Most difficult game you played

[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.

[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

[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. :/