In honor of triock, Ghorpm, and RWarehall, I've decided to have something special for supper today. I've posted a picture below of my delectable meal. Since I'll need a new computer soon, can anyone recommend a good 11" Ultrabook with good graphics performance?

Anyway, this giveaway is for a gift code for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten, for anyone too poor to pick it up for the stellar price of $2.49. If you can afford it, please buy it. Out of the many good indie devs out there, Lars Doucet and the people at Level Up Labs are some of the nicest I've met. It's also a pretty frakking awesome game, too.

To enter, please post a (preferably amusing) little blurb below about one of the hardest games/levels you beat and what you had to endure to beat it. I'll pick a winner using random.org in 48 hrs. (approx. the evening of Friday, Feb. 21st, EST) - people can enter on behalf of others, and people with Rep: >50 will be considered.

Heh, I hope it was delicious! :D

Obviously not in (although I might enter for someone else later), but thanks for this nice GA.

I remember the last level in this game - Golem was really hard and I wasn't able to do it. Even though it looked like it isn't that hard and you could easily make a decent progress, I was always overpowered and smashed in the end. :D I was always using the same defensive tactics, where you protect your own base, but this gives the enemy plenty of time to completely build his own 2 bases and thus he can easily defeat you. So, the key was to abandon your base and attack with all your might. Well, I tried, but in the end I was left with only 1 unit. :D Dont know how, but I was able to seize one of his bases and start my road to victory. Was so glad when this mission was over. :D

edit: In for oasis789 if that's okay, thanks.

A hard level in recent memory was the Site Recon council mission in XCOM Enemy Unknown. I play on Classic Ironman difficulty, which is pretty hard and there's no reloading saves, so I tend to play conservatively and carefully. Then suddenly at the end of the mission, all hell breaks loose, there are 3 tough enemies spawning every turn, more than my team can deal with, and there's a timer ticking away so I have to move my team fast. In the end I ran out of time and wiped my whole team, which meant that this game would be unwinnable. I still haven't beat this mission, but the next time it comes around, I think I'll know what to do.

i'm in. the first time i played through resident evil 1, i got stuck on the last battle against the tyrant. i had very few health packs (green herbs) left going into the battle, because i had to use them all to survive the previous boss battle. i had to replay that boss fight many, many times before i finally won.

Not in, as I already own it (thanks again to Ghorpm and the developers!) but thanks for your generosity, rampancy!

(I must say that damn sheep is the reason I don't have a perfect score in the normal game. I've to keep on trying, I want to play the NG+ mode one of these days) :D

And speaking of almost but not totally beaten games :D, in Cave Story+...

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... I was able to beat Misery and the first encarnation of the Doctor several times, but the second one got me so many times that I finally quit out of frustration. :D

But I consider this as a temporary defeat. Some day I'll exact my revenge! ;)

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When I soloed Icewind Dale 2 at the hardest level there was a series of fights after a cutscene where I couldn't save between. After winning a part I had my character wait for about one hour to regenerate to be better healed when facing the rest, it proved totally unnecessary.

Noooooo, don't give drugs to kids. People need to have a life, too.

Now, seriously, this is a highly addictive and highly entertaining game. I own it and i don't regret one bit that i have it. Already sank a lot of time in it. But, consider yourself warned: you won't know when the time flies and you will end up wondering why the hell the sun is rising and you are still playing this game. It's neat, has nice graphics, a good soundtrack and a decent story. As for gameplay, it's a lot of fun for a tower defense, as it combines both the tower defense and RPG elements.

Not in, but thanks for promoting this small gem of a game. And +1, of course.

im in
the hardest level I have ever played was fighting the elite four from Pokémon red and getting all the Pokémon.

not in but many thanks for ur generosity

Hardest game level I remember was when I was playing "Warcraft 2", I would get to a point where I couldn't maintain my defenses after waves of attacks, the resources where scarce and it was inevitable that it wouldn't hold. I got to the point of taking pencil and paper and drawing a map of the zone, planning where it would be best to set up base, where to get the resources and how to defend the route, and where to build the main defense wall. I went to bed thinking the strategy :P
Eventually it worked out at last and I was able to go forward :D

By the way, if you plan on acquiring an ultrabook with "good graphics", I think you should get something with an Nvidia 700 family graphics card or around an AMD 8500.

Stage 6 in Ninja Gaiden. Basically if you lose to any of the bosses, you go back to 6-1. Thank goodness the Wii U VC version has suspend points.

I'm in! Thanks!
I tend to give up on games that prove "too difficult" so I don't have a lot to throw in here other than pretty much every fight I encountered in Demon's Souls right up until I rage quit a few hours into the game. I believe there was some giant spider queen thing involved.

Count me in.
I recently finished Sanctum 2 which is a fun game but it suffers from difficulty spikes, and the final level was just brutal. Multiple tower-destroying boss creatures with no opportunity to repair the damage makes the usual strategies infeasible. It was the only level where I looked for help online, but with a bit of guidance and many attempts I got there in the end.

Bump. I'm sorry but yet again RL issues got in the way of me picking a winner, so I'll hopefully drum up more takers before tonight. Thanks to everyone who's participated.

Not in! But thank you for the giveaway, rampancy, and good luck to the participants. +1

The hardest level I beat has to be stage 95 of Wrecking Crew on NES, without using anything else other than pixel perfect skill. Even now, if you search youtube you'll only find solutions that make use of tricks or game engine bugs to get finish the stage. The stage is almost impossible because it's a race against time and you can't stop running, except at five pixel perfect locations on the screen. If you stop anywhere else or you wait to long in those five locations you lose. After that, I breezed through the last stages.