Top 10 Hardest Video Game Levels of All-Time

From the PlanetXbox360.com feature list:

"Today is leap day, an event that only happens once every four years. It gives the masses a special opportunity to enjoy one more day of life for the year. Lets be honest, though. Do we ever take full advantage of the day or is it treated like any other day? Unfortunately, as gamers we need as many extra days as we can get. We’ve seen hours turn into days while trying to beat just one level of a game, and all of the character deaths act as wasted time in the pursuit of beating that one stage. Below are a list of games and levels in which we’ve all wasted our days on and could be considered as some of the most painful video game levels ever created."

[LaurenKB123]

WOW F that airplane level, actually both of em...

[dirthurts]

I made it through second attempt...did I miss something?

[JaredH]

Did you beat it on veteran? It took me like 10 to 20 attempts I'm guessing and that's just because of the time limit being so little. I definitely don't think it's the hardest level of all time though.

[miguelcoma]

Call of Duty 1 (or Classic), Pavlov's House ON VETERAN
Hardest level ever.
Got nightmares after that.

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[jthamind]

not a bad list, but it needs more old school Ninja Gaiden and some Battletoads.

[GillHarrison]

It had Battletoads. I do agree with Ninja Gaiden though.

[jthamind]

guess i need to get my eyes checked. lol.

[vortis]

To be fair, that list is "light"...realistica lly every NES and 2600 game would pretty much fill up the list as the hardest levels of all time. I don't think I ever conquered one NES game...they were just too darn hard.

I know, I know, fail me.

[ASTAROTH]

I just finished JAK 2 on the collection. . . play it and tell me if its dammn hard!! It has some of the hardest levels on any platformer...

[I_am_Batman]

I was really good at Contra back in the day. I've played it so much that I couldn't understand why everybody else was complaining about it's difficulty.

One of the hardest video games I've played was Eternal Champions (fighting game) on the Genesis/Mega Drive. I couldn't beat the Eternal Champion with any fighter except Trident.

[Skate-AK]

I used to love that game! I was only around 5-6 last time I played it though.

[Abdou23]

My toughest fight ever is Solidus Snake,MGS 2 final boss battle.

[dirthurts]

The hardest game I ever played, Far Cry. The whole thing! (pc version, the console version is completely different).
I bet I died 200 times trying to beat that game!

[pr0digyZA]

No shame, the last sort of section after you jump off that high waterfall was insane (rockets everywhere).

[Relientk77]

Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden series, Megaman series

all hard

[izumo_lee]

that cycle battletoads level was murder...evil people came up with that. megaman 10 had some of the most bs levels ever in the series. the original ninja gaiden had crazy hard levels as well.

[ChipChipperson]

The last level of Tail Concerto when you enter inside that giant and then you have to platform your way to the final boss.

[Skate-AK]

Ghost and Goblins...

[baodeus]

A couple of games that seems almost impossible to beat (mostly from nintendo era, and because they don't have infinite continues):

Nintendo:
- Battletoads (how do you even pass that jet ski jumping level no less getting to the last boss)
- Cobra Triangle (this game is hard, very hard)
- Ghost&Goblins
- Ninja turtles

DreamCast:
- Ikaruga (how do you keep track of all enemies, dodging fast moving obstacles while differentiating between red/blue bullets filling the screen?)

xbox:
- Ninja Gaiden Black (Master Mode)

ps2
- Viewtiful Joe

And the mother of them all? This:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Tzunoy]

I wouldn't say hardest id say broken.

[Sugreev2001]

The most frustrating level I've got through has to be the Plane training missions from GTA:San Andreas.I play a ton of challenging games,and that mission still remains the most annoying one for me personally.

[vortis]

The helicopter missions kind of got me peeved because they were so hard in GTA IV on PC. That is until I realized the game was designed for an Xbox 360 controller >_>

[Skateboard]

Those missions were sooo stupid cause the airplanes gas barely was enough to do each mission BARELY!!!

[kma2k]

Damn i had blocked that out of memory thank you after reading this it all came back to me, f**k those plane missions!

[Whitefox789]

It needs to take Sonic 2's Wing Fortress level out of there, and put in Scrap Brain Zone from Sonic 1. Freaking level was a *crushing* nightmare.

The hardest game I have played is, God Hand. The game rewards you from doing really good by adjusting the difficulty on the spot to make the game harder. (Laymens terms your kicking a whole lot of a$$ means the game is going to increase the difficulty.)

[PetitPiPi]

COD 4 Mile High Club on veteran. Got to the end three times and shot the hostage each and every time. Had to stop trying or i was going to eventually break my tv.

[Skateboard]

God Hand 'hard Kick Me run'
THE RULES:
-Must be a fresh run (start from scratch, you have to unlock all the moves first, this also means there are no god moves)
-No Roulette moves
-No God Hand

That is my number one.

[Whitefox789]

I second that!

[sonicsidewinder]

The Snow Fortress on 'Jungle Strike' for the Mega Drive.

Just SO damn hard.

You're morale is crushed. Even if you managed to do it though power-skill, the level after that would just bury you.

[rattletop]

the witcher 2 final dragon battle was real tough

[TopDudeMan]

Oh my god, demon's souls poison swamp was the most annoying level on the planet. The boss was pretty easy, but getting there in one piece is a total pain in the butt. But once you know what you're doing, you can just run right through it.

And yes, in sonic 2, that flying fortress level is ridiculous. Some of the bottomless falls were just totally random.

[Braid]

The fight with Radec at the end of Killzone 2 can take the cake as well, especially if you're playing on the hardest difficulty.

You fight a battalion of Helgast soldiers stroming in a small hall in which you are cornered with your dumb f#ck sidekick Rico who doesn't help you one bit, and when you're done killing all the Helgast soldiers attacking you with everything they have in their armory, the Radec guy himself makes an appearence and starts kicking your arse left and right teleporting himself untill you throw the controller at your wall in a tantrum.

That was one of the terrifyingly tiresome fights I've ever had in video games.

[NewVegasTroop]

killzone 2 last level on elite, took me weeks to get past all the sections before fighting radec, which took another week alone to accomplish...

[kma2k]

Last game i really remember getting so angry i yelled at my tv was the original tony hawk game. I think it had something to do with me benig an angry teenager at the time to though

[Steadyhndz]

You haven't played too many hard games have you?

most of them I do agree with, but some I don't at all.