What is the most difficult game you have ever finished?

[Via]

Ghosts'n Goblins on the NES. F that game!

Remember how the game would show you that mini-map at the beginning of every life, just to taunt you? When I was a kid I used to sit in front of the TV for hours and not get past the blue level with the demons. I did get past it one time, only to die immediately in the next one.

I'm pretty good at finishing games no matter how difficult but G&G is my personal shame. I guess there are videos on Youtube of people completing it, but I refuse to watch them.

 

[Bman123]

Battle toads for nes
Ninja gaiden for xbox (stupid camera angle)

 

[SandEagle]

yup Ninja Gaiden on xbox. beat it and hated it. Super Ghost & Goblins on the SNES is one I could never beat

 

[FancyTurtle]

super ghosts and ghouls

 

[digiram]

ugh why

I don't know. It's just awesome fun. I tell ya what, I levelled up my cannons after playing story mode a billion times, and guess what happens? My daughter decides to try, and overwrites my game... ugh!!! I'm just gonna keep playing arcade mode till I beat it. It's all reflex,strategy, and pattern memorization. That's what's great about Radiant, all the guns you're given provides some level of strategy and approach.

 

[MrChad]

Ninja Gaiden on NES

 

[JackBurton]

Remember how the game would show you that mini-map at the beginning of every life, just to taunt you? When I was a kid I used to sit in front of the TV for hours and not get past the blue level with the demons. I did get past it one time, only to die immediately in the next one.

I'm pretty good at finishing games no matter how difficult but G&G is my personal shame. I guess there are videos on Youtube of people completing it, but I refuse to watch them.

Man, you haven't even TOUCHED the ridiculousness that is GnG. The game was pretty tough up until you got to the castle. At that point you were taken to a whole NEW level of ridiculousness. The dagger was the best weapon because you could fire them rapidly. Well, you'd painfully work your way through the castle and if you were lucky enough to get past the TWO demons guarding the top, you'd be excited, wiping your sweat from your brow in anticipation of the final show down with the final boss. Well wait, what happened? What is this message? "Your weapon has no affect on the boss. The only weapon that will work is the shield. Go back to the beginning on the castle stage and start over." AHHHHHH!! Yes, not only did you have to do the castle stage again which you miraculously past after 1000x continues, you'd have to complete it with the WORST weapon! THE WORST WEAPON! Well, after you compose yourself and say, "alright, I've come this far, let's finish this (remember, you can't just save the game and come back later and pick up where you left off)". You then spent FOREVER trying to beat the stage and you FINALLY get past it and advance to the final boss. You beat the boss and put down your controller waiting for what MUST be some Disney animated feature to reward you for all your hard work. Nope, "the princess is in another castle, you must start over." YOU MUST START THE WHOLE GAME OVER!!! Reading this, I threw my controller and vowed to never play the game again.


After a few months past I decided to give the game another go and REFUSED accept failure and finally beat the game. THE END!

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Call of Duty 2 on Veteran.

 

[sactoking]

Off the top of my head, they all date back to NES days. As I got older I stopped playing fast-twitch platformers.

Battletoads
Ninja Gaiden
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior 4

Those last two weren't "hard" but they did require a long trek through a dungeon with no save points before fighting a long battle against a multi-stage boss who could practically one-shot characters. They were very difficult to do on-level, but I guess if you ground levels for many moons they would be easy.

 

[eelw]

Another vote for Ikaruga.

 

[RPD]

Demon Souls made me weep.

Meh, the controls on that game just never seemed right to me.

 

[RPD]

I'd say battle toads on NES, but never beat it heh. Probably one of the earlier Dragon Warriors on NES off the top of my head, number 2 esp., without the maps for those looping caves with pit falls, that shit would have taken fucking forever to finish.

 

[Locut0s]

Ninja Gaiden on NES

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!

 

[Oyeve]

Battlefuckingtoads. Man, that game was a bitch.

 

[Locut0s]

Battlefuckingtoads. Man, that game was a bitch.

Yeah I hear it's legendary. D:

 

[SandEagle]

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!

game is easy. the trick on the last stage is to keep the swirl weapon from the beginning all the way to the boss. there are three bosses. kill the first, you get killed on 2nd boss and start the whole level again. but this time you fight the second boss. rinse, repeat. so essentially you do that last stage 3 times. Ninja Gaiden I and II on the NES are two of my fav games

 

[blurredvision]

I've sat here and tried to think of something really difficult, but I came up with nothing. Probably because I play all of my games on casual/easy, sometimes normal. I don't mind having to think and put a little skill into my games, but I just don't have fun when I have to play parts over and over.

 

[purbeast0]

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.

 

[Sonikku]

That is all.

 

[SandEagle]

^ haha, the Forever Man. i remember that

 

[Locut0s]

That is all.

http://www.games4win.com/games/chakan-the-forever-man/

Huh never heard of it.

 

[SandEagle]

Double Dragon III on the NES. almost impossible to beat. Legendary Wings was another.

 

[Locut0s]

Ohh yes the whole Double Dragon series had insane difficulty.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Dragoon was the best RPG released for the PS1

sarcasm?

 

[quakefiend420]

Battletoads on NES