This bizzare game called Real Life. Sometimes it's so exceedingly unfair that I want to rage quit and mess everyone around me's experience! Grrrr...

Suicidal silliness aside, post-game Dragon's Dogma. Don't get me started on Bitterblack Isle. Oh, and they're making a new MMO-ish title where you can play with other three players. That should be fun. And nerve-wracking.

One joyous thing about my attitude to games is this...

If it's hard, it's not enjoyable...

That is a personal opinion...and how I feel...So any negative wossnames launched at that will be ignored... ...

Basically, RL is challenge enough for me...So if something is too challenging, then it just gets left alone...I will try a couple of times, but if it can't be done without much cursing and adrenaline-level-spiking then it gets put away...

Destiny's had a couple of moments where it got far too intense and left alone until McBoy finished it to the end of where it is at the moment and started taking the piss, so I had to do that...

But basically, most games with a difficulty slider gets put to the lowest or nearby setting as I really can't be arsed trying anymore...

So yeah, Obivion and Skyrim (and Fallout) are essentially God-Mode these days...

I have to mention Super Mario Bros 2, the real Super Mario Bros 2. It only came out in Japan and holy crap on a cracker does it look hard! Constant precision jumping while running and avoiding danger, often all at the same time, and again with that stupid time limit that only adds stress!

Still, would like to have it in my collection...


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Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. To this day I can't beat this game.

Alone in the Dark on the 360: I hate this game, the controls, camera and everything in this game sucks!!! The only thing I liked about it is was the episodic playback when you quit or continued a game, similar to how Battlefield Hardline does it.

Star Trek Tactical Assault on the PSP: This has got to be the first time I've played a game where the upgrading system seems to be in the game's enemy favor. No matter how well you use the credits to improve your ship the enemy always seems to be able to find away to exploit any weakness.

Seems like there was a Ninja Turtles game on NES that was frickin ridiculous.

Here we go.

You're going to love this video then .

Lol, that's exactly right!

Gothic 3. Mechanically, it had many difficulty elements that would later show up in Dark Souls- leveling up costs currency, enemies can easily swarm and stunlock you to death, drinking potions is real-time and can be interrupted, mage enemies can endlessly cast powerful homing attacks at you, some areas are pitch-black without some form of illumination- and then add into the mix a lack of a dodging mechanic, lousy blocking mechanics, bows and crossbows are slower to draw and reload, and the fact that armor is extremely hard to acquire.

I'm playing Manhunt for the first time. According to some reviews and forums in general, the game gets very hard though at early levels I can't say it's been that difficult. You just have to be very patient for hunters to come to "good" positions to kill. Fortunately, I'm quite a patient gamer.

It's OK for a game to require that you use a specific mechanic to get past a level, as long as it shows you that in advance, so you know what your options are. The worst games are the ones that throw a seemingly impossible situation at you, and you have to experiment through several reloads before you find the right one. You don't win those by skill, but by luck, which means they don't train any (player) skill, either. You have little sense of achievement if the outcome was essentially random.

Arena was pretty brutal, actually. Definitely the hardest TES game I've played a significant amount of by far (although maybe Battlespire will be worse). Died in the Imperial dungeons in the beginning at least 25 times.

I have also played the original Castlevania. The difficulty in that game is just ridiculous. I also was able to play Super Mario Bros. all the way to World 8-4, but just could not get past it.

I've had more difficulty with Daggerfall then I did with Arena mostly because of glitches. Morrowind has had its difficulty moments but nothing that can't be handled.

One hard game I've tried to play was the original Metroid for the NES. I could never quite get into this game. I have played Metroid II: The Return of Samus, Super Metroid and the Metroid Prime Trilogy.

How about just a particular hard mode?

My Castlevania experience is very limited, but the one I have played the most extensively by far was a relatively lesser known one that has received a fairly lukewarm reception: Lament of Innocence. I found it quite fun even if wasn't a particularly great game, but the normal mode is a bit too easy. In fact, I didn't die once on normal mode, even on the boss run you can do at the end. When you beat the game on normal, you unlock "crazy" mode, which is the super hard one. Remember, I never died on normal mode.

I DIED THREE TIMES ON THE [censored] TUTORIAL IN CRAZY MODE. LIKE, WHAT THE HELL? The disparity between normal and hard mode in the game was just so absurd! I didn't play much further than the tutorial on the higher difficulty. Good grief...

Only game I've played on "Hard Mode" was Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas and Vegas 2 on the Realistic setting. It doesn't change to much in terms of numbers of enemies and their AI but bullets aren't your friend and you can forget about point blank range, getting shot that close on realistic setting and you can guaranteed a revisit to your nearest checkpoint.

Lately Khajiit has played a game called Player Unknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG as it's also known. Khajiit is terrible at this game, lol. It's so frustrating dying over and over again.

Monster Party for the NES

Doom VFR on the PS4. Not so much on the difficulty but rather hard to do no more then a couple of levels before getting motion sickness.

The tactics I usually employ in games like these are as follows:

1. Land in a place that is relatively barren. Be at the edge of the map if need be. You’ll have your pick of weapons and there’s usually a vehicle near every place so you won’t have to worry about dying of poison when the map shrinks.

2. Limit your own visibility and audio cues by crouch-running and crawling whenever possible. Also check your six, nine and basically every direction at regular intervals. Smart people like to do people from behind, and while that may sound dirty, it’s a legit strategy. You’ll be surprised how cunning and sneaky people can be.

2b. Not only should you be environmentally and situationally aware, you should also be paranoid as all hell. If you see something that clashes with the natural environment, there’s a 60/40 chance that’s not part of the scenery. Check it out with the scope of your gun; you’ll have the advantage of already aiming at it if it turns out to be an enemy. This is especially true in crappy mobile renditions of Battle Royale type of games — the pixels of character models are so easy to differentiate from the set pieces of the environment and I get sooooooo many kills off of it.

3. Use stun and smoke grenades. They’re criminally underused.

4. It may just be a personal thing, but unless the need is really important, I don’t recommend using cars. They’re so loud and it can tip people off whenever you’re driving to an inhabited building or village or whatever. Bikes are the worst.

5. Be a predator, not a warrior, at least until you’re confident enough to just pawn people left and right. Choose engagements really carefully and more often than not let people pass you by unmolested (if they don’t see you). Let them thin their own ranks. I won several games where I only had one kill, and that was the last guy in a 1v1 when 98 of the other players were dead lol

And that’s it tbh. I’m still a learning journeyman myself but I hope this’ll help you in the future, my good Cat Man Dude.

Zelda 2: The Adventure of LINK. It don't like me .

Heh, Cat Man Dude hasn’t played that game in several months. Never did get very good at it so this one decided to cut his losses and accept that it wasn’t for him.

Not really hard but the Ghost Recon Wildlands Predator battle was a Bee-with-an-itch so to speak.

Clicky here.

You're not alone, maety. Though personally I don't think I died too often, or at all. Think I was being a giant chicken and thus vewy, vewy quiet


Haven't played much Castlevania but I hear it's a brute. Those "flying backwards half a mile when hit" is pure NES b-s.
As for SMB I usually play up to world 6-4 and then call it quits. I'm not skilled or patient enough to go further.



It's not an easy game and it does have some very weird secrets that you have to figure out in order to advance. I've tried my wings with it but haven't come far, mainly due to lack of interest. I did spam XP though for awhile.

Forgot all about this post.

Unfortunately, sneaking around was not an option for me, lol. (Nor was naturally casting magic, as a warrior like my Eternal Champion had to get enchanted gear to do that.) The Imperial Dungeons sure were brutal, but that certainly wasn't the only hard part. I remember in one of the main dungeons (the Mines of Khuras, I believe, since that was a fiery place) that I had to book it back to the entrance after I got what must have been another piece of the Staff of Chaos, because there were hellhounds skulking about and I had no Resist Fire potions left. Of course, I wasn't successful on the first try. Overall, I must have died close to 100 times in the game, or at least that is what it felt like.

Still haven't gotten around to playing Battlespire for comparison, though.




I personally don't understand the praise the original Castlevania gets. I get that it is supposed to be designed that way and its a different era, but it's just unfair and not fun. It was something like stage 3 is when I finally just had enough.

Yeah, many old games really didn't play fairly. Gravitating towards a bottomless pit every time something nudges you is the reason I've played through so few games even though the NES was de facto my childhood.

I did play through some games though. River City Ransom is a great game as is Shadowgate, if you can stomach all the "what do I do now?" Very atmospheric, though.

I'm adding Dark Souls to this list. Both Yahtzee and Jim Sterling (YouTubers) swear by this game as the Leonardo Da Vinci of gaming so I decided to check it out. I made it through the intro dungeon but after that the game showed me its true form. Like I said I'm not into these type of rage games so to spare the Switch I decided to delete the game from its memory and replace it with Fortnite.

Pretty sure that game series is made specifically for masochists.

YEEP!

You guys must be talking about the Ninja Gaiden series.


Yep, you're talking about the Ninja Gaiden series.


Don't believe me? Play them for a bit and then get back to me

that game is 8bit Dark Souls before Dark Souls existed.

Haven't played DS but perhaps you have a point

Dark Souls series is brutal. Hardest game I've personally played...

I don't even remember. I avoided most of the hard NES and SNES titles. Maybe the original final fantasy, because I didn't know you were supposed to xp grind and I was horribly underleveled

I heard the 3rd game's a bit more forgiving and probably better for starters, but that's like reading the last page of Return of the King because the other two books were hard to read.

Hoo boy. If you thought LotR was tough, I'd avoid the Silmarillion.

Oh I've read The Hobbit that was Dark Souls training area. I've never been so bored reading .

Dark Souls brought out the calculating, patient, pragmatic sadomasochistic min-max player in me. I entered that game as a trash-talking #360noscope420BlazeItYEEHAW CoD playboi, I came out of it a man.

I’ll never forget that game. It legit impacted me as a human being, to risk sounding dramatic; I’m not lying when I say it taught me patience and calculating all my moves beforehand, and I was like, young (15 I think or 16) so that was actually pretty beneficial.

Still tho, it’s not for everyone and I heard that the second game toes the line between simply hard and unreasonably torturous (only played the first game KEK).

Worst part is, the story looks interesting and I'd like to play it just for that, but there ain't no way in Hate I'm touching a game that difficult. My blood pressure thanks me.

Do it for the giggles anyway GAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Uleni should play Ghosts n Goblins for the NES

I got that on the Switch via Nintendo Online Direct (aka Now Nintendo does online memberships too). It's tough but fair.

Don't know if "fair" is the word I'd use


Maybe it's been easified on the Switch?

Kinda...You can use save states now. As for the original you had infinite continues and even if you died and used said continue you'd pick right up from the last checkpoint.

Ooooooh, save states. And I reckon you don't have to play it twice in a row in order to truly win?

Nope still have to do it twice.

That's a huge middlefinger in the face of an unsuspected gamer

I remember hearing about that. I'd be less than pleased.

In Bubble Bobble for the NES you simply cannot complete the game alone. Well you can, but you can't get the true ending without a second player.

Which was bs.

Well the arcade of Ghost N Goblins had one job...to take all the monies .

The curious side of me is now considering Dark Souls. Might pick it up for the 360.