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Toughest game you've ever played ?
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Another vote for Jet Set Willy from me - 1 or 2, they were both impossible. Still have fond memories of trying to do the "switch" is JSW2 - you had to go through about 30 screens and hit switch, then come all the way back without losing a life. All to get one icon! My mate made it all the way through once ever and the icon wasn't even there!
Would argue that to qualify for "toughest ever game" it has to be one that you've never finished. Can't possibly count all these new fangled save anywhere games the youth of today play etc etc
Would argue that to qualify for "toughest ever game" it has to be one that you've never finished. Can't possibly count all these new fangled save anywhere games the youth of today play etc etc
Just about any point & click adventure I've ever played. There just never seems to be any logic to the puzzles, which means it usually just turns into a case of click on everything, and then trying using every item on everything else until something happens.
How can anyone get any joy from such painful experiences?
How can anyone get any joy from such painful experiences?
I've completed Project IGI, it was hard, but I've still managed it.
Given enough time and sheer commitment, I could probably beat Commandos too (I'm going to reinstall it right now, thanks to this thread).
However, despite playing it all the time, and seeing countless videos of people beating it, getting S++ ranks, and generally being amazing, I will probably never, ever, in all my life, complete Ikaruga. So it's that.
Given enough time and sheer commitment, I could probably beat Commandos too (I'm going to reinstall it right now, thanks to this thread).
However, despite playing it all the time, and seeing countless videos of people beating it, getting S++ ranks, and generally being amazing, I will probably never, ever, in all my life, complete Ikaruga. So it's that.
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IL-2 1946 Online. It seems no matter what you try there's always an enemy aircraft descending on you from several thousand feet above. With that sort of potential energy advantage there's very little you can do, they simply yo-yo up, down and around you. You can't run and you have scant opportunity to fight back effectively, you can only hope either:
1. They overdo it with the G forces, blackout and slam into the deck.
2. They're a sufficiently crap shot that they expend all their ammo on fresh air.
3. A friend comes to help.
1. They overdo it with the G forces, blackout and slam into the deck.
2. They're a sufficiently crap shot that they expend all their ammo on fresh air.
3. A friend comes to help.
Never a truer statement made......that game was ridiculous.
But for me it would have to be either jet set willy 2 on the commodore or airwolf on the spectrum, then again any game play you got out of the speccy was gratefully received after 700 attempts to load any game.
The noise of a tape deck loading a speccy game still sends shivers down my spine now.
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Thats the essence of online gaming mate especially with an old game like il-2 where many have been on it from the very beginning and there are hundreds of superb virtual pilots.
It dont matter how good you think you are because there is always someone lurking above you with a huge E advantage and I know because the last time I was on HL I got shredded by an unseen BF109 from above at 33000 feet !
Ikaruga - Beautifully hard. Great on the Xbox360.
Commandos : behind enemy lines - This game was TOOO FREAKING HARD. It really punished you, most of the time just for fun.
Dogs of War - I remember 1 mission briefing, "Warning, these guards have 360 degree vision". ****
Lander - Missions 1 and 2 were mainly just 'Fly here, fly there'. Mission 3 was, fly through this small cave and rescue someone in under 5 mins or a bomb blows up. Oh people are now shooting at you. To get to the guy took 5 mins, then you died to the bomb.
Ninja Gaiden - That game really threw you into the deep end.
Any racing game that has the AI on auto-catch-up. Hate that.
Commandos : behind enemy lines - This game was TOOO FREAKING HARD. It really punished you, most of the time just for fun.
Dogs of War - I remember 1 mission briefing, "Warning, these guards have 360 degree vision". ****
Lander - Missions 1 and 2 were mainly just 'Fly here, fly there'. Mission 3 was, fly through this small cave and rescue someone in under 5 mins or a bomb blows up. Oh people are now shooting at you. To get to the guy took 5 mins, then you died to the bomb.
Ninja Gaiden - That game really threw you into the deep end.
Any racing game that has the AI on auto-catch-up. Hate that.
COH
I know plenty of peeps will laugh but that mission where you have to storm the hill in the daytime took me 5 hours to complete.
And if you thought that was bad the first time I attempted it took me 3 hours to build enough forces to get up the hill and fight through the defences only to be met by numerous panzers and an artillery strike the blitzkrieg would be proud of only to be wiped out after a lengthy battle
And this was on the easy setting.....
This is the point where I gave up! Was going swimmingly (well, -ish) up to here, got to this mission, tried it at least 3 times and got my backside handed to me each time, and haven't touched it again since!
Your right mate! haha! I remember the countless times I had to restart the game and do everything from the first "welcome to Jurassic Park" soundbite all the way to the end, the FPS levels were a nightmare in that game and the random dinosaurs appearing from the Jungle....especially the T-Rex so randomly!
I bet I'd find it easy now though! Ok so here are two nes games for you......
TMNT the original NES game......absolutely ridiculous, it was more than a pain to try and complete with the stupid hit detection etc! OMG was that game annoying! Especially the swimming level which you could do fine sometimes and completely fail others! lol
Legend of Zelda 2.......nuff said!
Just because this game was sheerly frustrating I'm going to have to say Ultima Accension! It was bugged beyond belief and ran terrible on any peice of hardware you used so it was technically impossible to complete because it sucked technically!