The first boss fools you into thinking that Ninja Gaiden is terribly difficult. And you can't button mash through Ninja Gaiden; you have to learn how to play it. The only reason it took me so long to beat it was because I would constantly soft reset until I could get through a section without healing.Originally Posted by Darth Holmes
Street Fighter 2 Anneversary Adition was hard, well on very hard it was
Or Red Dead Revolver got tough and Unlimited Saga
Yes, Hyper SF2 was annoyngly hard. They made it inpossible for Ken, quite possibly the best character in the SF franchies to beat T. Hawk, the worst character in the series.
Super R-Type. Yep. I've never seen anyone beat this without cheats or without using a save/load state combo, which I did.
I beat it on the actual cartridge ;O
I actually thought Einhander was harder than Super R Type... But they're both incredibly difficult. Anyway I don't really know how to answer these questions because there was all these awful NES games that were nearly impossible because they were terribly programmed but if I had to answer the toughest game that was still a great game I would probably say Vagrant Story. The first time you play it you'll undoubtedly be doing 1 damage per hit to bosses at some point. Even when you know exactly what to do it still manages to be pretty damn hard.
No way, man.I'm going to find a shooter that's impossible. I saw my brother playing one on MAME that looked impossible. I'll ask him. I probably just suck at them.
Vagrant Story was pretty tough. I'd often spend an hour or so on bosses.
Now that we're talking shooters, I think Gradius III is pretty hard too. I've got the cart, but the only way I can beat it is by using the save/load state method on an emulator Yams mentioned. I saw my aunt beat it from start to finish once (the same aunt that used to whoop my butt in MK II, and the same one that showed me how to play A Link to the Past), and I was in awe.
Gradius IV is probably harder, but the unlimited continues balances out the difficulty.
Gradius V is somewhere in the middle.
There are a million Japanese shooter games out there that are harder than games anybody can imagine, probably safer to just leave it at that.
Oh yeah, Mars Matrix, that game is near freaking impossible, I can get to about Stage 3 or 4, and then I just lose it.
There are plenty of games that are difficult to the point of near-impossibility, usually due to poor controls. 8-bit era stuff, mainly.
Other than that, though, I'll say the "bullet hell" shooters made by companies like CAVE and ABA. Those are great.
Oh, and Viewtiful Joe.
The entire time I read this thread I was thinking "the Ninja Gaiden on NES that I can beat without ever using a continue?" Then I realized they remade it for X-BoxNinja Gaiden. They made that game too hard to play. I broke many cappilaries trying to beat the first boss. Screw you, Tecmo. I think Tecmo should have made this promo offer.
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On Adults, yeah. Cake on Kids. Which is what I always play it on. I am hardcore.
rRootage has absorbed altogether too much of my life.
Man, I hear that.
And that's just on Psy mode, don't get me started on Ika.
Eternal Champions was hard? Im no good at fighting games and I took that game to the end easily. Slash or Xavier were my guys. Larcen was great too. I didn't like Jetta or the undead vampire guy who fought in the vietnamese looking place. Anyhow, one of the sweetest things in that game was all the cool scenario deaths. Like in the prehistoric stage (slash's) if you do the final blow so that your opponents head and torso are off the screen on the left side, a dinosaur comes and eats the fallen foe.
Hydlide to me was an incredibly hard game, but that was because controls sucked so bad.
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