Hardest game you ever played and finished?
09-16-23, 10:35 PM
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Hardest game you ever played and finished?
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem on GameCube. This was before easily watchable walkthroughs or anything. I struggled with this for so long, but finally overcame. It was sweet.
09-16-23, 11:02 PM
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I don't know if it was hardest game, overall, but The Challenge trophy in The Witness caused me to rage quit more than any other game.
09-17-23, 10:02 AM
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Re: Hardest game you ever played and finished?
Probably something pre-Game Genie from the NES era (when I was a kid with near-infinite free time) or a bullet hell shmup on the Genesis.
Looking at several “hardest games ever!” lists, the only ones I remember beating fair and square are the original Mega Man and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (which I perhaps inaccurately remember being easier than The New Order, so whatever).
Looking at several “hardest games ever!” lists, the only ones I remember beating fair and square are the original Mega Man and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (which I perhaps inaccurately remember being easier than The New Order, so whatever).
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09-17-23, 10:16 AM
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Re: Hardest game you ever played and finished?
Probably something pre-Game Genie from the NES era (when I was a kid with near-infinite free time) or a bullet hell shmup on the Genesis.
Looking at several “hardest games ever!” lists, the only ones I remember beating fair and square are the original Mega Man and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (which I perhaps inaccurately remember being easier than The New Order, so whatever).
Looking at several “hardest games ever!” lists, the only ones I remember beating fair and square are the original Mega Man and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (which I perhaps inaccurately remember being easier than The New Order, so whatever).
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09-17-23, 05:12 PM
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Finished OG Mega Man 1 a couple of times back in the day. MM2 was a cakewalk (which I ran through a dozen+ times) compared to the original. Not much else is coming to mind. Splosion Man or Ms Splosion Man, maybe?
I ran through this twice back-to-back for the different endings and don't recall it being difficult at all. What was your sticking point with it?
I ran through this twice back-to-back for the different endings and don't recall it being difficult at all. What was your sticking point with it?
09-17-23, 08:05 PM
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09-17-23, 08:49 PM
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I've never cared for difficult games so not many although I guess people have considered the Ori games difficult and I didn't find them very hard same with Metroid Dread which I found fairly average in terms of difficulty.
09-18-23, 03:50 AM
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I think developers got a lot better at scaling difficulty levels after the NES era where they only relied on many times unfair difficulty to extend the gameplay.
Maybe Bionic Commando is one of the tougher ones that I've beat.
I've done a lot of the challenges in Metroid Zero Mission. Like time wise and low percentage wise that was quite challenging. Same with several Mario game levels or shine sprits or stars or moons.
There's quite a few NES games that are considered really tough that I haven't beaten; Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads, Batman, Cobra Triangle, etc. That Congradulations text at the end still eludes me.
Maybe Bionic Commando is one of the tougher ones that I've beat.
I've done a lot of the challenges in Metroid Zero Mission. Like time wise and low percentage wise that was quite challenging. Same with several Mario game levels or shine sprits or stars or moons.
There's quite a few NES games that are considered really tough that I haven't beaten; Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads, Batman, Cobra Triangle, etc. That Congradulations text at the end still eludes me.
09-18-23, 11:30 AM
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Re: Hardest game you ever played and finished?
I feel like Metroid Dread was tougher than average but still pretty forgiving all things considered. In some respects like Ori, it's not some relentlessly hellish gauntlet; it's more isolated pockets that are challenging, and both are forgiving about starting you close enough to where you died, making restarts relatively painless. Ori and Dread both want you to nail patterns. You might not get those patterns on your first (or fifth, or...) time, but you won't be grinding away for hours to overcome a single challenge or anything. My memory might be faulty, but I remember the first Ori being tougher in its original incarnation, some edges were smoothened out with the reissue, and the sequel didn't have any crazy difficulty spikes.
