What's the hardest game you ever beat? - Page 2

>you Win, Your Score Is 1000 Out Of A Possible 1000, You Were Not Eaten By A Grue Or An Egress

I miss my Commodore.

I've done it too! I actually wrote down the pattern of that goddamn bike race. What a bitch and a half. Once you get past that, it wasn't that bad.

I don't know if anyone ever played the arcade version, but it was a hundred times easier.

Genesis. It wasn't that hard to figure out. You just had to know which levels to beat in what order, which was a bitch. But when you started getting all of those awesome weapons things got... harder. Plus they only give you a few lives to get through the whole damn thing.

Gamers these days, with their infinite lives and checkpoints. Pussies!

What do you do when you get to the slit in the streambed?

I did beat Battletoads as a younger lad, which sadly proves how little of a life I had back then. But I never beat TMNT, that game was cruel. I got to the Technodrome, that's it.

I always wondered if anyone had ever beaten an old NES game called Solar Jetman. I couldn't figure out if I thought it was really hard, or if it just really fucking sucked. Maybe both. But I played it all the time, and never got anywhere in it.

There was the beauty of this game. No one had ever seen one before, so we had zero idea what to do 90% of the time, and no internet to google for answers.

Helpful keywords to remember though:

VERBOSE

INVENTORY

It's like the Hitchiker's game, but more simpler.

Infocom used it as the model for all of their inital games.

Zork completely ripped it off.

I hate this game.

Fuck yes. Me and my buddy beat the arcade game, then beat the home version. Many quarters were spent that day at the arcade.

Smash TV was another bitch to beat.

Raiders on the 2600--when I beat that, I left the game on for like a day just so I could come back to it and see that I won.

Another friend and I beat "House of the Dead', which took fucking forever to beat Dracula(?) at the end. We were at a Dave & Buster's for a corporate party, and he controlled the game cards that went out, and about 7 people didn't show up, so we used up the cards beating the game.

And finally, Taipan(I think that was the name) on the TRS-80. That was fucking hard as well.

R-Type in the arcade with only one one quarter. I was completely in the zone then. Never even come close since.

Fuck yeah!!! That was the GAME!

I finished Smash TV on the SNES. After downloading it on XBL, I have no idea how I did that with only 3 continues.

God Hand. One of my favourite games, too.

Anybody remember Cliff Hanger? It was one of those animated laserdisc branching things like Dragon's Lair or Space Ace, except that it was cut together from various Lupin III movies. I eventually managed to beat this game in the arcade. Actually, once you got past the ninja fight in the middle, it was all cake. Made it through the rest of the game on one quarter. But that fight was a gold-plated bitch.

Interestingly, I'd never heard of Lupin III at the time. Years later, when a friend and I saw The Castle of Cagliostro in a Miyazaki double feature, we looked at each other and said "Holy shit, it's Cliff Hanger!"

I played it a fair amount but I don't recall ever beating it. It was really just incredibly frustrating.

The hardest game I have ever beaten was Out of This World. I do not know what compelled me to continue playing it as a child, but I know I definitely beat that fucking game. I also beat Battletoads, although I do think I had to resort to using Game Genie on only the very last level. Bart vs the Space Mutants was hard as fuck since the controls are compete balls, but I definitely was able to beat it one single time. There was a level in a museum where at the very end, you had to make this incredibly precise jump onto dinosaur bones and I was only able to ever make it once, and thankfully I was able to beat the rest after that. TMNT I never beat, but I swear I saw a friend of mine beat it once. Completing each career song with 5 stars on expert in Guitar Hero has probably been the hardest technically, since it took me nearly 2 years to get to a level where I could fully attain it.

You're joking, right? Out of This World is really, really easy. The game is like twelve minutes long, you can memorize the whole thing in under a day.

Not an exceptionally hard game, but one that I was pleased with myself for beating was Max Payne. 3 separate times as I played that game it took every bit of willpower not to snap that CD in half. The "fire" level (absolutely no skill involved, just trial and error and memorizing a path through the blazing restaurant) as well as the 2 "nightmare" levels (with the drug induced nightmare level being probably the most frustrating thing I've ever beaten in a video game, I could have easily destroyed the CD at that point and felt totally justified).

Basically, any time a game designer decides it will be fun for the player to have to master a type of gameplay completely different than they utilize the other 95% of the game it's almost always a spectacular failure.

I stuck it out, played the other levels and enjoyed them, got to the "Matrix" lobby and had an absolute blast, got to the roof and had no idea what to do. I refused to read any hints on how to handle the roof and I struggled and figured it out on my own and I thought that the last level absolutely made the game. Even the final cutscene felt like a good wrap up to this game I'd been working so hard to finish. That is still my favorite final level in a game.

It's not too long but it's incredibly frustrating without knowing what you are supposed to do. You get killed for doing practically anything that isn't exactly what you are supposed to be doing at that moment.