Hardest game of all time...

[in2Nas]

Ghosta and Goblins. Just start playing the Capcom Collection Vol. 1 and realized after playing this game for 2 hours why I have a traumatized childhood.

 

[Digit]

Ghosta and Goblins. Just start playing the Capcom Collection Vol. 1 and realized after playing this game for 2 hours why I have a traumatized childhood.

Yeah I can concur, that was quite brutal. I don't know if anyone played Warhammer: Shadow of a Horned Rat, but I could not finish that game for love or money. Every other game, I've been able to finish and I've never given up and gone, "Impossible!".

Basically I think it was the result of poor game design, as en route to the final battle, you had many options to boost your army by doing side-missions, however this made the subsequent missions harder as you took longer to get to that location and the enemy had longer to prepare and reinforce as a result. I did all the side-missions, 100% successful. So when I arrived at the last mission, I was faced with wave after wave of mummys, who are probably the most powerful and resistant army in that game. Also, I did manage to kill the Horned Rat, yet that didn't complete the leve. He wasn't very hard to defeat, 12 waves of mummys were. >_> *annoyed*

Other than that, the final level of Starcraft: Broodwars was really hard, in that I had to restart it about 20-30 times, and eventually managed to finish it after 9 hours playtime.

Recently, games have been an absolute breeze. I can almost finish them without blinking.

Digit

 

[The-Doctor]

I found Final Fantasy 7 hard to finish...especially beating the final boss.

 

[peanutbutter12]

Any of the games that only gave you one life before "Game Over".

 

[Digit]

Any of the games that only gave you one life before "Game Over".

Like the original, unpatched Aliens vs Predator? That was pretty hard, but incredibly fun. For fun at the moment I'm playing Skibi's Tower Defence map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. I can get to the final boss wave, yet they reduce your lives to 1 (give you gold in exchange to build with) and the boss attacks. Haven't managed to kill 1 of him yet (there are 4).

Oh! I just remember, Gene Wars... an old Bullfrog game with a stupidly steep learning curve.

Digit

 

[wiggbuggie]

a lot of your old school NES action games are hard as hell, castlevania 3, battletoads, contra 1 and 2, and so true on ghosts and goblins.

 

[Psalms34]

Ummm… Ultima IX. Well not that hard but impossible to finish with the game breaking bugs. They then abandoned the patches and left it as a broken mass on the street. Thanks EA...

 

[wiggbuggie]

Ummm… Ultima IX. Well not that hard but impossible to finish with the game breaking bugs. They then abandoned the patches and left it as a broken mass on the street. Thanks EA...

did you download the patches? up to v 1.19 i beat the game no problem

 

[JCMLR]

Ninja Gaiden Xbox version.
The Boses have been the hardest part for me.

 

[Psalms34]

did you download the patches? up to v 1.19 i beat the game no problem

Yep

 

[Breetai]

I vote for the Atari 2600 game called: ET.

 

[Shayla1]

mario luigi partners in time... The boss is so tricky

 

[NavyGuy7]

General RAAM off Gears of War gave me and my dad a difficult time...until we started using a Torque Bow/Sniper Rifle combination. Took him out before he even got to our side of the train.

 

[Mewtwo]

I think the NES version LoZ 2: The Adventures of Link is hard..... I dunno, though. Lego star Wars 2 is hard........at least it is to get everything.....including every red brick and gold brick.

 

[Macano]

I'll add another vote for Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox. I have found it impossible to progress in that game. So difficult!

 

[tel0004]

What about Ikaruga?

 

[Foolish_Fool]

Pretty much any old school NES/SNES era platformer. Ghouls and Goblins, Ninja Gaiden 1-3, Battletoads, Castlevanias etc... Heck, even Super Mario Bros 1-3 with warps are rougher than any modern games.

Everybody says Ninja Gaiden (xbox) and Gears of War are tough... HAH! Kids today have no idea just how easy they have it!

 

[Breetai]

I think the NES version LoZ 2: The Adventures of Link is hard

Agreed!!!

 

[nuclear]

Snake Rattle and Roll. It's available online and having tried it again recently I realized that all the horrible memories of that game I had are only a drop of water in an endless sea of reality

 

[in2Nas]

Update: Currently playing God of War II on Titan mode. I'm about to eat my tongue.