Longest Time Between Starting & Finishing A Game

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AndyVale

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I completed Twighlight Princess today about 3 years after I bought it. It was probably my record. Obviously I hadn't been playing it solidly the whole time, that would be fucktarded. But it got me wondering what other peoples best was.

Just for the record, I'm talking about finishing it in the casual sense. As in beating the final boss, not doing ALL the sidequests etc.
 

Cherry Cola

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The longest time for me was probably Pokemon blue.

Took me quite a while
 

wooty

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Probably my first play through of FF7, took me a fair few months
 

Lolth17

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I still haven't finished FFXII, and I got it the week it came out.
 

Frankydee

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only one I can think of recently was Crisis Core. It didn't hold my interest very long so it took me several months to finish it.
 

KDBTV

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Super Mario 64 DS
Still have not beaten it yet and I got it 2 years ago
 

reg42

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With straight playing: Dragon Age: Origins. Probably about 37 hours.
I got Quake 4 as a pack of 4 games, and a took about a year to beat it, because my pc was so crap and that made it very very hard to play.
 

Distorted Stu

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FFX. I started it, di dat Symore and gave up with frustration. About 9months later i decided to start the game again and complete it!
 

Rabite

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I've got NES games I've never beaten. So technically that. I have problems getting around to beating games so my "need to finish" list is over 350-400 games. But to actually beat a game would be Zelda 1 on NES. I couldn't make it past the Darknuts to get the whistle in level 5, so it took me around 3-4 years.
 

ArteMor

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Any of the Pokemon games. They always take me a year or two.

Also, Final Fantasy. Any of them.
 

Yumi_and_Erea

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There was a thread very much like this only recently.

Anyway, mine's Final Fantasy VII. Took me 20 months from start to finish.
 

Onyx Oblivion

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Tales of Vesperia. 10 months.

And that's only one playthrough, not even trying for 100%.
 

maddawg IAJI

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Sly Cooper 1. I started that game when I was 11 and didn't finish it until I dug it out and played it when I was 13. I don't know I never bothered to finish it either.
 

Lexodus

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Skies of Arcadia: Legends. FIVE YEARS.

I bought it, played it for a few hours, but then stopped because I had to get up early in the morning (we were moving house the next day). Movers were crap, and a bunch of stuff got lost or broken. I forgot about the game in the move, didn't find it unpacking so my memory was not jogged, and five years later I found it in an old chest of jew gold random bits and bobs. That day, my life was changed forever. I played the game all day, from the bit where you first get to Sailor's Isle right the way until Yafutoma, and then my mum came in and told me I'd been on the thing for like 15 hours, and it was time to stop. Just then there was a cutscene and she happened to watch, just as the giant ship battle began. When she saw the ships shooting each other and all the people being killed, my mom got scared, and said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought, "Nah, forget it. Yo, holmes to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo homes smell ya later!" Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.


On straight play, I logged over 300 hours on Pokémon Ruby. That game rubbed me the right way...