Your Hardest Games

[Sideroller]

Oh yeah, I got Ikaruga for GC because I wanted a challenging shmup to play. I got one alright! I've made it about halfway through that game on normal or easy but I haven't bothered with it in a while.

[Gamerforlife]

Well, let's see. I never could get all S ranks on The Red Star. The last few stages were just too hard for me to not take any damage no matter how many times I tried and that's just on normal difficulty. Just too much coming at you in those stages and too fast. I simply couldn't maintain that kind of focus and concentration. I could beat those last few stages just fine with a lesser rank though

I was trying a best rank/best shot down ratio playthrough on Panzer Dragoon Orta. I think I was playing on hard mode but hit a choke point in one of the game's later levels and eventually gave up. I was a watching videos of a pro player finishing that stage with best rank and 100% shot down ratio and I still just couldn't do it

Perfect shot down ratio in the last stage of Rez. I'll manage it someday, will probably need a video walkthrough to memorize though

Devil May Cry games. I have beaten 1 and 3, but certainly not without frustration and swearing. With Ninja Gaiden games, I can watch some videos or read a faq and then I can use what I have learned to start working through those games on Master Ninja difficulty. With DMC games though, the combat is just too unintuitive for me and I never hit a comfort zone in controlling Dante, which is why I never get beyond normal difficulty on those games. I respect the DMC series, but have never liked the controls. Bayonetta was a bit easier and I had fun with it, but I never really found my comfort zone with that game either and eventually was abusing glitches and exploits to get me through the game. I just like Ninja Gaiden style combat. In fact, I liked the original one's combat the best, before we got Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 changing everything, but I managed to adapt to NG 2's gameplay.

[BRIK]

I remember Driver 1 being unforgivably hard when i was a youngen. I should pull it out again and see if I can actually finish it.

[benderx]

Batman NES Sunsoft, Half way through the dark cave mountains got harder. Batman Returns on sega genesis was a very difficult game with no cheats or passwords, got far on serious level of trying to beat it. That company is now ceased.

[JordanPlayer]

I did fine with the majority of Mega Man Legends due to the fact that I have an immunity to the boredom that most people get from grinding [money grinding from mini-games, in this case]...

This is exactly why I purchased a GameShark for PS1 and Action Replay for PS2 games; it started with Mega Man Legends and I figured it'd be much more time-efficient to purchase a cheat device than grind for gold for a ridiculous amount of time. I want to enjoy these games (usually RPGs) and speed up the "mundane" parts.

F Zero GX on gamecube, just ughhh.....

I spent a lot of time completing that 100% with stock machines, lol.

This is one of the harder games in recent memory (to 100% it); there are a couple levels in story mode that are ridiculous on the hardest difficulty. Also unlocking all the character mini-movies by winning a cup in Master Class takes extreme patience.

I remember Driver 1 being unforgivably hard when i was a youngen. I should pull it out again and see if I can actually finish it.

I remember loving the original Driver game, however there were a couple levels that were downright cheap. If I remember right the very last level is pretty much based on luck

Off the top of my head the hardest game I have recently played is Super Meat Boy (especially with the new levels released in Teh Internetz chapters); took quite a bit of time to collect 100% and A+ all levels. F-Zero GX was also really hard to unlock everything in that game as well.

[SplashChick]

I did fine with the majority of Mega Man Legends due to the fact that I have an immunity to the boredom that most people get from grinding [money grinding from mini-games, in this case]...

This is exactly why I purchased a GameShark for PS1 and Action Replay for PS2 games; it started with Mega Man Legends and I figured it'd be much more time-efficient to purchase a cheat device than grind for gold for a ridiculous amount of time. I want to enjoy these games (usually RPGs) and speed up the "mundane" parts.

F Zero GX on gamecube, just ughhh.....

I spent a lot of time completing that 100% with stock machines, lol.

This is one of the harder games in recent memory (to 100% it); there are a couple levels in story mode that are ridiculous on the hardest difficulty. Also unlocking all the character mini-movies by winning a cup in Master Class takes extreme patience.

I remember Driver 1 being unforgivably hard when i was a youngen. I should pull it out again and see if I can actually finish it.

I remember loving the original Driver game, however there were a couple levels that were downright cheap. If I remember right the very last level is pretty much based on luck

Off the top of my head the hardest game I have recently played is Super Meat Boy (especially with the new levels released in Teh Internetz chapters); took quite a bit of time to collect 100% and A+ all levels. F-Zero GX was also really hard to unlock everything in that game as well.

F-Zero GX Story mode was ridiculous on NORMAL difficulty. Hard and Very Hard were just obscene.

[BurningDoom]

Batman NES Sunsoft, Half way through the dark cave mountains got harder. Batman Returns on sega genesis was a very difficult game with no cheats or passwords, got far on serious level of trying to beat it. That company is now ceased.

Haven't played Batman Returns. But yeah, Batman on NES get's freaking hard towards the end. Crazy jumps with bad guys placed cheaply at the end.

[Xeogred]

Devil May Cry games. I have beaten 1 and 3, but certainly not without frustration and swearing. With Ninja Gaiden games, I can watch some videos or read a faq and then I can use what I have learned to start working through those games on Master Ninja difficulty. With DMC games though, the combat is just too unintuitive for me and I never hit a comfort zone in controlling Dante, which is why I never get beyond normal difficulty on those games. I respect the DMC series, but have never liked the controls. Bayonetta was a bit easier and I had fun with it, but I never really found my comfort zone with that game either and eventually was abusing glitches and exploits to get me through the game. I just like Ninja Gaiden style combat. In fact, I liked the original one's combat the best, before we got Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 changing everything, but I managed to adapt to NG 2's gameplay.

What mechanics were changed in Black? I don't remember that, though it added some new weapons and all that. Also it's funny to note that Black seems to have a better framerate and less random loading than Sigma on the PS3. Kind of sad. I played a bit of Sigma and it was alright, but I'll stick with the original and Black.

I know what you mean about comparing DMC control to NG though. I said it elsewhere recently but I'm a big fan of last gens Japanese action games, and I thoroughly believe NG is one of the biggest reasons why I can't stand boring junk like God of War, QTE heavy battles, and the likes. NG controls fluidly like a dream.

Even if it's one of my favorite games from the last gen though and I mastered it on Very Hard, on top of other replays... I just couldn't really get into the second game at all. I haven't bothered with Sigma 2 yet which seems vastly improved from what I hear, but that's just kind of embarassing it's like Tecmo had a "second chance" to release something actually finished. NG2 from what I played just felt really unpolished, I was never bothered by the camera in NG1 but thought it was horrible in NG2, etc. Quite a big let down sequel for me, and now I'm even more skeptical about the third one with the creator gone, them supposedly toning the difficulty down to be more casual, giving Ryu more character (come on this is Team Ninja, just give me gameplay lol), and this weird infatuation with "bone cutting" just seems silly. I dunno ...

[BRIK]

I remember Driver 1 being unforgivably hard when i was a youngen. I should pull it out again and see if I can actually finish it.

I remember loving the original Driver game, however there were a couple levels that were downright cheap. If I remember right the very last level is pretty much based on luck

Yeah it was an awesome game, cheap pretty much sums up some of the levels though. I remember Driver 2 being so much easier after playing the first one lol.

[env963]

Tempest 2000 on my jaguar..out of all the hundreds of games I have beaten. That particular game i was very, very, very, proud of myself.

Not even going to try to beat it on beastly mode... screw that! LOL