Top 10 Hardest/Most Rewarding Gaming Challenges

Gamers XTREME: "Many will say games are meant to be played for enjoyment. Others are masochistic and love their gaming challenges, no matter how extreme and demanding the game may be. There are certain games that will push you to the edge more than you can possibly imagine, yet they provide the greatest sense of accomplishment upon completion."

[Inception]

Yeah, Contra: Shattered Soldier is one of the most hardest games that i've ever play >.<
To obtain the true ending, you must get perfect score (an A if i'm not wrong) for every mission. And in the end the three wiseman who control the world will be you're last boss. And they are so f*kin hard >.<

But to me, it's still one of the best contra game i've ever play next to Hardcorps and Alien War ^^

[Danteh]

Nice list! DMC was my first hard challenge ever... I remember when I completed it in DMD mode when I was like 14 yo, damn I was so proud haha!

But I think he forgot the quintessential hard challenge...

God of War II in Titan mode!

I've played many, many hard games since my Dante Must Die adventure 10 years ago, and nothing has tested my skills and patience as much as the Titan mode challenge.
Especially the Translator part, possibly one of the hardest sequences in gaming history (in this difficulty).

[Ducky]

DMC was 10 years ago?

... Oh God.

[Korix]

Did you even read the article?

"In order to see the best ending the game had to offer, you had to complete the game with an S-Rank. To do this, you had to destroy literally everything in a stage to get your Hit Rate to 100 percent. If you died, your Hit Rate percentage would subtract from your overall score. You needed 97% Hit Rate to get S-Rank which left room for only death per level and that’s only if you destroyed everything."

[Inception]

I'm not reading all details in the articles, but my point isn't far from the truth right?

[Blaine]

I remember my first Demon's Souls playthrough, I would pause in front of every fog gate and make sure I was absolutely ready to proceed! Honestly, the levels were actually harder than the bosses in that game, but not knowing what you were going to come up against was pretty terrifying! Especially since you did NOT want to die and have to start the entire level over...

[jessupj]

I have no idea why the author thinks the last boss in demon's souls is a push over.

Coming from a player with 3 separate DS plats, King Allant is the hardest boss in the game.

[Blastoise]

No man you misunderstood. When he says the last boss he doesnt mean King allant (Who is as you said the hardest boss) but the real king allant you fight in "the old one". It wasnt a proper boss it was supposed to show how strong you`ve grown by fighting all the others.
P.S Demons souls is awesome

[Anderson8]

i think hes reffering to the real king allant that you find inside the old one... not the false king u fight at 1-4

[Philoctetes]

I'm glad the author likes Demon's Souls, but the last boss wasn't meant to be hard. It's really just there for story purposes instead of a cutscene.

[Jamzluminati]

Old King >>

Screw him. That's what I did with my sword lol.

[Saladfax]

The "final" boss fight is just for story purposes. It's not intended to be a *real* fight by any means, so there's no reason to be disappointed by it.

I suppose they could have relegated the action to a cutscene, but that doesn't seem like something the devs would do.

[caseh]

Allant was probably the hardest boss along with the Penetrat0r! :D

I'm going to say Demon's Souls for me, that was a real mission playing through for the first time.

Outside of that I would have to say Ridge Racer back on the PSX, race where you have to beat the black Devil car. I spent 3 sleepless nights trying to beat that f*cking Devil car. i managed it in the end and the irony is i only used it once as i'd had enough of the game after that. :0

[Hellsvacancy]

You cant pause Demon's Souls btw

[thorstein]

No, but he is saying he "paused" outside the fog gate to make sure he was ready to go through. Not that he put the game on pause.

[Der_Kommandant]

3 words...

Catherine Hard Mode

[vishant101]

Enchanted arms queen of ice.....

also i am one of those few people that have finished zelda 2 and it was a truely amazing feeling.

[soundslike]

beating veterans in Wipeout HD Fury online Zone Battle.

Yea. No. Not gonna happen.

Those crazy bastards can cruise on zone 100 like its venom class...

[Son_Lee]

Getting the Mirror's Edge Platinum is one of my proudest moments. So much frustration, but when that trophy finally popped, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world!

[NarooN]

Beating Grenade of Grenade: Grenade at Grenade on Veteran difficulty. Also beating that same thing in co-op.

Silent Hill 3 on Extreme X.

Killzone 1 on Hard mode. Killzone 2 on Elite.

Syphon Filter 2 hard mode.

[Blastoise]

haha Call of duty world at war right? Totally agree. I still have Vietnam style flashbacks of that game, SO MANY GRENADES

[iceman2885]

Yeah, COD WaW is perhaps the only game that I've plain given up on because it is absolutely ridiculous and just not fun on veteran.

-Can't take cover because there are grenades every 5 seconds (and yes, they never run out of grenade ammo somehow)
-you get shot in the head by people you can't even see yet, instant death
-the checkpoints are some of the worst checkpoints I can remember

God I hated that game.

[MizTv]

kz2 on elite

[SnowBlu]

contra games are really really hard

but one of the most challenging is i wanna be the guy

[mynameisEvil]

"You see that apple/cherry? You want it? Well, go get it! OHHHHH, BUT THE DAMN THING KILLED YOU"

There's I Wanna Be The Guy for me... I laughed and turned the game off, then continued on with my S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-ishness.

I should play IWBTG again someday...

[SnowBlu]

its a nightmare

[nskrishna2]

Big Boss Emblem @_@

[Saladfax]

Only if you do it on a naked run. If you've at least got the solar gun, getting the Big Boss Emblem is pretty easy.

[nskrishna2]

I know
I did it on a naked run. I never want to repeat the experience...ever again

[nskrishna2]

Double post!
sorry!.

[mayberry]

killzone 2-elite was super difficult, but didnt feel monotonous. The A.I. always felt different enough that it wasn't boring.

[EditorAtGNG]

DMC3... the game, although ridiculously difficult, was one of the most challenging and rewarding action-adventure games I've ever played. Dante Must Die was the absolute pinnacle - however, it was the ultimate test since you would have probably spent a generous amount of time beating the previous modes and getting at lest a decent set of skills and a feel for the game... but then, this was just... rawr. Man, was it hard.

[dirthurts]

The original Far cry on pc is pretty hard. Really liked that one.

[morkendo23]

@caseh

yeah, man that DEVIL car was hard as heck to beat like you after FINALLY beating it, i too did not want to play RIDGE RACER NO MORE.
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contra also is a hard game to complete, one hit kill. sometimes wish they had 60 men instead of 30

[Brosy]

Ghosts and Goblins on the original NES was the hardest for me. You would finish the game then it turns out the first playthrough was just a trap set by Satan. So you had to play through it again on a harder difficulty to get the true ending. All this has to be done with 3 lives and 3 continues. I was pissed when I finished the first playthrough and found out I had to play through it again.

[Robotronfiend]

The Wipeout HD plat... can ... not... do. Too hard.

[gigreen]

Demon's Souls / Dark Souls are difficult games no doubt, but Ninja Gaiden and DMC on the highest difficulty are even harder.

[3GenGames]

Famicom's Castlevania end levels make NES Battletoads look easy, just throwing that out their as Battletoads may be really really hard, but it's not the hardest. Even Castlevania isn't the hardest either. You can dig forever and find harder and harder games.

And the articles writes "Top 10 NES soundtracks" list also sucks...man, Megaman 3 at #9? That's a joke.

[cr33ping_death]

my younger beat Contra Shattered Soldier without dying, i was surprised he did it, btw love the soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka is amazing.

[LFC1EE]

Wow???

[trenso1]

kz2 on elite, beating vanitas sentiment, beating mysterious figure on critical.

[acemonkey]

good list.....Dead Space 2 Hardcore mode or whatever it was when u could only save a like 3times or 2 i forget was kinda hard...i couldnt tell u how many times i died a stupid death and had to restart from like 3-4 chapters and give it another go....i died like 30times after beating the final boss and dying trying to get to the chopper lol..... the arcade MK was very hard to beat i remember trying to beat that in the Arcades it was hell.....and even on the ps3 or xbox their hard lol

[ChiVoLok0]

I remember finally beating God of War 1 on God Mode. Not the hardest GoW game on Hardest difficulty but the last boss has you nearly breaking the controller due to having to tap the O button so extremely fast. My hand got swollen for a week but I was so proud of myself.

EDIT: Not to mention the little clip from Kratos origen you unlock when you beat the game is very interesting if you've never played the other GoW games.