OT: Hardest games you've ever played

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:53 pm

I was thinking about this when I was browsing gamfaqs the other day for Far Cry information: what's the hardest game or hardest particular levels you've ever played in a video game? Could be sports or otherwise.

Hardest games for me:
F-Zero GX. So much speed, so little room for error, so much masochism.
Smash TV. I could never keep track of the enemies swarming you.
Winning Eleven 6. Took me around a dozen games to score a freaking goal on 3-star level.

Hardest levels:
Metal Gear Solid 2, the level where you had to fight 20 Metal Gears in a row. Took me a week just to get past that battle.

Driver, the last level. The grand m-fing b*tch of all time IMHO. You have to get the president to safety, but every car chasing you is about twice as fast as yours. I think it took me two or three dozen tries before I barely, barely, barely made it to the finish spot, with hardly anything left on the life bar. I almost wanted to throw my PSX out of the window in triumph.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:59 pm

1. The final license test in the original Gran Turismo. Lord, I danced an Irish jig and yelled to the rafters when I finally passed that. One of the many shames about the ensuing GT games was the dumbing-down of the license tests. They were a beast in the original.

2. The final mission in Driver. Damn straight on that one.

3. The final mission in Ace Combat 4, eliminating the nuclear missile. Holy sh*t, that was hard.

4. Winning any long-distance race in F355 on the Dreamcast with all assists off. Very, very tough.

5. Keeping my car off the walls and on the lead lap at Gateway in IndyCar Series. A b*tch.

Something tells me Full Spectrum Warrior may be added to this list, and I'm sure there are tons I've forgotten.

Take care,
PK

skidmark · Post by **skidmark** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:10 pm

Ghost's n' Goblins - No continues in this puppy

Contra was pretty difficult without the 50-lives code

I was pretty happy the day I finally took out Iron Mike in Tyson's Punchout...

I'm noticing these are all older games, I'm not so sure anything newer has really challenged me to the point that I care enough to beat it. Mainly play sports games, but the newer games also feel pretty watered down to the point that beating them isn't as much of a feat as it is a sign you took the time to do so. Games like SC are fun, but don't really have any super challenging spots in them. The new fighters are pretty fun for some head to head mayhem, but in beating Soul Calibur or Tekken you don't feel any accomplishment like when you beat SF2 for the first time. I guess the final boss in that Guilty Gear game is pretty dang hard, but the game just didn't have any staying power with me.

I have the MGSII, but I quit playing it because the story and playing as that one chump sickened me to a state of disinterest... there is a section where you have to take on 20 gears in a row later on?

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:17 pm

Definitely Mike Tyson's Punchout...that mofo was hard when I was only like 7 years old. I remember the first day I beat that guy...it was awesome.

Castlevania on the NES was pretty damn hard as well.

Badgun · Post by **Badgun** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:32 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Definitely Mike Tyson's Punchout...that mofo was hard when I was only like 7 years old. I remember the first day I beat that guy...it was awesome.

Castlevania on the NES was pretty damn hard as well.

Yeah, Tyson was a pipehitting mofo. I remember I could have his ass ready to beat him and he'd hit me twice...end of story.

My all time toughest game was definitely Ninja Gaiden. Just too damn tough for these 45 year old reflexes.

Noledog · Post by **Noledog** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:33 pm

Ikaruga on the gamecube. If anyone has any interest in overhead style shooters, this will make your eyes bleed.

laurenskye · Post by **laurenskye** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:59 pm

Robotron.

Holy s*** there was a lot going on that screen at once.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:15 pm

Badgun wrote:
My all time toughest game was definitely Ninja Gaiden. Just too damn tough for these 45 year old reflexes.

Mine too. Mine too.
Hurt my hands. I think arthur-i- tis is setting in.

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:27 pm

Grand Prix Legends

Sudz · Post by **Sudz** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:46 pm

TOCA 2. i'm on the 2nd level/race............KILLIN' ME
Rolling Thunder 2 for Sega
Toe Jam and Earl.......GAME RULED IN CO-OP MODE
The demo of Metal Slug for the XBOX

Kazuya · Post by **Kazuya** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:00 pm

Contra Hard Corps for the Sega Genesis and Ghosts and Goblins for the NES are two of the most frustrating games you will ever play. Trying to get through the Big Men building in G&G will make you want to kill yourself and your family too. Gradius for the NES is a pretty difficult game... so is Battletoads, which was so hard it often seemed like a joke game designed to torture little kids.

Never had a big problem with Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!!, beat him almost immediately. But my little kid reflexes were driven crazy by the Super Macho Man. Seems like that dipshit would spin a thousand times if necessary to dispatch me. Once I got past him I was money.

As far as modern games, I agree with the Sons of Liberty reference... I didn't have *that* much trouble with it but I agree in the beginning you're like, "How in the f*** am I going to beat all of these Metal Gears?!?"

Oh yeah.... Super Monkey Ball is pretty damned hard. Don't play it with a Wavebird, it *will* go flying...

F308GTB · Post by **F308GTB** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:06 pm

GR:IT. I still can't get past the 2nd mission on rookie after several dozen tries. I plain suck.

F-ZeroX/F-Zero GX get votes too.

FloridaGators · Post by **FloridaGators** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:14 pm

Beating GTA 3 or GTA Vice City. Definitely difficult. I have not accomplished this (I sold the games to fund for others).

btmmayor · Post by **btmmayor** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:26 pm

I'm currently stuck in Viewtiful Joe, the part where you have to fight 5 bosses in a row without a save point. Penny arcade actually had a comic about this one...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?d ... 7-07&res=l

I've been on it for hours and hours. The only other game I can remember giving up on is the original NES Ninja Gaiden and that was mostly because you couldn't save the damn game at all. I'm really close to adding Viewtiful Joe to that short give-up list.

F-Zero GX gets another vote from me as well. I've yet to win a master class race with a stock racer. Story mode was one hell of a mother to get through.

I recently purchased Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox but with Viewtiful Joe kicking my ass and all I've heard about the difficulty in NG, I'm almost scared to fire it up. I seem to remember another PA comic about the difficulty in NG as well.

btmmayor · Post by **btmmayor** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:32 pm

I forgot to add Far Cry for the PC. The last few levels in the game......rifriggindiculous. I had to knock the level down to the easiest one and cheese my way through the last section just to finish that thing.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:14 am

Viewtiful Joe on (normal level) makes Ninja Gaiden on (normal level) feel like a stroll in the park. You could not pay me to play VJ on hard.

Hardest game ever for me goes to MDK 2 for the Dreamcast.

btmmayor · Post by **btmmayor** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:57 am

bdoughty wrote:Viewtiful Joe on (normal level) makes Ninja Gaiden on (normal level) feel like a stroll in the park. You could not pay me to play VJ on hard.

Hardest game ever for me goes to MDK 2 for the Dreamcast.

I'm playing on "Adults" in VJ. There is an easier "Kids" level that I'm tempted to start a new game with just so I can see how the damn game ends. I know there is a "VFX" mode that is unlocked once you beat the game on Adults. The only way I could imagine Viewtiful Joe being tougher than it is on the Adult level is if Fire Leo actually jumps out of my TV and kicks me in the balls.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:10 am

Yea I was tempted to play it on the kids level once I got to level 6? (might have been a different one) where you have to fight the 5 bosses in a row and then you fight Fire Leo.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:36 am

Doctor by far. You're 8 years old, seeing a naked girl, excited but don't know why, and have no clue what's wrong with her.

grtwhtsk · Post by **grtwhtsk** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:24 am

Ninja Gaiden, no doubt. Yet I still want to get that game again.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:28 am

The older I get, the harder video games seem to get.

I read on this forum that the career mode in TOCA2 wasn't very challenging. Well I'm about 70% through and it seems plenty challenging to me. I must suck compared to some of you guys.

And Links is the same way, although I'm playing on the advanced level from the start. Some of those challenges (especially the putting ones) seem impossible, at least right now.

RiverRat · Post by **RiverRat** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:38 am

pk500 wrote:1. The final license test in the original Gran Turismo. Lord, I danced an Irish jig and yelled to the rafters when I finally passed that. One of the many shames about the ensuing GT games was the dumbing-down of the license tests. They were a beast in the original.

I gotta go with the difficult license tests on the Gran Turismo series. Passing the last license test on GT3 was my all-time greatest video game moment. Only got a bronze, but I've never had my heart in my throat playing a video game like I had around the last turn on Cote D'Azur.

DChaps · Post by **DChaps** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:03 am

Grand Prix Legends
Pro Evolution 3
Falcon 3.0

BBReBozo · Post by **BBReBozo** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:51 am

Gotta go with Viewtiful Joe here as well. I never got past the first helicopter in that game (second level?).

Grand Prix Legends is one of those games that will continue to be impossible, no matter how good you get at it. A work of art.

And yes, the final mission of Driver was insane. I remember, when I lived with my old roomate, hearing him screaming at the TV while going over and over and over that mission. It was truly scary the level of psychosis that level generated between the two of us.

mobiggins · Post by **mobiggins** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:39 pm

Ghosts and Goblins was massively difficult.
Battletoads, as well. I could never finish the level where you had to swim through the pipes.

One that nobody else might mention that I played alot was Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode. Those mazes were tough, and the fact that Golgo 13 was so damn hard to control didn't make things easier. I was a masochist in elementary school, what can I say?

The newer games don't seem as hard because of the save feature.