Post by: The Omen on September 08, 2003, 11:35:04 PM
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 08, 2003, 11:41:18 PM
But I have the same problem as you. I did finish Zelda: Wind Waker and Eternal Darkness, but I can count many games that I have started but never finished. I just hope it doesn't mean that I am growing out of games personally, as I still very much enjoy them, and want to play them. I just can't seem to finish many of them these days. It seems like I get stuck in them for a few minutes and I move on to something else in the meantime. Hell, even a boring part will do that to me. It takes a well designed game indeed to make me finish it.
But like you, I can't even count the number of NES or SNES games I finished. Helll, I even got gold medals in all levels of Rogue Squadron. I don't know what is causing this either.
Post by: The Omen on September 08, 2003, 11:50:24 PM
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Be warned that I am taking your sig very much to heart right now, so be warned that I might not make much sense.
Yeah, me too.
But anyway, the worst part is, i just put in WW, and its been so long, i feel i have to start over so i know what the frig i'm doing. AAAARggggggg!!!
Post by: aoi tsuki on September 09, 2003, 12:02:48 AM
On the other hand, i've been beating games on previous systems that i never finished. i'm wading through Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast and i'm trying to be Metal Gear Solid for the umpeenth time (accidentally deleted my old save file), but Metal Gear Rex is kicking my butt. That Playstation's not going off until he's dead.
Post by: KDR_11k on September 09, 2003, 07:07:42 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on September 09, 2003, 07:35:36 AM
Super Mario Sunshine: I'm at Bowser's level but I keep dying on the stupid boat part so I've quit due to frustration (a common emotion when playing that game) but I'll probably come back again.
Metroid Prime: I just really REALLY suck at this game so I keep dying. Naturally this causes me to lose interest.
Star Fox Adventures: This is just really boring and really unfun so I've quit because it got to a part that's annoyingly difficult and the game just provides me with no incentive to keep going.
Wind Waker: All I have left to do is Ganon's castle. Traditionally with Zelda games I take a "break" when the last dungeon is all that's left because it means that there's nothing really left for me to discover and that the game is going to end. I will beat it though I just don't know if I'll bother to get all the figures for the Nintendo gallery. That's a big pain because of the "one figure a day" restriction.
F-Zero and Soul Caliber II: Well I just got them so that's why I haven't beat them yet though you can't really "beat" each game in the classic sense only unlock stuff. I doubt I'll unlock everything in F-Zero because it's just too hard.
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 09, 2003, 09:29:31 AM
Post by: ThePerm on September 09, 2003, 09:38:01 AM
Post by: yellowfellow on September 09, 2003, 11:36:44 AM
one, the fact that i have not found a game that has really "pulled me in" in the last little while. zelda did a bit, metroid did sort of, hitman did a little... but other than that...
and two, sadly i have too much responsibility these days to devote a great deal of time to gaming. i'm finishing my degree up now in immunology and am getting ready for dental school, so any free time i have is spent eating or sleeping. unfortunately, i don't have the hour before class or couple hours after class and before bed, not to mention the hours upon hours during the weekend, like i once did to play nintendo.
both these reasons are not separate, meaning like Grey Ninja said, if i get bored... i'm moving on to more pertinent things.
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 09, 2003, 11:47:44 AM
Whereas on earlier systems it was the opposite (though I got much better during the 64 age). That may be because I was only about seven when I was playing NES, though, so it's forgivable. And for all this beating of games recently, I still don't play that often.
Post by: >X< Kitten >X< on September 09, 2003, 12:23:25 PM
Beating a game also takes a lot of time....which most of us don't have. Games could be beaten in a few hours back in the days, but now it can take up to weeks. Omen, you don't suck because you don't finish games
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 09, 2003, 12:28:44 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 09, 2003, 12:29:40 PM
Yeah, so there's actually no excuse for not beating games! Get your lazy @sses up and go play!
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 09, 2003, 12:30:05 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 09, 2003, 12:30:18 PM
Yeah, so there's actually no excuse for not beating games! Get your lazy @sses up and go play!
EDIT: Okay, now that is just weird. . . two mixed in double posts. . .
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 09, 2003, 02:58:02 PM
Madden 2003-Don't play much, nothing unlocked
MG:TT-Three characters and all courses unlocked
ED-Not completed even one chapter
Agent Under Fire-Finished but haven't collected medalsin every mission
Metroid Prime-48% (or so) complete
SMS-Beat Bowser, MANY more coins to go
LoZ:WW-Beat Ganondorf-haven't done many quests, don't have many heart pieces or treasure charts and nintendo gallery practically empty (few statues)
OoT/Master's Quest- Finished Deku tree then got bored
Animal Crossing-can't really beat this one
SSBM: Had all the characters and all but one arena (not many trophies) but my data got corrupted and now I'm FAR behind
Pikmin-deleted file from day (17?), now I'm on the 6 or so
Fifa 2002- nothing unlocked (if there are unlockables)
SSX Tricky- All characters and courses unlocked and not much else
Spider-Man- Half-done?
Sonic Mega Collection-Nope
Home Run King- Bah.
And it's just the same or worse on the N64. Actually, reading this, I didn't do as badly as I thought I did. I MUST BE TEH AWESOMEST!
Post by: The Omen on September 09, 2003, 06:03:25 PM
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 09, 2003, 07:58:37 PM
I think half of it began for me when I suddenly had access to all the PSX games I had been missing out on. I played a little bit of all of them, and I found I bit off more than I could chew, and got bored with all of them.
I am really proud of myself when I show the ability to have a sustained video game marathon these days. I played Zelda for 5 days straight when it came out. I did nothing else for those days. I did the same for Skies of Arcadia. I started playing Xenosaga and my own copy of Skies of Arcadia on Friday. I am currently 30 hours into Xenosaga, and I have put 5 - 10 hours into Skies of Arcadia. I am not sure what my total time in Skies of Arcadia is, but it's close to 30 hours. I beat Pikmin 3 times. I finally finished Mario Sunshine about 2 months ago. I finished all 3 parts of Eternal Darkness.
But I have about 10 SNES games I have yet to finish. Some of them are within an hour of the end. I have about 20 PSX games I mean to finish. Some of those I have accumulated about 20 hours of gameplay in. I am nearing the end of Metroid Prime. I swore up and down I would be playing the extra bits of Resident Evil 0 when I finished the game. I haven't touched it in about 6 months.
Anyways, that's it for my random thoughts tonight. I am going to go back to drinking, and I might play some more Xenosaga later.
Post by: Sirmorphix on September 11, 2003, 09:08:25 AM
Most recently I picked up FFTA and because of it's interesting story, I find myself wanting to play it frequently. I think that as gamers grow older, they often require more to hold their attention and interest. More action/more story/more strategy, whatever it is for that particular gamer is often what makes the difference between a finished game, and a game that garners dust.
Post by: Sirmorphix on September 11, 2003, 11:05:30 AM
SMS: Finished game, not all shines collected
LoZ WW: Finished game, didn't do many side quests
Fifa 2003: Nothing unlocked, played infrequently in season mode
NCAA Football 2004: Unlocked a few pennants, played infrequently on Dynasty mode
Def Jam Vendetta: Finished game with one character, unlocked all characters, finished about 50% of photo galleries
NBA Street Vol.2: In the midst of Street Legend mode, played rarely (at least at the moment)
F-Zero GX: Currently doing story mode and Grand Prixs, nothing but new stories unlocked. Played infrequently (just too busy)
Soul Calibur 2: Almost all characters unlocked, about 25% of the weapons, all arenas.
ED: Game completed, 4 times, absolutely everything unlocked.
RE: Beat the game once with Jill, played pretty much never.
RE0: Didn't even beat the game... kind of pathetic.
Animal Crossing: Fully upgradded my house missing one payment completion.
SSBM: HAD everything unlocked, memory card flopped out too depresed to get it back.
Metroid Prime: Beat the game with about 82% completion.
Rocky: Beat the game unlocked everything (This has got to be one of the most under rated games of all time)
Mario Gold: Unlocked several courses, no characters...
Those are about all the games I remember owning, but odds are I own more than I can actually remember.
Post by: GoldShadow1 on September 12, 2003, 03:05:43 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 13, 2003, 12:06:01 PM
But somehow it'll work out I'm sure. Yesterday I beat expert on Sapphire cup (or the second one, I think that's the name, though) in F-Zero. Now for the last cup. . . then comes Kirby Air Ride, which should be fun but not too hard to beat.
Post by: mouse_clicker on September 13, 2003, 12:12:21 PM
Get back there and finish Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness, Ocarina of Time, SSBM.There's only a few of my Cube games I haven't beaten yet- Pikmin, Jedi Outcast, Skies of Arcadia, and Ikaruga.
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 13, 2003, 12:47:01 PM
I beat OoT on the N64, so that's why I didn't bother to on the GC. I'm still playing ED, but I've turned into a bit of a PIAC if you know what I mean. Metroid, and don't make fun of me, scares me WAY more than ED, and even I don't know why. SSBM I've played to death, and then my data was corrupted and it doesn't hold my attention long enough to play it again.I'm getting Fzero GX next. I read some reviews on FFTA, and I decided against it. it looked pretty good, but AW2 has kicked my but over again many times, and more tactics games might bore me. I need something fast, something furious....f-zero fits the description quite nicely.
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 13, 2003, 12:56:49 PM
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 13, 2003, 01:00:26 PM
actually, I missed some gardian force dude in FF8 that I can't get again, and it will ruin the whole game for me (in my mind). I doubt i'll play that anytime soon. but there's no excuse for the others!
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 13, 2003, 01:06:22 PM
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 13, 2003, 01:18:12 PM
I guess I missed this GF called Garfuncle or something, and it can reflect spells back at the caster person (?), and now I'm at the end of the first disk about, fighting the sorceress. Apparently, I heard, you don't have to win that battle, but I lost and had to replay it. I guess you just have to survive or something...help clearing this up would be nice.
Post by: mouse_clicker on September 13, 2003, 02:04:56 PM
Master Quest, by the way, is great- they really ramped up the difficulty on some of the dungeons.I haven't beaten too many of my PS2 games.
Out of the 9 (well, I guess DDRMAX doesn't count, so 8), I've only beaten 4 of them. I still have FFX, MGS:2, Kingdom Hearts, and Grandia Xtreme to go (Grandia Xtreme's a dungeon crawler, though, so I have some excuse).
Post by: Ms.Pikmin on September 13, 2003, 03:09:19 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 13, 2003, 04:47:30 PM
small increments of time?
in the same sentence?
Ha.....ha! hahaha!
What have you done of the Nintendo Gallery?
None?
You will be doing that for longer than playing the actually game.
And you might have to do the game TWICE to complete it all.
Maybe even THREE times, just after realising you missed that one opportunity to take a pictograph of that monster/person/thing.
Hahaha. Even I haven't finished it yet. I need one more. But you need the GBA connectivity to get it.
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Post by: Ms.Pikmin on September 13, 2003, 05:31:10 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 13, 2003, 05:50:16 PM
Good luck with that gallery!
Post by: Ocarina Blue on September 13, 2003, 06:12:58 PM
Edit 2: Confused myself and wrote the stupidest thing I've ever written.
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 13, 2003, 06:26:31 PM
KnowsNothing, I still have my FF8 save files, but I have no idea if I have Carbuncle or not. I am thinking that I probably do. I don't remember how I got it.
Post by: Mario on September 13, 2003, 06:27:11 PM
Super Mario Sunshine - Finished it three times, got all 120 shines each time
Luigi's Mansion - Finished it 6 times, such a fun game
Timesplitters 2 - Still havent gotten around to finishing the story mode, finished most of the challenges and arcade mode though, loads of fun single player and multiplayer
Metroid Prime - Finished it twice, second time through was on hard mode, couldnt be bothered getting 100% though
Super Smash Bros Melee - Logged well over 300 hours into this gem, need one more goddamn trophy, awesome game. My most played game on Gamecube.
Wave Race - Done everything, unlocked everything, excellent racer, still play it every now and then
Resident Evil - Finished it 6 freaking times, played it to death, to unlock all the costumes, weapons and such, one of my favourite games all of time
Resident Evil 0 - The end part ruined it for me, still havent finished it, im stuck on some retarted boss that takes 30 minutes to get up to from my save, and i just die straight away, stupid
Eternal Darkness - Currently on my 4th play through, such an incredible game
Starfox Adventures - Finished it 3 times, loved every minute of it
Sega Soccer Slam - Havent quite finished this one yet, only just got it though about 1 or 2 weeks ago
Sonic Mega Collection - I play this nearly every day, its all my favourite games as a child, in one game, priceless fun
Mario Party 4 - This game can kiss my ass, played it about 6 times, boring get, my least favourite GC game
Rogue Leader - Same as Mario Party 4, except its my second least favourite GC game
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - Probably my favourite game of all time, finished it twice so far, eager to play it through many more times. But i hate that stupid Nintendo gallery, tedious get, i dont see the point in doing it if its not fun, which its not, for me
Pikmin - Whoa, challenge mode has provided me with unlimited replay value, its so god damn addictive and fun. Plus ive finished the normal mode many times
Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 - Awesome! Addictive! Finished everything in both of them! Except master mode, which is impossible to unlock
And thats just the GC games
. Heh, yeah, i guess i just love games, which is why im at a gaming forum after all isnt it?
Post by: Ms.Pikmin on September 13, 2003, 08:07:21 PM
Also, since my last post I've managed to get 6 statues! Wow! I'll be done in no time.....right? *dives deep into denial*
Post by: Grey Ninja on September 13, 2003, 08:43:12 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 13, 2003, 10:34:32 PM
There are some characters you THINK that you can't take photos of the first time you see them. Like Cyclos, for instance, the frog that gives you the warp song. You only see him once - when you're fighting him. Once you fight him, he's gone. Forever.
This is also the case with the bosses. Take photos of them as soon as you begin fighting them, cause you'll never get them again (there's the second time you fight them, but thats beside the point).
There are some characters that you can only get through having photos of other characters. Example, when you take a photo of Grandma and make the figurine, you get the figurine for Aryll too.
At other times, there are some characters you CAN'T take photos of, and have to buy, because you only see them in cut scenes. I'll let you figure that out.
With the photos of some characters that are hard to get, like the one-time-only ones, the figurine guy will give you some leverage with the photos (eg they can be far away, not in focus, not entirely in the picture, etc) because they are hard to get, unlike the normal ones where you have to get that PERFECT picture cause you have all the time in the world to take them.
And why do you have to complete WInd Waker three times?
You don't.
It all comes down to if you remember to take photos of people and enemies as soon as you see them. Thing is, once you forget, and you realise that you will never see them again, you might as well start a new game.
So for GOD'S SAKE, REMEMBER!
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 14, 2003, 04:27:24 AM
I have three shines left in SMS. I must get them before I have to return it (don't own it, this is the second time borrowing it). . .
Post by: Moonwatcher on September 14, 2003, 07:32:10 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 14, 2003, 08:11:54 PM
Because at least now that you have the jet pack upgrades and can go thru the levels as other characters.
If you could stand DK64, the bloody hell, JFG is a heaven in comparison, cause at least the tribals and the ship parts can be collected by anyone (except for bits that only one character can get). AND there's at least a tribal counter in the pause menu to see how many tribals u have left, and in which exact area, so you can at least plan ur way around the levels.
The game really is good. You just have to get past the fact that Metroid is so much better (and similar - Retro would have done a really good JFG game had the license been kept by Nintendo), and that the frame is a bit jumpy and the graphics are blurry, as expected of N64 games.
The only thing that pisses me off about JFG is the final boss battle with Mizar. It's tedious, annoying, and the only reason the game is satisfying to compete is cause you got thru this sucker of a boss.
Post by: Moonwatcher on September 15, 2003, 01:26:02 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on September 15, 2003, 05:29:12 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 15, 2003, 05:38:15 PM
The music in it was excellent too. My fave levels are Eschebone and SS Anubis, and Ichor just for the fact that it has a nightclub, and you can change the music. Want some phat tunes? Rock on!
And if you haven't, or don't want to see the credits, it's Juno dancin in the club, Saturday Night Fever style.
Post by: Moonwatcher on September 16, 2003, 08:06:10 PM
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on September 18, 2003, 08:41:27 PM
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Originally posted by: aoi tsuki
i'm wading through Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast
*sets up a sniper camp across from aoi tsuki's house*
Anyway, games I haven't completed yet:
Metroid Prime - currently stuck
Super Monkey Ball 2 - not as good as the first game, but will complete at some stage
Rogue Leader - can't be bothered
Games I have, but have not started playing yet:
Zelda: The Wind Waker (
)Skies of Arcadia Legends
(big reason why I haven't played these 2 games yet is because I went back to playing Jet Grind Radio, Shenmue and Shenmue II all over again
)
Post by: Ms.Pikmin on October 03, 2003, 05:31:30 PM
I have now completed the following rooms: Windfall Island, Outset Island, Forest Haven, and have all of the legendary pictographs.
There are a few rooms I am almost done with, but as you all know, I will have to start a new game to get the last few. I actually want to finish the gallery. Before I was not looking forward to it, but now I am. It is kinda nice to go to the gallery and see all the figurines. My son has been spending some of his video game time in my gallery. He likes them too but is too lazy to get them all himself.
Post by: PIAC on October 03, 2003, 08:47:47 PM
PLAY SKIES OF ARCADIA AIAI *shakes pirate at aiai*
Post by: The Omen on October 18, 2003, 10:49:38 AM
Post by: Ms.Pikmin on October 19, 2003, 06:59:53 AM
Very frustrating.
