Matewis: I'm trying to think what games I effectively gave up on, due to difficulty. Ignoring the plethora of such games from the nes and early dos era, three come to mind:
- MAX - Mechanized Assault and Exploration
I don't think I ever actually finished a level. I know I couldn't get past the first campaign level, so I ended up spending almost all of my time with the game playing skirmish matches, but I never finished one. That is, I never defeated the enemy during a skirmish. Not that it was too difficult to manage, it was simply too much fun building a big powerful base. The campaign on the other hand was tough as nails, and I didn't see any way of getting past the first level. Granted I was young, so perhaps I should try again.
- SWAT 3
Got to the last level, where you had to wipe out terrorists with armed nuclear device at an airport. Awesome level, but too difficult. The last of them was in the control tower, but I simply couldn't get in there without getting wiped. I'm sure you could throw a flashbang in, only you have to throw it in a certain way, but seeing as you can't save during a level (from what I can remember), and since it took a long time to fight your way to the tower, I eventually gave up. Rainbow six is way easier :P
- Syndicate Wars
The blasted space station level, but not because it was too difficult. The problem with that level is that any explosion anywhere instantly results in a mission failure since the entire station blows up. Compounding this issue is the fact that several of the enemies carry bombs, which automatically activate when they die, and to disarm one you need to pick it up within a couple of seconds. Unfortunately there is some bug/technical issue with that level that causes your agents to sometimes flat out refuse an order to pick up a bomb, even if they have inventory space available. Again, you can't save mid level, and seeing as there's about a 50% chance of picking up a bomb and there are 10 or so bombs through the level, I quickly realized that there was almost no way that I could finish the level. It's the second to last level as well, which made it extra agonizing :P
What do I intend to do with them? I suppose I'll retry the first one, but I don't imagine I'll try the latter two again.
DanTheKraut: Prince of Persia (don't know which one) there is a battle with two brothers (?) and this battle was so hard for me and I tried many hours on several days to beat them without success so I uninstalled the game and never touched it again. The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel a old Point and Click from EA crashed before the final.
The Terminator: Rampage one of the floppy disks was broken and I never received a working one from Bethesda.
On one game don't know the name atm the tags copyprotection ruined a game for me because there was a part a key should drop but it never dropped..
Matewis: Ugh....yes I remember that fight. It was hands down the most difficult fight for me of the series. It's from Two Thrones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8bOw6Hvl2I Yeah, that is the game. Still wondering if this fight was meant to be that hard.