I’m 51 and have been gaming since I was about 8, started with TV Games, then a Spectrum, then Commodore, then Amiga, then Sega Master System, then Mega Drive, some Game Boy, PlayStation, N64, XBox 360, Switch, XBox Series X and all along I’ve been shite at games and immensely frustrated at difficulty and insta-death levels. Mate, I’ve been playing Ghosts N Goblins for over 40 years and go nowhere. Shoutout to those of us who’ve been crap in every generation for five decades.
I had someone comment on a reply of mine where I was essentially thanking the good lord for save states. This guy says, “yeah but where’s the satisfaction beating a game with save states?” If I ever make it past the turbo tunnel in Battle Toads I guarantee you I’ll be more than satisfied to not have to replay it EVERY SINGLE time I die again after that point. NES devs were masochists.
@@pauljacob99 they were super hard! A lot of them were practically impossible without a guide. Even save states won't help if you can't figure out where to go or where to go 😅
So relatable. I have the PS4 Castvania Rondo of Blood and abuse the crap out of the save system. The game is so much harder than the remake I jammed with on the PSP. I dig it, though, but if I was on the NES, I would've despised a lot about this game. I've used them on my emulated Sega games. The Incredible Hulk, X-Men 2 Clone Wars, and Contra Hard Corps. I would lose my sanity.
I recall I read a Miyamoto interview where he mentioned that "Japanese game player are lazy as they want to finish their game easy and move on" type of way. And that he praise that the American/International folks play the game on hard so that they will take longer time to finish the game.
Some of the jumping puzzles during the raids in Destiny 1 and 2 are the hardest thing I've ever done. There are so many blind jumps that you have to make around corners and land on a tiny little rock or pipe and if you miss you have to restart so many other hard blind jumps just to get back to the blind jump you missed.
The first win is doable, but then the game hits you with a "the princess is another castle" BS and have to beat it AGAIN, that second run ive never could pull it off in original hardware, (on emulators with save states is much more forgiving)
I'm surprised you didn't mention TMNT on the NES - the original one. OMG, it's one of the hardest and most frustrating games of all time. I had a hard time as a kid and now I'm 40 years old and still find it super hard.
There is one game that was actually impossible for one person. That game was Punch Out for the NES and that person was my friend Chris. During the training cut scene, where the trainer was riding his bike in front of you, we told Chris that if you pressed "B" and "A" fast enough you would catch the trainer, throw him off the bike and ride off the screen with it yourself. For at least two summers, every time that scene came up, Chris gave it his all to see this special scene. He never got suspicious that my brother and I never gave the slightest effort to do this just to show him how to it was done. It was quite entertaining!
Ninja Gaiden was insane on the NES. I agree with you that a game should be played the way it is supposed to. However even with the tips and cheats I still found this game impossible LOL! Great video mate. Glad that I'm not the only one who found games tough in my youth!
When I was 9 or 8 I saw my sister playing shantae and the pirate’s curse in the morning and I was pretty sick and after I drank water after like I think 5 minutes or 10 minutes I started feeling nauseous so fast I rushed to the bathroom and started puking quick I think the month was like February or march something the entire time my sister was playing it on the WII U we first had it almost 10 years ago we had allot of games in that console!
Those are some rough ones man! I’ve always thought it was funny that everyone says Battletoads is such a hard game (I mean it is, so many people have only ever seen the first 2 levels) yet it seems like people all still love it and hold it as a good game in their minds (It really is cool!) “What’s the hardest NES game?” “Battletoads! It’s such a cool game!” 😂 I’m not sure there’s a lot of games out there that can hold both of those titles in that way for so many people. Great video man!
In Bloodborne, I was stuck on the final boss Orphan of Kos for literally 2 weeks. I gave up on my weapon and started trying out other weapons, only you have to level the weapon up so I had to grind materials. I tried so many weapons and just couldn't beat him. Finally tried out the DLC weapon Beast Saif and it made the game super easy. I'm not joking, it was easy. I had my wife play the game, as soon as the DLC opened up in the beginning I took the controls and ran straight through everything to grab the Beast Saif and then handed the controller back to my wife. When she beat the game, she only had 2 deaths on Orphan of Kos, took her only 3 tries. That weapon is so broken.
Orphan of Kos is legendary hard! I kind of like it when developers give you an out on a game like that. I feel like it's good design to have a last ditch effort in there for everyone 😆
⚠️ you forgot the ninja gaiden trilogy for the SNES. Ninja Gaiden for the SNES was and still is a very super hard game till this day. Even the 3D version of the Ninja Gaiden trilogy for the PS3/PS4 is hard as well. Great video by the way 🎮🎮
7:49 Every rpg, someone gonna say this. Example, a secret boss on ff7 remake intergrade, Weist. This guy is so hard. I looked at every body strats and their're like, do this at the same time while you're doing these other 8 techs before he changes to 2nd form and wipes the party. Lol
NES TMNT was one of the few games I never could beat as a kid. The often bemoaned water level wasn't hard at all, but I just couldn't get through later levels.
Thanks! Yeah, I always talk about every game. Even if I haven't played them, I'll talk about where I got them, why I bought them, and what I've heard about them. I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment!
the immortal and wizardry were some of the toughest games on the nes for me. ive played them later on an emmulator, and aced them, but wow, at the time, they were my most difficult. great video, dropped a sub
Oh god, the immortal.. I rented that one a few times, never got too far lol. Something about that one sparked my imagination as a kid though, I remember being a little obsessed with it
Glad to hear that you played the 2nd but I played the first I couldn’t get pass the 4th or 5th boss fight they were so many bullets I almost dodged all of them without getting hit
In Star Fox Adventures, I got stuck at the Lightfoot Strength Test because I had to rapidly press a button to get him into the pit. 1 1/2 to 2 years later, when I bought a turbo controller, I made it right through and went on to beat the rest of the game.
Omg that test was crazy! I asked my mom to give it chance and she beat it the first try!!? I was blown away by that because she doesn't even play video games! I'll never forget her coming to my rescue after hearing me so upset and then saving the day.
@@tjames6427that’s so funny, I knew my gf was a fast tapper cuz she would kick my ass at those Mario party games. So I was like babe can you help me in this trial and yea she did it first try. I just don’t understand why I don’t have a fast thumb lol
@@bobbyrivera2951 I've since came up with a method that will help you beat any fast tap section in seconds! Take your pointer and place it over the button then with your other hand alternate two finger tap on your pointer finger. I call it the double tap lol.
Great video! It’s interesting to hear your comments about Divinity: Original Sin 2. I have not played it yet, but I want to say that the experience of failing at a strategy and having to try again until I get it perfect is actually the most addictive thing for me that keeps me hooked. Funny how that works differently for different folks. Good job - keep up the great content!
@@RNGGamerYT The DOS Series is great, yes you get your ass beaten in the beginning but things become easier once you have figured out the mechanics of the design, there are literally infinite ways to win a battle and often you have to think around corners! For instance it took me a while to take the surrounding stuff into the strategies, in the beginning I often confronted the enemies straight away, then i figured out to use oil and set it on fire, or light barrels lying around and suddenly wham an unwinnable fight suddenly was won!
I only beat Bloodborne because I played about 70% of it co-op with a seasoned player. Jak 2 always comes to mind first when I think of hard games that I beat, especially games that I found difficult from start to finish (vs. games that had a brutal last level, like Rez).
@@RNGGamerYT I was fun, but in From fashion, more difficult than it needed to be. Certain areas you couldn't do co-op, you need a bell to call a co-op partner, and if they die, you're alone and have to wait until you can call them again if you're in a boss fight, and just overly complicated.
Bro, just found you here on YT and I must say I love your content! Pretty straight forward, no shenanigans or anything like that - just honest reviews. Gotta watch your other videos! HAHA Subscribed, and if you need any music for your channel and/or any other medias you work with, lemme know, it would be awesome to collab with someone like you! Thanks, bro! Keep up!
I'm so glad you love the content! That means the world to me. I'm actually a professional musician! I've done session work for years. I'm always down to collaborate.
and there is two specific games that I still think is hard today, and those games are Cutthroat Island and Blackthorne on the SNES... maybe I suck, maybe I lack the mental requirements to play it, idk, but man... hard as f***. Still love them, tho hahaha
Awesome video! I recently picked up The Adventures of Bayou Billy and share the same frustrations lol. I didn't know about the history of why the developers increased the difficulty for the NA version. Very interesting......
I completely agree with your rant around the 7:54 mark. There is a subset of gamers out that enjoy the masochistic side of gaming. Being an older gamer myself, games back in the day were made difficult to prolong play time because of technology limitations. But if I hear a game is made like Divinty original sin. Hard pass. That’s why for years I avoided the soul’s borne games up until Elden Ring. Which funnily enough, they made for more mass appeal. Great video. You got a subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing! I feel like a lot of games made these days are designed to be the one and only game you play for a few years until the next game comes out. I see so many posts on Reddit about people looking for a game can play "forever." I hate it... and it's a hard pass for me. Like you, I prefer to head into a game, knowing it can be finished with some sort of relative ease
8:16 Dishonored is a bit of a mess. The main game I have is 4 or 5 saves for backup. The DLC I have 7. It's a lot harder and more frantic but I just can't quite seem to ghost the last level and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. As I've ran through the level 4 times as clean as I can and I just don't get it. Am I glitching or not being stealthy enough? 🤷♂️ Bugs the crap out of me cause I want my bragging rights.
first time here i love how Your gaming room looks ( i am a bit jealous, but You got me into thinking how to achieve similar result ) i love the way You narrate the video and your attitude Subscribed !
I completely agree on Divinity: Original Sin My wife and I kept trying to chug through that game and eventually gave up. And that was at 70+ hours in. It was a lot of fun to play, but miserable to figure out. The clues are vague and the journal is just a single bullet point. Good luck finding where you need to go based on the quest journal if you don't remember who or what you did to get that journal entry. After having to look up where to go for the umpteenth time, we called it quits.
Great video, you mentioned two of my favourite games of all time in Bloodborne and R-type. I put around 200 hrs into bloodborne, god those chalice dungeon bosses were brutal. I remember walking into a local arcade as a wide eyed 10 year old and being totally blown away by R-type. Now 36 years later, i own pretty much every version of it and i still havent beat the last stage. Actually the only port i finished was the gameboy version (less stages).
Thanks for sharing your history with these games! The chalice dungeons were no joke. I got burned out on them really quickly. I wish I could have played r-type in the arcades. I'm envious that you did
Single dad if 4 with full custody…Bloodborne is also one of my favorite games, that being said I’m loving Elden ring right now on the steam deck. I love type as well especially delta and final part 1 on ps2…those BYDO had some creepy last levels.
24:47. We had that for the gamecube at one point but we never accrual played the main game?? We played the side game Monkey Pool!! We were ADDICTED to that!!
Bayou Billy made me realize as an Adult how much better I was as a kid at playing games. 😂 I had fond nostalgic memories of the game and remember getting quite far into the game. Loving how the gameplay was so varied for different stages. Then I picked it up and played it years later and wondered how the heck did I ever love this game? 😂
@@RNGGamerYT Same mate would love a new Bloodborne game as soon as I was done with Bloodborne I hopped on Elden Ring and got the Plat on that too hahaaha I was going through a souls faze.
I had Bayou Billy growing up and I don't think I ever made it past the second stage. I was so annoyed because I wanted to get to the light gun stage so darn bad and I never could do it. I could get past the turbo tunnel stage on Battletoads but don't think I could master the surfing. Double Dragon I could not get past stage 3 if I remember right. Thanks for the memories.
Bloodborne was my introduction into souls games. I got so frustrated with it I stopped playing it for months. Then saw a video of Sqillakilla playing it and it motivated me to try again. I realized what I was doing wrong. Once I went back to it I started doing better. I went on to play DS3 after that. Then I went to DS1 and 2. Demon Souls remake and finally Elden Ring. Now I really love souls games.
Not realizing I was playing it wrong was the same issue I had. I kept trying to force my playstyle into it... and that just didn't work. Glad to see you got the hang of it! Thanks for watching!
Just found your channel. You’re a real pleasure to watch and listen to! Your rant about Divinity 2 how you have to do all these obscure things to progress that you would never think felt like listening to myself lol.. it’s what turned me off to CRPGs the past 15 or so years, like you I also grew up playing them but it seems making them as obtuse as possible is supposed to be fun now! They tout how dynamic everything is which is achievement I guess, but I don’t want to “try” 24 different things just to make essentially an hour of progress. There’s far too many games out there that respect my time. Anyway you earned a sub, nice job on this video!
I remember having a Nintendo Power subscription. I still have paperback strategy guides for older games. Now that everything is online, there are no more guides like we used to get. The internet is a disaster of broken up forums and information scattered all over the place. I truly miss those handheld paperback guides, like for Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy games, my friends and I had a blast, one of us would read out the info while a buddy ran through. If one of us couldn't do it, the other would grab the controller. Good times.
@@RNGGamerYT I'm currently playing Granblue Fantasy Relink. I really wish I could buy a guide for it, even a PDF professional guide released by the developers but it's still incredible! Good content man! I love the Bayou Billy part, frustrating memories! It was like child abuse! Brutal console child abuse! Jeeesh!
So many original NES games were incredibly difficult. Even the original Mario Bros. Contra, Magmax, Captain Skyhawk, Qbert, and tons of others. I feel like almost every game from that era was incredibly difficult.
And just quickly, "super thunder blade". Wow, that was hard. I played that when I was 8.... finally beat it when I was 27. There was a rumour it was so hard because the makers didn't have an ending. But wow, what a fun game
@jake90052 the streaming is a slow build. I mainly do it to build a community with the people who are already subscribed. It's also nice to have a guaranteed 3 hour gaming session every week
In one of the Medal of Honor Undeground levels, the last part of the level required me to wipe out the stockpile of parts that were already built. I tried a few times running away from it, but it caught up to me and I failed each time. A week or 2 later, I came back to it and went sideways, straight and sideways again to get to the end of the level. Near the end of the game, in the second to last level, it took me a day and a half to beat that level; after that, I made it through the level and beat the rest of the game.
Dragon Warrior ll for the NES is brutal. Your party feels overwhelmed and outmatched throughout the entire game. The last couple of areas are absolute hell.
Bayou Billy was literally unbeatable to kids. Also you mentioned Bloodbourne, but Sekiro is WAY harder to me. the last guy, Isshin, is in my top 3 for hardest encounters in any video game.
Wasn't unbeatable but it was insanely hard. I dont know how long it too me to beat it but it was a long time. It was a christmas present and back then we didnt get games all the time like today. You had no choice but to beat them.
In the Lumber Mill level in Tomb Raider Chronicles on PS1, I tried swinging from the rope to the ledges and never made it there; I tried so many times and I failed each time.
I also have a history of missing ledges in Tomb Raider games. Don't feel bad. There are a lot of us. We meet on Saturday nights to share our feelings 🤣
Here's a tip to make crpgs quite easy (or easier anyway). Be really specific in levelling your characters. Don't aim to be jack of all trades, specialize each character to have one particular strength. If you have a squad of 6 have 3 melee heavy warriors, then 3 ranged with say 2 magic and one bow, so basically you split the team half melee, half range. Don't be tempted to have balanced team members, just a balanced team. Also have range and melee weapons for all characters so you can swap as needs be.
@@RNGGamerYTAlso specify your buffs and spells to the strengths of each team member. An extra tip is to grind early on to level up and the cruise through the rest of the game.
I got battletoads for Christmas at like 6 years old. Needless to say I pretty much just played the first 2 levels on repeat until finding something better to do
Have you tried “Yolanda” on the Atari ST? Such a hard game. Start the level, think “Where am I on the screen?” And before you see your character, all the floors are on fire and you’re dead. Start again…. It’s a random new level and you still don’t know where your character is. Took me so long to beat it!
For adventure games, almost anything by Sierra in the 80s / 90s. Most of those had obscure puzzles that many believe were there just so people would phone the premium charge hint line (those pre-Internet days). Also guilty of creating an absurdly hard game - a text adventure I did called Time: All Things Come to an End. Still renowned today in the interactive fiction community as brutal (mostly poor game design on my part which I now apologise for). Older games tended to be harder generally because there were not the same save features back then.
In the 90s there was the the Philips CD-i system, which was one of the first disc-based consoles. All of the games were simply terrible, there was even an unplayable Zelda game. But it had one unbelievably hard animation-based game called Escape from Cyber City. I’ve played a ton of hard games in my life, nothing is as hard as that game was, but admittedly that’s a really obscure, deep cut
Watching your 2 part series on this topic, have experienced most if not all things in gaming since playing 1942 by Capcom in '84, can't argue with you bringing up the likes of XCOM, that game is like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight, also how you mention Pink Sweets, Ikaruga & R-Type, those Shmups don't hold a candle difficulty wise to Dodonpachi Daioujyou & Battle Garegga, also I have to mention the likes of Ninja Gaiden Black Label, SMB The Lost Levels, The Sharp X68000 version of Castlevania & F-Zero GX, have enjoyed seeing your perspective / experiences of difficult games.
I remember writing the tunnel levels of battle toads down and practicing with a controller while I was in school. Just memorizing the patterns for muscle memory.
Im hooked, awesome video, and color me newly subscribed! And yeah, i play games like you do. The save scum stuff kills me. But yeah, when i het a new game i try to skip tutorials and just dive in. Except the old school Nintendo manuals, those were required reading.
I only managed about 3 hours or so of divinity before I got rid of it, one of the worst most frustrating god awful games I’ve ever played and it drives me insane I seem to be the only one in gaming that hates it so bad
I can see how you feel that way. There was a lot about it that I didn't like, too. But after I learned how to play it, it got better. But I still don't think it deserves all of the fanatical praise it gets
To make the giant wheel stage on Battletoads even harder for you, if you're playing two players and you both make it to that part, that's the end of the road. A glitch in the game won't let you move the bike and the wheel will just kill you. You actually can't beat the game two players, it really is impossible.
@@RNGGamerYT How many people are good enough to make it that far with a partner anyway? :P I do disagree with you on Double Dragon 3 though. Not that it's hard, it is, it deserves the spot you gave it. But I actually thought it was a decent game, not the best but all right. So I guess I disagree with all of gaming. But I've always taken the beat em ups like a duck to water. For that opening dojo room, turn on your nunchucks, with I think select at the character screen, it's been a while. You can only get like 5 hits before they break, but that's 5 hits that you don't have to fight to get and you don't have to spam special moves.
I am a GIGANTIC fan of the first three Resident Evils, but number 4 is a different story. I don't know what it was but that game kicked my ass from the get go. I got suck almost at the beginning, rage quit over and over and never even came anywhere close to beating it.
@@RNGGamerYT I had one when I was a kid and not the other. Silver Surfer was beat many times. I noticed some lag but it was like riding a bike down my old neighbor's alley. I know where I'm going. I think Battletoads is next to impossible if you didn't do it a million times alreadly without transfer.
I can totally relate. As I get older, as a very casual gamer, games are HARD! Yeah, I played the hard ass games back in the 80s and 90s, but the problem is I had the reflexes back in the day!
The presidents run in driver is almost impossible… You’d get crushed so hard the car would smash over the buildings & just freeze/stop working… Need some luck to get slammed a few blocks in the right direction
"Palm trees .. and 8" Does that ring any bells? Mystic Quest on Game Boy. I was already traumatized by various Game Boy games and then I got the NES in combination with Zelda II completely in English (I'm German and was in third grade at the time). I played a lot but I can't tell you if it was fun.
My step brother and I beat BattleToads in the 90s but it took a long time. It left such and impression I can still recall some images of the game from back then like it was yesterday. Tough game.
I beat Punchout, I beat Battletoads, I beat Ninja Gaiden but Bayou Billy broke me. I tried and failed so many times I gave the game to one of my cousins. Some newer games are hard but doable if just beating the game is your goal. They get insane later on when you try to complete them 100%. I still never completed every bandage from Super Meat Boy and still had a few medals from Trials Evolution I couldn't get.
I've recently been playing the first D:OS and everything you say I feel. You have to fight every battle in exactly the right order to be levelled enough to get through, the game is horrendously obtuse, and of course fun stuff like walking into a trap that spews lava everywhere and destroys treasure chests forever.
I remember the day I beat both Battletoads and TMNT2 in the same day. I was in my early 20s, and this was right after the top-loading NES was released, and my front loader was having problems reading carts (back then I didn't know how to fix this). I always used the Game Genie for both of these games, but that particular day I was hankerin' for some Battletoads and I popped the cart without the Game Genie into the Top-loading NES and I was like "I'll just play it for fun". I had played the game's various levels several times with GG codes, so I had a decent working knowledge of the entire game. I started the game as normal, had a _really_ good run on Level 2, gaining a LOT of lives by juggling those birds, I took the warp in level 4 and again in the snake level to bypass those two stages, and before I knew it, I hit my least favorite level, those stupid tubes. With some very careful swimming and running I got through it, found myself in the Clinger Winger, and I beat that stage with more than 5 lives remaining. At this point, my hands were getting really sweaty, I was thinking "this can't be real, can it?" ... got to the queen with more than 5 lives showing, and my heart was pounding. Landed the killing blow on her with 3 lives left. Couldn't believe what I had just done. Then, after a few minutes of calming myself down, I'm like "what shall I play next?" I popped TMNT2 in... and with just the Konami Code, wound up beating that for the first time, too. Again, a game I had explored decently with GG codes so I had a decent working idea of how to play the game. I was somehow landing all of my A+B attacks, I was taking out entire screens of bad guys with jump kicks and NOT getting hit, I was just on fire that day. I don't think I ever played so well since.
TMNT for the NES. Some of carts had a program error that you wouldn’t automatically throw the rope to cross buildings. That pretty much ended the game for that cartridge.
i always thought the turbo tunnel was easy and i'm not sure if i remember correctly but i think there is a warp point in 1 of the walls near the end when it starts to really speed up
I’m 51 and have been gaming since I was about 8, started with TV Games, then a Spectrum, then Commodore, then Amiga, then Sega Master System, then Mega Drive, some Game Boy, PlayStation, N64, XBox 360, Switch, XBox Series X and all along I’ve been shite at games and immensely frustrated at difficulty and insta-death levels. Mate, I’ve been playing Ghosts N Goblins for over 40 years and go nowhere. Shoutout to those of us who’ve been crap in every generation for five decades.
There's a ton of us! 🤣 Never stop playing
@@RNGGamerYT Oh, alright. I’ll keep going. Got you a sub bro. I’ll think of this when I am rage quitting and killing another controller 😭
@ManCave1972 I'm glad I could earn your subscription! I really hope you enjoy the videos
@@jimmypimps2734 I do, and wanted one so bad but for the longest time it was Japan only. By the time it became available I’d moved on.
@nononsensegames don't start in on the Dizzy series! 😆
I was stuck on bloodborne 1st boss for 3 hours. My friend was laughing so hard at me.
3 hours isn't that bad 🤣 we've all been there
Cap. You don’t have any friends
@@SkoolNerdsooooooooh! roasted!
u should prolly leave that friend lol, no to backseat gaming
@@sierrajohn7967 he left me. He was fun while he lasted.
I'm 54 years old and I have been gaming since the beginning.
I notice now days my hands are staring to cramp up while playing which totally sucks.
Gotta do those stretches! I'm a guitarist and I stretch my hands every day
@@RNGGamerYT really kk I will trying doing that then.
Thanks for the tip man
@Ronsilk-pu5hr you bet! If you don't use it, you lose it.
106%-ing Super Meat Boy turned one of my 57 year old hands into a claw.
@davy_K it was worth it though, right?!?
I had someone comment on a reply of mine where I was essentially thanking the good lord for save states. This guy says, “yeah but where’s the satisfaction beating a game with save states?” If I ever make it past the turbo tunnel in Battle Toads I guarantee you I’ll be more than satisfied to not have to replay it EVERY SINGLE time I die again after that point. NES devs were masochists.
I've only ever used save states to practice. I try to play games the way the developers intended. Yes, they were masochists 😅
Either way many NES games were practically unbeatable before saves states whether using them to practice or for play.
@@pauljacob99 they were super hard! A lot of them were practically impossible without a guide. Even save states won't help if you can't figure out where to go or where to go 😅
So relatable. I have the PS4 Castvania Rondo of Blood and abuse the crap out of the save system. The game is so much harder than the remake I jammed with on the PSP. I dig it, though, but if I was on the NES, I would've despised a lot about this game. I've used them on my emulated Sega games. The Incredible Hulk, X-Men 2 Clone Wars, and Contra Hard Corps. I would lose my sanity.
I recall I read a Miyamoto interview where he mentioned that "Japanese game player are lazy as they want to finish their game easy and move on" type of way. And that he praise that the American/International folks play the game on hard so that they will take longer time to finish the game.
Some of the jumping puzzles during the raids in Destiny 1 and 2 are the hardest thing I've ever done. There are so many blind jumps that you have to make around corners and land on a tiny little rock or pipe and if you miss you have to restart so many other hard blind jumps just to get back to the blind jump you missed.
I know exactly the part you're talking about on Destiny 1. I failed it about a million times with my buddies
The worst is when you get stuck and finally go look at videos for help and the narrator just keeps saying how easy that part is....
I'm fully aware of what you're talking about! It's so passively aggressive in its insult, haha
Narrator: "See friends after 120 hours of practice you too will find level 2 of (insert game title) perfectly doable. Easy as cake."🤣🙃
fromsoftware since demons always pointing out you died.
I'm still figuring out at 34 how a 12 year old me was able to beat that monstrosity known as Battletoads.
I feel exactly the same way!
The first time I played Ghosts and Goblins on the NES I remember my 7 year old self saying... "What the hell? This is impossible."
You were a wise 7 year old!
With that in mind, the arcade version(og verision) is considerably harder than the NES one.
The first win is doable, but then the game hits you with a "the princess is another castle" BS and have to beat it AGAIN, that second run ive never could pull it off in original hardware, (on emulators with save states is much more forgiving)
@user-dp8ec6yu8e just gotta get the knife and never drop it... you know, until you have to get the shield to actually beat the last boss 😅
Game IMPOSSIBLE
The snakes in Battletoads almost sent me on a killing spree.
I talked about that stage... but it had to be cut out of the video because it was just a 5 minute rant
Then you would definitely hate the crazy Segway race against a giant marble.....
@csargent31 Lol
U Albinos are Wild
What's up with all of the Albino comments?
I'm surprised you didn't mention TMNT on the NES - the original one. OMG, it's one of the hardest and most frustrating games of all time. I had a hard time as a kid and now I'm 40 years old and still find it super hard.
There are more videos coming! Maybe it'll make the next list!
There is one game that was actually impossible for one person. That game was Punch Out for the NES and that person was my friend Chris. During the training cut scene, where the trainer was riding his bike in front of you, we told Chris that if you pressed "B" and "A" fast enough you would catch the trainer, throw him off the bike and ride off the screen with it yourself. For at least two summers, every time that scene came up, Chris gave it his all to see this special scene. He never got suspicious that my brother and I never gave the slightest effort to do this just to show him how to it was done. It was quite entertaining!
Lol.... we all tried to catch the trainer! It's still really funny that Chris was so diligent about it 😅
But RNG I watched a video where a guy beat elden ring eight times in a row with all level 1 characters without dying..
We're not talking about that stuff!
But....I watched it, too! For real. Go look at Bushy's channel 😁
Ninja Gaiden was insane on the NES. I agree with you that a game should be played the way it is supposed to. However even with the tips and cheats I still found this game impossible LOL! Great video mate. Glad that I'm not the only one who found games tough in my youth!
Ninja Gaiden is super hard! I've beaten it, but it's been a long, long time!
Thanks for watching and commenting. You're not alone 😁
Ninja Gaiden is my favorite game for the NES! I could beat it in one sitting back in the day. It’s not hard. It just demanded practice and tactics.
@laurigardner6227 it's beatable with practice!
Nah. It's a lot of timing, and you can 1 hit every boss.
The modern Ninja Gaiden 2. That is all.
I know it's supposed to be pretty much impossible 😁
When I was 9 or 8 I saw my sister playing shantae and the pirate’s curse in the morning and I was pretty sick and after I drank water after like I think 5 minutes or 10 minutes I started feeling nauseous so fast I rushed to the bathroom and started puking quick I think the month was like February or march something the entire time my sister was playing it on the WII U we first had it almost 10 years ago we had allot of games in that console!
The Shantae series is great! I highly recommend it. Sorry you got so sick
Those are some rough ones man! I’ve always thought it was funny that everyone says Battletoads is such a hard game (I mean it is, so many people have only ever seen the first 2 levels) yet it seems like people all still love it and hold it as a good game in their minds (It really is cool!)
“What’s the hardest NES game?”
“Battletoads! It’s such a cool game!”
😂 I’m not sure there’s a lot of games out there that can hold both of those titles in that way for so many people.
Great video man!
In Bloodborne, I was stuck on the final boss Orphan of Kos for literally 2 weeks. I gave up on my weapon and started trying out other weapons, only you have to level the weapon up so I had to grind materials. I tried so many weapons and just couldn't beat him. Finally tried out the DLC weapon Beast Saif and it made the game super easy. I'm not joking, it was easy. I had my wife play the game, as soon as the DLC opened up in the beginning I took the controls and ran straight through everything to grab the Beast Saif and then handed the controller back to my wife. When she beat the game, she only had 2 deaths on Orphan of Kos, took her only 3 tries. That weapon is so broken.
Orphan of Kos is legendary hard!
I kind of like it when developers give you an out on a game like that. I feel like it's good design to have a last ditch effort in there for everyone 😆
@@RNGGamerYT oh yeah, I agree. And it's something I had to find and discover myself so it still felt awesome.
Got him down to like one more hit many times.
I have never beat him.
I have been in that same position quite a few times myself
@@dr.wolinsbelt you've never beat him? Please try the Beast Saif. Level it up first of course.
⚠️ you forgot the ninja gaiden trilogy for the SNES. Ninja Gaiden for the SNES was and still is a very super hard game till this day. Even the 3D version of the Ninja Gaiden trilogy for the PS3/PS4 is hard as well. Great video by the way 🎮🎮
Thanks!
I'm sure ninja Gaiden will make it into the next video!
7:49
Every rpg, someone gonna say this.
Example, a secret boss on ff7 remake intergrade, Weist. This guy is so hard. I looked at every body strats and their're like, do this at the same time while you're doing these other 8 techs before he changes to 2nd form and wipes the party. Lol
It's so frustrating when tutorials show you how to do it, and they act like it's no big deal! "Just juggle the world... it's easy"
NES TMNT was one of the few games I never could beat as a kid. The often bemoaned water level wasn't hard at all, but I just couldn't get through later levels.
I never had much trouble with the water level either... but the end was killer
I smashed my controller in a thousand pieces playing toads 😮
No! I've never gotten that angry playing a game... but tomorrow's another day 🤣
I did playing Bayou Billy. Even broke the light gun too. That game once I beat it I never touched it again.
@vikinglife6316 I still haven't beaten it...
How could I miss your channel. You’re awesome and full of positive vibes. I’m 40 myself and still enjoy playing games, chiefly the old ones.
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you found me
The first minute of this video warmed my heart! Every response to every question on every gaming forum is "git gud"!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! I'm happy it warmed your heart
One of the most hard games in existence is ghost 'n goblins :)
Go watch the first video in the series! You'll get to see me talk all about it
You're a good man and people should tell you that every day
You're too kind! I don't hear it every day. But people do tell me that occasionally 😁
I love when you not only list each game but also talk about them. Enjoying the video immensely so far.
Thanks! Yeah, I always talk about every game. Even if I haven't played them, I'll talk about where I got them, why I bought them, and what I've heard about them.
I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment!
Great video and a solid list of crazy hard games! I love that you have a few shmups in the list!
Thanks so much! Shmups are my favorite genre. I want to make sure each one of these videos has at least one in it
the immortal and wizardry were some of the toughest games on the nes for me. ive played them later on an emmulator, and aced them, but wow, at the time, they were my most difficult. great video, dropped a sub
Both of these are in my backlog... and I'm sure they would make the list. But, I have to play them first 😁
@@RNGGamerYT have fun, and honestly, The immortal needs a rebirth for current gen consoles, imo
@ralphharrison6622 maybe it'll get a remaster 😅
Oh god, the immortal.. I rented that one a few times, never got too far lol. Something about that one sparked my imagination as a kid though, I remember being a little obsessed with it
@keithmichael112 it seems like such a cool game... but I've only heard bad things 😅
I played this game on MAME Arcade called espgaluda it’s almost like pink sweets I barely made progress
I love Espgaluda 2, but I haven't played the first one yet. Give it another shot
Glad to hear that you played the 2nd but I played the first I couldn’t get pass the 4th or 5th boss fight they were so many bullets I almost dodged all of them without getting hit
I had to give up on Sekiro man, I had just beaten Dark Souls 3 and I couldn't force myself to go through all that stress again
I totally get that. Having to play through any two Souls games back to back would be s very daunting task
Willow on the NES was a pain. Can't miss with the cane phase 1 vs bavmorda. Plus the grind to get your xp high enough to even fight her.
In all of these years, I still haven't played willow on the NES. I'll have to finally pick it up one day
In Star Fox Adventures, I got stuck at the Lightfoot Strength Test because I had to rapidly press a button to get him into the pit. 1 1/2 to 2 years later, when I bought a turbo controller, I made it right through and went on to beat the rest of the game.
The perfect loophole! I use turbo controllers, too. I can tap fast enough. I just don't want to 😅
Omg that test was crazy! I asked my mom to give it chance and she beat it the first try!!? I was blown away by that because she doesn't even play video games! I'll never forget her coming to my rescue after hearing me so upset and then saving the day.
@tjames6427 your mom sounds awesome!
@@tjames6427that’s so funny, I knew my gf was a fast tapper cuz she would kick my ass at those Mario party games. So I was like babe can you help me in this trial and yea she did it first try. I just don’t understand why I don’t have a fast thumb lol
@@bobbyrivera2951 I've since came up with a method that will help you beat any fast tap section in seconds! Take your pointer and place it over the button then with your other hand alternate two finger tap on your pointer finger. I call it the double tap lol.
Great video!
It’s interesting to hear your comments about Divinity: Original Sin 2. I have not played it yet, but I want to say that the experience of failing at a strategy and having to try again until I get it perfect is actually the most addictive thing for me that keeps me hooked. Funny how that works differently for different folks. Good job - keep up the great content!
Thanks! I'm sure you'll love Divinity 2. If you like that sort of trial and error, it'll be right up your alley.
@@RNGGamerYT The DOS Series is great, yes you get your ass beaten in the beginning but things become easier once you have figured out the mechanics of the design, there are literally infinite ways to win a battle and often you have to think around corners! For instance it took me a while to take the surrounding stuff into the strategies, in the beginning I often confronted the enemies straight away, then i figured out to use oil and set it on fire, or light barrels lying around and suddenly wham an unwinnable fight suddenly was won!
Love Battletoads lol but man its hard, but yes, many Nintendo games can fit the list
It's so, so hard!
I only beat Bloodborne because I played about 70% of it co-op with a seasoned player. Jak 2 always comes to mind first when I think of hard games that I beat, especially games that I found difficult from start to finish (vs. games that had a brutal last level, like Rez).
I've never played any of the souls games co-op... was it fun?
I also haven't played any of the Jak games. They are all in the backlog 😁
@@RNGGamerYT I was fun, but in From fashion, more difficult than it needed to be. Certain areas you couldn't do co-op, you need a bell to call a co-op partner, and if they die, you're alone and have to wait until you can call them again if you're in a boss fight, and just overly complicated.
@ebbderelict sounds like a pain!
Bro, just found you here on YT and I must say I love your content! Pretty straight forward, no shenanigans or anything like that - just honest reviews. Gotta watch your other videos! HAHA
Subscribed, and if you need any music for your channel and/or any other medias you work with, lemme know, it would be awesome to collab with someone like you!
Thanks, bro! Keep up!
I'm so glad you love the content! That means the world to me.
I'm actually a professional musician! I've done session work for years.
I'm always down to collaborate.
Miyazaki is one of the most influential people in my life!
and there is two specific games that I still think is hard today, and those games are Cutthroat Island and Blackthorne on the SNES... maybe I suck, maybe I lack the mental requirements to play it, idk, but man... hard as f***.
Still love them, tho hahaha
@CaioBarbosa I never played cutthroat island, but Blackthorn was done by the same developer as Flashback... and I super suck at that game
Awesome video! I recently picked up The Adventures of Bayou Billy and share the same frustrations lol. I didn't know about the history of why the developers increased the difficulty for the NA version. Very interesting......
I'm so glad you were able to learn something new... and I'm so sad you had to suffer through Bayou Billy recently 😅
I completely agree with your rant around the 7:54 mark. There is a subset of gamers out that enjoy the masochistic side of gaming. Being an older gamer myself, games back in the day were made difficult to prolong play time because of technology limitations. But if I hear a game is made like Divinty original sin. Hard pass. That’s why for years I avoided the soul’s borne games up until Elden Ring. Which funnily enough, they made for more mass appeal. Great video. You got a subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing!
I feel like a lot of games made these days are designed to be the one and only game you play for a few years until the next game comes out.
I see so many posts on Reddit about people looking for a game can play "forever."
I hate it... and it's a hard pass for me. Like you, I prefer to head into a game, knowing it can be finished with some sort of relative ease
Divinity 2 combat I did pretty well but just trying to figure out what to do next dang man I'd get stuck
We got stuck on that part, too! There wasn't enough time in the video to accurately portray how often we were at a loss 🤣
8:16 Dishonored is a bit of a mess. The main game I have is 4 or 5 saves for backup. The DLC I have 7. It's a lot harder and more frantic but I just can't quite seem to ghost the last level and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. As I've ran through the level 4 times as clean as I can and I just don't get it. Am I glitching or not being stealthy enough? 🤷♂️ Bugs the crap out of me cause I want my bragging rights.
I could not get into dishonored! It might make one of these lists one day@
@RNGGamerYT It's took me a while to get used to the abilities. Once I did, the game became great fun. Either high chaos or low chaos, it's great fun.
first time here
i love how Your gaming room looks ( i am a bit jealous, but You got me into thinking how to achieve similar result )
i love the way You narrate the video and your attitude
Subscribed !
Thank you so much! It definitely has a look to it. I'm very thankful that you like my narration 😄
I completely agree on Divinity: Original Sin
My wife and I kept trying to chug through that game and eventually gave up. And that was at 70+ hours in.
It was a lot of fun to play, but miserable to figure out.
The clues are vague and the journal is just a single bullet point. Good luck finding where you need to go based on the quest journal if you don't remember who or what you did to get that journal entry.
After having to look up where to go for the umpteenth time, we called it quits.
I'm glad we're not alone! I'm really surprised so many people are into this style of game.
Great video, you mentioned two of my favourite games of all time in Bloodborne and R-type. I put around 200 hrs into bloodborne, god those chalice dungeon bosses were brutal.
I remember walking into a local arcade as a wide eyed 10 year old and being totally blown away by R-type. Now 36 years later, i own pretty much every version of it and i still havent beat the last stage. Actually the only port i finished was the gameboy version (less stages).
Thanks for sharing your history with these games! The chalice dungeons were no joke. I got burned out on them really quickly.
I wish I could have played r-type in the arcades. I'm envious that you did
Single dad if 4 with full custody…Bloodborne is also one of my favorite games, that being said I’m loving Elden ring right now on the steam deck. I love type as well especially delta and final part 1 on ps2…those BYDO had some creepy last levels.
@TheL1arL1ar keep up the good work with those 4 kids!
24:47. We had that for the gamecube at one point but we never accrual played the main game?? We played the side game Monkey Pool!!
We were ADDICTED to that!!
The gamecube is the best way to play Super Monkey Ball
Bayou Billy made me realize as an Adult how much better I was as a kid at playing games. 😂 I had fond nostalgic memories of the game and remember getting quite far into the game. Loving how the gameplay was so varied for different stages. Then I picked it up and played it years later and wondered how the heck did I ever love this game? 😂
Haha! Some games are like that. Others feel much easier now... at least for me!
Turbo Tunnel may not be the hardest level, but i am pretty sure, the majority of people gave up at that level and never played the rest of the game.
You're absolutely right!
@@RNGGamerYT I don't know if you're a fan of James Rolfe of AVGN fame, but his episode of Battletoads perfectly sums up how hard that game was.
I love your videos so much!!!!! So relaxing and relatable! Love your voice too!!!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that.
I'm glad you were able to find me
1st time here, very good video. Subscribed, +1. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video
@@RNGGamerYT Thanks! Please continue the great job! Cya!
I'll do my best to keep putting out good content!
@@RNGGamerYT Thanks! I'll check in the channel. :)
Bloodborne platinumed love that game
It's absolutely incredible! I want a sequel so badly!
@@RNGGamerYT Same mate would love a new Bloodborne game as soon as I was done with Bloodborne I hopped on Elden Ring and got the Plat on that too hahaaha I was going through a souls faze.
I had Bayou Billy growing up and I don't think I ever made it past the second stage. I was so annoyed because I wanted to get to the light gun stage so darn bad and I never could do it.
I could get past the turbo tunnel stage on Battletoads but don't think I could master the surfing.
Double Dragon I could not get past stage 3 if I remember right. Thanks for the memories.
I'm glad we share the same PTSD experiences with these games! Thanks for watching 😁
Bloodborne was my introduction into souls games. I got so frustrated with it I stopped playing it for months. Then saw a video of Sqillakilla playing it and it motivated me to try again. I realized what I was doing wrong. Once I went back to it I started doing better. I went on to play DS3 after that. Then I went to DS1 and 2. Demon Souls remake and finally Elden Ring. Now I really love souls games.
Not realizing I was playing it wrong was the same issue I had. I kept trying to force my playstyle into it... and that just didn't work.
Glad to see you got the hang of it! Thanks for watching!
Donkey Kong....I can never reach the top
That's one I can loop a couple of times! It's hard for sure
Just found your channel. You’re a real pleasure to watch and listen to! Your rant about Divinity 2 how you have to do all these obscure things to progress that you would never think felt like listening to myself lol.. it’s what turned me off to CRPGs the past 15 or so years, like you I also grew up playing them but it seems making them as obtuse as possible is supposed to be fun now! They tout how dynamic everything is which is achievement I guess, but I don’t want to “try” 24 different things just to make essentially an hour of progress. There’s far too many games out there that respect my time.
Anyway you earned a sub, nice job on this video!
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment! I appreciate you subscribing.
I guess great minds think alike 😁
I remember having a Nintendo Power subscription. I still have paperback strategy guides for older games. Now that everything is online, there are no more guides like we used to get.
The internet is a disaster of broken up forums and information scattered all over the place. I truly miss those handheld paperback guides, like for Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy games, my friends and I had a blast, one of us would read out the info while a buddy ran through. If one of us couldn't do it, the other would grab the controller. Good times.
I miss them, too. But I'll admit that a couple of times I used them, they had errors that caused me to soft lock my game 🤣
@@RNGGamerYT I'm currently playing Granblue Fantasy Relink. I really wish I could buy a guide for it, even a PDF professional guide released by the developers but it's still incredible! Good content man! I love the Bayou Billy part, frustrating memories! It was like child abuse! Brutal console child abuse! Jeeesh!
@@EddieCensored haha! It really was tough!
I need to try out the Granblue Fantasy games
So many original NES games were incredibly difficult. Even the original Mario Bros. Contra, Magmax, Captain Skyhawk, Qbert, and tons of others. I feel like almost every game from that era was incredibly difficult.
So many! Strangely enough, I covered MagMax earlier on this channel. I was able to wreck it as an adult. I sucked as a kid
In dying laughing that you found divinity so confusing some how like wtf
It's a nightmare for me!!!
Have you done manic miner or jetset willy on the zx spectrum?
I haven't! My ZX spectrum gaming has been limited. I've probably only played 20 or so games out of the 20,000 on the system 😁
I gotta say like, on a sidenote? I love how involved you are with your watchers. You really take the effort to respond to everyone, that's awesome
I love my watchers! I want to build a community, not just a following.
I've been answering comments for over an hour this morning!
And just quickly, "super thunder blade". Wow, that was hard. I played that when I was 8.... finally beat it when I was 27. There was a rumour it was so hard because the makers didn't have an ending. But wow, what a fun game
@jake90052 I've never actually played any of the Thunder Blade games! I like helicopters and After Burner style games. Maybe I'll finally try it out
@@RNGGamerYT brace yourself man, that game is hardcore!! Glad to see your stream building a following
@jake90052 the streaming is a slow build. I mainly do it to build a community with the people who are already subscribed. It's also nice to have a guaranteed 3 hour gaming session every week
In one of the Medal of Honor Undeground levels, the last part of the level required me to wipe out the stockpile of parts that were already built. I tried a few times running away from it, but it caught up to me and I failed each time. A week or 2 later, I came back to it and went sideways, straight and sideways again to get to the end of the level. Near the end of the game, in the second to last level, it took me a day and a half to beat that level; after that, I made it through the level and beat the rest of the game.
I'm glad you were able to finally beat it. I have experiences like that, too. Where nothing works... then once day, it all just clicks.
Cool video man! I never heard of this channel before, but immediately subbed.
Thanks so much! I'm pretty new to youtube, so I'm glad you found me
Oh nice! Looks like quite the collection, pretty excited to see what you put out!
@Lyle1039 thanks! I really appreciate that
I couldn’t beat a single R-Type game on every console that’s how terrible I am
It's really hard... one of the hardest games of all time
I know right I barely made any progress playing it on my iPad and my sister Mac book air laptop
Dragon Warrior ll for the NES is brutal. Your party feels overwhelmed and outmatched throughout the entire game. The last couple of areas are absolute hell.
You're not the first person to mention this!
It's hard, but beatable. Takes lots of time and lots of luck. iirc the last areas are hard because of the instead death spells, no?
Regardless, it really is the worst game I've played in the series. Easily. Much like Final Fantasy 2.
Bayou Billy was literally unbeatable to kids. Also you mentioned Bloodbourne, but Sekiro is WAY harder to me. the last guy, Isshin, is in my top 3 for hardest encounters in any video game.
I'm sure seikiro is way harder. But, I haven't played it yet.
I almost want to tell you not to lol. It's brutal!@@RNGGamerYT
@ChairmanMeow1 haha
Wasn't unbeatable but it was insanely hard. I dont know how long it too me to beat it but it was a long time. It was a christmas present and back then we didnt get games all the time like today. You had no choice but to beat them.
I liked this video a lot and will surely check out more from you! Have you played Lies of P?
I haven't played it. But it's on today's pickup video!
Wolfchild on the SNES.
I couldn't complete the first stage.
Good thing I only paid a few dollars for it at a Flea Market.
That's one I haven't heard about. I'll have to go check it out
I first played them when I was 17
17 is a good age to play shmups
That is true
Try beating the water dungeon level in *"Nooks & Crannies"...* 😨
I haven't heard of this one! I'll have to go check it out
@@RNGGamerYT v=ME-dsZRWC_0
In the Lumber Mill level in Tomb Raider Chronicles on PS1, I tried swinging from the rope to the ledges and never made it there; I tried so many times and I failed each time.
I also have a history of missing ledges in Tomb Raider games. Don't feel bad. There are a lot of us. We meet on Saturday nights to share our feelings 🤣
Here's a tip to make crpgs quite easy (or easier anyway). Be really specific in levelling your characters. Don't aim to be jack of all trades, specialize each character to have one particular strength. If you have a squad of 6 have 3 melee heavy warriors, then 3 ranged with say 2 magic and one bow, so basically you split the team half melee, half range. Don't be tempted to have balanced team members, just a balanced team. Also have range and melee weapons for all characters so you can swap as needs be.
That's what I typically try to do! Maybe I'm just bad at building out my team
@@RNGGamerYTAlso specify your buffs and spells to the strengths of each team member. An extra tip is to grind early on to level up and the cruise through the rest of the game.
Honestly buddy, I enjoyed this video SO much!! Really glad to see double dragon 3 on this list 😂
I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it! There will be another one next Saturday.
My wife is still angry over double dragon 3 😆
I got battletoads for Christmas at like 6 years old. Needless to say I pretty much just played the first 2 levels on repeat until finding something better to do
You had the same experience as 99% of the people who ever played it 🤣
Have you tried “Yolanda” on the Atari ST? Such a hard game. Start the level, think “Where am I on the screen?” And before you see your character, all the floors are on fire and you’re dead. Start again…. It’s a random new level and you still don’t know where your character is. Took me so long to beat it!
That sounds insane! This is my first time hearing of it. I'll go check it out
First time watching this channel. You were articulate and genuine. Will be a watching from now on. Good job!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that.
For adventure games, almost anything by Sierra in the 80s / 90s. Most of those had obscure puzzles that many believe were there just so people would phone the premium charge hint line (those pre-Internet days). Also guilty of creating an absurdly hard game - a text adventure I did called Time: All Things Come to an End. Still renowned today in the interactive fiction community as brutal (mostly poor game design on my part which I now apologise for). Older games tended to be harder generally because there were not the same save features back then.
You're right! I called a help line to beat the adventure game Loom. My dad was so angry at the phone charges!
In the 90s there was the the Philips CD-i system, which was one of the first disc-based consoles. All of the games were simply terrible, there was even an unplayable Zelda game. But it had one unbelievably hard animation-based game called Escape from Cyber City. I’ve played a ton of hard games in my life, nothing is as hard as that game was, but admittedly that’s a really obscure, deep cut
Well... I collect for the CD-i... I'll have to be on the lookout for Escape from Cyber City!
Ha awesome! I fear I have just somehow made your life worse though!
@vincelupone bring it on! 😁
Watching your 2 part series on this topic, have experienced most if not all things in gaming since playing 1942 by Capcom in '84, can't argue with you bringing up the likes of XCOM, that game is like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight, also how you mention Pink Sweets, Ikaruga & R-Type, those Shmups don't hold a candle difficulty wise to Dodonpachi Daioujyou & Battle Garegga, also I have to mention the likes of Ninja Gaiden Black Label, SMB The Lost Levels, The Sharp X68000 version of Castlevania & F-Zero GX, have enjoyed seeing your perspective / experiences of difficult games.
Thanks so much! Don't worry... DDP DSJ and battle garegga are being saved for a future video 😅
I'm glad you've had a similar experience!
I remember writing the tunnel levels of battle toads down and practicing with a controller while I was in school. Just memorizing the patterns for muscle memory.
That's some serious dedication! 😁
Im hooked, awesome video, and color me newly subscribed!
And yeah, i play games like you do. The save scum stuff kills me. But yeah, when i het a new game i try to skip tutorials and just dive in. Except the old school Nintendo manuals, those were required reading.
I'm so thankful that you enjoyed the video! Glad to hear that there are other people out there that feel the same as me
this is great content brother man subbed!
Thanks! I really appreciate that!
I only managed about 3 hours or so of divinity before I got rid of it, one of the worst most frustrating god awful games I’ve ever played and it drives me insane I seem to be the only one in gaming that hates it so bad
I can see how you feel that way. There was a lot about it that I didn't like, too. But after I learned how to play it, it got better. But I still don't think it deserves all of the fanatical praise it gets
To make the giant wheel stage on Battletoads even harder for you, if you're playing two players and you both make it to that part, that's the end of the road. A glitch in the game won't let you move the bike and the wheel will just kill you. You actually can't beat the game two players, it really is impossible.
Lol... I had no idea. That's so crazy. I wish I had known that before I filmed the video!🤣
@@RNGGamerYT How many people are good enough to make it that far with a partner anyway? :P
I do disagree with you on Double Dragon 3 though. Not that it's hard, it is, it deserves the spot you gave it. But I actually thought it was a decent game, not the best but all right. So I guess I disagree with all of gaming. But I've always taken the beat em ups like a duck to water.
For that opening dojo room, turn on your nunchucks, with I think select at the character screen, it's been a while. You can only get like 5 hits before they break, but that's 5 hits that you don't have to fight to get and you don't have to spam special moves.
I became really close of beating the first turbo tunnel when I was 16 years old playing it on my brother’s old K12 laptop at night
I bet it's impossible on an emulator without using save states
@@RNGGamerYT I agree
Liked and subscribed after watching you for the first time. Incredibly entertaining content!
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New to this channel, seems like a great one, I've subscribed, gonna check through your other videos next :D
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I am a GIGANTIC fan of the first three Resident Evils, but number 4 is a different story. I don't know what it was but that game kicked my ass from the get go. I got suck almost at the beginning, rage quit over and over and never even came anywhere close to beating it.
That's crazy! Maybe it's an issue with the controls. I found the first 3 games to be harder
I only found your channel today. great quality vids! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks! I'm so glad you found me!
I put Battletoads on my NES mini. I think its impossible. I got to the rat but I can't get down fast enough. What do you think?
The NES mini has some real input delay... of you made it that far, you're like a god-level gamer 😁
@@RNGGamerYT Beat Silver Surfer like it was nothing so I though I had a shot. I may try again.
@@malcolmj4479 I'm going to try to stream Silver Surfer before too long... by all accounts, it's much harder than Battletoads
@@RNGGamerYT I had one when I was a kid and not the other. Silver Surfer was beat many times. I noticed some lag but it was like riding a bike down my old neighbor's alley. I know where I'm going. I think Battletoads is next to impossible if you didn't do it a million times alreadly without transfer.
Dude, Bayou Billy was the first game that ever made me rage quit! Good call on including it here.
Lol... we have that in common!
How the hell do you not have a million subscribers? I just fell down a rabbit hole of your videos 😅 liked and subbed
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I can totally relate. As I get older, as a very casual gamer, games are HARD! Yeah, I played the hard ass games back in the 80s and 90s, but the problem is I had the reflexes back in the day!
Those reflexes are still there! They're just buried deep inside
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Thanks! I'm so glad the algorithm did me a favor.
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The presidents run in driver is almost impossible… You’d get crushed so hard the car would smash over the buildings & just freeze/stop working… Need some luck to get slammed a few blocks in the right direction
That sounds miserable! 😅
I'm 42 years old and as a kid I suffered R-Type on Game Boy and Battle Toads on NES. I tried so hard and at a certain point it was no fun anymore.
We're the same age and had similar experiences 🤣
"Palm trees .. and 8" Does that ring any bells? Mystic Quest on Game Boy. I was already traumatized by various Game Boy games and then I got the NES in combination with Zelda II completely in English (I'm German and was in third grade at the time). I played a lot but I can't tell you if it was fun.
@aimlevel I've never actually tried it.
My step brother and I beat BattleToads in the 90s but it took a long time. It left such and impression I can still recall some images of the game from back then like it was yesterday. Tough game.
I'm very impressed that you were able to beat it in co-op with your brother. What an incredible feat!
@@RNGGamerYT Caused many fights between us lol. It was a brutal game to get through
@vikinglife6316 I bet it was!
I beat Punchout, I beat Battletoads, I beat Ninja Gaiden but Bayou Billy broke me. I tried and failed so many times I gave the game to one of my cousins. Some newer games are hard but doable if just beating the game is your goal. They get insane later on when you try to complete them 100%. I still never completed every bandage from Super Meat Boy and still had a few medals from Trials Evolution I couldn't get.
Bayou Billy broke everyone 😆 trials evolution is so... so... so hard
I've recently been playing the first D:OS and everything you say I feel. You have to fight every battle in exactly the right order to be levelled enough to get through, the game is horrendously obtuse, and of course fun stuff like walking into a trap that spews lava everywhere and destroys treasure chests forever.
There are dozens of people like us hidden in the masses that say it's the easiest game of all time! 😂
I remember the day I beat both Battletoads and TMNT2 in the same day. I was in my early 20s, and this was right after the top-loading NES was released, and my front loader was having problems reading carts (back then I didn't know how to fix this). I always used the Game Genie for both of these games, but that particular day I was hankerin' for some Battletoads and I popped the cart without the Game Genie into the Top-loading NES and I was like "I'll just play it for fun". I had played the game's various levels several times with GG codes, so I had a decent working knowledge of the entire game. I started the game as normal, had a _really_ good run on Level 2, gaining a LOT of lives by juggling those birds, I took the warp in level 4 and again in the snake level to bypass those two stages, and before I knew it, I hit my least favorite level, those stupid tubes. With some very careful swimming and running I got through it, found myself in the Clinger Winger, and I beat that stage with more than 5 lives remaining. At this point, my hands were getting really sweaty, I was thinking "this can't be real, can it?" ... got to the queen with more than 5 lives showing, and my heart was pounding. Landed the killing blow on her with 3 lives left. Couldn't believe what I had just done. Then, after a few minutes of calming myself down, I'm like "what shall I play next?" I popped TMNT2 in... and with just the Konami Code, wound up beating that for the first time, too. Again, a game I had explored decently with GG codes so I had a decent working idea of how to play the game. I was somehow landing all of my A+B attacks, I was taking out entire screens of bad guys with jump kicks and NOT getting hit, I was just on fire that day. I don't think I ever played so well since.
That sounds like an amazing day! I can't believe you knocked out TMNT2 right after Battletoads. Taking out the queen with 3 lives is incredible
Only played Battle Toads on Gameboy is it harder or easier?
...I actually have no idea.
I have it on Gameboy, but I haven't played it
TMNT for the NES. Some of carts had a program error that you wouldn’t automatically throw the rope to cross buildings. That pretty much ended the game for that cartridge.
I didn't know some of them were messed up like that!
i always thought the turbo tunnel was easy and i'm not sure if i remember correctly but i think there is a warp point in 1 of the walls near the end when it starts to really speed up
There is a warp! It's not easy, but it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be
@@RNGGamerYT that's what i thought, now that level with the bike or whatever it was on the wall i never made it past that