Topic: I suck

[KnowsNothing]

AAARRRGGGH!!  I also have Xenogears, FF8, and MGS to play!  Sooooo much to do....sooooooo little time!

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!

[Grey Ninja]

Heh... The card game in FF8 was one of the few things I liked about the game.  I played through the game again with the intention of getting every card.  I missed one card.  Laguna.  Somehow I had just forgotten about it.  DOH!  But I never ever did get all the guardian forces.  It just wasn't worth my while.

[KnowsNothing]

I love the card game, but I'm really bad at it.  Triple-Triad, I think it's called.

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.

[mouse_clicker]

I've beaten Ocarina of Time 6 times, plus Master Quest on the Gamecube. 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 , 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).

[Ms.Pikmin]

I have several games that I haven't finished.  I have Skies of Arcadia, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Timesplitters 2 and Doshin the Giant.  I went a little nuts about a month or so ago and bought all of these games within a week or so of each other.  I have only played them for about ten minutes each.  I just don't have time to really sit down and get into a new game.  As far as other games I've not finished, WW and SMS have been beaten but not really completed.  I beat Bowser but still have 5 shines to get.  On WW I really slacked on all the sidequest stuff but did beat the game.  I've decided that since I don't have alot of time to play games right now that I'll first "finish" WW since the sidequests can be done in small increments of time.  After that I'll take another stab at the last few SMS shines, but some of those are a serious pain in the butt.  

[Termin8Anakin]

side quests?
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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[Ms.Pikmin]

Aww, crap, I've been neglecting the damn gallery.  I'm on my second time through and have basically done nothing with it.

[Termin8Anakin]

hahahaaa.
Good luck with that gallery!

[Ocarina Blue]

I've had that problem with the Gallery aswell, that's the most annoying thing I've ever come ascross in a Nintendo game. I'm on my third time through, so I can finish it this time, then finally finish it again properly...  Sigh

Edit 2: Confused myself and wrote the stupidest thing I've ever written.

[Grey Ninja]

I know right now that I am going to need to beat the game at least twice to finish the gallery.  I LOVE the gallery though, and I often play the game just to sail the sea and take pictures.

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.

[Mario]

I try to finish all my games

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?

[Ms.Pikmin]

Okay, here's an ignorant question.  Why do you have to go through WW 3 freakin' times to complete the gallery?

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*

[Grey Ninja]

Some of the pictures you need to get are at the very end of the game, or the very beggining of the game.  There are more than 6 characters that you never see other than at those moments.  

[Termin8Anakin]

Here are tips for the taking photos and the gallery in general:

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!

[Hostile Creation]

I only had to go through the game twice to finish the Nintendo Gallery.  Annoying thing was that I had to go through another fifth of the game just to get one last picture (Mighty Darknut).  I loved doing it, though, every minute of it, and I still go and hang out in there and look at the statues.  Tis fun.

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). . .

[Moonwatcher]

The ONLY game I own and have never completed is Jet Force Gemini.  I was rather enjoying the game and then I was told to go back and collect ALL of those freekin teddy bear things on top of a bunch of ship parts.  I've hardly touched the game since.  

[Termin8Anakin]

Jet Force Gemini really isn't that bad when it comes to collecting.
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.

[Moonwatcher]

Yeah, DK 64 was a chore.  I completed the game but that dosn't mean that I liked it.  Near the end it had nothing to do with winning and everything to with sticking it to the game's designers.  I'm well aware of how little sense that makes but as twisted as it is, that was the only motivation I had.  I was surrounded by other distractions when I was playing JFG that contributed to my abandoning of that effort.  It was a fun game, I just couldn't find any reason to go on after that annoying discovey.  I'ts been so long since I played it now that if I pick it up I'm totally lost.  I'm afraid that I'm not going to play it all over again just to see the final boss.

[Hostile Creation]

I loathe that game.  I never even got past the first level, methinks, and even though I played someone else's games who was past that part, it wasn't any better there ever.  One of my top 5 worst games ever.

[Termin8Anakin]

it wasn't great............but i liked it

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.

[Moonwatcher]

Juno...dancing...didn't expect that.  Did have wonderful music though.  I've nearly downloaded the entire soundtrack.

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

Quote
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 )

[Ms.Pikmin]

Earlier in this thread I had mentioned not having "really" finished WW because of Nintendo Gallery and other sidequest stuff.  Well, I'm actually making progress on the gallery (yay).

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.

[PIAC]

yeah im kinda lazy when it comes to wind waker's side quests, i really should't be but OHWELL, ive acutally got ALOT of games that i haven't finished, alot ive hardly played too, stupid work, i need more time in my week, that or to buy less games... no... that wouldn't work... never...

PLAY SKIES OF ARCADIA AIAI *shakes pirate at aiai*

[The Omen]

I've never beaten Oot, and after suffering with intense feelings of guilt, i have decided to get it done this weekend.  I'm going in!