Topic: So I herd u leik hard gaems

[Lumi Kløvstad]

WatchMojo has some of my favorite "too much spare time" viewing on the internet, and they have two great lists for those who like hard games and a good challenge.

Top 10 Hardest Bosses (Grim Reaper from Castlevania 1 is present to represent!)

Top 10 Hardest Games

How many of these have you conquered?

[zangetsu468]

Games: 6,4,3
Bosses: 3

Think I may have beaten Battle Toads and Wizpig but can not recall.

Have not played any other games listed aside from Contra.

[JR]

Beat 4 of the bosses, 4 of the games (not including DMC3 since it was the special edition). Alma in Ninja Gaiden was a pain in the ass.

I think the difficulty in Dark Souls is very overrated, though. It's really just a matter of learning the difficulty curve, then you're all set. Also...Ornstein and Smough? Not sure why this fight seems so hard for so many people. Just go to a far end of the room, let Ornstein attack you, counter, then run and repeat by the time Smough catches up. You'll get punished if you're too greedy with attacks, but such is the same for just about any Souls boss.

Contra seems overrated in difficulty, too. With enough practice, the patterns are fairly easy to memorize, and you can eventually one-life the whole game with the Spread gun. Something like R-Type or [insert shmup here] seems much more demanding than Contra.

Contra and Dark Souls just seem more infamous than hard.

Now, Ghouls N' Ghosts...this and Ghosts N' Goblins have made me their bitch. Beat the game twice? Hell, I can't even beat Ghosts N' Goblins once. I can't even reach the final boss...the two Satans right beforehand always kick my ass, even if I try fighting them one at a time. This and Battletoads are very, very hard games. And I won't even attempt to try a game like Ikaruga because looking at it just scares me. 

[TheTextGuy]

Contra seems overrated in difficulty, too. With enough practice, the patterns are fairly easy to memorize, and you can eventually one-life the whole game with the Spread gun. Something like R-Type or [insert shmup here] seems much more demanding than Contra.

Contra and Dark Souls just seem more infamous than hard.

Now, Ghouls N' Ghosts...this and Ghosts N' Goblins have made me their bitch. Beat the game twice? Hell, I can't even beat Ghosts N' Goblins once. I can't even reach the final boss...the two Satans right beforehand always kick my ass, even if I try fighting them one at a time. This and Battletoads are very, very hard games. And I won't even attempt to try a game like Ikaruga because looking at it just scares me. 

I do think Contra's hard, but it's not unbearably hard.  I do agree that R-Type is much more harder and frustrating; Contra's pretty forgiving since you can spawn right away after death whereas something like R-Type or Gradius sets you back to a checkpoint.

Now Ikaruga on the other hand... let's see, you do respawn on the spot after you die, but you have to deal with overwhelming patterns and the fact you can run into certain bullets.  Definitely messes with your mind at first.

[X]

I do agree that R-Type is much more harder and frustrating; Contra's pretty forgiving since you can spawn right away after death whereas something like R-Type or Gradius sets you back to a checkpoint.

Oh yes. R-Type is a b***h of a series to play. Though I did find R-Type 3 for the SNES to be the hardest by far. No joke! However there is one game in the whole series that doesn't have the one hit kill/start at the beginning syndrome. And that game is R-Type Leo.

[The Bizarre Trooper]

Any games by From Software all the way!

[KaZudra]

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Looking for its daily feast
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[zangetsu468]

Being tracked by a starving beast
Looking for its daily feast
A predator on the verge of death
Close to its last breath
Getting close to its last breath

RULES OF NATURE

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