Your top 5: Hardest PC games.

Stealing this thread idea from the Tweak Guides forum, I'm curious what people think are their top 5 hardest PC games. My list would be:

5-1 (1 being the hardest)

5. Dark Messiah (Hardest difficulty)

4. Gothic 3

3. Farcry

2. System Shock 2

1. AvP 1

Just a few because I couldn't figure out the more finesse things involved at first:

Simcity 4

Company of Heroes (not a very good game imo, despite that I adore both RTS and WWs)

Fahrenheit until I remapped the controls

Going back to 1.6 after playing CS: Source

A purely diplomatic character on Fallout (doable, but that strategy took awhile)

1. GRAW

2. Far Cry

3. Call of Duty on hardest

4. Prince of Persia(to many puzzles)

5. Unreal 04

1. tom clancys splinter cell chaos theory

2. brothers in arms earned in blood

3. dawn of war

4.warcraft 3 frozen throne

5. brothers in arms road to hill 30

1. tom clancys splinter cell chaos theory

2. brothers in arms earned in blood

3. dawn of war

4.warcraft 3 frozen throne

5. brothers in arms road to hill 30

fighter91

You find BIA hard?

1. FarCry
2. Half Life 1
3. Company of Heroes
4. Brothers in Arms
5. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

5 - Starcraft

4 - System Shock 2

3 - Sheep

2 - 7th Guest

1 - Lemmings 2: The Tribes (I swear, trying to get silver/gold medals on all levels is incredibly hard)

5. Call of Duty - Veteran

4. Company of Heroes

3. Far Cry

2. GRAW

1. Halo 2 (I ain't that good on Legendary)

Call Of Cthulhu
Far Cry
Wind Commander IV
Postal 2
Monkey Island 4

1.S.T.A.L.K.E.R (this thing is far prooos)

2.Company of heroes

Most of the games I have (except for Far Cry) aren't that bad unless you play them on the Hard setting...Funkyhamster

Well thats the whole idea of it...

Most of the games I have (except for Far Cry) aren't that bad unless you play them on the Hard setting...Funkyhamster

Well thats the whole idea of it...

X-com Terror From the Deep had some hardish colony raiding missions

Looks through stack:

1. Black and White (Land 5 omfg....)
2. Battle Realms (Campaign)
3. Might And Magic 6 (All of it)
4. Might and Magic 7 (Devils..)
5. Might And Magic 9 (Just plain hard later)

Stalker was REALLY easy compared to those., and i did it on normal.
Company of heroes? Pffft...

Why do people find BIA hard?Lonelynight

Why you find CoD hard. I mean Call of Duty is very easy game even on hardest difficulty. I beat it four times on veteran whitout any problems.

5. AIM

4. Hotmail

3. Solitair

2. Hearts

1. Minesweep

Why do people find BIA hard?Lonelynight

Have you played it on authentic difficulty? If you show yourself to the enemy at all your dead.

all on hardest level

1. Quake 4

2. Far Cry

3. Call of Duty 2

4. F.E.A.R

5. Halo

Oblivion on the hardest difficulty from start to finish is easily the hardest game EVER, maybe even impossible.

zero9167

That has more to do with gimped leveling system and character devolpment.. You can cheese the system because any where around by making LOGICAL major skills for acllass such as run will screw you in the end.. Its pretty rediculous. To have people claim that it is a top notch RPG (in the sense of stats, character devolpment, interaction with characters or the complete lack of with the case of Oblivion with pretty much 0 choice making) is mind boggling...

Alot of games on hardest difficulty is really hard at times..

Farcry, and Call of duty 1 come to mind.. Where a errand shot or two will kill you, which makes matters worse when your fighting hordes of guys..

I also find it hard to believe that people think Dawn of War is harder the Warcraft 3.. Not saying one is better then the other, but Warcraft 3 requires borderline insane micromanagement, playing a computer on default difficulty will get you steam rolled for a long time.. Then after that on the hardest difficulty it gets to the point where the computer will pull out guys low on health so units retargeet on other guys and bring them back in the fight in rediculous times.

X3 Reunion is pretty tough as well.

5) SimCity 2000 (I was like 10 and just couldn't make a profitable city :( )

4) Baldur's Gate II (****ing mind flayers and vampires)

3) ???

2) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Time + a million enemies + a destination = reload, run, die, repeat)

1) Hidden & Dangerous (Even once you get past the bugs, this game is bloody ridiculous)

5 & 4 weren't actually that hard, just in spots or because of my age. But 1 & 2 required a lot of use of the 'load' option.

Oblivion on the hardest difficulty from start to finish is easily the hardest game EVER, maybe even impossible.

zero9167

Oblivion on the hardest difficulty isnt that hard but just very tedious since you can shoot a monster in the head 20 times and it still wont die.

HETHACK AND ADOM, LOSERS.

Oblivion is nothing compared to those classic RPG's.

so nobody's played any game from the Commandos series then?

Far Cry is also pretty crazy on the hardest setting, although doable with patience.

X-com Terror From the Deep had some hardish colony raiding missions

FelkBR

That game could be a major cheating bastard.

Good call.

I'm really surprised Far Cry made so many lists. There were a lot of websites that made fun of the AI on harder difficulties because as long as you stayed low in grass or bushes, the Ai would never see you unless they were on top of you. Also, Starcraft and WC3 were easy as long as you used the attack-move buttons, never played much DoW. The only micro that I found necessary (not useful, necessary) was heroes in WC3 to turn tides of battle. But we all have different playstyles, so I suppose we will disagree on what's hard or not based on how we do it.YourOldFriend

Are you kidding me? You think attack move is all you need in Warcraft 3 or Starcraft.. You need to either play harder difficulties of the CPu or play online...

Just a few because I couldn't figure out the more finesse things involved at first:

Simcity 4

Company of Heroes (not a very good game imo, despite that I adore both RTS and WWs)

Fahrenheit until I remapped the controls

Going back to 1.6 after playing CS: Source

A purely diplomatic character on Fallout (doable, but that strategy took awhile)

YourOldFriend

def. one of the harder things in life to do.

Which species of the original AVP did you find most difficult?smokeydabear076

Marines.

1-Farcry

2-Xcom TFTD

3-GRAW

4-Brothers In Arms

and thats about it....

HETHACK AND ADOM, LOSERS.

Oblivion is nothing compared to those classic RPG's.

gbarules2999

my list:

1. hitman blood money
2. gta san andreas
3. nfs undergound
4. postal 2
5. age of empire

1.) Myst

2.) Star Wars Galaxies Pre- Change...becoming a jedi with holocrons was insanely hard.

3.) Guild Wars. The Elite Areas are difficult to master on Hard Mode.

4.) Far Cry

5.) Jedi Knight 2 on Hard setting.

Touhou 08: Imperishable Night

Touhou 9.5: Shoot The Bullet

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith (demo)

Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou 06: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

All more or less on the same level.

Yeah...Touhou's kind of tricky.