Hardest game you ever played!

What is the hardest game(s) you ever played?

Mine is Ninja Gaiden, I was foolish enough to rent it and think that I could pull it off in a week, got stuck on the first boss then quit...and also an old NES game that I can´t remember the name of, you played as a knight against ghost and skeletons and stuff, got stuck on the dragon at the end of the third level :P

Touhou series, no questions asked. Play insane mode and you'll cry blood.

insane mode is never fun :)

Castlevania

Easy question for me: Ninja Gaiden 1-3 on NES. Those were hardcore games.
I remember uttering my first curse word as a child was on the last stage when the birds kept knocking me into the pits during my jumps.

Uhm.. I don't know. Devil May Cry 3, probably.

"Touhou series, no questions asked. Play insane mode and you'll cry blood.
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The first release of DMC3 and Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Gaiden

Ghost and Goblins or whatever it was called.

It's well known as being one of the hardest games ever.

DMC3 was really danm tough on me I hardly could make it past the 3rd boss.

Yeah, Ninja Gaiden is insanely hard. Back then it made me rage because the camera and the whole dial-a-combo madness didn't help either.

Thank god I borrowed it from a friend and never actually bought it.

Ninja Gaiden was pretty damn hard... there are a few more for me but I can't remember off the top of my head.

I have not played NG, but my hardest is probably NG2. That game made my brain bleed as i boiled with frustration. I have never screamed at a game before i played NG2 on mentor.

Ninja Gaiden for xbox. Although i did beat every difficulty and all the master tournaments. (no brag :)

I Wanna Be the Guy

I WANNA BE THE GUY

That game is brutal

definitely ninja gaiden, that game was ridiculous.

I'm playing NG2 at the moment, it seems more bastardish that the first one, but maybe that's just because I haven't played the first one since I beat it.

Honorable mention goes to Breath Of Fire Five, a game made ridiculously hard but a fundamentally idiotic structure that requires you to go so far in the game, and re-start again and again, giving yourself an experience boost at the start of the game each time.

Schizoid on Uber Schizoid mode is insane

Pac-Man! I NEVER WIN!

Ninja Gaiden is just fucking crazy.

I was this [ ] close to suicide.

Dude, I'm surprised no one has said Battletoads for the nes yet.

So, uh, Battletoads.

Umm...Battletoads and Halo 2 on legendary.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma I would've played it on easy but I didn't wanna wear the pink ribbon

Batman returns for the Atari LYNX. Seriously, either the game designers knew nothing about game design, or they meant it as a cruel joke.

Some Terminator game, I cant remember the title.

4 Wheel Thunder for the Dreamcast.

My thumb was in PAIN after playing that game. To this day I have yet to beat the single player championship and unlock everything.

I've gotten through about eight screens of I Wanna be the Guy.
But on a more traditional gaming level, Ghosts and Goblins. I was never able to finish that.

I used to think that Megaman was hard but I played it recently and it wasn´t really that tough...

super ghouls n' ghosts still kicks my ass. Though i can get pretty far.

Ikaruga. Serious fucking business

Ninja Gaiden ...flippen heck

I would say Tetris, its impossible for my brain to process after a certain point. Another choice for me is Call of Duty 4 on Veteran; thats because the game becomes so cheap at that point.

Breath of fire 4.... Fou-lu was a mofo...

"I would say Tetris, its impossible for my brain to process after a certain point. Another choice for me is Call of Duty 4 on Veteran; thats because the game becomes so cheap at that point."

Hmm Battletoads or Shinobi on the ps2...i thought Ninja Gaiden wasnt too tough until you hit hard....damn those cat women

Ninja Gaiden Sigma, or Viewtiful Joe on the GC. The difficultly leap from kid to adult difficulty was immense. And one of the last levels is to beat the 4 previous bosses in a row without dying as well as an extra one. They're hard enough on their own, but put together it was nigh-on-fucking-impossible.

My most frustrating experience was probably getting the big boss emblem on MGS4. Enemies can hear you from about 10 miles away if you do anything other than sneak. I had to reset so many times.

My hardest game that I ever played would probably be Ninja Gaiden 2 for the NES. Although the last time that I did beat this I was about six years old.

All Shinobi's and Contra.

Ninja Gaiden

Kid Icarus.

Driver 2. The car chases were extremely brutal to do. You had to be near perfect.

Has to be System Shock 2. Not only scared me shitless, but I was barely able to survive five minutes.

Ninja Gaiden or DMC 3.  The Call of Duty games on veteran were pretty insane too but ninja gaiden is just nuts. 

Ninja Gaiden Black. That game seriously kicked my ass. I wanted to love that game, but I hate dying.

In my teenage years I found a lot of games hard. But I was also doing class-A drugs at the time, so the idea of even completing a level seemed pointless when you could run against a wall for 30-odd minutes and giggle.

Uhm...a lot. But the first one that jumps to my mind is Trauma Center. Maybe because I'm playing the squeal right now...