Hardest games you have ever played.

Marble madness was hard, but that's probably because I was only 3 years old at the time.

civilization 1

The End is Nigh, by the same guy who made Meat Boy, is the most hilariously evil fucking game ever committed to code.

It's a Metroidvania with Meat Boy physics that doesn't have permadeath.... riiiiiight up until it does. Hardcore game for hardcore players, scrubs go home.

That's how I started. It's understable by the nature of the game. I still use shield and it's fine, and if you get the Shield of Artorias, suddenly with shield it becomes much easier.
I used to lock enemies, it's going to be bad with big bosses especially because the camera will go awry, but I had an issue since I would manually aim and my attack would not land, also living my vurnerable for counterattack.
Of course as long as you learn the game enough you become more confident to play without shields and without aim. My aim is better without using the aim lock nowadays, I just sometimes lock so that I can backtrack while still looking at the enemy (else you will be facing the other direction).

Coming from FPS world, I do have issues with 3rd person view games, much harder for me to control and know where I am always looking and not have camera or objects getting in front of me.

p.s. Also I think there are more reasons they are hard. First, no matter how much you raise your level or armor, it doesn't seem to scale. You get hit as a naked level 1 by a boss, lost 95% of health and stunned down in the ground, can't retrieve and drink estus fast enough. Scenario 2: You get hit by the same boss as level 100 with Havel Armor and protection ring, you lost 85% of health, stunned down, one more hit and you are dead and your character is not fast enough to drink estus (really the strategy here is "DON'T BE TEMPTED TO HEAL!". Roll Back or around incoming attack instead, find a window of opportunity to heal. Sometimes, it's like 1 hit brings you to the brink of death, another one and you are done, can't spam insta-healing key like it's Diablo.

p.p.s. Anyway and I still love the game, one of my favorites, but I see it is intentionally design so that you can never grind up for levels, there is no build that you would throw away your controller, getting hit from enemies and not die for a minutes. Most other RPGs are like that. Bring a level 20 characters in a level 1 stage and it's a joke. The only thing that's worth to scale is your weapons. The game is a matter of endurance. If you have to roll and avoid hits for minutes, and one hit can be fatal or near, then it makes a difference if your attack takes 2% or 10% of a bosses health. Also to find ways to avoid (it's hard for me with the huge hitboxes), so you could try the challenge to kill a boss with the crappiest weapon. But upgrading some stuff, and you need short burst of endurance before bringing bosses fast enough down.

Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne have much faster playstyle. BB doesn't even have shields. I don't mind DS1 more slow gameplay. Everyone likes different play styles.

I have a bit of a problem that sometimes if I decide to not play defensive at all and roll away from boss attacks, I will still get hit from attacks I can't see or huge hitboxes. And most of these hits will be costly. I've finished the game by rolling and avoiding attacks and I've died numerous times in some bosses. When I didn't have the Artorias Shield, it was lame to use a Shield against DLC bosses. One two hits and they broke your stamina, so you learned to roll and avoid them (but I had to die 10-20 times with the Knight of Artorias). Now, I am like NG+5 I use shield, then spam some magic from my right hand, and can funny enough kill some bosses easily. It's not that I don't know how to roll and avoid, I've finished bosses without relying to a shield, but I've died several times. I have also problem with the camera. If I am chased by Ornstein and Smough, and need to run away while looking at the same time towards their direction so I can roll away from their attacks (especially Ornstein who will rush from a distance or throw thunder), moving away suddenly I look away from them so I don't know what's coming. It's hard to control direction and camera at the same time. At least in FPS games back button will still have you facing the enemy (but not behind you).

Anyway,. even if I have learned enough of this game, I don't think it's necessarily forbidden to use shields. Everyone has their playstyle.

That's the doomerboards that I like

civilization 6 is terrrible the best are civilization 3 and 2

no that doesnt make sense

I smashed a keyboard over my knee once in 2010. I was playing streets of rage 3 on an emulator on my PC, and after so many deaths, I decided to switch over to skulltag. I joined a CTF game and there was a group of clan members that would consistently unbalance the teams so they could all play on the same team, and then, like that video, continually mock people they were winning against. In hindsight, i should have kept my cool knowing the circumstances, but I was so fed up with the bullshit in Streets of Rage 3 that I was determined to win at something but nevertheless my teammates were nowhere to be found, I couldn't capture flags fast enough, and we lost every game sooo...

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The keys splashed everywhere. I storm out of the room and then have a laugh about it later as I go to the electronics store to replace it.

Super Mario bros 3. I got to 7-1 and then couldn't progress further.

Ghouls (1984, Micro Power)
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Just like the review above says, it's fucking hard! You're basically playing a precison pixel jumping platform game similar to Manic Miner, except the controls are very slippery. There's also a ghost that floats down slowly from the top of the screen directly towards you, passing through any obstactles, and you lose a life if it touches you.
I've only gotten to the second screen twice (there are only 5 screens in total).