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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: kypherion on June 20, 2018, 04:02:19 pm
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What is the absolute hardest game you have ever played? What I mean is not unintentionally hard like awkward camera angles, but actual difficulty.
For me, I would have to say either Ghosts n' Goblins (Super Ghouls n' Ghosts was hard too), or Trauma Center: Second Opinion. With the latter the game is difficult, but what really takes the cake are bonus operations after the main plot. The operations themselves are already plenty difficult (harder than anything else in the game to that point) but getting the highest rank possible is an absolute undertaking and requires insane levels of skill.
Overall though the game is no walk in the park.
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Cuphead is way up there for me. There's certainly some older NES games that are dumb hard due things like low lives or they were previously quarter munching Arcade games, there's too many of those to pick, but as a fair, hard, time, Cuphead was a real hand aching experience.
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Dark Souls
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
But, I think their difficulty added to their enjoyment.
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The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants on NES because it sucked so badly that any desire to overcome the difficulty was quickly extinguished.
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The first Mega Man. I had the Anniversary Edition for GameCube (which didn't help), but it only had the Japanese version (which I think is harder? maybe... the later ones in America had a "normal" mode and a "hard" mode which was essentially the only option in the Japanese version).
Anyway, I still can't beat that freakin' dropping platform part in Gutsman's stage, even with rewind and save states in the Legacy Collection. I don't have nearly as much trouble with Castlevania on NES. I'm probably just bad...
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Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)
I've never been beyond the 1st boss. Fuck that guy.
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Cuphead
Dark Souls (any)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Trauma Center (any; me and my friend actually play them co-op in order to get anywhere)
I've never bee any good at any of the older Mega Man games either. Same for Ghosts N' Goblins. Cuphead is infernal.
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Double Dragon 1,2,3 nes
Batman nes
Ninja Gaiden 1,2 nes
Metal Gear nes
Blaster Master nes
Super Metroid snes
Helfire sega genesis
Last Remnant xbox 360
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Nice choices. I see trauma center and Ninja Gaiden is up there. I've beaten the first Ninja Gaiden on the NES, and it was hard but enjoyable.
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Well, I think that excluding games that are hard simply because they are bad (I'm looking at you, Master System's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), I would say that Ikaruga on the Dreamcast is probably the hardest game I own. Even though it is one of my favorite genres, I absolutely suck at shooters, especially in the ones that can be considered as bullet-hells or have some kind of gimmick (and Ikaruga fits in both categories).
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I partially lost interest in video games due to difficulty, they all now give me a headache I want to play Halo: Combat Evolved but I don't like how the enemies steal the vehicles before you in later level and their is no way to complete the game,
I am stuck on that game with a way point needing to fly some kind or aircraft but the enemies keep jumping into the aircraft making the game impossible to progress to the last 2 levels.
Is there anyway to repair the broken aircraft of vehicles, because once the enemies steal them in order to kill the enemy you need to shoot them down >:(
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Ninja Gaiden
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In terms of difficulty of the games I've played in earnest, I would give that award to the Gradius series.
The arcade version of Gradius III, in particular, I can't beat fairly. If you die you lose all your upgrades to your ship and it's extremely difficult to get re-equipped so you can even stand a chance (but you usually die again before that happens and go back to square one).
Gradius V (the latest entry) was much more forgiving since you can re-spawn right where you were and you can pick up your options again without collecting power-ups. Still a hard game though.
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Medal of Honor Frontline on Hard mode. That difficulty setting will make you tear your hair out. It was grueling to beat
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Mega Man & Bass on GBA. Most recently though, Super Hydorah is hard as hell too.
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Shinobi on the PS2. Imagine the joy 13 year old me had when I finally beat the game after suffering through the final stage. I still have the mental scars of the game to this day.
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Medal of Honor Frontline on Hard mode. That difficulty setting will make you tear your hair out. It was grueling to beat
Telly?
Did you beat the PlayStation 2 version on hard mode?
How did you even make it past that one level where the bad guys snipe rockets at you from the summit? in the center of the level. I mean on my copy of "Medal Of Honor Frontline" for PS2
even on easy
there is a summit like in the center of one level that is nearly impossible to kill the rocket shooting snipers who shoot and hit you from an off screen position, in fact if you don't get to the top of the hill and kill them they keep on hitting you anywhere on that level including hitting you from off screen and completely off your view range.
I climbed the summit but keep taking too much damage trying to get those guys in my view range in order to hit them. They either lay down and hit you with rockets or crouch. and even when I fired at them I still could never kill those guys and have enough health to complete the mission.
It was some kind of depo mission with explosives that go off in the beginning of the level.
can you remember?
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Tatsujin (Truxton) rightfully translated to Expert (Mega Drive, PC Engine)
The King of Fighters XI defeating the final boss Magaki (PS2)
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Any platformer for me...I am so bad at them!
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Shinobi on the PS2. Imagine the joy 13 year old me had when I finally beat the game after suffering through the final stage. I still have the mental scars of the game to this day.
Also, this. It's sequel Nightshade is a bit less unforgiving, but still tough as well.
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Shinobi on the PS2. Imagine the joy 13 year old me had when I finally beat the game after suffering through the final stage. I still have the mental scars of the game to this day.
Also, this. It's sequel Nightshade is a bit less unforgiving, but still tough as well.
Yep. Add this game to my list as well. It was tough as nails, but it's still super fun. The day I beat Shinobi on the highest difficulty level was a damn good day.
Nightshade was cool, too. Since Hibana's life wasn't in danger of getting drained, the sense of urgency wasn't as high.
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The controls on PS2 Shinobi make is so worth it, though. There are few games that feel so satisfying to hack-n-slash your way through.
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Absolutely. That's one of the reasons I still pop in Shinobi. The controls are responsive and tight, and the challenge is always satisfying to overcome. I play Nightshade less, even though it has more content.
Shinobi also has DAT MUSIC. <3
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Medal of Honor Frontline on Hard mode. That difficulty setting will make you tear your hair out. It was grueling to beat
Telly?
Did you beat the PlayStation 2 version on hard mode?
How did you even make it past that one level where the bad guys snipe rockets at you from the summit? in the center of the level. I mean on my copy of "Medal Of Honor Frontline" for PS2
even on easy
there is a summit like in the center of one level that is nearly impossible to kill the rocket shooting snipers who shoot and hit you from an off screen position, in fact if you don't get to the top of the hill and kill them they keep on hitting you anywhere on that level including hitting you from off screen and completely off your view range.
I climbed the summit but keep taking too much damage trying to get those guys in my view range in order to hit them. They either lay down and hit you with rockets or crouch. and even when I fired at them I still could never kill those guys and have enough health to complete the mission.
It was some kind of depo mission with explosives that go off in the beginning of the level.
can you remember?
I do remember that level, after the train car ride right? I think I would go down the cliff to the bunker on the left side and try to pick people off from there and work my way over. I remember it was still tough because of those rocket launching guys on top of those towers after you get on the other side of the cliff.
The hardest level for me was when you had to invade that house since the silenced pistol they give you was a total piece of junk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52UnwwsGj3Q
I did play it on PS2
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. And I’m not even referring to the dam level. I could beat that with my eyes closed as a kid. The rest of the game is a much, much bigger nightmare. To this day it’s the only game I’ve tried to beat and just couldn’t.
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Tatsujin (Truxton) rightfully translated to Expert (Mega Drive, PC Engine)
The King of Fighters XI defeating the final boss Magaki (PS2)
I second Magaki, fuck him however his theme is just the best.
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Medal of Honor Frontline on Hard mode. That difficulty setting will make you tear your hair out. It was grueling to beat
Telly?
Did you beat the PlayStation 2 version on hard mode?
How did you even make it past that one level where the bad guys snipe rockets at you from the summit? in the center of the level. I mean on my copy of "Medal Of Honor Frontline" for PS2
even on easy
there is a summit like in the center of one level that is nearly impossible to kill the rocket shooting snipers who shoot and hit you from an off screen position, in fact if you don't get to the top of the hill and kill them they keep on hitting you anywhere on that level including hitting you from off screen and completely off your view range.
I climbed the summit but keep taking too much damage trying to get those guys in my view range in order to hit them. They either lay down and hit you with rockets or crouch. and even when I fired at them I still could never kill those guys and have enough health to complete the mission.
It was some kind of depo mission with explosives that go off in the beginning of the level.
can you remember?
I do remember that level, after the train car ride right? I think I would go down the cliff to the bunker on the left side and try to pick people off from there and work my way over. I remember it was still tough because of those rocket launching guys on top of those towers after you get on the other side of the cliff.
The hardest level for me was when you had to invade that house since the silenced pistol they give you was a total piece of junk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52UnwwsGj3Q
I did play it on PS2
Thanks for the tips Telly :) Yea that mission you remembered correctly
Yea I managed to make it past the house with all the clocks (on easy) and the rest of the game. But when the game came to the depo, with the snipers with rockets shooting me from off the playview I just quit because.
I thought the game was being vary cheap, blurring the screen in all so I could not see or hit the snipers who kept hitting me from the mountain from a distance, off viewpoint