The hardest game of all time

mrblue

I put the question to you - what is the hardest console game of all time. I will allow C64 games as this was kind of an early console (even though it was technically a PC).

I kick off with Dropship UPF on the PS2. It was responsible for a very dark period in my life...

Pepe LeFrits

Slayer on the C64. Insanely fucking hard side-on-shooter that made my hands bleed from yanking the joystick around so much (the practise was useful in later life though).

It was also a pretty **** game, but i was about 10 at the time

DiscoStu

1. Saint Dragon on the atari st. to this day ive only gotten to level 3

2. Commandos it took me and 4 of my friends well over 3 weeks to get to level 5 never got any further.

l3rian

GoldenEye was damm hard on 007 level, but really satisfying when completed.

Did anyone else get the invincibility cheat on Facility, now that was the hardest cheat ever?

po0k

Operation Flashpoint on Vetern Setting

Hidden & Dangerous

( I know they're not console games)

ykt0di9url7bc3

Kid Chamealon

Mr E

IO on the C64. But if you kept playing it, you got better at it. It was perversely addictive. I eventually finished it (it was really all about memorising attack patterns).

Fun game, though (in a tear-all-your-hair-out kinda way)

- Dave.

kaimera

H&D on the later levels were a tough nut alright.

SoF2 I found tough due to the brill AI.

mystik

i know this sounds a bit sad, but i find FF8 hard. I can get to the last boss but she's so HARD!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

bugs

Armored police batrider, arcade game that came out in 98. Vertical scrolling shooter, its just not possible to dodge the amount of stuff they throw at you......made to take your money.

Mikill

Project X on the Amiga.
damn hard game , needed some real ninja skills.

chernobyl

Another World on the Mega Drive was very tough and also ECCO, expecially the "sky" levels.

I found Commandos 2 extremely unforgiving too.

Dredz

Grim Fandango was the hardest game I ever played...

TinCool

China Miner on the C64 that was an absolute c*nt.

So was Jet Set Willy, more for the fact that it was impossible to complete due to a bug in the game.

Tellox

ocarina of time made me cry with frustration at times... but thats probably because it was one of the first puzzle games I played, and I was 10/11 at the time... I think

LoBo

Originally posted by kaids
Slayer on the C64. Insanely fucking hard side-on-shooter that made my hands bleed from yanking the joystick around so much (the practise was useful in later life though).

I agree, bloody hands after a night of 'joystick yanking' can lead to unwanted embarrasment.

Hardest CONSOLE game, hrm hrm, Tomb Raider III made me consult a walk-through with pictures to get to the end

On the PC Commandos seems enjoyably difficult - I'm on level 3-4 I think. Presuming it can only get harder

Retr0gamer

Any old arcade games and C64 games are the only games worthy of the title of hardest games ever. Any one who mentions drivel like SOF2 should have a go at any of the contra games or r-type. Now they are what you call challenging. No quicksaving and they weren't over in 5 hours. And they actually needed skill!

Try Gauntlet on C64 the tape was too small to fit all the levels so it wouldn't load past level 52 making it impossible and the hardest game ever!!!!

Jak

I found Fist 2 on the c64 bloody hard. Not so much the fights as the wondering what the fcuk i should be doing.

JAK.

po0k

The all-time impossible game - Space Invaders.

You cannot finish/beat/win at this game.
That, by deffinition, makes it the hardest game.

mrblue

Rainbow Island on the Amiga was another one. Try playing it with a mouse & keyboard for extra fun.

Paulg

The hardest game i played was Terminator on the Amstrad CPC 464. I got killed after about 30 seconds each time. And everytime you died, you had to reload the game, which took about 5 minutes. So frustrating.. so i just gave up after a few go's.

Earthhorse

Games I finished:

R-Type 3 on the SNES (esp as I only had a week to do it).

SMB2 - The Lost Levels which wasn't worth the effort.

Probotector on the NES was pretty tough 'n all.

Games I didn't:

Not sure if Rogue had an ending but I never saw it if it did.

Claymates on SNES got bloody impossible near the end.

Agree with St. Dragon - didn't get past the first few screens (didn't own it neither) but not Commandos. I took a few days to get to level seven before deciding life was too short.

Impossible Mission on the C64 was (as its title implies) pretty damn tough.

Mike66

All games rae hard without cheats
but a little help...

Rainbow Island on the Amiga
FF8 Last Boss

All games are difficult especially if you play them honestly.


In rainbow Islands the cheat is simple

Trap the Enemy under your rainbow

Break the Rainbow on top of the bugs/monsters

Collect the Gems not Fruit/Food

Collect them in the order

1 Red 2 Orange 3 Yellow 4 Green 5 Blue.......

If you collect them in the wrong order then reset

If you get them in the right order, beat the Island boss Jump into the Secret Rooms
and Type out the markings on the wall
Something like BLRBJSBJ,......

Our Rainbow Islands character will have Tripple Rainbows, Flight, Explosives...


FF8

Final Fantasy 8 is not about Spirits, Magic or Equipment

It's about collecting Special items, Playing Cards that will turn into Items Junctioning Spells and Creating new weapons and teaching that stupid Dog new tricks.

Shiva, Ifrit , Diablos must learn all their skills, the GF ability will make Special cards turn into special items

Items can then be used to make Weapons or Spells

Draw Spells from other Monsters

Always Stock 100%


Junction your Drawn Spells with your new Weapons

If you want to Protect against Ice Freeze or Water


Draw magaic but don't use it. Fight them with weapons or use Shiva, Diablos , Ifrit..,don't waste magic.

Then Equip Protect/Defence status with one of your spells that is at 100%
A full Freeze 100% means no Freeze damage
If you use or waste the Freeze magic in battle
then Protection will drop to 90% and your character will get damaged 10%


However if you equip Freeze 90% with Ice 100% it will give you total protection.

An Enemy 200 point ICE attack will be blocked 100% and also 90% of the attcak will be absorbed.
In other words your character will get 180 Points Health.

Rather than protecting your characters against elemental Magic A better Idea would be to protect against Status spells like Confusion, Berserk, Poision...

Also only use the following people
Squall,
Riona ( girl with Dog )
And the Cow Boy

The Dog has got some pretty good moves, learn them from purchasing all the Pet Books and setting the Dog to learn a certain Skill.

The Dog will revive characters and cause up to
50,000 Damage to the Enemy.

TinCool

Originally posted by Earthhorse
Impossible Mission on the C64 was (as its title implies) pretty damn tough.

A tough game all right but by no means impossible. Have clocked it many times on the C64 and have again on the CCS64 Emulator. Great game, all time classic.

Mistakill

Putty on the Amiga. Could never get past the second level. that bastard fox, id rip his heart out if i could

Firefox

There was a game called Ailen8 on the zx spectrum that was bloody impossible to finish. For that matter alot of spectrum games were nigh on impossible to finish

tman

pretty much any fps i've ever played on a console is impossible on the highest difficulty settings.

Syd_Vicious

This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

Two of the hardest games I ever played were

James Pond 3 on the Megadrive. Over 100 levels, three endings, so many secret levels & a mad hard end boss. Never finished the game.

Lodos on the Dreamcast. Oh man this game is huge. There is soooooo much to this game & the enemy fights are some of the hardest ever. Never finished this game either.

Just my 2 cent

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

Belisarius

I cant believe nobodies mentioned good ole Tie Fighter . Insanely hard game.

po0k

Originally posted by tman
pretty much any fps i've ever played on a console is impossible on the highest difficulty settings.

That's cos the control system sucks tbh tbh.

jaggeh

in order of easiest to hardest (being my top 5 hardest games)

5. Swords of twilight
4. urban strike
3. better dead than alien
2. Turrican
1. millenium 2.1

Kairo

The Never Ending Story..on the amiga. It just wouldnt end...literally! Bollox if I could ever get past that tower climbing level.

Jet Set Willy - Is that bug serious? I actually thought my dad finished it along with Manic Miner. Maybe the c64 version didnt have the bug. Bugger hard game all the same

phobos

This actually came up in coverstation between friends and I, recently. But our unanimous decision was that a game called Ripper was probably the hardest game we had played.

The game dates back to 1996 for the PC, and came on 6 CDs. To guess there was a lot of FMV sequences in this game, you would be correct, as no game logic needs that much storage. It was a point & click type adventure, which I could only describe as Myst, with movement transitions between each still. Also (the hollywood actor) Christopher Walken played a role in the game.

The entire game wasn't difficult but there were a few puzzles that were near impossible, and I can't actually remember any of us getting past a particular bit that involved aligning different coloured crystals in a 2D board. We obtained hints in the game as to what we had to do, but even they didn't point towards a logical explanation. In the end we exhausted our patience, and used a walkthru to pass that particular section. After that one of my mates finished the game, and we were all happy. The end sequence was rather good, and the tune "Don't fear the reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult, featured in the game.

;-phobos-)

Retr0gamer

You've got to be joking about the last boss in FF8. First time I played I beat him in less than 15 minutes. Maybe it was because I named him Fluffy by accident.

Maximum respect to earthhorse how beat r-type 3 a feat I never accomplished.

Earthhorse

Why thank you. I'm trying to repeat the feat on snes9x recently but the graphics go funny on level 2 and I haven't the enthusiasm for games I used to.

originally posted by TinCool
A tough game alright but by no means impossible.

Sounds like you have a case against the makers of Impossible Mission for false advertising. Now state and federal law forbid me from promising you a big cash settlement but just between you and me I promise you a big cash settlement.

LoGiE

Head over Heels on the c64
Batman the caped crusader part 1 and 2
Both absolute nightmares

Dr_Teeth

Tie Fighter! argh! Thanks Belisarius, remember that F£*(& £&$*ka8&!ing mission with the gravity-well generator ship?

Teeth.

Belisarius

Imperial Indedictor Cruiser "Bomb" under Commander Namura din

etched into the very essense of my soul

That bastard zaarin and his endless hordes of TIE Defenders still haunt me

Retr0gamer

I never finished Tie Fighter. I got stuck on the bit when you have to defend the emperor in his shuttle from annoyingly fast a-wings. The stupid twat kept driving straight into trouble and getting totalled on ion cannons.

AnnaLee123

I can't remember exactly but the first one i come to think of would be The Last Ninja on C64, granted i was a young sprout at the time but i have tried the game later in my life and man it is tricky with those controlls

johnny_ultimate

Locking thread as it's 22 years old.

Kiith

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES for me. Stupid **** jellyfish 😫