the longest time owning a game without beating it

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02 Mar 2011, 5:56 pm

Jetfox wrote:

Bethie wrote:

13 years.

I got Mario64 in fifth grade
(first kid in my class to have an N64!)
and I still can't get the 120th star.
It's the 100 coin star for Tick Tock Clock.

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i hated tick tock clock, so much timing in that stage, i completely understand that one.

I don't know if you remember,
but in order for you to get all the red coins, you have to traverse the rotating gears on the wall,
and the only way I could ever do it was to jump in at the time when the clock was "paused" and they were motionless so I could climb up,
but that prevents you from being able to reach the upper levels of the clock.

I defeated Bowser 3x (so easy) but that game still haunts me because of the last star. ; /

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02 Mar 2011, 6:05 pm

Ambivalence wrote:

Jetfox wrote:

so i have no clue what you are going on about.

i'm seeing flashing colors in front of my eyes right now, and i may not know what i'm going about 3 seconds after posting this.

It comes down to "games are there to be enjoyed, and you can enjoy either a) playing them or b) trying to "beat" them, and if you're seeing flashing lights and dazed and confused, you're probably doing a little too much of one and not enough of the other." :wink:

Anyhoo, I couldn't sensibly answer the question you posted, because there must be hundreds - that's literal, not hyperbole - of games I never finished as a kid, so roughly twenty-eight years. Still, y'never know. There was a game called Loco-motion, which consisted of driving a little steam train across different screens of track making sure it had enough fuel and water to keep going and moving gold and supplies around. I got it working on an emulator a while back and systematically mapped it (which didn't take that long - what was difficult for a six year old isn't quite so taxing now :lol:

) and finished it as far as it can be finished. But that was 'cause I like mapping things and really wanted to know what was in the mysterious top-right end of the game, not 'cause I had any burning desire to finish it... so I don't really get the completionist thing that so many people seem to have about games.

There is one game I'd love to finish, though, and that's an old vertical scrolling shooter called Firetrack, which is the second-best game ever released for the BBC Micro (after Elite, which is saying a lot.) It's insanely difficult. There's eight worlds to it (plus a bunch of in-between stages) and it starts to get impossible about level five; the best I've ever managed was the seventh, and that was when I was drunk (I *know* that shouldn't be the case, we all know drinking messes up your reflexes...) at university thirteen-ish years ago (I was playing it emulated even then.) I try it again every now and then, but I can't get that far anymore.

i'm not going to argue about what i do most of the day or year, i probably spend as much time in front of a screen as cats spend sleeping or cleaning.

but that's not why i stayed up last night, and i'm not willing to share why. it has to do with a cronic stomach pain, and two laxitives. i figured trying to sleep at that point was pointless.

but anyway i understand, but i was really just sharing my story cause i thought it was unique. it doesn't matter anyway i lost the game years ago. thanks to r4 some emus and my ds i got it back and now i can't even finish it cause the controls are so wonky, i wonder whos bright idea was it to put fly on up d pad button anyway, what's so hard about double tapping A.

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03 Mar 2011, 1:19 am

Tollorin wrote:

Do [you believe] it was the first time she played Tetris?

the point was not how long she'd been playing the game, [at that point it was only a few years after being invented] but the fact that she quickly and effortlessly reached the very end of the game while at the same time fluently multitasking by chatting in a very intellectual yet didactically tailored manner with me. she was as far above me in brainpower, as i am above a house pet. that, along with having no luck at getting any better that that diabolical little time-waster, made me give it away to somebody smarter.

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03 Mar 2011, 2:47 pm

for me it is kingdom hearts chain of memories. I've had it since 7th grade and have YET to beat it yet....I'm a senior now by the way.

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04 Mar 2011, 7:38 pm

Currently, about 12 years with Command & Conquer Red Alert The Aftermath. I didn't really care for the campaign all that much, so I basically would just play skirmish mode on the Docklands map, build a heck of a lot of cruisers and bombard everything within range of their guns prior to shipping over ground troops to annihilate the rest of the enemy's base.

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05 Mar 2011, 12:52 am

Akari-Seishin wrote:

for me it is kingdom hearts chain of memories. I've had it since 7th grade and have YET to beat it yet....I'm a senior now by the way.

are you stuck on the 4th replica riku battle, cause i completely understand he is wicked hard.

my first game through reverse rebirth i hacked and cheated and i was till mowed down by him.

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05 Mar 2011, 1:26 am

10 Years without a complete Pokedex in my copies of Silver and Crystal.

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05 Mar 2011, 1:29 am

Until January I would've said Final Fantasy VIII (which is my favorite game of all time), but I finally beat it after over 10 years. Now I'd probably say Final Fantasy X, which I first played right when it came out, got very clsoe to the end once, and close another time, but still need to beat it. I will soon.

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05 Mar 2011, 9:50 am

Jetfox wrote:

Akari-Seishin wrote:

for me it is kingdom hearts chain of memories. I've had it since 7th grade and have YET to beat it yet....I'm a senior now by the way.

are you stuck on the 4th replica riku battle, cause i completely understand he is wicked hard.

my first game through reverse rebirth i hacked and cheated and i was till mowed down by him.

im on the pink haired dude first time after all the replica battles, my friend beat the rikus for me xD but yea to me the pink haired dude is hard.

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05 Mar 2011, 12:19 pm

dunbots wrote:

Until January I would've said Final Fantasy VIII (which is my favorite game of all time), but I finally beat it after over 10 years.

Now I'd probably say Final Fantasy X, which I first played right when it came out, got very clsoe to the end once, and close another time, but still need to beat it. I will soon.

VII is one of the easiest games in the series. Try II - it's a b***h to finish. :/

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05 Mar 2011, 3:36 pm

RandomSniper wrote:

dunbots wrote:

Until January I would've said Final Fantasy VIII (which is my favorite game of all time), but I finally beat it after over 10 years.

Now I'd probably say Final Fantasy X, which I first played right when it came out, got very clsoe to the end once, and close another time, but still need to beat it. I will soon.

VII is one of the easiest games in the series. Try II - it's a b***h to finish. :/

Oh, it's not that they're hard, it's just that I always lose interest in a game right when I get to the end, because I don't want it to be over. :lol:

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05 Mar 2011, 10:23 pm

Animal Crossing, since it really can't be beat. :wink:

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05 Mar 2011, 10:30 pm

Several years.
It was my Sega Genesis.
None of my games had any saving points so I would always end up running out of lives and continues before I could beat any of them.

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14 Mar 2011, 11:12 am

I know its not as long as everyone else here, but I've had Forza Motorsport 3 for well over a year now and I play it quite regularly. I have about 945 achievment points, and I'm only something like 35.4% through the game. Sure you can beat the Season Mode, but can you complete ALL of the events in the Event List? Though I do find myself getting side tracked with adding livery to cars and tweeking the engine, or just trying to set the quickest times in Hot Lap. I am also proud to say that I play on Hard mode, I turn all assists off, and drive with the manual (no clutch). Driving like that definitely makes things a lot more difficult.

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15 Mar 2011, 6:49 am

There are tons of games for the Atari 2600 that I've never beaten, and we've had those since before I was born...so I'd say maybe something like 30 years...

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Animal Crossing, since it really can't be beat. :wink:

I consider it "beaten" once you pay off the mortgage. I did that in the GameCube one (you get a statue) but still have one more (I think) payment left in the DS one

Kind of like how people consider Darklands to be beaten once you've slain the dragon.

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16 Mar 2011, 1:57 am

auntblabby wrote:

i've owned one of those little handheld gameboy tetris games since the 90s, and i've never been able to make the rocket take off at the end. i knew a genius who fluently spoke several languages but was slumming as a janitor in the hospital i worked in- one day she noticed me struggling with the tetris and took the game from me to demonstrate her brainpower, and while discussing [really talking down at me so i'd understand her] learning theory, she managed to make the rocket take off in less than 3 minutes or so. without even thinking about it. it was like her hands had genius brainpower of their own. it must be nice to have lots of smarts.

That's a cool story.

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