After more than 20 years I finally beat my white whale of gaming.
It was
awesome. For years I couldn't get past some of the world 8 levels either because I ran out of lives or because it pissed me off so much.
So I went to town this week on it and ended up with around 60 lives and 4 rows of items to choose from.
I made it through using a P-Wing and finally got to the big man.
I finally did it. And as small Mario.
What are your gaming white whales PA?
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I had to move out of my apartment back home after school. I somehow lost my copy in the move and never beat it. That was like 4 years ago...
I don't think I have either.
I have attempted the game a few other times before. The first time through I was a very impatient child and I rushed the whole game. By the time I got to Sepheroth I was just powerful enough for the fight to last until I ran out of mana. I couldn't win. The next couple of times I played the game I made it to various stages and whatever happened in life took me away from it.
Recently I picked it back up again and finally finished it. I'm a lot more willing to grind levels than I was when I was younger it seems.
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why were you not using ethers/elixers when you ran out of mana?
I played this game for around an hour and turned it off in disgust. Everything it did made me angry, and it was doing it on purpose, and it enjoyed it. Somewhere there were developers laughing at me.
Weeks later I realized that I missed the whole point of the game. It had exposed how soft most current games have made me. I will probably never go back to it, but it will always be there as a very good game I dismissed for foolish reasons.
This time i think i might make it.
Damn that game. First time I tried I played about 10 hours... and decided to restart for who knows what reason (I did that a lot when I was younger). The next time I played really far. I was on the last disc doing some of the side-quest bosses... the other Dragoons you had to fight in the tower thingies. I forget which one I got to... all I know is I stopped for some reason.
After that I promptly lost the game and it has bothered me ever since.
Damn that game.
I wish we got that cover.
I played it when it came out, maybe a few years latter, I think I was in middle school. I got the the point where the villain captures you and sends you to some ruin to get an artifact or some shit like that, I don't remember. The point being, he says "HEY YOU CANT USE MAGIC THERE THATS WHY IM SENDING YOU, HINT HINT HINT HINT" And I think, "Oh, he can't use magic, big deal." Who do I bring? Main Character, Blackmage, Whitemage, Redmage. Guess who can't use magic either?
Of course, there was no area where I could go back and change who was in my party, everyone else was still prisoners on the ship.
And turning asteroids into resources kills your harvesters.
JOY
I bet I could do it now though.
(the first boss shown, not the second one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j29OxPtfIMk
And I died. It was my last life on my last continue. I never made it to him again. And watching that video, I am kind of glad I didn't, because I would have been pissed off to find out there was another boss after him.
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I keep buying various copies of Civilisation, however, and I finally won a game, Civ 4 on easiest difficulty, about three months back. Maybe one day I will try Chieftain difficulty...
I can never get to 8-4 as anything other than small Mario. I can usually get to Bowser, but then he goes psycho and I die.
Any Final Fantasy aside from 4 and 7. I always try to do all of the sidequests, which seem to get mashed in somewhere around when it's time for the final dungeon. I get burned out because they're boring and/or tedious, but I can't ever bring myself to face the final boss until I've done them all.
I went through that whole cavern of hell, collected jelly beans and treasure, then took a root beer rocket to the planet blobalonia. I then worked through the hellish candy factory and finally beat the emperor. I was so giddy after that victyory.
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Hehe, speaking of Demon's Souls, I just started up a new mage this morning before work, rushed through 1-1. Fun times, love that game.
Apparently, when they decided to make the sequel, they went the 'Resident Evil' route with the controls but tried to turn it into a confusing, muddled action RPG that just would not play in a way that my 12 year old mind could concieve. After running around that stupid desert town for what felt like hours, finding a secret lab, and realizing that this was in no way like the game I played, I stopped.
I read on an FAQ some odd years later that I was pretty close to the end, and that if I had stuck it out and not been such a bitch I would have cleared it.
Despite this, I've since rented the game and still have not finished it. I don't know what it is. Every time I start the fucker up, I lose interest almost immediately, even though I understand the controls and the gameplay better.
It's like one time, I fell alseep while watching the movie Stargate. Now, every time the scene comes on where I fell asleep, I get sleepy. Must be something psychosomatic.
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I got it in 1995
I completed it in 2007.
Seriously some parts of it I had no clue what the hell I was meant to be doing
To be fair, unless you read a spoiler, you probably don't.
It's just too fucking scary. No doubt if I put enough time into it I'd be running through the game with the player character dressed in a pink tutu with a magic wand for her camera, and I'd know where all the ghosts will pop out and it would all be so ho-hum.
But I never got to that point, and the game just creeps the shit out of me.
But I love it so much, the other day I bought myself a new, sealed copy so I could return the copy I borrowed from my younger brother. I have no idea if I ever intend to try it again, but I know I want it in my library.
Edit: or maybe platinuming Mirror's Edge.
WHITE! WHALE! HOLY! GRAIL!
About once a year, I try to learn to play Madden, they advertise a tutorial to help any player, and every year it's simply not true.
Well, do you like football?
I really liked 1, but I've been blocked on progressing through 2 a few times. I'll get around to it eventually.
My previous example of this was A Link to the Past, but I finally got around to playing it.
I forced myself to play through this, even finish the terrible final boss.
What a load of crap compared to the original this game was.
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Now it sits there and I have no desire to play it or GoW3. I have no logical explanation for it.
I didn't have many, I was impatient back then.
I also thought that ,for some reason, I couldn't leave the North Crater once I entered. I don't know why I thought that.
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TMNT 1 on the NES: Either the dam stage or that one sewer jump that all the guides said to get a turbo controller for.
If it makes you feel any better, Chance - you are not alone. Fatal Frame II scares the shit out of me. I have started it three times and only make it a few hours in before I just have to walk away. Demons, zombies, monsters? They do nothing to me. But ghosts? They just ruin me.
Pity, because I really liked what I enjoyed of the game, but the fact that it's on the PS2 and I don't have a BC PS3 means I'm unlikely to ever finish it. I guess I'll have to settle for Okamiden.
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Yea, you can't jump that gap...but hey were right, you pretty much just walk over it.
The NES TMNT game gets me at the dam every time. I just can't beat the explosives on the dam due to the stupid electric seaweed. :x
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