Hardest game you have ever played

Now officially in my very long life gaming can say that by a long shot the hardest game I have ever played is...

Green Hell

amazing game, very hard, likely to be balanced but for now super hard

whats the hardest game you have played?

Gothic II Gold.

There's a lot of hard games i've heard that i never played. So i'm going with the Souls games and Nioh

Contra.

Ninja Gaiden 2. I usually avoid buying the "this game is so hard it'll make you rage" games in the first place, but the premise just seemed so cool. Then I popped it in and remembered I hate hard games and can't remember fighting game combos to save my life.

Demon's Souls. I quit lol

Super hexagon.

Gaiares. /thread

Demon souls and turtles on nes still have nightmares about that don't know anyone who managed to beat it.

I had dreams about Green Hell last night but it was based on reality. a lot of spiders, worms, bugs in that game.

Taking it old school and saying Adventures of Bayou Billy for NES. I never did finish that game. One of the few I never finished because it was that hard.

Ghouls and Ghosts was pretty much impossible.

I’ve played so many games over my 40+ years as an avid gamer that it’s difficult to pick one. Some that come to mind are:

- Ninja Gaiden on the NES

- The Adventures of Bayou Billy on the NES

- Super Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES

- Demon’s Souls on the PS3

- Dark Souls on the Xbox 360

- Ninja Gaiden Black on the Xbox

There’s probably more but those are just the ones that immediately come to mind.

Ghosts 'n Goblins on the NES.

1 . Ghost N Goblins

2. Ninja Gaiden 1

3. Megaman 1

All on the NES. Whoever had the Ghosts N Goblins, Gouls N Ghosts arcade machines must have made a killing back in the day, even if they were 10p a go.

Stated it a few times but probably the Double Apex Rajang hunt in Monster Hunter 4G. And did this hunt solo. It's not something someone should do if they have a habit of getting stressed easily., or overly angry when a game is exceedingly difficult. With enough gained muscle memory, and attempts, it is possible.

Second place is probably Akumu mode in TEW, I've beaten it six times now. Very similar to the above but it didn't take as long.

Master Ninja in Ninja Gaiden Sigma as well I guess.

Lastly done everything on DMC3 (all difficulty modes and challenge tower), and that's considered the most difficult in the series. And while hard, is easier than all the above.

*Love the Soul games but they're not all that difficult compared to the above. PvP is what adds 80% of the challenge and that varies from invader-to-invader.

its ironic that I have been playing games for 34 years and literally yesterday I just played the hardest game I have ever played and I am loving it. getting past 2 days in the game is an honorable achievement in fact.

normally I dont like hard games actually

@tryit: I usually don't factor difficulty as something needed, but welcome when handled well.

A good challenge gets us invested in an interesting way if the player likes that kind of entertainment. I can have fun with more laid-back experiences; however something about a hard game balanced fairly, is a personal joy ツ

I think it also depends on in what way its hard. So what pulls me in on Green Hell outside of the amazing graphics is that the challenges are based on realism (speaking generally). That is really cool

Contra 4. Curse that game.

there were tons of games from the old commodore 64 / nes days that i remember as super hard. but that might have been relative to my age / experience. games like jet set willy, impossible mission (no misnomer), paperboy, ghosts n goblins etc.

but in the (reasonably) modern age the last really hard game i remember was x3 reunion. back in those days i was a seriously dedicated pc gamer but that game had one hell of a learning curve. unfortunately i don't have the time or patience these days to persevere with games like that with super tough barriers to entry

-Crash Bandicoot 1 (PS1)

-Rayman 1 (PS1)

-Hotline Miami 2

Call of Duty World at War on Veteran was harder than the actual war.

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ninja gaiden black

I'm sure I am forgetting some insanely hard NES games from back in the day b/c that console had some brutal ones, but in recent memory I'd say a lot of the Piranha Bytes games were stupid hard; if the crazy powerful level 1 mobs didn't get you, the bugs sure would :D

XCOM 2

Real life.

Battle toads.

Probably Battletoads on the NES or Action Fighter on the Sega master system.

Hardest game I've beat is Ghouls and Ghost on the genesis.

Ninja gaiden xbox demon souls PS3 dark souls series bloodborne god of war killzone 2

Road Rash 2. I cannot finish it.

Demon Souls. Game has excellent combat but I just don't have the patience for difficulty.

Clive Barkers Undying, scaring the shit of me

A bunch of NES games comes to mind. Dragon's Lair, TMNT, Gradius/Lifeforce, Battletoads.

Games like Dark Souls are cakewalks compared to those.

@steelworm: I hate that game. But does it have any cheat codes?? ;)

One of the few genuinely scary horror games. Hard as balls too.

I haven't figured it out yet. Let me know if you find.

I'd have to say the first Ninja Gaiden game

Contra & Real Life

Turtles on the NES and ninja garden on Xbox was brutal if I'm remembering correctly.

@tryit:

Dark Souls

Bloodborne

Alien Xbox One

GTA 3

Crash Bandicoot 1

Twisted Metal 1 and 2

Tomb Raider 3 and Last Revelation

Shadow Man

Contra 3

Hang On

Every Sonic the Hedgehog game on Genesis

Super Turrican

Mortal Kombat 1-3

Super Ghouls and Ghosts

Probably any number of platformers on the Amiga.

totally completely agree

but given I have been playing games for 38 years and that I just played a brand new games that is likely one of the hardest I have ever played I felt like it was a topic worth mentioning.

@tryit: You already replied to that quotation 9 days ago. It was a someone jolly conversation_

But cool, didn't know you've been gaming way before I was born.

Time lived/ gamed however doesn't factor the difficulty of games one plays.

Retro example- Streets of Rage is a much easier and streamlined game than Ghost n' Goblins. The latter being created with strict input precision and difficulty in mind.

@storm_of_swords: Ghost'n'Goblins on Commodore 64 only had 4 stages, but there were no continues! The NES version did have continues, right? I managèd to beat the Commodore version, but it took a lot of practice.

I think I will say Sacred Stones . It's super harddddd, you guys can go check it out on steam as it's an indie game. you need to defeat a lot of bosses lol

mario maker :D