What is the hardest video game genre?

[ToyfareMark]

There are easy, and hard games in every genre, but I was wondering what everyone thinks is by default THE hardest genre. For me, I think its bullet hell shooters.



I mean WTF!

[MolotovMocktail]

Stealth games - they take a lot of precision and concentration, and AI is often gifted with the ears of a wolf.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Adult theme'd puzzle games, you are limited to one hand.

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Is Soulslike considered an entire genre? That would be up there.

[A Platypus Rave]

Sierra Adventure Games <_<

[Push R Truth]

I won a Starcraft (the original) tournament in college. After winning and placing in a couple more I was invited to a regional team. We played some friendly matches with a sister group in South Korea. I couldn't even scratch their worst player.


I remember thinking "This is what it feels like when you are a random bank robber and Superman decides to show up and bust you"

So I'm going with RTS. There is always a bigger fish than you. At least in shooters and the like, you can get lucky shots or pull of minor feats of amazing coordination to get some wins. RTS? Nah dawg, you are headed for the meatgrinder. Most of the time you'd already lost you just don't know it yet.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

If “fighting a cheap SNK Boss” is a genre, then that. Igniz and Rugal still give me nightmares.

[Hypnosis]

SNK fighting games
Stealth - I like the Metal Gear series, but it does take some trial-and-error in certain parts of the games to not get caught.  Good luck sneaking past the rabid dogs in MGS3 after escaping from the cell.
Souls-like games
Platformers - Grew up on Mario, yet I still get nervous making well-timed jumps in this genre. 

[Deleted]

Anything made after 2000.

I was good at video games before that, and now they take a f***ing month to get through and half of it is cutscenes.

[Bo Rida]

Casual games. Seriously. The grind in some mobile games is ridiculous.

[A Platypus Rave]

Aug 9, 2021 13:16:23 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Casual games. Seriously. The grind in some mobile games is ridiculous.

I was going to respond but I have to wait 300 hours before I can post again... unless I spend 40 bucks on this post now button >_>

[Cyno]

Bullet Hell can be really overwhelming. I'd say the only thing that helps you out is that your hitbox is usually tiny. So you're not going to die from bullets that graze the edges of your jet/ship/anime girl/whatever. Shmups in general are really hard for me, though.

Roguelikes are also really hard to me, with the exception of the much more forgiving Rogue-lite sub-subgenre (like Hades, Diablo, etc) .

[Push R Truth]

Aug 9, 2021 13:20:24 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Aug 9, 2021 13:16:23 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

Casual games. Seriously. The grind in some mobile games is ridiculous.

I was going to respond but I have to wait 300 hours before I can post again... unless I spend 40 bucks on this post now button >_>

That's bullshit pal, I was told you mods had infinite FAN Gems

[chazraps]

I'm going to say modern console versions of classic board games like Chess. Max difficulty can be unstoppable.