Those last few races of Ridge Racer for the PSP stick out in my mind as possibly the hardest I've completed. They say the odds of winning are 1/200000 and only 1 tester did it in 6 months of testing. It took me 5 months to do one particular race. The rubber banding is so high that maybe a dozen times I finished last while being under .010 seconds behind first. The average speed of the cars in every race is higher than the cars top speed. You have to block the cars rubber banding to get a bump in speed and then hit the turbo to even have a chance.
I would say Demons' Souls but I haven't really tried it where Super Meat Boy I've tried and tired, and conquered and got good and hit a road block and sucked again.
Super Meat Boy is my answer for the hardest game I've ever played.
I've beaten a whole shitload of difficult games but none of them has the murderous "do 0 damage until you learn how to play" function of VS; 15 hour learning curve.
I think Super Meat Boy has to be up there - it's the only one I can think of where the many many deaths are always my fault, and never once left me feeling like I could blame the game in any way whatsoever. Its design is practically flawless in that sense. Hard in the best possible way.
As for the hardest game ever irrespective of quality, I want to say Treasure Island Dizzy, so I will. I had it on Spectrum, and it drove me completely nuts as a kid. There's youtube videos of people finishing it in 20 minutes and making it look like a cakewalk, but a cakewalk it is not, if you dont have prior knowledge. The item management in that game is a complete logistical nightmare. Those hidden coins too. Sudden horrible flashbacks. I love that game. Also, fuck that game.
@jayzilla: Yes, that would be why the topic title is "What is the hardest game thatyou ever played?"
For me, it would have to be Demon Souls. I'm not prone to throwing controllers, but man...I really wanted to throw my controller on many different occasions playing that game. One good thing that came from playing it though was that I didn't find Dark Souls to be as hard.
One of the only times I got really mad at a video game was Driver San Francisco. It wasn't a hard game by any means, but there was one mission later in the game where I had to escape several cars and reach a destination. I tried at least a dozen times and tossed my controller. The game defeated me. Again, I never get mad at games. I usually laugh at myself.
World of Warcraft - raiding Sunwell - M'uru. I stuck around for about 40 hours of futile attempts with practically zero progress, before I said *Screw This!* and quit WoW altogether for the first time. My raidgroup finally managed to beat the encounter after over 200 hours of *exercise*, roughly two weeks before Sunwell got nerfed into the ground. They still managed to squeeze in their Kil'jaeden first kill right before the nerf. Mighty proud achievement, shame I didn't stick around for it. Then again, I'd rather pull my toenails with pliers than suffer through 200+ hours of inane horseshit like that. Always fucking hated arbitrary blocker encounters with ludicrous balancing anyways.
More recently, I'd go with Super Meat Boy. I finished the game, but I don't think I could ever finish the dark world. Ninja Gaiden II was pretty crazy as well.
Those last few races of Ridge Racer for the PSP stick out in my mind as possibly the hardest I've completed. They say the odds of winning are 1/200000 and only 1 tester did it in 6 months of testing. It took me 5 months to do one particular race. The rubber banding is so high that maybe a dozen times I finished last while being under .010 seconds behind first. The average speed of the cars in every race is higher than the cars top speed. You have to block the cars rubber banding to get a bump in speed and then hit the turbo to even have a chance.
If you're serious then those developers are fuckin' stupid. Who makes a game like that intentionally? That's not fun.
Easily Ninja Gaiden Black. I didn't finish it either. :/
Well, I guess some of the Touhous or DoDonpachis I've spent 5min with are up there. But Ninja Gaiden is my White Whale at this point. DMC and Dark Souls don't got shit on that series.
Dark Souls I guess. I don't think I've ever really played a really hard game you couldn't grind yourself to the top in (That I played in depth anyway).
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