test_of_valor wrote:
In my 14 years of gaming, there is only one game that I can say is the hardest one I played. The first Ninja Gaiden on Xbox. I mean, the difficulty is just insane, I couldn't get past Chapter 10(I think it's Military Supply Base) even on Normal. But it's amazing regardless.
That game is the only one that I will ever consider the absolute masterpiece of gaming industry, mostly because there are so many restrictions. Hell, even the producer/director of Team Ninja(sorry, can't remember his name now) said in an interview, that he is drunk when making games.
Later, they went AWOL with Ninja Gaiden 2 and made it easy as hell(I don't know if he was on that project).
This is all my opinion, of course.
It's not only your opinion... in all my really long gaming experience as well, Ninja Gaiden (Black) on original XBOX has definitively won the award of the hardest game of all time I ever played.
It's not even funny how the first boss is hard... in normal mode. Then you get hard mode, very hard mode, and master ninja mode... wtf how can someone even go over very hard mode ?!?! I was s***ing bricks the whole time in hard mode and ugh... I don't think I completed that mode yet (and I bought that game in 2006).
and yes, Ninja Gaiden 2 on XBOX360 was a joke compared to that cruel, cruel game.
Pokebis wrote:
The original Ninja Gaidens for the NES are much, much harder than that.
ummm....no
. I got through all of them without breaking too much of a sweat.