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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Johnny C on 02 Jan 2007, 00:39
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I don't think any of the people I know ever managed to finish The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Everybody loved it but I can't recall talking to a single person who saw the ending. I don't even know if it has an ending.
Are there any games like this you guys know about? Should we all get 'em and try to beat 'em?
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I never finished Wario Land 2 all the way through. Damn that was a fun game though.
It's too bad they're not making any more of those.
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Games have endings?
When I was younger I was pretty bad at finishing like, any game ever.
I think the only 2 playstation games I've completed are MGS and Driver.
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I don't think any of the people I know ever managed to finish The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Everybody loved it but I can't recall talking to a single person who saw the ending. I don't even know if it has an ending.
I've beaten it a few times. It's not that hard.
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If you're going to say "you're a doofus" at least just come out and say it.
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I played through Link To The Past, the GBA version, but never beat it. I got to the second to last dungeon and just gave up. I couldn't figure out what to do or what I was doing wrong.
I have only ever beaten about 40% of the games I own, due to parts in games that I found either frustratingly difficult or amazingly boring. A lot of RPGs have a bad habit of giving you too much too soon (insofar as skill systems, vehicles, characters, etc) so I get bored around the 30~40 hour mark and never beat them.
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I've actually beaten Chrono Trigger enough to see most of the endings. I was pretty proud of that. A lot of other RPGs I haven't had the patience for.
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I never could finish the Gameboy version of Super Mario Land. The (next-to?)-final stage with the airplane tore me apart every time.
Never did finish Oblivion, either, mostly because my odds of completing a Gate without it glitching (and forcing me to restart the entire game) were about 1 in 3.
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i've never completed 100% of any GTA, or ever even fully beaten the main story arc of GTA 3 or San Andreas. the latter two aren't so hard to achieve i'm sure, i just didn't have the motivation, but only masochists go for 100% in those games.
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I've actually beaten Chrono Trigger enough to see most of the endings. I was pretty proud of that. A lot of other RPGs I haven't had the patience for.
I am pretty sad to admit I actually spent a decent chunk of a year doing this, so I could see every ending.
Also I have never finished any of the GTA series of games. I have always gotten really close untill I get bored and just give up.
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I don't think any of the people I know ever managed to finish The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Everybody loved it but I can't recall talking to a single person who saw the ending. I don't even know if it has an ending.
Are there any games like this you guys know about? Should we all get 'em and try to beat 'em?
I can beat LttP in a couple hours. It's easy after a while.
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Any RPG I've played except Diablo II and KOTOR/KOTOR II. And I've played a helluva lot of them.
Do Battlefield 2 and The Sims (2) count? They don't actually HAVE endings... :roll:
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
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Metroid 2 for the Game Boy
I have never actually completed it, and probably never will since I gave it away in my mass video game trade in. then again I could not play it on anyhting but my Game Boy Color so that was a problem
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Metroid 2 got me stuck for 6 years.
Then I picked it up and beat it in 4 hours.
True story! Same with Castlevania 4.
Both a couple of my favorite games now, though.
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I quit Thief 2 in the middle of the last mission. I still need to finish that. And Thief Gold on expert.
Seconding Zelda: LTTP, and a bunch of others that I don't feel like going through now.
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Most of the games I consider to be unbeatable were for the 8-bit Nintendo system. Battletoads, Zelda II, and that awful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles platformer game. I have a friend who wears glasses that he says were necessitated by the eye strain from the jetbike level of Battletoads. Meh, I'm probably dating myself by just talking about this stuff.
I really liked Zelda: LTTP, though I'll admit I got good and stuck a few times on my first playthrough.
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
Christ, that's like every Black Isle PC RPG I've ever played!! I honestly think sometimes PC RPGs give you too many options in character creation. I probably spent more time in character creation for Icewind Dale 1 and Morrowind than I did playing the game(s).
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Festers Quest for Nintendo.
Fucking thing locked up on me when I was eating dinner.
No save point FTW.
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
Christ, that's like every Black Isle PC RPG I've ever played!! I honestly think sometimes PC RPGs give you too many options in character creation. I probably spent more time in character creation for Icewind Dale 1 and Morrowind than I did playing the game(s).
Yeah, the only big PC RPG's I've ever had the will poweer to actually beat have all been Black Isle games though. Fallout 1&2, Arcanum (Troika counts damnit!), Vampire The Masquerades: Bloodlines (I swear it.), and Planescape Torment. Took me a good 6 months in each game before I ever actually managed to make myself beat the games though.
So.. many.. character possibilities.. *cry*
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to the OP, not to be a dick but everyoen i know whos played it actually has beaten it. i guess your milage may vary.
i didnt bother with the FIND ALL THE RANDOM SHIT thigns at the end of zelda or metroid prime on the GC.
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Cave Story, alternate ending (Hell). I posit that humans cannot beat that level, and therefore the videos on youtube of speedruns of it are in fact made by aliens.
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I've beaten nearly all of the PC games I own, but console stuff is tough. I'm still trying to beat The Empire Strikes Back for the Gameboy, I always get to the cloud city level then lose all of my continues to due to instant death situations.
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I quit Thief 2 in the middle of the last mission. I still need to finish that. And Thief Gold on expert.
Seconding Zelda: LTTP, and a bunch of others that I don't feel like going through now.
what's the one on the xbox? my friend keeps making it freeze...he's got 2 million gold from just pickpocketing, i don't know if that's a lot or not. he was attacked by four guards at once one time, so he killed all of them and chased the other ones down. one managed to lock itself in a room or something, but my friend actually unlocked it fast enough to freeze the game.
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There are a lot of games I've loved but not completed. When I was younger I would finish every game I played, but I don't have a lot of patience these days and there are so many good games to play.
Games I enjoyed but never completed:
- Quake 2
- Ikaruga
- Zelda: Wind Waker
- Farcry - although I loved it. It just got silly toward the end
- Doom 3
- Morrowind - played it for about 100 hours, had a blast, then walked away from it without finishing the main quest
- Oblivion - see Morrowind, but only about 60 hours this time
- Dawn of War: Winter Assault & the new one - had a lot of fun playing them, but lost interest when newer, shinier games came out :)
also, I'll predict right now that I will never finish Neverwinter Nights 2. It is a lot of fun to play, but the storyline sucks, quite frankly. I've put it down for now, and am pretty sure that I'll pick it back up when I've got better hardware & they have some decent user-created mods for it.
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oh! also: Ninja Gaiden. I played it on Heather's brother's xbox and have yet to play it on the xbox that is gathering dust at my place.
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I actually bought that game because it's backwards compatible for my 360 even though I never had an original X-Box. But since I haven't managed to hook up the fucking router yet (distracted by other games), I haven't downloaded the newest firmware so it doesn't play yet.
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Ninja Gaiden deserves a sequel. A sequel with an Easy mode. No other game has made you fight a boss 20 times in a row. You do not win, after the 20th attempt, because the previous battles have made you a better ninja, no. You win after the 20th attempt because you lucked the fuck out.
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I'm sure they're going to make another Ninja Gaiden after Sigma comes out.
Or maybe they'll just make Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. But if they do, I might have to cut a few dudes.
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Never finished FEAR. Was having computer problems (due to a faulty SATA cable of all things), and kept having to reload my OS (and thus the game). Got tired of seeing the beginning of that game, so put it in the bin. At least it was half-decent, unlike Doom 3. I haven't even opened the box. (I pre-ordered it, snagged a copy from a torrent site before I picked it up, played it, realized it was shite, trudged to EB, picked up my already paid-for copy, cried all the way home.)
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Oh dude, you're not missing much. The worst parts of the game come up in about the last 5-10mins. You're basically railroaded by the story into doing something that I personally found stupid. I tried other methods, but it's like you're on tracks. I was literally forced to kill someone I didn't want to kill at one point. ie: they stop the game in one of those time-freeze moments and you can't go on until they are dead. Then the way they describe the end "boss" I didn't want to fucking kill them either.
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I never beat Zelda 2: Link's Adventure for the NES. I can specifically remember fighting the mirror-Link and then the bigass shadow guy, but I never beat it. When I've played it via emulator, it would always be buggy, never capture my saves, etc. I gave up.
I also never beat Oblivion. I put maybe 10 hours into it and got really bored with it. For supposedly the best game to come out in 2006 for the PC, (or was it 05?), it didn't interest me in the least.
I haven't beaten Mario Kart DS or Space Invaders DS yet, either. MK because I don't play it enough, and Space Invaders because I can't beat three levels - they're freaking impossible.
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
Christ, that's like every Black Isle PC RPG I've ever played!! I honestly think sometimes PC RPGs give you too many options in character creation. I probably spent more time in character creation for Icewind Dale 1 and Morrowind than I did playing the game(s).
Yeah, the only big PC RPG's I've ever had the will poweer to actually beat have all been Black Isle games though. Fallout 1&2, Arcanum (Troika counts damnit!), Vampire The Masquerades: Bloodlines (I swear it.), and Planescape Torment. Took me a good 6 months in each game before I ever actually managed to make myself beat the games though.
So.. many.. character possibilities.. *cry*
troika certainly counts is so so damn fantastic. i too managed to beat arcanum (a few times) and vampire bloodlines. although i don't often fully beat those sorts of games (i still haven't beaten neverwinter nights) those particular games really drew me in. although for anyone who didn't complete them, it's very understandable.
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i've never completed 100% of any GTA, or ever even fully beaten the main story arc of GTA 3 or San Andreas. the latter two aren't so hard to achieve i'm sure, i just didn't have the motivation, but only masochists go for 100% in those games.
I beat Vice City, and it really wasn't that hard, it just takes a little time. However, I, too, have not beaten GTA 3, and I've never even played San Andreas.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for PC.
You have to knock down a bunch of pillars to land on Voldemort, but also keep enough to hide behind so he can't kill you. I have never beaten it.
Goddamnit.
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never got a game I haven't finished... except for tau fire warrior, and it was not a very good game at all so it doesn't count.
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
Some of those missions were so ridiculously hard...
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I'm stuck like 6 levels into Call of Duty: Finest Hour
on this one level where you protect the dude fixing your tank, then you are told you have to take the tank to a rendezvous point... but really you just get ass-raped by MG nests and enemy tanks.
fucker is HARD.
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Sadly, I never beat...
- Super Mario Bros. for the NES (I'm serious. It's one of my unfinished things I have to do when I finally break down, buy the Wii and download it. Still my damn favorite game of all time)
- Command and Conquer for the PC, NOD disc (GDI was easier, for some reason)
- Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Allied disc (one of my friends borrowed it so we could IP game it, never gave it back before he moved across the country)
- Either GTA or GTA2 (discs were destroyed by my son when he was teething; my ex got a real chewing out for that)
- Final Fantasy VII (same ex broke my PlayStation about halfway through the game, didn't feel like buying another one)
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I've never actually finished Deus Ex. I got to the final Area 51 sort of base thing, and then I lost all my saves when a virus totalled my computer. I reinstalled it recently thinking it might be a good time to have another crack. I was dead in five minutes. Haven't got the moves any more. Though, to be fair, I do have a horrible suspicion I may have cheated on the original, possible on that fucking sneaking level on the docks with all the robots. I've always fucking hated sneaking games. I bought Metal Gear Solid for the PS1, and I got to like the second fucking screen.
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I got to the last part of Deus Ex with no ammo. Screwed.
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I never beat Zelda 2: Link's Adventure for the NES. I can specifically remember fighting the mirror-Link and then the bigass shadow guy, but I never beat it. When I've played it via emulator, it would always be buggy, never capture my saves, etc. I gave up.
I know it's considered "cool" to say you like Zelda 2, but I thought that game was crap back then and still do. The fact that dying means you have to start all the way back at Zelda's tomb-or-whatever also meant that I never played this game for more than three hours before giving up in frustration. Also, the controls suck and make some of the simple enemies ridiculously hard to fight.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for PC.
You have to knock down a bunch of pillars to land on Voldemort, but also keep enough to hide behind so he can't kill you. I have never beaten it.
Goddamnit.
i know that one's lying around my house somewhere....i got it on the third try.
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I suck at computer and console games. Truly horrid, I am. But the only ones that drag me back in spite of the fact that I can't beat them are Nethack and Ivan (http://ivan.sourceforge.net/).
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Super Nintendo's MegaMan X
How do you kill Sigma!! HOW!?
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Sigma is pretty easy, dont get hit, he jumps back and forth, you mirror him, his pattern is repeated with no variation.
But I have to agree, the jet bike level of Battletoads on the SNES is hell, it comes way to early into the game too, so after losing a billion lives on it there is just way too much game to play after it.
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Oh man, I forgot about Battletoads... That game is freaking impossible without Game Genie.
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Super Nintendo's MegaMan X
I beat that one a few years back. Hard as balls, but good times.
Oh man, I forgot about Battletoads... That game is freaking impossible without Game Genie.
oh man, I forgot about that game. SO GOOD.
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Sigma is pretty easy, dont get hit, he jumps back and forth, you mirror him, his pattern is repeated with no variation.
But I have to agree, the jet bike level of Battletoads on the SNES is hell, it comes way to early into the game too, so after losing a billion lives on it there is just way too much game to play after it.
are you talking about Battletoads/Double Dragons? the one with both? cause I remember getting no farther than the boss of the third of five levels, and we must have played it at least 75 times. it just couldn't be done.
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- Either GTA or GTA2 (discs were destroyed by my son when he was teething; my ex got a real chewing out for that)
You can download them for FREE! Before the mods ban me for supporting warez, I mean Rockstar released it for PC for free (as GTA/GTA2 for pc is incompatible with XP)
Here you go: http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/)
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X-Wing: Alliance. I got all the way up to the last level and then kept bouncing the Millennium Falcon off the walls of the Death Star like some overly-confused ping-pong ball. Then I went and lost the CD.
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That's called a strategy, man. You deployed it well.
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X-Wing: Alliance be damned, the original X-Wing was one of the hardest goddamn games in history.
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two words
Wild
Motherfucking
Arms
that bitch is STILL in my PS1. had i the time i would go back and play through it. it was a fuckign awesome game
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Star Ocean (Whatever the last one made was)
I got stuck in that dragon dungeon, couldn't get a handle on the Dragon Flute when there were more than one face on the doors.
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Star Ocean (Whatever the last one made was)
I got stuck in that dragon dungeon, couldn't get a handle on the Dragon Flute when there were more than one face on the doors.
I got farther than that, but not much. about 5-10 hours after where you are, there's a huge difficulty change between what you've been fighting and what you have to fight. I had to grind for an additional 10 hours to get out of the next planet. I haven't touched it much since I got to Gemity.
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Alright, I realize that like half of you have probably beaten it, but Guitar Hero is getting on my last nerve.
BARK AT THE MOON ON EXPERT CAN FUCKING GO TO HELL
I'VE MADE IT TO 97% AND 98% THROUGH THE SONG THE LAST TWO TIMES I TRIED IT
THAT LAST FUCKING RIFF ALWAYS KILLS ME
DAMMIT
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Has anyone played Legacy of the Wizard? hardest nintender game ever.
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The hardest Nintendo game ever is the shitty Dungeons and Dragons one. Heroes of the Lance?? Anyway, it's god awful and literally cannot be beaten.
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
...Huh. I always found BGII kinda easy. I've beaten it more times than I can count by now, it never gets old to me for some reason.
But I have to say, the Metabots RPG (Shut up, I was like 11.) on Gameboy Advance always managed to make me cry like a little girl. I never beat Knights of the Old Republic II either. The final boss proved too much for my dual pistol wielding Jedi in close quarters, and I had to return it before I could give it another shot.
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Troll's wins. I obtained a copy and it managed to say hello in Japanese (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8920/7zxpwwlf7zez7pw23jmsxbhny1.jpg)* to me. The cartridge, not the game. The game did far worse.
*probably nsfw, but who can tell these days
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Crimson Skies. Seriously I dont think it can be finished which is why they put in the option of skipping each level if you fail it like five times. The first few missions are fun then "It's over!" You cant kill fighters in a gyrocopter but they still ask you to do so.
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Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
Love the game, love the story, and easily the most obverall well done D&D based video game ever made, and I can't make myself beat the expansion. This might have a little bit to do with my character creation issues. I'll make one, about 25 hours into the game I suddenly wonder what i could do with this build.. then is tart over and never go back and play the other. Then i do it again, over and over and over.
...Huh. I always found BGII kinda easy. I've beaten it more times than I can count by now, it never gets old to me for some reason.
But I have to say, the Metabots RPG (Shut up, I was like 11.) on Gameboy Advance always managed to make me cry like a little girl. I never beat Knights of the Old Republic II either. The final boss proved too much for my dual pistol wielding Jedi in close quarters, and I had to return it before I could give it another shot.
Oh, you misunderstand me, I don't find the game HARD, I just keep making new characters and starting over. The game is really quite easy.
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Well... i always have liked the sims 2 series.
Also: nice tip about the GTA stuff :D
But i guess most of the other cool games are actually fairly beatable >.> damn...
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I beat Fallout 2. It was an emotional moment indeed.
I never beat Fallout, though. My game was bugged so as soon as I got to a certain poiint the game would freeze.
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Crimson Skies. Seriously I dont think it can be finished which is why they put in the option of skipping each level if you fail it like five times. The first few missions are fun then "It's over!" You cant kill fighters in a gyrocopter but they still ask you to do so.
Dude, I finished that game in like 2 days.
My vote though, goes for...
Tetris.
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oh yeah... I like ski free better though... its just... THEMONSTERJUMPSOUTANDEATSYOURSTUPIDTETRIS!!!
yeah. gotta loves how it give you just enough time to go ohshitfuck *crunch*
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
Some of those missions were so ridiculously hard...
Thank you!
And I though I was an idiot because I had a friend who could finish the game with his eyes closed.
GTA2
I still have the original CD. I never finished it becuae I got bored with the missions and started destroying everything with a tank.
Same goes for every GTA game I ever played.
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Star Fox 1 for SNES is probably the best game I failed miserably at completing. I didn't bother to finish KOTOR 2, since I borrowed the game and didn't care for the final bosses. Resident Evil 4, I never beat, however I intend to now that I have a Wii. Halo 1 I never bothered finishing, since I didn't care for single player much, and I watched my cousin plow through the whole game.
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I would have said Kid Icarus sans 8uuuuu, but a couple years ago I finally managed to beat that normally without cheating.
Let's see...even back when I was young when I played games, I played them to get all the way through. Has anybody actually ever beat R Type Delta? Or Gradius III on Arcade?
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Most arcade games though, you finish, and it just restarts you at level 1 on a harder difficulty.
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when i was younger i could never beat grunty on banjo kazooie,
i think i make up for it by having finished mega man 1 for the nes a couple of months ago.
what a night, there are few things i can think of better than beer and mega man in the same room.
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I refuse to believe anyone has actually beaten Final Fantasy II (note: not Final Fantasy IV!!) without resorting to exploiting the well known bugs to level up stats/spells OR, upon completion, erasing the entire experience from their memory. Seriously, what a fucking frustrating and arbitrary game. And I absolutely love how it seems like the boss of the last dungeon you were in becomes a random encounter enemy for the next area/dungeon. Good thinking, Squaresoft!!
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The best game that I've ever played and never beaten is galaga. I love that game but I don't know if it has an ending. I've never gotten close because I've never gone to an arcade just to play it.
The game i found most annoying to beat after getting to the last level was halo on normal mode. When i started the Maw the game took away my shot gun from the previous level and replaced it with a plasma rifle. It is very hard to beat 20+ flood warriors wielding guns when you only have an assult rifle with 150 rounds, a plasma rifle, and a handful of plasma grenades. It was very annoying to fight my way through and I had to use running and hiding behind corners more than I would have liked as well as more lives than I would have liked.
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
Some of those missions were so ridiculously hard...
Thank you!
And I though I was an idiot because I had a friend who could finish the game with his eyes closed.
commandos was straight ridickle, i dont think i ever passed like the 3 or 4th mission without using cheats
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Star Fox 1 for SNES
I have only played that game at a friend's house while I was "house-sitting"
I gave up about 2 minutes in after like 1 minute 45 seconds of "Get back in formation, Fox!"
I was just like "Formation?!? Man, fuck that."
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I don't get that 'formation' part of it in the training mission. That was stupid and impossible to nail quite right.
I beat Star Fox on the easy path, but on the medium path I only got to the last level, and on the hard path I don't think I ever got past level 3.
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Magic Carpet, back in the days of DOS and all it's glory, it had some 50 levels, and after 45 it became super impossible, mostly because you started off every level with nothing, no spells, mana nothing. I've tried playing it again, but it doesnt run well in DOS emulators.
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I used to plug away at games until I beat them when I was younger. There were some rare exceptions (the ninja turtla platformer... jesus, after Leonardo and Donotello got beatin up I was finished. I don't think I ever made it further than the first area you access with the missiles on the van). But most of the time I would just replay things over and over again because I had no money to buy new games (this is the only reason I beat the NES Mega Man games, some of those were unbelievably hard).
But now I quit games because they either get boring (the final fantasy re-issues coming out for GBA... I don't know how I played these before because now they just seem too boring... and there is not enough guidance at times) or after I get to a point where I decide that getting further will require a serious commitment (this is why I have never gotten past the 4th level on Ikaruga. I love the game, but it just goes insane about halfway through level 3).
I think I beat Vice City, but I quit San Andreas once they tried to make me learn how to fly. Sorry, but I can't fly a plane with a fucking keyboard... Helicopters are even worse. GTA 3 was fun, but once the gangs started going nuts I just got sick of dying all the time. When you are cruising around and then guys start blasting shot guns it is just annoying (two hits blow up the car... the first hit shows no damage... that really annoyed me).
Link to the Past was a weird game for me. I started playing it when I was little (probably around 10 years old?) and got stuck in the first temple in the dark world. Then I picked it up again after I beat Ocarina of Time (I was 14 now), and moved forward a little bit, but got stuck in the ice temple (#4 I think?). Then I picked it up once again when I was 16 and beat it. The weirdest thing though is that I played through it again before Christmas (I'm now 22) and I remembered EVERYTHING. All the bottles, pieces of heart, tricks in the temples... it was actually kind of scary.
Banjo Kazooie is another game that I need to go back and beat. I loved that game when it came out and played it pretty much non-stop until I got to the final battle with Gruntilda. I may have beaten her, but I am pretty sure that I didn't... I just remember running out of gold feathers really fast every time I fought her.
The most current game to give me fits is Fire Emblem (the first American GBA one). I have played through it to the final battle twice, trying different groups of characters, but I always get screwed in the final showdown. An enemy spell caster will show up right next to my guys and cast "beserker" before I can get out of his range... so he turns one of my best characters against me... but I can't attack that character, or corner him with strong defensive characters... it is REALLY annoying because there is no way to avoid it (that I have found).
Most of my friends that played the KOTOR games either got annoyed with the combat system and quit, or quit because of the pacing... but I ate those games up. I think I played through the second one in two weekends... which is pathetic. No one should log 50 hours in a game over 6 days (2 Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays) while taking 17 semester hours and 30 hours a week... it was definitely one of those things where the sun rising convinces you to go to sleep. I loved those games though (didn't care for the abrupt end in the second, or how they made your character go in alone at the end when you had been fighting with 3 characters throughout the game... but they were awesome games).
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I can't beat Starcraft with the Terrans. It's that first level with the stupid stealth cloaky ship thingies- that and I absolutely suck at RTS games unless it's AoE or C&C, and then I still suck but slightly less.
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Ghosts n' Goblins. Seriously, you only get two hits and that's it. Fucking horseshit.
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- Either GTA or GTA2 (discs were destroyed by my son when he was teething; my ex got a real chewing out for that)
I used to be able to speedrun GTA2 in 3-4 hours without ever getting busted or wasted. I think it might actually be the best I ever got at a game.
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Yeah GTA 3 was a bitch at times. Believe it or not my old flatmate finished the Big n' Veiny mission AFTER having the Mafia hate him.
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i never beat ffX. All my friends beat it before me and said the ending was horrible so i didn't have any reason to. And then i came to the 5^10 boss fight with Seymore and couldn't help thinking "either this plot sucks donkey balls or the creators flat out ran out of ideas." Honestly...i think it was both.
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Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with FFX's ending myself.
But back to Battletoads - I downloaded a ROM of it the other night (Just Battletoads - not BT & DD). Jesus shit man, the jet bike level is *impossible*. I'm obviously using the infinite lives Game Genie code, but still, I can't beat the damn thing. I keep yelling at myself too: "Damnit, moron, remember the 4th wall is a HIGH wall! Don't jump!"
Hehehe
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If you get to a certain point in the jet bike part, there's a warp at the bottom half (it's a cluster of white dots, but give yourself a second to find it, cause it goes by pretty fast). I think it warps you to a snake-climbing level, which afterwards you have an ever harder version of the jet bike level where you're on an airplane... at that point I usually give up.
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned Myst yet. Everyone I know who's beaten the game used one or more walkthroughs to do it...
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GTA2
I still have the original CD. I never finished it becuae I got bored with the missions and started destroying everything with a tank.
Same goes for every GTA game I ever played.
That's how I used to speedrun it. With a bit of practice (and the knowledge of where the tanks are) the first two levels can easily be completed without touching a phone. The third levels a bit harder: I only completed the game a few times Without ever doing a mission, and never without doing a mission OR getting busted or wasted. You can still complete the third level without doing any missions, but it involves a lot of rampages and creative tank driving.
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned Myst yet. Everyone I know who's beaten the game used one or more walkthroughs to do it...
My dad beat every one of the Myst games legitimately, without any walkthroughs or anything. He's not a gamer, either. Guy is just simply brilliant with the kind of things you need to figure out to beat those kinds of games.
I can say with pride that I've beaten every Megaman game I've laid hands on. I've beaten the first 3 Megaman Zero games with at least an A rank the entire way through, but the 4th one is too nucking futs for me to do that and I've lost my copy besides. I need Megaman Zero ZX or whatever the DS one is called.
I never made it through Deus Ex, either, because I too found myself in one of those situations where I was just out of ammo.
The one I'm ashamed to have never beaten is Planescape: Torment. I just can't get into it anymore, but it's one of the best written games of all time, with one of the best, most expansive original plots I've ever seen.
I never actually beat the first Disgaea. I got to chapter 13 or so and went through a HUGE depression spell. I was never able to get back into it. Kingdom Hearts suffered the same treatment because I was playing both at the same time.
I second the notion that no one has ever beaten a Ghosts and Goblins game. Super Ghouls and Ghosts is nigh impossible, even with save-states. You have to beat it, get the fairy bracelet or whatever, and beat it again with just that weapon. "What."
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Festers Quest for Nintendo.
i remember that one! a lot of those games were hard! i don't remember for sure but i think i never even beat kiwi kraze. adventures of bayou billy was ridiculous. i don't think i ever got past the first level.
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Oh man Bayou Billy, I had forgotten about that one.
I seriously have nightmares that i'm stuck playing Festers Quest.
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God, Bayou Billy.
You just beat the final boss who has beaten you into a bloody pulp, now fight his much much harder pair of bodyguards!
Where the fuck where they when you were kickin their bosses fat ass.
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I never beat Jet Force Gemini.
Also, I still have only got one ending for KOTOR2 under my belt. Need to get the rest.
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Ghosts & Goblins.
That game is a bitch!
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The really annoying thing about Jet Force Gemini is that eventually they forced you to go back and get all the little collectables that were optional up until that point. Tracking down all those guys was a pain in the ass.
That was a good game though. I still have the cartridge in my closet.
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Pretty sure I kept it as well. How many tribal heads did you get? I lost interest sometimes and collected heads. I think I had 60 or so.
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Ms. PacMan. I'm playing, I get passed the first two mazes, and "They Meet." Cute, nice, innocent, beautiful. Obviously, this game will chronicle the relationship of these two young lovers as they painfully face their fruit wrought obesity head on and defeat the spectral demons that constantly antagonize their psyche, forcing them into their most basic instincts of flight or fight. But what's the next scene? How does their love progress? The number 23 occurs in the score constantly, a sign of Illuminatus malcontent in the programming, driving the audience towards addiction and intrigue, forcing them to play the first three or four levels of Ms. Pacman over and over again. Know why? Because there is nothing after that! The character development is in constant limbo, and any interest you have in seeing how these two overcome the odds to kick their chemical dependencies and escape their unholy persuers to live in peace and harmony with one another is an illusion wrought only to suck quarters out of your pocket fifty cents at a time. The futility of the game is highlighted best through the warp tubes. You escape, you disappear, you're gone, and then you enter the battlefield once again only to be delivered back into the hands of your embittered enemies. Your only scraping hope of salvation are "Power Pellets," whose only purpose is to teach children that they can legitimately cannibalize their oppressors if they scarf a large white glowing blob of peyote first. Even these elements are fleeting and temporary, and when they're gone, you're a victim waiting to be happen. And why are the ghosts even in pursuit? What is their motivation? Money, food, sex? Whatever, it is, it must be violent, because when they get her, she folds her mouth backwards and implodes. Poor Ms. Pacman, rest in peace, God take your soul, your lover never came to save you and failed to flee your pursuers. Game over, corrupter of minds, eater of quarters, damn you all.
Also, I'm going to chime in and say that anything that ass pinching booze swiller, Tomonobu Itagaki, has touched is for masochists only. You'd be better off spending your sixty bucks on a nice leather cat-o-nine-tails than Ninja Gaiden, slime covered blonde babes or no.
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Thanks Dharma. Now I have to go reevaluate my childhood from every angle.
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That has to be the BEST. Game. Review. EVER.
Short of Seanbaby.
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Festers Quest for Nintendo.
Man, I forgot about this one.
What a shitty-ass game, man. Seriously.
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pokemon
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The top 100 list thread reminded me of another one.
Ninja Gaiden III.
I once got to 7-3 and my game froze. That was the night of my murder spree.
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Pac-Man. Just old fashioned Pac-Man. Goddamn it and it's...repetitive techno music and pro-estacy usage-ness. Goddamn it to hell. Also I have never beaten Dark Cloud OR GTAVC. I never get past the riot part.
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I finished Pokemon in the red/blue days and by that I mean caught em all and I was reasonably proud until they released yellow, gold,and silver...
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Man, kids these days! I beat BattleToads plenty of times when it came out. I just went back and tried the jet bike level using a KEYBOARD and I still found it to be extremely easy.
I never beat the original Rygar. I spent like four hours finally getting to the last boss one time and died. Man, I was pissed.
You kids and your damn "save points"!
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You kids and your damn "save points"!
Agreed.
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Save Points Are For Pussies (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=contra3_owns)
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Dragon Crystal.
Back when I was 7, it was the most awesome game I'd ever played.
Now, it's still damn awesome.
A few years back i was really stoked at getting to level 27 of 30.
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I realize you're being slightly facetious, but saying save points are for pussies in today's games is ludicrous. I can see in games of the NES and SNES era, games that CAN BE BEATEN in a handful of hours. But games today tend to be longer and more complex and you NEED save points. Plus it's not like you're forced to use them.
I remember when Alien Vs. Predator came out for PC. It had limited saves per level based on what difficulty you played. This was sadistically hard for people like me who suck at twitch games. When they patched the game and let you save as much as you wanted, there was a great gnashing of teeth from those irritating 'true hardcore gamers' who said it would make the game needlessly easy. Well, it all becomes moot when you aren't forced to use the saves!! If I recall correctly, the game didn't auto-save to boot.
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While I'm sure there are people who have beaten some of the more ridiculously huge PC RPGs like The Magic Candle, Challenge of the Five Realms and (to a lesser extent) Ultima VI, I have never actually known anyone who did, and can't imagine the dedication it must take.
People who think Baldur's Gate is a "huge" or "challenging" RPG ought to check those out and imagine the Hell one went through being an RPG fan pre-1991.
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Those games were like Baldur's Gate + Expansion + Bladur's Gate II + Expansion + Icewind Dale rolled into one.
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I think the first PC RPG I beat without any help from a strategy guide (you damn kids and your "GameFAQs! In my day you had to PAY for Strategy Guides!") was Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge, and I got such a great feeling from solving all those puzzles, mapping all those mazes, and actually levelling my characters in an effective way without any outside help.
Actually some pre-'91 RPGs weren't overly long or difficult - Wasteland, obviously, is still extremely playable and enjoyable today.
But then you had stuff like Starflight. Oh God, the hours I wasted playing Starflight and doing absolutely nothing. Starflight was like an MMORPG only you're the only player in the entire gameworld and you had to look ridiculously hard to figure out that there was actually a way to "win". It was hard to even figure out there was supposed to be any kind of goal to it!
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Glory days, they'll pass you by (http://www.the-underdogs.info/).
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Oh yes, the Underdogs and Abandonia are glorious places filled with endless amusement.
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How many people have played the game Croc for the PS One? I don't think that's it's full title, but it was a platformer, and it was freaking hard. I was permanently stuck on one level, and then forgot about it. I still think about it from time to time.
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I don't know if you guys would consider Harvest Moon games some of the best out there(I know I do), but seriously... how do you beat them?! I've played all of them, and the only one I've gotten close to beating was Another Wonderful Life, and I still have like... 5 game years left.
But yeah, onto less of HM, I never managed to beat any of the Geneforge games. I tried, and I got SO close to beating GF: 2, but I never did. I got stuck on some random room where giant spikes from the ground would attack me with blasts of angry light when I'd walk in. It made me sad.
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Dogg the first one is easy. Just play it til it ends.
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The question is not "Do Harvest Moon games have an ending?" it's "How the fuck did they make this enjoyable?" It's like making an enjoyable game out of filing paperwork.
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The question is not "Do Harvest Moon games have an ending?" it's "How the fuck did they make this enjoyable?" It's like making an enjoyable game out of filing paperwork.
You know... a game for filing paperwork wouldn't be all that bad. Just add ninjas, some beheading, a plot, and a plan to destroy the filing cabinet. Oh, and don't forget the love interest; that sexy water cooler from across the cubicle isle.
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i've stuck my dick in a water cooler before. overrated.