Pokemon Yellow. Got it when it first came out, finally beat it this year. Not to say I didn't start a lot of new games over the years, but I never actually beat it till this year.
Longest Time Between Starting & Finishing A Game
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Fallout 3,
Got it tommorrow last year (Christmas for those without much "brain"), and I've yet to complete it
Got it tommorrow last year (Christmas for those without much "brain"), and I've yet to complete it
There's a lot of games that I still haven't beaten, even though I've had them for a long time. The one I've had the longest, though? Probably Final Fantasy VIII. I played that years ago, but never managed to finish it. I then lost the discs and my save files and the whole deal. That was at least five years ago, if not more. I finally decided to get a replacement copy a few months ago, but I haven't even started it over again. So that's five years and counting.
I've still yet to complete FFVIII or IX, despite IX being one of my favourites. i might have to dust the disks off and finally finish them. I got them both on the day of release in the UK, so FFVIII is probably over ten years and counting.
Got the original KOTOR a couple months ago. I played it bosessively for 2 weeks, found 3 star map fragments, then my computer was raped up the arse by a power outage while updating and I lost everything. I got it from Steam, so I reinstalled it without trouble, but... I don't want to have to go through all that AGAIN.
Still haven't finished Final Fantasy XII yet technically, and we're going on two years now. Does that count?
I guess...hrm...the first Kingdom Hearts. I got it and started it when I was in 6th grade and didn't ACTUALLY finish it until I was in 10th grade. Sad, I know.
I guess...hrm...the first Kingdom Hearts. I got it and started it when I was in 6th grade and didn't ACTUALLY finish it until I was in 10th grade. Sad, I know.
Final Fantasy VII.
I was already a veteran gamer when I first bought it, but I had never tried a JRPG before. I had great fun, and would often abandon my save file and start over again for little to no reason.
Needless to say, it took me some time to get to Sephiroth using this approach, but I got there eventually. Cue an epic, 2 - day battle (I had to pause the game overnight to ask a friend for advice on how the first part of the battle worked) which concluded with Sephiroth mashing my team into lapskaus (traditional Norwegian stew).
I started over again. From disc 1. This time, it was personal. I bought a guidebook and kept at it until I had Knights of the Round and everybody's ultimate weapon. Then, I started grinding. Then I kept on grinding.
And then, Final Fantasy VIII went platinum.
I felt like a break from FFVII, so I bought VIII, played it for a while, and found it to be absurdly overcomplicated and mind-numbingly dull. (The characters were so bland and poorly defined, I actually had trouble telling them apart!)
So I quit, and forgot about the FF series until Final Fantasy IX came out. I bought it on day one, never thinking I'd actually finish it, but I knew that, being a Final Fantasy game, it would at least be fun for a while.
My initial plan was to play through it until I finally encountered something that would hand Zidane's ass back to him like Sephiroth had done to Cloud, then see if I felt like getting the guide book and trying again.
FFIX turned out to be the best FF game I'd played so far (it remains my favorite to this day). I had as much fun exploring the world as following the story, and one day, much to my surprise, I beat some big, nasty boss... and found myself watching the end sequence!
I had accomplished the impossible. I had finished a Final Fantasy game.*
So I decided it was time to show Sephiroth who was the boss. I still had my old save, and it turned out that I'd gone REALLY wild with the grind session - Cloud and crew had become insanely powerful.
Down the crater I went. An untold number of quadruple Knights-summonings later, Sephiroth was dealt with.
I sat back, enjoyed the ending, and it occurred to me that it had been TWO YEARS since I first bought the game!
(*For the record, though: Zidane DID get his ass handed to him. The final blow was dealt by Freya.)
I was already a veteran gamer when I first bought it, but I had never tried a JRPG before. I had great fun, and would often abandon my save file and start over again for little to no reason.
Needless to say, it took me some time to get to Sephiroth using this approach, but I got there eventually. Cue an epic, 2 - day battle (I had to pause the game overnight to ask a friend for advice on how the first part of the battle worked) which concluded with Sephiroth mashing my team into lapskaus (traditional Norwegian stew).
I started over again. From disc 1. This time, it was personal. I bought a guidebook and kept at it until I had Knights of the Round and everybody's ultimate weapon. Then, I started grinding. Then I kept on grinding.
And then, Final Fantasy VIII went platinum.
I felt like a break from FFVII, so I bought VIII, played it for a while, and found it to be absurdly overcomplicated and mind-numbingly dull. (The characters were so bland and poorly defined, I actually had trouble telling them apart!)
So I quit, and forgot about the FF series until Final Fantasy IX came out. I bought it on day one, never thinking I'd actually finish it, but I knew that, being a Final Fantasy game, it would at least be fun for a while.
My initial plan was to play through it until I finally encountered something that would hand Zidane's ass back to him like Sephiroth had done to Cloud, then see if I felt like getting the guide book and trying again.
FFIX turned out to be the best FF game I'd played so far (it remains my favorite to this day). I had as much fun exploring the world as following the story, and one day, much to my surprise, I beat some big, nasty boss... and found myself watching the end sequence!
I had accomplished the impossible. I had finished a Final Fantasy game.*
So I decided it was time to show Sephiroth who was the boss. I still had my old save, and it turned out that I'd gone REALLY wild with the grind session - Cloud and crew had become insanely powerful.
Down the crater I went. An untold number of quadruple Knights-summonings later, Sephiroth was dealt with.
I sat back, enjoyed the ending, and it occurred to me that it had been TWO YEARS since I first bought the game!
(*For the record, though: Zidane DID get his ass handed to him. The final blow was dealt by Freya.)
Fallout 3. So far I've clocked about a year...finding everything, doing dlc and just goofing off.
Age of Empires 2. I could never complete the Barbarossa campaign and I haven't tried in years now. So thats taken 10 years and it's still not finished.
I received Ocarina of Time on my 6th birthday in 2000. I still haven't finished it. I'm up to Gannondorf, but I didn't get that power up next to the castle that makes me take less damage so I couldn't beat him. But I defeated him on my cousins copy of the game. So I have finished the game, just not my copy.
