Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, Razors Edge. Completed those games on normal difficulty with difficulty LOL. Completing them on Master Ninja is out of the question for me :P
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I found the final two battles in Guacamelee, especially Javier Jaguar, to be controller tossing fun.
But I need to go way back to the days where a death meant something to comment on truly hard.... Truly hard is the original Castlevania... Or the original run of mega man, or double dragon... Those games don't give a f*** about your feelings....
A bunch, here's some of them:
Ninja Gaiden Black
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
TrackMania: Build to Race
Bit. Trip Runner
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
F-Zero GX
What I played of Dark Souls was just brutal, and same with the original Mega Man.
Dragon Age: Origins was pretty tough to get through since I threw up every time I heard the dialogue or engaged in combat or did anything, really. Non-stop puking. Almost died IRL, actually.
Unreal Tournament playing against bots at inhuman or godlike difficulty is nearly impossible to win
X3 terran conflict is quite challenging to get into the game and learn the mechanics and even after you get use to it and own a few ships it gets really challenging again when you start building stations/mines etc and start managing them. Still love the game though
Sins of a solar empire on the highest difficulty
Civ V on diety
Serious sam on the highest difficulty
In all seriousness though, now that I think of it Wizardry 4 is probably the hardest game I've ever played. I was trying to be a bad motherfucker and play it without a guide. I didn't get anywhere. I didn't do anything. For five or six hours. That was the first area of the game. Really good though if you can devote all of your waking hours to it.
Games from the Souls series. Actually I'd only say Dark Souls because I never got to play Demon Souls.
After you play Dark Souls and move on to II and Bloodborne...they are a bit easier than they would've been if they were your first in the series.
Also some of those missions in Jak 2 and 3 were hard.
I'd say Legendary difficulty in the Halo games. Halo:ODST's legendary difficulty had special feel to it since the player was just a normal ODST and not a Spartan.
The last challenging game i've played was in 2014. Divinity Original Sin on Hard. Now that was a mortherfawkin challenge. hell, it was painful but i enjoyed every second of it.
Fucking Bloodborne
lol get the dlc, it will buttr*pe you.
Super Mario Bros. 3 is stupidly difficult. So is Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Halo 2 on Legendary because so much of it is bullshit. Dark Souls is pretty hard, but mostly because it's a "Learn by failing" game.
xcom: enemy unkown on immortal+impossible, that sucker took some runs to complete and then there's the long war mod, which I'm yet to beat...
Bloodborne dlc is a good challenge for even seasoned souls players, didn't clock how long it took me but there were some grey hairs.
Dragon Age: Origins was pretty tough to get through since I threw up every time I heard the dialogue or engaged in combat or did anything, really. Non-stop puking. Almost died IRL, actually.
Origins was awesome.
Inquisition on the other hand... That game made me think I had died and gone to hell
Ghosts n Goblins and Battletoads. These are the only games that I can say were difficult, from what I've played. Dark Souls games are walk in the park. There are some games however, that were difficult during limited number of time. Divinity Original Sin was very difficult in opening moments.
Took 8 hours to figure out mechanics and how stuff works in the game, and it was worth it. Mongol invasion during Medieval 2: Total War was pretty difficult for me since I suck at 1v1 infantry combat, so I had to stick to Siege battles to win battles. Also, Operator in Witcher 2 on hardest difficulty.
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Also, Wing Commander 4. At one point I though the game wants be have actual pilot training before playing it. It's a lot harder IMO compared to other Space Sims like Freespace 2, which was pretty easy, especially on Normal difficulty.
Ninja Gaiden Black (Forever the challenge king as far as I know)
Dark Souls I & II
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Ori and the Blind Forest (Still trying, still failing to get the no death achievement)
Company of Heroes
Well any souls type game; ninja gaiden 1&2; any halo on legendary; ori; zillion; the ninja (Sega master system), hitman codename 47. I'm sure there are others.
@jethrovegas: I rad that and burst out laughing on the train heading to school. Dude next to me leaned over to see what I laughed at. Great post.
Dirt Rally, without proper FFB (around that time, FFB was a problem with the game, they fixed it though). I suck at almost every other genre on harder settings so probably every game feels like a challenge..
Fucking Bloodborne
Main game was easy. I found Demon and Dark 1 harder.
The DLC and Chalice dungeons are challenging. especially the bosses. Souls series in general I found the DLC's more difficult than their main game.
Pretty much any top down "bullet hell" shooter for me.
Oh yeah man, I tried that Ikaruga, I don't know if that's one, but I just couldn't.
Going to go with a unique pick since others said Ninja Gaiden 2 (path of the master ninja is infuriating).
Certain parts of Catherine are straight up diabolic and the hardest of all games last gen, particularly Axis Mundi, the final trial of Babel, and the Rapunzel levels.
Shmups in general. I still can't help but love them though, because the music in so many of them (especially the Thunder Force series) will always pump me up to try and eventually win. Just listening to "Steel of Destiny" from TFV on its own is enough to get my palms sweaty, lol.
Final Fantasy 10 to unlock all the secret weapons and stuff. Is just pain in the ass to play all the blitz ball, chocobo catch and dodge the stupid lighting!
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