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

Taiko

Gra76 wrote: »

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!

Remember those fights myself. Glad SE finally adjusted them by the time I retired.

heartbreak_star

Feud or Dragon's Lair II on the Spectrum. ARGH.

HBS x

RonaldTyer

Alien Shooter game is very difficult to play.. You can try it.

dontone

The_One_Who wrote: »

Kid Chameleon for the Mega-Drive. Only managed to complete it by using the 'cheat' shortcut to the final boss!
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I never did that game. I got as far as being the one that stuck to walls (a sort of fly thing) and there was a level where it was full of rubber walls and you had to move fast because it was the level where the left side chased you with buzz saws and drills. I was about 5 hours into it, and was gutted that I got all that way and was never able to save it.
And I only did Revenge Of The Shinobi once as well. Alien for the Master System was very difficult too, you hardly had any ammo for the Queen on the final level, and if you missed, you failed miserably.
And going even further back, did anybody have a Commodore 16 and ever complete Finders Keepers? that was a real toughie.

Flick216

Canon Fodder - My Beautiful Skidoo - that was a !!!!! of a level! :eek::rotfl:

Chaos Engine with an AI is very hard because the AI pinches all the coins and keys so you never get a decent payout...so can't upgrade as much. Playing with someone else is a doddle.

I remember Syndicate being waaay hard.

I can't play ANY modern games as I just can't work the damn controls! I am used to a joystick that moves you in a straight line - these new fangled, subversive, commie controllers make youmove as if your are half cut!

Retrogamer

Flick216 wrote: »

Canon Fodder - My Beautiful Skidoo - that was a !!!!! of a level! :eek::rotfl:

Chaos Engine with an AI is very hard because the AI pinches all the coins and keys so you never get a decent payout...so can't upgrade as much. Playing with someone else is a doddle.

I remember Syndicate being waaay hard.

I can't play ANY modern games as I just can't work the damn controls! I am used to a joystick that moves you in a straight line - these new fangled, subversive, commie controllers make youmove as if your are half cut!

Cannon Fodder was a solid game. Good fun, but really difficult!

I've downloaded the original Chaos Engine & Syndicate that were remastered to work on the modern PC recently.

On the Amiga i could get to level 2 of Chaos engine. Now with a friend we can get to level 4, but it's still so damn hard!

Syndicate wasn't too bad. I got to the last level and just needed to kill one more person for it to be finished. The game was glitched and this one person killed all my guys because i couldn't shoot him for some reason.
Smashed the diskette up in a fit of rage :T

milocat

100% SYNC on AC:3, I can't stand the game but now I've started it my completionist ways won't let me stop it. >_< I hate it so much.

Anyone that wants to add my xBL by the way (*waggles eyebrows*) ~ it's f0xr0se

geezadrc

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

I'm still curious to know what the Warhammer 40K game was that OP references in their original post.

John

Warhammer 40k (was going to post a link to steam but wont let me)

Good games, could take the OP a long time as its a series of games.

Hardest games to complete have to be original xcom or captive for its sheer size (think it procedurally generated something like 64k maps) never even came close lol

Regards
Dave

sickparrot

Any fighting game basically where you have to learn ridiculous combinations of button presses to get it to do anything.

Sheepster

I'll agree with everyone saying those old games were way harder than modern ones. There's so called "hardcore" middle aged gamers who whinge about how things now have been dumbed down for the "casuals" (In other words, people with a life), but this is failing to see the reason. The real reason is that the graphics were bad, the content was basic, the storyline was very basic - because the graphics and technology just wasn't there - so the only way to go was to make basically very short games, but ones which would take ages to complete because they were so insanely hard.

So, the original Dizzy game was brutal. I could never get past a level on a Commodore 64 age game called Batman (Not the one based around the dark movie).

I'm actually convinced very few people in those days actually completed a game, besides very practiced gamers who this was their only hobby. The fun behind it was to see how far you could get, competing against friends, and knowing you would always get your rear handed to you.