[General Discussion] Hardest game(s) you've ever played

None of you people have shit on this



Ironsword was a tough game, yeah and Contra 3 was a stone bitch on its hardest level. But even Gauntlet had levels with exits! But oh no, not Robowarrior. The problem with Robowarrior was that unless you found the Chalice - the level looped endlessly. How do you find it? You have to blow up those bushes (to find items). And how do you do that? With bombs. So basically the only way to progress through the level is blowing up bushes with a bomb of which you only have X amount of, so use them sparingly.

My grandparents got me this when they couldn't find Robocop for the NES. I hadn't heard about it - hell, I'm 28 and I don't think I've ever talked to someone whos heard of it or played it in that span of time - and gave it a spin. It was horrifying, like some kind of fever dream. New game... but you couldn't go to level two? Finite ammo? What the hell was this?

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Just watching the video clip makes me wince. Christ.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

As far as turnip-based games go, that's probably the hardest.

Look. It doesn't have the 8-1 jump from the first installment and it doesn't have the goddamned World 8 minifortress from the third one, so the statement is so flawed that to agree with it is to be a new level of goddamned wrong.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

Ikaruga

Einhänder was harder than this.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

I actually beat Einhänder. Twice. I've never been able to beat Ikaruga.

Exactly my point: You can beat the harder, older game but still struggle with basic color comprehension.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Encephalon

Back in the day I remember being able to cut a swath of destruction through Contra III on Hard too but, you know, I'm old now. Years of drug, alcohol and pussy abuse killed my reflexes. What's YOUR excuse for not beating it now?

Around 2003, I got to the final boss on the hardest level (in a two player game) and died. However, my friend then beat it. Whats YOUR excuse?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Big Gay Chulo

Limited lives, one hit deaths, pixel perfect jumps required and loads of glitches that made it physically impossible to actually finish half the time.

Oh. So you mean Contra.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Big Gay Chulo

Maybe you should read what other people write before making stupid comments that serve only to highlight your own ignorance?

Nigga, I got a goddamn Intellivision. Don't be hate'n on me because I'm representin' 1978 with my hot-as-fuck fake wood racing stripe and dope as all hell voice synthesis action. My shit is vintage, who the hell are you?

People like you beat their wives and play Sears Super Video Arcade. Get outta here. I control the sky.

BURGERTIME. PETER PEPPER ALL UP IN YOUR FACE. DO SOMETHIN ABOUT IT. HOW YOU GONNA ACT NOW.

FELIPE NO

I just realized this...

How has no one mentioned THIS impossible load of fucking garbage?

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I doubt any of you young people remember this. Holy fucking Shit, it makes anything you've played after 32 bit seem like a fucking joke.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by wvlfpvp

Holy GOD. I think I made it through one person's stage

It had to have been Cyclops', as I beat that one without too much effort.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by wvlfpvp

... it's based on a specific storyline from the comics

Link plzkthanx

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oooooooh, I was thinking it was a special tie-in issue or a one-shot or something...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.