Tl;dr: I'll add up your votes and post a new thread with the results after this one winds down.

Here's my vote: Ghosts N' Goblins is probably the hardest game (hardest for me to win) that I still enjoy.

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THE LIST DOES NOT MATTER! PICK ANYTHING YOU WANT!

Here's a list of some other games that I think are fun and hard, in case it helps anyone choose. You don't need to choose from this list, it's just to give you some ideas:

  • Battletoads
  • Ninja Gaiden
  • What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? aka Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?
  • Ghosts N' Goblins series
  • Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
  • Mega Man series
  • Nethack (and many other roguelikes)
  • Contra
  • Radiant Silvergun
  • Ikaruga
  • Super Meat Boy
  • Dark Souls and Demon Souls
  • F-Zero GX
  • Super Mario Bros 2
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • La-Mulana
  • Commandos Series
  • Earthworm Jim 2
  • Prince of Persia (Original 2D platformer)
  • Castlevania III
  • Castlevania Dracula XX
  • Dizzy series (example: Treasure Island Dizzy)
  • Bit.Trip Runner (and the rest of the series)
  • Trials: Evolution
  • Zork series
  • X-COM: UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep
  • Dustforce
  • N+
  • Prinny Series
  • Super Crate Box
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F-Zero GX! Best racer ever.

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+1 for Bit.Trip Runner

12 years ago
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Battletoads. Still can't complete level 10 on my old phone(downloaded NES emulator).

12 years ago
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I have to disagree with your choice of Super Mario Brothers 2. 1 and 3 are much harder.

My vote is Double Dragons. Jumping is horrible in the game and required near the end.

12 years ago
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Most people disagree with you on the Mario thing, if you check around on the internet. Personally, I beat Mario 1 and 3 when I was little, but Mario 2 was too hard. Still haven't beat it, but I need to put in the time now that I'm older.

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I could never beat Mario 1, Mario 2 was pretty easy.

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Touhou series.

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The first Castlevania, NES.

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Prince of Persia!!!!

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I love that genre, but I've never got very far in PoP. Maybe I should give it another try, after all these years.

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Hard to choose between Super C (NES) and Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) i love them and i still playing them at least one time per year, my biggest achievement was beat Super C once without lose a live was such pure awesomeness.

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oops i forgot to vote, i choose ninja gaiden 2 since i am more experient about super c

12 years ago
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I've been playing Ninja Gaiden 2 on my PSP today. =)

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the ending its pretty epic -

12 years ago
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Super Ghouls n Ghosts. It is hard, but playing it just makes the halloween for me!

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Bit.Trip Runner

12 years ago
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This one is doing better than I would have guessed. Quite a few votes.

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F-Zero GX wasn't that hard, but it was helluva fun.

From the list, I would say... Contra. That crap is insane.

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The list isn't there for you to pick from. Name whatever game you think is the hardest that you still enjoy, on the list or not. =) I'll keep your Contra vote if you don't change your mind.

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It's still Contra though, still have nightmares about it.

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Cool!

12 years ago
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Castlevania 4 for SNES.

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that would be super meat boy

12 years ago
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dota, takes a day to learn it, takes a lifetime to master it

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Hmm. I bet if you played against me, you'd figure out that it's not a hard game.

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Contra without any problems :O

12 years ago
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trying to eat spaghetti with one finger:P

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Super Ghouls and Ghosts and SpaceChem

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That's too many votes. You only get one.

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Doom. Especially some of those user made levels... Punching a cyberdemon to death - best moment in gaming. Period.

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Weird, I thought the game was fairly easy. Fun though.

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The game itself yes, but user made levels pit you against tons of monsters with nothing more than a pistol :)

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Super ghouls and ghosts, hands down

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Trials: Evolution BABY!

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Zork...... you have been eaten by a grue

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Adding that to my personal list. Definitely fun and hard - even after the series added graphics.

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Severance: the Blade of Darkness

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Never heard of it before here. Looks fun.

12 years ago
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It's a 3d person RPG/slasher. If you have ever played any slashers (like old classic "Rune") and if you love cutting your enemies into small pieces - that's one of the best games in genre. It is rather old - got published in 2001, graphics is outdated and animation is choppy, but lightning and special effects look pretty decent even today. With 4 heroes you get 4 completely different playing styles. Gothic castles, pyramids, very challenging enemies and lots of gore and blood. That was an awesome game, although each fight with each enemy could end with your death.

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Cool.

12 years ago
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I still play this game!

It's not too hard though, but a comparison with the Demons' and Dark Souls game is very appropriate. It's all too easy with the amazon character though. Well, "Easy"; which means moderately hard for anyone not into late 90's hack & slash games like Die By The Sword, Heretic 2 and the Kain series.

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VVVVVV

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God Hand.

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Earth's Special Forces is the hardest game there is. It's a Half Life mod based on Dragonball Z. Last time I checked there weren't any servers for it in North America anymore.

In most multi-player games if you stick someone who has played the game for a few weeks in a server with someone that is reasonably good at the game, not great mind you, but just reasonably good they will eventually kill them. In ESF you stick someone who has played for a few weeks in a server with someone just so-so the new guy is going to rage quit after being killed 30+ times without ever even getting a hit on the other guy.

I was a so-so player and if I joined a server with a half dozen people that had only played for a few weeks I would usually be killing everyone on the server so fast that they couldn't even get kills in on one another.

In a duel with some of the players that were actually good at the game I could maybe get 3 kills in on them for every 10 they got in on me.

The game was so hard that it killed its playerbase. I have never played any other game where there were such gigantic skill gaps between players.

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And you're saying you love that game? You don't really sound like you do...

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Closed 12 years ago by Valzi.