Originally Posted by
kupomogli
Mega Man is far from unfair by design unless you're talking about Mega Man 9. If you want a massively overrated game that's unfair by design, Super Meat Boy. The game isn't very good imo. The developers added a high jump that is lower and longer with acceleration, but it's a very long distance you can jump. So they just put together levels, didn't matter how poorly placed everything was, because the jump would cover it, so if it was too short, big deal, jump would cover it, too long, jump would cover it, etc. They did put a little effort into the design, but that's it, A LITTLE effort. I guarantee that each level was. Is this completable? Played until one of them beat it once, okay, NEXT!
OT. As for classic games where frusturating or challenging parts. The majority of Castlevania Chronicles. I'm a huge Castlevania fan, but damn if this game isn't ridiculously difficult without using tricks that the game didn't mean for you to use to get past. Up to stage three, okay it's fine. Stage four to the end, there's eight stages, very very difficult.