14 April 2009
Josh

The Top 25 Hardest Games of All Time

What are the Top 25 Hardest Games Of All Time?

Gaming difficulty is an interesting beast as it has really evolved over the years. Many gamers still hold to the fact that games of yesteryear were much harder than games on today’s consoles. But is that really true?

Obviously it all depends on who you ask. GameDaily has come up with their own list of the hardest games and series of all time. Though they mostly concentrate on franchises instead of one entry in a series. So I took a few liberties to add “series” like when they went with the original Battletoads (um, excuse me, but they’re ALL hard!).

Personally, I would’ve added a few games like the original Metroid, Mortal Kombat 3, Siren and Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES (Thanks logikil!) and Kid Icarus . . . I also think I’d exclude the arcade classics and maybe shooters, cause heck, a lot of shooters are hard. Then again, so are a lot of fighters. But I digress.

So what is your own personal list of the hardest games of all time?

Here is the list of the Top 25 Hardest Games of All Time:

25. Ice Climber (NES)
24. Viewtiful Joe (GameCube, PS2)
23. MDK 2
22. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (NES)
21. Metal Slug series
20. Tetris
19. Gauntlet 1
18. Portal
17. Bionic Commando series
16. Guitar Hero series (On Expert)
15. Shinobi (PS2)
14. F-Zero GX (GameCube)
13. Mushihimesama Futari
12. Doom (On Nightmare Difficulty)
11. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
10. Contra series
09. Defender
08. Devil May Cry 3 (PS2)
07. God of War series (PS2)
06. R-Type series
05. Ikaruga (GameCube, Xbox Live Arcade)
04. Mega Man 9 (Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare, PlayStation Network)
03. Battletoads series
02. Gouls N’ Ghosts series
01. Ninja Gaiden series

15 April 2009 14:27
my name

where is gears of war (insane)?

16 April 2009 21:00
abombb

I feel better that I’m stuck on Viewtiful Joe now. Tetris seems like a weird choice, but whatever.

18 April 2009 14:36
ReVeLaTeD

Err….Tetris is NOT hard. Neither is Contra. Shattered Soldier is a LITTLE difficult at times, but it’s not nearly as bad as some others.

Gauntlet 1 was the easiest of the bunch.

Metal Slug is a bit insane, but no more difficult than some others.

And if you can’t beat Zelda 2, you suck at video games.

Too many games absent from this list:

- Lagoon (SNES)
- Stuntman, the first one
- Wanderers from Ys III
- Ninja Gaiden (360, non-Black edition)
- Dewprism/Threads of Fate (PS1)
- Equinox
- Bible Adventures/David & Goliath
- TMNT (NES)
- Raystorm
- Raycrisis
- Xtreme Games/2Xtreme/3Xtreme
- Albert Odyssey
- Valkyria Chronicles on Expert mode
- Dragon Quest VII (it’s beatable but the difficulty is severely unbalanced)
- Magic of Scheherazade
- Grandia III

18 February 2010 14:49
KieR aKa Grim

who ever said gears of war on insane is a gaming noob u silly little scrub that games not hard compared to most shooters, try beating cod 5 world at war on veteran thats possibly the hardest shooter on xbox to date..