hardest game ever

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Quote[/b] (Cazbol @ Mar. 17 2004,15:14)]I'd put my vote on Die by the Sword. Your left hand was for controlling your body WASD-style but you needed your right hand on all the num-keypad keys just to control the movement of the character's right hand swinging the sword.

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Damn i loved this game, such a laugh and very difficult to get a handle on but when you swing that sword from 9 down to 1 and up to 7 and back down to 3 and you've loped some kobalts arms off and he's standing there waiting for the final blow.

*sighs*

My nostalgic past gaming http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

Multiplayer was good too, i think i even used to play it over a serial cable Launching your character over lava or down a hole to chop off some AI or friends limb was classic.

edit: anyone remember Lemmings Paintball http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...speechless.gif

Hardest game ever: Rainbow Islands http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

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Quote[/b] (chunkynut @ April 01 2004,05:30)]Damn i loved this game, such a laugh and very difficult to get a handle on but when you swing that sword from 9 down to 1 and up to 7 and back down to 3 and you've loped some kobalts arms off and he's standing there waiting for the final blow.

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You could also chop off an opponent's leg, sheath your sword, pick up the leg and use it to beat up the guy.
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One word- Ikaruga.

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Quote[/b] (chunkynut @ April 01 2004,05:30)]Damn i loved this game, such a laugh and very difficult to get a handle on but when you swing that sword from 9 down to 1 and up to 7 and back down to 3 and you've loped some kobalts arms off and he's standing there waiting for the final blow.

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You could also chop off an opponent's leg, sheath your sword, pick up the leg and use it to beat up the guy.
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I think Mafia's pretty tough. i have to play each mission at least several times to pass. i have been playing the game for a week, and still on lvl 11. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...c-furious3.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

Not meny games I have played, only Quake.

MIB 2 for ps2.

yeah, mafia is hard, but fun

Heres a list compiled by the codemasters QA team

Pacman
Commandos
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (we can vouch for that)
Chuckie Egg
Shadow of the Beast II
Rick Dangerous
Syndicate
Tetris
Rainbow Islands
Final Fantasy VIII
Riven
Myst 3
Ninja Gaiden
Legacy of the Wizard
Ikaruga

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Keep me weird but.. I never managed to achieve a touch in Duke Nukem. Yes, it's a fairly easy game 'n all, but during those times the graphics & sounds were just way too creepy for me.

Another game I in the end beated with cheats was Blood. The game itself was sadistic as Hell. You could play football (or like the yankees call it, soccer) with a head of a slain enemy. There were loads of weapons to go with, but the only useful in my hands was either the voodoo-doll or the spray-bottle.

I know it's a bit dated now, but X-Com 2: Terror from the Deep used to make me cry into my beer somewhat - you'd spend AGES building up your base only to get it trashed by aliens, and spend ages researching decent weapons (the entry-level hardware was puny) for your tactical squads only to have them wiped out in one move by whatever latest uber-alien that happened along http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-wall.gif and have your budget slashed at around the same time http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...c-furious3.gif

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Quote[/b] (Auxilia @ April 25 2004,15:17)]I know it's a bit dated now, but X-Com 2: Terror from the Deep used to make me cry into my beer somewhat - you'd spend AGES building up your base only to get it trashed by aliens, and spend ages researching decent weapons (the entry-level hardware was puny) for your tactical squads only to have them wiped out in one move by whatever latest uber-alien that happened along http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-wall.gif and have your budget slashed at around the same time http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...c-furious3.gif

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I never had X-com2 to but X-Com 1 was quite enough. It was fun but I never finished it. Eventually I'd have researched everything I could and I'd have to assualt a large spaceship. they would blow away a fighter then get shot down by another just to have me go in and get my 8 soldiers obliterated in the first 5 turns.

EDIT: Did you ever play X-Com Apocalypse? That was a hard game too

Atlantis Ring missions in Syndicate/American Revolt.
Nothing but gauss grenades and laser beams raining down over your cybersquad. As soon as energy shields depleted (approximately fifteen seconds after the mission loaded), you could say goodybye to your top-of-the-notch, cutting-edge-technology biomechanic wonders. Depressing.

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Quote[/b] (nightcrawlerblue @ April 25 2004,21:58)]EDIT: Did you ever play X-Com Apocalypse? That was a hard game too

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Only because it was so flawed, none of the stuff worked properly, only when i turned a cheat on and got infinate money did i realise this http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/angry.gif

Lot of time on what could have been a kick ass game misspent.

you forgot Commandos, which was the hardest game I ever actually finished. I never in my life went for the walkthroughs on a game as quickly as I did with this one, and even then it was a challenge

The Civ games on Deity. It apparently can be done, but I'm not sure I believe it. Anyone done it here?

Original CS

when playing with pros.

spawn, shot in head
Spawn, Walk Around Corner, Shot In Head
SPAWN, GET THROUGH THE DOOR, SHOT IN HEAD

thanks, Dessa

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Quote[/b] (MalibuMan @ April 29 2004,03:42)]The Civ games on Deity. It apparently can be done, but I'm not sure I believe it. Anyone done it here?

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Deity is easy... try C3C on Sid... I get trashed before entering the second era, when my hoplites or spearmen face hordes of cavalry with artilery support http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...gc-stunned.gif completely unplayable http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-wall.gif

Right from the start I noticed Stuntman on the list. That game drove me nuts for the three days I rented it. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-wall.gif
I'm normally great with driving sims, but some of the tasks in that game were just not doable. I liked the concept and all, but it lost me in the difficulty. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif

Falcon 4 on full realism with the patches. Fly through a zone heavy with AAA, SAMs and Migs and you will definitely feel thew heat.

Then try to land with the controls out. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-help.gif

I notice a lot of war games and RPGs but no sims.

One of the business sims I played on the highest level seemed impossible (wish I could think of the name, have to try and pull it out). Another Capitalism II, is the toughest for a farily good sim. I have played it through all the mods and on custom (it is also used as part of some university's MBA training).

Tropico (another sim where you run a banana republic) I have found to be awful difficult, I have never finished a mod successfully

Civilization (I have the second one) is tough and yes on the higher levels, I know some people have managed, but not me.

Quake was /is difficult, especially when I played it with no joystick and limited interest on a laptop screen (sorry, running around and only shooting other guys doesn't get pumped up for too long).

Hey we forgot MTW, great game, and I am still playing through all the factions, 3 down (English, Italian, and Spanish), quite a few to go.

I thought American Conquest with it's many campaigns and strategies, plus the routing stuff, was hard to beat. It took me nearly half a year. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

Shadow of the Beast 2 on the Amiga, i do beleive it was next to impossible Those psyognosis(sp?) people really knew how to keep you coming back for more punishment

EU2 for me.

Combine an obsessively anal level of depth (not that thats a bad thing) with a detailed, yet counter-intuative and often downright bizarre game engine, and you have the hardest game I've ever played.

CoT's??? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/confused.gif What the hell are they supposed to represent? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/angry.gif

Or you could conquer another country, only you haven't really conquered them as after all that fighting you negotiate a peace. A peace where your position of overwhelming strength gives you a minor province. If you're lucky.

I played the tutorials, read the manual, asked on the forums, played about 10 hours of a game and I still had no clue what I was meant to be doing.

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Wizardy 8 defeated me. Expectation and word of mouth for this game among the usent rpg community was so high, I was sure it would be great. But the turn-based combats were agonisingly slow, with stupid plants (called phoots or some such inanity) blasting my party from range, complete with masochistic blood splatters on my party's faces each time they hit. I had researched the character building, party composition, spells etc thoroughly and was convinced I had a near optimal party but my progress was just painfully slow and not worth pursuing given the paltry rewards - a plot and NPC characters I thought sub-Pokemon in quality. Never found an RPG too hard before or since. Kinda bizarre that this game could be created by the folk that made Jagged Alliance 2, which is close to as perfect a tactical combat game as you can get. [Reminds me of the strangeness of the makers of wonderfully atmospheric Arcanum producing the mind-numbing bland Temple of Elemental Evil.]

The penultimate level of System Shock 2 was pretty hard for me too. I am useless at shooter games or puzzle games, but wanted to stick with SS2 for the gripping story and terrifying atmosphere. But things went downhill rapidly after leaving the first ship. When you beyond both ships, it got ludicrous - with some nightmare jumping puzzle (over some enormous teeth, of all things) I spent hours on and then an absurd respawning battle. I had scrimped and saved everything throughout the game, battling throughout with the wrench, so I would have a decent stock of ammo for my assault rifle in the endgame. But, as my character lay hunkered down in a trench in the penultimate level, blasting endless monsters, my ammo had almost ran out and I realised the monsters would never dry up. So I was forced to charge into some cavern and run around like a maniac, dodging aerial bombardment, shooting out key targets on the ground and then having to shoot three floating stars in the sky. The whole thing was so ridiculously hard and so surrealistically absurd, it was quite out of character with the stealthy, careful gameplay that had preceded it. It did have a kind of nightmare quality to it, though, that means I feel a kind of pride completing it.

Mount Suribachi I had the same problem with EU2, it is one of those games custom desgined to baffle a frog...so many numbers where you would prefer a description as well...my BB is 3.14, what in heck does that mean? If only it also said you have a slightly tarnished rep.

Ahem, I did eventually manage to get on with the game, thanks to this thread. There's plenty of good info there, unfortuantely the pictures are gone. I'll request the thread is moved over, and then ask Louis if he wants to add those sceenshots to the arena space.

CoT = centre of trade, stuff them with merchants to reap much shiny gold.

Thanks froggy, I thought there was a thread, but I think it was before I picked up the game (thankfully I only paid a tenner).

And I know what a CoT is, I just never quite figured out how to use them, and in particular, what aspect of economics they were supposed to represent. They seemed extremely spurious to me.

SMAC: Transcend

Civ III: Diety

Homeworld 2: This requires a bit of an explanation, since many people probably didn't find it that hard. Try to get through mission 14 or mission 12 with a full fleet and no hyperspacing battlecruiser tho, and you'll know what I'm talking about. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif