What's the hardest (but still playable) game you've ever played?

ShadowHearth · 09-10-2013 10:53am

Serious Sam 1 and 2 on serious difficulty. Was hard, but satisfying when you ppull it off!

o1s1n · 09-10-2013 11:06am

PickledLime wrote: »

Yikes, I've cleared Comix Zone on the Mega Drive and Platinum'd Dark Souls!

Clearing Devil May Cry 3 on Dante Must Die difficulty is probably my biggest achievement. This gen, I think Vanquish can be tough as nails, but it has a nice learning curve, also Wipeout HD. Still can't get that Zone Zeus trophy though

Fair play! You got da skillz :pac:

Ever try to play shmups? Here's the one I mentioned above which I'm playing absolutely loads of on my cab. (Both trying to 1 credit it and aiming for high scores)

Fast forward to 2.40 if you want a good example of some of the more difficult parts

(still the first level by the way! :pac:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg99oJIRIGE

Grimebox · 09-10-2013 12:00pm

F-Zero X on master difficulty on the N64. I played it again recently and haven't a ****ing clue how I pulled it off. I wouldn't even come first on each track, I would kill at least 5 rivals on every race so they wouldn't accumulate more points than me.

long range shooter · 09-10-2013 12:16pm

Pacman

degrassinoel · 09-10-2013 12:30pm

XCOM:Enemy Unknown

sure it's easy to save scum, but ironman/anything above normal is bloody tough for me, do-able but tough.

humanji · 09-10-2013 12:34pm

Hardly surprising to see so many older games listed. I think for me it'd be Jet Set Willy. It was bad enough that I didn't have the dexterity to make it past most of the obstacles, I only found out years later that the game was bugged and couldn't be finished without hacking it.

2smiggy · 09-10-2013 12:48pm

ghouls and ghosts was surprisingly tough IMO

I'd often throw that on again or Shinobi , both very tough

penev10 · 09-10-2013 12:53pm

OK obscure one on the way, MS Gundam: Pilots Locus on the Gamecube. Great game, probably the best Gundam game imo. Finishing the game with the "Goodies" is handy enough but the later stages of the "Baddies" campaign require god-like prowess as you are outnumbered, outgunned and facing seriously ruthless AI. I never finished it but the large arenas and multiple approaches to the missions always had me coming back.

Neeson · 09-10-2013 12:55pm

I would say that Gaelic Football game that was out years ago for the Playstation. But it would fall under unplayable I suppose.

Games would finish with a team winning by 2 points to no score.

penev10 · 09-10-2013 12:57pm

Neeson wrote: »

Games would finish with a team winning by 2 points to no score.

You could score points??? You must have some serious skills. The games I played on it always finished with a hatful of goals but no points!

09-10-2013 12:59pm

Ibara!
some day I'll do it

enda1 · 09-10-2013 12:59pm

That Deep Blue chess game is tough, but still beatable

/Kasparov

Dazzler0911 · 09-10-2013 1:04pm

Knightmare (based on the Kid Tv show) on the Commodore 64. Literally impossible to get out of the first room at the start of the game !

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mylittlepony · 09-10-2013 1:26pm

For me Street of Rage in the final level ;
you cant win either way,
you lose you get killed, you win you still get killed off.

shocking when it happen the first time it was so bizzare :mad:
Is it just me or was it a trick level?
it was the sega machine.

Jonny7 · 09-10-2013 1:32pm

Multiplayer starcraft is a tough one to beat

Retr0gamer · 09-10-2013 2:00pm

mylittlepony wrote: »

For me Street of Rage in the final level ;
you cant win either way,
you lose you get killed, you win you still get killed off.
shocking when it happen the first time it was so bizzare :mad:
Is it just me or was it a trick level?
it was the sega machine.

Didn't happen in the first game at all. Are you talking about Streets of Rage 3 maybe? In that one you can't beat the game if you play it on easy, that might be it.

Professey Chin · 09-10-2013 2:04pm

Said it before and I'll say it again.(and again and again and again)

Treasure Island Dizzy

Bastardin egg

Kirby · 11-10-2013 4:46am

I wanna be the guy.

Its free. Go download it. So unforgiving. Required alot of patience. Think ninja gaiden on crack.

tupac_healy · 11-10-2013 7:08am

Dazzler0911 wrote: »

Knightmare (based on the Kid Tv show) on the Commodore 64. Literally impossible to get out of the first room at the start of the game !

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Im glad someone brought this up! How the bloody hell do you get out of the first room!!!

Grrrrrr

Patser · 11-10-2013 7:22am

King Arthur strategy/rpg game.

Great looking, strong alternative to Total War games with lovely bits of mythology thrown in. Until you set loose continuous respawning Armies of Samhain, fully souped up while your armies just disintegrate from never getting a chance to heal. Difficulty curve of a cliff.

chrislad · 11-10-2013 10:01am

One of the hardest games, going back years, was either Rad Gravity or Time Lord on the NES. The former was just a tough platformer, but the latter was just buggy as hell. I remember spending 30 minutes on the Mexican boss, who was flashing red for ages, and he. still.wouldn't.DIE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YxTd46n8GM

Recently, Dark Souls torments me. I got a bit in, but damn, I just didn't have the time, as due to college, gaming time is limited so I went back to easier games. Some day.

Myrddin · 11-10-2013 10:30am

One for the retro heads

elfy4eva · 11-10-2013 10:38am

the thing i've found with dark souls, is that the Stats and Upgrading mechanics aren't explained at all.

However I found once I learned these I had a much easier time progressing and picking more varied character
classes. If you beat it once and know your way through, it becomes a lot easier to play!

Retr0gamer · 11-10-2013 10:42am

Figuring the game out is part of the fun

I'm pretty sure when you are levelling up you can toggle a description of what each stat does.

PickledLime · 11-10-2013 5:05pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Fair play! You got da skillz :pac:

Ever try to play shmups? Here's the one I mentioned above which I'm playing absolutely loads of on my cab. (Both trying to 1 credit it and aiming for high scores)

Fast forward to 2.40 if you want a good example of some of the more difficult parts (still the first level by the way! :pac:)

Thanks! :pac:

Just for the giggles I threw on the Mega Drive Collection the other day to have a pop at Comix Zone... have no idea how I cleared it, much less when I was 13! (probably to do with the fact that back in the 90s you had one game to play for about 6 months... ). I was getting consistently thrashed on the first level.

Shmups, I have no idea why I don't play more (nerves, probably). Thunderforce IV on the Mega Drive was a gem (and handy enough to complete). Gradius V was one of my fave PS2 games, still very playable today and still looks decent enough (over a component connection). Been meaning to download Ikaruga from XBLA!

Anyone done the special stages on DKCR on Wii? Farking hell...

MadYaker · 11-10-2013 5:09pm

Dayz when it first came out had a pretty steep learning curve, especially if you weren't familiar with Arma 2. Its a bit more noob friendly now though.

JrdanB · 13-10-2013 3:05am

Actually, one game I really liked but was pretty much impossible was "Hooligans: Storm Over Europe" which I think was a relatively obscure RTS about managing football hooligans for the PC. Might not have been that obscure, but nobody I've talked to has played it, never mind finished it! Impossibly hard, but a great concept!

Canis Lupus · 13-10-2013 4:51am

Manic Miner scarred my childhood.

Ninjah Tigah · 13-10-2013 10:06am

Left 4 Dead 2 on Expert Realism in Single-Player. Completing the entire game on that difficulty is pretty hard.

krudler · 13-10-2013 11:39am

super_furry wrote: »

Last Ninja 2 on the C64. No saves, dubious collision detection, insanely obscure puzzles and I still loved it.

Wasn't there some glitch that made it impossible to finish unless some object spawned in a particular place? was one of those games anyway.

Super Ghouls N Ghosts on the SNES was crazy hard in the later levels, and you got to the end and had to do it all again :mad:

What's the hardest (but still playable) game you've ever played?

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