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The hardest game you ever finished

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maniac-kun

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Playing a hard game is one thing - finishing it is something different!

For me its: Mega Man 2 on the original Gameboy
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I never played a game that is so hard again but i finished this beast 2 times when i was a kid and it was a realy great moment.
 
For me it was Section Z on the nes. That game was brutal, but once you got into it, it was a great shooter.
 
Not really hard but the last level of Psychonauts was a pain in the ass. Other than that, Dracula X for the SNES. I'm sure some people here still hate Konami for what they did to Dracula's throne room during his 2nd transformation in that version.
 
mr stroke said:
Battletoads-NES

took me and a buddy months over the summer to finish it.
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This. My brain fell out when I was done.
 
Haven't beaten Battletoads yet, so it would have to be...

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God, I've never known such a short game to take so long to finish. Everything is against you, and those Red Demons are just ridiculous. The worst stages are the third - which is filled with the red bastards - and the last, which is a boss run where, if you do manage to beat it, you'll only scrape through with seconds to go on the time limit. It's ironic then, that the final boss is a piece of crap. It was like a slap in the face, but not as bad as when you beat the final boss only to find you have to play through the whole thing again.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
 
_Alkaline_ said:
Haven't beaten Battletoads yet, so it would have to be...

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God, I've never known such a short game to take so long to finish. Everything is against you, and those Red Demons are just ridiculous. The worst stages are the third - which is filled with the red bastards - and the last, which is a boss run where, if you do manage to beat it, you'll only scrape through with seconds to go on the time limit. It's ironic then, that the final boss is a piece of crap. It was like a slap in the face, but not as bad as when you beat the final boss only to find you have to play through the whole thing again.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Never played the NES version for more than five minutes, but I did finish the SNES one. awesome game. CAPCOM is too great, even their sadism tastes good.
 
Ninja Gaiden for Xbox or Devil May Cry 3 for PS2. Default difficulty. I am not hardcore, I don't usually bother with masochistic games.
 
Brobzoid said:
Never played the NES version for more than five minutes, but I did finish the SNES one. awesome game. CAPCOM is too great, even their sadism tastes good.
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I finished Ghouls & Ghosts on the Mega Drive it was hard but not too hard (i still needed months to finish it :lol)
 
_Alkaline_ said:
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ditto, and it took me like fifteen years of on-and-off playing. i still haven't beaten the arcade version, the red arremers in which are less glitchy and less predictable. r type 1 and 2 are up there as well -- i've one credit cleared the first. at one point i was indecently good at r type delta. a point coinciding with finals. which wasn't so good for my grades
 
maniac-kun said:
I finished Ghouls & Ghosts on the Mega Drive it was hard but not too hard (i still neaded months to finish it :lol) the NES / C64 game was realy hard i never made it past the second stage.
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ha. took me a week earlier this year when I went back to it. :D
 
i beat ghostbusters for NES...

without a turbo controller..

surviving the pain was hard... and the reward was worhtless lol


no idea what was the hardest actual game i beat but ghostbusters was the most pain inducing for various reasons..

need reasons see AVGN
 
My memory is not that great, so I will just go with the most recent game. Ninja Gaiden 2 + mission mode and all Tests of Valor on Master Ninja (4400 kills I think for the end game stats). But really it's not that hard if you know the game well enough, except for a few of the missions on Master Ninja.

A few of the missions on Earth Defense Force 2017 solo on Inferno were pretty hard too.

Maybe Naxxramas (in WoW) back in 2006, but that was obviously a team effort.
 
I'm not even good at gaming, but memorization helped me get the S rating/ending in Contra Shattered Soldier (single player).
That was after months of playing and a 6 hours straight (and maybe a little more) marathon that day.

I don't count on doing that ever again.
 
revolverjgw said:
Ninja Gaiden for Xbox or Devil May Cry 3 for PS2. Default difficulty. I am not hardcore, I don't usually bother with masochistic games.
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ninja gaiden on hard wasn't as difficult as dmc3 on normal

so yeah,my vote goes to dmc3 as well
 
Adumaha said:
Trauma Center - All the X levels, nearly broke my wrist and DS.
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I salute you. I tried the first X level and could not stop all those damn fish from cutting up the patient's stomach.

Oh wait, I forgot about EBA/Ouendan 2...those were pretty damn hard sometimes.
 
mr stroke said:
Battletoads-NES

took me and a buddy months over the summer to finish it.
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That game is HORRIBLE.

The difficulty is insane. I finished it a couple of months ago trying not to use save states but I had to. I seriously had to. I can't think of myself as a child actually going through the entire game. I would've thrown the controller out of the window, if not the game itself.
 
Double Dragon 3

I remember flipping through an issue of Nintendo Power and looking at the high score section and seeing that five other kids had finished it as well. I thought the magazine just made the names up.
 
I remember when I was a kid (10 I think? I don't remember the year), my friends were all amazed that I beat Ninja Gaiden 2 (for NES, I forgot there was a 360 NG2) in a weekend, granted I did nothing but play it after convincing my mom that I just had to have this new hot game. Trying to play it now does nothing but depress me. I would have said Battletoads but shit, I never finished that game.

Modern games, I'd say DMC3, I had no problem with the original, and a blind guy with no arms could beat DMC2, but DMC3 made me its bitch. Upon beating it, I traded it in and swore that shit off.

That said I bought the easier DMC3SE immediately after release

SMT Nocturne was also a bit rough, but only for a new player...playing it armed with knowledge of its design and quirks makes for an easy ride unless you get fucked by bad luck.
 
Mega Man Zero, x6, DMC1-Hard, DMC3 (original Normal), Trauma Center (up to the natural ending), Goldeneye 007 (00 Agent)

I could also finish some 10 foot songs in DDR back in the day.
 
I would name something from the SNES era, but I now realize that I was just a weak gamer back then. I mean the last boss of Super Mario World gave me and my pal trouble. :lol

So if we're talking within the last decade I'd say God Hand. The best part was taunting the enemies so they'd get ever harder. Damn, I love that game.
 
REALLY hard games usually just annoy me too much to finish, but probably the hardest game I have finished is either Ninja Gaiden on Xbox or Devil May Cry 4 on Son of Sparda mode.
 
I seriously need to broaden my horizons. It's probably StarTropics (Chapter 5 to 6 to 7 = Mind fuck levels of difficulty increase) or Super Mario Bros. 2 JP (Fuck you World 8, FUCK. YOU.). :lol

Also, Mega Man Zero & Metroid Prime 2 were that bad for people?
 
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