Top 5 Hardest Video Game Levels

[longshot]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24509956/?pg=6

Found this link on fark.

This list is complete bullshit. To save you from clicking, here are the top five in no particular order...

1. Guitar Hero III- DragonForce’s “Through the Fire and Flames”

2. Mike Tyson's Punch Out - Mike Tyson

3. Gran Tourismo 4 - Norburging 24 hour endurance

4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - sniper mission

5. Nintendo's Clubhouse Games - Escape (game)... article specifically mentions level 19.

What are your top five??

I can destroy Mike Tyson... I think it's shit total crap that he's on the list. For me... (again, in no particular order...)

1. Castlevania 1 (NES) - final stage/dracula.
2. Bomberman 5 for Super Nintendo - this game is ridiculously hard
3. Ghost and Goblins (NES)
4. Elite Beat Agenents (Nintendo DS) - final stage on expert "Jumping Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones.
5. Flashback (Genesis)

What are your hardest games/levels?

By the way, Gran Tourismo sucks ass... so don't even think about listing any of those races.

[Drew2]

You've obviously never played Guitar Hero III. You would not be disagreeing with #1.

[halfling]

with any guitar hero-related challenge...

metallica - one, expert.

i know a god of this game and he has only made it to 86% or so in this...

has anyone beat it? (in a non-underaged male child sort of way.)


fuckin michael jackson fans. i hate you all.

[longshot]

You've obviously never played Guitar Hero III. You would not be disagreeing with #1.

You're right. Good call.

I played Guitar Hero III and got completely annihilated. I should have written "some" items on the list are bullshit...

[The Ponzzz]

Dragonforce is a hard song, but it's not even a real level of the game, nor would it even make a top 5 in my opinion.

My top 5 would be...

#5 - Paladin's Quest (SNES) - Final Boss
#4 - Legacy of the Wizard (NES) - The whole game
#3 - 7th Saga (SNES) - Most the storyline
#2 - Ultima IV (NES) - Figuring out wtf to do
#1 - TMNT (NES) - Every. Single. Thing.

[Asha]

1. level 4 Battletoads. Christ.
2. level 4 Ikaruga.
3. Last boss Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja
4. Last level Zero Wing
5. I can't think of anything else that's beaten me.

[Itachi]

Ive beat all the GHIII on expert and I'd say jordan from GHII is harder than through the fire and flames. Besides that Level 4 ikagura for sure and Storm's second underwater level on spiderman/xmen for SNES

[Asha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuidKexBQ&feature=related

[Arkans]

The last part of Castlevania I was easy as hell!

I can't say I agree at all with that.

Flashback, on the SNES, was also a game that I managed to conquer during a weekend rental. Here is my list that is in no particular order.

Ghost 'n' Goblins - Every fucking level
Battle Toads - Any of the vehicle levels
Robocop 1 - Any level after the factory one
Mario Bros. - The Lost Levels (Mario Bros. 2 in Japan)
Shitty ass Top Gun - Fucking dumb ass game SUCKED, but was hard as hell

[Stunseed]

1. Wizardry 5 - SNES
2. Battletoads - 1st vehicle level. - NES
3. Street Fighter 2012 - NES ( ENTIRE FUCKING GAME )
4. Skyfox ( Last level ) - SNES
5. FF9 ( stupidity made it difficult to beat ) - PS2

[Revalos]

Definately not the sniper mission from COD4. I got that on the first try (in the guy's head no less (damn game saying I hit him in the arm). I will say that is one of the top five AWESOME video game levels though.

Top five of mine in no particular order:

FF1, NES - Somewhere near the end
ADOM, PC - Just try to beat this game without a walkthrough (free to download, www.adom.de)
Valkyrie Profile, PSP - Attempt to get the "A" ending
Ogre Battle, SNES - Again somewhere near the end
Silent Service, NES - Try it on expert difficulty

[Bobmuhthol]

<<metallica - one, expert.

i know a god of this game and he has only made it to 86% or so in this...

has anyone beat it? (in a non-underaged male child sort of way.)>>

He's obviously not very good. One is super duper easy except for the ten-second solo.

[Arkans]

See, Ogre Battle I never had much difficulty with.

All you needed was a well prepared Army.

What was difficult in Ogre Battle is getting the best "good" ending without any walkthroughs. One of my all time favorite games, though.

- Arkans

[DCSL]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has played Ikaruga and thought at least part of it was hard. I love that game so much but damn, I blow at it. Dreamcast was a great system.

I'd like to nominate nearly all of Devil May Cry 3 (pre-pussy mode unlocking) and Ninja Gaiden on Xbox.

[Arkans]

has anyone beat it? (in a non-underaged male child sort of way.)

I pray to God, the answer is no.

- Arkans

[Makkah]

Back to the Future NES
Boy and His Blob NES

[Allereli]

are all the original NES games making the list because (a) they are genuinely that hard? or (b) because you were six when you tried to play them?

[Arkans]

They were ridiculously hard.

Well, compared to games today.

Back then games weren't really that long.

So, they made up with for it by being bite your start button off and throw your controller at a wall as hard as you can difficult (true story, friend of mine did this), so it didn't feel like you pissed away all that money for an afternoon of fun.

- Arkans

[Asha]

lol nice sig, bitch

[Arkans]

Mwuahahahahaha!

There was absolutely NO WAY I was letting that opportunity of quotable goodness go unused!

- Arkans

[Stanley Burrell]

Solar Jetman.

Myst w/o spoilers.



http://www.2dayblog.com/images/1-fiat-truckster.jpg

^

(How I beat Myst, durr.)

Edited to Add: My calling Myst "Myth" is totally a bundle of brightly-colored flora. I cannot believe I fucking did that.

[Tolwynn]

Also in no particular order:

Ikaruga (DC)
Battletoads (NES) - those goddamned vehicle levels.
DDR Ultramix (XBox) - 300 (nothing to do with the movie, named for the 300 BPM (!!) this song clocks in at)
Suspended (Apple IIe and others) - ungodly difficult at any difficulty level, but especially at Impossible, for the true masochists.
Ghosts & Goblins (NES or Arcade)

[Arkans]

I remember when I was a kid Mega Man 1 was hella hard.

I went to replay it and can now get through rather easily.

Funny, cause I was damn good at video games as a kid, but never could beat that one till now.

- Arkans

[DCSL]

Whew. I no longer feel so bad about getting totally schooled at Ikaruga by my boyfriend now.

[TheEschaton]

Hahaha, Boy and His Blob, I remember that game, it was awesome. And yeah, I don't remember getting very far in it. Something about not having the right jellybeans.

[kookiegod]

hardest level ever...for me at least...

Defeating the final boss in Knights of the Old Republic on xbox

Halo3 on legendary...


~Paul

[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

Nonsense! KOTOR was ez.

1. Any custom Yngwie Malmsteen song on GH II/III <--- literally unplayable
2. Jordan/Through the Fire and the Flames, GHII/III respectively
3. Early Career Mode as a starting pitcher in MLB08: The Show
4. Virtua Tennis 3 once Federer is at normal difficulty
5. The aforementioned Bomberman levels.

[Fallen]

Where the hell is Megaman? Where the hell is Gradius?

[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

Man, whichever Megaman that had Quick Man was a biyatch! Took me half a day to beat that when I was like seven or eight.

[longshot]

I remember when I was a kid Mega Man 1 was hella hard.

I went to replay it and can now get through rather easily.




That's a good point. You mentioned Castlevania, and I wonder if I gave it another try today if it'd be so hard.

[Back]

That fucking vehicle level on Battletoads.

Mission Impossible on SNES was the hardest game. I had to do every level at least twice if not 20 times. Never got through one level without dying. I did finish it though.

More recently... some levels of Black on PS2 were a bitch.

[Stanley Burrell]

Where the hell is Megaman? Where the hell is Gradius?

Take a piece of rectangular grey plastic with the words "Gradius III" on it.

Plug it into a device known as "The Super Nintendo."

Attempt to unlock Arcade mode with a difficulty setting more challenging than "easy."

Fail.

[Allereli]

legend of zelda: a link to the past

[Arkans]

That's a good point. You mentioned Castlevania, and I wonder if I gave it another try today if it'd be so hard.

What makes Castlevania (and Mega Man) a lot easier is that you don't get punished for death.

Infinate continues make all the difference and patterns are a lot easier to pick-up on when you are older.

For instance, Ninja Gaiden (NES) a lot more difficult when younger, but now, I can rush through them faster.

- Arkans

[fallenSaint]

I dunno about hard but time consuming as all hell and if you didn't have the right setup could seriously fail .... FF8 and FF12 Ultima Battles.

Also on my second play-through of Vay it wasn't so hard but when I first played the game back when I was however old the damn Wind Elemental was a total bitch.

And I'll be damned if I can come up with another one that was epic enough to list.

[Arkans]

Just another point...

Castlevania was harder for me when I was a lot younger. That final boss really tested one's endurance.

But, what makes it different from Battle Toads or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1, is the infinate continues.

- Arkans

[Daniel]

As a kid I could never get out of the opening village on Zelda before I just gave up.

[Arkans]

As a kid I could never get out of the opening village on Zelda before I just gave up.

Well, that's what happens when you live in the ghetto and the only video game systems you have access to are the display ones at your local store that reset after a few minutes!

- Arkans

I'M SOOO HOOOOD!

Edit: STFU BACKLASH NO ONE LIKES YOU

[RichardCranium]

Marble Madness.

[Arkans]

Marble Madness.

This game almost made me kill people.

- Arkans

[Daniel]

Well, that's what happens when you live in the ghetto and the only video game systems you have access to are the display ones at your local store that reset after a few minutes!

- Arkans

I'M SOOO HOOOOD!

Edit: STFU BACKLASH NO ONE LIKES YOU


True story: One of the most tramatic moments of my childhood was when my sister ran in front of the TV, tripping over the cord to my Genesis and breaking the system on the day that NBA Jam came out, which was my sole birthday gift. I almost killed her.

[Back]

Edit: STFU BACKLASH NO ONE LIKES YOU

le crie. meanie

[AnticorRifling]

This game almost made me kill people.

- Arkans

QFT Marble Madness was the shit but holy hell did it generate some rage.

[Sean of the Thread]

I can't play any of the GH on easy because... it's toofucking easy slow and boring.

Blue is all I can handle and then I have to be in the zone. Lol not cut out for those type of games.

I would annihilate any of you in a PC FPS however.

[Asha]

Super Christing Monkeyball.
That totally annihilated me at the end.

[Arkans]

True story: One of the most tramatic moments of my childhood was when my sister ran in front of the TV, tripping over the cord to my Genesis and breaking the system on the day that NBA Jam came out, which was my sole birthday gift. I almost killed her.

If you killed her, I swear, that shit would have held up in court.

He's heating up....

He's on fire!!

It's like the time I was slogging through the nightmare that was Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts on SNES. My dog walked by the consol, started pawing at it and pressed the eject button. It was rage inducing to say the least.

- Arkans

PS: Actraiser 2 was ridiculously hard. The first one was cake, but the second one, I guess someone was trying to compensate

[fallenSaint]

Ah the genesis, the system that done did instill enough rage to cause several controller scatterings. Where was my wiimote strap back then.

[landy]

Contra without the extra lives

[Methais]

legend of zelda: a link to the past

lol

[Arkans]

My other post reminded me of this game.

It's very *HARD*

Cho Aniki

Tough as nails.

- Arkans

[Methais]

My other post reminded me of this game.

It gets me very *HARD*

Cho Aniki

Tough as nails.

- Arkans

Fixed.

[Stanley Burrell]

http://insanecats.com/images/solitaire.gif

Oh noez at this fucking "game."

[Stanley Burrell]

OH CRUNKJUICE. Forgot to add trying to escape this muddafux0r in Ski Free:

http://cantaloupearmy.com/thumbs/skifree.gif

The anus he doth sucketh. Big time.

[Allereli]

http://insanecats.com/images/solitaire.gif

Oh noez at this fucking "game."

LOLOLOL

[Enceladus]

Gawd almighty... must echo the first Battletoad's vehicle level, and also Ghosts n Goblins.

Even with an emulator, with friggin save states, I can't go more than two seconds without getting killed. This is a vast improvement over the days when I originally played either of them, when I could only make it less than one second without getting killed.

[Sthrockmorton]

1) 7th Saga (SNES) - The entire game.

It's the only RPG I played endless hours and still never beat. I think my dad and my brother both beat it though. Easily one of my most favorite games of all time. (I loved the characters and how you could pick up one friendly throughout the game, leave them for another, and possibly have to fight whichever ones you weren't with as big bosses in areas). I'd kill to replay this with better graphics.

2)TMNT (NES) - later levels

3) GHIII - any level on expert

4)Halo 2 - the Sniper/Jungle mission on expert by yourself (No waiting to respawn for your teammate). There's no possible way to play through it on any of your first 30 tries without getting killed and learning where the snipers are.

[Apathy]

Not mentioned that I could remember:

The lava level in Megaman 2 always pissed me off - whatever level where you had to memorize all the disappearing bricks.

Trying to actually kill Jason in Friday the 13th for the NES. Fuck that game, seriously.

Tetris levels 15+.

I found Solstice for the NES pretty hard when I was a kid, but I think thats because I didn't know what was going on.

Ninja Gaiden also caused a lot of anger issues in my youth.

[Snapp]

Just thinking about TMNT on NES pisses me off all over again.

And agree w/ Marble Madness being hard as shit too, but I still loved it.

[Methais]

Trying to actually kill Jason in Friday the 13th for the NES. Fuck that game, seriously.

This game sucked so hard, words simply can't describe it. I used a game genie to beat it so that I would never have to worry about playing it ever again.

[Apathy]

It's the only video game I actually took a bat to.

Best. Day. Ever.

[Arkans]

Heat Man's level wasn't hard.

All you needed was that flying tool.

No, not Backlash with wings.

The #2 and you fly right under those blocks.

Annoyingly impossible without it.

- Arkans

[Sean of the Thread]

Man you guys got some good memories. I can hardly remember shit but I do remember HATING TMNT...fucking game.

Megaman series had a few frustrating bumps.

And I still suck at GH3 past easy.

[Shari]

legend of zelda: a link to the past

!?!

I've downloaded this bitch on my Wii and I am DISGUSTED by how I can remember all the secrets of this game, yet I don't retain JACK SHIT of the year of French I took in college.

Same with all the other NES and SNES games. My husband is like, "How the fuck do you know this shit?" and I have no answer for him. :(

However, I think the NES games seemed to be SO HARD because you couldn't save the fuckers. You shut that game off and its back to square one again. You ran out of lives and you couldn't go back to the beginning of the previous level you were on. We tried to "beat the system" once by turning the tv off and letting the console run. My mom beat our ass.

And just to add my 2cents: TMNT...the part where you swam through the sewers and disarmed those bombs was fucking insane stupid-hard.

[Shari]

This game almost made me kill people.

- Arkans

Seconded on the Marble Madness game.

[Shari]

Gradius wasn't hard with the cheat code.

Was it Mega Man I or II where you could cheat and have someone use the second player controller to keep your char from falling in a pit and dying? Game was pretty easy after that.

OH OH OH...Motherfucking Bubble Bobble, level 69. Needed the second player to help you bubble bounce to the top were those little critters dropping the lazer beams were. REDICULOUS. But fuck I love (and still love) that game.

[Enceladus]

Here's a stroll down memory lane... remember how all the old NES cartridges that had a battery to save your game required you to hold in the reset button first, then press the power button?

I remember the Dragon Warrior (now Dragon Quest) games were extremely notorious for totally deleting your saved game if you didn't do that. Easily upwards of 30-40+ of work, GONE, just because the fucker didn't get powered off while the reset button was held in.

[The Ponzzz]

Ultima IV for NES deleted my game on a power outage. I was about 9 and I think I cried.

[Miscast]

Predator on NES was a bitch
So was Night Trap on Sega CD
Remember that TMNT level with the Turtle Van? I fucking hate that Turtle Van

[Revalos]

I've downloaded this bitch on my Wii and I am DISGUSTED by how I can remember all the secrets of this game, yet I don't retain JACK SHIT of the year of French I took in college. -Shari

Hahahaha! Seconded. I think I took up the mathematics portion of my brain with all the memorization of various aspects of NES and SNES games...I used to be good at math, now I can barely remember how to do long division!

I swear...if there had been a section of the SAT on where all the children were hidden in NES Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, questions on how to get the helicopter to stay alive the longest in NES Ikari Warriors, and the appropriate lure and lake location to catch the largest bass in Super Black Bass, I'd have gone to fucking Harvard. Shit...that was 15-20 years ago and I STILL remember most of it.

[Arkans]

Fuck the Turlte Van level.

Shit infuriated me.

Also, WTF, no shit any game is going to be easy when you use cheats.

"HEY THIS GAME AINT SO BAD IF I DONT PLAY BY ROOLZ!"

Hah!

- Arkans

[Fallen]

I know Bob said he was a contra god, but I could never beat this game without using the 30 life cheat.

I've been told going through the first through third mario brothers WITHOUT using any warps is pretty damned hard too.

[Stanley Burrell]

The "Beaver Bother" minigame from DK64. I was short one golden banana. Who came up with these names?

[LadyLaphrael]

TMNT: "Use the rope to cross between buildings."

Really, who the fuck knew *where* to use those things? It finally took an emulator with a whole lot of quicksave/quickload/motherfucker!s to finally learn what to do with that.

[LadyLaphrael]

3) GHIII - any level on expert


with the hyperspeed set to 5 OR on performance mode

Also, echoing Back to the Future, Ghouls & Goblins...and whoever has the Kid freakin' Icarus avatar makes me want to punch eggplants repeatedly in the face. Like King Hippo.

Man, Captain N was the hotness

[Grimaldus]

Blaster Master and Fester's Quest stand out as being pretty rough, never beat either.

[Celephais]

Blaster Master and Fester's Quest stand out as being pretty rough, never beat either.
I had to go back one day when I had the advantage of not having my parents make me shut off the NES and beat Blaster Master. The game was tough, not unbeatable tough, but tough... the fact you couldn't save and had to beat it all in one sitting made it fucking near impossible.

I loved that game... but shit, it's the length of a short RPG, how could you ever beat that in one go.

[Fallen]

Blaster Master was the shit. It was like Metroid, but your character looked more gay.

[Grimaldus]

The point and click adventure stuff on the NES seemed hard at the time too, the only one I can recall off the top of my head is The Uninvited. Lots of ways to get killed in that, just a guessing game and remembering the right order to go I think.

EDIT: Shadowgate is another, lots of creative ways to get killed.

I remember the story for Blaster Master didn't make a lot of sense either, the kid's frog escapes, touches some radioactive container that magically appeared in the front yard and grows to some huge size, and the kid follows him down the hole the container left? At the bottom he finds the conveniently placed tank that he somehow knows how to pilot. Epic NES plot.

[Celephais]

FUCK YOU GRIMALDUS

[Nilandia]

I hated Shadowgate because I died so often. Like I'm supposed to know to toss an orb in a room full of fire to make it go away....

And you guys ain't kidding about Ghosts 'n Goblins. I remember trying it once and giving up in despair. There are still a bunch of games that I know I could never finish without the handy Game Genie.

Still, some never fail to please. Gauntlet, anyone?

Gretchen

[DCSL]

Gauntlet was great in the arcade with my friends, heh. I don't think I ever owned any version of it at home but we always threw quarters away in it in the arcade. X_x

[Grimaldus]

Something like:

"Warrior needs food badly!"
followed by
"Elf shot the food!"

Can probably still make some people twitch.

[Miscast]

So after reading this thread I bought an NES emulator with some games like Mario, Battletoads, Akira and this piece of shit game called Transformers: Convoy Mystery. Holy shit this game sucks Ultra Magnus is a pussy. You don't even get any health. One hit and you're dead. And you only get 3 lives. It's nostalgic to feel the very same video game rage I did as a child.

[Stunseed]

< I hated Shadowgate because I died so often. Like I'm supposed to know to toss an orb in a room full of fire to make it go away.... >

How much of a dork am I?

The orb worked, but if you grabbed the shield, it protected you so you could move through the room.

[Jayvn]

I'm jumping on the Shadowgate, TMNT bandwagon... They made those controllers square and solid back then because they fucking knew they were going to get thrown. I realize I really dont like this kind of nostalgia, I bet TMNT is the root of a lot of todays road rage...and high school shootings... not grand theft auto and <other random games of fun violence>

[Miscast]

NES emulator now broken after 2 days of purchase over Battletoads altercation

[liquiddrool]

Catching the fish for that cat in Wii Zelda

That, and Maniac Mansion.

[Deathravin]

There was a game for NES that nobody else but me has ever heard of. "Rescue". If you played on the most difficult level it got pretty damn hard.

You would start off by trying to duck and dodge spotlights to get into hiding places, if the spotlights fell on you it would start shooting. Then you could snipe guys in windows from those spots. Getting to the last hiding spot was so damn hard on the hardest difficulty.

Then you landed a team on the roof. You had to repel down the side of the building. Pain in the ass.

[Snapp]

That, and Maniac Mansion.

I used to love love love that game. I did manage to beat it with one combination of kids (I totally forget who or how.. I think it had to do with a hamster?). Of course, that was after like a billion hours of playing it.

[Deathravin]

There was a computer game sequel to Maniac Mansion. "Day of the Tenticle" was a pretty funny game.

[Furrowfoot]

They were ridiculously hard.

Well, compared to games today.

Back then games weren't really that long.

So, they made up with for it by being bite your start button off and throw your controller at a wall as hard as you can difficult (true story, friend of mine did this), so it didn't feel like you pissed away all that money for an afternoon of fun.

- Arkans

Not to mention the "hardness" factor goes up a whole lot when there's no saving between levels - and the game is just purely play until you win or die, and then start over from the beginning. Bleh.

[Furrowfoot]

Just another echo to the TMNT rage crowd. I was so determined to beat that effing thing, but I don't think I ever did. Bleh.

:banghead:

[Miscast]

By the way the last koopa boss in NES Super Mario Bros sucks.

[Miscast]

Just another echo to the TMNT rage crowd. I was so determined to beat that effing thing, but I don't think I ever did. Bleh.

:banghead:

I remember finally getting to the Technodrome, dying and saying fuck this.

[Furrowfoot]

By the way the last koopa boss in NES Super Mario Bros sucks.

Unless you could get to him with fireballs, then it was cake. I'd always do the turtle thing on 3-1, so if I didn't have fireballs at the end of 8-3, I just jumped in a hole and started the level over, only to make some dumb mistake on 8-4 and lose the fireballs anyway. I won't say it's a hard game, but it's the reason that "bottom, middle, top, middle, top" will forever be in my head.

[liquiddrool]

The fun part of Maniac Mansion was that if you didn't pick the right group you couldn't ever win. I think you needed the nerdy kid and the cool kid, then I usually picked the chick with the big rack, I imagine.

Day of the Tentacle was cool too. There was even a computer in one of the kid's rooms where you could play the original Maniac Mansion on. I'm pretty sure once I found that I stopped playing Day of the Tentacle though

[Stanley Burrell]

Astyanax was pretty rough.

1943.

[Methais]

Maniac Mansion was the best, with its revolutionary hamster exploding feature.