What do you think the hardest game of all time is?

[nneace]

What do you think the hardest game of all time is? and not the hardest game of all time to sit through (can anyone say E.T. for Atari or Fantastic Four for Psone?). i think the hardest game of all time was...

[basketkase543]

Judging from the amount of frustation gathered from start to finish it would have to be STUNTMAN for ps2. Argh! It's not just the insane difficulty that pisses me off but the load times as well. You wait about two minutes for the game to load, start your vehicle, accidentally clip a wall two seconds into it, restart level, wait two...and it continues. Damn. I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

[nelsed]

One of the hardest games I can remember playing was Super Ghouls and Ghosts for the SNES... that was rough!!!

My friends and I used to call them "quarter-grubbers" cause there was always tons of places where there was no way you could survive the first time you got there... unless you knew exactly what was going to happen...

which meant you ended up pumping quarters into the game over and over...

[nneace]

yeah stuntman was frustrating

[beerguy961]

Ikaruga. hard as hell

[drone8888]

I'm with beerguy!

Ikaruga owns me!

[pukemon]

ikaruga, mike tyson's punch out, r.c. pro am

[MightySlacker]

One of the hardest games I can remember playing was Super Ghouls and Ghosts for the SNES... that was rough!!!

My friends and I used to call them "quarter-grubbers" cause there was always tons of places where there was no way you could survive the first time you got there... unless you knew exactly what was going to happen...

which meant you ended up pumping quarters into the game over and over...

Wasn't that the game where you got to the end, then you found out you forgot something and had to play through the whole damn thing again?

Fuck that noise.

Dave Olson
*SUPER DUPER INTERNET CELEBRITY SUPASTAR~!* TM.

[batman2million]

ninja gaiden

[Ledhed]

The original Gradius on NES. My best friend and I have been playing it for over a decade, and neither of us has ever come close to beating it.

[The Successful Dropout]

i dont think ninja gaiden is that hard....i just started playing it yesterday and im on chapter 9 ( how many chapters are there? )....ive had to play the same part about 5 times or so....but its not really hard like everyone makes it out to be....neither is jak ii.....the hardest game i ever played was wheel of fortune for ps2

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go tuck yourself in? who'd have known

[Ledhed]

i dont think ninja gaiden is that hard....i just started playing it yesterday and im on chapter 9 ( how many chapters are there? )....ive had to play the same part about 5 times or so....but its not really hard like everyone makes it out to be....neither is jak ii.....the hardest game i ever played was wheel of fortune for ps2

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go tuck yourself in? who'd have known

LOL, you took that directly from Family Guy. And I think NG has 16 chapters. I think.

[The Successful Dropout]

yeah....sorry i didnt give direct credit to family guy....i figured anyone who has any sense of taste at all already knew where it was from....its only the best show ever....

16....looks like ill be beating this in a day or so....tho short (to me), ninja gaiden definitely seems better then halo (which was shorter, to me)

[snotnose_colossal]

micro machines for NES or Einhander for PSOne

[SneakyPenguin]

micro machines for NES or Einhander for PSOne

yea, einhander is uber hard, i cant get past the 4th level.

[Mr. Anderson]

Stuntman was fairly easy for me, average difficulty. It used to one of my fav games, I would play it all the time. The hardest game I've ever played? Gran Turismo 3. I can't stand simulation racing. I want to smash into everything!

[spoo]

BattleToads for NES and the Gameboy BattleToads.
Gradius for NES is super hard.

[coolieman2001]

I've said it before and i'll say it again. FarCry FarCry FarCry

[PsyClerk]

Shingen the Ruler on NES. King's Field II on PSOne (I've played it a couple of months, haven't finished it). Dragon Throne on the PC.

[Theenternal]

Captain planet for the nes,

Ive managed to finish, battletoads, shingen the ruler, ninja gaiden for the nes :)

[punqsux]

hydlide...dont believe me? play it...its 99 cents at gamestop

[SneakyPenguin]

hydlide...dont believe me? play it...its 99 cents at gamestop

its 4 bucks and oos. i wouldve bught it for the buck.

[guessed]

i dont think ninja gaiden is that hard....i just started playing it yesterday and im on chapter 9 ( how many chapters are there? )....ive had to play the same part about 5 times or so....but its not really hard like everyone makes it out to be....neither is jak ii.....the hardest game i ever played was wheel of fortune for ps2

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go tuck yourself in? who'd have known

But, you already have the U and the O, so that can't be right.

[jlarlee]

Ninja Gaiden one on the nes. The begiing is easy but the end is brutal 3 bosses at the end and if you lose back to the beginning of the last level

[dracula]

rocly and bullwinkle for the nes, HANDS DOWN, dracula has spoken/ debate over(the reason it is hard is bc the controls are so dodgy). nes Ghosts n goblins is ass hard as well.

[punqsux]

rocly and bullwinkle for the nes, HANDS DOWN, dracula has spoken/ debate over(the reason it is hard is bc the controls are so dodgy). nes Ghosts n goblins is ass hard as well.

i dunno, i mean YOU get killed in every single castlevania game ever.

[sadunclesnugglez]

I'm gonna go with Ikaruga...that game made me it's bitch and I cried like a little girl...

ok no I didn't...but jesus it is hard!

[Steggy]

stuntman for ps2 pissed me off for hours on end!

[CaseyRyback]

rocly and bullwinkle for the nes, HANDS DOWN, dracula has spoken/ debate over(the reason it is hard is bc the controls are so dodgy). nes Ghosts n goblins is ass hard as well.

i dunno, i mean YOU get killed in every single castlevania game ever.

LOL

[MadChedar0]

Blaster Master (NES), I still cant get passed 10 seconds into the game.

[xzafixz]

Ikuraga is really hard but i think the hardest game ever for me is Steel Battalion which hasn't been mentioned.

[FaintDeftone]

the NES Mega Man and Contra games are VERY hard IMO. I suck at them.

[b3b0p]

anyone ever beat Contra (the original) without the code?

Chris

[EggViper]

anyone ever beat Contra (the original) without the code?

Chris

yep and actually i never even knew the code for it back then, infact i didnt even know how to use a comp (i must've been like 7) so i was really cut off from any codes/cheats u could get off the net.

i can't really say what the hardest game of all time was but ikaruga, super ghouls and ghosts, and metal slug all come to mind.

[SneakyPenguin]

i can't really say what the hardest game of all time was but ikaruga, super ghouls and ghosts, and metal slug all come to mind.

i can beat the first metal slug on two quaters. 3rd one is tough though.

[Ribkage]

Id say one of the hardest games that was never frustrating (I dont remember it being so anyways) is Blackthorne. The game was awsome and really challenging. Really one of the few games that can be really hard and never frustrating.

[ZForce915]

I'm going to get made fun of pretty hard for this...but I've never finished Zelda: OoT. I thought that was kinda hard. But it's because I'm lost in the fire level and I gave up.

But I think F-Zero GX was the hardest game I've played recently.

[Lootr2Core]

Not a vote on most difficult game but a pretty good article from slate.com
on the matter.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2100116/

[Admiral Ackbar]

Didn't Gamespy determine that Mike Tysons Punchout wass the hardest game of all time. At least Mike Tyson was the most difficult boss ever in their judgement.

[PsyClerk]

Captain planet for the nes,

Ive managed to finish, battletoads, shingen the ruler, ninja gaiden for the nes :)

You beat Shingen? You are the shaq-fuing man. :notworth:

[NatakuARN]

Of all the games I have played in recent years I would have to Say Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast is the hardest.

[coolcato]

The only game I never could finish because of difficulty was battletoads for nes. I just never could beat that water ski (or whatever the hell they rode) level- it just went too fast. I eventually did it on emulater a couple years ago- with a friends of mine saving throughout the entire sequence.

[FaintDeftone]

The only game I never could finish because of difficulty was battletoads for nes. I just never could beat that water ski (or whatever the hell they rode) level- it just went too fast. I eventually did it on emulater a couple years ago- with a friends of mine saving throughout the entire sequence.

I always had trouble on that level too. I remember beating it a few times but it was always out of pure luck. Battletoads was a good game though.

[floormat]

when i think of games that are too hard I also have to consider how realistic there completion was. Games like Castlequest on the NES was probably possible but far to annoying to ever be worth the time to finish. A game like stuntman I might have tried to finish but after 4 level 5 or six hours and more than 4 of that being load times it was far to annyoing as well to be worth the trouble.

The best game I can think of that was a great challange yet also a great game to play was Contra 3: The Alien Wars. A fabulous game with many great bosses, great challanges yet still realistically possible.

[magilacudy]

yep and actually i never even knew the code for it back then, infact i didnt even know how to use a comp (i must've been like 7) so i was really cut off from any codes/cheats u could get off the net.

Wow, I can remember how hard gaming could be back in the day without GameFAQs. You had to go through all your Gamepro magazines or Nintendo Powers to find the codes and strategies... or find a way to beat the game yourself :shock:

As for hardest game, I'd have to say Tetris. It's impossible to beat!

[billyknoxville]

How did everyone leave out TMNT1 for NES. That game was insane. I got to some level where everything was dark and the bulldings were numbered. This was me at like 8 years old playing 598593038905 hours non-stop. I can never put that many hours into that game at this age, that game would make one go bald. I would NEVER believe someone that told me they beat it. Not even jesus.

[snotnose_colossal]

i could finish ninja turtles no problem, back in the day

but i could never finish spiderman on genesis

[jlarlee]

How did everyone leave out TMNT1 for NES. That game was insane. I got to some level where everything was dark and the bulldings were numbered. This was me at like 8 years old playing 598593038905 hours non-stop. I can never put that many hours into that game at this age, that game would make one go bald. I would NEVER believe someone that told me they beat it. Not even jesus.

I remember that damn dirty part of the game where you had to cross the city in this one section of sewers and it was easy to get bumped into the water which made you start from the beginning. Damn the person to hell that designed that part of the game

[Cracka]

hardest game of all time.. hrm.. i'll say any N64 game, that plastic is pretty hard. i'm not sure if the N64 carts are the hardest or not, but i think they are.

[epobirs]

WordStar

The entire thing is nothing but combos of potentially infinite length.

Last I checked nobody hadever won.

[rickybee2003]

:arrow: ONE OF THE HARDEST GAMES I CAN REMEMBER WAS DEFINITELY 8EYES FOR THE NES. SURPRISED IT'S NOT MENTIONED. ALSO PITFALL. DAMN SCORPIONS AND THE LACK OF ABILITY TO JUMP OVER THEM!

[PapiChullo]

The two games that frustrated me the most were Blaster Master and Whiz Kid. I was never able to get far in either.

[ykryptonite13]

Ninja Turtles 1 was impossible after the dark level (I think it was level 5?) Blaster Master for NES, I don't even know what the hell I'm supposed to do, can't even get past level 1. Battletoads was hella hard too cuz i think you had to jump on those moving snakes which was frustrating as hell and would take forever AND THEN have to do the jetski part. I have beat Punch Out though. Zelda 2 was the hardest game until gamefaqs came out and told me there was a fucking hidden palace i had to use the fucking hammer for.

[pukemon]

tmnt 1 was not that hard. my friend that owned it beat it and i beat it afterwards.

[rickybee2003]

yeah tmnt1 was hard but is way to overated. how come nobody mentioned elmos number land for ps1. man those stupid adding and subtracting quizes! what kind of genius makes these things for a kids game!? no im playing.

[peteh555]

Marble madness for NES was a really hard game. Until I got the game genie, I didn't get past the first few levels. You could get stuck on an obstacle and loss all your time.

[defender]

Contra...any of them. I find them rather hard. Most players cheated or used codes to beat these games but that's not my style.

[Raiden_MGS3]

I'm going to get made fun of pretty hard for this...but I've never finished Zelda: OoT. I thought that was kinda hard. But it's because I'm lost in the fire level and I gave up.

But I think F-Zero GX was the hardest game I've played recently.

Good call on F-Zero GX. I always thought there wasn't a racing game out there I couldn't beat but that one sure humbled the heck out of me.

As for the all time hardest game, I'd have to give my vote to Beyond The Beyond for PSOne

[treybegood]

Yeah, Blaster Master, TMNT 1 and Gradius were all super hard. Any of those flying games where you had 3 lives were all pretty hard (unless of course you used a code). I remember I played blaster master forever and only got to the 5th level.

[ElfAngel7]

For me, after the third level friggin Shinobi is impossible. I love the style and gameplay of the game, but damn it. I'd get 3/4 through the level, blink, and fall down a chasm and restart the whole fookin thing. Also, the orginal Metroid b/c I could never find my way around b/c of a lack of a map. Then again, i was about 6 or 7 when I played it.

[Dr Mario Kart]

Link's Adventure?

[Maynard]

ghouls and ghosts (nes) sweet mother mary i have yet to meet anyone who has beat that game. I know alot of you will now post that it's easy and you have, well send me the freaking video cause i don't freaking believe you freaking freak frack


m.NRD

[Eclipse]

Battletoads on NES @ level 3.. Hover bike stage had me screaming every known obscenity known to man...and the first Soulblade (Cervantes had me in tears)

Einhander was not as bad as games like Mars Matrix, gigawing2, or ikaruga tho...Id have to disagree on that

[eldad9]

Kids today. Back in the day, there was a computer game so hard, it was actually called "game over".

Don't believe me?

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/g/GameOver1_2.jpg

[Eclipse]

lol..probably so unplayable, it was impossible...I believe that.

[epobirs]

Shingen the Ruler on NES. King's Field II on PSOne (I've played it a couple of months, haven't finished it). Dragon Throne on the PC.

Nothing especially hard about King's Field if you just invest some time in leveling up. From there it's just puzzles and exploration. Much easier than a Zelda type game where you only get upgrades at the points intended by the designer.

[Tricky]

Final Fantasy 7
I bought it, tried it out and then I gave it to my nephew.

[YoshiFan1]

I am going to say Pop N Music.

Check out this video to see how difficult it is:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/asianarcade.html


Basically, the game consits of using 9 buttons almost like Tap Lights and when the Pop Kuns (the circles on the screen) get to the line at the bottom, you hit the corresponding button.

It's a fun game but impossible. I have had it for 6 months (PS1 and PS2 versions) and I still can only play the easier songs.

I'd like to try the arcade version like the one in the video but there are only 5 machines in all of North America.

[FunkMachineX]

Every contra anything. Contra is satan in video game form.

[Mustang O-Line 75]

Yoshi, that video is fucking insane. Insane.

[OiBoy]

The game that I remember giving me hair-pulling frustration was Kid Chameleon back in the day.

And there's always robotron

[jimbodan]

Smash TV, that game is impossible to get anywhere without infinite continues.

[Mustang O-Line 75]

I never beat Mega Man 2. I beat all the others, but never Mega Man 2

[bfg9k]

There was one really hard part in Stroker Ace for the C-64 ;)