Do You Generally Beat Most Games?

[skeezix]

I find life is far too busy, and I probably just don't have the patience. I do beat a number, more nowadays than in the old days (due to games being shorter and easier nowadays). ie: I've beaten Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance (1 and 2, on the PS2) as well as the same gsame with the Everquest brand (1 and 2, on PS2); also beat Halflife 2. Good games. But most of the time I play for a night or two and either lose interest, or just 'never get back to them..' .. something gets in the way, and then after a week I never feel like picking up an old save again.

So I wonder.. for _beatable games_ games like Civ, you do not beat, since you make up your own games as you play) such as RPGs or the like.. do you go all the way, or just part of the way?

jeff

 

[Draken]

When the game is appealing, I try to finish it, but I have cases in which I totally lose interest (due lacking plot, difficulty, etc) and move on.
Though I must say, after all this years, I picked up on Zelda OOT again and finally got past this cursed stage.

 

[Jarska333]

I just beat-ed a game of Civ.

I tend to start games, and never finish them... I have 2-5 games unfinished at all times...

I've been playing Breath of Fire 4 for 4 years now. Never got a real good start for it, bought it in 11.9.2001. There was interesting programming on TV that day... Picked the game up again after a year or so.

 

[skeezix]

I tend not even to beat a Civ gamelet; In Civ1 I was able to crush opponents (back in DOS and Atari ST and so caloled it a win if I had no one to stand against; Civ II I didn't have a lot of time before, so never finished a game.. played for a night, but then next time I'd start a new game.. never felt right to pick up a day-old civ game. Civ III was the same .. never liked picking it up (or dropping it..

Civ IV yuet to play.

Right now I'm thinking of picking up a save-game from a year or so ago, Baldurs Gate II. I played the first part (IRenicus dungeon) twice .. a year apart. After Ibeat the dungeon, I never pick it up again. I'm tempted now.. but have I forgotten too much to pick it up? Hmm.. Or maybe just go pick up NWN instead

jeff

 

[Hanz™]

I very rarely play games, but when I do I play them ALL the way through, unless I am just trying out illegal ROMZZZZZ. oops! :blink:

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I do my best to beat it, but if i find after too many tries I cant get past a certain part, I wait a few months, cool down, and then try again. If at that point I still can't get past a certain part, I look on some websites for help. Basically, i dont like buying a game and only playing halfway through. If it's exciting and somewhat challenging, I go for the win. If not, I'll stash it away or sell it. To be honest, it leave me uneasy to leave a game without beating it.

 

[nubie]

I play until I no longer feel I am having any fun, then I mod the crap out of it.

Oh yeah, first I use a tutorial to beat it, THEN I mod the crap out of it.

You should see my copies of Need for speed, I had about 20 new cars installed on hot pursuit, even a nash bridges cuda, my buddy and I played almost all night, I was modding a VW golf for me and a viper for him, We were in-sane( talk insane, an RPI tuning Golf R32 twin-turbo AWD 6 speed 600HP is an awesome car for Gran Turismo 4).

On hot pursuit 2 I replaced the Corvette with a Caprice cop car, then made it front wheel drive, it handles way better at high speeds.

On Hot Pursuit 2 the cool thing was making a Ferrari 360 modena 4wd and then changing the turning radius to 0 and burning out in a circle till you were spinning at about 100RPM.

Uru is an awesome game, but when I bought it my nice Gateway EV700 17" monitor took a dump, and I played the whole game on a burnt-out 15" screen.
I got the monitor repaired and a geForce 6600 LE 256mb card is on its way (an awesome card; shader model 3.0 support for $110 ), Uru should have stayed Live, also I mourn for RealMyst, the adventure becomes 3D, the only copies are selling for over $150 sometimes on ebay, if they made another run at $50 they could clean up, the demand is there, I never buy new games, only $20 to $10 max, I can't afford a true gaming rig, and by the time I upgrade, all the games are usually cheaper and have patches and mods.

Speaking of modding, I love hacking console games with a Game Shark, the games are simple enough to let you get away with it, I had a GameShark 3.2 Playstation (the last REAL GameShark) connected to my PC with a serial port about 6 or 7 years ago now, and I could dump the Vram, Dump the ram, hack with the Codemasters software (cmgsccc.com). but now emulators have built in hacking programs, I have been giving myself Zelda Oracle of Seasons Items in my Zelda Oracle of Ages game, it is fun.

I forgot about Star Trek Armada, my brother and I had that demo so maxed out and modded, little defiant-class ships would detect and try to destroy the Borg with a hail of Photon torpedeos as they came out of the construction dock, from across the level.

So I guess I like to play games not all that far in. But I do appreciate a good game.

I wanted to play Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness all the way through, but I've got to a point where my computer keeps crashing, oh well, let's see what happens with the new video card, this fx5200 64mb was such a bad idea, it came with a wimpy passive aluminum heatsink, the base was way too thin to dissapate any heat.

Even after I put my old K7 heatsink and fan (this fan is the fastest and loudest in my case :blink: 3857rpm for the CPU, 5037rpm for the GPU), it won't take any kind of overclock, and the motherboard temp sensor says that area is really really hot. I just now put in a front case fan and rearranged some stuff, I took out my floppy drive because I realized I haven't used it in nearly a year (except some stuff my brother put on floppies, but even he has switched to an SD card and mini-reader, oh, and we are on a network now ), so I think the new card might take a bit of an overclock, especially if I can get the Athlon Heatsink to fit. That heatsink is awesomely huge on the card, I am taking up nearly 3 PCI, I am lucky mine has the free space beside the AGP.

I was debating a Motherboard bundle, but the geForce 6600 looked way too good, and I figured I had bought the nForce2 Ultra mobo for a reason, and the fx5200 wasn't that reason, besides, when I do decide to go for a 939 Athlon64 and a nForce3( or 4) I can get one with an AGP and PCIe and keep using the 6600.

 

[Rayek]

This is a very good question... Only when a game is truely challenging and interesting do i beat it. Ther is a great difference in gamers between those who play during thier free time, and those who play feverishly until there's nothing left to do. The only games I've beaten are: Mario3, Mario World, Metal Gear: Solid, GTA: San Andreas and TIE Fighter. But I've played and enjoyed coutless games in my time.

Oh, and the old Spiderman game for NES.

 

[Angel]

nope, have a short attention span. I got 50+ hours into Xenogears and haven't played it in about 4 years since, so it depends. I bought Final Fantasy Origins a few years ago and just now have got around to playing it and still i've played for maybe 5 hours and haven't touched it in a week.

 

[igboo]

I just don't have the patience to sit through most games. Remember 'Yoda Stories'? The 15 minute adventures that Lucasarts put out in the mid '90s? I don't even have the patience to sit through one of those.

It's hard to believe now, that at one time, I played Pacman for money in the arcades, and I could lock up the machine on one quarter. B)

Igboo

 

[judge0]

Depends on what you mean by "beat".

Take Final Fantasy X, for example. In orde to get the ultimate weapon for each Player Character, you had to do some really bizarre stuff.

I managed to play an entire season of blitzball to get Waka's ultimate weapon, other than that I believe they were impossible to get without cheating. Like, dodging 200 lightning strikes in a row, or riding a chococbo avoiding all incoming birds while hitting all ballons. Yah, RIGHT. Some of the community members might still have the hand-eye coordination to pull things like that off, but the days where my hand-eye was up to the task are long gone.

Played that game, til I could beat the ultimate baddie and moved on.Still a great game, though.

 

[Hanz™]

other than that I believe they were impossible to get without cheating. Like, dodging 200 lightning strikes in a row, or riding a chococbo avoiding all incoming birds while hitting all ballons. Yah, RIGHT. Some of the community members might still have the hand-eye coordination to pull things like that off, but the days where my hand-eye was up to the task are long gone.

I agree.

 

[shinneri]

Pretty much the only games I play through anymore are RPGs. I play for the story, and if it's not keeping me interested, I tend to move on. Other than that, I play a lot of pick-up-and-play type games like Mario Kart DS and Propeller Arena; can't really beat those.

 

[Qingdan]

Well, Just beaten Ready2Rumble on my Dreamcast the other day , but in fact I hardly play at all nowadays ... Too busy with tons of annoying stuff to do , like pretty much a lot of people here I guess !

Played the Murder/missing game (dont remember the name in English though) , the game made in Macromedia Flash where you have to dig info on the internet in order to solve problems .... Was really good, and found all the clues and started to get really interested in the story until there was that stupid Minigolf minigame you HAVE to pass to continue.... The controls are so weak it was irritaring like hell .

Tried it for a good 20 minutes then Wiped out the game from my HD.

So I guess I don't finish most of my games. Finish many games in Civ1,2 and SMAC though, never played Civ3 or Civ4 yet. Too bad I never managed to beat Railroad Tycoon, which was a brilliant game yet very challenging.

And to the Game geniuses who answered "finished all the games" take a try on Armymoves on CPC (maybe it's on Amiga/St as well) and try to finish that !

But I think games tend to be a lot easier now somehow. Finished a lot of gameboy or GBA games , some Dreamcast titles too but did not finish much of my Amstrad CPC games except a very few ones which were easy

edit ; but I finish nearly all the "adventure" games I tried , stuff like Monkey Island and so on, except for the very early Kingquest I dont like

 

[Rico]

moving these threads into other consoles where they belong

skeezix, you're old enough to know better

 

[shinneri]

edit ; but I finish nearly all the "adventure" games I tried , stuff like Monkey Island and so on, except for the very early Kingquest I dont like

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Ah, yes. Adventure is another genre that usually manages to pull me in for the whole game. If you haven't played Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, play it. Amazing game.

 

[Goity]

Depends on what you mean by "beat".

Take Final Fantasy X, for example. In orde to get the ultimate weapon for each Player Character, you had to do some really bizarre stuff.

I managed to play an entire season of blitzball to get Waka's ultimate weapon, other than that I believe they were impossible to get without cheating. Like, dodging 200 lightning strikes in a row, or riding a chococbo avoiding all incoming birds while hitting all ballons. Yah, RIGHT. Some of the community members might still have the hand-eye coordination to pull things like that off, but the days where my hand-eye was up to the task are long gone.

Played that game, til I could beat the ultimate baddie and moved on.Still a great game, though.

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The chocobo one was possible, but it took about two hours. I believe the thunder one to be impossible though, not to mention boring as fook.

 

[Rico]

I used to be like that until one year when I played FF5, FF6, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and a bunch of other games and one-by-one stopped playing them. Later when I realised I stopped playing SMRPG hours away from the end, and I had lost savestates to all of them due to a computer format, I resolved to finish games one at a time. So I did. I took the savestate for Phantasy Star IV (a game I gave up on a year ago) and finished it, it felt awesome. Then I finished a bunch of other games one at a time, and yes, it feels really good to finish them and not leave them hanging.

If they stop being fun, though, it's understandable. I did that with World of Warcraft (which doesn't really have an ending anyway)

 

[Goity]

I used to be like that until one year when I played FF5, FF6, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and a bunch of other games and one-by-one stopped playing them. Later when I realised I stopped playing SMRPG hours away from the end, and I had lost savestates to all of them due to a computer format, I resolved to finish games one at a time. So I did. I took the savestate for Phantasy Star IV (a game I gave up on a year ago) and finished it, it felt awesome. Then I finished a bunch of other games one at a time, and yes, it feels really good to finish them and not leave them hanging.

If they stop being fun, though, it's understandable. I did that with World of Warcraft (which doesn't really have an ending anyway)

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I do the same thing. I've recently started FF7 again and I got all characters who can get their level 4 limits in disc one get them (apart from cloud, his is just about impossible in disc 1)

 

[skeezix]

moving these threads into other consoles where they belong

skeezix, you're old enough to know better

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Bah, excepting most of the games mentioned (or expected to be mentioned) are available under emaulotion for the 2x and 32, and naturally I'm expecting these threads to be poached for port-ideas and such

jeff