Toughest Video Games when set on 'Difficult'

[siccjay]

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Tetris.


I could never beat it.

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Most I ever seen was like 209 lines. I think the most I have got was 184 or so. I remember level 19 being nearly impossible. (getting there by the +10 level trick)

[Guyon]

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halo 2 is hard on legendary until you figure it out.


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Figure out what? Whenever there's more than a couple of creatures on the screen, including an elite or 2, I get schooled. The other settings were not a problem, but Legendary disgusts me.

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here is how you beat halo 2:

get a plasma pistol and either a rifle/carbine/duel-wield with a pistol.

shoot enemy with plasma pistol to lower their shields. headshot with other weapon. rinse and repeat.

it took me about 2 months of not beating the first level on legendary to figure this out

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If you get checkpointed with no grenades and no power weapons on the Tartarus final battle, it is very difficult to beat! Clear your schedule.

[Guyon]

Could never beat the last level




#2, without difficult setting even...

[jaffa]

Stuntman, one of the first PS2 games was/is utterly solid. I never completed it, and i broke 2 controllers during play from throwing them at the wall/ground etc in anger.

[MediaPA]

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I think worth mentioning is Dr. Mario. I've recently been playing it a lot. Put it on level 20 with high speed and it's basically impossible.

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Dr. Mario - Great Game. It just repeats itself if you beat level 25 high. The crowning moment of my Freshman year. I felt so empty after achieving it though.

My roommate and I would battle it out head to head on 17 high. I wish my nintendo still worked. A friend has a bootleg version on one of those 1001 in 1 TV plug in things. They switched the A/B buttons though. Completely messes with me.

[Huckle]

The hardest old game I remember is Dogs of war to the Amiga. I don't think I've ever finished a single level and there were like 30.

Newer games I'd call just frustrating is Commandos, Hitman and of course Devil may cry (which is pretty insane since Cerberus, the first boss is probably the hardest).

[Victorvdb]

Ok it's been mentioned in passing, but noone really responded to them. Although I'm not insane at first person shooters in any way, I remember Doom1 and Doom2 on Nightmare setting as being impossible. Level 1 of Doom1 Chapter1 was beatable, but the 2nd level none of me or my group of friends could get passed in single player mode. Then we tried 3 player cooperative, and we managed to get past level 2, then get stuck in level 3. IIRC there were 9 levels per chapter and 4 episodes total.
I think monsters moved and shot twice or thrice as fast, and respawned every 30 seconds or something, and the available ammunition would not.

Also Civs on hardest difficulty levels.

[Jules22]

since a lot of great ones have already been mentioned (THAT TMNT1 VIDEO IS THE BEST EVER BEST LINK EVER YES AWESOME WOW) ill just add that super punch out was really really hard, i could never beat the japanese old guy with the staff, my brother beat the whole game tho which was pretty f'in awesome. i only made it to the first bruiser once and i got shelled. great thread

[Jules22]

[Victorvdb]

Here's the doom1 shareware map with a freeware program that upgrades controls a bit to modern standards. I did this, still didn't get past episode 1 level 1 on nightmare...

I suck [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

PS these downloads are not copyrighted downloads, but shareware and freeware.


http://www.jimmysoftware.com/Softwar...E/download.asp

download doom1.wad

http://legacy.newdoom.com/downloads.php

download Doom Legacy v1.42