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HighSeraph
02/07/2025
02:34 PM
#1
Probably Altered Beast on the Genesis or Super Empire Strikes Back

Altered Beast wasn't particularly hard but I could never finish it because you couldn't get credits like in the arcade game and would invariably run out of lives. SESB was just mind bogglingly difficult, I don't think I ever cleared the first stage.
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masterbarf
02/07/2025
02:43 PM
#2
If you use extra credits, you didn't beat the game.

Try Metamorphic Force. Hamster released it for PS4. It's really good, and not too difficult.
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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
02/07/2025
02:45 PM
#3
Probably something like I Wanna Be The Guy or some Kaizo Mario hack. Ikaruga is up there too.
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Evening_Dragon
02/07/2025
02:47 PM
#4
The hardest time I ever had with a game was learning how to play SSF2THDR. But eventually I became one of the best of that small community.
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Killmonger
02/07/2025
02:48 PM
#5
Ghost and Ghouls. Couldnt even get past the first level. Fuck that game.
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Nukazie
02/07/2025
02:48 PM
#6
some sports game i didn't know how to play or care about
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snae99
02/07/2025
02:52 PM
#7
Idk maybe the NES Ninja Gaidens or the NES TMNT game. Oh and Castlevania III
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ReturnOfDevsman
02/07/2025
02:56 PM
#8
Probably still Shinobi PS2.

Or Slay the Spire. Probably Slay the Spire.
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MagiMarthKoopa
02/07/2025
03:02 PM
#9
One of the Touhous I never finished
VeggetaX
02/07/2025
03:02 PM
#10
Iron Sword 2
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Tyranthraxus
02/07/2025
03:03 PM
#11
Not counting games that have infinite difficulty scaling, probably one of the various bullet hells I've played throughout the year, or Q*bert.
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Mechu
02/07/2025
03:03 PM
#12
Ninja Gaiden Black
NoxObscuras
02/07/2025
03:04 PM
#13
Probably Ninja Gaiden or the old Armored Core games
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furb
02/07/2025
03:07 PM
#14
Some kazio. Super Mario Forever. I remember downloading and was like, yeah never gonna play that again. I put it down almost as soon as I tried it.

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This one. It was the first kazio I ever played. I didn't even know it was a genre back then.
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MC_BatCommander
02/07/2025
03:08 PM
#15
IDK, probably Battletoads.

The game really is bullshit, it's so unbearably difficult that even with save states it's a big pain in the ass to beat.
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modena
02/07/2025
03:10 PM
#16
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Yawn_Master2
02/07/2025
03:11 PM
#17
Definitely the sims 2 hot date

i just cant talk to women ;(
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sfcalimari
02/07/2025
03:17 PM
#18
I rented Fester's Quest one weekend and couldn't get past like the first five minutes of walking around no matter how many times I tried.
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ellis123
02/07/2025
03:24 PM
#19
Depends on how you mean "hard" but King's Quest 3 is the most brutal game I've ever played.
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Hospy
02/07/2025
03:25 PM
#20
Haunted Castle

Early Castlevania with absolutely wretched controls/handling
ItsNotA2Mer
02/07/2025
03:27 PM
#21
Super Ghouls and Ghosts.
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Strider102
02/07/2025
03:28 PM
#22
I don't know if I'd say it's the hardest, but I remember the first time I played Super Castlevania IV on the SNES.

I had so much trouble getting through that game.

But, when I finally beat it I felt so proud
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KajeI
02/07/2025
03:30 PM
#23
Out of games I've played at least a decent bit, I guess Dead Cells? I've put 25 hours into it and never beaten a run.

Not sure what the hardest would be overall though. Got it, XCOM EU on Impossible. Across god knows how many attempts I made it out of the first mission like 5 times total, and all of those runs died very quickly after.
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Ratchetrockon
02/07/2025
03:41 PM
#24
Oldschool rs probably. Its pvm makes me panicky af. The later game part of it (mainly the 3 raids, inferno, dt2 bosses) are deceptively difficult imo. Ive only down one of the raids so far and on entry mode and I can tell it'll take me a while to become competent at it. Can't imagine the more difficult stuff.

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qwerti
02/07/2025
03:41 PM
#25
darts

i gets dartitis fairly easily
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Ivynn
02/07/2025
03:43 PM
#27
Probably Super Meat Boy
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ItsNotA2Mer
02/07/2025
03:48 PM
#28
ImAMarvel posted...
Ninja Garden

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PissedOffMonk
02/07/2025
03:48 PM
#29
Ys I on Nightmare

The bump system combat was a terrible mechanic and the last boss is literally bullet hell with a collapsing floor.
Sephiroth_C_Ryu
02/07/2025
03:50 PM
#30
What came to mind was some random game I don't remember on the X-box with some kind of mecha-armored character (not actual mecha), where if you do a bunch of stick-click boost dashes or something in a row you briefly get infinite energy for boosting/flying/maybe shooting/etc. And some of the levels seem to be designed around using this to fly upwards.

I was probably playing it wrong.

So the actual answer is either Super Mario Maker 2 (due to what people make) or Terraria with the Calamity mod. Though that was probably because I never actually tried to seriously play a Touhou game on Lunatic.

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ReturnOfDevsman
02/07/2025
04:02 PM
#32
ImAMarvel posted...
lol

I was phone posting and I suck with swipe and wasn't paying attention lol
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_Marka_Ragnos_
02/07/2025
04:11 PM
#34
FFXIV all ultimates/deep dungeons solo.
Joelypoely
02/07/2025
04:11 PM
#35
Slice & Dice on Brutal or Hell Difficulty

Just winning on Unfair is hard enough
Xenogears15
02/07/2025
04:14 PM
#36
Either I Wanna Be the Guy (PC) or Wizards and Warriors X (GameBoy).
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Xatrion
02/07/2025
04:18 PM
#37
Super Meat Boy maybe. Rabi Ribi on the hardest setting is up there though.
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masterpug53
02/07/2025
04:20 PM
#38
The hardest game I ever beat / conquered was Castlevania: Harmony of Despair completely single-player / offline.
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Robot2600
02/07/2025
04:20 PM
#39
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NetHack

but the hardest thing I've ever done is get 985,000 points in Pac-Man. It's like an hour of having to play perfectly, with many frame-perfect turns that need to be done.

I was upset I didn't roll the score.
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KINDERFELD
02/07/2025
04:20 PM
#40
If we're not talking games with cheap difficulty, then Sekiro.
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Turbam
02/07/2025
04:21 PM
#41
I guess Punch-Out?
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archizzy
02/07/2025
04:28 PM
#42
BattleToads for me.

In the NES era a lot of games were challenging and came from that "eat your quarters" mentality to extend the shelf life of a game. Plus there was just cheap design and also hardware limitations of enemies off screen and respawning and with limited controls to make things difficult but I still never really felt like anything was too crazy bad.

There were a lot of NES games I didn't even think were very hard like Punch Out or Mega Man games where people claim they are hard. Even Ghosts 'n Goblins. I'm not an elite gamer by any means but many NES games I didn't think were too bad.

Games that challenged me were stuff like Ninja Gaiden original (world 6-2 the most) TMNT, and Blaster Master. These 3 games took up a chunk of my time in junior high but I ended up mastering them to where I could complete them without dying.

But BattleToads was just flat out tough. Also I didn't find it enjoyable enough to want to learn to master it. I don't mind tough if it is fun but that game was just kind of janky and not really fun.
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HighSeraph
02/07/2025
04:32 PM
#43
Turbam posted...
I guess Punch-Out?
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