What is the most difficult game you have ever finished?

[ebow86]

Rainbow Six Vegas on Realistic difficulty mode was the hardest game I've ever beat.

 

[Shadowknight]

Final Fantasy Legend for the gameboy. Technically, just the last boss fight. I could never, ever beat the last boss legitimately. He was way too powerful, and had too many hitpoints. I had to cheese it by having my monster character morph into a black knight (I think) and use the saw special ability to kill him in one shot. The saw either killed a character in one shot, or missed completely. With the final boss, it had about a 90% accuracy, so replaying the end over and over, the saw hit him on the first time almost every time.

 

[RPD]

Hmm I don't remember the last boss being that hard. My party was typically 2 humans, 1 mutant and 1 monster. I remember having the "Glass" sword was a must, but the fight wasn't terribly difficult. Strangely enough I've been playing it again on my GBA emulator

 

[Anteaus]

Super Empire Strikes Back on SNES. I almost completed Maximo on PS2 but I lost my save and never went back. I played about 45 minutes of Demon's Souls before I realized I was simply too old now for the pain so I shelved it. lol

 

[MrChad]

You finished it, without cheating? I thought that was near impossible. Some parts are supposed to be so hard that you almost have to cheat from what I hear. Congrats on that!

Yes, I revisited it in college and beat it without cheating. The last boss was incredibly difficult, and dying sent you back about 3 sub stages. I will never play that game again now that I've finished it.

Ninja Gaiden II was much easier IMO, mostly because it didn't require you to repeat multiple levels over when you died late in the game.

I never played the third game, but I heard that it was the most difficult of the three because you took more damage from enemies and there were limited continues (WTF?).

 

[MrChad]

hardest one i can remember was cod2 on xbox360 on veteran. that game is the reason i don't even attempt to play any more recent games on veteran, although i hear they aren't as hard as cod2 was.

the hardest games i've beaten with cheats only on emulators and using save states is either TMNT or Battletoads on NES. both of those games are just ridiculous, battletoads taking the edge.

The problem with games like TMNT is that they were made drastically harder by terrible controls and glitchy gameplay. I can appreciate difficulty in games like G&G, Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden which just required infinite patience and perfect reflexes

 

[Anubis]

sarcasm?

no
it was better then FF7 (most overrated FF game of all time) and 8 (just bad)
and equal to 9

i just enjoyed it more then 9

 

[slag]

I was going to say Tresspasser, but then saw ghost and goblins and have to agree with this one. It can take hours just getting to the castle. This game is definitely a weekend play and you'd be lucky to not destroy your game system and tv while playing it.

 

[Barfo]

Super Meat Boy...I probably beat some tougher game during the 8-bit era but I don't remember.

 

[TheVrolok]

Something on the NES I'd say. "Nintendo hard" exists for a reason.

 

[darkewaffle]

I almost finished Gaiden on the xbox.

 

[R4in]

The Ninja Gaiden series imo is the best to date. I managed to beat 1, 2, and Black for the xbox (360) then borrowed a ps3 for Sigma. Only one I havent beat is Sigma 2.

Looking forward to the release of NG 3

 

[Shadowknight]

Hmm I don't remember the last boss being that hard. My party was typically 2 humans, 1 mutant and 1 monster. I remember having the "Glass" sword was a must, but the fight wasn't terribly difficult. Strangely enough I've been playing it again on my GBA emulator

I used glass swords, nuclear bomb items... I hit him with everything, and after 30+ minutes of fighting, I'd be out of health potions/resurrection items and he'd kill me.

Great game otherwise, though.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

No way dragoon even cracks the top 20 for ps1. So many good titles. I was glad to be done with it when I played it.

I'm just remembering the stupid animations every time you summoned your dragoon, which was a big part of the game.

Knights of the round was obnoxious, but that was just one attack.

 

[R4in]

So many good titles.

Perhaps the original Metal Gear Solid? I know that was definitely one of my favorites.

 

[magomago]

please tell me your kidding.....

that game was an abomination of and rpg. it might have been slightly long, but probably one of the easiest/shallowest games ive ever played.

I clearly remember thinking to myself that this game was wayyy too easy while playing it.

i agree with the first part. i got to the very end but never finished it. didn't care to. why? why play that which is not interesting? i literally forced myself to play as long as i did.

the sand town was kinda cool. so was the really flowery place.

the rest of the game was total eh and uninspiring. the demo for the game that was part of PSU made it seem more interesting.

but i didn't think it was that easy; maybe i was underleveled (i have a bad habit of that)...some of those bosses towards the end were challanging...

 

[magomago]

no
it was better then FF7 (most overrated FF game of all time) and 8 (just bad)
and equal to 9

i just enjoyed it more then 9

dude no way

come on


the story in legend of dragoon was executed horrrrribly.

in ff7,8,9 atleast you care about what happens.
i can still remember many things about ff7: aerith's death and cloud trying to reclaim his memories of her as he ran through the forgotten city or red13's story of his ancestors, etc. etc
sae with ff8: the love story between squal and rinoa that formed, seifer and his troop that followed him to the end, laguna liore's side story, etc. etc.
sae with ff9...too lazy to type


but legend of dragoon? I can barely recall anything!

 

[ponyo]

Ninja Gaiden: NES. Friend and I took turns after each death.

Super Ghoul and Ghosts: Genesis. I remember reaching the end the castle the first time and thinking I had beat the game. Then the game takes you all the way back to the beginning and you have to go through everything again with your armor bonus. I wanted to quit right there.

 

[darkewaffle]

I liked Legend of Dragoon, but I was playing through it on my PS2 and towards the end of the first disc after some boss fight my game would just blackscreen crash on me, did it 3-4x and I never started it again.

Also my friends and I used to play Battletoads on the NES as kids, could never get past that 3rd or 4th stage where you were on the little hovercraft or whatever.

 

[modestninja]

BattleToads or Ghosts and Ghouls were the hardest I've ever finished. Luckily, I like both games so I had no problem sinking many, many hours into finishing them when I was a kid.

The just plain hardest was Silver Surfer. I'm pretty sure that game is impossible to finish the game. IIRC one hit by an enemy or a wall (which were really hard to distinguish from the background) and you're dead. So much for his Power Cosmic. Apparently being able to manipulate the energy of the universe doesn't protect you from the inherent deadly nature of touching a wall at slow speeds.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Ninja Gaiden (NES), Mike Tysons Punchout (NES), Super Ghosts and Goblins (SNES)...not sure the last one counts because I made it all the way through the end of the game only to be told I didn't find the chalice that was hidden somewhere in the levels, but I wasn't going to go through that again.

 

[ImpulsE69]

The Ninja Gaiden series imo is the best to date. I managed to beat 1, 2, and Black for the xbox (360) then borrowed a ps3 for Sigma. Only one I havent beat is Sigma 2.

Looking forward to the release of NG 3

Did you not play the Ninja Gaiden 3 from NES? That last boss (the last last boss) was a pain.

 

[R4in]

Did you not play the Ninja Gaiden 3 from NES?

Sadly, I must admit the only old school NG i played was the arcade version on the 1st one when you collected all the scarabs.

I may look around on ebay for the old ones though.

 

[Ross Ridge]

Legend of Dragoon is a pretty easy game. It's harder than any of the PlayStation Final Fantasy games, but that's not saying much. I do prefer its story over Final Fantasy VII and VIII.

I don't know if any RPG really comes close to the difficulty of some of the other games mentioned in the this thread, like Super Ghouls'n Ghosts. And yes, you do need to play through the game twice to truly beat the game.

 

[Jeffg010]

Kid Icarus. That one part with the moving clouds that he had to jump up each one that was such a bitch. You had to have perfect timing to get to the top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus