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Hardest game you've ever beaten?
- Thread starter ASaiyan
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Yo, real talk.
Anyone who's beaten this game without a Game Genie as a kid?
Everyone in this thread owes you props. You on some other shit.
Hardest for me was Goldeneye 00 difficulty .. That damn Moonraker level... No doubt I would have given up these days but I was a kid then with nothing else to play :D
I wouldn't really know, a lot depends on difficulties I guess. You could argue classic FPS games like Doom or Heretic on the highest "regular" difficulty (the last one has enemies respawning so I don't play that normally) are pretty tough, but I beat those multiple times. Rogue Legacy is considered very hard but I had no major issues beating it some 6-7 times. I went 100% on Crash 3 back in the day, same goes for CTR. I've beat the classic Tomb Raider games. The Surge, being a soulslike, is probably considered pretty hard and I beat that. I got through troll games like Cat Mario. I managed to beat multiple danmaku shooters with 1CC, though not at the highest difficulty. I guess those are the main ones, but it's hard to say which one was the hardest as they're completely different games.
Destiny OG vault of glass
followed by Dark souls - but it turns out dark souls isn't that hard.
followed by Dark souls - but it turns out dark souls isn't that hard.
Will this give you satisfaction?
Ladies and gentlemen, Kinsei has beaten I Wanna Be the Guy on Impossible difficulty.
For real though, you're kind of my hero dude[tte]. That's amazing.
Hah, thanks. For real though no one should ever attempt to do it if they value their time and sanity.
Probably one of the many brutal NES games I beat back in the day. Ninja Gaiden 1-3, Battletoads, Castlevania 1-3, TMNT. As for newer games maybe Ninja Gaiden on Xbox?
Hell yes.
That was a really hard game. Me and my best friend rented it and got pretty far into it but could not beat it over the weekend and never had a desire to go back to it.
Regarding the OP I feel it's any of a dozen or so NES games I beat as a kid and teenager.
I never got further than that nightmarish water level with electric plants and fences. I thought it was the last level of the game when I played as a kid but it turns out it's just the first part.
I consider that Platinum Trophy in The Witness to be the hardest video game thing I ever did.
In reality it's probably some 2600 or NES game I beat as a kid and forgot about.
In reality it's probably some 2600 or NES game I beat as a kid and forgot about.
I don't know if I'd consider it "beat", but it was technically the last boss - Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, beating Hush and Delirium in the same run on a non-victory lap.
Don't know about hardest really, I always found getting good at fighting games the hardest and most satisfactory challenge in gaming. But as far as difficult singleplayer games go the first two Halo games at legendary while playing alone was very challenging yet fair. I liked it.
I haven't beaten it yet, but Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked looks like a potential candidate to me right now.
Ninja Gaiden NES -
That last level is insane, and the penalty for dying on the final boss is punishing. I think I found a way to cheese it, but if I remember correctly, I still had to carry a subweapon all the way through level 6 without dying.
Castlevania NES -
Not too bad considering you have unlimited continues and the last check point is right before Drac.
That last level is insane, and the penalty for dying on the final boss is punishing. I think I found a way to cheese it, but if I remember correctly, I still had to carry a subweapon all the way through level 6 without dying.
Castlevania NES -
Not too bad considering you have unlimited continues and the last check point is right before Drac.
Catherine 100% is probably the hardest I've finished. Once you learn some of the techniques the game throws at you getting through it is fine enough, but trying to get a perfect score on Hard was pretty tough. The last stage is definitely the hardest in the main story just because it's so RNG heavy and the slowdown can mess up your inputs pretty hard. But the last stage of Babel... I jumped out of my chair when I finished that.
Can't wait to do it again next year lol
Can't wait to do it again next year lol
Barring some probably unreasonably hard Mega Drive games, I think my top achievement is beating Ninja Gaiden Black on its highest difficulty as a teenager. Seriously doubt I could do it again now. All of Soulsborne and Witcher 3 on Death March were no trouble by comparison.
I beat Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 on NES, but this is the truth. The original TMNT was ridiculous.
If I recall you need to hang on to the flame subweapon throughout to have a decent shot at the final boss. Very little room for error.
The wigs and other unlocks make this much easier than you describe, like the wig to have blade mode ignore armour.
I've Platinumed the game so got S ranks on all levels on that difficulty.
The VR missions are the real challenge, some are cakewalk but others terrible, and with no upgrades.
VVVVVV is tough. Especially the Doing Things The Hard Way room. That took me forever. I still need to 100% the game, too.
I did the Rope Jump with the scooter, and still found it nigh-on-impossible. I did beat it, but I think the requirement was ludicrously high (100).
Agreed! It is brutally tough to 100%. Same with TF. I still need to do time trials in both games, and a little bit more in TF to get to 100%. And then the harder beyond-100% modes in both games.
I'm trying to think of games where I reached an impasse and didn't think I could go any further, but kept at it and eventually persevered. Devil May Cry 1&3, Viewtiful Joe and Cuphead definitely had those moments. I also remember a few bosses in No More Heroes really giving me fits. Those are probably the hardest games I've beaten.
Games like Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Nioh are challenging for sure, but because they are RPGs with plenty of opportunities to stray from the main path, I never reached a point in any of those games where I felt unable to progress.
I died a lot in Celeste, but overall I don't think it was a hard game to beat because of how forgiving it is. Dying is just a big part of what that game is, and it's no big deal really.
F-Zero GX is a game where I got a hell of a lot farther than I ever expected to, because I'm normally shit at racing games. But when my memory card got corrupted, I just walked away demoralized.
But I'm probably most proud of platinum-ing The Witness, and beating Alien Isolation on Hard without killing any humans.
Games like Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Nioh are challenging for sure, but because they are RPGs with plenty of opportunities to stray from the main path, I never reached a point in any of those games where I felt unable to progress.
I died a lot in Celeste, but overall I don't think it was a hard game to beat because of how forgiving it is. Dying is just a big part of what that game is, and it's no big deal really.
F-Zero GX is a game where I got a hell of a lot farther than I ever expected to, because I'm normally shit at racing games. But when my memory card got corrupted, I just walked away demoralized.
But I'm probably most proud of platinum-ing The Witness, and beating Alien Isolation on Hard without killing any humans.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia on Normal Classic mode. Managed to finish it without losing a unit, thank you Mila's Turnwheel.
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on GBA also comes to mind.
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on GBA also comes to mind.
Alex fucking Kidd in Miracle World – once I missed a jump and had to deal with THIS, while being 6 years old.
The entire F-Zero franchise on Master difficulty using only the Blue Falcon, including GX's story on Very Hard.
I'm still not qualified to play Captain Falcon in Smash
I'm still not qualified to play Captain Falcon in Smash
Suikoden 1 without using Runes. I didn't know they replenish after you rest and kept them for the last boss. I was a little kid back then.
I tried to replay it like this again, but no chance. No idea how I did this.
I tried to replay it like this again, but no chance. No idea how I did this.
Defeating Radec in Killzone 2 on the hard difficulty setting was enough to make me want to break things.
I also remember completing StreetFighter 2 on the SNES with Dhalsim on the hardest difficulty (was it 7? I can't remember). I'm no fighting expert and it was absolute torture.
I also remember completing StreetFighter 2 on the SNES with Dhalsim on the hardest difficulty (was it 7? I can't remember). I'm no fighting expert and it was absolute torture.
