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

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Lately Khajiit has played a game called Player Unknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG as it's also known. Khajiit is terrible at this game, lol. It's so frustrating dying over and over again.

[Uleni Athram]

Lately Khajiit has played a game called Player Unknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG as it's also known. Khajiit is terrible at this game, lol. It's so frustrating dying over and over again.

The tactics I usually employ in games like these are as follows:

1. Land in a place that is relatively barren. Be at the edge of the map if need be. You’ll have your pick of weapons and there’s usually a vehicle near every place so you won’t have to worry about dying of poison when the map shrinks.

2. Limit your own visibility and audio cues by crouch-running and crawling whenever possible. Also check your six, nine and basically every direction at regular intervals. Smart people like to do people from behind, and while that may sound dirty, it’s a legit strategy. You’ll be surprised how cunning and sneaky people can be.

2b. Not only should you be environmentally and situationally aware, you should also be paranoid as all hell. If you see something that clashes with the natural environment, there’s a 60/40 chance that’s not part of the scenery. Check it out with the scope of your gun; you’ll have the advantage of already aiming at it if it turns out to be an enemy. This is especially true in crappy mobile renditions of Battle Royale type of games — the pixels of character models are so easy to differentiate from the set pieces of the environment and I get sooooooo many kills off of it.

3. Use stun and smoke grenades. They’re criminally underused.

4. It may just be a personal thing, but unless the need is really important, I don’t recommend using cars. They’re so loud and it can tip people off whenever you’re driving to an inhabited building or village or whatever. Bikes are the worst.

5. Be a predator, not a warrior, at least until you’re confident enough to just pawn people left and right. Choose engagements really carefully and more often than not let people pass you by unmolested (if they don’t see you). Let them thin their own ranks. I won several games where I only had one kill, and that was the last guy in a 1v1 when 98 of the other players were dead lol

And that’s it tbh. I’m still a learning journeyman myself but I hope this’ll help you in the future, my good Cat Man Dude.