the levels in max payne when he had dreams about his family murdered was HARD! It's not that easy with bad controls and a terrible framerate on the ps2
The fourth level of the Greek campaign in Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War. You're on a ship, and you have to clock up 100 kills before you get rammed. Annoying and frustratingly difficult.
Contra: Hard Corps is quite possibly one of the most difficult games ive ever played. i played it to the point where i remembered exactly where enemies would pop up and their shooting patterns. thats how many times i died.
Myst for the PC (Win 95), or Snatcher for the Sega CD.At 7-8 years old, these games proved to be exceptionally challenging in their requirement for the use of logic and reasoning.
There's a lot; I wrote something long and boring about it here (not trying to pimp myself or anything, just that it's a question I have a long answer for). Too many to name although for me personally if I had to pick, I'd choose Gun.Smoke, F-Zero GX, and Ikaruga. Final boss of Shinobi is crazy hard too and I'm terrible at RTS so I have always had a ton of trouble with the last level of Starcraft Brood War. Edit: Super Ghouls n' Ghosts, can't leave that one out either.
F-Zero GX is stupid-hard. It has the kind of no-error difficulty that becomes frustrating extremely fast, and coupled with its AI you get an experience that incites swearing faster than a boot to the crotch.
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't find retrying timed events over and over and over to be fun, and fun is pretty much the reason why I play games.
Super Mario Bros. 3, the GBA version, is king of the biggest ramp of difficulty from the start to the end. The first level is so easy, it takes a little skill to get past the first levels, but the final world is so difficult, the only way I beat it is restarting the whole game and becoming a little wiser with my inventory. Those itemsthat let you skip levels helped me so much...
Same for me, but I would include any game which put the emphasis on reflex/coordination, this include all the fighting games, but also the shooters, the racing games and much more.
I don't like this type of challenges and just avoid them unless I can't and they block my way to something else, then, I may cope with them. :P
These challenges are a Lose/Standstill scenario for any game when I am the player.
Morrowind. Before you redicule me, it was the first Elder Scrolls game I played. I had no idea how to play it, and made an Orc Barbarian. I couldn't hit anything, and got soooo lost. That guy on the bridge by Moonmoth Fort didn't help anyhting, either.
I suspect someone will post Mechcommander. NO! I beat it when I was 10, proof that either I'm clever or you're stupid. You just have to play the missions a couple of times before you devise a good strategy. Simple at heart.
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