What's the hardest game you've ever played?

The_One_Who

Kid Chameleon for the Mega-Drive. Only managed to complete it by using the 'cheat' shortcut to the final boss!

With modern games, it would probably have to be Demon Souls and Dark Souls, although DS2 seems to be much easier.

benjus

Biffer wrote: »

Did anyone here own a ZX Spectrum? Before the days of automatic updates and patches you could be stuck on a level for days due to bugs.

So my hardest game was some crappy Spectrum platform game.

I sometimes wonder if ANYONE completed a game like Jet Set Willy 2 without cheating in some way.

About 110 rooms, each of which could be quite hard to complete in its own right, no save/load facility, and a pretty limited number of lives.

SeduLOUs

I think the game that frustrated me the most was Geometry Wars 2 and going for the Smile achievement.

Because an attempt didn't take too long, I'd always find myself sitting there at 2am saying "just one more go".

Got it eventually, but mut have been 6 month of trying!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93624POcNxI

Retrogamer

Smash TV and R Types were both solid games.
I couldn't get very far in either of them without infinite lifes.

maas

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Warhammer Dark Omen was one of the hardest games I have ever played.

Wow you should try Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat! Very similar game but "twice" as hard! It makes Dark Omen feel easy! YOu've often got to reload missions after you've completed them if you've lost more than a handful of men as you dont get anywhere near as many reinforcements. And some of the optional missions are nothing short of impossible!!

Time Crisis on the PS1, I remember that was pretty hard to get far in!

Many games I just adjust the difficulty level to hard (or hardest) to make it a challenge. Civ 2 on diety was pretty hard (especially if you adjusted the AI modifier to the hardest!). AI builds 5 units for every 1 of yours . The same with the other strategy games like AoE.

Also I remember the original XCom series. Yeah I'll nominate that as well.

Great thread by the way, will be good to read other peoples hardest games
I'll probably add more as I think of them.

Andy_89

The hardest game I have done is - The impossible game!

Retrogamer

Another solid game i'm working through just now is The Chaos engine.
I used to play it on the Amiga 1200 back in the day, but it's recently been re-released on steam. Still as hard as ever.

g.j.p.nixon

The campaign on Rome Total War II on hard, I'm on my fourth or fifth try! It takes weeks too, but at least you get your money's worth

JJOK93

Monster Hunter on PSP 1,2 and 2 unite!

Gra76

Trying (and failing multiple times) to beat Absolute Virtue in Final Fantasy XI online. I spent hours fighting that thing with alliances and still got wiped out regularly. No-one could beat it for months, there were reports of people fighting it for 18-20 hrs straight and still losing. I gave up not too long after it was finally beaten by others on a different server but by the time I quit there was a new boss called Pandemonium Warden to beat and I heard he was just as bad! Glad I quit when I did!