Those timeless classics that everyone's beaten... or have they?
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Super Mario Bros. 1-3
Any of the Zeldas
Any Metroid excluding Other M (waiting for the jeers)
Half-Life 1 and 2
Deus Ex
A ton more.
Oh and...
It's worth noting that I didn't actually beat it until many years after I got it.
Any of the Zeldas
Any Metroid excluding Other M (waiting for the jeers)
Half-Life 1 and 2
Deus Ex
A ton more.
Oh and...
Yes, yes it is.RatRace123 said:
It's worth noting that I didn't actually beat it until many years after I got it.
The amount of classic games I have not beaten is probably somewhere close to the amount of classic games I have not PLAYED. Otherwise, I'm pretty damn competitive.
I'd say somewhere between SNES and N64 did I get good enough at gaming to consistently beat games so I'd say most "classic" games I haven't beaten really. There are also plenty that I haven't even played. What can I say? I am a terrible person hehe
I have a nasty tendency not to finish games in general, however to be honest I never played a lot of the games considered to be classic all that much, as I'm an RPG player foremost, and when a lot of people were messing around with their consoles, I was playing mostly on systems like the Commodore 64, and gaming PCs like Radio Shack's old "Tandy 1000 EX".
For me classics are games like "The Bard's Tale" series, the "Phantasie" series, the "Ultima" games, and of course "Wasteland". I've beaten most of the old school RPGs.
Truthfully fighting games are the only real "reflex" type games that ever captured my imagination much. I just never really got into platformers, and considered both Mario and Mega Man to be too doofie looking.
I used to like old school text and adventure games, where I thought it was kind of challenging to figure out what you were supposed to do, and how to get the game to accept it. Half the fun of some of the old adventure games was that there were all kinds of odd things you could find through trial and error (ways to die or mess up) where it seems that the developers guessed what you'd try while working to figure out the puzzles.
To me I think adventure games were ruined by both pixel hunting, and believe it or not the proliferation of the mouse and icon based selection/controls since this turned into pixel hunting exercises rather than playing with a word parser and looking at a clearly defined
set of objects. I also think the gaming community on BBSes was a lot cooler then, especially if you were talking to people working through the same games at the same time.
I think I more or less gave up on Adventure games with Origin's "Noctropolis" due to the way I felt the pixel hunting was designed to get people to call paid tip lines. One of the cooler games I've played premise wise, but it pretty much illustrated what killed that genere for me. Oddly I've always held out hope that EA would some day remake that game, or that Darksheer would make an appearance somewhere. EA now controlling Origin's intellectual properties in their entirety as far as I know.
I'm one of those people who look at games you can't lose, and think back to "King's Quest" which was nearly impossible to figure out without some help, or say talking to NPCs in "Ultima IV" and figuring out key words, mantras, and how moongates worked with the in
game moon rotation. While kind of silly I also remember playing a few RPGs that had character age to the point where I got sad when my characters got old, and to this day I don't care for games that track that.
For me classics are games like "The Bard's Tale" series, the "Phantasie" series, the "Ultima" games, and of course "Wasteland". I've beaten most of the old school RPGs.
Truthfully fighting games are the only real "reflex" type games that ever captured my imagination much. I just never really got into platformers, and considered both Mario and Mega Man to be too doofie looking.
I used to like old school text and adventure games, where I thought it was kind of challenging to figure out what you were supposed to do, and how to get the game to accept it. Half the fun of some of the old adventure games was that there were all kinds of odd things you could find through trial and error (ways to die or mess up) where it seems that the developers guessed what you'd try while working to figure out the puzzles.
To me I think adventure games were ruined by both pixel hunting, and believe it or not the proliferation of the mouse and icon based selection/controls since this turned into pixel hunting exercises rather than playing with a word parser and looking at a clearly defined
set of objects. I also think the gaming community on BBSes was a lot cooler then, especially if you were talking to people working through the same games at the same time.
I think I more or less gave up on Adventure games with Origin's "Noctropolis" due to the way I felt the pixel hunting was designed to get people to call paid tip lines. One of the cooler games I've played premise wise, but it pretty much illustrated what killed that genere for me. Oddly I've always held out hope that EA would some day remake that game, or that Darksheer would make an appearance somewhere. EA now controlling Origin's intellectual properties in their entirety as far as I know.
I'm one of those people who look at games you can't lose, and think back to "King's Quest" which was nearly impossible to figure out without some help, or say talking to NPCs in "Ultima IV" and figuring out key words, mantras, and how moongates worked with the in
game moon rotation. While kind of silly I also remember playing a few RPGs that had character age to the point where I got sad when my characters got old, and to this day I don't care for games that track that.
Played but not beaten:
Mario Bros. 1-3:
Recently picked up the Wii edition of All Stars, plan on beating them soon. The originals were a little before my time (I was two when All Stars came out).
Donkey Kong Country:
Never owned it, and I didn't get much time to play it when borrowing from a friend.
The Legend of Zelda:
Played the original on the gaemcube...finished the first dungeon. People complain about Navi and other helper characters, but I learned to appreciate those characters a lot after seeing the roots of the series.
Final Fantasy:
Couldn't beat the last boss -_-
Final Fantasy 3-US
I've got it on the GBA...can't seem to remember where I left it
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night:
Downloaded on my xbox...just need to play through it.
Any Megaman game...ever.
Played Legends 1, MM1-3, MM9, Battle Network 3-4, Network Transmissions
Deus Ex:
Downloaded, haven't played through it yet.
Can't think of any other classics that I've played without beating.
Mario Bros. 1-3:
Recently picked up the Wii edition of All Stars, plan on beating them soon. The originals were a little before my time (I was two when All Stars came out).
Donkey Kong Country:
Never owned it, and I didn't get much time to play it when borrowing from a friend.
The Legend of Zelda:
Played the original on the gaemcube...finished the first dungeon. People complain about Navi and other helper characters, but I learned to appreciate those characters a lot after seeing the roots of the series.
Final Fantasy:
Couldn't beat the last boss -_-
Final Fantasy 3-US
I've got it on the GBA...can't seem to remember where I left it
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night:
Downloaded on my xbox...just need to play through it.
Any Megaman game...ever.
Played Legends 1, MM1-3, MM9, Battle Network 3-4, Network Transmissions
Deus Ex:
Downloaded, haven't played through it yet.
Can't think of any other classics that I've played without beating.
Wait .. what about classic computer games?
For example, all those great WRPGs like Wasteland, Ultima 4, Bard's Tale 3, Pool of Radiance (NOT the new-ish game of the same name), Mines of Titan, World of Xeen, etc.
For example, all those great WRPGs like Wasteland, Ultima 4, Bard's Tale 3, Pool of Radiance (NOT the new-ish game of the same name), Mines of Titan, World of Xeen, etc.
Super Mario Bros 3 is outrageously hard for me. I can't even get past World 3. I try to beat it with no warps "for integrity's sake" but I just get so worn out by the end of World 2, I just say "Fuck it" and toss it away.
Also, after 7 restarts, I have never gotten past Jabu Jabu's belly in Ocarina of Time. Excuse me while I hang my head in shame.
Also, after 7 restarts, I have never gotten past Jabu Jabu's belly in Ocarina of Time. Excuse me while I hang my head in shame.
Doing a lot of stuff, even in windows 7, is much faster with command lines.Antari said:I still live in Dos 3/4's of the week for the challange
To that end, I have a keyboard shortcut that activates a command line window.
I get a fair bit of "what the hell are you doing? Are you even using windows?"
I never beat Metroid on the NES. Too much samey mazeness for me to handle, as I recall. I'll have to take another look at the game sometime.
I missed out on pretty much the entire N64 library (Mario 64 is the only one I've beaten), but then I don't put them on my "classics" list as I'd been playing game for a good while before they came out and they don't really hold the nostalgia for me, being 3D and all...
I missed out on pretty much the entire N64 library (Mario 64 is the only one I've beaten), but then I don't put them on my "classics" list as I'd been playing game for a good while before they came out and they don't really hold the nostalgia for me, being 3D and all...