What is the hardest game you ever played?

[scalem X]

I always suck at Monopoly.

the cheating game?

Steal money, use fake dice, use fake cards, take two cards then read one, move one too short or too far. pay the bank too few.
Ask too much money for rent...

definitely not a children's game.

 

[Coolhand]

I found the last section of the last level on Farcry stupidly, stupidly, stupidly difficult. Without going into boring details, the game throws you up against hords of bad guys capable of killing you in a couple of shots without giving you enough ammo to actually finish the firefight.

I think I actually invented new swearwords whilst playing this game, as none of the existing ones quite convayed my frustration.
"Spurking Fudbucket of a gun! Reload already!!!!!!!!"


Oh, to Green who mentioned that X wing shuttle mission:

I used to get that way with X-Wing for the PC. 20 minute missions protecting some pansy-arsed shuttle, and then it gets blown up a millisecond before it goes into hyperspace (WHY CAN'T IT JUST GO INTO HYPERSPACE STRAIGHT AWAY FFS?).

Broke my mate's joystick once

I know the mission you mean. Campaign 2 mission 4 I think. Those few of us who actually compleated that one do tend to sound something like 'Nam veterans after a while.

"You don't know what that level was like man, you'll never know, you weren't THERE man..."

 

[Joel007]

Ah yes, good old X-wing games... I remember X-wing Alliance. I hate the escort missions. In the end I think I held my protegé with a tractor beam until the enemies spawned... in the wrong place

 

[McMurphy]

One of the hardest games I ever played was the original Shadowgate port on the NES. The "logic" applied to the trials and riddles barely made any sense, and it was quite easy to place yourself in a position in which only a forced reset of the gaming system was going to get your character out of a bind. The fact that a player could not save his/her progress certainly didn't help matters.

It is also important to point out that "Shadowgate" was released far before the days of internet cheat sheets otherwise known as detailed FAQ waltkthroughs.

This link will send you to a online flash version of "Shadowgate" if you want to experience it for yourself.

 

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I'm Currently stuck on La Pucelle tatics for ps2 Right after the main guys is discovered to be the prince of darkness and the Alouette is the maiden of light, the two kids are sent on a side quest -.- I keeping dying everytime.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King. That Ghost King just keeps whupping me everytime I come face to face with him!
Although, this is the PS2 version...I had the PC version before that, but swopped because on PC it's IMPOSSIBLE, far too many buttons to press! Madness!

 

[SpaceShip]

1. Operation - never could get hold of the slippery little blighters.
2. Risk.

 

[Saltheart]

Any 3D Final Fantasy game: I just give up when even random monster encounters deal you up against foes with 10,000+ HP. God, I had no idea that that water rat could take over half the continent... I swear, the wimps you fight in the beginning, "warriors", end up being even weaker than a an ordinary squirrel late in the games.

 

[sidewinder]

company of heros or dawn of war, these games really test your strategic thinking

 

[HoopyFrood]

Oh, the the Lord of the Rings board game (now I wonder where I put that...I'd almost forgotten I had it!) is quite hard too, if you're not a die-hard fan (I wouldn't quite call myself that, but I'm dedicated enough to sit down and play it!)

 

[Coolhand]

company of heros or dawn of war, these games really test your strategic thinking

I love both those games but I swear the CPU cheats in Skirmish mode for both DOW and COH. I bearly have time to scrape together enough resources to build a single soldier with one bullet in his gun, when the computer suddenly shows up with half an elite panzer division. I SWEAR it's cheating!

 

[Joel007]

Computers have to cheat if they're a low level AI. Its too hard to program them to respond to everything, and choose the right tactics, usually with a deadline and new maps and units added regularly. Most of the time a computer player guesses at the resources it has rather than spending what it gathers. If you play on higher difficulties, most cheaper games just make the enemy units tougher, and the enemies richer, and the enemies more agressive: rather than changing the AI to manage its forces better.
There are some notable games with very good AI scripts which don't cheat. Warcraft3 is one, i think.

 

[Esioul]

I'm pretty much totally crap on all games except for strategy type things. I'd like to play such games over the internet, with human opponents if I could make that work through the university firewalls/over dialup at home, or didn't have so much work to do.

 

[Coolhand]

Computers have to cheat if they're a low level AI. Its too hard to program them to respond to everything, and choose the right tactics, usually with a deadline and new maps and units added regularly. Most of the time a computer player guesses at the resources it has rather than spending what it gathers. If you play on higher difficulties, most cheaper games just make the enemy units tougher, and the enemies richer, and the enemies more agressive: rather than changing the AI to manage its forces better.
There are some notable games with very good AI scripts which don't cheat. Warcraft3 is one, i think.

I KNEW IT! I knew that game was cheating. There's no way it could have built that army that quickly by playing fair.
Lousy computer...

 

[purple_kathryn]

Guild Wars although that's probably because I can't cheat

 

[scalem X]

Warcraft3 is one, i think.

I take it that you've never really observed the insane computer's mining income and the speed his units build .

I agree that the AI is in general okay where it sucks in most games but well...

 

[Crymic]

company of heros or dawn of war, these games really test your strategic thinking

the problem with CoH AI is it nit and picks at your defense and exploits the weakness of it. Oh Look you missed a spot! I find the turrents in the game lacking. You need to build turrents to cover turrents and wire 99% of your base along with Tank spikes.
Dawn of war AI isn't too bright and will often leave alone nodes if you have no defenses at it. You can generally overpower the enemy AI if you build a good army.

 

[sidewinder]

CoH is realistic in the way if you leave a gap in your defences it will rip you apart so you have to be constantly on guard as there are no second chances in war

 

[Kaylo Mizuri]

Chaos Engine, nobody I know could ever get past the third level. I wouldn't say Silent Hill is hard as such, but on the fourth one it's really hard to bring yourself to go through the next door because you know there's ghosts and stuff after you. Obscure is pretty hard too.

 

[To be Determined]

Ninja Gaiden. Within 15 minutes of gameplay I go from fighting sword fodder to becoming nunchuck fodder.I got so fed up with being owned every time I took five steps that I simply gave up and played black ops.