You all should try playing the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Text adventure written by DNA him self!
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocom.php
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocom.php
The absolute rock-hard of gaming experiences
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Unkillable Cat
Mildly Dipped
I've played the HHGTG game...and completed it. Blergh.
I Want To Be The Guy a.k.a. Rick Dangerous 3. Rick Dangerous was a platformer that used hidden traps to try to kill the player. The only way to beat the game was to memorize where the traps were. Though nowhere near as nasty as IWBTG, it's hard to forget a game that cruel. No save-states. 3 lives. Limited resources. Good luck. (I actually finished Rick Dangerous 2 once.) Made by the same people that made Tomb Raider.
I Want To Be The Guy a.k.a. Rick Dangerous 3. Rick Dangerous was a platformer that used hidden traps to try to kill the player. The only way to beat the game was to memorize where the traps were. Though nowhere near as nasty as IWBTG, it's hard to forget a game that cruel. No save-states. 3 lives. Limited resources. Good luck. (I actually finished Rick Dangerous 2 once.) Made by the same people that made Tomb Raider.
TheRatKing
Vault Dweller
Oldies: I played all of these before I was 10, so they were difficult.
Marathon was hard, but then again, I was like 5 years old.
Played Half Life after, also hard when I was very young.
Civ2 was hard. When I was 6 I realized cheats and won finally.
Deus Ex: I was a little older but that first level always got me.
Unreal Tournament: I beat it on easy but the last fight against Xan was a nightmare.
Some Newer stuff (for me at least):
STALKER: especially on the harder settings and with Oblivion Lost.
SS2: I'm still playing it but some parts are difficult and require some managment skills.
COD4 on harder settings.
Some more I can't think of...
Marathon was hard, but then again, I was like 5 years old.
Played Half Life after, also hard when I was very young.
Civ2 was hard. When I was 6 I realized cheats and won finally.
Deus Ex: I was a little older but that first level always got me.
Unreal Tournament: I beat it on easy but the last fight against Xan was a nightmare.
Some Newer stuff (for me at least):
STALKER: especially on the harder settings and with Oblivion Lost.
SS2: I'm still playing it but some parts are difficult and require some managment skills.
COD4 on harder settings.
Some more I can't think of...
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
B5C said:
He also wrote Bureaucracy, which is no piece of cake. Neither of those is as hard as Spellbreaker though.
Warhammer Shadow Of The Horned Rat, the game was really hard, already in second mission enemy had 2-1 ratio of units and those units were equal in strength to yours. You could only replace casualties in towns that were sometimes between several missions and reinforcements were sparse so if some regiment lost more than half of its men you could not reinforce it to full strength.
UncannyGarlic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Agree with Contra 3
I'd agree with Unkillable Cat on Battletoads, though that's mostly because of the speeder sections.
Mario 2 (Mario: Lost Levels)
Mike Tyson's Punch Out (though I should probably emulate it and see if using a controller that isn't beat up makes it reasonable, my NES has taken it's blows)
Total Carnage
Smash TV
Probably one of the Mega Man games (I'm too good at them these days, 7's Wily has always been a bitch)
PC games are more of a toss up, strategy games all depend on how good you are at strategy so they really vary from person to person but I'd put a Civ game up there.
The original was harder, what was nasty about DMC3 was that the difficulty curve went vertically up a good ways on stage 3 (Cerberus) but after that it had a fairly slow but steady incline, unlike the original game which had a constant but fairly steep incline.maximaz said:
I'd agree with Unkillable Cat on Battletoads, though that's mostly because of the speeder sections.
Ya know, I used to think so but I just recently went back and played it and it wasn't as hard as I remembered.Wooz said:
Mario 2 (Mario: Lost Levels)
Mike Tyson's Punch Out (though I should probably emulate it and see if using a controller that isn't beat up makes it reasonable, my NES has taken it's blows)
Total Carnage
Smash TV
Probably one of the Mega Man games (I'm too good at them these days, 7's Wily has always been a bitch)
PC games are more of a toss up, strategy games all depend on how good you are at strategy so they really vary from person to person but I'd put a Civ game up there.
marko2te said:
o god i played that game, i think it may have been impossible to complete without cheats you know... i used to get near the orc tunnles and get whammed by squigs... cruel cruel inventions of a beast they are. you just had to sit back and watch them jump all through your ranks slowly squashing everyone to death...
Metzer said:marko2te said:
o god i played that game, i think it may have been impossible to complete without cheats you know... i used to get near the orc tunnles and get whammed by squigs... cruel cruel inventions of a beast they are. you just had to sit back and watch them jump all through your ranks slowly squashing everyone to death...
The main problem with that game was that major factor for winning was luck. I remember one of the first missions when you had to rescue a group of dwarfs who was surrounded. On my first play dwarfs were routed few seconds after the mission started and started running like a bunch of schoolgirls who just saw a really big spider, I won that mission but with heavy casualties which meant pressing the load save option. On my second play dwarfs were also routed but not before the slaughtered two units of ork boys and unit of black orcs which made my life a whole easier. In most strategy games luck is a factor but a minor one, this was the biggest problem with this game no matter how good tactician you are if you dont have luck you end poorly.
