He's not referring to games where the majority of players makes it through without death...he's talking about the ones where some players slip through the cracks and never die resulting in bragging rights.LobsterFeng said:
Games you beat the first time through without dying
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The infamous final Bossrush of the Runescape quest Recipie for Disaster. I'd been told it was one of the hardest boss fights in the game, due to no protection prayers (Immunity to a single branch of combat), massively powerful enemies and the fact that you irretrevably lost everything if you died, but I JUST ABOUT managed to squeeze through it without dying.
Suprisingly, I found out they made it so you could get your gear back if you died by then. Honestly, I'm glad I didn't know that. The fear spurred me into gaming overdrive mode or something.
Suprisingly, I found out they made it so you could get your gear back if you died by then. Honestly, I'm glad I didn't know that. The fear spurred me into gaming overdrive mode or something.
It matters a little bit how you define "die." I mean, if I lose a life playing Super Mario World, technically I've died, but I certainly haven't got a game over. Or if my main character dies in an RPG but the rest of my party's alive, does that mean I've died there as well?
Assuming you mean "Games you beat the first time through without getting a game over (or getting kicked back to the last save point, in games where you never technically get a game over)", I can pretty much say that this didn't happen at any time during the NES or SNES era, with the possible exception of Gemfire. I don't remember my first playthrough, except that I'm sure I picked the Blanche family, and probably the Gemfire scenario, which is pretty darn easy. So there's a reasonable chance I beat that game the first time I played.
Moving on to the PS1/2 era, I can't remember any titles in particular, but I know I played at least a few pretty easy RPGs in my time. In Final Fantasy IX, for instance, if you don't count taking the wrong path in an early cave and ending up on a plateau with a bunch of overpowered dragons on it (and then spending the next three hours or so figuring out how to kill said overpowered dragons, just to see what kind of crazy loot they'd give...not much, as it turned out), I think I might have played through that game without dying. Eiko's Pheonix ability is just that powerful, and coupled with the Chakra ability and a copious supply of pheonix downs, it means that an opponent has to be killing, on average, more than two party members each turn. That just never happened. It probably helps that I tend to rack a little more than strictly necessary in most RPGs I play.
Assuming you mean "Games you beat the first time through without getting a game over (or getting kicked back to the last save point, in games where you never technically get a game over)", I can pretty much say that this didn't happen at any time during the NES or SNES era, with the possible exception of Gemfire. I don't remember my first playthrough, except that I'm sure I picked the Blanche family, and probably the Gemfire scenario, which is pretty darn easy. So there's a reasonable chance I beat that game the first time I played.
Moving on to the PS1/2 era, I can't remember any titles in particular, but I know I played at least a few pretty easy RPGs in my time. In Final Fantasy IX, for instance, if you don't count taking the wrong path in an early cave and ending up on a plateau with a bunch of overpowered dragons on it (and then spending the next three hours or so figuring out how to kill said overpowered dragons, just to see what kind of crazy loot they'd give...not much, as it turned out), I think I might have played through that game without dying. Eiko's Pheonix ability is just that powerful, and coupled with the Chakra ability and a copious supply of pheonix downs, it means that an opponent has to be killing, on average, more than two party members each turn. That just never happened. It probably helps that I tend to rack a little more than strictly necessary in most RPGs I play.
Thinking... Thinking... Thinking... Nope, can't recall anything like that. I kinda feel bad about that now. Do I just suck horribly at all videogames ever despite playing them my entire life? Am I just unlucky that every single game I play has at least *one* part that totally dicks you over in some manner? Seriously, the number of times I've gotten killed through the game cheesing me but never dying otherwise are innumerable. Glitches, unseen spawns at your back, having something spawn on your head and explode, random generation makes a godly monster that's hilariously OP, leaps of faith, etc...
Oh. Wait. I actually didn't die in that one. Sure, had to get saved by astral pouches on a few rare fights (though I also never upgraded my ink/sun/pouch number), but I never got a game over. Then again, common consensus is that that game was criminally easy. I'd kill for a hardmode.The Wykydtron said:
Kirby's epic yarn . Oh wait you said a game where you can die .
Wild arms 4 and 5 . Goodness those game were piss easy , once you understand how the hex machanic works.
Dragon age 2 . Played as a rogue my first playthrough on a day1 buy no guides , again easy game , didn't know rogue was OP.
L.A Noire . Can you even die in that game?
I think i got through Dino Crisis 2 without dying . Not sure , but i think so .
Wild arms 4 and 5 . Goodness those game were piss easy , once you understand how the hex machanic works.
Dragon age 2 . Played as a rogue my first playthrough on a day1 buy no guides , again easy game , didn't know rogue was OP.
L.A Noire . Can you even die in that game?
I think i got through Dino Crisis 2 without dying . Not sure , but i think so .
a lot of RPGs, mostly JRPGs actually, i can do that with, usually on the first play threw to, due to my natural habit of 'no stone left unturned' exploration style, so i usually end up a little higher leveled then i should be.
follow up play throughs tend to be lower leveled runs cause i know where the stuff worth the trek to get is
follow up play throughs tend to be lower leveled runs cause i know where the stuff worth the trek to get is
The first game I beat without dying was Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legacy.
The first game I beat without dying on my first playthrough was Prince of Persia the Forgotten Sands.
Other games I've beaten without dying.
Portal
Portal 2
Tales of Vesperia
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2 OTR
Enslaved
Prince of Persia the Sands of Time
Blade Kitten
Mass Effect.
The first game I beat without dying on my first playthrough was Prince of Persia the Forgotten Sands.
Other games I've beaten without dying.
Portal
Portal 2
Tales of Vesperia
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2 OTR
Enslaved
Prince of Persia the Sands of Time
Blade Kitten
Mass Effect.
Hmm, the only thing that I certainly know that I've completed flawlessly is Zeno Clash, but other than that I can't really remember what games I've beat without dying once.
InFamous 2 on hard mode.
I always found the first InFamous to be easy, so I usually have to crank the difficulty to hard everytime I start up the sequel.
That tornado move made the game a piece of cake to complete.
I always found the first InFamous to be easy, so I usually have to crank the difficulty to hard everytime I start up the sequel.
That tornado move made the game a piece of cake to complete.
What about the Assassin's Creed games? They weren't that poorly designed, but they weren't that hard either. Hell, the Mass Effect series was all amazingly designed, but I never died in my first play through of either. Granted, it was only on Hardcore, but still...King of Asgaard said:
I die a lot in AC because I misjudge distances and fall fifty storeys, and never while in combat. But you can't really call its combat well-designed when you have one move that one-shots pretty much everything.bl4ckh4wk64 said:
I've not played Mass Effect, so I can't comment on its difficulty.
I'm sure there's one or two I've done it with, but a lot of the time, I either clumsily fuck up, or get curious and save (or not, if there's no saving, just checkpoints) or start tempting fate by doing stupid shit (am playing Shadows of the Damned now, had a boss fight with a really easy, non-threatening boss, but he sent out infinite minions. Now, knee-capping minions, then button-mashing x on them 'till they die produces money. I figured I'd stock up on money, but eventually got cornered by invulnerable-till-they-are-shot-with-a-special-shot-first enemies, who started tearing into me, and I had nowhere to dodge-roll to. Cue death.)
Hell, I heard yahtzee talk about just how easy SotD is - and it is quite easy on the normal difficulty - but one time, after defeating like, the first proper boss, I had a cutscene, and suddenly I died! But I still got the display of the new weapon I'd have gotten for defeating the boss - problem is, it froze. I could still hear the sound effects from my melee attack or from using health items, but it was just kind of fucking bugged out. And even so, knowing it's most likely a bug, my goddamn pride won't let it go. Same goes for the aforementioned dicking around in the boss battle, and one incident where I'd gotten several opponents prone and was going to stamp in their heads. Problem is, I didn't know they could still pose a threat, but they could, and they were clustered together ya see, so when I entered the pseudo-quicktime-event to fuck up one of them, the rest could still attack me, and when you actually get hit, you lose quite a bit of health. But I *could* easily have safely shot them up from a safe distance. So why didn't I? Fuck. And the worst part is, I'm still beating myself up over it, and always do. It's not healthy, I know, but I have a very twisted, demented sense of pride.
And now I'm rambling. Sigh.
Hell, I heard yahtzee talk about just how easy SotD is - and it is quite easy on the normal difficulty - but one time, after defeating like, the first proper boss, I had a cutscene, and suddenly I died! But I still got the display of the new weapon I'd have gotten for defeating the boss - problem is, it froze. I could still hear the sound effects from my melee attack or from using health items, but it was just kind of fucking bugged out. And even so, knowing it's most likely a bug, my goddamn pride won't let it go. Same goes for the aforementioned dicking around in the boss battle, and one incident where I'd gotten several opponents prone and was going to stamp in their heads. Problem is, I didn't know they could still pose a threat, but they could, and they were clustered together ya see, so when I entered the pseudo-quicktime-event to fuck up one of them, the rest could still attack me, and when you actually get hit, you lose quite a bit of health. But I *could* easily have safely shot them up from a safe distance. So why didn't I? Fuck. And the worst part is, I'm still beating myself up over it, and always do. It's not healthy, I know, but I have a very twisted, demented sense of pride.
And now I'm rambling. Sigh.
Journey is the only one I can think of right now.
Unless you're purposefully trying to be boneheaded, it's pretty hard to die. Then again, the game is not about challenge.
Also, I didn't die once playing Gears of War 3 the first time, but that doesn't really count since I played it immediately after playing through the first two games (on higher difficulties at that), so I was prepared in a way.
Unless you're purposefully trying to be boneheaded, it's pretty hard to die. Then again, the game is not about challenge.
Also, I didn't die once playing Gears of War 3 the first time, but that doesn't really count since I played it immediately after playing through the first two games (on higher difficulties at that), so I was prepared in a way.