Hardest Video Games

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Smedy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rush N Attack

5 years later, smedy makes his first useful post.

[Galanteer]

Originally Posted by Enslaved [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hardest-core games in terms of difficulty of day-to-day experience:


EQ Sullon Zek

not if you were on team easy, err evil.

[moklianne]

Solomon's Key was pretty hard back in the day.

[eqravenprince]

All the hard games I can remember were on NES, and played without cheat codes. All these games had limited number of lives and no save points I believe.

TMNT
Ghosts and Goblins
Gauntlet
Bayou Billy
Ninja Gaiden
Double Dragon
Lifeforce
Gradius
Castlevania

[Zeelot]

Double Dragon 3 takes the cake for me for difficulty. Short game but hard as hell. The prequels were much better games though.

Original ninja turtles game for nes is no joke either!

[JonathanHancock]

Xcom: enemy unknown -- turn based strategy. sci fi. Has a great story and LOADS of cutscenes to push your gameplay along - for example every new tech you research you get a little scientist lab demonstration etc.

Awesome game -- VERY hard on "classic" difficulty (let alone classic ironman - only ONE SAVE SLOT allowed, and the game autosaves after every turn. You fuck up and get your best soldier killed, there's no reloading.

check it out - came out in 2012.

[JonathanHancock]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VToAl5KuXlk

The early game can be brutal sometimes -- but always fun and EXTREMELY rewarding.
At the start you only have basic earth weapons, and of course the aliens already have their superheated plasma guns of all types.

Pretty much EVERYTHING YOU SEE during combat is destructible terrain, and there's lots of explosive ordnance (and the alien plasma weapons) taht allow you to destroy the terrain.

In fact when you assault a crashed UFO you can damn near blow the entire thing up from the outside if you have a squad with 4 heavies (for rockets and double grenades). Extra cool if you mana to hit the UFOs power source inside for a MEGA explosion (basically killing all aliens inside the craft in one turn, but also destroying the craft as well)

Of course that's the trade off; and this game is FILLED with EQUAL VALUE trade-offs. Using explosives will destroy any alien artifacts or tech that might have been salvagable.

And you can get REAL ballsy and try to capture live aliens using a giant stun gun of sorts -- often worth losing one of your best men to accomplish this, as the alien interrogations result in huge intel bonuses (and often new tech research as well)

[Tecmos Deception]

AKA it's x-com: ufo defense but remade and probably not as good.

I mean, a dude got shot by an alien and he didn't instantly die. It's easier than the original already! The fog of war looks pretty weak too. Looks like you can see the whole damn map from the launch point, so at least you have an idea of where to try to move to to get some los on the aliens.

[JonathanHancock]

It's really good actually.

A good middle ground for new players and veterans of the old game.

[SamwiseRed]

xcom ufo defense (the one for ps1) was pretty hardcore and fun. i remember as soon as i landed i tried to get my guys the fuck away from the ship before one was taken over and allah akbar'd my whole team. sometimes i would go to missions with a shit ton of heavy explosive, i would then proceed to blow up the entire map. ahh i could go on and on, love that game.