Is there any video games you have beaten on the hardest difficulty?

Return to Castle Wolfenstein, one of the Silent Hill games (I think…), Timesplitters 2, and Cowadoody Modern Warfare 2.

Guitar Hero 3.

Almost all of them really, I will either quit a game after 10–15 minutes or ill play it to death. If i get in to a game, first comes normal, then hard, then harder or hardest, then comes cheats, then comes mods and trainers and hacks, then comes a new game.

On some like Red Alert 2 i have taken it to the extreme, going up against 7 opponents, all on brutal difficulty, all allied against me..

Some of the ones i have passed on hardest setting would be: diablo, diablo 2, tekken 1, 2, 3 and 4, most of the C&C games, doom, quake, duke nukem and a bunch of others.

Yeah, I mean is there any other way to play em? Too many to mention, goes way back.

Way back many years ago…Tron and more recently Guitar Hero 1. Me and my then 8 year old owned Crash Bandicoot in no time.

@Cruiser Aww Crash is totally cool. I mean even now i’ll play with the kids, Nitro Kart being the most enduring. Never lost it’s appeal, I’m on your six :¬)

@ucme It is an absolute riot!! <<Tosses a lit rolling cannon ball out the back of his cart and drives off>>

@Cruiser I see your puny ickle cannon ball & raise you a guided missile armed with teeth. That sucker gonna bite your arse :¬)

Never really got into a game until I had to beat it on the hardest difficulty. But, I have to mention this story:

I was playing Minesweeper on medium. It was down to the last two squares. It was impossible to tell which one had the last mine. So, after a long period of thinking, I decided to just pick one… BAM! it was a freakin’ mine!

I was pissed and haven’t play it since.

Nope. I was just happy to get out of the Cow Level on Diablo II (on easy setting) without becoming cud.

Bookworm Vol 2

I generally won’t play games except on the hardest setting because I find it annoying to go through and then replay it just to feel like I’ve truly completed the game. I’ve done this on a number of games (Golden Eye, Halo, COD4, MW2…) and there’s really only one that frustrates me which is the bonus mission at the end of Call of Duty 4: Mile High Club. I’ve tried so many times and I always miss it by about 3–4 seconds at my best. The only games I avoid using the hardest settings are multiplayer bots that basically just headshot you the second they see you. That’s just lame. Same with Starcraft 2’s bots that drone rush you in the beginning on the highest difficulty.

So usually yes I play on the hardest setting but it takes me a long time generally and I like that because I feel like I get value out of my limited gaming dollars.

Just the Silent Hill series, I think. I love video games, but that doesn’t mean I’m necessarily good at them.

All the Halo iterations.

And on multiplayer I was, at a time, one of the best players in the world.

I don’t recommend it. Years of your life will quickly disappear.

Of the ones I can remember: Crysis, CoD4-MW, All Half Life titles, XIII. It has been some time since I have played a PC game (switched to Mac a few years ago).

I can handle the hardest difficulties of games… but there is just one game – that for the life of me, I cannot get passed the first boss. Viewtiful Joe for GameCube. That motherfuc^%# helicopter boss. I bought this game years ago. I die every time. I would wait a week, revisit it. Those weekly revisits turned to months & those months turned into years. I was recently informed that I could change the difficulty level down to easy (I didn’t know you could do this). But I refuse…I REFUSE to let this childish, comic book looking, rated ‘T’ for teen, game to get the best of me. The day I beat this game, I’m going to snap the disc in half, set the pieces on fire & then mail the charred remains back to CAPCOM.

I generally play though on medium if three difficulty settings or hard when there is the “extreme” “legendary” “yada yada bullshit name” If the game is a really good game Ill go back and beat it on the hardest difficulty to get some more fun out of it.
When I get games i tend to play the fuck out of them. Staying up all night and all that good stuff. But once I beat most of the stuff like the main story or whatever for some reason I just stop playing and then dont pick it up again for months. Ive yet to beat a GTA game all the way through cause i get tired of it. Red dead redemption still didnt get 100% for the same reason.

The games Ive played through many times on the hardest difficulty though are the Halo games.

@ucme Speaking of puny….<<Whips out the Mutate-o-raygun 3000 and zaps @ucme into a tiny warthog>>

@Cruiser Sounds more like Ratchet & Clank now! Another oldie but goodie.

Call of Duty 4, Half-Life 2, HL2Ep1, HL2Ep2, Left 4 Dead 1 (not 2), Call of Duty 2, and a couple others.

@timtrueman With the “Mile High Club” one you pretty much have to spam flashbangs, and then never reload your gun, just pick up the dropped ones until they’re spent. It’s hard as hell, but definitely rewarding when you’re done.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard – YEAH TIMESPLITTERS 2!

Other than that, Star Wars the force unleashed, Command and Conquer Generals, Mirror’s Edge.

There are more I just can’t think of them…

@dverhey Yeah I wrote up a script of shooting people in the head before they could fire so I could pick up their guns with full clips when I needed to reload but couldn’t afford the time. But because you only have 60 seconds you have to be flawless and I always made at least one mistake. I could never string together a perfect attempt and you pretty much have to to beat it on veteran. I guess I’m just not that good (but I’m OK with that).

I’ve beaten Doom and Doom 2 on the bloodiest level.

@shniernan, I thought I was the only person on Earth who remembers that game… it’s one of my all time favorites.

I’m too embarrassed to say..

I loved time splitters

Super Smash Brothers!

I beat Spider Solitaire on Difficult once…

Silent Hill 1 and 2, and Rhapsody A Musical Adventure. That last one ain’t sayin a hell of a lot though.
A game like this though, you can’t help but become obsessed about, and therefore savour all that it offers.

I can’t really brag about beating games on harder levels though, not when I’m intrigued by story, bad voice acting and atmosphere more than actually having to play through them lol.

Also Rule of Rose had no different modes, but if it did, I’d brag about that.

Also adding w/ others that Timesplitters 2 was one of my favorites, too, and that after GoldenEye for N64 it was the game that really got me into the FPS genre. I seem to remember loving the dual handguns on a Wild West level; bots couldn’t handle me. Now I wish my PS2 still worked…

All the Hitman and Metal Gear Solid series games.