Hardest Video Games Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
If you’re on this channel, you’ve doubtlessly played your fair share of video games.
One of my favourite things about video games is that everyone plays them differently, and
everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.
A game that I struggle with might be a piece of cake for you.
However, there are some games that have been pretty widely accepted as being difficult
as hell to most people.
So get ready, here are the Top 10 Hardest Video Games!
Number 10: All the Space Quest games.
Especially the early ones.
The thing with older games is that they couldn’t really make the games too long.
With a limited amount of space, you can only do so much.
But you don’t want games to take half an hour to complete, so what do you do?
Make them super complicated and hard to beat!
They had Space Quest 1 on the computers when I would go to the gifted program and I’d
play in my downtime, but it was just so hard to actually do things because there were just
no instructions, and if you missed something right at the beginning of the game only to
find you were missing it later?
Guess you gotta start over!
Oof.
The games were fun, but my goodness were they frustrating.
Number 9: F-Zero GX.
This Gamecube iteration of the F-Zero franchise is often considered to be the hardest of them
all.
As with most F-Zero games, it’s super quick, and really easy to accidentally hit a wall
and ruin your race.
Vs mode is super fun and great when you have friends over; it’s always fun to watch them
go flying off the edge or explode because they got too cocky.
But if you delve into the story mode, you’re in for a treat.
Did I say a treat?
I meant a frickin nightmare.
It’s unforgiving and crazy fast, and the final level against Black Shadow has beaten
even the most dedicated of players.
Number 8: Titus the Fox for Game Boy.
Man alive.
This game was so bad.
It isn’t hard in the well thought-out, complicated way that games like Dark Souls are.
This game was bad because it just had such terrible level design.
It’s super difficult to tell where you’re even supposed to go to finish the level, with
a random coin often being the “end” of the level.
Plus there are just random squares that suddenly start a staircase, or a vertical column, and
if you miss it tough luck, better restart the level!
Add to that the one shot kill, random passages, and the complete lack of save points in 17
levels, and you have a game that is difficult for all the wrong reasons.
Screw this game.
Dammit now I have to play this when I get home.
Number 7: Discworld.
First of all, I gotta come out and say that Terry Pratchett is frickin amazing.
When he died, I signed the petition for Death to give him back, because the Discworld books
were some of the most clever I’d ever read.
However.
There was a point and click game from the ‘90’s based on the Discworld.
And even though most ‘90s point-and-click games were quite tricky, this one was just
so hard!
Don’t get me wrong, the humour is absolutely on point, almost sounding like Pratchett himself
wrote it, and the voice acting with Eric Idle of Monty Python was, of course, excellent.
The thing is, the game was incredibly convoluted, with little direction, super hard puzzles,
and a lack of logical consequences.
Now that I think of it, this actually sounds very much like the Discworld but is pretty
frustrating as a gamer.
Still, if you like Pratchett’s work I’d advise trying it out.
Also fun fact, Terry Pratchett was actually an avid gamer himself.
A knight played video games.
Seriously, I love that guy.
Number 6: The Dark Souls Franchise.
This had to be on this list, I know it’s super obvious and everybody and their mother
knows that Dark Souls is really difficult, but there it is.
These games are extremely difficult, they’re unforgiving, give very little information,
and are quite mechanically intense.
Which is why they’re some of the most popular and fun games out there.
Sure you’ll be frustrated more than you’ll be happy when playing, but when you finally
beat Ornstein and Smough, that sense of accomplishment is made all the better because of the blood,
sweat, and tears that are slowly pooling beneath your chair.
Number 5: I wanna be the guy: The Movie!
The Game.
I wanna be the guy, the movie!
the game is an indie platforming game created by Michael O’Reilly that was meant to be
a takeoff on other popular platformers.
You hop your way through a number of stages that are pretty much impossible to complete
the first several times, fighting some ridiculous and incredibly difficult bosses like Mike
Tyson, Bowser, and eventually The Kid’s Father.
In case the title didn’t tip you off, this game is super funny, poking fun at a number
of tropes in platforming games, but it’s also incredibly difficult.
While it does have 4 difficulty settings, Medium, Hard, Very Hard, and Impossible, these
only affect the number of saves you get.
The gameplay itself is just as unforgiving.
This is a great game because even though it was created with the goal of being absurdly
difficult, the humour helps to keep your frustration levels down.
Ghosts and Goblins is a pretty generic platformer where you play as King Arthur trying to save
a princess.
Where its uniqueness lies is the horror side of the game, with all sorts of spooky creatures.
And the infuriatingly difficult part of the game is the frickin random spawning and movements
of the enemies!
It’s really hard to predict what they’re going to do, and if they take one unexpected
turn, you’re left in your boxers.
Take another hit, and you’re dead.
Kicked the bucket, shuffled off your mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the
choir invisible!
YOU, will be an EX, King Arthur!
Uh, where was I?
Oh right.
Ghosts and Goblins is super hard.
Number 3: Ninja Gaiden for Xbox.
It was hard to choose which Ninja Gaiden game to put here, but I think this one’s the
worst.
I’m sure some of you will disagree, but to each their own!
This 3d remake of the classic 1988 game has been widely viewed as an incredibly difficult
game.
It’s fast, difficult, and precise, requiring you to move through the levels confidently
and without making, like, any mistakes.
Because one mistake can have pretty dire consequences.
This game was so hard that IGN actually warned gamers that if they were inexperienced they
might not enjoy the game.
While some people see the difficulty of this game as being a negative thing, there are
a great number of people who view it as a great challenge.
Want to decide for yourself?
Give it a try!
I’m sure you can find a cheap copy out there.
Number 2: Battletoads.
Battletoads has long been considered an incredibly difficult game.
It’s often used as an example of a game that makes Dark Souls look easy, and it’s
hard to argue against.
Many people just stopped playing rather than beating the game.
But hey, if you’re having trouble you can ask a friend to join, coop must be easier
right?
NOPE!
Because you can actually hurt your teammate.
And when you’re stuck in a small space and able to hurt each other, you’re more likely
to just hate your friend even more by the end than you are to actually beat the game.
Number 1: Super Mario Maker.
This is a game where players can create their own Mario levels.
While the game itself isn’t that hard, there are a number of levels that are created to
be just so insane that they’re just about unbeatable.
One particularly famous creator is called PangaeaPanga, who created Pit of Panga P-Break
and Pit of Panga U-Break.
I’m really worried that it’s supposed to be Panga, but when I looked him up he seems
to say Panga.
If I’m wrong, I’m sorry.
I tried.
I’ve spoken about these in the hardest Mario levels video, so I won’t get into too much
detail, but if you’re feeling brave go check it out.
It’s absolutely absurd, but if you manage to beat it I’ll be mighty impressed.
If you want inspiration, just watch.
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Let me know what game you had the most trouble with in the comment section down below!
I know there are a bunch of terribly hard games that I couldn’t put on this list,
but if you want to see more, I’d be happy to do a part 2!
Until next time, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 Gaming.
Later gamers!
Contra.
This was a Konami game from 1987, where you played as a commando in a futuristic world
trying to make your way through the levels.
This was and still is a pretty great game, but it also was and still is a ridiculously
difficult game.
One hit from an enemy kills you, and when you only have 3 lives it can be pretty frustrating.
Even if you use the Konami code and change it to 30 lives, it can still be a bit of a
struggle.
If you’re bad.
Which I am.
In any case, Contra has been frustrating gamers for 30 years, and it’s definitely up there
in terms of difficulty.