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Post by cambertian on Oct 18, 2014 11:24:12 GMT -5
That's pretty much every game for me.
I don't beat games. I just get close to the end and then play another game when it gets too hard.
#suckstobecasual
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Post by steven on Oct 18, 2014 11:41:19 GMT -5
Looking at steven's avatar reminded me that I also beat Super Punch-Out!! 10 years after. I loved Punch-Out!! too (that's actually another game I first beat in college), but I preferred this because it was clearer to me what I had to do to access the uppercut (sometimes I couldn't tell how to get the stars in the NES game). Still fire both up on emulators very frequently. Heh, ironically, me too! I forgot to mention Super Punch-Out!! myself, which I beat FINALLY in late 2011/early 2012. Before I was never able to get past the old geezer. Then, in one magical night, with no FAQs or Youtube, I beat the geezer and then went on to beat Rick and Nick Bruiser. I've tried to beat them a few times since, and I have been unsuccessful But that one night I was on fire. Just one of those 'locked in' nights that you experience as a gamer every once in a blue moon.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Oct 18, 2014 17:21:12 GMT -5
Didn't really make an effort to beat most of the games I played until the mid '00s so that list is big. I started back in ~'89 at four or so but didn't own a NES.
Zelda Kid Icarus Castlevania* Bubble Bobble* Life Force* Jackal (NES)* Fantasy Zone* Enduro Racer (ARC) Rambo: First Blood Part 2/Ashura Zanac
Just from 1987 (because I was checking favslist). *=holds up well.
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Post by Pixel_Crusher on Oct 18, 2014 21:09:02 GMT -5
Beat Virtual Hydlide three weeks ago. I had gotten stuck at the second vampire boss near the endgame when I was six and never bothered with it ever again.
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Post by hydlidian on Oct 21, 2014 3:11:53 GMT -5
I'm narrowing this down a bit to games which I have had or played as a kid.
When I got my Saturn a couple of years ago, I played some games that I had played before but never completed. I had played some of these were on different platforms, but I wanted to get games on Saturn so I got them on it. I beat: Loaded (which I even owned for PS1, Quake, Exhumed (or Powerslave, also found out that this is really different than the PC version) and Duke Nukem 3D. Also, I was thoroughly impressed as a kid when I saw NiGHTS demo my friend had, so no surprise, I also bought and beat that.
Mario Kart 64 was a game I played a lot at my neighbours and I got it on Virtual Console earlier this year. Didn't remember it was that annoying at times as some things take so long (the prize ceremony, Lakitu lifting you up) but I guess it was okay. Call me casual but I much prefer Mario Kart 8. I don't really get what should be so great about MK64, for example compared to Crash Team Racing.
Playstation Doom was also one game I had as a kid and beat just recently. I had even got rid of my copy but I'm glad I got it again. The ambient soundtrack really makes the game and it has a nice package of levels for a single game. Probably should get Gex 3 again too and finally complete it.
Also: Virtual Hydlide is where it's at. Sort of got my Saturn for that.
Edit: Loaded is really not a classic. Oh well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 12:12:58 GMT -5
I believe it took me 10 years to finally getting round to playing the first Devil May Cry. I finished the other 3 shortly thereafter! I think I was on a binge to beat as many "tough reputation" games as possible at the time.
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Post by zerker on Oct 21, 2014 15:08:29 GMT -5
Hydlidian, you're not alone with regards to Mario Kart 64. I actually regard it as my least favourite in the entire series
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 21, 2014 19:41:21 GMT -5
Pure unbridled Nostalgia. I played it by myself once, and I kind of regretted it. Like a lot. I do feel the same way about any other Mario Kart though.
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Post by Allie on Oct 21, 2014 20:47:43 GMT -5
Final Fantasy 4 (US SNES version). I'd played through close to the end, but hadn't finished the final boss with my own party.
Finally burned right through it in 2004.
Battle Clash (again, SNES, though,admittedly, emulated) would be another.
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Post by Scylla on Oct 22, 2014 15:31:19 GMT -5
If you want to talk about games owned the longest without beating and then finally do so, that'd be Jurassic Park on SNES for me. That was, I believe, the second SNES game I ever owned, and the SNES was the first system that I personally owned (and at the time I got it, the only system in my house). While I played the game I got before it (Super Mario All-Stars) and the games I got after it endlessly over and over and over, Jurassic Park I barely touched because I couldn't get anywhere in it and it also really scared me, haha. Doesn't help that I'm not a fan of FPSs and they usually give me a headache and/or make me feel nauseated. But I finally sat down and beat it less than a year ago, and it made me feel super accomplished to finally conquer that game. Granted, I used the Nintendo Power coverage to help me know what to do, and I followed their maps to minimize my time in the FPS segments (and I got maps online of the FPS areas that Nintendo Power didn't have maps for). Maybe that kind of negates my accomplishment, but I don't care, given that the game has no password/save feature (I was playing the actual cart) and I would've made myself feel sick if I had to explore and map the FPS areas myself, I'm sure I would never have played through the game without that outside help.
I wouldn't call the game a classic though, haha.
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