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I just beat Final Fantasy VII, and other sad things.
AgentONeal
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I've had Final Fantasy VII for 11 years, and I've never beaten it. Sure I played it, it was sitting right there, and it looked enticing -- but I never beat it. Why? Well, when I got to the end I realized that my characters were way too weak to do anything but spit on Sephiroth, so I just gave up.
I beat VIII, IX, and X, but never beat VII.
Now, exactly two days ago, I beat FFVII.
I sat there watching the closing cinematic feeling really good about myself, until I realized something sad but true, and said aloud to an empty room to the tune of the Final Fantasy theme, "Why?"
What games have you had forever, haven't beaten, and plan on beating? Or have you beaten it and now feel like it waiting forever wasn't worth it? Or was it worth it? Are you perpetually alone?
I think, in the end, it was worth it. But I'm just mad that I didn't do it a long time ago.
Other games I have but haven't beaten (and have had forever):
Lunar: Silver Star Story - Got to a part where I was fighting a blob on a ship and kept losing, gave up.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Can't remember why, but I gave up.
God of War - Did something, I can't remember, but in the end I gave up.
I beat VIII, IX, and X, but never beat VII.
Now, exactly two days ago, I beat FFVII.
I sat there watching the closing cinematic feeling really good about myself, until I realized something sad but true, and said aloud to an empty room to the tune of the Final Fantasy theme, "Why?"
What games have you had forever, haven't beaten, and plan on beating? Or have you beaten it and now feel like it waiting forever wasn't worth it? Or was it worth it? Are you perpetually alone?
I think, in the end, it was worth it. But I'm just mad that I didn't do it a long time ago.
Other games I have but haven't beaten (and have had forever):
Lunar: Silver Star Story - Got to a part where I was fighting a blob on a ship and kept losing, gave up.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Can't remember why, but I gave up.
God of War - Did something, I can't remember, but in the end I gave up.
"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." (Psalms 8:2)
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Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Mostly the ones I have yet to beat are the big RPGs like Valkyrie Profile, Mass Effect, or Final Fantasy XII that I know will take me a long time to beat. I know if I start one I'll have to play it almost exclusively until it's beaten because I feel like I won't get the "full experience" otherwise.
It's kinda silly, but yeah, that's just another way my brain is out to get me.
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Shadow of the Colossus, Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria, all the NIS SRPGs(I like the SRPGs, but I just don't get the time to do long plays on it), Odin Sphere, Grandia 3, and a few others that I can't recall off hand at the moment.
I still haven't finished Wild Arms 5 or Odin Sphere (because of that fucking slowdown at the death queen...)
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Final Fantasy VIII. The combat system in that game was just so terrible that I couldn't keep playing it anymore after a certain point. I gave up partway through the third disc.
Chrono Trigger. I couldn't finish the first fight with Magus. I don't know if I'd still find it hard, but I was pretty young at the time.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Stupidly long unskippable cutscene before the final boss.
Those are the ones that really irritate me.
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I always end up getting so close to the end, too. What I do is in preparation for the final battle, I try to grind up some more levels and get the really powerful weapons. However, in doing this I make the story that I've been trying to follow for weeks now--stop. Once the story stops I realize that the grinding I've been doing is boring and lose interest.
I really have to learn to stop that.
-God Hand - 'cause I got it 6 months ago and only got around to beating it yesterday. Satisfyin'!
-FFXII - 'cause I ended up getting Odin Sphere and loved it (the ending is awesome).
-Siren - a 'cheapo used game' I took a chance on last week, been coming back to it - it's very good - but it's... not easy. At all.
-Oblivion - I've got a wicked assassin/thief/sneaky bastard who now runs the Thieves' guild, put about 40 hours into it and never touched the main questline. Not once. But I will.
-Fatal Frame II. I admit it. This game scared the hell outta' me. But one day I'll beat it. ...I swear.
-Summoner - picked it up used the same day as Siren, 'cause people laud it as an excellent RPG on these forums. Haven't even cracked the case yet.
Haha, I thought I was the only one who did that. I'll buy a game, play it for a little bit, and then put it away, as if I didn't just spend twenty bucks on it.
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Ico -- Love this game, don't know what happened.
Shadow of the Colossus -- Got to some turtle guy and couldn't beat him.
FF XII -- I've started this one three times now and have never even made it to Archades.
Rogue Galaxy -- I really liked this one, but it got kind of tedious.
Bioshock -- Started this the night before I went to PAX last year and just never picked it up when I came back.
There's plenty of games I don't finish, but these ones stand out for me.
Edit: And Dragon Quest VIII. Absolutely love that game. Got to the last boss and it was really rough. I just never grinded out enough levels to take him down.
Every game that I have for Wii:
Zelda: TP
Metroid: Corruption
Mario Galaxy
No More Heroes
Zack and Wiki
Most of the PS2 games I've bought in the last two years:
FFXII
Shadow of the Colossus
Valkyrie Profile 2
God of War 2
Persona 3 FES
Okami
Onimusha Dawn of Dreams
Almost half of my 360 collection:
Bioshock
Devil May Cry 4
And both Paper Mario RPGs (N64 and GameCube).
I also have a box of games that I haven't beaten and don't plan to because they just plain didn't click with me. This box says "EBAY" on the side. (I've got lots of good stuff in there too, Growlanser Generations Deluxe, Stella Dues, both Disgaeas (actually I beat the first Disgaea, but my memory card ate my data for both games when I was about a third of the way through the main story of Disgaea 2), Eternal Sonota, Tetris DS, Contra 4 and others.)
I still haven't beaten Shadow of the Colossus, but I will some day soon. I don't know why I havent.
I haven't beat FFXII and I doubt I ever will. The game bores the shit out of me and I think the only reason I haven't sold it is 'It's pretty and a Final Fantasy'.
Still need to beat Chrono Cross and Xenogears as well...
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Forget it...
You should totally give me your copy.
*force persuade*
I bought MGS3:S after hearing so much about MGS 3 (and myself being a HUGE fan of the first one, 2nd one was okay). I played until the part where you first meet Ocelot and I just stopped. Haven't touched it since.
FF9 had another leveling problem. I reached the final leg of the journey and entered into the lair of the Big Bad, without having a single leveling problem before, and noticed that I was completely outclassed by the random encounters. I soon left the lair and scouted around the world for quality encounters to raise my level. Eventually I became bored, told myself I'd finish leveling some other time, and never went back to that save. Years later I went back into the game, but became bored early on and quit again.
Seven never gave me problems though. In fact on my second play-through I didn't bother with any extra random encounters and was fine through the game (I think finishing it around level 45-48); I noticed that the game tends to give you items and equipment suitable to upcoming boss fights, and so long as you take advantage of the HP/MP materia you get (in the first disc I think), you run into few problems.
I haven't played many other RPGs, but did finish the rest--FF Tactics, FF6, Mass Effect, Oblivion, and currently I'm seeing Lost Odyssey to the end. I'm sure I'll finish it, as it's more about being smart in fights than slogging through the grind game.
Well, that's not true. I did play one other. Quest 64. It was so horrible, and the level grinding was so uncompromising, that I couldn't stand continued play. Good thing I only rented it.
Bioshock was the last game I played all the way through to the end. For those of you who haven't beaten it, you really should. Granted, personally I think the end is a bit of a let down, but the experience is one that shouldn't be missed. Plus, it's a fairly quick play, under twenty hours if I remember correctly.
Also, from what I still have on my shelf:
Alundra - Got up to the last dungeon but never quite got around to beating it. Will play it through eventually.
Alundra 2 - Got only so far, it sucks so I'll never play it again probably.
Blood Omen Legacy of Kain - Wait, is the disc even in there? No it is not. Well, whatever.
Shenmue - Never did all that much in this, never figured out why people even liked it.
Beyond Good & Evil - Got to one too many stealth sections and I stopped playing because those suck
Disgaea 2 - Felt exactly the same as Disgaea, and I just kind of got bored with it
Front Mission 4 - There's this one damn mission near the end where you have to guide shitty wanzers all the way back across the map where they start off right near the enemy and they can't all die but they suck so it sucks
Growlanser 2 - I got to this one map where you had to move fast before the floor fell away and killed you, and that was balls so I quit
Kingdom Hearts - Disc is fucked up at Halloween Town, can't continue with the disc I have.
Makai Kingdom - I'm pretty sure when I was playing this and Disgaea I was burnt out on SRPGs because they didn't do anything for me. Plus, other reasons.
Samurai Legend Musashi - So there's this one boss near the end that is suddenly really fucking hard to beat. I didn't care enough to keep trying.
Xenosaga - Quit right before the last boss. I forget why but I'm going to play through it again soon
There are more but I don't really own them anymore, so bleh.
I usually get midway into a game, then get bored as soon as I feel it becoming repetitive. I have finished very few games.
-Stella Deus: same, for different reasons
-Rule of Rose: frustrating puzzle, not the most amazing game, either
-Thousand Arms: not all it's cracked up to be, IMO
-Makai Kingdom: some of the maps are just unnecessarily difficult.
-Hoshigami(both the PS1 and DS versions): still hasn't aged well.
-Phantasy Star II: two words. Science Lab.
My reasoning for telling myself I'll eventually beat FFXII is much the same as your reasons for keeping it. I'm not actually sure I'll ever beat it.
I've beaten Chrono Cross several times, it's a game that gets better as I get older because the story was so fucking confusing to me when it came out 8 years ago.
I've never beaten Xenogears either. Partially because the story was hard to follow when I was younger but mostly because the second disc sucks hard sweaty cock compared to the first.
Same here, it's in my ebay box.
Which is very strange, since I love GRAW with a passion. I remember booting it up and wondering why the graphics were so muddy when it had been a year since the very pretty GRAW came out.
I was actually right at the end, too. Isn't there a point just before the boss fight where you can go back to the world map? I quit there.
I mean, I like it, but apathy is what's up.
I thought you were talking about the actual FF3 for a sec, then you said Kefka and my brain had to do a 180. I got to the last dungeon in FF3 then just gave up because I didn't feel like beating the last villain that I barely knew who he even was. But FF6, man I must have beaten that like 6 or 7 times by now, in three different versions.
I never finished FFVIII either, I remember being on the 3rd disc just before the last boss (think it was the last boss anyway the mansion thing) and being stuck cause I never upgraded the weapons but couldn't work out a way to leave.
Zelda: LttP was one that took ages for me to finish though. I had a mega drive growing up so the only time I got to play it was when I was at a mate's house or borrowed a snes from the videoshop. Then the fact that there was two copies at the video shop and I end up with the wrong copy (saved game on the other one) or someone else deleted the save
Go back and beat it. SO FUCKING WORTH IT. Cheese Kefka to death, I don't care, just beat it. The end sequence is like a half an hour long and so fucking good.
You should, and so should the person who posted below this, I beat this game...I dont know how many times and Ive never gotten bored of it, now you go and you sit in your room playing it and you think about what youve not done!
The final boss of Alundra is insanely difficult. The only reason I beat it is because I was using a cheat device, and even then it took like 20 minutes to whittle him down.
I beat it once, wouldn't play it again. Nothing new from more playthroughs.
The worst game for this is Disgaea, hopefully it'll be easier to finish on the DS as I won't have to be in a specific location (my PS2) to play it.
This seems to be pretty common with people that play it. I did the same thing, got to the castle and couldn't beat any of the monsters to get my skills back and gave up on it.
The second playthrough always seems to go much smoother though, since you're more familiar with the combat, weapons upgrading and the like. Its also really important to note that you don't have to get into fights or grind, since all the monsters in the game level with you. Its actually easier if you don't level.
Plus it has the best soundtrack out of any Final Fantasy ever.
For me, I really really want to work myself up to finishing SMT: Nocturne, but I haven't played it in forever and forgot where I was up to story wise, but don't want to start again yet.