Are These The Ten Hardest Games?

Hey I actually finished DMC3 on Hard! But not ‘dante must die’ difficulty… shame on me :(

Holly crap! Those Ninja Gaiden Black videos are bloody long.

Metal Gear Solid? What?

I finished that in a single evening on normal. On hardest, it only took a couple of tries.

To be fair, I used an auto-fire pad to complete the training sequence, but even if you fail that, you can still complete the game.

That game isn’t difficult at all. The rest of the list is solid.

Battletoads isn’t really that hard, but you do have to memorize the jet bike level exactly (its more frustrating.)

Contra is another one that doesn’t deserve to be there. After you have memorized the level, its really easy.

I Wanna Be the Guy is the hardest game I’ve played, and I’ve played most of that list.

Dont really agree with metal gear solid, and havnt given demons souls a go yet, looking forward to Aussie release. If ninja gaiden is higher then super ghouls n ghosts though, i dont know if i ever want to try it, i like my controllers to stay working.

Im confused how MGS PS1 is on the list.. unless this list is basically saying on SUPER HARD these are the hardest..

I mean in that case, there’s a heap of hard car games which are impossible on super hard. Anyone actually beaten F-Zero GX on gamecube? That was almost impossible..

I don’t think those old games should count (Contra, Battletoads, etc…) often they were purposefully made insanely difficult because if they weren’t, you’d finish them in an hour and never touch them again… again, it’s hard to classify what exactly makes a game hard.

Like, a lot people couldn’t get passed the first dungeon in Oblivion before you go out into the real world (yes, I’m referring to the tutorial), and gave up before it started… but I spent over 400 hours in Oblivion, exploring/mastering every aspect of it. However, I suck the balls at God of War 3 so badly to the point where I’m regretting buying it because I’m so stuck. And I’ve only been playing for an hour… :/ Guess it depends on what you grew up playing.

Just the thought of the 1987 C-64/ZX Spectrum game ‘Army Moves’ is something that makes me want to jump onto ebay to order a Quickshot-2 joystick… Patiently wait for it to arrive in the mail… Sign for it, carefully remove from its packaging – and then throw at a wall as hard as I can!

Also – Super Ghouls n Ghosts was a walk in a sponge park for children in mittens next to the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins coin-op!

Rusk

Agree that MGS should not be up there. I’m pretty terrible at video games in general, but I never found it difficult.
Pretty sure I Wanna Be The Guy needs to be there.
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Good to see Ikaruga made that list.

Although once you died so many times that you just get unlimited credits, it becomes easier. =P

I don’t think Demon’s Souls belongs on this list. It’s got a high initial level of difficulty for what people are used to, but it doesn’t raise the bar too much as the game progresses. Most of the bits you hear people complaining about in the first couple of levels are almost as hard as the game gets.

Ultimate Ghouls’n'Ghosts on the PSP is MUCH harder than the Super NES version, it’s a whole new world of pain.

I’d also like to see at least one Shoot ‘em up on there. Probably Touhou, for anyone that’s heard of that.

I’d replace Demon’s Souls with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, that is a rough game. It’s much nastier than tri, although tri’s monsters do hit harder when you first reach them online, but there’s no comparing to how hard a G rank monster in Unite can hit you.

in my opinion warcraft 3 for pc has pretty hard comps for custom games. the easy comp can kick my butt in 2v2.