Hardest Game/Level you've ever played(not necessarily beaten...)

[Standup]

I'm guessing but...
Imperial Japanese Navy ?
I could never master defender despite spending most Saturdays of my teenage years trying to. Centipede i mastered but it was Defender that attracted all the attention.

[Kassiopeia]

Re: Hardest Game/Level you've ever played(not necessarily beaten...)

Originally posted by Tis I
My vote is for Homeworld. That last mission is horrid. Still haven't beaten it in fact.

I agree. And I had almost one hundred Ion Cannon Frigates salvaged from the Bridge of Lost Souls (Before the big bad meteor mission). They just didn't make it in time to rescue the Mothership from the three four Heavy Cruiser flights coming in.
The only friggin' game I own I haven't completed. And it's a very good game too, except for that last ****ing mission.

[Sandman]

My vote is for Homeworld. That last mission is horrid. Still haven't beaten it in fact.

I've done it! Can't remember how though.

[DrSpike]

X-COM3 had a horrid learning curve, even though it was a great game. I had to start again 3 or 4 times (and it was a long campaign) to beat the game.

Jagged Alliance 2 was also close to impossible at the end; I never did finish the last mission.

[Kassiopeia]

A friend of mine who finished Homeworld told me that you just had to salvage all you could. But, I mean, I had one hundred ICFs!

Oh, X-COM 2 was also horrific. Terror missions started coming in before you got Gauss guns. Ammo ran out
quickly, and those three-stage ship purging missions were hell. One time I had to clean up the bottom deck with three guys, one with a Gauss Pistol with a f ew rounds, one with nothing but a couple of Sonic grenades, one with a Dart Rifle. And they couldn't use Sonic Blasters or Rifles, just Pistols.

[Sandman]

Try using minefields for the fleets which come straight at you, and disrupting the fleet which comes from above with whatever fighters you have lying around.

Also, don't bother using formations for your capital ships, they stick together closely when you give them orders.

[Kassiopeia]

Minefields? That's new. I never bothered with mines... now if only I hadn't uninstalled the game...

[loinburger]

Thief had some pretty difficult missions, but I'd say that the toughest mission ever is the final mission in Raid Over Moscow. In the countless times we played the game, my brother and I managed to beat the last level one time on the easiest difficulty, and even then we died in the ensuing nuclear blast. (The mission is that you're supposed to destroy a robot in charge of cooling the nuclear reactor in Moscow so that the city will go nuclear. If you sufficiently damage the robot then the city will go nuclear, but you can't actually leave until you destroy the robot, hence the possibility of fulfilling your mission objectives while still dying).

[Ramo]

Myth I. Beat it at the hardest difficulty.

[chronocrator]

Monkey Island 2 had a pretty hard ending, too, I did not particularly like it since you had to react fast and Le Chuck would always arrive so fast.

Its one reason why I prefer part 1 and 3.

[Drew Dude]

Serious Sam - the level where you are in a long alley (street?). You initially have to jump over a spiked pit, you then get the bulls running at you followed by hundreds of those skeleton type things and then god knows what else around the last corner. Serious save and load territory.

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by RPMisCOOL
Nothing has ever been as hard as Bard's tale 3 last dungeon. I had the clue/cheat/help book in my hand and could not do it in ten attempts before I just gave up!
No light (can't see...black screen)
No compass (where am I going [and why am I in this handbasket])
Walk through a maze filled with spin and teleport squares in the right sequence to pass (this will make the game real fun...whatever!).

R:PM

Good gosh, sounds like a place for a lot of SCSI spells. unless they were no magic areas, too? of course, it will always spin you again if you're standing on a spin square and you cast SCSI - AFTER the spell gives you orientation....

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by chronocrator
Monkey Island 2 had a pretty hard ending, too, I did not particularly like it since you had to react fast and Le Chuck would always arrive so fast.

Its one reason why I prefer part 1 and 3.

That part was pretty bad, but I think the spitting cotest was worse. I mean, I had the walkthrough, did everything right, and still missed it about 25 times before finally getting it.

I mean, LeChuck keeping torturing you to death was annoying, but grabbing his underwear and getting his beard were easier than the spitting contest.

[Father Beast]

My vote goes for the last mission in Star Trek 25th Anniversary. the part where you have to defeat an evil duplicate Enterprise twice as strong and fast as yours.

Never beaten it.
Don't know anyone who ever did.
Never heard of anyone who ever did, cheats or not.
and it's a freaking adventure game for goodness' sake!

[DrSpike]

Ah, Monkey island, what a classic series.

The thought of trapping Stan in the coffin still brings a smile to my face.