Hardest game you play?

Nate75 · 18 Jan 2011 at 20:23

davewhite04 said:
Super Ghost & Ghouls (SNES)
Ghouls' Ghosts (Megadrive)

This is when platform games were actually done professionally and it shows.

These two examples just happen to be almost impossible though, probably impossible for gamers nowadays.

Buy a copy of each , download an emulator for each and see how hard you are!

Super Ghouls & Ghosts on the SNES was rock hard
Ghouls & Ghosts on the Arcade or Megadrive was a breeze

LoGaN_TnT · 18 Jan 2011 at 20:51

GT5 is WELL HARD

Lunatic Dreyfus · 18 Jan 2011 at 21:19

Gashman said:
for sheer irritation factor, for me Black Ops on my 360, its like insta-kill central, totally the most annoying experience on a console for me!

as for PC, probably Nexus: The Jupiter Incident on hard, that seemed very difficult. infact i don't even think its doable, there are some of the levels that are insanely challanging on harder difficulty, the one with the siege shield annoys me to no end since the enemy ships seem like fourteen times stronger, and your wingmen seem to be feeble as hell!

Nexus just seemed designed to annoy the player, which is a shame because there's a really well made and interesting game hidden in there somewhere.

Even with the walkthru's, I still don't think I completed that level. :mad:

Gashman · 18 Jan 2011 at 21:28

Lunatic Dreyfus said:
Nexus just seemed designed to annoy the player, which is a shame because there's a really well made and interesting game hidden in there somewhere.

Even with the walkthru's, I still don't think I completed that level.

it was a pretty 'inconsistant' game as well, where one time you would try a level, get absolutely owned by the enemy and inflict no damage to speak of, only to retry it and totally annihilate them, suffering nothing but superficial damage in return. was weird like that!

gronf · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:01

Currently, StarCraft 2 and Super Meat Boy. The former being quite mentally demanding, while the latter is...interesting

ak22 · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:09

davewhite04 said:
Super Ghost & Ghouls (SNES)
Ghouls' Ghosts (Megadrive)

This is when platform games were actually done professionally and it shows.

These two examples just happen to be almost impossible though, probably impossible for gamers nowadays.

Buy a copy of each , download an emulator for each and see how hard you are!

Im with you on this one played the Snes version was on the last lvl and I picked up another weapon after 8 hours of play still have not completed :mad:

Blackhawk47 · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:15

Far Cry 2 - getting through to end was hard enough thanks.

bledd · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:25

russ0r said:
Battletoads

That is solid, there seems to be no definite pattern for defeating enemies

Super Meat Boy is very raging

valkia · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:26

When I was a kid, Zelda Ocarina of Time

DB_SamX · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:30

Project IGI.

Back in the days where there were no save game option, only completing the level to do so.

Also, Tomb Raider 3 and C&C: Red Alert 2 using Allies on the PS1

dante6491 · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:38

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_the_Guy

z3r0 · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:21

Starcraft 2. So much room for improvement.

HeX · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:33

ak22 said:
Im with you on this one played the Snes version was on the last lvl and I picked up another weapon after 8 hours of play still have not completed

Yup, even if you do reach the end, it sends you back to the beginning and you have to do it all again to actually finish the game and get the proper ending

Parsifal · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:35

I'm playing Donkey Kong Country on the SNES and I find it hard.

Great game, though - excellent graphics for the SNES.

nitram100 · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:36

Quake Live on a really good server.

HeX · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:37

Parsifal said:
I'm playing Donkey Kong Country on the SNES and I find it hard. Great game, though - excellent graphics for the SNES.

Oh Dear... DKC is probably one of the easiest platformers ever. Awesome, but easy.

They really ramped up the difficulty in 2 and 3 as the first was criticized for being so short due to how easy it was.

Also love the music on DKC. Ah nostalgia.

Anywho, if you think DKC is hard, don't go near Super Ghouls and Ghosts as you will weep tears of rage.

Metatron · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:43

z3r0 said:
Starcraft 2. So much room for improvement.

SCII's only really hard because so many people play it and focus on it for professional play. If they all played Age of Empires that would be just as hard online.

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Parsifal · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:44

HeX said:
Oh Dear... DKC is probably one of the easiest platformers ever. Awesome, but easy.

They really ramped up the difficulty in 2 and 3 as the first was criticized for being so short due to how easy it was.

Also love the music on DKC. Ah nostalgia.

Anywho, if you think DKC is hard, don't go near Super Ghouls and Ghosts as you will weep tears of rage.

Haha. I'm improving as I play.

I've never really played platform games before.

I'm also having a go at Super Aleste, that probably IS hard.

HeX · 19 Jan 2011 at 08:48

TBH most of the platformers of that era are solid.

Contra made me almost snap my SNES in half.

You did right picking DKC though, as it's a great game (as are it's sequels), also you need to play Super Mario World if you haven't done already (i'd be shocked if you haven't), and Super Metroid.

Plok and Zool are also great games on the SNES.

npjnpj · 19 Jan 2011 at 10:00

Watching that Super Meat Boy video hurts. I mean it actually physically hurts watching it from clenching and unclenching all the time. Some of the scenes of N+ had me doing that as well.

But for my hardest game I'd have to go back through the years and settle on a game called China Miner from Interceptor for the C64. Lucky if you could survive the first two seconds on that one. Yowza!