Fifteen Really, Really, Really Hard Games

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IGN has posted a list of fifteen really, really, really hard games. Not a bad list but there are tons of really hard games that didn't even get an honorable mention. What games were really, really, really hard for you?

When From Software unleashed Dark Souls on the world, video game masochists applauded. In this sadistically challenging action RPG, merely surviving is an accomplishment. Of course, really, really tough games have a long and proud history of driving gamers nuts. To celebrate insanely difficult games here are fifteen examples that will test your mettle, negatively influence your welfare, and brutally beat you into the ground, But they may just satisfy you in ways that other games can't.
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Only one PC game.. interesting. Yes, I played a lot of NetHack. I wouldn't call it "Hard".. more or less very surprising and yes, one died... a lot.
 
Original Everquest. Die to something that was just a little too hard? Now you have lost experience points, maybe your old level, and you've respawned naked. Your only chance is to loot your own corpse that has all your hard-win gear on it, but good luck getting to your old corpse with no gear.
 
List is invalid, no listing of Nectaris/Military Madness/Neo Nectaris.

Why call a game 'hard' because of it's needing fast-twitch crap. Call a strategy game hard because it was just this side of impossible.
 
Eh, it is an ok list. I disagree with a few of them.

F-Zero wasn't hard.
Donkey Kong Wasn't hard.
Devil may Cry certainly wasn't hard...Tedious would be a better word.
Dead rising wasn't hard, it has shitty controls. That is called terrible Game design, not difficult.
Trials HD was another like DR. It was more to the fact that the controls were terribly sloppy than the game being actually difficult.

So once you eliminate those, you notice a trend of almost nothing being especially difficult post 2000. Horray for the Everyone is a winner mentality ruining our games. :mad:
 
WoW raid dungeons can be tough too without the right team, gear and skills.
 
No Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES? For shame! That game was super hard. Don't think I ever made it past the 3rd level.
 
Was happy to see Nethack make the list.

Anyone here ever have a TRS-80 back in the day? Dungeons of Daggorath. That was also a very difficult game stay alive in, much less win.
 
Contra really isn't that hard compared to the other Contra games. Namely, Super C. Super C was is just a nightmare. Whenever I go to play Contra now I usually breeze through it. Super C still presents a huge challenge though.
 
Dark Souls was just stupidly hard, and I don't mean in a "complicated" way but in a ridiculous way. Some normal size creature hits you and you slide across the ground a few feet like it is made of ice and off the cliff. Yeah, that's not "hard" ... it is just stupid. Difficult fights is one thing ... game mechanics that just make dying ridiculously easy is not a difficult game, it is a dumb game.
 
I never could get past that damn speed level in battletoads where you're on the hoverbike, jumping over and under crap, faster and faster. :( Of course it didn't help that most of the time playing with my buddies we would TK the crap out of each other before even getting that far. Good times...
 
And yes, the original TMNT for NES should have been on that list. That and Battletoads were both easily the hardest games during that generation of gaming.
 
That X-men trick was awesome but really sucked if you didn't know about it. I remember my buddy and I trying forever to figure out where this reset button Xavier wanted us to hit was. Punching and kicking and blasting everything in this room. Failed to hit it in time, bam…start the game over from the beginning.

One day, after many tries for weeks, I tossed the controller and it hit reset button on my Genesis. Screen goes black as expect…then cutscene “Good job X-men” now to the finale level.
 
EODetroit said:
Original Everquest. Die to something that was just a little too hard? Now you have lost experience points, maybe your old level, and you've respawned naked. Your only chance is to loot your own corpse that has all your hard-win gear on it, but good luck getting to your old corpse with no gear.
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this. Nothing like having an hour of badluck in EQ could equal you losing 3 months of experience. Raaaaage.
 
NES Battletoads was good times. You had to pretty much memorize all the ramps in the speeder level and even then you could still mess it up if your twitch reflex screwed up.
 
Pshhh.. No Top Gun for the NES... No Trigun.... No Thunderforce... No Pilot Wings.. Not convinced this person ever played video games..

There are a few on the list that were hard enough. MGS being on there is laughable. It's just a box!
 
Contra? I did use the cheat, but i played it so often that i was finishing with around 35 lives in one sitting. At the end of the game you get an extra life and you start over. So basically, i can finish it around five times without dying.:D
 
k2_1971 said:
Was happy to see Nethack make the list.

Anyone here ever have a TRS-80 back in the day? Dungeons of Daggorath. That was also a very difficult game stay alive in, much less win.
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Bloody hell, yes!!! My neighbor had this game and it was freaking impossible, I think I ever only made it to the 2nd level. Damn slimes were miserable SOB's.

I was just thinking of this game just the other day, wondering if someone had ported it to another system and/or emulator. Would be cool to try it again.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Horray for the Everyone is a winner mentality ruining our games. :mad:
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Could you imagine Skyrim with Battletoads difficulty? Having to give up 20 hours of gameplay (remember, no saving allowed!) the first time you die? No thanks.
 
TeeJayHoward said:
Could you imagine Skyrim with Battletoads difficulty? Having to give up 20 hours of gameplay (remember, no saving allowed!) the first time you die? No thanks.
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We used to call that Iron Man mode. It shouldn't be the default setting, but I'd love to play with that option.
 
k2_1971 said:
Was happy to see Nethack make the list.

Anyone here ever have a TRS-80 back in the day? Dungeons of Daggorath. That was also a very difficult game stay alive in, much less win.
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Yep, played that on my TRS-80 Color Computer back in the day but I have very little memory of the actual game play.
 
I cant believe they mentioned Ninja Gaiden Black, but not the original NES Ninja Gaidens. Gotta be some of the hardest games ever. I played that game, cause they said it was hard. I button massed my way through the Xbox version. Hardly ever dying.

NES games were some of the hardest games around. See for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2YvyLqw3c
 
Velox said:
No Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES? For shame! That game was super hard. Don't think I ever made it past the 3rd level.
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lol no kidding.

I was able to make it to the technodrome regularly, but it took me YEARS to build the skill to do that.

And Megaman 1-10 should be at the top of that list lol

Metal Gear Solid? Dead Rising? Ninja Gaiden Black? Devil May Cry? The autor of the article clearly didn't spend much time in the NES generation. All of those games are a walk in the park...
 
nxgravity said:
Myst! Needed a strategy guide to get me through it.
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lol agreed. Myst was a REALLY hard game to finish without help. Especially as a young kid (I think I was around 15 or 16 years old when it came out)
 
x-men isn't hard, neither is the gimmick so long as you aren't a heavy handed chode and hold the button.

metal gear solid is not at all hard.

same with fzero and dead rising.

I'm sure we can all think of much more difficult games.

for that list, i also nominate tmnt.
 
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