Hardest games you've ever played?

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Dragon Warrior 1. NES version.

AWESOME, but hard
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Sorry I have to disagree, but maybe thats because I'm a HARDCORE grinder.(I once played on the second screen you get Seifer on in FF8 for 2 solid weeks. I killed my other 2 party members and not only Leveled Seifer to 100 but leveled your first GFs to 100 and drew magic and used my abilities gained to max my entire partys magic stock. This enabled me to have a level 7 party(vs. lvl 7 enemies)While having GF's deal 9999 damage, and the magics junctioned onto my characters gave me around 5000 hp,255 str, etc.I think I finished at lvl 15. Needless to say I could kill Ultemecia with one renzokuken lol.)

Lol that was a paragraph in parentheses, anyway, I just did a lot of grinding to get an insane level, and made sure I got the hero items(is that what they are called?)As I remember the hints to getting them are easy to find.

My vote for hardest game is probably Rygar for nes, Ive never made it pass the third boss.
 
I remember getting royally owned in Shining Force 2 - never been a tactics-guy. As such, I have tremendous problems with every strategy-game ever made. Hm... I wonder if perhaps Independence War/I-War is the most absolute difficult game I've ever played? I'm not usually THAT badly owned in space-flight games, but then, it relies on tactics and imagination.

Or maybe it's Lock-On or Falcon 4[variant x]... The Myst-series doesn't count, does it?

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OT - Heh, sweet, just noticed I'm a 'Cool newbie'! 8) Well, gee, I've only been poking around here since Jenova was in development, first dipping my toes in FF when FFVIII PC was still somewhat new... :roll:
 
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Any bullet hell game from Cave.
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Amen to that, I've been playing Mushihimesama Futari for over a year now, and its still impossible on Ultra difficulty, ESP Ra. De is another classic of theirs..  and as much as they drive me insane, I just keep coming back for more  :-P
 
Hardest game ever nobody can trump: Battletoads for the NES
Thats hard beyond impossible
 
Definitely have to say Duke3D on Damn I'm Good. That's one of the hardest difficulties ever made in a vanilla, non modded fps.

Also, if we are talking mods, The Hell mod for Diablo 1 is over the top, near impossible hard. Surprisingly though, not impossible.
 
Definitely have to say Duke3D on Damn I'm Good. That's one of the hardest difficulties ever made in a vanilla, non modded fps.

Also, if we are talking mods, The Hell mod for Diablo 1 is over the top, near impossible hard. Surprisingly though, not impossible.
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Agreed. >_< Me and a Friend have been trying to get it to work with Multiplayer though, using LAN or TCP/IP over Hamachi. Got it to show up in the menu and stuff just games won't show up ><

If we're still talking mods LOL - FF1 Rebalanced was a pretty good Challenge. I don't know if it was realesed though I got sent the Beta version for the NES, I haven't gotten any emails back since September '10 >.> If you can get past the minor graphical bugs on some of the sprites then it's pretty good challenge. Alot harder compared to the Original FF1 that's for sure.
 
Any bullet hell game from Cave.
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lol I liked this comment in one of these vids.

(X) Asian Hard

() Asian Medium

() Asian Easy

() Impossible

() Expert

() Hard

() Medium

() Easy


Asian Easy is harder than Impossible :evil:
 
Harder of all them? FFX. I just wasn't able to figure what to do... I do love that game, like all FFs (although FFVIII is still my favourite) but I'm not good... FFXII too... I got stuck a lot, but managed to beat it. Also FFVI. I think I don't have the necessary strategy to beat some bosses... FFIX also is damn hard for me. Kari "Essentia" Johnson makes me realize how much bad I am to these three game >< Have you ever been ridiculised by some Speed Runner at some game? FFVI, single-segment in 3:27 ><
 
Every time I see the word "futari" I immediately read it as "futanari".
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lol, you're not the only one. As to the hardest games, I second Dan about TMNT on the Nes. El Viento on the Genesis was also hard, but I finished it. And Gargoyle's Quest on GB was also good fun. ...Yeah, old games, I know ^^
 
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Harder of all them? FFX. I just wasn't able to figure what to do... I do love that game, like all FFs (although FFVIII is still my favourite) but I'm not good... FFXII too... I got stuck a lot, but managed to beat it. Also FFVI. I think I don't have the necessary strategy to beat some bosses... FFIX also is damn hard for me. Kari "Essentia" Johnson makes me realize how much bad I am to these three game >< Have you ever been ridiculised by some Speed Runner at some game? FFVI, single-segment in 3:27 ><
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I think you've got the word "hard" mixed up with the word "ridiculously easy".

FFVI, FFIX and FFX are without a doubt the three most disappointingly easy game I've ever played (assuming, in the case of X, we're just talking about getting to the end and not including the side-quests).
 
You think FFVI, FFIX and FFX are easier than FFVII ? Seriously ?... ...I mean, seriously ?

I'm not saying those three are hard (actually, I find them to have the right difficulty level - especially FFIX and FFX), but implying that vanilla isn't a walk in the park is, well, just wrong. Except when trying to fight Emerald or Ruby, I never had a single game-over in my first FFVII playthrough - whereas I had 3 or 4 along the course of both FFIX and FFX (for example, I didn't recruit Quina when I had the chance and fought Gizamaluke with only Zidane, Vivi and Freya). That, and Yunalesca was tricky.

In fact, it depends of which FF game you played first - and how old you are...
 
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Hardest Final Fantasy ever was VIII. [/troll]

Hardest game I've personally played was the Ninja Gaiden series. And the trials for Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV.

EDIT: Totally forgot about Kid Chameleon. That shit kept going on and on and on!
 
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lol yeah, Kid Chameleon... ...Never finished this one. I remember playing it again on emulator years ago, and even by abusing save-states, I ended up being stuck in a skate-boarding level. It wasn't a maze, but I couldn't find the exit  :o I think it has a few "trap" levels, and if you warp into one of them, you're basically screwed.
 
Care to elaborate why you find them that much easier ? I'm curious.
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Because they're easier.

FFVI is much more basic than a lot of other FF games and can be beaten without any thought at all. I'm not sure whether I had a single game over when playing it; the final boss was insultingly easy even by FF standards. Whatsmore, it's always insultingly obvious what the player has to do and where one has to go.

FFIX's bosses seem to have been gimped for the sole purpose of making the Excalibur II side-quest possible. It actually gets harder right at the end, but none of the other bosses pose any kind of challenge, even if one obsessively tries to steal every item from them (which wastes Zidane's turn and takes far too long thanks to the low steal rates). It's also far easier to fight with a party of four than with a party of three.

FFX has the opposite problem. Rather than gimping the bosses, facilitating the side-quests allows the player to nerf the party to the point where the final opponents an be beaten in just a couple of hits. One might say that this is comparable to what happens when one gets hold of KotR in FF7, but at last KotR is hard to get. The ability to fight battles using overpowered Aeons also made things far too easy. One commendable aspect of FFX is that, unlike the other two games, it requires one to think about how best to deal with equipment and character growth. It shares this aspect with FF7 and 8, which require an understanding of the materia system and the junction system respectively. FF6 and 9 didn't have anything that required this level of thought.
 
FFX was pretty challenging in some areas though for sure.  Seymour was usually a few time try especially on gagazet.  Yunalesca was hard and the dark aeons especially penance were very difficult and required you to fill a lot of the sphere grids.

OK there were a few that were difficult and most of the game bosses were easy.  The side quests werent :P
 
What was the difficulty like in XII? I only played the first 10 minutes.
 
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