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Antabus said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

  Same goes for shooters.  Games like Halo replaced games like Contra and Metal Slug (although the first Doom and Quake games were hard as hell).

So.. Have you beaten Halo 3 single player on legendary with all the skulls enabled? No? That's what I thought.

No I don't really have the time.  I only played it a little bit and didn't really like it.  But if you're doubting my 1337 gaming skillzorz, I must let you know I play Doom on Nightmare Mode and I speedrun SMB1, and when I was younger and had more free time I could beat Contra without the Konami code.

Most games that are really hard these days are hard either due to frustrating controls, poor design, or a need for rote memorization of all enemies.  Or all three really.

They don't make FPS games as hard as Doom's Nightmare Mode anymore.  At one point id Software admitted they threw that difficulty in there as an impossible joke and never expected people to get used to it (I'm definitely not used to it, I can probably only beat half the game that way).  Every single enemy in the game respawns after 8 seconds so you can never stop to catch your breath.  There's no auto-aim, or health regeneration, or save points, and you just run faster with a mouse and keyboard, and so do the enemies.