought Myst was pretty easy. The hardest part was noticing that stupid little panel you had to click (or climb thru?) in the tunnel to get to the underwater aquarium part. Sorry memory is a little vague since i played it awhile back.

I thought "Seventh Guest" was a lot harder / impossible. Also Infocom's Zork series was hard as hell when i was 10 or so. Never got too far before losing interest and getting frustrated.

I agree. 11th hour took me forever and a day to beat. I even cheated by using a guide for it, and still had difficulty with it.

Originally posted by: bobross419
I think this list is much better:
http://www.cracked.com/article...chool-video-games.html

Had me laughing quite a bit remembering the insanity of some of these old games - Battletoads!!!

That list was much better! (games I actually played when I was a kid) I thought the first page wasn't so bad, since I had beaten all of them without cheating. Then came the second page. I never beat any of the last five except Contra, and that was only by cheating.

I am surprised that Top Gun wasn't on the list. That game was harder than heck, although you could memorize all the enemy locations since it was so short.

 

[JoshGuru7]

I have to go with the Zork series as well. It was before cheats were so easily obtainable and I spent a great many hours completely stuck retracing my steps trying to see what I was missing. I think Return to Zork is the only one of the series I ever actually beat without cheating years later.

Multiplayer games aren't really directly comparable, but I'd also mention UT'99 CTF as a game that took a little effort to be good but a lot of effort to be really good.

 

[7beauties]

Chess is the hardest game of all, but I assume that most people are talking about conventional games for the PC, Play Station or X-Box and such. The finale to Half Life 2, Episode 2, where you had to race in an old Dodge Charger, chasing down 10 striders bearing down on the renegade's outpost with three hunters per as escort, was hands-down the hardest thing I ever did gaming wise. I was killed multiple times - more times than I have fingers to count (I was stuck in the "difficult" mode, so that made things extra hard). When I finally beat it I couldn't believe it. Talk about multiple quick loading and quick saving! What does anyone have to say about this game? Whew, tough!

 

[Tempered81]

I could never beat Jaws on NES, no matter how many harpoons i shot into him. I could never beat mike tyson without the game genie

 

[QueBert]

My Hero on SMS, get hit once you die, avoiding the super fast bouncing spike balls always pissed me off. I heard the game was actually pretty short but I died so quick I never got to see much of it. I also had issues with the Arcade version of Excitebike. Not sure how many levels it had, but around 4-1, or maybe 5-1 I would get STUCK. Anyone on here ever beat it? I would get Superbike and own the first 3 sets of tracks and then I would just suck ass on the green one lol.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
I could never beat Jaws on NES, no matter how many harpoons i shot into him. I could never beat mike tyson without the game genie

You couldn't beat him while swiming... you had to do some funky stuff so you'd face him on the boat and then stab him with the pole that stuck out the front.

 

[nanobreath]

Originally posted by: Sam25
Yes, One Must Fall was a truly great game!

You mean other people actually played this game? My favorite part was the ability to custimize your bots and characters. Granted by the end everybody had all the max training and upgrades, but still it added another level to the fighting game genre.

 

[tigersty1e]

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 on the NES.

There were no saves and continues. You had to beat the game in 1 sitting. NOBODY ever beat the game.... that I'm aware of.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 on the NES.

There were no saves and continues. You had to beat the game in 1 sitting. NOBODY ever beat the game.... that I'm aware of.

I beat that game LOL
There are plenty of no save/continue games

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Martimus

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
As a kid, I could never land the plan in Top Gun on NES.

Yeah, I remember that being difficult. Unlike Castlevania, I did end up beating the game though (I think it was only 4 levels). You end up kind of getting a feel for landing the jet after a while.

Mike Tyson was another one that was insanely difficult, but I finally got him after dozens of attempts.

007 373 5963

Hard to forget

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Martimus

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
As a kid, I could never land the plan in Top Gun on NES.

Yeah, I remember that being difficult. Unlike Castlevania, I did end up beating the game though (I think it was only 4 levels). You end up kind of getting a feel for landing the jet after a while.

Mike Tyson was another one that was insanely difficult, but I finally got him after dozens of attempts.

007 373 5963

Hard to forget

Yeah. The funny thing about that is that it was so similar to Glass Joe's passcode: 003 737 5423

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 on the NES.

There were no saves and continues. You had to beat the game in 1 sitting. NOBODY ever beat the game.... that I'm aware of.

I beat that game. It was hard, but not that hard. I thought Mike Tyson's Punch Out and Top Gun were harder. Also Castlevania was difficult for me (at least Frankenstein was; I could get to him without losing a life, but never did I get past him.)

I spent too much time playing Nintendo sometimes. I know that I don't have to patience to beat any of those games anymore.

Of the games I owned, the only one I never beat was Castlevania. I owned around 40 games, but that one had a combination of not being that fun and being difficult that prevented me from ever completing it; even when I went on the tear to try to complete every game I had.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Crimson Land!!! Damn the hardest thing ever. Winning the game did not come to minds of the developers!

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 on the NES.

There were no saves and continues. You had to beat the game in 1 sitting. NOBODY ever beat the game.... that I'm aware of.

You fucking walk over the God damn gap!?! You don't jump, you walk and all that for half a pizza. FUCK YOU KONAMI!!! FUCK YOU IN THE ASS!

 

[theAnimal]

Originally posted by: Via
Microsoft Hearts.

It's hard to beat a PC card game that cheats.

I won a game in 4 rounds with a score of 0.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Did anyone ever play and finish Project X on the Amiga?

Unless you had maxed a weapon you could not kill anything in level 2. And if you died you lost those weapons. So unless you played it without losing a single life you were screwed. And beating the level 2 boss without losing a life was pretty much impossible. And when you died you didn't just spawn at him again with him damaged, you'd spawn a bit back in that level. Which meant that, without weapons capable of killing anything, you would have to try and avoid loads of nasty critters before even getting to him. And when you'd reach the boss he'd be at full health again.

 

[Via]

Originally posted by: theAnimal

Originally posted by: Via
Microsoft Hearts.

It's hard to beat a PC card game that cheats.

I won a game in 4 rounds with a score of 0.

I've won games with 0 too but if you play enough games you realize that the AI cheats. I guess my post wasn't for hardest game; it should have been for "most unfair game".

 

[Raduque]

Ghosts 'n Goblins is the one game I remember from my childhood as being retardedly stupid. Two hits, you're dead. Enemies take like 50 hits to kill. Bah

Another old NES game that was hard was the first Friday the 13th game. It was just really random, Jason had like 5 million HP, and I don't even remember if there was a point to the whole thing.

Originally posted by: Ganeedi

I thought "Seventh Guest" was a lot harder / impossible. Also Infocom's Zork series was hard as hell when i was 10 or so. Never got too far before losing interest and getting frustrated.

7th Guest is easy. If you want hard, try 11th Hour. That mousetrap/maze puzzle gave me conniptions! It's completely random, there's no walkthrough or tips for it. I never got past it.

 

[Via]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Ghosts 'n Goblins is the one game I remember from my childhood as being retardedly stupid. Two hits, you're dead. Enemies take like 50 hits to kill. Bah

I think when I was a kid I just assumed that I sucked at that game. Now that I'm older I realize it was just terribly unbalanced.

If I remember correctly there were 4 different weapons: Lance, sword, axe, and fire magic. Only the sword was any good because of it's rate of fire but you began with the lance. Axe and fire were useless.

So you basically had to keep restarting until you got the sword.

Man was that game frustrating. I had a fried who would come over day after day and stay for hours just to try and beat it.

And they always TAUNTED you with the mini-map (as another poster already mentioned).

 

[HopJokey]

Blackthorne on SNES was pretty hard.

 

[JF060392]

lost planet