The Hardest Game ever?

[Loki]

For GT4 players: The Polyphony championship. You, racing against 5 other bastard Polyphonys in 15 races, each over 70 laps. It's effing impossible!

 

[martinvaloz]

Loki, a friend of mine played GT4 for over 300 hours and gotten a fair amount of practice in the game, I can confirm, it's not impossible. Nor is achieving a 100% complete score.

He was stuck in hospital at the time and found GT4 the best way to pass the time.

 

[Termite Man]

With out a doubt the most impossible game to finish would be Jet Set Willy which is impossible to finish.

Failing that Chucky Egg 2 was on the same wave length and also equally vast and impossible to compleat.

Chucky egg was made double hard because my computer didn't like seem to like it and the screen sort of scrolled quickly from top to bottom so I was visually impared while playing

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Project X was a beautiful game though. By far the best-looking and sounding game that was released on the Amiga. Just a shame it was so darned impossible!

You're right it was beautiful and well put together but the curve was idiotically hard...

 

[ch750536]

Hardest game I have played (in memory) is Commandos 2.

Agreed. This was one of those "Pixel perfect timing" games. Great game, too fucking hard tho.

 

[on_the_fly]

After completing Baldurs gate 1 & 2 I thought I would play Icewind Dale

BUT LIKEOMG thats the hardest game ive played EVER !

 

[fubert]

starfox for the snes on the harder level settings was fucking tough

 

[Kid_Eternity]

starfox for the snes on the harder level settings was fucking tough

It wasn't that hard, me and mate breezed it back in the day.

 

[J77]

A view to a kill on the Spectrum48k+

Never caught the parachute after driving around Paris for hours, so never got to the fire in the town hall scene.

I had my doubts that the latter scene ever existed...

 

[LostNotFound]

Bubble Bobble.

Never did all 100 levels (and then backwards, they say).

da da da DA DA DA da da da da...da da da da da da

da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

(sorry...flashback)

da da da da...da da da da

all 100 levels, no cheats.. it is doable!

we finally figured it out in first yr at uni in 1998, about 10 years after I first encountered the game

 

[fubert]

elite, when you started. shit laser and manual docking.

 

[oicur0t]

I did bubble bobble back in the day...took a lot of practice.

 

[kakuma]

anyone remember captain blood?

you had to travel around a whole galaxy, and learn alien languages

you never died, it was just so ridiculously big. it was interesting, but didnt really make much sense, bet noone's ever completed that

thunderforce IV on the megadrive, i remember that was rock. loads of wicked weapons and about 5 bosses per level. they should start making them games again....

and those text adventures on the C64...

go north. you are in a cave. go north. you are dead. would you like to play again?

would i fuck

what is fuck?
etc etc

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

elite, when you started. shit laser and manual docking.

Yeah I was trying to play Elite recently, just couldn't get into it at all.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

elite, when you started. shit laser and manual docking.

Oh god, manual docking...some bad gameplay moments have just been remembered...

 

[mentalchik]

a game called contact sam cruise on the spectrum.


amazingly hard.

 

[Good Intentions]

There's nothing like a few hours with Zork (without a walkthrough) to realise how smart our parents were. They did this for *fun*.

Unless of course you're part of the same generation as the insane MIT students that made that wonderful and hugely frustrating game and actually finished it. Then your really smart.

The hardest thing I've ever seen on a computer game was the Babel Fish puzzle in the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the one they made a t-shirt for the people who solved it ("I got the Babel Fish"). It's that top-of-room cleaning robot which gets you every time...

 

[narky]

The Chaos Engine on the Amiga/Atari. (edited to say: in single player mode)

Failing that, Alien Breed: Tower Assault was also bastard hard.

 

[fubert]

It wasn't that hard, me and mate breezed it back in the day.

yeah but you could more or less complete the game on your first attempt on easy.

 

[loud 1]

gaunlet 2 got very messy alittle way in

 

[Crispy]

all 100 levels, no cheats.. it is doable!

we finally figured it out in first yr at uni in 1998, about 10 years after I first encountered the game

Used to know exactly where to stand to pick up the powerups in BB when they would appear. In two player, if you both stood there, you'd both get the powerup Cycled through the levels several times over - it got boring after a while.

The other fella went on to dizzying heights that included completing Killer Instinct on the SNES blindfold. With his toes.

 

[poului]

ytf56yrty656

Far Cry on realistic.


It's just no laughing matter.



I always found Deus Ex quite a tough ride myself.

But what do I know, being a PC gamer?

 

[i_hate_beckham]

i agree with commandos two. that thing was virtully impossible after a while i think i managed to get to level 5 and just couldn't work it out.


dave

You're all useless. My brother completed it without cheating.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Prince of Persia 1 gets my vote.

 

[chriswill]

anyone remember captain blood?

you had to travel around a whole galaxy, and learn alien languages

you never died, it was just so ridiculously big. it was interesting, but didnt really make much sense, bet noone's ever completed that

thunderforce IV on the megadrive, i remember that was rock. loads of wicked weapons and about 5 bosses per level. they should start making them games again....

and those text adventures on the C64...

go north. you are in a cave. go north. you are dead. would you like to play again?

would i fuck

what is fuck?
etc etc

Anyone remember Fish on the ST.

I thought that was rock hard, although i was about 7 at the time.

 

[Firky]

grand prix came from the amiga yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrsssssssss ago, far too 'real'

 

[miniGMgoit]

Jet Set Willy is a right shit. I dont know anyone whos finished it.

Add to that the vast Chucky Egg 2 which is mind blowingly huge!!

 

[the B]

For GT4 players: The Polyphony championship. You, racing against 5 other bastard Polyphonys in 15 races, each over 70 laps. It's effing impossible!

That's beatable

 

[the B]

Prince of Persia 1 gets my vote.

That's also beatable.

This thread should have died when it was... dead.

 

[Final]

Are we talking hard as in the user interface is crap so you've got f-all control over what's going on... or just plain old tough to finish but fun trying?

If the later, I'll vote for Hellfire on the Megadrive.