Most difficult game you played

[Hooahguy]

Title really says it all.
What is the most difficult game you played?

For me its Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. I have the PC version, which is much harder than the console version since the mechanics of the game are different.
But at least its the most realistic shooter Ive played to date.

[Veho Nex]

Has to be STALKER. First time I played that I died about 60 times before figuring out how to successfully do the first mission.

[rajpoot]

Dangerous Dave. Used to play it all the time. Still never finished the game. Ofcourse back then I did not have access to the internet so I got stuck quite often and for long periods of time.

[Monk]

Dwarf Fortress.

Super Meat Boy too... god.

[Graphic]

Ninja Gaiden for X-Box and Shinobi for PS2. Both ridiculously difficult ninja games.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Parasite Eve I & II for the original Playstation. Nightmare Mode was well nigh unwinnable.......

[gaelic cowboy]

The Alien section of the Alien versus Predator Gold

I read somewhere that very few people ever completed the whole game and to this day I still have only completed the Predator and Marine sections, it was just way too confusing and disorienting running up walls etc.

The 360 and PC game that was released lately was nere a patch on the old one for difficulty

[Chimpyang]

Title really says it all.
What is the most difficult game you played?

For me its Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. I have the PC version, which is much harder than the console version since the mechanics of the game are different.
But at least its the most realistic shooter Ive played to date.

GRAW is blooming difficult. Having problems even on Normal. However, insane difficulty award goes to STALKER. I'm having the same experience as Veho Nex.

[Kekvit Irae]

I Wanna Be The Guy

[Greyblades]

I've been trying to get the big boss emblem for the last week on MGS4, I think its been the hardest time I've had with a game.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Dorffortress (for five minutes), XCOM (specifically Terror From The Deep), Red Orchestra (that was fun though), Stalker: Call of Pripyat (I think it's harder than the first one which was more scary than difficult but still challenging).

[Motep]

Resident Evil 4. Not hard because it was hard, but it was hard because I did not have the ability to save. Always vigilant...so...many....stupid...deaths....hours....lost...

[Scienter]

STALKER was hard but I think the hardest game I've ever played is Europa Universalis III. TC tried to get me to play it and I just couldn't get into it. There were too many variables to keep track of and the lack of a goal in the game didn't give me an incentive to figure it out.

[Hooahguy]

GRAW is blooming difficult. Having problems even on Normal.

How far did you get? Im on mission 7 right now, having huge problems fighting through the slums. Frickin enemies are everywhere. Just when you think you got them all before you advance, someone will pop up behind you and nail you.

[Raz]

ArmA II is the most realistic shooter I've come across, I don't find it overly challenging, requires much more thinking on your feet (or on your seat really). [/incidentally self-promotional message]

I also thought STALKER was quite easy, but dem bloodsuckers... *shudders* I'd take on a swarm of any other mutant any day rather than bumping into one of them at night - tough, invisible, fast, powerful, and just downright scary I'd tried shotguns, assault rifles, EVERYTHING i had on me, I'd always end up dead.
Bloodsuckers? Now those things, those were difficult.

But, as for me, I've narrowed it down to my three most difficult games.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Steel Panthers - MBT.
Dwarf Fortress.

Love DF to bits, it's very, very err.... Fun. But I've never actually made a fortress last longer than 2-3 years (love modding it too).
Quote from myself: "okay, i think i'm ready to get my magma furnace up and running..." (less than one season later) ".... ahh nuts."

As for SP-MBT, i love the modern setting compared to WW2, but I can't for the life of me get the balance of units right. I always end up being far too infantry or armour heavy and miss out on some vital piece of equipment. Subsequently, I end up losing every match. I don't think I've ever actually finished a match successfully. Funnily, I like to think that I'm actually quite good at SP-WW2, I've been going strong in my current German long campaign.
Quote: "what are these ATGMs? why are they so damn powerful!? and why on earth are all my bloody T-90s on fire!!?"

Amnesia? Well, simply put, it just scared the pants off me.
err, you don't really want to hear a quote from me when I've been playing Amnesia - it's more or less just squeals and profanities. <_<

[Greyblades]

Ah dwarf fortress, I dont seem to have the patience to fully learn that little chestnut.

[naut]

Hopscotch. I have all the finesse of a fish out of water. No matter how hard I try, I just cannot hop in anything resembling a straight line.

[Jolt]

Another World:



Notice how the guy finishes the game in 20 minutes.
That's because not only does he already know exactly what he must do, he also has quite a bit of luck and skill during the firefights.

I probably died hundreds of times before I finished the game. Since the game is by checkpoints, it was highly annoying dieing dozens of times and going back to the same checkpoint. Plus the fact that the levels were highly confusing, and if you didn't do exactly the correct path, you'd die, made it for an highly difficult game. Fortunately, I managed to finish the game. And even the ending is quite disapointing, taking into account the effort that you need to put, to finish the game.

EDIT: More up to the point.

[Kekvit Irae]

Ah dwarf fortress, I dont seem to have the patience to fully learn that little chestnut.

Once you learn the very basics (mining, food production, trading), it becomes quite easy...... until the goblins arrive. Then it gets Fun.

[Raz]

I remember Another World - I don't believe I ever made it much further than the third screen across. :/

[Sjakihata]

The Alien section of the Alien versus Predator Gold

I read somewhere that very few people ever completed the whole game and to this day I still have only completed the Predator and Marine sections, it was just way too confusing and disorienting running up walls etc.

The 360 and PC game that was released lately was nere a patch on the old one for difficulty

I think the Alien parts were the best! Each to his own I guess, I thought the marine parts were the most difficult, 'cos I got scared!

Anyway - an old game called The Lost Vikings is probably mine

[Fragony]

Myth 3 probably

[edyzmedieval]

Takeda (the original) and U.S. Navy Fighters 97.

They are my up there in my list of favourite games, but I never managed to finish any of them. Takeda had a damn difficult campaign, I got stuck towards the end at assaulting Gifu fortress which was almost impossible without losing almost all of your generals.

U.S.N.F. - landing on an aircraft carrier, out of 100 tries I managed 2. The aircraft carrier was moving, the graphics were bad and it was impossible to land. I only managed to finish three missions from the first campaign.

[Motep]

The Alien section of the Alien versus Predator Gold

I read somewhere that very few people ever completed the whole game and to this day I still have only completed the Predator and Marine sections, it was just way too confusing and disorienting running up walls etc.

The 360 and PC game that was released lately was nere a patch on the old one for difficulty

Oh god yes, I must agree that that was a pain! But I did find it quite rewarding and even managed not to completely suck at it.

[CountArach]

Super Meat Boy... Argh...

Killzone 1. 2 was rather difficult as well at times, but 3 was much easier.

Oh and Victoria. How could I forget that?

[Mailman653]

Another World:

Same here.

[Kekvit Irae]

Seriously, everyone should go play I Wanna Be The Guy. It puts every other game in this thread to shame.

[Raz]

Seriously, everyone should go play I Wanna Be The Guy. It puts every other game in this thread to shame.

well, if you insist. but which version should I get? slo mo? or frame skip?
i have no idea what this game is about, i barely read the info on the link, so no spoilers at all please. :P

[Decker]

Fighting games... I really suck at those.

[Beefy187]

Sim city in general.
How do you play that without cheating?