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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_%28video_game%29#Gold_Edition)

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. :shrug:

[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:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw

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.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdq7sDvIuLo

[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 (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_%28video_game%29#Gold_Edition)

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_%28video_game%29#Gold_Edition)

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 (http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php). It puts every other game in this thread to shame.

[Raz]

Seriously, everyone should go play I Wanna Be The Guy (http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php). 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?

[TinCow]

NES Rygar

Rygar was a kind of RPG/Action hybrid like Zelda and Metroid, but there was no saving of any kind. You had to finish the entire game in a single sitting. I don't care how hard a modern game is, it cannot compare with the difficulty of old-school games that had no save feature.

[caravel]

Yes, Another World... I seem to remember playing that on the Amiga for a short time before giving up. IMHO the original Prince of Persia (1989/1990) was one of the hardest games there is. You had to finish the whole game in an hour and you could only save at the start of each level... it was also one of those slidy inertia type, collapsing platforms and spike pits games - very frustrating... I'm pretty sure I didn't get past the first level...


The Alien section of the Alien versus Predator Gold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_%28video_game%29#Gold_Edition)

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.
I had the normal version of the game (AvP 1999), not the gold version, but completed the whole game with all three characters on the "Director's Cut" difficulty. The alien is hard to master yes, but if you're conservative with your limited save points and master wall walking (and patience) it's very doable. The trick is to use the xenomorph's speed to your advantage, i.e. wait and strike multiple targets before they can fire their weapons - something which wasn't really possible with the clumsy slowed down xenomorph in AvP2.

[Fisherking]

For me this was the beast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29

Elite

You could save the :daisy: but only in a base.

If the pirates didn’t get you on the way into a system the space station rotated and you had to make it through a little door to land.

Which meant you had to steer the ship and rotate to keep a flat angle with the opening. There was no auto landing.

Needless to say I don’t think I ever completed a game.

[gaelic cowboy]

I had the normal version of the game (AvP 1999), not the gold version, but completed the whole game with all three characters on the "Director's Cut" difficulty. The alien is hard to master yes, but if you're conservative with your limited save points and master wall walking (and patience) it's very doable. The trick is to use the xenomorph's speed to your advantage, i.e. wait and strike multiple targets before they can fire their weapons - something which wasn't really possible with the clumsy slowed down xenomorph in AvP2.

I might reload it see if I can better it this time.

[Kekvit Irae]

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

Frame skip to start, slo-mo if you're having problems.
There isn't really any story in the game. You're The Kid, and you wanna be The Guy. That's it. Oh, and there are cherries of death.

[Prussian to the Iron]

guys, obviously.

QWOP

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

[johnhughthom]

guys, obviously.

QWOP

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

That game's easy.



The aim is to make the guy fall backwards on to his head, right?

[Motep]

guys, obviously.

QWOP

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

Oh yes. This one is a bit of a pain no? I've only been able to get him to go the whole way once...I usually fail at 20

[Centurion1]

guys, obviously.

QWOP

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html


touche

[Whacker]

I'd have to say it's a toss-up between Quake 3 Arena on nightmare or Starcraft.

Q3A vs the bots on hardest, or really good players was a face-melting, sanity-destroying frustration fest. It did however get me very, VERY good at shooters for a period of time.

Starcraft was one of the most humbling gaming experiences I've ever had. Hardest AI would destroy me over and over again. My friends and people on the internet who were VERY good would repeatedly remind me that I was not that good. I've never been very good at RTS's in general, but damn. Of course I was a huge idiot and also bought Starcraft 2, which has been fun but a great reminder that I am NOT very good at RTS's. Did I mention I'm not very good at RTS's?

Edit - For posterity's sake. I couldn't beat 1943 on the NES without cheating and using slo-mo with my NES Advantage. Even then it was a challenge.

[Ichon]

Close Combat series on the highest settings... some of the campaigns were very unforgiving but always makes you think its possible to win and so try again. Losing a single tank on some maps meant no tanks for several battles.

Otherwise most of the old screen scroll games had certain frustrating moments when trying to learn the level as it required a perfect sequence of moves.

[A Nerd]

I remember the old Dragons Lair games. In the arcades of old. Those were hard if you didn't know how to play them, as was my case the first time I played. Even when you did know what you were doing they could be frustratingly difficult.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Close Combat series on the highest settings... some of the campaigns were very unforgiving but always makes you think its possible to win and so try again. Losing a single tank on some maps meant no tanks for several battles.

Bridge Too Far as Allies was a nightmare (and in the game!) but I was also a noob. Usually I took forever to secure the first few maps in an operation, then got rolled back by German armor until Allied armor moved up.

The Germans of course had the anti-armor easy button - the panzerfaust. :P

[Raz]

I'm changing my hardest game to I Wanna Be The Guy. :embarassed:

I got up to here and humbly came to the conclusion: I CAN'T WIN!
https://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7927/iwtbtg2.jpg

[Forward Observer]

For me it was a futuristic flight sim called Echelon. It was a beautiful game and the ships were fun to fly, but like most fight sims, one could only save between missions. Some of the missions were multiphase and quite involved. Your aircraft (sort of a combo airplane and helo) was pretty fragile, so if you took too much damage before the end of the mission, you might as well quit and start over. I must have played some of most difficult missions like 25 or more times before I was able to chalk up a win and progress in the game. It became a quest for me to finish the thing.

They released a sequel called "Echelon: Windwarriors", but it had even less of a story line and was just as hard as the original--if not harder. I think I finished about 10 of its 30 missions before I said---enough is enough--at that point I'd had about all the seemingly endless re-play of the same almost impossible mission that I could enjoy.

Cheers

[Kekvit Irae]

I'm changing my hardest game to I Wanna Be The Guy. :embarassed:

I got up to here and humbly came to the conclusion: I CAN'T WIN!
https://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7927/iwtbtg2.jpg

https://i55.tinypic.com/pp2x5.jpg

[Mailman653]

Six Types of Video Game Enemies Now Sadly Unemployed (http://www.gamespy.com/articles/116/1163743p1.html)
An amusing article which could be related to this thread. Afterall, without enemies, would most of the games in this thread be as hard?

[Skullheadhq]

Victoria: An Empire under the Sun. Steep learning curve and lots of micromanagement.

[PanzerJaeger]

Red Orchestra had a pretty steep learning curve, and of course every Paradox game I've ever played.

[Brendan]

NES Rygar

Rygar was a kind of RPG/Action hybrid like Zelda and Metroid, but there was no saving of any kind. You had to finish the entire game in a single sitting. I don't care how hard a modern game is, it cannot compare with the difficulty of old-school games that had no save feature.

Hahaha. I remember Rygar. And Zelda and Metroid. That old Metroid was really hard to beat due to the amazingly large complex of maze-like areas and high degree of gameplay difficulty. I would like to play it one time and beat it, but I wonder if I'd have the patience and skill.


The following isn't actually that difficult per se, but perhaps very much... annoying: http://www.addictinggames.com/theworldshardestgame.html

[Kocmoc]

For me this was the beast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29

Elite

You could save the :daisy: but only in a base.

If the pirates didn’t get you on the way into a system the space station rotated and you had to make it through a little door to land.

Which meant you had to steer the ship and rotate to keep a flat angle with the opening. There was no auto landing.

Needless to say I don’t think I ever completed a game.

Me as ELITE pro can ensure you, that there was an "autopilot" which you could buy and install. This tool did get you into the stations automatically.
There were 2 ways to land save:

1. rotate with the station and slowly get in - that did people with some experience
2. the full speed version, get close, stop the ship and than in with fullspeed once the station was in position. It did work, simply as you did was "in" the game did save and you did enter the station.

The game was pretty hard at its time.



I want to point out Prince of Persia. You had 60 mins time to finish all lvl´s. Some of the fights was hard, the biggest problem I had with the mirror. I stand there and wasted endless games to figure it out at some point. No internet, no one to ask....

[Brendan]

Prince of Persia. Now that was a game.

[A Nerd]

I remember playing thru Prince of Persia many times before I finished it. Master a level and move on the the next one until time ran out. Slowly getting thru every level until completion of the game. As I recall, the mirror guy at the end was pretty tough. I tried to jump over him after killing myself many times and found you had to meld with him, as I remember it anyway. Old school games are the best. I used to be pretty good at Spy Hunter back in the day as well!

[Rahwana]

QWOP
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

13 m at most... ouch

[Reenk Roink]

Battletoads... :sad: I played a ton of those old console games that gave me trouble as a kid and could beat most of them, but Battletoads was as hard as it was when I was 5. :embarassed:

[Fragony]

Battletoads... :sad: I played a ton of those old console games that gave me trouble as a kid and could beat most of them, but Battletoads was as hard as it was when I was 5. :embarassed:

Heh forgot all about that one, no shame in being terrible at that Battletoads gawd

[Crazed Rabbit]

The most difficult game I've spent a bit of time on would probably be Lemmings. There's some others, like QWOP, but those seem more like gimmicks than games.

Trivia; it was developed by the studio that would become Rockstar (of GTA fame).

CR