To any gamers out there - what's the hardest game you've played/beaten?

I just looked that up and sounds really intriguing! 

Aww that’s understandable about Mario odyssey! You must have been super busy at the time! I love flying around in Galaxy as well! I actually really enjoy flying around the observatory after running into one of those red stars! I’m yet to 100% both galaxy’s because omg those prankster comets! I don’t know which ones are worse, the daredevil boss fights with only one wedge of life or the lava spire daredevil run where you have to complete the sinking lava spire level without damage! I remember getting to the top of the spire and a fireball hits me and I had to do the whole level again as there are no check points. Good thing is when I completed I got so many star bits as I always pressed the try again option until I finally got it

They are some of my favourite games, they just felt so joyous to play and fly around. I actually didn't really play Odyssey as I felt too grounded after that. ( Actually I don't think that was the reason, my daughter was born on release day so I was a bit preoccupied )

Both Mario galaxy are amazing! I never get the ending of the first one though if I’m honest. But the music in both the games are amazing! I really enjoy doing Buoy Base Galaxy and Melty Molten Galaxy from the first game! I haven’t completed the second one yet but loved Yoshi Star Galaxy and the one with the Buoy Base Galaxy music in the background where you have to press buttons to slow everything down. Also love playing Yoshi in the second one and I am a sucker for those lumas too. 

I have Mario sunshine for the switch! It is very fun but omg all I see are the words TOO BAD every so often  I haven’t even done that many bosses. The last one I remember was a giant piranha plant covered in paint. I also remember having to chase a silver like Mario with a giant paint brush. Been a while since I played.

I think that Destroy All Humans was the hardest I've played, gave up after a short time.

There were some boss fights in others that were really hard - the snake in Assassins Creed Origins and Medusa in Assassins Creed Odyssey both come to mind.

I tend to say I’ve been blue shelled lol! Or red shelled if it’s a red one! 

I was recounting at the last company I worked at, in the 90's there was the programme GamesMaster, and if you taped the end on VHS, you could then frame by frame through it to get cheats etc. That or there might be a Teletext page.

I found silent hill the original from the 2000s extremely difficult 

I'm going back 30 odd years with my contribution so probably beyond most of your experience.

I was a fan of FPS games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake etc and there was one in this genre called Blood ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_(video_game) ) which I found incredibly hard to master in spite of being quite proficient in others of the genre.

It just seemed too easy for the character to die that I rarely made it more than 10 minutes into the game in spite of many attempts.

Of course back then there was no internet to look up tips on gameplay or cheats, maps etc so I just never got any further.

The controls/camera combo on Sunshine made the whole game really hard, but I still loved the sunny up-beat feel.

I really loved both Galaxy games. Getting all stars was hard, was really pleased when I got a particular one where the whole level was one-use blocks, and one red coin required jumping off the edge, getting the red coin spin jumping back up onto a ledge 90degress from the one you jumped off and keep running. That whole level was specific jumps and keeping moving, was beauty to get it right!

Unknown said:

get to 1st place on Mario kart and then a blue shell just so happens to come

We call this getting Mario Karted in our house. It's now a verb!

Omg that sounds so infuriating! I’ve never played mega man but I think they are on the NSO things so I might have a little play. Another thing I find annoying is when it takes me forever to get to 1st place on Mario kart and then a blue shell just so happens to come and I lose the race. It’s worse when I don’t like the characters 

every classic MegaMan game is like that for me. With the spinoffs like X, Zero and ZX, you can rely on wall jumping to save you if you miss a platform, but MegaMan classic? Nope! If you're one pixel off, you're plummeting to your death!! It's infuriating, but it feels great when you succeed!

The 3D Marios are always hard to 100% lol ESPECIALLY Sunshine!! (that leaf boat segment is the bane of my existence!)

Blue Prince. It's mostly skill, logic and puzzle solving. But there's an element of luck to it too which makes the game both interesting and infuriating! I spent a couple of months playing everyday but unfortunately haven't had the time to continue. If I ever pick it up again I think I'd have to start over because I'll have forgotten some of the clues/codes etc

Console game would be Ikuruga, fast paced shoot 'em up from my GameCube days, which I now can see as basically visual stimming turned up to 11. 

For indy game VVVVVV. I tried so hard to do the Vini Vidi Vici sequence which requires about 8 screens of pure muscle memory, but I never did conquer. Came oh so close.

And I never did beat Ganon on Minish Cap, but that was more frustration at having to run up a long corridor from the previous save point past one enemy before the boss each time.

And the train level on Goldeneye. At the time anxiety always best me and I used all the laser up before I could escape the train before time ran out, it wasn't even meant to be the hard bit, but was for my panic. 

Ahh ok, I know the feeling of gruelling experiences but omg when you do succeed it is honestly such an amazing feeling! Like when I got that break down road final challenge moon on Mario odyssey! 

Darksouls 1 remastered a painful and grueling experience but also very rewarding 

Ahh I must admit I only really play the family friendly games. I will say that Simpsons hit and run was hard when I was little though, especially when going for 100%, had to retry those missions I had skipped and you can’t even skip the last 3 missions which were so stressful at the time. So it was an achievement just completing the game in general. 

Again, going on a 100% basis, Mario odyssey was hard in that respect. I mean that jump rope challenge I have to use a glitch and cheat for that (highest count was like 70 though) and I also struggle with the sinking colossal ruins and Yoshi on the sinking island power moons but I manage to get them. The worst power moon for me was breakdown road final challenge. You have to hop from one block to another with perfect long jumps, if you miss the jump, you lose ten coins and retry. Took me over 30 attempts but when I went back on another play through it took me like five lol!