Hardcore mode wasn't that hard on Dead Space, or at least it should'nt have been, I had tons of health and ammo by the end, it just took the right strategy to get through - the hard part was the cheap insta-kills that are so hard to stay away from sometimes that set you back allllll the way to your last save - so frustrating! I died so many times after playing for 5 hours! So it was more unfair design that made it hard rather than actually challenging enemies.
I never bothered with Devil May Cry or Resonance of Fate, although Max Payne has proven to eb extra difficult on its hardest difficulty, I'm going through on hard on my first playthrough and its nuts! The aiming is too twitchy at times and too sluggish at other times, really hard to adgust it to make it work for you the way perfect aiming in Uncharted 2 (and now 3) does.
personally, I think difficulties shouldn't be considered Or else many more games will fit inthe list for being frustratingly hard on their hardest setting like World at war with the dreaded grenade spam! That's not frustrating, that's juat plain stupid and lazy design-wise! SOCOM4 is extremely hard on elite too but that's also due to bullet absorbing enemies which just most of the time rush to your covers with their sponge body and not to forget their pin-point shooting accuracy from a mile away with basically any gun in the game!
KZ2 is a good example in the article for being challenging on normal and Wipeout too. Another game worthy of a mention over W@W is Motorstorm PR - It's simply brutal! You're given enough time to familiarize yourself with the vehicles and tracks but at level 7 & 8, the AI are simply crazy hard and brutal! I've given up on taking 100% gold in it long ago but 100% in the 1st game and Apocalyse are very manageble!
Yeah, all my friends ran through killzone 2 and it took me forever. I was having the hardest time. I found out that they were on easy and I had chosen the second hardest difficulty. I figured that u needed to do that to unlock elite but u didn't. It did help though for elite, as ultimately I'm the only one with the platinum. And waw was hard but not as bad as k2. I think Batman's challenge rooms for Atlanta asylum were tough too. The others I havnt played but I'd like to think I could do it. There hasn't been a game I have given up on because of difficulty. I did give up on lost planet 2 platinum...because I wanted to play another game last year, Lol.
Meh, I think the really hard games are the games that are hard, period. Not the games that if you turn it to very hard mode they'll be hard. But, of course, if they're tailored for harder difficulties, such as MGS4, then that counts in my book.
i dont remember killzone 2 being REALLY difficult. I have platinum..was just same level as Call Of Duty veteran difficulty to me. I just ran through whole game MOSTLY knifing and running was a effective strategy. Only hard part a spent quite a long amount of time was the last part.
Radec boss fight was pretty difficulty. Other then that KZ2 elite was nothing hard.
ugh World at War on Vet.... every time i was near death and tried to hide i kept getting pelted with grenades forcing me to leave my recovery spot and get finished off by gun fire. but i eventually platinumed the mother f'r :)
lol, yeah thats what i sounded like while playing that level :) i was like f' this game, this game sucks, everything but somehow i beat it. but your frustration is understandable sir.
I got plat on demon and dark souls, and im not bragging I think to much is made about how tough they are. If u play the game how your supposed to and summon co op help the difficulty is perfect. I think ninja gaiden sigma is the most difficult game ive played this gen. That or the starhawk horde mode. That thing kicked the crap out of me and my friends, even on medium difficulty.
Trying playing them without help then. I beat the game without co-op and only really summoned co-op for invasions. Ninja Gaiden isn't hard so much as poorly designed for the illusion of difficulty. Enemies can get away with stuff they shouldn't be able to, camera SUX, and there are too many restrictions. There are people who make Ninja Gaiden look easy simply because they know how to work around the feigned difficulty.
Killzone 2 on elite difficulty was murderous for me. I still have not killed Radec on elite cause of those rocket spamming motherf*ckers. Add to the fact that Rico is useless....yeah not fun at all.
Demon's Souls was hard the first time around but once you understand the enemies it got easier for me personally.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1/2 are only hard on Master Ninja difficulty. That mode is almost simply unfair. Add the challenge modes in Master Ninja it is almost impossible.
@ LordMe
I found Resonance of Fate to be pretty easy. There is a method in dealing with the harder enemies. It helps to upgrade your weapon with the right add-ons to maximize damage. I usually have 1 guy dealing armor damage & the other 2 to take out the life bars.
Rico is useless Even on normal difficulty! Die too damn easily for an elite soldier leading an army for a mission on a poisonous enemy planet! He's simply incompetent overall! What was the ISA thinking when they hire that clown?
It would have been much better if they let coop gameplay instead of stupid AI like Rico. I think it's the biggest missed opportunity of arguably among the best FPS this gen!
Yeah, I've yet to beat that last section too, and have tried many times. There's no doubt that it's rock hard, and Rico being useless makes it frustrating too.
Dude I hear u on the radec fight on elite. Took me forever to kill all his rocket goons. Finally me and radec are face to face, I'm beating his monkey ass up until I somehow blew myself up trying to finish him off with an explosive. I fired it right in front of a lamp or some stupid shit and blew myself up... I wanted to cry.... gave up after that.
KZ2 was aparently hard not for me though i honestly cant remember a game i played that was impossible oooo wit i think it was Bioshock i tryd platin it and its not happening beat the game on survivor difficulty WITHOUT saving LOL and the remake to MoH: Frontline i duno about u guy but just the first mission was hard as hell!!!!
I am proud to say I have beaten all these games and with good inventory and progress too =] well except Catherine I never played it. I thought God of war 3 on Chaos mode was one of the hardest thing I experienced but it was all about timing.
I just bought Catherine from PSN... it's on sale for $20. It is an amazing game and I am having a blast with it... but, man oh man, are the puzzles tough!!! I had to change the settings to "Easy" to get through them (on the early stages!), and it is STILL hard!!
But, I totally recommend this game, especially while it is on sale!
I've beaten Demons Souls and KZ2 on Elite. Very challenging. Killzone 2 right before Radec is also a huge pain. You can't make any mistakes, your AI partner sucks, and they start shooting rockets from an area you can't even access. Super ridiculous you need to know where they spawn to even survive!
And Flamelurker. I don't know why all these people think the Maneater's were so hard. They were pathetically easy. But Flamelurker and False King Allant were the only really aggressive bosses in the game.
It's the same with the 4 Kings. Everyone says they are too hard and I'm like "what the hell are you talking about?" The 4 Kings fall to relentless attacking and the quicker you are the better chance you have at taking them out before getting surrounded by them all.
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I never bothered with Devil May Cry or Resonance of Fate, although Max Payne has proven to eb extra difficult on its hardest difficulty, I'm going through on hard on my first playthrough and its nuts! The aiming is too twitchy at times and too sluggish at other times, really hard to adgust it to make it work for you the way perfect aiming in Uncharted 2 (and now 3) does.
Or else many more games will fit inthe list for being frustratingly hard on their hardest setting like World at war with the dreaded grenade spam! That's not frustrating, that's juat plain stupid and lazy design-wise! SOCOM4 is extremely hard on elite too but that's also due to bullet absorbing enemies which just most of the time rush to your covers with their sponge body and not to forget their pin-point shooting accuracy from a mile away with basically any gun in the game!
KZ2 is a good example in the article for being challenging on normal and Wipeout too. Another game worthy of a mention over W@W is Motorstorm PR - It's simply brutal! You're given enough time to familiarize yourself with the vehicles and tracks but at level 7 & 8, the AI are simply crazy hard and brutal! I've given up on taking 100% gold in it long ago but 100% in the 1st game and Apocalyse are very manageble!
Didn't like the list, btw.
Radec boss fight was pretty difficulty. Other then that KZ2 elite was nothing hard.
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I died like so many times on the second level
I got stuck at, i don't know...the game was shit and unmemorable, that castle, where you have a flame thrower and Jappos come out of trapdoors.
Impossible. There's no where to hide, and like you say, using cover just turns of AI's grenade spam mentality. Shit games.
Demon's Souls was hard the first time around but once you understand the enemies it got easier for me personally.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1/2 are only hard on Master Ninja difficulty. That mode is almost simply unfair. Add the challenge modes in Master Ninja it is almost impossible.
@ LordMe
I found Resonance of Fate to be pretty easy. There is a method in dealing with the harder enemies. It helps to upgrade your weapon with the right add-ons to maximize damage. I usually have 1 guy dealing armor damage & the other 2 to take out the life bars.
Even on normal difficulty! Die too damn easily for an elite soldier leading an army for a mission on a poisonous enemy planet! He's simply incompetent overall! What was the ISA thinking when they hire that clown?
It would have been much better if they let coop gameplay instead of stupid AI like Rico. I think it's the biggest missed opportunity of arguably among the best FPS this gen!
But, I totally recommend this game, especially while it is on sale!
Enventually went to the back of the area after 2 sniper shots and popped him twice there , so much easier lol.
It's the same with the 4 Kings. Everyone says they are too hard and I'm like "what the hell are you talking about?" The 4 Kings fall to relentless attacking and the quicker you are the better chance you have at taking them out before getting surrounded by them all.