3. Solidus - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (Choke Section)
Only the ultimate button-smashing gods are worthy of this accolade. The final battle with Solidus Snake is a tough one on Metal Gear Solid 2s hardest difficulty; European Extreme. That is if you can even make it that far. Before that you must first survive the Solidus choking section, this has been put forward as one of the hardest things to do in gaming, period. During a cut scene Solidus picks you up by the throat with his robot arm and chokes you, and in order to survive you must mash the action button as fast as you can. On E.Extreme this choke lasts a full minute and your health depletes incredibly fast. A lesser human would use a turbo controller to do this (remember them?), but only the gaming elite can say they've done this the real old fashioned way. This section has driven some gamers to the edge of insanity, a point proven by some of the ludicrous ways people tried to win, such as: - Using the round end of a spoon to slide back and forth over the button. - Getting a drill, attaching a piece of plastic to the end and letting the edge clip the button as the drill head rotated (yes, really). Or just getting on your hands and knees, squeezing hard and praying to the gaming gods that you can withstand bashing that button into oblivion.
