Most Challenging Game you've played?
 

Mine has to be Monster Hunter 3/Tri. It's fun and doesn't hold your hand, I'd like to see that more in games.

What's yours?

Aerial Assault on it's hardest difficulty, Jungle book nes game, Castlevania nes game, TMNT1 the nes side scoller game, Dr Robotnik mean bean machine and Comix Zone.

Probably the Ninja Gaiden games on NES. They get completely unfair and that's when games get their most difficult.

I'd say life. The grind is tedious, there's no save points, and a lot of the events don't come with rewards. Also it takes forever to boot some days. Thankfully I had a 1up so at one point I was able to continue my game after I'd died.

Digimon world 4 level grinding is terrible

Shinobi for PS2, I would say. :(

I could never get out of the first level of Super Mario Bros 2. That was probably the hardest game for me of the few hundred I have played in two decades.

Wait, we talkin' the OG SMB2 or the USA version?

Either way, that's...an odd choice. Unless you only played games as a little kid, because there's so much old **** I found impossible then that required zero effort a few years later.

I love doing that with old games :P

Battletoads, NES.

Still the most sadistically difficult game that's also incredibly fun. It isn't simply a tacked-on difficulty caused by cheap, respawning enemies, say, or broken gameplay. Hardcore 8-bit action all the way.

TMNT 1 Nes...

The USA version. I just could not figure out what to do runing around in circles and the graphics were weird. Yes,I was in elementary school trying to play the game. If I could beat the first game by age 8 it would seem the follow up should be something I could go far in.Maybe I could have beat x years later like TMNT:Arcade Game among others but by then NES was two generations or more removed and no access to the game.

Zelda II. and pretty much any of the earlier Mega Man games

This was actually the first game I ever beat as a kid. It was released in Japan as Doki Doki Panic in 1986 with different characters, and was re-coded for Mario in 1988 to be US follow up to the original Super Mario Bros. Nintendo felt that the real Super Mario Bros 2, which was already released in Japan, would be too difficult for American gamers and thus would turn them off to the franchise. There was a re-mastered version of the real sequel released on the SNES several years later as "The Lost Levels," but I don't think American gamers saw a true release of the original version until the Wii Virtual Console. Anyway, you may already know all of this. But I just find it funny that Nintendo thought they were releasing an easier game when in fact for some it was probably more difficult due to the drastic change in gameplay. LOL

Not gonna lie, New Super Mario Bros. U is pretty challenging.

Have you tried New Super Luigi U yet? I was able to beat New Super Mario Bros U but New Super Luigi U just kicks my arse!

Zelda II is hard (and so are the mega man games...) but still doable.... TMNT 1 nes is wayyyyyyy harder...

I haven't bought that game yet, though I was thinking about getting it. Do you think it's worth the money?

I do! Especially for the low $19.99 digital download price. I'm up to world 3. The world maps are basically the same but the level designs and game mechanics are totally different. Luigi's got an extra height boost when he jumps but he takes longer to stop since he slides. Toads function the same. Nabbit is now a playable character who doesn't take any damage but cannot get power ups (items he collects are rewarded at the end of the level with extra lives). You only get 99 seconds to complete each level so each one starts with the warning [time is running out] music.

It's a ton of fun but definately more challenging than NSMBU, espeically when playing multiplayer!