This Game is So hard it makes me cry

[Voncaster]

I downloaded Super Ghosts n Ghouls the other day and have been playing it quite a bit.

I beat the game once and got sent back to the start to retrieve the Goddess Bracelet...yeah. Anyway I'm on my second play through and have the Goddess Bracelet and am at stage 7, where I just hit a huge brick wall.

I go through 2.5 minutes of repetitive gameplay to finally get to the boss. He is some guy in a red coat who fires lasers out of his mouth and flames out of his stomach. With the Crossbow...he was easy, cause you could just position yourself correctly. With the Goddess Bracelet you have no range...its impossible. How do you beat this guy?

Anyone have any advice on how to beat this guy? I read the FAQs on this guy and they went something like: avoid his lasers and watch out for his fire attacks. I didn't find that too helpful to be honest.

Or if you would like to post your own impossible stuck part feel free.

[Thorlief]

If I remember correctly, you had to jump on one of the platforms he spits out AFTER the lasers. Once the laser passes over your helmet, jump on it and hit him in the head. Wash, rinse, repeat until he dies

[Sanagi]

Oh yeah, I remember renting that one. I don't have the patience for games like that anymore.

[Speed]

Oh yeah, I remember renting that one. I don't have the patience for games like that anymore. Why not?

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[Sanagi]

Why not?

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Most games these days are easier... And thanks to internet reviews, I generally don't buy games that are brutally hard in the first place. And if I do find a game frustrating, I have a big collection of games I can play instead. Even the highly challenging games that I do care about(which in recent memory only includes F-Zero GX and Super Monkey Ball - thank you Amusement Vision) take me a while to complete because I take my time working on them.

[IQ!]

I downloaded Super Ghosts n Ghouls the other day and have been playing it quite a bit.

I beat the game once and got sent back to the start to retrieve the Goddess Bracelet...yeah. Anyway I'm on my second play through and have the Goddess Bracelet and am at stage 7, where I just hit a huge brick wall.



When you said you were at Stage 7, my brain just froze. I don't think I've seen anything beyond Level 1 because of my frustration of jumping into zombies while dodging another. Really sucks.

[1WEBHEAD]

Getting all the achievements for Dead Rising is extremely hard.

It's insane. I was lucky to get past 500 Gamer points. . .

The Spider Man 3 and X-men 3 game were ridiculously hard too. . .

[Thorlief]

they were, but have you played SG'n G? That game was as hard as having a iron bar covered by diamond skin ramming into your backdoor

what about the sea boss? Ya remember it, the stage in which you were on a raft and he used to shoot little crabs or whatever at you while your sheetty boat kept going up and down due to the waves.

good times. I beaten it, but I started to lack human feelings after that day

[Voncaster]

If I remember correctly, you had to jump on one of the platforms he spits out AFTER the lasers. Once the laser passes over your helmet, jump on it and hit him in the head. Wash, rinse, repeat until he dies

No I can't get to that boss. I'm on the last boss of the first play through (the second to last on the final play through). There are two forms of him. I've reading some FAQs on the game.

The only game that comes close to this mind-numbing level of difficulty is F-zero GX...which took me 1.5 years of on and off playing to beat in story mode.

[mindcrime]

trying to get through dragonforce on expert in guitar hero 3 is nearly impossable.

[Ramiel]

Hardest game ever made, no doubt in that statement. If there is anything within distance of dethroning it of that honor. I swear I think this game was spawned by Satan mating with the sickest, ugliest, most diseased and disgusting...thing there is.

Ok, maybe that is a tad overboard but the game is really hard, it is the hardest game I've ever played

[Renzo]

ADOM and Nethack are much harder. Anyone even heard of these two games?

[Ramiel]

ADOM and Nethack are much harder. Anyone even heard of these two games?

No, I haven't and, not to sound like a dick, but I'd have to play those to believe it. I mean, Super GNG is just on it's own level from just about any game I've played past or present.

[Thorlief]

actually, no. What are they about?

[xAgentx Iron Fist]

ninja gaiden OWNED me repetaly
7th level boss alma first 15 times i died in 2 minutes
WTF OWNED

[Renzo]

ADOM and Nethack are Rougelikes, a series of computer games that run of scripts rather than graphics. So, on the computer screen your character is represented as an "@" symbol, money is "$", and creatures are various letters. For example, dragons are "D". Anyways, you can google these kinds of games or look them up on wikipedia to see what I mean. It is kinda hard to explain.

Anyways, in rougelikes, they run on permadeath. You die once, you die forever. Doesn't matter how far you are (and these games tend to be 25+ hours easily). And running into a creature, like a dragon, is not some sort of light-hearted farce like you see in popular games today. No, a lot of creatures or characters in rougelikes kill you in one hit, even if you are a 20+ level character. Running away is a perfectly suitable strategy in rougelikes.

[Wesley Dodds]

From my experience with Super Ghouls and Ghosts, I know that you do get better with practice. Partly because you learn the positions of enemies and danger points and partly because you get better at the gameplay. Same as shumps. If you didn't react very emotionally to failure there wouldn't be a problem, you'd just get a little better on every new attempt until you finished it. 200 hours later.

[BYC]

I've heard that Contra Hardcore is the hardest game ever. It was so hard, the Japanese version ADDED a life bar.

[Voncaster]

From my experience with Super Ghouls and Ghosts, I know that you do get better with practice. Partly because you learn the positions of enemies and danger points and partly because you get better at the gameplay. Same as shumps. If you didn't react very emotionally to failure there wouldn't be a problem, you'd just get a little better on every new attempt until you finished it. 200 hours later.

This is good advice. I think the trap I fall into is that I work on Super Ghosts n Ghouls and want to see it through...NOW. I've recently cut back on playing this game and limit myself to two plays through on it a day (because its on VC I'm not running through the whole game; just level 7).

Just today I beat the red guy with fire belly and laser mouth only to be beaten down by his second form. Still its a nice bit of progress knowing that a previously impossible guy is beatable.

If anyone wants the strategy breakdown absent in the FAQs I can give it.

[Ramiel]

Anyways, in rougelikes, they run on permadeath.

Sounds a little too much like life to me.

[Sanagi]

As I recall, the NES original, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, was harder, but I haven't played either of them all that much.

[Ramiel]

As I recall, the NES original, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, was harder, but I haven't played either of them all that much.

I didn't think so, I played both and I remember having much more trouble with Super, but I played the original after the Super version so I may have just been overall better then I was, though.

[Alex]

No, I haven't and, not to sound like a dick, but I'd have to play those to believe it. I mean, Super GNG is just on it's own level from just about any game I've played past or present.

Memorization is key.
We're spoiled by modern games. When i was a kid, with stuff like super GnG, you memorized the patterns.
the very defined patterns that rarely vary, if ever.

[Ramiel]

Memorization is key.
We're spoiled by modern games. When i was a kid, with stuff like super GnG, you memorized the patterns.
the very defined patterns that rarely vary, if ever.

Yeah, I know, I played it back in the day, too, but it was still immensely hard as I remember. I mean, you can only take what, two hits and your dead, so even the smallest mistakes cost big time

[Agent Helix]

I beat Suspended : A Cryogenic Nightmare without any hint book.

Take that, suckers.

[Dreadstar]

For me, it was one of the Lemmings off-shoots.

Any game, ANY GAME, that requires you to count pixels for placement isn't worth the elevated blood pressure.

However, I do admit that I LOVED all the Lemmings games. Still do.

I just skip the levels that require the bullshit meticulous placement.

[Dreadstar]

Memorization is key.
We're spoiled by modern games. When i was a kid, with stuff like super GnG, you memorized the patterns.
the very defined patterns that rarely vary, if ever.

Or that you can CAUSE to vary by certain movements, ala Pacman or Lock n Chase.

"OK, we're on level 14. You go down to this corner, do a left-right juke and the chaser will pass you by. Then you follow *this* path exactly, do another juke, slide around the inside grab the prize and hit the exit. But remember, on 15, it gets reversed."

[Alex]

Yeah, I know, I played it back in the day, too, but it was still immensely hard as I remember. I mean, you can only take what, two hits and your dead, so even the smallest mistakes cost big time

you played contra too, one hit!

[Ramiel]

you played contra too, one hit!

Oh, yeah, I'd completely forgotten about the old school Contras, those are pretty unforgivably tough

[Voncaster]

Contra III is insane! that part were your in the air dodging shots and hanging on metal beams (4th or 5th level), is very tough.

[Renzo]

Contra games were so much fun.

[BYC]

Actually, Contra for arcade and NES were both easy. Super Contra (arcade) and Super C (NES) are both very hard. Contra 3 was hard, but definitely doable. Contra Hardcore (Genesis) is supposely the single hardest Contra of all. Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) was kinda in the middle.

I can beat both Contras easily, and I certainly don't need the 30 lives code.
I can beat Super Contra using all 3 continues, haven't messed with Super C too much.
I can beat Contra 3 on Hard. I cannot do it with 2 players, even though me and my friend tried for years.
I can beat Contra: Shattered Soldier 100% with a bit of trouble.
I can only make it to stage 3 in Contra Hardcore using all my continues.
I haven't really played too much Contra 4 yet (Nintendo DS).

I can't do Contra 3 anymore, and I would probably have more trouble with Shattered Soldier, but Contra and Super Contra I can still do.

[Thorlief]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nscP9QpXoFM&feature=related

[Green Goblin]

Batmsan and robin for megadrive it really hard

[Black Atom]

I actually thought Super C was kinda easy, but then that's compared to Contra 3. Contra 4 is good follow-up to 3--it's difficult but beatable. Never played Hardcore, but I did beat Shattered Solder 2 player at a friend's house.

[Ramiel]

Actually, Contra for arcade and NES were both easy. Super Contra (arcade) and Super C (NES) are both very hard. Contra 3 was hard, but definitely doable. Contra Hardcore (Genesis) is supposely the single hardest Contra of all. Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) was kinda in the middle.

I can beat both Contras easily, and I certainly don't need the 30 lives code.
I can beat Super Contra using all 3 continues, haven't messed with Super C too much.
I can beat Contra 3 on Hard. I cannot do it with 2 players, even though me and my friend tried for years.
I can beat Contra: Shattered Soldier 100% with a bit of trouble.
I can only make it to stage 3 in Contra Hardcore using all my continues.
I haven't really played too much Contra 4 yet (Nintendo DS).

I can't do Contra 3 anymore, and I would probably have more trouble with Shattered Soldier, but Contra and Super Contra I can still do.

I don't remember to that much detail playing them, just that some of them from the olden days where pretty f'ing hard. Though, from memory, I personally think Super GNG was harder then any of the Contras I've played

[Voncaster]

I beat level 7 finally...its the level that caused me to create this post.

Now I'm on the last boss.

[Young Avenger]

3 pages and no one mentioned Spider-Man vs X-Men and Battletoads and Double Dragon. I swear those games were developed by Satan himself. I still can't beat them to this very day.

I've been replaying Parappa the Rapper on my PSP and it's a lot harder than I remember it being.

[Ramiel]

3 pages and no one mentioned Spider-Man vs X-Men and Battletoads and Double Dragon. I swear those games were developed by Satan himself. I still can't beat them to this very day.

I've been replaying Parappa the Rapper on my PSP and it's a lot harder than I remember it being.

Urg, 'Toads and DD were pretty miserably hard, it took many a time as a toot to get through those.

[Sanagi]

It's funny... Battletoads and Double Dragon were two of the hardest games for the NES... But Battletoads and Double Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads_&_Double_Dragon) was easy.

[Ramiel]

It's funny... Battletoads and Double Dragon were two of the hardest games for the NES... But Battletoads and Double Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads_&_Double_Dragon) was easy.

Ah, I've never even heard of that before, interesting.

[Sanagi]

It was a playable game, worth checking out if you're into those series. It's more like an easy mode of Battletoads than anything else.

[lalalei2001]

Originally Posted by Eternal Torment

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world's hardest air shooter video game (Mushihime). And somebody beat it only using one coin.

EDIT: Oh, man! They were removed from Youtube! :(

As far as I could tell, this guy died six times, and 5 of them were due to the final boss. Let's all applaud 415 (the ten year old who beat this game).

The saddest part is the sequel (Mushihimesama Futari) makes the first one look like a cakewalk by comparison.

EDIT: This one's still here ^^

A video of Futari's final boss. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-JLyxifS4E)

Also, if you do manage to beat it, then you fight the true final boss (a podium that escapes from the dragon). Nobody (so far) could beat the final boss with only one continue.

[Voncaster]

I beat Super Ghouls n Ghosts the other day...pretty satisfying feeling. Pretty lame real ending.

The End?

What!

[zuludelta]

- The first 2 Contras were hard, but not beyond good reason to learn and memorize the patterns. I remember as 10 year old not even needing the 30 lives code after I'd had the game for a few months (granted, those few months had me playing the game every waking hour not in school).

- Battletoads was ridiculously difficult in a cheap way. Finishing that game depended as much on luck as trained muscle memory.

- I remember Ghost 'n' Goblins and Super Ghosts 'n' Goblins were pretty tough, but I never really enjoyed them enough as a kid to put in the time to play through them.

[Avalanche]

Super Ghouls & Ghosts is extremely hard. I think I was better at it when I was a kid. It's to the point where it's simply too frustrating to even bother with. Another extremely hard game that I love is Ninja Gaiden for XBox. That game had me screaming at the T.V. quite a bit.

[Laughing Mask]

is has anybody ever beat gouls & ghosts?

[Nik Hasta]

Gitaroo Man on Masters mode in the later levels is damn insane.

If you mess up one note you lose like a third of your life and the notes are coming so fast if you miss one, like three zip by.

It's really really unfair.

[BYC]

I'm sure every game out there has been beaten, assuming it has an end. Youtube certainly has lots of gameplay videos. I was watching somebody do a perfect health run for Castlevania 3 earlier today. I had some weird experiences with my NES. Lots of good and famous games I never beat. I never finished Metroid, but I was one of the few who liked Kid Icarus better. I couldn't beat Grim Reaper in Castlevania 1, but I could beat Mega Man 1 without trouble. Didn't play much of Castlevania 2 or 3, so I can't comment. Mega Man 2 and 3 were easy, IMO.

[Wesley Dodds]

I couldn't beat Grim Reaper in Castlevania 1

Spam holy water on the platform at the top right when he appears, you'll kill him before he can attack.

I still haven't defeated the last boss in Mega Man. Bah.

[The Zapper]

Mega Man was the hardest Mega Man. I always had a talent for Mega Man games though so I beat it. Battle Toads...well...I'll just say I never beat Battle Toads.:evilangry

[Ramiel]

Super Ghouls & Ghosts is extremely hard. I think I was better at it when I was a kid. It's to the point where it's simply too frustrating to even bother with. Another extremely hard game that I love is Ninja Gaiden for XBox. That game had me screaming at the T.V. quite a bit.

Oh, yeah, by todays standards Ninja Gaiden is very difficult. I had a few friends who just couldn't take it on Normal. Silly casual gamers getting spoiled by easy games;)

[Nik Hasta]

I still haven't defeated the last boss in Mega Man. Bah.

I could do the last boss in Megaman X which always annoyed me.

Sigma's dog was a challenge, then Sigma himself and then his damn Wolf Tank with no breaks. :(

[asloveislost]

Oh, yeah, by todays standards Ninja Gaiden is very difficult. I had a few friends who just couldn't take it on Normal. Silly casual gamers getting spoiled by easy games;)

haha very true, but i also found Ninja Gaiden pretty tricky in some parts.