10 Video Games That Must Be Played On The Hardest Difficulty

Good luck! You’ll more than need it.

If you can complete Metro 2033 and Last Light on Ranger difficulty – Hardcore, not Easy, don’t be a wimp and cheat – then your bragging about being good at video games is legitimate and you deserve a medal.

Intended to be a more realistic simulation of living in a dank, post-apocalyptic Russia in which civilians are forced to live in the subway system because of nuclear winter, Ranger difficulty removes your HUD and you die in two shots… if you’re lucky.

There’s no UI, no HUD and no such thing as an easy life. Ranger Hardcore is an unforgivable nightmare which will make you want to hang yourself with the console's wires. If you wish to prepare for the post-apocalyptic future of gigantic spiders, mutated bears and Neo-Nazis, then Metro’s Ranger Hardcore mode is the perfect simulation.

Just be aware that, unlike in Metro, in real-life you won’t be able to die a million times.