Hardest game ever

[A_Bad_Idea]

My nomination? Any Touhou game on Lunatic difficulty. I mean, it's just...insanity! Pretty-lookin', but...insanity!

Here's the last stage of the latest Touhou game on Lunatic
[youtube=Subterranean Animism Stage 6: Lunatic]weQNHa1RuzE[/youtube]

I've seen I Want To Be The Guy in action and uh... that game is just tasteless humor. I mean, it's one thing for a game to be hard, but it's another for a game to be humiliatingly frustrating. You almost get the feeling that the game is laughing at your lack of insight to their cheap tricks. At least when you graze through Lunatic spell cards in Touhou, you can sort of see where you should have been before you got hit, and there's some glimmer of hope that lets you know "I CAN beat this!" that prevents you from ever putting down the controller.

 

[Suirad]

Maybe there are things more impossible, but it seemed to me that the Mission Mode in GGXX was rough(maybe 5-10 of them anyway). Here's baiken; your combo damage is gimped; fight 1-hit kill gold Johnny(Sadly that wasnt really one of the hardest either). Some of those would've been hard to win straight up even with the infinite retries, but many included obscenely short time limits to boot.

Also in Allied General for the PS1 the 1939 Russian campaign was brutal. Mission after mission of being outnumbered and outgunned and given unrealistic objectives. I think the game was messed up because after a number of grueling play-throughs and heavy abuse of AI weaknesses I managed to meet the requirements to win the Moscow '41 scenerio, but still got game-overed.

I noticed that Devil May Cry was listed a couple times above and I have to say that new difficulty they added in DMC4 "Hell or Hell" could've been much harder. You'd think dying in one hit while you're enemies don't sounds bad, but since they have the AI, HP and are as easy to stun as the normal difficulty counterparts it's not at all. After all, you'd already had to turn all the game mechanics to the fullest in your favor to beat Dante Must Die.

/edit/ Just watching that video above makes me want to throw a controller. Whoever made that game is inhumane.

 

[Egg]

NES Dragon's Lair.

Lol FUCK THAT FUCKING GAME. But this game was just bad. I mean broken Bad!!!!!

Heres a vid
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28184.html?type=flv

OK
Street Fighter 2010(nes) was decent
Ikaruga(GC,XBLZ) was pretty hard. (Made it to level 4 before game got jacked)
BattleToads(NES) was way harder

But did anyone play Fighting Mania? (Fist of the north star arcade game by Konami)?
I almost beat the mother fucker too. I got Kenshiro down to one hit then bam I didnt punch the pad hard enough Game OVER. Ive Never played a game based on how long you can keep your arms from going numb. What was really funny was watching random people put a dollar in the machine select the hardest mode and die in ten seconds or faster (I swear thats how fast it was) then you dont get a continue, and your just out a dollar.

Also who remebers Nightmare mode on Doom 2? Hurray U killed the Cyber Demon, here comes another one! FUCK!

 

[Impending_Doom66]

Maybe there are things more impossible, but it seemed to me that the Mission Mode in GGXX was rough(maybe 5-10 of them anyway). Here's baiken; your combo damage is gimped; fight 1-hit kill gold Johnny(Sadly that wasnt really one of the hardest either). Some of those would've been hard to win straight up even with the infinite retries, but many included obscenely short time limits to boot.

I agree with this. Some of the characters styles in GG just didn't click with me, and then you are forced to do insane things in some of the missions. My favorite, although really easy, is when you get to use Millia against Zato since it plays Still In The Dark.

 

[The Landslide]

I've seen I Want To Be The Guy in action and uh... that game is just tasteless humor. I mean, it's one thing for a game to be hard, but it's another for a game to be humiliatingly frustrating. You almost get the feeling that the game is laughing at your lack of insight to their cheap tricks. At least when you graze through Lunatic spell cards in Touhou, you can sort of see where you should have been before you got hit, and there's some glimmer of hope that lets you know "I CAN beat this!" that prevents you from ever putting down the controller.

You can beat I Want to Be the Guy. But what you just listed is what makes it the HARDEST game ever. Tasteless or not, it is the WORST for a person with high blood pressure to subject themselves to.