Your gaming "white whale"?
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I love how your response to his not getting your Melville reference was this, and not, 'you're an idiot' you're a stronger man than I am good sir.SimuLord said:
Sonic 3. The only original Sonic I've never completed. It was once LBA but a couple of years ago I finaly got my copy working with XP and just about got past the Temple of Bu.
other than that... I don't actually have one.
I'm a major Ace Combat fanatic, and it's generally a rule that I do have to do, buy, and beat EVERYTHING in a given entry of the series.
When I got Ace Combat Zero, naturally it occurred to me that I would eventually have to fill the entire Assault Record, a list of 169 special, named enemies spread out over every difficulty and campaign branch.
I had no idea of the kind of time investment this would take.
The game has a structure that in normal play is fairly interesting, but when trying to complete the Assault Record or earn all the medals, the 'three branch' style of play becomes nightmarish, and I ended up needing to play through the game more times than I would otherwise care to even think about. Let's see... three branches, over normal, hard, expert, and ace difficulties, sooo...
I ended up playing through the campaign at least twelve times. More, actually, since I had already played through a few times before getting around to it. This took months of on-and-off playing. I know there are much faster ways of doing it, but if I wasn't anal retentive about this sort of thing I wouldn't even be on that mad quest in the first place.
I imagine that, for a lot of other players, engaging and shooting down Mobius 1 is a white whale in itself. Lasers don't count!
When I got Ace Combat Zero, naturally it occurred to me that I would eventually have to fill the entire Assault Record, a list of 169 special, named enemies spread out over every difficulty and campaign branch.
I had no idea of the kind of time investment this would take.
The game has a structure that in normal play is fairly interesting, but when trying to complete the Assault Record or earn all the medals, the 'three branch' style of play becomes nightmarish, and I ended up needing to play through the game more times than I would otherwise care to even think about. Let's see... three branches, over normal, hard, expert, and ace difficulties, sooo...
I ended up playing through the campaign at least twelve times. More, actually, since I had already played through a few times before getting around to it. This took months of on-and-off playing. I know there are much faster ways of doing it, but if I wasn't anal retentive about this sort of thing I wouldn't even be on that mad quest in the first place.
I imagine that, for a lot of other players, engaging and shooting down Mobius 1 is a white whale in itself. Lasers don't count!
Is high explosive that one with 15 juggernauts while you only have knives and grenades? That one was easy. Just find a friend, get a building with only one entrance, then one of you stands in the doorway. Juggernauts come, guy in the doorway gets downed, but they can't enter. So the other guy can sit there and fire missiles at them all day.internethobo said:
Time efficient? No. Cheap? Yes. But hey, 3 less stars to get.
GTA Vice City 100%.
I only had one of the RC missions to do. Then I had to pack up my PS2 and move to my new apt. When I unpacked all my stuff, I tried to reload my game... but the memory card file was corrupted. That was the ONLY file corrupted. :-(
I've never played that game again.
I only had one of the RC missions to do. Then I had to pack up my PS2 and move to my new apt. When I unpacked all my stuff, I tried to reload my game... but the memory card file was corrupted. That was the ONLY file corrupted. :-(
I've never played that game again.
Playing COD4 on Veteran. I'm not very good a FPS. I died a lot. Somewhere in the three or four digits.
Wow, that's some hardcore gaming...SimuLord said:
I don't think I could ever torture myself like that, but yeah Fallout 3 would be the one game I'd be fairly confident in achieving it with too.
In fact I'm 26 hours into my latest character and as far as I can remember the only time I died was from stupidly walking off an overpass while trying to get a nice vista saved
I forced myself to go all the way through Mirror's Edge without firing a shot (except that one part where you have to snipe the van). I'm of the firm belief that this is how the game was supposed to be played, so dammit I'm going to play it that way.
Oh, and I also like playing various Call of Duty games at the maximum difficulty when I'm stressed. It's like beating my head against a brick wall, but my skull is thick enough that I get the pleasure of watching the wall crumble in the end.
Oh, and I also like playing various Call of Duty games at the maximum difficulty when I'm stressed. It's like beating my head against a brick wall, but my skull is thick enough that I get the pleasure of watching the wall crumble in the end.
Not to brag... but I had a pretty easy time doing that... I got Akimbo Assassin easily on Expert, but that's mostly due to me being extremely lucky and getting an amazing team who actually worked together.Irridium said:
Right now it's Dead Rising. I need to beat it... except I always die and the save system was absolutely awful in that game so I end up playing the intro again... It was one of the first games I bought for 360... I need to beat it one day.
