10 Video Game Difficulty Modes For The Criminally Insane

7. Doom - Ultra Nightmare Mode

Are you willing to put yourself through this? That’s the message that greets anyone insane enough to click on the Doom Ultra Nightmare mode, a mode so brutal that Bethesda even boasted that none of the game's internal testers could beat it.

Now I like a good challenge - hell, I live in Gateshead, where you’ve got to fight at least three people just to buy a bottle of Buckfast Abbey tonic wine - so I took up the mantle. I threw it down about 40 minutes later when upon barely making it through the opening sections of swarming hordes with pinpoint accuracy I died and the game said, nice try, now start again from the beginning.

Imagine getting to the final boss and choking. It’s not something I ever experienced, but that’s because I had a semblance of sense left to bail on the challenge and enjoy it on the reg, but if I had messed myself on the final bit and had to start again? Well, I would have put my !*$% son through the wall.