Games that Kick Your Ass

[Nominus Experse]

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[MadeOfApples]

Zelda II, I agree that this game was impossible. I haven't tried playing through it in years but I remember getting so frustrated over this game as a child. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a complete walk in the part compared to this game.

I've beaten TMNT a couple times as a child. Tried to help my little sister play it last night and I ended up losing all four turtles in the dam. -_-


I was also never able to beat The Battle of Olympus or BattleToads.

[scrumpleberry]

Zelda II is very horrid and un-fun, but hell, I even have enough trouble with the first Zelda :o

Shining Force II is a game which I got on reccomendation on the Wii thingy, and it is also horrible and hard. I can't think of any others really. I'm a casual gamer, so I don't really buy games that are about to kick my arse.

[Levian]

Lagoon (SNES)

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I've tried picking this game up a gazillion times, thinking "Hey, I'm gonna beat this sunnovabitch" and each time I get owned by the first boss. He only has to hit me a few times before I crash and burn, and it's impossible to dodge his hits, I swear. D: Even with save states I couldn't beat him. Never playing this game again.

Addams Family (NES & SNES)

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Oh my god, these games are horrible. While it does require skill to master these, most of all it requires memorization to stay alive from all the monstrous traps that the Addams Family mansion is infested with. The bathroom soaps are trying to kill you, the chandelier is trying to kill you, and even apples are trying to kill you! Good god.

The SNES version has harder gameplay, but the NES version outsucks it because if you get a game over, you have to start from the very beginning. The SNES version decided to be less cruel in that area, but made up for it by making everything in the world trying to kill you instead. Why have I beaten both of these games?

Mega Man 6 (NES)

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Maybe it's just me being stubborn and sucky at the same time, but this game is smurfing hard. When it comes to Mega Man games, I refuse to check which boss I should beat first, so I end up doing it trial and error. I also refuse to use e-tanks until the Wily stages. I usually figure out who the weakest link is pretty quickly, but not in this game. Oh no. They're all hard dammit. I haven't been able to kill a robot master yet in this game, and I've tried them all. If this game gets easier I might just never find out!

[Rostum]

Contra (NES)
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Especially when your friend is fucking http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif at it.

[Zeromus_X]

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Gradius. All of them.

I mean, I honestly think they're fun, they have great music, I love the sound effects, but I'll always screw up and get killed at the first level somewhere and lose the desire to play.

[Crimson]

Dead Space, for being so graphically incredible that everytime you try to stop and think how to get outta this mess something jumps out at you making you go HOLY ****!!!111 and you lose your strain of thought

[Momiji]

http://www.snesclassics.com/snes-roms/images/boxart/gradius%20iii.jpg

Gradius. All of them.

I mean, I honestly think they're fun, they have great music, I love the sound effects, but I'll always screw up and get killed at the first level somewhere and lose the desire to play.

Gradius is a bitch.

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Right now, DoDonPachi DAI-OU-JOU is kicking my ass. A lot. Great game, but it's for masochists.

[Shoeberto]

The first Castlevania.

I almost beat it, once. Mostly using save states, but I did try to some extent to play it legit. Got to Dracula, on my last life, managed to get through and beat him with hardly any life left. Then he transformed into his demon form and I just gave up.

[Markus. D]

Heyyyy, Adam's Family wasn't horrible in it's time, it was non-linear and about as complex as a platformer could be back in teh day.

I must say the stages were extremely long but EXTREMELY tricky to trip through, soooo many traps, odd-platforming situations and enemies.

[Jings]

Am I the only one who found the original Rayman to be tediously difficult in some places?

[Shoeberto]

Am I the only one who found the original Rayman to be tediously difficult in some places?
I never got farther than the second world in that game. There were like, two levels that I had to choose from, and I always got stuck in one spot on them.

[black orb]

>>> Super Mario bros..

[Levian]

Heyyyy, Adam's Family wasn't horrible in it's time, it was non-linear and about as complex as a platformer could be back in teh day.

I must say the stages were extremely long but EXTREMELY tricky to trip through, soooo many traps, odd-platforming situations and enemies.

I meant horrible as in 'wah these games are kicking my ass D:" But that's not to say I don't enjoy having my ass kicked ;) I've finished the NES version countless times and I finally got the SNES version done a couple of years ago.

[Vermachtnis]

Nocturne. That game is mean! I mean there I was fighting the Black Rider. Annoyed because for the White Rider and Red Rider, you could easily turn there helpers to stone. But nooo. Black Rider had to cheat and bring unstonable helpers. But just when I was about to win, he thought it'd be funny to spam Megadoloan. And there was Mara right before that. It wasn't a hard fight, but it dealt with luck and him using a Physical Attack when the Mirror was up. Problem was Mara was stupid and wouldn't attack. Not only that he insisted on spamming Dismal Tune, which I was immune too. So I had to set there for fifteen minutes waiting for him to kill me off so I can go again. And of course Matador all the way at the beginning. That wasn't a fun fight. Oh and of course the dreaded random encounter that spams Mudo/Hama skills. Or that same encounter who waits until you switch to Magatama that doesn't Null Death skill before attacking.

[Markus. D]

Heyyyy, Adam's Family wasn't horrible in it's time, it was non-linear and about as complex as a platformer could be back in teh day.

I must say the stages were extremely long but EXTREMELY tricky to trip through, soooo many traps, odd-platforming situations and enemies.

I meant horrible as in 'wah these games are kicking my ass D:" But that's not to say I don't enjoy having my ass kicked ;) I've finished the NES version countless times and I finally got the SNES version done a couple of years ago.


:D!

[Ultima Shadow]

Am I the only one who found the original Rayman to be tediously difficult in some places?
Oh yeah, I remember having some big problems with that game. Not sure if it really was that hard, or if I just sucked at it though. It's been at least 6 years or so since I played it. Still, out of all the plattform games I've played, I do belive the original Rayman was the hardest to beat.

I remember the final boss being a major dissapointment though. I found a lot of the mid-game bosses much tougher.

[sir helix]

Xenosaga I II III- after reaching a certain point in these games i gave up and hipefully i will finish them in a few years lmao

[Madame Adequate]

Am I the only one who found the original Rayman to be tediously difficult in some places?

Christ no, that game was brutal.

[Moon Rabbits]

I second Gradius, Rayman, and Lagoon.

Also:
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ActRaiser

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Civilization series. Any difficulty past Prince is impossible for me ... but that might have something to do with the fact that I declare war on everyone I meet.

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rRootage.

[Rase]

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! If you have the time and reflexes to lay the beat down on Iron Mike... Congrats, but there's no way I will ever. I can hardly get past the Major Circuit.

[Depression Moon]

Final Fantasy XII. It seems impossible for me to make it even a quarter a way through the Penumbra in the Pharos even after multiple level grinds. Those Damn frogs and blue horses gave me over ten game over screens.

[Levian]

http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2007/06/actraiser.jpg
ActRaiser


I don't know what I would do without Stardust

[Wolf Kanno]

Nocturne. That game is mean! I mean there I was fighting the Black Rider. Annoyed because for the White Rider and Red Rider, you could easily turn there helpers to stone. But nooo. Black Rider had to cheat and bring unstonable helpers. But just when I was about to win, he thought it'd be funny to spam Megadoloan. And there was Mara right before that. It wasn't a hard fight, but it dealt with luck and him using a Physical Attack when the Mirror was up. Problem was Mara was stupid and wouldn't attack. Not only that he insisted on spamming Dismal Tune, which I was immune too. So I had to set there for fifteen minutes waiting for him to kill me off so I can go again. And of course Matador all the way at the beginning. That wasn't a fun fight. Oh and of course the dreaded random encounter that spams Mudo/Hama skills. Or that same encounter who waits until you switch to Magatama that doesn't Null Death skill before attacking.

I will second this, outside of old school titles like Ghouls and Goblins or Metal Slug, have I ever played a game that kicked my ass so many times. Thank god the game over screen is pretty...

[Momiji]

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! If you have the time and reflexes to lay the beat down on Iron Mike... Congrats, but there's no way I will ever. I can hardly get past the Major Circuit.

I actually played that for the first time in years today! I got to Bald Bull before I got a Game Over. xD

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Final Fantasy I for the NES. Marsh Caves. Enough said. It was all smooth sailing until I had to go there. No matter how much I levelled up, I just got pwn'd until I discovered the joys of walkthroughs and GameFAQs years later. -__-;

[Cyric]

Am I the only one noticing a trend with all these games that are CHALLENGING?

But, my vote goes for:
The Ice Cave - in FFI (NES)
TMNT (NES)
Batman (NES)
Ninja Gaiden - I still love the game though :p (NES)
Zelda II (NES)
Zelda I - only after you beat Gannon the first time, and everything gets moved (NES)
Total Recall

[erikramza]

The third X-com game, that no one played. It's like x-com... only http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifty, and impossible.

[Madame Adequate]

Once you get Toxiguns the game gets incredibly easy*. And if you can ingratiate yourself with S.E.L.F. and keep your androids alive it's made easier, too, on account of the fact that you have basically got Terminators on your side.

* Edit: And let's not even talk about toxiguns + teleporters + shielding. You basically turn into a team of medics who just teleport around administering fatal shots to the aliens.

Comix Zone was hard as nails.

[Moon Rabbits]

Am I the only one noticing a trend with all these games that are CHALLENGING?


Yes, they're all 8- and 16-bit. The reason for this is that 2D low-res games are 100x times better than anything else.

[Wolf Kanno]

Well the last one in recent memory was Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

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Course there are the normal staples like...

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Super Ghouls and Ghosts

as well as...

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Gradius...

Course my personal demon and the only SNES Game I have not finished is...

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Smurfing Wolverine:Adamantium Rage...
I got all the way up to the Hellfire Club without using codes or cheats and ran into a brickwall of difficulty called Black Queen who as far as I know, doesn't take damage...

[I Took the Red Pill]

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Day Dreamin' Davey. Nobody is going to know what this is but it was hard as balls. Probably just poor game design, but it frustrated the shiet out of me.

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Legend of Legaia. Some of the bosses were just ridiculous, and my PS1 memory card was busted at the time so I was only able to see how far I'd make it without dying once. Answer: not very. I think I made it to that guy named Songi and could never beat him.

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Ninja Gaiden II. I bought this like 3 days ago and am severely regretting choosing the harder of the two difficulties.

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I Wanna Be The Guy. This is the single most sadistic thing you'll ever play. I'd spend countless hours on school nights trying to beat one smurfing screen for this game. I finally beat it over the summer and felt like I'd risen to the gaming Pantheon.

[qwertysaur]

I'm playing Nocturne right now for the first time. My current game over recored, 10. I'm up to the Third Boss right now (Matador) The game is just plain mean sometimes, especially since I only have 1 demon with Sukunda and he likes to kill him first :(

[ShunNakamura]

I'll Forward Utawarerumono DVD on its highest Difficulty level.
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The game gets smarter and introduces more complex attributes AND boosts the statistics of the enemy mooks. Thank goodness there are some ways to exploit* them still, else I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did(still haven't beaten it on hardest).


*For example Nuwangi can be stalled by using Eruru(who can only heal). Due to his feelings for her he will refuse to attack her. So just use her to keep him from ripping up your guys while they take care of the rest of the rabble and the other boss. Still not easy, but it is very close to down right impossible if you don't distract him(at least I didn't find a way to do so, I tried and tried because I didn't want to exploit the AI, though that exploit was most definitely put there on purpose, perhaps as the ONLY way to beat hardest mode? Still though it is kinda cheap to completely disable one of the bosses from being able to attack at all merely by blocking him with one of your frailest characters who can't even attack).

[Sir Lancealot]

Civ 2 on anything but the lowest difficulty. I haven't played it for a while, so I could probably do better now, but when you're young:(

[Carl the Llama]

Its a Zelda boss... I cant for the life of me remember which, he is a snake like thing that knocks you off the edge down a floor.

[Tasura]

http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/7/72/Day_Dreamin%27_Davey_Boxart.jpg/250px-Day_Dreamin%27_Davey_Boxart.jpg
Day Dreamin' Davey. Nobody is going to know what this is but it was hard as balls.

I know what it is. Thanks to old old comic books. And, yes it's a bastard.

Edit: Also, Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and A Boy and His Blob.

[I Don't Need A Name]

Ghouls and Ghosts (Amiga one)
could never work out how to get past the start
still had so much fun doing that xD

[qwertysaur]

Its a Zelda boss... I cant for the life of me remember which, he is a snake like thing that knocks you off the edge down a floor.
Is it this annoying thing?
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[Levian]

Yeah, that's got to be the one. xD

I remember having great troubles with him when I was on the plane to Edinburgh this august. The worst part about playing Gameboy in public is that you can't scream or punch anything without looking like a freak.

[Carl the Llama]

Its a Zelda boss... I cant for the life of me remember which, he is a snake like thing that knocks you off the edge down a floor.
Is it this annoying thing?
http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/e/ec/Moldorm.gif



That thing is the DEVIL!


Yeah, that's got to be the one. xD

I remember having great troubles with him when I was on the plane to Edinburgh this august. The worst part about playing Gameboy in public is that you can't scream or punch anything without looking like a freak.

lol its always noisy when I face him... thankfully I only play in my room lol

[Boney King]

I never beat the first level of "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/genesis/Adventures%20of%20Batman%20and%20Robin%20%282%29.gif

I think I remember beating the level once actually, but I don't know what happened after that. It is likely I had a heart attack and lost consciousness.

[champagne supernova]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

[Wolf Kanno]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

The Twin Armors I presume, since almost everyone I know gets stuck on them.

[LunarWeaver]

Vagrant Story is not my friend.

[Frequency NecroKat]

I didn't have fun with Zelda II. I played it at my cousins' house and died more times than I could count on all of our fingers and toes together. v.v

There's this part in Xenogears, in the Tower of Something or Other, I think. You have to jump and seesaw and do three backflips counter-clockwise while wearing a tutu to get past the level. My mom had to get a memory card from a friend past that point. I was like.. 6 or 7 back then, so I'm sure it's easier now. My mom fails at platforming and was the only one playing it, so I just remember it being hard.

Megaman. The first one. They wanted me to die. The game developers -wanted- me to die. Arcade games are like that.

Illusion of Gaia. That game got CRAZY HARD. It was fine, maybe even a little easy (except for the first boss). Then you meet the lovely vampire couple Jack and Sylvana. They killed me so many times and then ate my save file after I finally beat them. ;-; I've only finished that game on an emu with cheats.



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ActRaiser.


*cringe* Same here. I hate that game. The first part of that very level is fun, but that boss gets me down in 2 seconds flat, with me flailing and desperately trying to attack all the way down.

[Rase]

Illusion of Gaia. That game got CRAZY HARD. It was fine, maybe even a little easy (except for the first boss). Then you meet the lovely vampire couple Jack and Sylvana. They killed me so many times and then ate my save file after I finally beat them. ;-; I've only finished that game on an emu with cheats.
Really? I've never had too much trouble with that game. Sure I tend to die once or twice per boss, but I've never been stuck for too long. *shrug*

[Frequency NecroKat]

I'm bad at that one boss fight. The rest of that game I can blow through with no loss of life at all. Just those two! *rage-fists*

[Moon Rabbits]

http://www.freegamesblog.org/post/freeware/wannaguy/06.jpg
I Wanna Be The Guy. This is the single most sadistic thing you'll ever play. I'd spend countless hours on school nights trying to beat one smurfing screen for this game. I finally beat it over the summer and felt like I'd risen to the gaming Pantheon.

I gave up on this game after the apples started falling up. FUCK THAT.

[Vyk]

I'm saddened that Xenogears and Legaia and Shining Force made it on this list lol

Finding games with purposeful and respectful difficulty is hard these days. Ninja Gaiden tried, and fairly well succeeded. Most difficulties these days are from horrible programming. One game that I hate recently due to its wonky programming is Castlevania X Chronicles on PSP. It plays as crap-tastic as the original Castlevania on NES

NES games were mostly all hard though...

[Wolf Kanno]

Well Xenogears did have that one boss fight that irritates everyone I know who played it... Anyone else remember when you finally got to battle Miang? ;)

[Carl the Llama]

Just thought of another one that im really suprised no one has said.

Grandia 2: Valmars Eye... I remember my cousin useing a cheats disk so he could max out his characters and he still stuggled on this boss, I swear I never had so much trouble on a boss... first I tried to kill all of it and failing that 3 times I decided to go straight for the eye and only just beat it.

[Depression Moon]

I guess I'm the only one here that has trouble with FFXII and Crono Trigger.

[arcanedude34]

Super Mario Bros.
Rayman
The original Crash Bandicoot can be surprisingly hard at some points, but mostly if you're going for 100%.

[Wolf Kanno]

I guess I'm the only one here that has trouble with FFXII and Crono Trigger.

XII has its moments, especially if you are consistent with the Mark Hunts and don't grind to god-hood. The game is actually quite challenging not to mention alot of the optional bosses are smurfing cheap...*cough*Zodiark*cough*

Though Chrono Trigger surprises me... Where did you have difficulty?

[Frequency NecroKat]

The original Crash Bandicoot can be surprisingly hard at some points, but mostly if you're going for 100%.

You made me remember that. Getting 100% percent in any of the Crash games is... frustrating at times. XD But I must get 100%!

[champagne supernova]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

The Twin Armors I presume, since almost everyone I know gets stuck on them.

Surprisingly not. It's the boss at around level 18/19. Can't remember his name, just that he was ridiculously impossible.

[Depression Moon]

I guess I'm the only one here that has trouble with FFXII and Crono Trigger.

XII has its moments, especially if you are consistent with the Mark Hunts and don't grind to god-hood. The game is actually quite challenging not to mention alot of the optional bosses are smurfing cheap...*cough*Zodiark*cough*

Though Chrono Trigger surprises me... Where did you have difficulty?
The boss inside of Lavos. As soon as I walk into that fight it's game over and when i try to level up by going into the Black Omen it's another game over, not as fast though. With XII it's the Penumbra that gets me. I can grind all my characters up three levels and cast every single enhancement on them, but all those bull frogs, and horses still ends up killing everyone and sometimes I can't run back up and heal myself because the monsters like to block the elevator.

[RoxasLeonhart]

i vet got 100% on every final fantasy but seven I could not beat sephiroth

[Momiji]

i vet got 100% on every final fantasy but seven I could not beat sephiroth

If you have 100% up to Sephiroth, that means you should have Knights of the Round and Omnislash. That whiny trenchcoat-wearing mama's boy should be a piece of cake from there. :p

[Carl the Llama]

Also the mission in Jak II where you have to shoot down 40 KG's on hero mode... im currently having trouble with it right now.

[Moon Rabbits]

i vet got 100% on every final fantasy but seven I could not beat sephiroth

If you have 100% up to Sephiroth, that means you should have Knights of the Round and Omnislash. That whiny trenchcoat-wearing mama's boy should be a piece of cake from there. :p

Master Level KotR = Doooooooom.

But if you had a master level materia, doesn't that spawn new materia? 100% in FFVII is IMPOSSIBLE!~

[Wolf Kanno]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

The Twin Armors I presume, since almost everyone I know gets stuck on them.

Surprisingly not. It's the boss at around level 18/19. Can't remember his name, just that he was ridiculously impossible.

I can't remember which one that is... The monster who is blind or the shadow clone maybe? Well, that games bosses are pretty nasty...




I guess I'm the only one here that has trouble with FFXII and Crono Trigger.

XII has its moments, especially if you are consistent with the Mark Hunts and don't grind to god-hood. The game is actually quite challenging not to mention alot of the optional bosses are smurfing cheap...*cough*Zodiark*cough*

Though Chrono Trigger surprises me... Where did you have difficulty?
The boss inside of Lavos. As soon as I walk into that fight it's game over and when i try to level up by going into the Black Omen it's another game over, not as fast though. With XII it's the Penumbra that gets me. I can grind all my characters up three levels and cast every single enhancement on them, but all those bull frogs, and horses still ends up killing everyone and sometimes I can't run back up and heal myself because the monsters like to block the elevator.

I fully understand about the Prenumbra, though its an optional dungeon so it isn't too surprising.

As for CT, you might just need a dedicated healer like Robo or Marle. Frog has healing magic but its a bit weaker than theirs. A Crono/Lucca/Robo party should have a fair chance through the Black Omen, just make sure to have plenty of items to restore MP. Once you get Crono and one of the healers a few more levels, it will be easier to bring in other characters but I'm assuming this is a first playthrough so make sure to only level characters you actually use.

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I just picked up Street Fighter Anniversary Collection so I could finally have a console version of Street Fighter III. Gill and Akuma totally own my ass in this game... I finally beat it but damn it if Gill isn't Capcom's way of making an SNK boss. By that I mean, cheap and terribly broken. :cry:

[NeoTifa]

Left4Dead. I just can't get the Do Not Disturb achievement!!! It's like they strategically place witches where you have to disturb her!!! ;_;

[Zeromus_X]

But if you had a master level materia, doesn't that spawn new materia? 100% in FFVII is IMPOSSIBLE!~

The Materia list fills up eventually...at least I think.

[champagne supernova]

But if you had a master level materia, doesn't that spawn new materia? 100% in FFVII is IMPOSSIBLE!~

I think once you've mastered all the Master Materias, defeated all the Weapons, got every weapon for everybody, won lots of Chocobo races, beat all the Arcade Games and defeated Sephiroth, you can claim you've finished the game 100%. Unless I've forgotten something.

EDIT: I did forget something. Level 99/100 for all the characters, all the armour and all the accessories. That should be complete.

[Depression Moon]

I guess I'm the only one here that has trouble with FFXII and Crono Trigger.

XII has its moments, especially if you are consistent with the Mark Hunts and don't grind to god-hood. The game is actually quite challenging not to mention alot of the optional bosses are smurfing cheap...*cough*Zodiark*cough*

Though Chrono Trigger surprises me... Where did you have difficulty?
The boss inside of Lavos. As soon as I walk into that fight it's game over and when i try to level up by going into the Black Omen it's another game over, not as fast though. With XII it's the Penumbra that gets me. I can grind all my characters up three levels and cast every single enhancement on them, but all those bull frogs, and horses still ends up killing everyone and sometimes I can't run back up and heal myself because the monsters like to block the elevator.

I fully understand about the Prenumbra, though its an optional dungeon so it isn't too surprising.

As for CT, you might just need a dedicated healer like Robo or Marle. Frog has healing magic but its a bit weaker than theirs. A Crono/Lucca/Robo party should have a fair chance through the Black Omen, just make sure to have plenty of items to restore MP. Once you get Crono and one of the healers a few more levels, it will be easier to bring in other characters but I'm assuming this is a first playthrough so make sure to only level characters you actually use.

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Hmm I'm not sure if your advice could help me on the Lavos boss inside of the shell, because when I said that as soon as the battle begins I get a game over, I'm serious!http://ui30.gamespot.com/1277/chronot3_2.jpg He does one attack that kills everybody before I can even react. It's my first playthrough and because of that frustration it sort of turned me off from the game.

[Wolf Kanno]

I'm sorry, let me clarify, my advice is to help you get through the Black Omen. Also, what is your party equipped with? Have you gotten the Moon Armor or Prism helms yet? They will boost your defense greatly. The only attacks Lavos have that kick total ass are "Destruction Rains from the Heavens" (1st Form) and Grand Stone(Third Form).

It sounds to me like you may have skipped a few "optional" quests.

As for Completion in VII. Max Levels, all equipment and items, all materia types (including Master), All Enemy Skills, Defeat Both WEAPONS, and all Limit breaks denotes 100% Completion in my book. If you are really anal, I guess you need one Mastered version of every materia type but I feel this is a waste of time in the long run.

[champagne supernova]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

The Twin Armors I presume, since almost everyone I know gets stuck on them.

Surprisingly not. It's the boss at around level 18/19. Can't remember his name, just that he was ridiculously impossible.

I can't remember which one that is... The monster who is blind or the shadow clone maybe? Well, that games bosses are pretty nasty...

Beowulf.

[Madame Adequate]

i vet got 100% on every final fantasy but seven I could not beat sephiroth

If you have 100% up to Sephiroth, that means you should have Knights of the Round and Omnislash. That whiny trenchcoat-wearing mama's boy should be a piece of cake from there. :p

Master Level KotR = Doooooooom.

But if you had a master level materia, doesn't that spawn new materia? 100% in FFVII is IMPOSSIBLE!~

One could reasonably say that having one master version of each materia for each character would constitute 100%.

[Levian]

I played some Mega Man yesterday, the first one.

Yellow... Devil....

HNGHGGNHG!!!!

[Shoeberto]

Also the mission in Jak II where you have to shoot down 40 KG's on hero mode... im currently having trouble with it right now.
There's so much stuff in Jak 2 that frustrated the crap out of me when I played it the first time.

[Carl the Llama]

Also the mission in Jak II where you have to shoot down 40 KG's on hero mode... im currently having trouble with it right now.
There's so much stuff in Jak 2 that frustrated the crap out of me when I played it the first time.

On Hero Mode its like much harder... still havnt been able to defete it.

[Wolf Kanno]

The Devil May Cry series is really hard. Unless you play on the easiest level (which I refuse to do, despite the fact that I can't get past one of the bosses in 3).

The Twin Armors I presume, since almost everyone I know gets stuck on them.

Surprisingly not. It's the boss at around level 18/19. Can't remember his name, just that he was ridiculously impossible.

I can't remember which one that is... The monster who is blind or the shadow clone maybe? Well, that games bosses are pretty nasty...

Beowulf.

Oh lord, he was one of the trickier bosses too. You had to attack his blindside but half the time you can't tell which side is which. Not to mention that Holy attack where he sprouts wings and lights up the screen like a bad Christmas Tree...

[Aerith's Knight]

Zelda I - only after you beat Gannon the first time, and everything gets moved (NES)


Finished it.. multiple times.

Instead the Link game for the NES. Dear lord, what a pain in the ass that was.

[ThundagAuron]

I actually fail life at those target practice games in RE4. "You have 1 bottle caps!11"

Also, the hard-level time trials in SotC :s.

DMC3. Hard difficulty and up. Good times :cry:

Woot. First post in like 3 years :p

[Project G]

Deathtrap Dungeon!


Almost impossible

[Rostum]

Also, the hard-level time trials in SotC :s.

Woot. First post in like 3 years :p

You mean in 1 year? :p What is SotC?

[Rocket Edge]

Without question, Caeser 3. Great game but it was practically impossible to clear, seriously.

Arcade with hard mode on Tekken 2 was also one of the most impossible things to beat ever. You get to dark Kazuya and its like as if the computer registered every move you were about to do.

[ThundagAuron]

Also, the hard-level time trials in SotC :s.

Woot. First post in like 3 years :p

You mean in 1 year? :p What is SotC?

Really, just one? Oh well.

Shadow of the Colossus.

[ljkkjlcm9]

I find these two funny cause...

Mega Man 6 (NES)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/levia/select6.gif

Maybe it's just me being stubborn and sucky at the same time, but this game is smurfing hard. When it comes to Mega Man games, I refuse to check which boss I should beat first, so I end up doing it trial and error. I also refuse to use e-tanks until the Wily stages. I usually figure out who the weakest link is pretty quickly, but not in this game. Oh no. They're all hard dammit. I haven't been able to kill a robot master yet in this game, and I've tried them all. If this game gets easier I might just never find out!

This was the only megaman game for the NES I personally owned for awhile. And I LOVED Megaman. I played this game consistently. I can sit down and beat this game without dieing once now, and get everything in like an hour. My best suggestion is to start with Plant Man.




Illusion of Gaia. That game got CRAZY HARD. It was fine, maybe even a little easy (except for the first boss). Then you meet the lovely vampire couple Jack and Sylvana. They killed me so many times and then ate my save file after I finally beat them. ;-; I've only finished that game on an emu with cheats.

This is one of the SNES games that I use to love playing. The first time I played through I didn't know that if you killed every enemy in a room, it gives a boost to a certain stat. MAKE SURE TO DO THIS. If you don't you will just get weaker and weaker as you progress. It's also a game that I've beaten countless times, because I always tried to get every red jewel, but that stupid one at the beginning where the guy is fishing for it... I almost always missed cause he'd never pull it up. I've only gotten all the red jewels once, but I've beaten this game at least 10 times.
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I can agree with some of the games listed:
Battletoads
Gradius
TMNT #1
Ghost and Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts (whichever version you want)

Zelda II was difficult, but not overly so. And Zelda I the second time through was so much fun. The first time through was way too easy IMO.

Megaman 9 (the new one made in 8-bit) may be one of the hardest games I have ever played. Way more so than the previous megaman games.

THE JACKEL