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Can it be beaten overnight?
Shifty_Calhoun
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I think this may warrant a new thread.
I am planning to rent games and try beat them as soon as possible as I am too cheap to go buy them and I figure they may have a linear story anyway.
I plan to get comdemned and condemned 2.
I have played through bioshock in a night and loved it. I may go rent it again to get the other endings.
Are there many other games that you figure could be worthwhile renting but not buying?
I am planning to rent games and try beat them as soon as possible as I am too cheap to go buy them and I figure they may have a linear story anyway.
I plan to get comdemned and condemned 2.
I have played through bioshock in a night and loved it. I may go rent it again to get the other endings.
Are there many other games that you figure could be worthwhile renting but not buying?
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Gears of War
Marvel Alliance
A good question. Something I should have put in originally. I am interested in beating xbox 360 games particularly but feel free to put up any console opinions as I am sure there may be others like myself that may just want to rent games instead of buying them.
All of the HL games
Fuck... Just get Orange Box.
Edit- Beaten like a red-headed step-child.
Will do. I'll also get left 4 dead whenever it comes out.
Heavenly Sword, but you said worthwile.
BTW: Why not get gamefly?
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Never knew there was a comic for the game, and loved the game to death. Good answer too, as it's pretty short.
Timeshift was a pretty good game, and can be beaten overnight.
Just FYI Left4Dead is going to be multiplayer only I think.
Resident Evil 4
Any Metroid
Any Metal Gear
I tried to do Marvel Allaince overnight, even with 2 other friends with co-op but just couldn't do it, we got bored and wasted instead...but GoW deff. Halo is another good one
GTA4 overnight? Really?
The game is based off the comic, which is a pretty good read too btw. In the Top Cow universe(i think that's who they were) the Darkness came from the Witchblade comics, the Darkness and the Witchblade have this eternal struggle thing going one. Yes an eternal struggle of overall badassery(the Darkness) vs the also somewhat badass yet always extremely scantily clad vixen of the generation(the witchblade). The Darkness is definitely one of my favorite comic power sets.
Oh and back to OP, it's possible to get through Dead Rising in a night too(maybe an all-nighter plus a little). But it's somewhat easy to mess up a run through, so it might take two days.
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Edit- Blade Runner? I don't remember that.
I guess if you were a really sick person it could be done...but then you wouldn't enjoy it
Westwood point and click adventure game. Beatable in an evening.
Any Prince of Persia
Agreed on portal. I played through it all in one sitting at Orange Box unlock night, from around midnight to 3:30am. I was pretty out of it for classes the next day.
I think the only game I did in one evening that I can remember is Halo 2 and that was pretty good times.
The ending may be a tear-jerker in normal circumstances, but it is devastating at 6 AM. I was exhausted but I still couldn't just go to bed, I had to go take a walk, that's how upset I was.
I wouldn't personally put any of those in the "can be beaten overnight" category, at least not comfortably, unless you've already beaten them before. I'd put all of them at somewhere around 15-20 hours on my first playthrough.
Portal and LostWinds (though you can't rent it...) are pretty much perfect for an overnight game. Games that I can explore, and fully absorb without rushing, and still beat within a few hours.
Last time I checked the Social Club, top time was 9 hours and 5 minutes. So theoretically it is possible.
Canadian winters, baby (yeah, I know we're in May, shut up).
I don't know, I haven't rented a game in years. Plus Blockbuster only has 3- or 5-day rentals for games anyway. :P
Doing these on co-op guarantees some fun times.
No, what he meant was that you might be able to watch Blade Runner the Director's Cut in one night. Maybe.
The original final fantasy is one that comes to mind.
Zelda, Metroid, Metal Gear, Blaster Master, Dragon Warrior... these come from a day when "open-world" meant "That's you, that's the world. Have fun!"
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