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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Massy2k6 on August 14, 2011, 03:22:24 pm
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I was just thinking about a few games I kinda regret/not bothered to complete like, fallout vegas. For some reason I just lost interest in console gaming and dropped all the games I was playing on the PS3 at the time including fallout.
Also always wanted to complete an old spiderman game I had on the sega but it kicked my ass everytime. Dont remember the name but I would always reach as far as electro before getting my ass handed to me.
Any games you guys hope to get around to finishing or games you just never bothered to complete?
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Curse of Monkey Island. I totally love that game but for some reason I never played it through to the end.
Rayman too, but I think that's because you need to find every single cage before you can do the last part and I never quite got around that.
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Also always wanted to complete an old spiderman game I had on the sega but it kicked my ass everytime. Dont remember the name but I would always reach as far as electro before getting my ass handed to me.
i bet it was this fucking game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_vs._The_Kingpin
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the first final fantasy
I have never beaten that fucking game and I've played it dozens of times
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I didn't finish OoT until I got the 3DS version just recently. Had always meant to and started a very good attempt but it was on an emulator and my hard drive failed.
Here's some games I still haven't finished and which I feel Regretful for not finishing: Normality, Harvester, Deadly Premonition, Space Funeral (i promise soon catamites...soon), Earthbound, Link to the Past
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I never used to finish games when I was younger. now I just think I've already invested way too much time into this garbage, I might as well finish it! unless the game is good all the way through, but that's pretty rare. I've beaten every new game I've played since around the time I got out of high school, including shit like Dragon Age. I also play fewer games now that I'm in college, so that probably factors into it a little.
some specific games I've never been able to finish
baldur's gate I and II: I put a lot of hours into both of these games, but I always ended up creating another character and starting over once I got bored with the one I was playing, or when I come back to the game after not playing it for a year and can't remember what kind of character I was playing or why they were interesting to me
every final fantasy I've played. I know I got to the last boss in ff9, but I don't think I beat it. I got to the final boss in 12 but I didn't beat him either. the rest of the games I never got close
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Blade Runner (PC point and click adventure game). I got up to a point where I'm running from a bomb, but try as I might, I couldn't outrun it. Turns out it was a timing issue with faster CPUs. I just lost interest at that point, though. It's a great game and I may return to it.
Outcast (again, a PC adventure game, but not point and click). I warped to some watery world and then I lost interest. Another great game that I may return to someday.
Quest for Glory V. I played through and loved Quest for Glory 1-4 (except 3, that was a clearly rushed game with some poorly-implemented mechanics). Quest for Glory V bored the hell out of me. The game felt unfocused and I disliked how they ditched adventure elements for more RPG elements. I probably would have completed this game if they put in co-op. Unfortunately co-op play was dropped during development.
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I've never gotten around to beating Ocarina of Time. I seriously started it at the beginning of the summer with every intent of finally finishing it, but then I went to Europe and obviously didn't play it for a couple of weeks and every time I tried to start it up again since I've lost interest. I got to the fucking spirit temple and stopped. I might try to beat it in this last week before school starts.
I also never beat Final Fantasy VII. I got to the part where it's just like "Go find Sephiroth. He isn't here, so try the next town" for like 5 towns and stopped caring.
I haven't beaten like 90 percent of the Mario games I've played. In fact, I think I only beat SMB3 and Super Mario World.
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i bet it was this fucking game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_vs._The_Kingpin
Yup, thats the one.
Also just remembered Body Harvest on n64 dunno why I stopped playing it, think I just kept getting lost.
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I've never gotten around to beating Ocarina of Time. I seriously started it at the beginning of the summer with every intent of finally finishing it, but then I went to Europe and obviously didn't play it for a couple of weeks and every time I tried to start it up again since I've lost interest. I got to the fucking spirit temple and stopped. I might try to beat it in this last week before school starts.
This is where everyone quits because fuck that temple.
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I have to admit Earthbound loses steam at some point but fucking Magicant and stuff like that
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This is where everyone quits because fuck that temple.
Is that the one in the desert? cause i didn't mind that one. At least it wasn't the water temple.
I still haven't finished half life 2. But I've been playing it and hitman blood money lately whenever I play a game so I'm working on it.
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Is that the one in the desert? cause i didn't mind that one. At least it wasn't the water temple.
Oh, no sorry I was thinking of Shadow Temple. Fuck the Shadow Temple. Spirit Temple is fine, and there's really nothing wrong with the Water Temple on the 3DS version (since you can switch boots instantly).
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Water levels like that are just tedious though. I hated it in super mario 64 as well.
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I hate water levels too but I'm pretty sure the biggest gripe everyone had with the water temple was the boot switching which was tedious as fuck on the N64 but is easy as heck on the 3DS.
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guys, the shadow temple is the best. you're wrong. just straight up wrong.
probably the only two games that I actually regret not beating are Earthbound and Deus Ex. They're both games that I enjoy a lot but I always eventually just stop playing them for whatever reason and by the time I get back to playing them I feel like I have to start over to avoid having very disjointed experience. Also I have Deus Ex for the PS2 and the load times are atrocious so that doesn't help.
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Final Fantasy Tactics is the only FF game I've beaten, and I've played all the others (including Mystic Quest), except for X and X2.
I've watched Paolo beat 7 though, hooray!
Any Disgaea game - I also haven't beaten. I get to the hardcore grinding, then after a month wonder what I'm doing with my life.
Looking back, I don't think I've properly completed a game that wasn't A) a suikoden game, B) a tactical RPG, c) Warhammer game, since the days of SNES and the rule of 2D PLATFORMERS. EVen then I didn't complete most of them.
I am like a magpie; the second something shiny and new appears, I need to do that instead.
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See: My Backloggery (in my sig)
Currently working to fix that I have so many incomplete games in my collection (and out)
But I'm finding that some games are too frustrating/boring/heavily aged to beat. So I've been beating/completing games on a case by case basis. so far, I'm beating most with little trouble. but I do occasionally hit a speed bump of a game, or life happens and I can't play for a while. I'm determined to beat/complete (and in rare cases understand that I might as well skip) all of it though. I've been making progress, the 'yearly report' part of backloggery isn't completely accurate, I plan on beating everything in both owned and wishlisted games. coming to about 300-400 games or so. Yeah, I know its going to take me a long while.
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I have to admit Earthbound loses steam at some point but fucking Magicant and stuff like that
It's when you get to Fourside and suddenly the pure linear momentum of the first three towns is replaced by this huge city you're wandering around lost in for hours. You have to go back to the desert. You might have to make multiple trips between the city and desert. Figuring out what to do at this point can take ages if you're not looking at a FAQ.
If memory serves, the game really starts throwing battles at you that are tough enough that you'll have to stop n' grind around that time.
It's no excuse though, you have to play the game because it's fucking brilliant and you need its context for Mother 3, which is fucking brilliant.
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I've never been able to play earthbound straight through, but I am a notoriously slow gamer. I like to explore everything and talk to everyone and hang out in towns.
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I lost the thread with earthbound at fourside because my laptop broke down and it was months before I could access that hard drive and by that time I guess I was playing a different game. I really enjoyed it though, I like the game's attitude.
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hmm, for me way after fourside when you needed to start grinding. a big mistake on game developer's part...
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Final Fantasy Tactics is the only FF game I've beaten, and I've played all the others (including Mystic Quest), except for X and X2.
I've watched Paolo beat 7 though, hooray!
Any Disgaea game - I also haven't beaten. I get to the hardcore grinding, then after a month wonder what I'm doing with my life.
Looking back, I don't think I've properly completed a game that wasn't A) a suikoden game, B) a tactical RPG, c) Warhammer game, since the days of SNES and the rule of 2D PLATFORMERS. EVen then I didn't complete most of them.
I am like a magpie; the second something shiny and new appears, I need to do that instead.
It's crazy how similar that sounds to what I was going to say. Now that I can put every final fantasy prior to X on my phone to emulate, what I'm doing right now is playing through the only Final Fantasy that I ever did already beat all the way through (but Final Fantasy Tactics on an entirely portable format is so bad-ass in principle and execution. FFTA2 can just suck it!)
My problem is that I always get my party into a state where they can go through to the final boss, but then I lose all interest in going up and actually beating the game itself. I think it's the blatant linearity and crazy endgame difficulty is what made FFT the exception for me, but does it count as a real win if you abuse the JP generation glitch all the way through? I never fail to use that cheat, since I personally view it as just a way to skip redundant grinding, which is pretty ironic given I use the exact same logic to loosely justify my consistently constant grinding in Disgaea.
Now that I think about it, I'm probably just going to look into some Tactics Ogre games I haven't played and beat those instead. I'm astonished at how effectively that entire series flew under my radar since I am the exact same way about Tactical RPGs as you are.
I'm surprised at how many people are saying they never beat Earthbound. I thought most of the people here were already used to playing RPGs. (Although tbh I am just as surprised that Earthbound was one of the few traditional RPGs I played all the way to beating. I beat the sequel, but I still gotta play through the prequel *or original, depending on your perspective*)
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my two black sims had a white baby. does this count as winning the sims?
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hmm, for me way after fourside when you needed to start grinding. a big mistake on game developer's part...
I guess really more like around Scaraba. I forgot you go to Summers inbetween those bits.
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actually on my earthbound cartridge there's still a saved game in the lost underworld, which is where I had to take a break. I got to magicant years before, but when we were 14ish my sister stomped near the SNES because of something her boyfriend did and the cartridge reset and I had to start over for the third time
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The fuck, a cartridge can RESET? And it can reset due to STOMPING NEAR IT?
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The fuck, a cartridge can RESET? And it can reset due to STOMPING NEAR IT?
It could have knocked the battery lose or something.
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yeah I dunno, but it happened twice. this was while it was plugged into the SNES and I was playing it. the other time I think my sister accidentally kicked the console while it was on.
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Earthbound Zero wasn't very fun. It basically could've been a hack of Dragon Warrior 2 or something and it is /too/ much like Peanuts that time around with the clinically depressive atmosphere Peanuts had
I like all the huge/empty/open spaces though (hyrule field/spacechat). Reminds me of Earthbound where between Threed and desert there is this grassy highway area but in Earthbound Zero you can actually explore those places. Also going through dark train tunnels and fighting overpowered enemies is pretty surreal and dreamlike. Wish Earthbound had more ridiculous wandering segments like this, it has lots of nature areas but it's always like one of the Your Sanctuary dungeons and it all seems to have a purpose/flow. Wish there was more segments where you're just hopelessly lost in mountains/presented more like EB Zero where it is like scattered towns + overwhelming nature/lack of civilization inbetween. Have to walk around the mountain 10000 times to reach the haunted house dungeon. Is actually in a secluded area rather than Earthbound videogame version of 'secluded'. But EB Zero just didn't convince me with the atmosphere that I was in suburbs/city/school/etc. interested in that EB Zero hack of Earthbound that starmen.net or some dudes were doing though
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The fuck, a cartridge can RESET? And it can reset due to STOMPING NEAR IT?
Well, the CPU resets. It sometimes does that when it receives illegal instructions, such as from stomping near the cartridge.
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When I was much younger I thought that like wiping your finger along the metal bit at the bottom of a SNES cartridge would like DESTROY THE GAME ITSELF. I remember doing it uncontrollably before I lent Theme Park to a friend in return for Mario All Stars. I HIGHTAILED it out of there, but yeah it turns out it was fine.
After that I've always just assumed you could like stamp on or run over cartridges and still the game would be fine. Go figure!
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The games I neglect to finish the most would have to be the Final Fantasy games.
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Dragon Quest VIII
it's like beautiful game and I do enjoy exploring the game and stuff but it kind of lost how ultra-streamlined the series had become. (not streamlined like pretty streamlined like fast/intuitive) Like I remember VII and the remake of III was so fast going through the battle menus even with enemy animations they made them so brief in such a way it actually made it funkier to watch. Also item management is weird now it's like Quest 64 gaudy icons for every item. It's easier to ascertain if a sword is better by names like SHORT SWORD vs. RAGNAROK ULTRA DEATH BRADE, or HALF MAIL FULL MAIL not so much a pictoral representation. Everything just feels like a pain in the ass to do. Also getting in extra battles because of fighting the camera or because you can no longer see through walls like in the 2D games. There are really so many problems because of the 3D like you can also no longer see a dungeon MILES ahead of you because of the shrunken perspective of the world map. I think they maybe should've had like a quick zoom-out feature where it appears like any other Dragon Quest game and you can see the landmarks up to a certain distance. Or maybe there is an overworld map? I dunno
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Final Fantasy V and Deus Ex. Got near the end about 4-5 times each but I just can't seem to do it.
Nowadays most of the games I get seem to be short enough to blast through (although I still haven't got through Dead Space and I've had it for a few years, ugh. Great game but it's a slog at times).
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Really? I though Dead Space was too short... then again, I'm pretty sure I put 20-25 hours into it, which is way more than the typical game, but I had a blast though out the whole game and it left me wanting more. Which I suppose I'll get when I play the sequel.
Same thing with Deus Ex. I didn't have too much trouble beating it, as it seemed consistently entertaining... though there are a few parts that are mind bogglingly difficult.
I liked System Shock 2 overall more though.
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I never finished System Shock 2, Condemned 2, Wild Arms 3, Shadow Hearts:From the New World, or Final Fantasy XII.
The incomplete ps2 games were due to my console dying on me. I've subsequently patched a functioning one together from two I had laying around the house, but I've been away from the games for so long I don't really feel like picking them back up. I watched an LP of Shadow Hearts From the New World, picking up about where I left off... then I lost interest in watching the lp. I don't know what that says about the game, but Shadow Hearts Covenant is still one of my favorite rpgs of all time. I tried FF12 again, but I was in that damn repetitive as hell tower/ziggurat/whatever and just said "hell with this."
Condemned 2 just fell apart for me the more I played it. It made less sense than the original, which is strange since it went about explaining everything that happened. The part I gave up on was the bowling alley. I had a good trip through, had found (I guess) all the hidden stuff up to the point where I was, but I had a power outage (or something, been a while). I went back and replayed the level later, and realized that I'd missed something, but when I went to go back, I had faceless mannequins blocking my way. I reloaded a save and did the level again up to that point, only this time I forgot to find some other thing, and had to stare at the damn mannequins again. I said "F-ck you too," and turned the console off, and never had a desire to play the game again.
System Shock 2 was one of the games I attacked after falling in love with Deus Ex. I wanted more games to be like Deus Ex, and I wanted to play them all. For me, System Shock 2 just wasn't as good. I had fun with it, but for some reason my interest just tapered off, big time.
Just remembered, I also haven't finished Vampire:The Masquerade: Redemption. The modern sections were kind of annoying with the horrible accuracy rate for firearms. I found myself cheating the game and carrying unlimited ammo and healing my characters all the time through console commands when things got out of hand. It just wasn't fun to play that way, let alone in its original broken state, anymore. It was a shame, because there was potential there.
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Most of the games I still have to complete, I played up to a point, and then had something cause me to stop playing for hours/days. Once out of the cycle of heavily playing a game, I then end up leaving it for weeks, months or years.
Psychonaughts is something recent I need to get back into. I started it about 6 to 9 months ago, mostly loved it, but then I got stuck at around the Milkman, and haven't touched it since.
I've got Napoleon: Total War downstairs that needs to get more attention, but I have just come out of a two long relationships with Rome and Medieval Total War. So I'm not looking for anything serious right now, which really puts me off playing it.
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despite sinking hundreds of hours into them both fallouts and both mass effects along with oblivion. i make too many new characters
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I'm the same way about Oblivion, but I totally completed the shit out of Fallout 3 and New Vegas (minus the expansion packs for the latter, which I still need to purchase).
How can I possibly complete Oblivion when I still have THIEVES' GUILD QUESTS to complete.
EDIT: Also HOLY SHIT is that Wolhay!?!
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Wrong post.
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EDIT: Also HOLY SHIT is that Wolhay!?!
Yes
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EDIT: Also HOLY SHIT is that Wolhay!?!
yes i am me, im surprised youre still here faust. or even remember me for that matter.
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I was gone for years, then returned because of STRONG EMOTIONAL FEELINGS.
Also of course I remember you dude. You used to send me some really rocking tunes. Plus I remember having DISCUSSIONS-DU-POLITICK with you.