The toughest game levels/missions

[Rick_D]

oh christ yeah - that was insane

[Pinky]

In GTA: VC all the missions with Lance were anoing in my opinion. Glad I got the change to shoot him in the end.

[JeanPaul]

Ninja Gaiden

I almost cried playing that game (Xbox version)

[merkaba]

Any mission of Xenon that wasn't mission 1. That game was insanely hard, if I recall.

The end boss of Undying.

Thief: The Dark Project's Haunted Cathedral (OK it wasn't -hard- so much as it was just really, really scary)

[KoKo5oVaR]

Cave story : the Hell level !!!

[Campaignjunkie]

Thief 3 - Shalebridge Cradle, and its cousin Thief 1 - Return to the Cathedral; both being "difficult" through their scariness.

But the Cradle... Oh man. That level is sheer genius. In my opinion, every other level in Thief 3 exists to build up momentum towards the Cradle. I think a guy on PC Gamer wrote an essay about how great this level is, but he kind of glazed over the design aspects in favor of the narrative. There are few levels that I would elevate to the pedestal of "masterpiece" - but this is definitely one of them.

[dux]

AvP before they introduced the save game in the patch.

[Grinwhrl]

The racing in mafia is hard but theres a shortcut in the track that allows you to win easy. After that there is a chase against some super fast limo style car I couldn't get past. Then the game broke on me. hehe.

[Mazy]

Ninja Gaiden

I almost cried playing that game (Xbox version)

Haha yeah was just about to mention it. I really wanted to complete that game but in the end I had to give up on it. Too damn frustrating :G

Also hate people that say its an amazing game, all it did was make me depressed. In my book thats a bad game . Really could've used some difficulty settings in the original version.

[JeanPaul]

It was probably my favorite Xbox game.

[GrayFox]

2 words

water

temple

(with no guide that is)

You mean the Ocarina of Time water temple?? I don't get why people find it that hard...

[Furyo]

It was a downright bitch to learn though, it's not hard you just get lost and have no idea where to go next (on your first time through it that is).

And yes, the return of the father in Sands of Time was excrutiatingly painful. There is only one trick you can do to hit him. Just happens to be the same thing you had to do in the original against the first overweight guard you encountered...

[Evert]

I hated the water temple the first time ever, if I wouldn't have loved everything before it and hoped that it would be as good once after the temple I'd never had beat that game.

[Buddy]

IcyTower at 1000+ floor .

I'm playing through mafia again too... just finished the hotel, race went pretty easy, finished it on normal/medium difficulty (best lap was like ~1.30. (patched 1.2)

EDIT: I remember I had some tough moments with some harder Rayman 2 missions.

[Mazy]

Oh yeah, here's a really stupid one. The on-foot parts of Cyberia . Worst trial and error game play ever! At least I remember it as being insanely hard, especially considering that the flying sections were hysterically easy in comparison.

Really should try it again, what a piece of shit game that was