Ridiculously hard games

Isil`Zha · Post by **Isil`Zha** » 2006-10-11 01:04pm

Monster Hunter is a pretty hard game, aside from an absolutely horrid camera that does not go through walls or make objects transparent - so that if you ever get stuck in a corner the camera just spazes out... *ahem* Actually, I really do like the game, and that 1 horrid flaw aside, the gameplay itself is already pretty damn hard.

Basically, 90% of the game is hunting Wyverns.. giant wyverns that you have to run right up to/under to swing your sword, hammer, lance at, that if they charge you and run you down (a wyvern at your "level" that is) you lose nearly half your health - and you're knocked down for a second or two and can possibly be hit by a follow up attack...

The most powerful creature in the game kills you in one hit, period, *unless* you have armor with the absolute *best* elemental resistance in the game - only then can you survive its fireball.... *barely.*

Isil`Zha · Post by **Isil`Zha** » 2006-10-12 11:08am

Darth Raptor wrote:No game has so thoroughly trounced by honor and shat all over my dignity more than Monster Hunter's single player campaign. My god, I can't even defeat a Kut-Ku (the weakest species of wyvern) by myself. The worst part was that the monsters were so beautiful and awesome I went out and got a Code Breaker just so I could play through the game. I don't regret it. That game has some of the best fictional animals ever created. I just wish it was a better game.

oh, someone else does mention it. Yeah, if you think the Kut-Ku is hard... trying going online.. there's standard versions and + versions, and the standard versions in online are the + versions from single player, and the + versions are just insane.

There's a few items you can only get by beating single player, so I did beat things there - that game does take a lot of skill, and it's much easier to get better at it online where other people can help.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-10-15 04:41pm

I've been playing Metal Slug on an emulator lately. It's pretty tough, I'm having trouble even getting past the third level on a life.

I'd limit myself to a coin instead of a life, but then again, with only three lives, if I can't make it without losing a life then it means I'd probably die twice later on when it gets tougher.

Those old coin-eating arcade games are hard to beat, but lots of folks got to the point where they can finish on one coin.. pretty impressive.

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:EDIT: Jedi Outcast's level before you get your Jedi powers is stupidly hard. The one where you're facing like hundreds of stormies and AT-ST's, including guys with rocket launchers and concussion rifles and you have no force powers. Has anyone ever done that without cheating?

The problem is probably that you're playing it with a console controller. FPS-engined games just aren't meant to be played that way. If you had a mouse/keyboard you'd be a lot happier.

Regular stormies have 44 health. A blaster rifle shot does 20 damage to their torso, 40 to the head (head hits are double, limb hits are half). Line up and peg a headshot (4 health left..), then fire off one more (just need a hit anywhere). In an emergency at close range, use the secondary autofire mode.

As has been said, just pick off the stormies then hightail it to the end of the canyon, you don't have to engage the AT-ST at all.. when you get to the top of the canyon, there's plenty of heavy turrets there for you to blast it with.

Darth Yoshi wrote:Shadow troopers are actually fairly easy to beat. Pointblank push/pull to knock to the ground, followed by a hack-uppercut combo in the Fast stance. Instant kill.

Wow.. that sounds pretty cool. Never figured that out myself, though.
I found that alternating between Medium and Fast lightsaber styles, while placing your saber to block their attacks (or just avoid them) lets you keep getting in licks repeatedly until they go down, although chewing through 400 light saber-resistant hitpoints takes a while. Looks nice and movie-ish, anyway.

Man, I love those games.. especially the lightsaber control.. very precise. It's very satisfying when you manage to place a perfect horizontal lightsaber strike to an opponent's head with the yellow medium stance. Fatal.
Iunno if that's possible without a mouse, though

Btw, how do you trigger all the different Force powers on a console, in addition to the other controls (attack, secondary attack, jump, duck etc)? Are there enough buttons?

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2006-10-15 07:18pm

Alien Hominid. The level where you're fighting on top of the cars in the freeway, and the Bee Boss.

Hell, the entire game is pretty difficult.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2006-10-15 10:34pm

Dogs of War. Can't even beat the first mission for the rebels.

Ravencrow · Post by **Ravencrow** » 2006-10-16 01:06am

Commandos on the pc. I just remember losing patience with it. One little slip up can easily screw up the entire mission.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2006-10-16 05:24pm

Battle Toads N' Double Dragon is a preposterously hard game at times, particularly on the Third Boss, the one who, even once you figure out his routine and narrowly avoid getting a life ripped out of you, still takes forever to kill.

000 · Post by **000** » 2006-10-18 12:24am

Cykeisme wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:Shadow troopers are actually fairly easy to beat. Pointblank push/pull to knock to the ground, followed by a hack-uppercut combo in the Fast stance. Instant kill.
Wow.. that sounds pretty cool. Never figured that out myself, though.
I found that alternating between Medium and Fast lightsaber styles, while placing your saber to block their attacks (or just avoid them) lets you keep getting in licks repeatedly until they go down, although chewing through 400 light saber-resistant hitpoints takes a while. Looks nice and movie-ish, anyway.

If I remember right, those guys have less resistance to choking than the regular reborn. I'd usually yank 'em up in the air and then chuck my saber at them.

Fyyar, though-- he was a real bitch. Could never nail that sheild generator thingy-- I had to take him out the hard way.

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2006-10-18 01:37am

Resident Evil 4 is very difficult, at least for me. I cannot seem to kill those bastards that have a chainsaw. I usually out run them, but when you are leading the president's daughter and continuously hiding her, you come to a point where you have climb down ladders. One of the them contains a small area with a fence and those fucking chainsaw bastards. I gave up on this game after dying at least 10 times by these assholes.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2006-10-18 05:28am

JLTucker wrote:Resident Evil 4 is very difficult, at least for me. I cannot seem to kill those bastards that have a chainsaw. I usually out run them, but when you are leading the president's daughter and continuously hiding her, you come to a point where you have climb down ladders. One of the them contains a small area with a fence and those fucking chainsaw bastards. I gave up on this game after dying at least 10 times by these assholes.

You have to go down and wait for the cut scene in which they come out. Then you run to a laddar and climb up. The morons will follow you and you shoot them in face with the shotgun before they come up and throw them down. Eventually they will manage to come up from other sides but they´re already weakend and furthermore you have an advantage up there because it´s narrow and they can´t attack from multiple sides.

It´s really not that hard.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2006-10-22 11:59am

salm wrote:It´s really not that hard.

Yeah, until you try the Waterworld level in Mercenaries mode and there's that crazy asshole with the double chainsaw that can friggin fly.

You'd think he'd have trouble climbing ladders with that thing. Doesn't matter, since if you climb a ladder to get away from him, he's already at the top when you get there. At which point all the time you spent trying to get 5 stars on the level is gone. Not to mention the fact that he doesn't react at all to your hail of bullets until he finally runs out of health. Happy day.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-10-22 12:15pm

The Mega Man series on the NES