Which games you found challenging?

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#1  Edited By indzman
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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

Well ? :)

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#2 deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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Fucking Bloodborne

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Meatboy and Cloudberry Kingdom. Some of the levels have ludicrous (pretty much impossible) difficulty.

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#4  Edited By aroxx_ab
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Section Z, Ecco the dolphin

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#5  Edited By TheEroica  Moderator
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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....

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#6  Edited By PrincessGomez92
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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.

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#7 Ant_17
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Can't think of any, but that could mean all games are challenging to me.

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Battletoads on SNES. That shit was hard, like really hard and it makes games like Megaman look like a joke. Even on Rare Replay's Battletoads, I still get my ass whip.

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#9 intotheminx
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More recently I would give the nod to They Bleed Pixels. **** that game.(its awesome)

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#10  Edited By jethrovegas
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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.

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#11 lamprey263
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Bayonetta 2, even though the game itself isn't hard, going for that pure Platinum is.

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#12 Skelly34
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Ninja Gaiden 1 + 2, CIvilization 5 on deity and first souls playthroughs.

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#13 adamosmaki
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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

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Battletoads on multiplayer

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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.

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#16 deactivated-5a44ec138c1e6
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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.

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#17 silversix_
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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.

@charizard1605 said:

Fucking Bloodborne

lol get the dlc, it will buttr*pe you.

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#18 chikenfriedrice
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Bloodfuckingborne

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#19 DarkLink77
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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.

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#20  Edited By Howmakewood
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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.

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@jethrovegas said:

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

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#22 indzman
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Jak II ( Hero Mode ) , Turrent Mission = Near to impossible, or just get really lucky lol.

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#23  Edited By Cloud_imperium
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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.

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#24 SecretPolice
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Tetris. :P

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#25 drinkerofjuice
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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

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#26 cainetao11
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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.

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@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.

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Demon's Souls is that game for me.

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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..

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#30  Edited By A-new-Guardian
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@charizard1605 said:

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.

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#31 HalcyonScarlet
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Yeah, I couldn't imagine the NG games on the harder difficulty.

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#32 Sali217
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Pretty much any top down "bullet hell" shooter for me.

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#33 HalcyonScarlet
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@Sali217 said:

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.

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#34 Heil68
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Ninja Gaiden 1 + 2 on NES

Demon Souls

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@intotheminx said:

More recently I would give the nod to They Bleed Pixels. **** that game.(its awesome)

I agree completely. One of the few platformers I just cannot beat.

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#36  Edited By deactivated-5b1e62582e305
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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.

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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.

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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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#39  Edited By glez13
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Souls games.I usually stay away from challenging games so probably just that, unless I'm forgetting something.

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  • Dark Souls (the only Souls/Bloodborne game I've played)
  • Contra (without the cheat code)
  • Battletoads
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#41 skektek
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@princessgomez92: I love how Dark Souls gives you a wide open opportunity to screw yourself from the very beginning (graveyard and catacombs).

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#42 heguain
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Contra. Most NES games. Divinity Original Sin, Dark Souls, Devil May Cry 3, Witcher 2 Insane mode, Dragon Age Origins Nightmare mode, Dishonored/Thief and Splinter Cell DA.

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Truly challenging?

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.

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F-Zero GX

Devil May Cry 3

Ghosts and Goblins