What was the most difficult game you’ve played?

[Starfarer]

For me, it’s probably Ninja Gaiden Black.

[Gary Flank]

Originally posted by GloriousZote:

No idea in general, but on this young account, probably this, good luck with the puzzles, I don't have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/932330/Alchemia/

Seriously!? A game that makes me do homework?

[La Creatura]

Trying not to be gae is the hardest game I have ever played.

[steven1mac]

Minesweeper

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by HMSNeptune:

Trying not to be gae is the hardest game I have ever played.

same

[GloriousZote]

Originally posted by HMSNeptune:

Trying not to be gae is the hardest game I have ever played.

Oh that's easy, if one of you dresses like a girl, it's not gae.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by GloriousZote:

Originally posted by HMSNeptune:

Trying not to be gae is the hardest game I have ever played.

Oh that's easy, if one of you dresses like a girl, it's not gae.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Hardest I've beaten so far is Sekiro. But atm I'm playing Armored Core 6, and finding it more difficult.

The boss Ayre was a 7.5 hour roadblock for me, I tried all sorts of builds and tactics and barely beat it. I think I will get all the achievements except for the last two, as that requires you to S rank all missions. It could be the first game to beat me on this profile.

I think the most difficult game I played was Xcom2 on my old profile. After 220 hours I was stuck at 89% achievements and couldn't get any further.

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The Getaway on PS2

quite a bad and clunky old GTA type game set in London with a ridiculously punishing difficulty level and a habit of forcing you to restart entire missions if you die to a bug or the stupid AI slightly knocks you with their car insta killing you, all this and no mission checkpoints = unfun.

[GloriousZote]

Originally posted by Powered By Carrots™:

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The Getaway on PS2

quite a bad and clunky old GTA type game set in London game with a ridiculously punishing difficulty level and a habit of forcing you to restart entire missions if you die to a bug or the stupid AI slightly knocks you with their car insta killing you, all this and no mission checkpoints = unfun.

I played a demo of that, waybackwhen, really cool that when wounded you like, lean against a wall as you kinda-recover...

[Starfarer]

Originally posted by steven1mac:

Minesweeper

I just click all over the field. The risk makes it more fun.

[Gary Flank]

Time for me to show my old age:

Kids today don't know difficult.
There are vids out there of young gamers trying to play NES titles, and it's kind of pathetic. I suggest you check some of them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMVxv_4UMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njzAyjAFCMI

You'll notice one of the most frequent comments is, "It's not fair."

[crunchyfrog]

Hard for me to say off the top of my head frankly.

Simply because if a game's too stupidly hard then it makes the game unenjoyable so I won't play it. It has to BALANCE. Offer enough difficulty but enough for you to progress somewhat.

Many early games fall under this banner because of the time - they often had to make games unfairly difficult to obscure the fact that there wasn't much conten (mostly down to memory budgets).

So you can easily go to a load of NES games for example. I particularly dislike Megaman games as they are poster children for stupid difficulty in some of them. I never bothered with them for the reason above - the unfairness wrecked any enjoyment may have been there. It's not me thanks.

Operation Flashpoint games by Codemasters were two of the most brutal games there are as they leant into the realism of one or two shots and you're dead and done.

Very nicely designed games, but again not for me.

[Χάρης]

Ninja Gaiden 2 and Nioh 1

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Originally posted by GloriousZote:

Originally posted by Powered By Carrots™:

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The Getaway on PS2

quite a bad and clunky old GTA type game set in London game with a ridiculously punishing difficulty level and a habit of forcing you to restart entire missions if you die to a bug or the stupid AI slightly knocks you with their car insta killing you, all this and no mission checkpoints = unfun.

I played a demo of that, waybackwhen, really cool that when wounded you like, lean against a wall as you kinda-recover...

yeah thats the game.

You also have no minimap so you need to use the cars indicators to know when to turn to where you need to go, but finding the exact location of where you need to be is a pain, especially with how bad the traffic and pedestrian AI is.

[Xero_Daxter]

I want a game so hard that you can die in the tutorial. And even the tutorial is brutally hard.

And let’s make the final boss instant kill you during a cutscene to catch you off guard… and your last save point will be 40 minutes ago as well. Lol.