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Hardest Level/Section of any game you have played

  • 23-05-2008 12:50am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    I'm currently getting very frustrated and struggling with "Animal Antics" on Donkey Kong Country 2. It is the most notoriously difficult level in the game...and I can tell you,it's bloody hard.


    It got me thinking though,whats the hardest section of any game you've played?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    Turtles on the NES, the level where you had to stop the dam blowing up by diffusing all the bombs underwater.
    Freaking ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Most recently the last level of Psychonauts on the Xbox... Never completed the game as a result of that frustrating meat circus level


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,080 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    There are probably harder levels but the first that comes to mind is the racing section in Mafia.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    Fremen wrote: »
    Turtles on the NES, the level where you had to stop the dam blowing up by diffusing all the bombs underwater.
    Freaking ridiculous.

    that bit was a f**king joke! me and my friends used to DREAD having to do that. the technodrome was also really f'n hard

    i actually hated turtles as a kid but liked the game

    this might not count but sephiroth in kingdom hearts. the man is a c**t

    playing kronic in ut is also nigh on impossible


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I never could catch the dragon no matter how many times I injected!:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭jcoote


    I never could catch the dragon no matter how many times I injected!:(

    carry on my wayward son,there'll be peace when you are gone!!!! :cool:

    it took me ages to complete 'the driver' mission in vice city.
    Thats the one where u have to race Hillary to get him todrive the bank job getaway car...

    just in case anybody hasn't played that game yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Q_Ball


    Alma in Ninja Gaiden. I managed to beat her once, sold the xbox soon after :(

    bye bye save game


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    In Spiderman 3 there was a bit where you had stand on the front of the train and websling passing girders to slow down the train. However each girder had a button number that you needed to press and it was completely random so you couldn't memorise it, it also went on for like 5 minutes. It was the most furiating thing ever trying to quickly tap buttons as they where promted on the screen, I remember screaming out loud "If I wanted dance dance revolution I would of bought it"

    Recently I downloaded "Dark Mist" off PSN... that game is a pure test of endurance and nothing more. Its basically an arcade leaderboard game... I managed to get through the whole 12 levels without losing a life, thus keeping my score intact, only to face the end boss who really is taking the piss in regards to a sudden jump in learning curve. He killed me within a minute, thus resetting my score to zero. Not wanting to quit the game and then have to play through it all again (there's no save points) I decided to just beat him and see the ending. It took me about 40 minutes to get to the final boss then about an hour to defeat him.

    Then as a real kick in the nuts the final cutscene is basically a picture with text on top of it... WTH??? I thought those type of endings stopped when we moved away from 8bit games


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    jcoote wrote: »
    it took me ages to complete 'the driver' mission in vice city.
    Thats the one where u have to race Hillary to get him todrive the bank job getaway car...

    just in case anybody hasn't played that game yet
    I like the way you have to beat the guy who's going to be your driver, only proving that you can drive better than he can. A good tactic is to not go all out, stay behind him and learn where he screws up. And if you're feeling annoyed, flying cars cheat :cool:

    Anything to do with the F-Zero GX story mode.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,386 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I never bothered with the story mode of F-zero GX it was just ridiculously tough. Even the normal racing in that game was extremely hard. It made for a wonderfully exciting game though since if you were to get anywhere in the game you had to really take stupid risks just to finish in a good position in the race.

    I think Cerberus from Devil May Cry 3 deserves to be ahead of Alma in ninja Gaiden. He was by far the toughest boss in the game and just so happened to be the first one.

    There were some really tough levels in Final Fantasy Tactics. The executioners field had me stumped for a good few days.

    I think the while of Contra Hard Corps needs a mention that game is ridiculously tough, don't know how I managed to beat it. It a sign of the times when shattered soldier gets slated unfairly for it's difficulty when it's not a patch on Hard Corps which got excellent reviews.

    Level 7 of R-type as well is a complete bastard. Think I would have spent a small countries annual GDP in credits to beat it if it wasn't for mame.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,014 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The last level in Stuntman comes to my mind. I think I did it once after approximately 100 and something tries, and have been unable to replicate the feat to get 100%.

    The triple spinny bit in Ready! Steady! Go! on normal in Ouendan. For some reason I am just physically unable to handle it, and it is about one minute from the end of the game and hence I have yet to unlock hard mode. Urgghh! And I love the game otherwise.

    That witch thing in DMC3. One of those bosses where you think you are getting close, only to have her recharge her health fully when she keeps hitting you with a certain move. An exercise in careful manipulation of characters. It is one of the most intense boss fights ever, but once which for me ended in a number of defeats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭siobhan.murphy


    the ghost at the end of wonderboy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    ikaruga - DC and the demo on Live - all of it :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,386 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    ikaruga - DC and the demo on Live - all of it :)

    It's tough but it's quite manageable compared to a lot of the games in the genre. You should see the last boss of radiant silvergun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭Trode


    Trauma Cantre for the DS immediately springs to mind. There were some bastard-hard levels in that, but the one I never got past was the one where you have to perform five operations in ten minutes removing those shark/leech things from people. Even without the time limit doing five in a row would be a serious challenge, because the last few patients have about nine of the things to find, and they go critical as soon as you look at them. Doing it all in ten minutes, no chance.

    That GDI level in C&C3, where you have to defend a broken down base with limited power and no construction facilites, and then escort an MCV through an enemy-occupied city, gave me a fair bit of trouble as well. Didn't help that I'd patched the game before getting there, and one of the balance fixes in the patch(meant for multiplayer) handicapped the single-player side in such a way as to make that mission about ten times harder. In the end I uninstalled it and reinstalled it clean, and eventually beat it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    I remember not even getting off level one of a shooter called z-out on the atari ST.
    Also got stuck on level one of the last ninja 2 for years! finally figured out how to get past the stupid gate and went on to be one of my favourite games ever.
    R-type, could never get further than the giant ship level (5?) back in the day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    King K Rool in DK 64 was an absolute bitch.

    Also, the boss in Gears of War is really really hard on any mode bar easy. Finished the whole game on insane only to have to drop down twice to beat her


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Can't remember if it was C&C Generals or Zero Hour, but one of the China missions was a complete bitch. I think it took about 4 hours to finish in the end, after I'd already been annihilated 3 times.

    Basically you get a tiny corner of the map with no buildings and pretty limited resources. The GLA have populated most of the rest of the map and have multiple vehicle and infantry factories, as well as a superweapon powering up. There is only one way to get to your area, but the onslaught is constant with suicide bombers and rocket buggies.

    I discovered that basically the only way to defend yourself was to maintain a constant napalm fire at the entrance to your base while you build 2 or 3 nukes, then you cripple them one base at a time and send in your vehicles to clean it up.

    Took me bleeding ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭BOHSBOHS


    jet set willy ...

    end of discussion lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

    Playing 4 player Co-op was so hard on that game, Theres a level with jungle and cliffs everywhere, and you get taken out one by one. I think its much harder with more players on Co-op, the enemy's come from everywhere, and were all panicking and trying to fight them off.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,386 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    0ubliette wrote: »
    R-type, could never get further than the giant ship level (5?) back in the day.

    Level 3 of 8 I'm afraid. You've a bit longer to go :)

    Forgot about Ready Steady Go in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! with the cheerleaders. I totally ruined my DS screen because of that game. I had what i think is my first and only controller tantrum on that song and threw the stylus against the wall and broke the tip off. I was on holidays so couldn't get a new one and I was determined to beat the level so had to continue on with the stylus without the soft tip :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    I loved that bomb.defusal in turtles! Could do it fair easy after a while.

    I want to say summet from NG but looking back it was just challending rather than hard {bought a 360 and didnt get around to finishing it...maybe when i get NG2 I might start again}

    Cant think of anything else off the top of my head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,812 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    The opening level of Driver.

    You don't want me to play you if I can't beat your timed "training" level? Ok, back to the store for you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭armour87


    Cant remember alot these days so most recently its been CoD4 on Veteran. Insanely tough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    Q_Ball wrote: »
    Alma in Ninja Gaiden. I managed to beat her once, sold the xbox soon after :(

    bye bye save game

    Alma is tough, but NOTHING compared to Muro. it took about 30 tries to defeat him the first time 'round


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    krogoth encounter in total annihilation was tough enough at first.

    and yeah, f-zero gx story mode was f**kin tough


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭TheWitch06


    Basically NG for Xbox was soo annoying but once you get the hang of the system it's a lot easier. The missions on NG Black are also ridiculous! Nicchae + Ishtaros together? soo bloody hard! Last Report for PS1? just don't get that game.. Bubsy 3D was also so annoying, remember my friend screaming his head off at it plenty of times. Dunno if it was because we were young and didn't know what to do.. but sure it was funny.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,386 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    TheWitch06 wrote: »
    Bubsy 3D was also so annoying, remember my friend screaming his head off at it plenty of times. Dunno if it was because we were young and didn't know what to do.. but sure it was funny.

    More likely to do with the fact that it's arguably the worst game ever made.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Big Knox


    BOHSBOHS wrote: »
    jet set willy ...

    end of discussion lol

    Legend, without a doubht the toughest game ever made!! Man me and my brothers used to play it for HOURS for weeks on end. I played in on an emulator recently and was like wtf was it really this hard??

    What a game though my god it was epic!! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Big Knox


    armour87 wrote: »
    Cant remember alot these days so most recently its been CoD4 on Veteran. Insanely tough.

    Yeah I cleared it through on Hardened and gave Veteran a shot, got a few missions into act1 and it started gettin insanely tough still gonna try finish it though!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭tramoredude


    Guitar Hero 3, Through the Fire and the Flames - Expert

    End of discussion


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,014 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Also: purple coin Luigi level in Mario Galaxy. I didn't even bother devoting time to it since I knew it was going to cause Nunchuck breakage. Perhaps one day I shall return and get that final star in the game, maybe...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭TheWitch06


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    More likely to do with the fact that it's arguably the worst game ever made.

    Heh, yes it is absolutely ****! :) Dunno why my friend ever bought that game, well that's funny me saying that, I did buy Criticom.. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    Ghosts n' Goblins....or the really old dracula game...still wtf like even i play them after 10years later...the stupid jump is defo the dumbest way to make a game tough :s

    i think games nowadays have no match to those old school stuffs...cant remember i actually complete any most games on FC...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Also: purple coin Luigi level in Mario Galaxy. I didn't even bother devoting time to it since I knew it was going to cause Nunchuck breakage. Perhaps one day I shall return and get that final star in the game, maybe...
    Ugh, i have two coins to get, that one and the dreadnought one. I've nearly killed the controller thanks to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    The opening level of Driver.

    You don't want me to play you if I can't beat your timed "training" level? Ok, back to the store for you!

    God yes. You brought back so many frustrating memorys:eek:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,386 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    seraphimvc wrote: »
    Ghosts n' Goblins....or the really old dracula game...still wtf like even i play them after 10years later...the stupid jump is defo the dumbest way to make a game tough :s

    Ah now the jump isn't all that bad. Ghosts n' Goblins was impossibly tough but Ghouls n' Ghosts and Super Gn'G were nothing short of awesome and had the same controls. Even despite the extreme difficulty they could be finished with practice, I know I've one credited both games.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    jcoote wrote: »
    carry on my wayward son,there'll be peace when you are gone!!!! :cool:

    it took me ages to complete 'the driver' mission in vice city.
    Thats the one where u have to race Hillary to get him todrive the bank job getaway car...

    just in case anybody hasn't played that game yet

    The worst part about that was if he turned his car and died, that was it level over. He did that a couple of times when I was playing against him. Drove me mad. Still quite like the level though.

    Some of the toughest games I've played were text based RPG's - The one that stands out to me the most if one from the Amiga called Enchanter - I used to be able to get so far and then that was it. Brick wall couldnt go any further. I was trying to emulate it there recently without much success. I must get back onto that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    c - 13 wrote: »
    The worst part about that was if he turned his car and died, that was it level over. He did that a couple of times when I was playing against him. Drove me mad. Still quite like the level though.

    Some of the toughest games I've played were text based RPG's - The one that stands out to me the most if one from the Amiga called Enchanter - I used to be able to get so far and then that was it. Brick wall couldnt go any further. I was trying to emulate it there recently without much success. I must get back onto that.

    :D:D:D:D



    "turn left"

    You turn left and cannot see anything. It is dark.

    "make it bright"

    Command not recognised. Please try again.

    "light torch"

    You light the torch and from the corner of your eye see a level 6000 goblin. He is coming towards you.

    "fcuk you"

    Command not recognised. Please try again.

    "what are you lookin at kid?"

    You are too late. The goblin kills you and pisses on your torch. You are dead,


    Retry?

    [y/n]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭DaveyGem


    The Ocarina Of Time


    Finished the fire temple la la la la going along nicely....WTF! The water temple was such a step up not only in skill but in fcuking patience. christ


    I even messed it up so badly that I couldn't finish it. For shame I ony restarted the game lastyear and finished it. 10 years after i originally bought it...The Water Temple is still hard, the boss was a piece o p!ss though


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,014 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    DarkJager wrote: »
    :D:D:D:D

    "turn left"....
    [y/n]

    Have you ever played Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy? Now theres a hard section of a game, that section being the whole goddamn thing. You need an encyclopediac knowledge of Douglas Adam's previous work to even get past the first few screens of the damn thing. And I had that knowledge at one point, and couldn't get past the early Babel Fish sequence.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
    Play it here if you are masochistic enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Have you ever played Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy? Now theres a hard section of a game, that section being the whole goddamn thing. You need an encyclopediac knowledge of Douglas Adam's previous work to even get past the first few screens of the damn thing. And I had that knowledge at one point, and couldn't get past the early Babel Fish sequence.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
    Play it here if you are masochistic enough.

    Christ that is hard. I got out of the house second time round and then died. Didn't even get off the first screen the first time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 605 ✭✭✭ghouldaddy07


    DaveyGem wrote: »
    The Ocarina Of Time


    Finished the fire temple la la la la going along nicely....WTF! The water temple was such a step up not only in skill but in fcuking patience. christ


    I even messed it up so badly that I couldn't finish it. For shame I ony restarted the game lastyear and finished it. 10 years after i originally bought it...The Water Temple is still hard, the boss was a piece o p!ss though


    I to know that pain managed to go about the dungion in the complete wrong order and thus made it impossible for me to clear it and then due to sheer stubbornes refused to start a new game and kept trying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭CrazyTalk


    DaveyGem wrote: »
    The Ocarina Of Time


    Finished the fire temple la la la la going along nicely....WTF! The water temple was such a step up not only in skill but in fcuking patience. christ


    I even messed it up so badly that I couldn't finish it. For shame I ony restarted the game lastyear and finished it. 10 years after i originally bought it...The Water Temple is still hard, the boss was a piece o p!ss though

    The legend that is The Water Temple............good memories of absolute terror. I know a few people who gave up on the game (and Zelda games in general) because of it. I'm replaying the game at the mo, so can't wait to get that evil temple over and done with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    Off the top of my head:

    1 Call of Duty IV: Mile High Club on veterean. Anyone who beats that deserves some serious credit

    2 GTA: VIce City: That stupid mission where you had to pilot a remote control helicopter and plant bombs. The controls sucked Donkey's balls.

    3 GTA: San Andreas: That racing mission in the middle of the game out in the counry. I must have played it twenty or thirty times and nearly smashed my controller in the process


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I just did that san andreas racing mission and the reason it took me a few goes is ye have to fight the urge to go fast. It's easy once you slow down at each peak, but it's so hard to slow down! :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭ballybay_eh


    silvine wrote: »
    GTA: VIce City: That stupid mission where you had to pilot a remote control helicopter and plant bombs. The controls sucked Donkey's balls.

    Spot on! That was horrible. The amount of times i nearly finished that mission. Seconds away... It was as if the timer was designed to run out just as you were approaching the end. Ridiculously unfair.

    Unlike Ninja Gaiden. Which wasn't unfair, it was just hard. Apart from the odd camera issue it was usually your own fault if you were made look like a complete bitch by the game. Aaahh... I love it. Can't wait for the new.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    silvine wrote: »
    2 GTA: VIce City: That stupid mission where you had to pilot a remote control helicopter and plant bombs. The controls sucked Donkey's balls.

    Wasn't that in San Andreas also? I remember having to pilot a RC helicopter and destroy a load of vans. That was a bitch of a mission.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭elekid


    Trode wrote: »
    Trauma Cantre for the DS immediately springs to mind. There were some bastard-hard levels in that, but the one I never got past was the one where you have to perform five operations in ten minutes removing those shark/leech things from people. Even without the time limit doing five in a row would be a serious challenge, because the last few patients have about nine of the things to find, and they go critical as soon as you look at them. Doing it all in ten minutes, no chance.

    As far as I remember that was just a trick to stress you out and you only had to operate on 3 out of 5 of the patients to pass. :)

    Still tricky but a lot more doable. The game only got harder from there though, the final level is incredibly intimidating and difficult.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    total annihilation when you you crank the difficulty to full and play 3 against one. crazy tough, and the game had the strangest habit of crashing when you we finally set up to start a counter attack, very suspicious cavedog..

    other than that the only thing to damage my happiness lately was that i eventually got SSB melee after i got my wii, and the challenge mission where you have to fight like 20 different kirbys AND its timed... it ruined me.


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