Playing games you bought when you were 12 and never finished, only to find they are easy

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goater24

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Meado said:
An old Asterix and Obelix game on the Master System. I got rid of the thing years ago, but before I did, I beat that ***** of a game. So fraking easy.
Flipping heck, thats a blast from the past. Now I'm not going to show of and say I was bitching that game when I was 12, but you gotta love the chariot level near the end of the game and the wicked end sequence!
 

Hirmetrium

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Starcraft is a bit of a pet hate for me. Those Zerg missions I always found impossible, now they seem much easier...
 

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Crystal Cuckoo said:
Spyro: Season of Ice (GBA)
I had a LOT of trouble getting past the first few levels.
4 years later, I pick up the game again, and finish the whole thing in one day.
:D Good game, too.
Don't remind me. I wasted money on that game...


goater24 said:
Meado said:
An old Asterix and Obelix game on the Master System. I got rid of the thing years ago, but before I did, I beat that ***** of a game. So fraking easy.
Flipping heck, thats a blast from the past. Now I'm not going to show of and say I was bitching that game when I was 12, but you gotta love the chariot level near the end of the game and the wicked end sequence!
Ayup. But I still liked the old Smurfs and Asterix and Obelix game on PC...


OH NO THE EVIL BLACK SMURF IS ATTACKING ME!!
 

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Assassinator said:
Metroid Prime springs to mind, I was actually 12 at the time. I got stuck at the final boss, tried it dozens of times and kept failing. I ragequitted and didn't touch the game again untill 2 years later Metroid Prime 2 released. I bought that one, but before I fired it up I just HAD to finish the first Metroid Prime. I then killed the final boss in 1 go, and was shocked. I still wouldn't call that fight easy, since it wasn't, but I didn't even have to restart it once. Now, 5 years later, I still love both games to death and fire them up occasionally.
I don't see how you managed the Omega Pirate, but not the final boss... The Omega Pirate is sooo much harder IMO. I was stuck on it for 2 days...

As for game I never finised: I got Heart of Darkness (the 1998 game, not the Joseph Conrad book) when I was 9 (I think...) And I never got past this one bit until I tried it when I was 13, and made it through the whole game...
 

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Quick Ben said:
Assassinator said:
Metroid Prime springs to mind, I was actually 12 at the time. I got stuck at the final boss, tried it dozens of times and kept failing. I ragequitted and didn't touch the game again untill 2 years later Metroid Prime 2 released. I bought that one, but before I fired it up I just HAD to finish the first Metroid Prime. I then killed the final boss in 1 go, and was shocked. I still wouldn't call that fight easy, since it wasn't, but I didn't even have to restart it once. Now, 5 years later, I still love both games to death and fire them up occasionally.
I don't see how you managed the Omega Pirate, but not the final boss... The Omega Pirate is sooo much harder IMO. I was stuck on it for 2 days...

As for game I never finised: I got Heart of Darkness (the 1998 game, not the Joseph Conrad book) when I was 9 (I think...) And I never got past this one bit until I tried it when I was 13, and made it through the whole game...
Good question, it either took me ages as well, or my little brother killed it for me. He also killed Flaagra for me, yea I'm still ashamed. But I refused to let him kill Metroid Prime, not that he succeeded in his own save game ;-)
 

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I'm only fourteen, so this is kinda odd for me, so I'll take it from when I was seven. (The point when I actually became interested in gaming.) For me, it's Dark Cloud, one section of the story where you have to lure a snake out of a cave became a real ass-biter, I couldn't figure it out until one day I found the solution, since then...so easy.
 

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Pyronox said:
Well, I'm not going to name the 20 or so Super Nintendo games I never finished...
I would if I had ever gotten 20.

For me, all of the classic Mario Bros. games. I only beat the ones with Yoshi... he must have been good karma or something. All of the others I got stuck in a random castle or bowser.
 

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Chimney said:
I got Mega Man X when I was 5 or 6 and played it for hours until finally getting to Sigma (the last boss for those of you who don't know) and instead of fighting him straight you first must fight his dog, then him, and finally him in a second stronger form. This was far too much for me as a kid so I simply gave up.

Recently though I went back and played through the entire game and find it easy now. Their are plenty other games like it that I will go back and beat at some point, but for now that's the only one ive actually beaten.
omg the same thing happened to me
 

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i was going to say zelda mayora's mask but i just realised i still haven't finished it due to the F*@king water temple arghh
 

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When I played Half-life 1 for the first time, I would basically play through one or two rooms, get scared, then quit and look up an online walkthrough so I could know exactly what was coming next. Then I'd start it up again, and repeat.

Also, I remember having a lot of trouble with Spyro 2 for the playstation, but after I beat it the first time I could finish it in a few days.
 

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Chimney said:
I got Mega Man X when I was 5 or 6 and played it for hours until finally getting to Sigma (the last boss for those of you who don't know) and instead of fighting him straight you first must fight his dog, then him, and finally him in a second stronger form. This was far too much for me as a kid so I simply gave up.
Ooh, Sigma... To me, he's just as hard as he was when I was 6. You gotta admit, his final form is really tough if you wasted all your energy tanks on his other form.

This happened to me with FFX, although it was only over about a year or so. I kept using Flee because the random encounters annoyed me and I was grossly underlevelled by the time I got to the underwater boss when you're crossing the river. A year later, I came back and thought about what I had done and let out a slow, pained sigh.
 

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yep, stronghold and stronghold crusader, Final fantasy tactics advance( GBA), LEGO Rock Raiders
 

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Cant remember exactly how old i was but Rayman for the Playstation that game was responisble for my grey hair growth. I can go back now and it seems so much simpler.
 

Nexus424

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Banjo Kazooie - The last few levels whipped my ass as a kid. But I recently found my N64 and played again and just swept through the game 100% as well.

and

Conkers Bad Fur Day - That games difficulty curve spiked at War and a few times I didn't even know where to go or what to do but after a few years I just swept over it.

Don't even get me started on Zelda. The puzzles, I felt like such a dumbass for not getting them.
 

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Karate Kid. I recently beat that and wondered what the hell I was doing when I was ten.