Hardest game you ever played?

I'm currently playing F-Zero GX on the Gamecube. I don't know if it's the hardest game I've ever played, but it's pretty dang hard. It's my first F-Zero game though, so I think I still have to get used to things.

Oh, god, F zero GX. I've cursed and screamed at that game. Of course, I tend to do that on the arcade here as well, but interestingly enough, NOT at bayou billy or Gradius 3. or Contra.

I see people post that they had a hard time with contra. It wasnt that hard for me :P

Master Ghaleon wrote:I see people post that they had a hard time with contra. It wasnt that hard for me :P

Alright, fine.

Now, for people who DIDN'T use the Konami code in Contra...
...was it hard?

Old-skool wrote:Alright, fine.

Now, for people who DIDN'T use the Konami code in Contra...
...was it hard?

Not too hard, I beat it a few times dying 1-2 times 😃

Of course, entering that code I think everyone should of beaten it. It was a good fun game.

There is one more game that I can think of, because the last level i didnt really have anymore time then like 5 - 9 seconds left to beat it. Marble Maddness. I beat it a couple times, but the last level you had to be perfect, or I had to be since there wasnt too much time left

vegeta1215 wrote:I'm currently playing F-Zero GX on the Gamecube. I don't know if it's the hardest game I've ever played, but it's pretty dang hard. It's my first F-Zero game though, so I think I still have to get used to things.

The hardest I've played is definitely Zelda II for the NES. It wasn't hard, but damn it was frustrating. You died SO MUCH. Arggh. It was hard to endure.

I haven't really played any games yet that were actually hard for me. Frustrating? Yes. Cheap? Yes.

Some of the later challenges on Super Smash Bros. Melee were bloody impossible

Heck yeah. SSBM was pretty hard, but now it's pretty much a piece of cake for me. At first, though, it was a pain in the ass. x_x;

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

I got it for my 6th birthday. I beat it when I was 12.

Oh, I thought of another game I thought was hard. The Plutonia Experiment from Final Doom. (PC) I did play through the entire 32 level wad but if you jack the difficulty up even to Hurt Me Plenty, its near impossible. I tried several levels on Ultra Violent, and its insane. The amount of enemies paired with the limited ammo makes it VERY hard.

Grasshopper wrote:Oh, I thought of another game I thought was hard. The Plutonia Experiment from Final Doom. (PC) I did play through the entire 32 level wad but if you jack the difficulty up even to Hurt Me Plenty, its near impossible. I tried several levels on Ultra Violent, and its insane. The amount of enemies paired with the limited ammo makes it VERY hard.

You can beat Plutonia Experiment on Ultra Violent or Nightmare level with ease? I'm pretty good at the orginal Doom I guess, but I still think veteran or not, that megawad was tough. :tongue:

I'm decent at FPS, but I'm decent at most games. I'd have to say Prince of Persia. The old old one. Ugh I hated that game.

Fuck you, DoDonPachi.

Fuck you, Mars Matrix.

Fuck you, Ikaruga.

KRY wrote:I'm decent at FPS, but I'm decent at most games. I'd have to say Prince of Persia. The old old one. Ugh I hated that game.

OMG, I just remembered something: Did anyone have a Roger Rabbit game for DOS?

AAAAAAAAARGH, me, my sister, and my mom all tried for hours, you CAN'T BEAT THE THIRD LEVEL. YOU CAN'T GET TO JESSICA. It's IMPOSSIBLE.

Any other experiences like that?

Hardest games I've ever played...

- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- Ocarina of Time: Master Quest
- Some of the later events in Smash Bros. Melee
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (the Japanese version, also called "The Lost Levels"😉
- Final Fantasy II (not the badly-titled "US FFII" which is actually FF IV)
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic & Knuckles (without any lock-ons, no save feature)
- The old ASCII RPG game "Rogue" released back in the early 80's

I saw something on www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com about Ikaruga. Maddox called it "like nipples-on-a-blind-lesbian-in-a-fish-market hard". It looked pretty insane just by the screenshots.

Plutonia Experiment is definately a challenge, even more than TNT:Evilution because at the higher difficulty levels you start facing Cyberdemons and what not from the very first couple of levels. And those Revenants. 😡

Ooh, I just got to 7 - 4 in the lost levels. Very hard. Super Mario Brothers Deluxe is awesome.

Sonic Spinball, I forgot bout that one. That game is just WTH in many ways.

I seriously think I'm the only one that thought the last events in Melee were easy, and I am NOT good at Melee at all. On the last one, just jump into the crowd with Jigglypuff and Rest like crazy (Being huge does have major disadvantages ^_^)

I had a hard time with lots of NES games, like Marble Madness, FF1, Roger Rabbit, and especially Friday the Thirteenth. I didn't know anything about 3 days, or Jason's mom, or anything, I'd just keep running around camp killing him until all my charecters died. Hey, Jason doesn't die, so I thought that was all there was, lol.

Maybe you should have read the manual, Monica?

The Sonic Genesis games were easy, except for Sonic Spinball, which was rock hard. I finsihed it once - the actual cartridge version, not on an emulator - hardly seemed worth the effort. The GBA bonus stages were - sorry, ARE - nearly impossible though. I assume you've all read about my 'misfortune' with Sonic Advance 1?

Monica wrote:...and especially Friday the Thirteenth. I didn't know anything about 3 days, or Jason's mom, or anything, I'd just keep running around camp killing him until all my charecters died. Hey, Jason doesn't die, so I thought that was all there was, lol.

That is one of the hardest and WORST games on earth. Lets not speak of it again...actually, believe it or not I watched my friend play through the game and get really far. It was pretty crazy. Not sure what motivated him to keep at it, the game was too boring for me.

Now the Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy) video game on the NES, now there's a good game for ya, and a hard one at that! I think the farthest I've gotten in that on the actual NES cart is the junk yard stage. I later played it on an emulator with game genie codes so I was invincible - near the end of the game you have to fight like 4 earlier bosses all in a row. No way a normal human being could beat that without cheating.

vegeta1215 wrote:That is one of the hardest and WORST games on earth. Lets not speak of it again...actually, believe it or not I watched my friend play through the game and get really far. It was pretty crazy. Not sure what motivated him to keep at it, the game was too boring for me.

Now the Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy) video game on the NES, now there's a good game for ya, and a hard one at that! I think the farthest I've gotten in that on the actual NES cart is the junk yard stage. I later played it on an emulator with game genie codes so I was invincible - near the end of the game you have to fight like 4 earlier bosses all in a row. No way a normal human being could beat that without cheating.

Darth Marsden wrote:Maybe you should have read the manual, Monica?

The Sonic Genesis games were easy, except for Sonic Spinball, which was rock hard. I finsihed it once - the actual cartridge version, not on an emulator - hardly seemed worth the effort. The GBA bonus stages were - sorry, ARE - nearly impossible though. I assume you've all read about my 'misfortune' with Sonic Advance 1?

Nah, I was only like 5 or 6, and at that age I didn't really care about the books. Actually now that I think about it, I thought you just had to save all the kids in the house that you rowed to in a boat. I dunno what I was thinking about that game, but it was a hard one...^_^

Contra....Hard? Contra was mindlessly easy, even without the famous Konami code. As was FFIIj. You can become godly right off the bat if you want to spend some time and abuse the level up system. 😛

Some of the hardest games I've played were the Ninja Gaiden series for the NES and Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. Final Fantasy 6 was hard as well, especialy in the final boss fights. One of the Goddesses had an insta-death skill and she does it quite early in battle. Kefka was a joke though. The NES Mega Man series was difficult as well except for 5, it wasn't as hard as some of the others. Mega Man X5 and X6 were the most difficult X games I've played though. X6 was just insanely hard.

Friday the 13th was just rediculous. Usualy, by the time I got to the cabin jason was in, more then half of the kids at camp were already dead. -_-

Probably Brainbender for the gameboy. I'm not sure what happened to the cartridge in the end, but it's not with us anymore. Maybe it was because I was just a kid when I played it, but giving you fifteen seconds to bend light around a maze was a bit excessive. And that was on the first level. Too many things on screen, too.
I'm not sure how big a hit it was, or if it ever was one (doubdtful - I hope the company behind it went bankrupt), but I had it for some reason.

it would be skies of arcadia. One boss fight took 4 hours! +serveral other hours from dying.
Beating Ramirtez is soooooooo hard.
oh yeah if you dont know its an rpg.

Silvanoshea wrote:it would be skies of arcadia. One boss fight took 4 hours! +serveral other hours from dying.
Beating Ramirtez is soooooooo hard.
oh yeah if you dont know its an rpg.

I thought the final boss battle was relatively ok... the first time I played the game, I died a few times on the ship battle against the final Gigas, which was rather annoying. That was until I found that there is an extremely set pattern to that fight which makes the fight easy, as long as you have enough measures for healing. Hopefully you should have enough money now to buy many, many healing items.

As for the whole triple finla battle in general, I found the hardest part was the first Ramirez. Annoying, too, because his main spell takes ages for finally get past the cutscene. I had Fina cast the thing that give 250 health back to each character each turn - that way Ramirez casts a spell that makes that effect disapear - thus leaving you relatively unscrathed for a turn. As for eternes, you just have Gilder cast the spell that disallows spells like that, EVERY turn. Annoying, yes. But a necessary safety measure.
The final Ramirez is just fun.
And what what the Angel of Death? Was that DC only, or am I forgetting something?

It might have been GC only. Rather then try to explain it myself, I'll quote from an FAQ from GameFAQs.com:

You will receive a "Black Spot" - this is a note from Piastol, the "Angel of Death" who is waiting for you west of Sailor's Island.

Oh, yes Piastol. She appears only in the GC version as an extra feature. Her final battle is annoying, but not with Gilder's special move that cancels out any moves with the sole purpose of killing instantly. Well, not as annoying, at least. Her first battles are easy to clear.
The most annoying part about the angel of death is the fact you have to collect all those silly fish.