Have you ever beaten a game without dying once... on the first try?

[LookingGlass]

To be clear, I'm asking if you've ever picked up a game for the first time, played right through it, and reached the end and finished the story mode/campaign/whatever without dying once. It doesn't count if you started again or if it wasn't your first playthrough.

If it's not a game where you "die", feel free to substitute the equivalent losing condition, e.g. failing an objective or losing a race.

I ask because I just did this in Bastion, and off the top of my head that's never happened to me before. Strangely though, the game didn't "feel" easy... it wasn't like I could stop paying attention and still be fine, or anything like that. It had me fearing death and still had some tense moments, but it never quite got the best of me.

So, questions:

1. What game was it?

2. Did you think the game was lacking enough challenge to be as enjoyable as it could have been? Or did you like that you could just play right through?

 

[putowtin]

Fable 3 springs to mind, there's even an achivement for it
(you do get knocked out once but that's for plot development not because you as the player fail)

I also remember not dying (or being desynchronized) on my first play thru of ACII

 

[Mandalore_15]

Prince of Persia (the new cell-shaded one)... because it was physically impossible.

God I hate that game.

 

[Vidi Kitty]

Any adventure/puzzle game in which you don't die?

Other than that, no, that would mean the game's too easy. I don't play on easy difficulties.

This. I'm not one of those crazy people who feel they have failed in some lasting way when they die, even if I have lost some item or a whole character.

If the enemies didn't get me, I probably jumped out of that plane to get a better view of the coast as the camera followed my flailing person to the ground.

 

[stabbymcstabs]

got through half life 2 on normal on the first try.

Had alot of close calls though, mostly fromthe gunship battles along highway 17.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of War.
I don't know how it happened - all i did was erecting turret after turret until "ummmmmmmm, that's it ?"

 

[Zhukov]

It's hard to remember, but I think I played through the first Fable game without dying. The game throws health potions like confetti.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Fable 2, Fable 3 (I think I almost fell asleep a few times through this game, it was that easy), Bastion, and almost Jak 3 but Erol got me in the end.

Oh and Portal 2, as tempting as those suicide achievement were I didn't go for them until my second run.

 

[Dethenger]

I beat both ACII and Fable III without dying on my first try.

 

[therandombear]

Warhammer Dawn of War 2, and it's expenasions. I never died. I like to think that I had a good strategy when it came to placement of troops, mines and grenades though

When I say died, I mean all units down, and mission failed because I died.

 

[Knife]

Well, Fable and AC2 come to mind, also Icewind Dale 2 (found a little glitch with the bard) and Kotor 2(my jedi was way overpowered - had str 44 with all the bonuses by the end of the game). Probably a whole bunch of other games I can't remember right now. And a whole bunch more where I was close to it but got insta-killed by something or went on a killing spree which cost me the 100% victory condition.

 

[Miles000]

There have been a couple. I can't remember which though =/

ODST I know was one. But that was on easy.

 

[Zeema]

Fable 2 i never died

i would have done it in Deus Ex cept that dam Boss fight screwed me over

 

[Felstaff]

I wish I was good enough at gaming to beat the game on the first try. I can't even complete You Have To Burn The Rope without dying.

I did, however, manage to beat this other little, piss-easy Flash game I once played. It was remarkably simple, as I recall, but I can't remember the name. I think it's called something like 'I Wanna Be The Guy'...? Anyway, it was dead easy. I completed it whilst whittling and perfecting a PowerPoint presentation simultaneously.

 

[CAPTCHA]

It's kind of hard to remember what games this has happened with. Certainly not many.

I don't think I died while playing Valkyrie Profile (PS1 version), though I gave up on it before reaching the end.

I recently played Fable 3 (once again, not all the way through) and I can't remember ever seeing a game overscreen. In fact I don't think you can ever die in that game, you just get knocked over and lose your XP /facepalm

 

[babinro]

I don't think I've ever pulled that off.

Zelda games and Final Fantasy games would be my closest though with probably under 3 deaths. Most Zelda games are threatening until you get a decent pool of hearts and then become easy. As such, death mainly occurs in the first 3 temples with exceptions of the rare boss you can't figure out on the first try.

Final Fantasy games seldom involve character death's with exception of a couple of bosses and the occasional enemy that is extremely high leveled compared to you but you didn't realize it.

 

[bakan]

As noone mentioned it yet, 'Kirby's Epic Yarn' - you could play through it without even watching the screen
Oh, and 'Brave Story - New Traveler' as I just finished it some weeks ago.

There are probably more but I can't remember them and as for recent titles there are no others as I mostly play on hardest difficulty.