What is the hardest game you have ever played?

[Johnnytheboy]

Battling my way through XCOM2 and being whipped like a badly behaved dog.

Just sat waiting to reload again after a mission went from "I wonder what's behind this building?" to "half my squad are dead, injured or panicking" and started wondering what the most unreasonably hard game I have ever played is.

I think it's another X-COM game - Interceptor, a late 90s space sim based on the X-Wing/Tie Fighter game engine IIRC. Until you discover a particular bit of aim assistance it is - frankly - impossible to hit any of the AI ships, you may as well try and catch flies with a pin.

Luckily your AI team mates do a fairly effective job, so if you reload often enough they will kill the aliens while you fly about ineffectually.

Anyone else care to share tales of their own video game failure?

[The_Jackal]

Cuphead, and Isle of Man TT.
Nuff said.
Personally, I found XCOM2 ok. Once you click with the strategy required, it was quite enjoyable to work through.

[scrubchub]

Some kind of retro platformer or faux retro platformer. Ghosts and Goblins and Super Meat Boy come to mind but there are countless others. Super Star Wars was bd hard as well.

[Doofus]

Not sure about "too hard", but I ran out of patience with The Last Of Us (a game which actually frightened me ) and Horizon Zero Dawn.

In both cases, there came a point when the difficulty ramped up, and after dying at the same point eighteen billion times, I gave up.

[-crookedtail-]

I think I've answered the same each time when this thread pops up,

Back to The Future 3 on the mega drive, bloody impossibly hard!

I don't think much else will come close. Great Scott!

[dieselgrunt]

Super Ghouls’n’Ghosts on the SNES, stupidly hard.

[Mannginger]

Battle Toads on the NES. Took me months to complete that game! I simply don't have the staying power / patience for hard games any more.

[Piersman2]

ash73 said:

Wizadore on the BBC micro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frec-Bh6XfE

Elite in the BBC. Someone had this set up back in the mid 80s.... I never once managed to actually navigate into a space port.

Gave up after several frustrating hours / days.

[hotchy]

Theme hospital. It kept having earthquakes and my patients kept getting sick. Couldnt ever get by that level..

[Pebbles167]

As a kid:

- Daikatana (unless you mod it to either get rid of the dumb as fk sidekicks, or at least give them some intelligence)
- Doom on Nightmare
- Halo on Legendary
- Theme Hospital
- Stupid car park tutorial level on Driver

Now:

- Any of the From Software games, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Dark Souls etc.
- Doom 2016 on Nightmare
- DayZ, boring as hell addictive crap
- Forza 7 with all the driver aids and stuff turned off

Edited by Pebbles167 on Thursday 4th June 20:22

[menguin]

Syndicate and to a lesser degree syndicate wars.

But I'd still play them for hours and days on end because they were so amazing!

[vonuber]

Terminator 2 the Arcade Game on the Mega Drive.

fk John Connor and his stty truck.

[HARTLEYHARE1]

Completed Metroid prime 1&2

I aged dramatically that year

[Pebbles167]

hotchy said:

Theme hospital. It kept having earthquakes and my patients kept getting sick. Couldnt ever get by that level..

Yes it was tricky. They've done a sort of remake for current machinery called 2 point hospital. It's good fun.

vonuber said:

Terminator 2 the Arcade Game on the Mega Drive.

fk John Connor and his stty truck.

I remember that. Was very young playing on a mates Megadrive

[Blib]

I can't even get past the first griffin thing on Witcher 3.

[Doofus]

Pebbles167 said:

hotchy said:

Theme hospital. It kept having earthquakes and my patients kept getting sick. Couldnt ever get by that level..

Yes it was tricky. They've done a sort of remake for current machinery called 2 point hospital. It's good fun.

I'm willing to bet the remake doesn't have Jimmy Savile in it...

[cerb4.5lee]

dieselgrunt said:

Super Ghouls’n’Ghosts on the SNES, stupidly hard.

I've tried to finish Ghost and Goblins about a million times...and I still haven't managed it!

[AlexC1981]

TIE Fighter was a frustrating game. You really had to learn the sequence of each mission by trial and error through replaying it. I preferred the Wing Commander games as they were a bit easier.

80s games were the hardest, just so incredibly unforgiving. Labyrinth of the Creator on the C64 was proper tough.

[Johnnytheboy]

Doofus said:

Not sure about "too hard", but I ran out of patience with The Last Of Us (a game which actually frightened me ) and Horizon Zero Dawn.

In both cases, there came a point when the difficulty ramped up, and after dying at the same point eighteen billion times, I gave up.

That's my problem these days, I just don't have the patience. There's this voice in my head saying "just go back to what you know".

I'm actually starting to get the hang of XCOM2 but I just find it so hard as to not be relaxing, and ultimately that's why I play computer games.

[Johnnytheboy]

AlexC1981 said:

TIE Fighter was a frustrating game. You really had to learn the sequence of each mission by trial and error through replaying it.

IIRC there was one mission where you had to head one way, fire a missile at some ship and INSTANTLY double back on yourself and defend one of your own big ships against fighters coming from the other direction, or it got blown up before you got to it.

This XCOM Interceptor game was like that, but trying to hit an AI ship with lasers was just impossible too.