What's the most difficult game you've ever played? [Archive]

Doreagarde

06-10-2005, 11:49 PM

It doesn't have to be a game you enjoyed playing. Just tell me about the most blood-boiling, hair-pulling, controller-throwing experience you've ever had in the VG world.

I'll start. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the NES. No contest.

I played this game on the original console when I was, like, 4. I couldn't even pass the first screen. Don't make fun of me because I was 4; I had already completed Legend of Zelda and SMB at this age. The game went like this: you're Dr. Jekyll, and you're on the way to the chapel to get married. But, with no explanation, every single freaking person and their dog, spider, and parakeet are out to kill you. Boys pop out of bushes and shoot slingshots at you. People will drop bombs in front of you as they pass by, or hit you with their canes. There are even divas who stand in one spot and throw an impenetrable wall of musical notes in every direction. It's like dodging rain.

If you get hit too much, your Hyde meter goes up and you turn into the infamous Mr. Hyde and are forced to walk backwards for a good minute or seven. Everything goes dark and evil, and you get hit with bats and vampires and crap. Then, when your Hyde meter drops back down to zero, you turn back into Jekyll and continue on your hopeless trek again.

There is no way to beat this game. I don't even think the programmers beat this game. I downloaded a ROM of it and played it on Nesticle. I used state saving and an invinicbility cheat, invincibility, and I don't even think I got half way thru this game. Grab it yourself if you don't believe me.

Anyway, let me hear about your uphill plights against the sadistic endavours of our programming icons.

P.S. Don't post anything about you beating this game. I know you didn't. I can smell your lies.

Marona

06-11-2005, 12:38 AM

most difficult game i played was golden sun games...damn those confusing puzzles!!!>_<

Yuffie

06-11-2005, 06:37 AM

I'm playing that now! :D

I'm not finding it too difficult...but it's annoying when the character never faces the right way to press a button...

Most difficult game for me was Clock Tower 3...
It was a present but I don't like playing it because you don't have any weapons and whenever the music changes these scary people chase you and try to kill you and it scares me!! :bawl:

All you can do is hide and run but the bad guys always run slightly faster...

Kilu

06-11-2005, 05:34 PM

I think it's fair to say that generally the older NES, C64, Master System era games were harder than anything these days.

So it's no surprise that the hardest game for me so far has been Ninja Gaiden for NES. Most of the game is not super hard or anything, but the last boss is madness. I didn't beat it as a kid when I played it on original console. Haven't tried it since, could probably beat it now, but way back when it was the hardest thing ever.

Geosgaeno

06-11-2005, 08:15 PM

some levels on Lemmings were very very hard, nearly impossible, but im not sure of my hardest game....i'll get back to you.

jetblue

06-12-2005, 12:01 AM

I cannot complete these games. To freaking hard for me.
Saga frontier
persona
radiant silver gun
star ocean
ogre battle 64
saturn bomberman

I just give up. And Im almost at the end(i think)
Even with cheat devices I cant finish them.
Yeah thats right. Im a wusshttp://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/shocked.gif

Zeugma 440

06-12-2005, 05:48 AM

C'mon, Star Ocean is not what I would call hard... or are you talking about the mysterious cave stuff that takes place after completing the game ? Then I agree :D

TBIRallySport

06-12-2005, 02:49 PM

The hardest game that I own is probably ReBoot (for the PS1). I don't think I can beat the first boss without using an infinite ammo code, the controls take a while to get use to, and the last few levels have the most difficult platforming elements I've seen in a 3D game.

I probably played some NES game that was harder back when I was 5 or 6 years old, but it would have been for only a few minutes at someone else's house, so ...

Astrolounge

06-12-2005, 03:05 PM

I got lost while playing Star Ocean... I couldn't figure out where the hell I was. It was some type of cave if I recall correctly.

Yuffie

06-12-2005, 05:23 PM

I don't necessarily find some games hard...but I usually stop playing them really close to the end. Either because I get one boss I try to beat once and fail 1st time then don't bother playing again for a while, or because I get bored at the endings when it's just boss after boss and fairly little puzzle solving.

Then when I go back to playing it I have to start the game over because I want to hear the whole story again. :rofl:

Blade Tanaka

06-13-2005, 10:47 AM

I can see that none of you have played Dr. Jeckle and MR.Hide. It si the only game I have started and never beat. I know some other games I haven;t beaten but only because I lost intrest. Dr.Jeckle is purely impossible without cheats.

tanisthalon

06-13-2005, 02:22 PM

Far Cry is indeed traumatising :(.

Doreagarde

06-13-2005, 03:40 PM

I think it's fair to say that generally the older NES, C64, Master System era games were harder than anything these days.
Ah! Wisdom. The world has never seen a harder RPG than was released in the old 8-bit days. Don't think so? Pick up Ultima Exodus, Phantasy Star, or FFI (NES, not GBA. You must think you're real cute.) They're possible, but you have to want it. Dragon warrior was good, too. Basically, anything with levels in it.

Oh, and the original Mega Man is a bugger, too. I can always get to Dr. Wily, but he is an impenetrable wall of pain.

Zero Wing has a huge difficulty curve, too. Playing it on easy is easy, and playing it on hard is hard. Cats can keep all my base, for all I care.

Yuffie

06-14-2005, 03:41 AM

I got stuck for ages on Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness with this boss that can outrun me, kill me in one hit, you know all that annoying stuff.

I knew how to kill it (hit the face then aim and hit the pods on it's back until they're all dead)...it just wouldn't work!!!

Then I found out the button labelled in the manual for switching targets was the wrong one!! :realmad:

CloudSK

06-14-2005, 07:19 PM

SeymourGuado

06-15-2005, 06:08 AM

Theres a few

Teenage mutant hero turtles and Snakes revenge for NES very hard. Snake rattle and roll (NES) was hard to finish also. Never finished any of them properly

Lemmings (PC, Megadrive) and lemmings 3d (PS1) were hard I am now half way through taxing on lemmings and I got to taxing on 3d too. Great puzzle game. Krusty's super fun house was not much different.

Kid Chameleon (megadrive) was solid and I don't believe it could be completed without cheating.

Even with 99 lives Airwolf for the NES was impossible;)

Seifer Almasy

Yuffie

06-15-2005, 09:53 AM

I played a Lemmings game online a while ago. It seemed a simple level, all you had was blockers and those exploding ones to use and it was a case of block the tall drops to direct the lemmings down a safe way to the bottom of the level...but you had to save 100% :amazed:

So you don't use any blockers and the lemmings just keep walking and fall to their deaths but if you use blockers you can't unblock them to save them! :confused:

Doreagarde

06-15-2005, 03:40 PM

Lemmings can be a toughy, sometimes. I believe your plight to be impossible, though, Yuffie. Using a blocker or an exploder automatically drops your percantage below 100, since those lemmings can never be saved. Are you sure you didn't have something else, like a basher or a miner?

And TMNT really is impossible, Seymour. No one has ever found the Technodrome in that game, ever. No one.

Lance Alvein

06-15-2005, 04:21 PM

After both of you just saying that, now i'm going to need to try to beat the original TMNT. And when I do... *if it ever happens, I'll think of something :p*

Kilu

06-15-2005, 04:30 PM

I have beaten the original Turtles for NES on the original console, once. It's a tough game, I give you that.

As for lemmigs, you can use some sort of digger to dig under the blocker to make the blocker move again, but I doubt that was possible.

Yuffie

06-15-2005, 04:42 PM

Ok so I've quickly played many levels of lemmings on the internet to try and hunt down the rogue level and I can't find it. :rofl:

But I know it was real because I never got past it even though I'd done waaaay better on all the other online lemmings. So my guess it that is was evil and has as such been removed. :D

Maxin

06-15-2005, 11:02 PM

OMG! Lemmings on the internet? I need to look for it!

I was such a bastard to those little things when I was younger (and had the game on my Super Nintendo). I'd nuke them for no reason...

To be on topic, I'd have to think on that for a while...

Doreagarde

06-16-2005, 09:12 AM

Score! Two pages on my first thread in less than a week! My emotions are running high... *sob*

I have beaten the original Turtles for NES on the original console, once. It's a tough game, I give you that.

I know you're lying, Kilu. No one has ever beaten that game. Okay, so that's not true at all. The game is difficult, but I'm sure that with determination, practice, and the patience of Buddha, endgame can be acheived in TMNT. I guess I need practice. And patience. You can never have enough patience.

And I was just as suprised as Maxin to hear about these mystical Net-Lemmings. I have many faint memories of my childhood, playing the origional lemmings with CGA graphics on a Tandy 1000. I can even tell you how to beat the first level, and that was, like 13 years ago. All you need is one digger and you're given ten.

Please tell us where to fend this game, Yuffie!

Blade Tanaka

06-16-2005, 01:55 PM

Guilty Gear X has got me pretty mad... I played it for 3 or 4 hours straight yesterday. half of that time was spent fighting Testament. There are a few freh bite marks on my Dreamcast controller now.And I also figured out that if you hit A, B, X, Y, L, and R at the same time it resets the game. I figured that out after Testament beating the crap out of me for about the 50th time, so I slamed my controller on the ground and slid it forward to mash the button. Also I've got a fresh blistar form the tiny little bumps on the buttons. You need to pust more than one button at a time for some moves so the bottom of my thumb rests on one tf the bums for both combotnations I use the most. So there goes my thumb. I'll show you a picture of it some time. *Thinks to himself " afterwards I'll file off the stupid little bumbs... ohh how painful they are...*

Doreagarde

06-16-2005, 02:25 PM

You know, Blade, the Dreamcast controller isn't touch sensitive. It doesn't matter how hard you press those buttons. Maybe you need a glove, like the Power Glove for the NES! Man, those were cool. In an aesthetic way. They looked tough, but there was no faster way to throw Mario off a cliff or get Link gang-banged by a pack of Octorocks than to try to play games with the Power Glove.

And I don't even know why you bother with Guilty Gear. The learning curve is frustratingly steep. I wanted to play a more rewarding fighting game (read: Soul Calibur II), but you were hogging the TV all night last night. When I get home, there had better be a free TV somewhere in the house, or blood will be shed.

Kilu

06-16-2005, 04:15 PM

The game is difficult, but I'm sure that with determination, practice, and the patience of Buddha, endgame can be acheived in TMNT. I guess I need practice. And patience. You can never have enough patience.
It's actually pretty easy all the way to the footclan base, but after that's it's pure hell :D

tanisthalon

06-16-2005, 04:20 PM

Airwolf on the ZX Spectrum, that was hard from memory and I vaguely remember reading that there was a bug in the code or something, which prevented you from ever finishing it http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/mad2.gif.

Yuffie

06-16-2005, 05:19 PM

Those lemmings are EVERYWHERE! Just search on google for online lemmings and loads of results come up. Some better quality than others but all based on the original game. :p

I prefer to play it on my good old CD-i but one of the online ones had a fast forward button to make the lemmings walk faster (rather than just drop onto the level faster), very useful! :D

Maxin

06-16-2005, 05:23 PM

As long as I can still nuke them, I'm fine...

I should find a good version of it. That'll be a great way to procrastinate in lab!

bjp4444

06-16-2005, 05:38 PM

Doreagarde

06-16-2005, 11:39 PM

I have very faint memories of Ghouls and Ghosts... I don't remember playing it that well, though.

Here's a toughy for you: Bubble Bobble. While difficult, it is equally fun. Sure, everyone's beaten the boss of the game, but in order to get the real ending, two people have to play in on Super Bubble Bobble mode, from the first level, without dying even once. And you have to go down the secret path in room 99. I don't even know where to begin when it comes to impossibility.

Airwolf on the ZX Spectrum, that was hard from memory and I vaguely remember reading that there was a bug in the code or something, which prevented you from ever finishing it :realmad: .

A truly impossible game? That's real cold. Maybe you can run it on an emulator and dig around for a hex code to free up the bug? I dunno... :confused:

SeymourGuado

06-17-2005, 07:48 AM

I used a game genie on TMHT on the NES once and finished it, no krang at the end though just shredder. Only hard part with using game genie is if you land in the lava, the game goes into a loop and you have to reset.

Without cheats I reached the base before the technodrome, that game really is impossible.

Also yes I believe airwolf is impossible to fnish, I used 99 lives and went past loads of levels...no end.

I finished snake rattle and roll yesterday for megadrive and nes. I used save states IT IS THE ONLY WAY. (bizzarely there is an extra leel on megadriv version ....how they were expecting anyone to reach it is a joke)

Trust me that game is just stupidly impossible from level 9 onwards.

I used about 30 save sattes climbing an ice staircase at th end of level 10. there is a foot you must defeat on level 11 which is rock hard and the foot on level 9 is just ridiculous. (seriously this is up there with the hardest...its just stupid) I seriously belive that if it takes me an experienced snake rattle and roll player about 50-200 save states to complete it is impossible to finish it without massive practice.

How the programmers expected anyone to finish either this , kid chameleon or a few others is totally beyond me.

Seifer Almasy

Doreagarde

06-18-2005, 11:07 PM

I remember playing SR and R as a kid; it hap excellent graphics for the NES, I thought. And the first few levels were very entertaining, escpecially with 2 Players. I remember the ice staricase well, though, and that's saying a lot, since I haven't played it 3 or 4 years. I've got a ROM of it, and I use state saves. The boss of the game is a giant foot, and I must have hit it repeatedly for at least an hour. I'm not even kidding; I kept at it thinking that he had to die eventually, but I gave up after a solid hour of licking and went to do my homework. If anyone has beat this guy with anything short of a cheat, let us know!

Geosgaeno

06-19-2005, 07:47 AM

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Made mistake

SeymourGuado

06-19-2005, 07:49 AM

I have beat it in the past. It is not how many times you lick it but how often and how much. If you give it a rest of say 2 seconds it is totally healed. I couldn't beat it on the Megadrive version the other day but I did on the NES...sadly the very final boss on the NES version (I had to cheat to get to it) it way harder than the ice foot and worse still there are 2 boulders that repeatedly fall into your path. If you get hit you get splat.

You are right about that foot...its silly.

Seifer Almasy

PS haha geo

DonQuixote

06-26-2005, 10:36 PM

Snakes Rattle and Roll?? That game was awesome. I borrowed it from my babysitter when i was 6-7. Easily one of my favorite nes games. I completely forgot about that game.

Yuffie

06-27-2005, 05:59 AM

Alice in Wonderland for CD-i was evil...it was the kind where you could get so close to the end then realise you were missing an item and search all the way through the game before realising you could jump through a square on the chessboard or something equally innocent! :amazed:

Then once you got the items you needed, you had to manouver past the bandersnatch and if it touched you (which it normally does) it stole an item...guess which one it favoured?! :realmad:

Then the game was full of riddles, including "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"...which doesn't even have an answer, the gits put a dummy riddle in! :shame:

It's still quite a fun game but there's lots of wandering back and forth over scenes, some of which repeat themselves like neverending corridors.

....but I'll play it again :)

Doreagarde

06-30-2005, 01:13 AM

I liked games like Alice-in-Wonderland: kind of that 'Myst' or 'King's Quest' feel to them. Sure, they're hard, but when you figure out a puzzle all on your own, oh, the wonderful rewarding feeling you get.

I've been playing through Legend of Zelda: Ocaraina (sp) of Time: Master Quest. (picked it up cheap at my local game store). Very hard, but not impossible. I like it when the puzzles are so difficult they border on ridiculous, but you figure them out in spite of the programmer's every effort to stump you. The Water Temple was a neverending fountain of pain, though. And I'm stuck in the Spirit Temple. There's a door with a lock, and the chest with the key is just out of reach (child Link; no hookshot). A whole week now, working on that same room on and off. Last time I was there I wound up trying to find creative ways to kill myself with bombchus. Then I realized it's only a stupid game, and truned it off.

Yuffie

06-30-2005, 05:35 AM

I like games like the Indiana Jones series where you get a satisfying fanfare every time you do something clever. :D

SeymourGuado

07-27-2005, 06:08 AM

Lemmings and Oh No more lemmings are very hard.

Finally I have achieved finishing Lemmings the original and all levels without cheating :). A great game , mayhem difficulty requires deep thinking in some areas.

I have also been playing Metal Gear Solid 2: substance VR missions etc. It is harder than Special missions (MGS1 VR missions) i would say. I am attempting to get 1st on every mission and level like I did with MGS1 (That was no easy task I kid you not!)

I also held 20th best in europe at time attack easy mode for the bosses on MGS2 and if the computer at school had worked I may have even been 3rd with the time I had.

I seriously believe I could have beat the eurpoean record, all that stood in my way was killing vamp in 4 seconds (SOMETIMES it failed and ruined it for you, you must smack him very fast with stinger missiles)

Seifer Almasy

Twisted727

07-28-2005, 06:53 AM

My hardest game ever has to be Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts for the SNES. The levels are impossible. You get to the end boss, and realize that you do not have the correct weapon to defeat him. So they send you back to the beginning, where you practically have to make it through all the hell again, this time you practically cannot get hit once. [after finding the correct weapon, which can also be hard] I have never met anyone who has defeating this game without cheating.

-bjp
haha, they make you do the SAME THING in the arcade version. Whoever could accomplish that has my respect. In recent times, I think the hardest game I've played is Shinobi for the PS2. The bosses (nearing the end specifically) need you to utilize that "tate" move, otherwise you'll just be taking off little energy from every normal hit. Problem is, you literally need perfect timing to pull it off, and while you're trying to do it you're being bombarded with projectiles ect.

It's even worse than Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox, and I thought that was hard at first.

Raven

07-28-2005, 02:30 PM

Twisted727

07-31-2005, 12:18 PM

I was about to say Shinobi (PS2) was the hardest game for me too.
But it's easy once you get it down. I can beat all stages, bosses on Hardest difficulty without getting hit and without using makimonos. I had a hard time with those ninja dogs for a while though...I really hate 'em. http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/mad.gif

For me, one of the hardest games to play perfectly is Devil May Cry or DMC 3; I just can't seem to get S rank or even SS rank.Wow. Respect +1. I'm still stuck on that boss you fight after you fight that blind samurai. For some reason I own TWO copies of this game, and I can't beat either haha.

edit- By the way, how's Joe Musashi? he's the only reason I kept playing.

The first Devil May Cry difficulty sure was horrible, those shadow-panther enemies were a pain in the rear to deal with, especially when they ganged up on you.

I don't even want to imagine how the later bosses were.

kai

08-01-2005, 12:10 PM

I'd have to say Bubbles and Sqeaks along with Wolverine, both games for the Genesis. Though I haven't really sat down and played either for a few years, both pose a decent challange . . . . . for the most part.

Yuffie

08-03-2005, 06:07 AM

DonQuixote

08-08-2005, 04:45 PM

As for DMC, I agree it's hard, unless you think like my friend, who after hearing us say it was really hard nad he wouldnt be able to beat it right away, decided to use inviciblity stars on all the bosses.
LAME IMO.

Locke

08-08-2005, 04:55 PM

I used to have a friend who would brag about how he could play Final Fantasy games with really low levels or not using the sphere grid or winning against initial bosses that destroy you (due to the storyline)...

It was easier just to nod and agree but then he got challenged and couldn't prove the theory. :p
With people like that it's usually easier to just nod and agree. Those people tend to be the one's who do the worst at RPG's or any game that requires thinking about what you're doing.

Yuffie

08-08-2005, 06:44 PM

I also have a friend who's better at games when he's drunk...

He was doing the chocobo race challenge thingy in FFX and he totally rocked at it after a few vodka shots. :amazed:

Walking was another matter.

Locke

08-08-2005, 06:52 PM

I've done that :p. Video games rock when your buzzing from whatever your getting into. I had two of my roommates take some acid and start playing Gran Turismo 4. They thought they were in the game, it was hilarious to watch.

Doreagarde

08-16-2005, 11:39 PM

I know where you're coming from, Locke. I don't touch alcohol or acid or that stuff, but it can be entertaining playing against some of my friends who do. I played Soul Calibur 2 and DBZ: Budokai 3 against some friends who were drunk, and they thought I was doing some freaky Matrix thing because I was 'moving so fast'.

I also remember a bunch of my friends getting high on pot and then asking me to play Super Mario 64 for them. No less than three of them jumped to their feet and yelled 'Woah!' with a very serious look on their face when I did a long jump over half of that Rainbow level. They were talking about it at school for weeks, bragging about how I had somehow 'bent the game to my will'.

'scuse me while I kiss the sky...

kai

08-17-2005, 08:02 AM

hmmm . . . .. that's rather odd indeed Doreagarde. Usually drugs (I'll use pot as my example) improves one's videogaming capabilites, causing the user to focus more on the game and less on distractions around them.

Grossenschwaum

10-19-2005, 09:32 PM

I remember the TMNT game for nintendo, and my cartridge had a bug in it. When I got to the level where you had to fight those big rock-guys to save splinter, the game froze. Every damn time, it froze. You can imagine how annoying this would be for a five year-old who had just spend a decent portion of his evening playing a game. As far as the toughest game I've ever played....I'm gonna go with two titles: Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts, and Final Fantasy Tactics. I put in tactics, cause it seemed that no matter how many times I would restart a game, or try under a new save file, 30 minutes into a gameplay session, I'd fight a group of monsters that were at least 60 levels higher than I was at the time. I hadn't even finished the first chapter, and I had level 76 demons ripping into my party, while I was MAYBE at level 8. That just sucked. OH YEAH! Another tough one was Valkyrie Profile. Not necessarily because of the game's toughness, but all the steps you had to take to get the good ending. And the special mode you get after you finish is pretty tough.

Skikkles

10-20-2005, 07:53 PM

Don't laugh at me for this but Scooby-Doo for N64!!! No explaination available for this!!

bjp4444

10-22-2005, 03:55 PM

Another game I'd like to add is 7th Saga, since the difficulty is in the fact that is basically one big level-up, which can make it tedious, and challenging at times.

-bjp

Charon

11-09-2005, 04:11 PM

Too lazy to check if anyone's mentioned this before, but Rayman (PSX) is without shadow of a doubt the toughest game I ever got to grips with. For a game aimed at children it required some very advanced "ingraining". That is to say, memorizing the level pattern. Anyone who ever made it as far as those blue mountain kinda things where you are on moving platforms and have to dodge tons of shit throughout the level will know what I mean. And let's not forget those early music based levels where you got blown around by trumpets on those slidey floors. Sad to say I never quite finished it. I'm not one for the memory games, probably due to my bad short term memory that makes learning the patterns quite difficult. Also, I suck majorly at DDR or anything similar for the same reason. In fact, I may possibly be the worst DDR player ever.

Let me see, what other tough games. Gargoyle's Quest on Gameboy was a tough little bugger, a pseudo RPG affair with real time combat, made difficult by the fact that:
A: Very little clue as to what you are doing, where or indeed why, it's like, here you go, wander around.
B: Very little in the way of powerups/healing potions, meaning each combat could kill you, losing you the points you just earned for the last one.
and finally
C: No real difficulty scaling. Enemies are tough, you are weak, neither really improve or grow weaker.

Also, rather interestingly, I'd like to nominate Hitman 2, and maybe one, never played it. I stopped playing Hitman on level 2, why? Because that weird ass camera angle meant that I couldnt focus at all. It annoyed me so much, again a seemingly large lack of difficulty scaling. The first "boss" for instance. For those who haven't played, the best way to deal with the first level is to stealthily creep in, kill the boss, and do one before anyone finds him a la MGS. The flaw? The fact that he's never alone, I sat watching him from the roof for 20 minutes and not once was he alone. So just how was I supposed to be able to kill him without being seen? Shrug, in the end I charged in, slew around 8 of his cronies and him and just ran hell for leather for level 2. Cue boredom. Cue one game given away.

Cyrano de Hero

11-20-2005, 12:54 PM

A few titles make a runner up for this...

Batman Forever- SNES

AGGHHH! Why can't I get out of the 4th room...? Why can't I get past the first level without cheating? And why do 10 thugs attack you on top of a rotating elevator and knock you off all the time? And why is it so hard to beat Two-Face and the Riddler?

Ghosts 'n Goblins- NES

It's so tough... those red goblins are damn near impossible to hit, and when you lose armor, there's no hope...

But the top prize goes to...

Ironsword: Wizards and Warrirors II- NES

Don't get me started... the game gives you unlimited continues in the first two levels, but no continues after the 3rd level. You must spend most of your time raising jewels for money so you can buy keys, all the while risking your butt and losing a life in the process. And there's just no way in hell to beat that final boss without an extraordinary amount of luck...

Charon

11-21-2005, 11:10 AM

Zombies (by konami) Snes.

Even in two player mode me and brother only made it to around level 30 something. >_< Which is only just halfway through the game if I remember correctly.

kai

11-21-2005, 11:15 AM

Zombies? Or Zombies ate my Neighbors?

Locke

11-21-2005, 12:27 PM

... and Final Fantasy Tactics. I put in tactics, cause it seemed that no matter how many times I would restart a game, or try under a new save file, 30 minutes into a gameplay session, I'd fight a group of monsters that were at least 60 levels higher than I was at the time. I hadn't even finished the first chapter, and I had level 76 demons ripping into my party, while I was MAYBE at level 8. That just sucked.
I once got myself to level 60-70 before leaving the first 2 town's and the grasslands area. Mind you, I did it to try and fight people so I could steal their equipment, but as you need to be in chapter 1 and not the prequel, I did all that for nothing. Suffice to say, it was no problem playing through the game. I don't recall any level 76 demon's at all in my game.

Kilu

11-22-2005, 08:34 AM

Ironsword: Wizards and Warrirors II- NES

Don't get me started... the game gives you unlimited continues in the first two levels, but no continues after the 3rd level. You must spend most of your time raising jewels for money so you can buy keys, all the while risking your butt and losing a life in the process. And there's just no way in hell to beat that final boss without an extraordinary amount of luck...
I agree, it's a hard game, but as an ultimate gamer I beat it. :D

Charon

11-22-2005, 12:30 PM

Zombies? Or Zombies ate my Neighbors?
Just Zombies.

http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/assets/images/240505_Megadrive_-_Zombies.jpg

kai

11-22-2005, 12:52 PM

It's the same game http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/eyepopping.gif?? Isn't it? The characters look very familiar http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/confused.gif What do you use as weapons? There's about 48 levels and you use a water gun to kill zombies??

Blank

11-28-2005, 10:09 PM

I didn't read through all of this thread, but did anyone say F-Zero GX? My pick of hardest game is a tossup between GX and Altered Space, for the GameBoy. Only two games I own that I haven't fully completed. Ugh. ;[

Ooer, I lied. I haven't beaten all of Super Monkey Ball 2, either. But that one is just frustrating, not pull-your-bloody-hair-out hard like GX.

Charon

11-30-2005, 02:14 PM

Blank

11-30-2005, 05:51 PM

XD

Ahhh.. Teh pwned!

ZAMN couldn't keep my interest long enough for me to figure out that it was difficult, I guess. =/

Locke

12-05-2005, 09:42 AM

God of War in god mode is rather difficult. Granted, I know people that have beaten it, but I haven't sat myself down and made it very far yet.

Blank

12-06-2005, 05:24 PM

Wait.. You think it is difficult? My friends that bought that worthless title all said it was too easy (and short), but the harder difficulty levels were way too hard. =/

Locke

12-06-2005, 05:30 PM

God of War in god mode is rather difficult. Granted, I know people that have beaten it, but I haven't sat myself down and made it very far yet.
No, I didn't say the game itself is hard, nor would I consider it a worthless title. If you bothered to read my post, you would notice the "in god mode". I have beaten it on the other difficulties (well, normal and spartan, anyways), just not god mode because it is so difficult and I haven't had time to sit down and play through it.

kai

12-07-2005, 12:57 PM

That game if far from a worthless title, in fact it had amazing reviews and it is one of the few games I've read a review on that I've actually agreed with it's review. Though I will agree it is far too short it has great replay value and I think that is what they were going for. Does no one remember the days where you could rent a game and finish it in one sitting (5-10 hours)? It's one of those game you can pick up and beat and still want to go back to it once and a while to play through again because you know it won't take up too much of your time. And to add to the replay value of the game, after you've managed to beat it a few times you may want to sit down and take on God mode, an insanly difficult setting but, IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE LIKE THAT.

Blank

12-07-2005, 03:48 PM

No, I didn't say the game itself is hard, nor would I consider it a worthless title.Heeehee, that was just my own thoughts on it. The friends I referenced love it. *shrugs*

If you bothered to read my post, you would notice the "in god mode".Woah, calm down. I see that now, thanks. God of war in god mode.. Too many "gods," they all got slurred together. =/

Sneaky Croatian

12-15-2005, 10:35 PM

I think the hardest game I've ever played was Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge for the original Game Boy. I spent many long hours under a lamp trying to beat the last 2 or 3 levels.

Another game (coincidentally from the same series) I had trouble with was CV: Circle of the Moon. I played through the whole game at a depressingly low level, only to break down and grind 10 or 15 levels so I could take on Dracula. I'm sure the game isn't that hard, but when you skimped as much as I did, then you'd know. http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/embarassedlaugh.gif

kai

12-16-2005, 06:51 PM

Has anyone played Frantic Flea for SNES? I watched someone play it today and it just seems pointlessly challenging for what looks like a child's game. I'm sure if I played it, I could get through it but for a child's game I don't see the need for a game to be challenging to the point it is no longer fun.

Locke

12-17-2005, 11:46 AM

Woah, calm down. I see that now, thanks. God of war in god mode.. Too many "gods," they all got slurred together. =/
Yeah, no worries. Sorry for the snappy post, the whole quiting smoking thing is making me take things that don't really matter seriously. My bad.

Charon

12-18-2005, 01:15 PM

Thanks to the boss Miguel, who I've been fighting for a few days now and still haven't beaten, I'm gonna have to nominate Chrono Cross, though I'd imagine he'd be easier on a second run through when I won't miss quite so much.

kai

12-18-2005, 03:01 PM

Chrono Cross O_O :confused: . . . . . I suppose this is a thread based on one's opinions so I can't argue, but really Chrono Cross?

Charon

12-21-2005, 07:10 AM

:P
Not the game as a whole, it's been relatively easy so far. But this guy Miguel....just can't take him out. :(

kai

12-28-2005, 10:15 AM

I'm going to say Fire Emblem : Path of Radiance for the GC. It's not that it's a difficult game if you just play through it, it's getting everyone to have decent level ups, making sure not buildings get destroyed, aquiring all the players and not letting anyone die during fights that make the game a pain.

Edit : Oh and aquiring bonus exp. is also a bi*&#.

Astrolounge

12-31-2005, 02:40 AM

The hardest game eh? Well it hands down has to be the "Try to be in two places at once game"! It's practically impossible. Another tricky one is the "Date four women at once" challenge! Very complex and often more trouble than it's worth.

I'm obviously joking. (The Affair challenge is NEVER more trouble than it's worth!)

Elhaym van Houten

02-16-2007, 05:29 AM

I'm not sure which of the games I have played was the hardest - in retrospective, none of them were that hard. Only if you tried getting all the goods, and best levels, and such - then it would be hard on patience and endurance ^^.
Vagrant Story was a bit difficult in the beginning, when I didn't know how the battle system worked...
other than that...I'm not sure.
Maybe if I played more action games or shooters I would find a hard game.

In that respect - anyone played Supreme Commander yet? I haven't myself, but I heard it should be damn difficult.

Mangachaos

02-25-2007, 12:16 PM

Dot hack mutation.... cant go any futher now that I´ve reached the highest lvl the first game had to offer... I could lvl on lower worlds.. but when I´m even in one with the same lvl I just die too easy... so yes... .dot.Hack. Mutation is my answer... I´m not sure if you will agree.. but this is the most hardest game for me anyway... I have almost given up on it... no point in lvling in lowlvled enemies...

and after reading a bit:

:P
Not the game as a whole, it's been relatively easy so far. But this guy Miguel....just can't take him out. :(Well... that´s easy... :p just have a trap set up for that holy attack... when he does it... dont worry about that.. the trap sucks up his holy whateverthenamewasagain and cant do it again... then you just use a lot of dark-inated attacks and magics on him since he´s holy-inated...:p See..? Easy...:)