Hardest games you've ever played, Any platform Options

[mirocu]

This topic came to mind when I was thinking about games, which I often do

The hardest games I´ve ever played are all for the classic NES, Gameboy, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) or just about any other console on which for the most part you cannot save wherever you want and come back to it another day. The only choices you had in order to see the later stages was either to put in a code or to sit through the whole game every time you wanted to make a try for them. For one thing I never bothered to sit through it all only to get to the hard parts where I would be too tired to succeed and secondly, I´ve never been good at timing. I hate games that only rely on timing your jumps n stuff.


So, what are the hardest games you´ve ever played?

Edit: I realize not being able to save isn´t what makes a game hard. I should have pointed out hard in terms of gameplay like the first stage in Back to the Future 3 on Sega Genesis, or games where one hit can knock you back into a pit like in Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden. Sorry for not being more clear

This post has been edited by mirocu: Dec 31 2013, 11:42 PM

[Colonel Mustard]

The hardest games I´ve ever played are all for the classic NES, Gameboy, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) or just about any other console on which for the most part you cannot save wherever you want and come back to it another day. The only choices you had in order to see the later stages was either to put in a code or to sit through the whole game every time you wanted to make a try for them. For one thing I never bothered to sit through it all only to get to the hard parts where I would be too tired to succeed and secondly, I´ve never been good at timing. I hate games that only rely on timing your jumps n stuff.

No offence, but that doesn't really strike me as hard, that just strikes me as pointlessly obtuse and time-consuming.

For me, it would have to be Metro 2033/Last Light on Ranger Hardcore difficulty, where you've got to be dead careful with your ammo and really think your way around firefights, or Dark Souls, which is often just a case of pattern recognition.