Board 8 > ITT: Recommend me some hard mother****ing games.

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Not IWBTG stuff, where it's less about fair difficulty and more about cheap (though humorous!) surprise deaths. Still haven't gotten around to playing Ghosts & Goblins, and I've heard promising things about 7th Saga as far as difficulty goes. Any other recs?

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Chakan: The Forever Man

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Siren

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Ninja Gaiden Black (Sigma, Sigma 2 on the PS3).

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Demons Souls (especially New Game +) and Ninja Gaiden II Mentor mode / Master Mode (dunno if they changed it but last time I played THOSE MOTHER ****ING EXPLODING NINJAS)

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oh, and if we could keep this stuff, uh... "2D", that'd be best. because i'm poor

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Ms Splosion Man!!!

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Contra

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Subterranean Animism


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Drill Dozer Hard Mode.

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Subterranean Animism

I've already played the **** out of this game. Good, but can't hold a candle to EoSD or IN.

And keep 'em coming! I've already played a couple of the suggestions, but most of these seem promising.

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Super Meat Boy fits this to a T.

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Mmm... maybe Henry Hatsworth? It's a pretty hard platformer.

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Mmm... maybe Henry Hatsworth? It's a pretty hard platformer.

Also this (on Hard Mode.)

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Battletoads

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What about Prinny, for the PSP? I know it's not exactly "2D", but I've heard great (terrible) things about it.

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Not IWBTG stuff, where it's less about fair difficulty and more about cheap (though humorous!)

Darn it.
Syobon Action fits both these parameters.

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Super Meat Boy, obviously.

Contra series
Dark Void Zero
Various MegaMan series
Ninja Gaiden
The Lion King
Uplink
Spacechem
Metal Storm (NES)
Shatterhand
Prinny

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f-zero GX

Kaizo Mario World

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From: BoshStrikesBack | #017
What about Prinny, for the PSP? I know it's not exactly "2D", but I've heard great (terrible) things about it.

Prinny is really, really good, but the final boss is mother****ing stupid hard. I beat every single stage mutation (each stage has different versions of it, so you end up replaying the game many times before you actually get to see everything) and I still can't do the final boss.

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If you're looking for NES era games, then take your pick.

Battletoads, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, Double Dragon 3, Solomon's Key, Super Empire Strikes Back, Bart vs The Space Mutants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Karate Kid, Silver Surfer, Contra, Super Contra, and like you said, Ghosts n' Goblins.

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Class of Heroes (PSP)

I also second 7th Saga.

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Cocoron can be pretty hard or pretty easy depending on the characters you make

Holy Diver is pretty ****ing hard too

Silver Surfer

I can beat this game without dying, no joke. That's what Touhou does to you.

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Prinny and Super Meat Boy are both great choices.

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If you like Touhou, there's Castle Shikigami, Raiden, Psyvariar, Gunbird, DoDonPachi

If you're gonna play a hard game at least play a good one, just sayin

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Super Meat Boy for a newer game, Mega Man-classic for an older (easier yet hard) series.

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Also, Ikaruga.

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Hey Harr, your birthday is coming up ain't it?

i know these things

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ctrl F Punch Out

way to fail B8


and Advance wars hard campaign

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Yep, within a week. I'd be excited, but it's probably the least important birthday I've ever had (26)!

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i know because it happens to be on the same day as mine! :)

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Pretty much every other game on NES.

Nice -- we 7/18'ers gotta stick together. Happy early birthday.

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Touhou series. A lot of other shooter games or series too.
Contra series

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Hardest game ever made is Doom, on Nightmare difficulty. Even if you use quicksaves, good luck with that. Monsters move faster, attack more often, their attack animations are faster as well as their projectiles, and monsters respawn. I've never made it past E1M3.

Yet, somehow, there are Nightmare speedruns that finish the game in less than 30 minutes. Absurd.

Anyway, it's difficult, but an enjoyable difficult.

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Emporer_Kazbar posted...
Kaizo Mario World

He said no IWBTG-style surprise-death, and isn't Kaizo filled with dumb invisible blocks?

Cool or Cruel is the Mario World hack I'd be inclined to recommend (outlines its "invisible blocks", fantastically creative level design). Although I've only watched it, not played it, so I'm not sure if it's sane to play without savestateing constantly.

People have already mentioned the obvious NES games, Touhou, Demon's Souls.

For a non-action game, Desktop Dungeons gets reasonably hard, particularly in Gauntlet.

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Hardest game ever made is Doom, on Nightmare difficulty. Even if you use quicksaves, good luck with that. Monsters move faster, attack more often, their attack animations are faster as well as their projectiles, and monsters respawn. I've never made it past E1M3.

The original DooM trilogy is in my top ten favorite series, so yeah, I'm very familiar with Nightmare mode. Absolutely absurd (in a good way).

And you know what? I'm in the mood for some Mario, so I'mma try this Cool or Cruel hack first (plus, it's among the most "2D" game thus far recommended). Will report back soon with comments!

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Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril

http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=86

Despite comparisons to IWBTG, the difficulty here is very fair. Everything still kills you, but it's more "what you see is what you get" than IWBTG, it doesn't have the surprise deaths that you couldn't know about beforehand.

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Well, I had a lot of fun 1%ing metroid fusion and 15%ing metroid zero mission. Polar star only, 3 hp cave story was a blast too, though I never managed to finish the sacred grounds like that.

Really, self imposed challenges are boss.

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Ugh 15% Hard mode Zero missions


could never beat the fricking black space pirates. The Zero suit part also made me want to kill myself

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From: metroid composite | #038
Emporer_Kazbar posted...
Kaizo Mario World

He said no IWBTG-style surprise-death, and isn't Kaizo filled with dumb invisible blocks?

Sure, but I still wouldn't put it on IWBTG level.

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From: masterplum | #031
ctrl F Punch Out

way to fail B8

i was going to recommend it but he said he wanted side scrollers

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Well, the C&C idea fell through because I can't get it to patch correctly. What a shame!

And for the record, I've actually completed both a 1% Fusion run and gotten all ZM endings. I was big into handheld Metroid for a while.

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Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Ninja Gaiden Black (Xbox)
Devil May Cry (PS2)

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Spelunky

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awwwwww Spelunky's the best choice! I could throw myself at that game for hours!

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any Beatmania IIDX game

it can all be done with practice but it takes a ton of work, but it's really fun to do well



Or you could just play Street Fighter 2010 for the NES

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