Your gaming "white whale"?
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Street Fighter. All of them. For me, it's one of those game that makes me angry to the point of no longer being fun or relaxing... And yet I can't stop. The drive to be the best keeps me playing. It doesn't help that due to the constantly shifting nature of fighting games, there really is no way to ultimately win. It's a white whale I'll be pursuing until the day Capcom stops publishing Street Fighter games.
OH DEAR GOD NOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOSkerke said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHY DID I THINK I COULD AVOID HIM!? WHY DID I TRY OVER AND OVER!?
DEAR GOD, NOOOOOooooooo...
*calms down*
But yeah
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Recently I have been trying to complete some of the challenges in Out Run 2006. I guess that I just sort of suck at driving games though.
Martian Dreams by Origin might be more of a white whale for me in a way. As a kid I had a copy of ACE magazine, if anyone here knows what ACE magazine was, it was like the predecessor of EDGE but it was for home computers only. Anyway, this game magazine had a two page spread with an image from Martian Dreams that looked so amazing compared to any of the 8-bit games I could play. What those pages of glossy games magazine meant to me I couldn't say as I'm not really sure myself. By the time that I could play Martian Dreams I didn't but I still sort of want to. Maybe one day I will spear this game but what would it mean for me and my relationship to computer games?
Martian Dreams by Origin might be more of a white whale for me in a way. As a kid I had a copy of ACE magazine, if anyone here knows what ACE magazine was, it was like the predecessor of EDGE but it was for home computers only. Anyway, this game magazine had a two page spread with an image from Martian Dreams that looked so amazing compared to any of the 8-bit games I could play. What those pages of glossy games magazine meant to me I couldn't say as I'm not really sure myself. By the time that I could play Martian Dreams I didn't but I still sort of want to. Maybe one day I will spear this game but what would it mean for me and my relationship to computer games?
Getting EVERYTHING in Final Fantasy V and VI (II and III in US). I spent so long grinding out endless battles to steal or morph an enemy or learn a skill that I totally forgot what the game was about, what the plot was, and ultimately lost my interest in winning it at all. Everyone says VI has an amazing story, but I spent so log between relevant plot points that I lost it completely.
Simply beating Shawn White in SW Snowboarding. His AI lets him do spins and flips roughly three times faster than you can. It really isn't fair. The only way to win is to get lucky enough that the AI will glitch and jump slightly early on a jump, throwing off the rest of its run. And even then it's damn near impossible.
I played Pokémon Heartgold for 30 hours (beat the first 8 gyms in that time, despite playing glacially slowly) without using any items except Balls, without having a Pokémon faint, and without saving except to suspend the game.
Finally a friend of mine told me "that's fucking stupid", and snapped me out of it.
I played through Darkest of Days with only pistols, until I loaned the game to a friend who hasn't given it back yet.
"White Whale" challenges that I completed would include getting these achievements legit:
Stomach Upset (Left 4 Dead 1, go through a whole campaign without a Boomer puking on anyone)
Do Not Disturb (Left 4 Dead, go through a whole campaign without anyone startling any Witches)
Zombie Genocidest (Dead Rising, kill 53,594 zombies in one playthrough. I died once at about 45,000 kills, so I had to start over completely)
7 Day Survivor (Dead Rising, last 14 hours in Infinity Mode without saving. In Infinity Mode, your character starves to death after 20 minutes without food.)
Guardin' Gnome (Left 4 Dead 2,
I have 53,000 kills in Left 4 Dead, and there's an achievement for 53,595 (take that, Dead Rising!), but I'm not playing for a little while. I want to get the achievement for surviving a campaign on Expert difficulty in the same playthrough as the achievement for 53,595 kills.
Finally a friend of mine told me "that's fucking stupid", and snapped me out of it.
I played through Darkest of Days with only pistols, until I loaned the game to a friend who hasn't given it back yet.
"White Whale" challenges that I completed would include getting these achievements legit:
Stomach Upset (Left 4 Dead 1, go through a whole campaign without a Boomer puking on anyone)
Do Not Disturb (Left 4 Dead, go through a whole campaign without anyone startling any Witches)
Zombie Genocidest (Dead Rising, kill 53,594 zombies in one playthrough. I died once at about 45,000 kills, so I had to start over completely)
7 Day Survivor (Dead Rising, last 14 hours in Infinity Mode without saving. In Infinity Mode, your character starves to death after 20 minutes without food.)
Guardin' Gnome (Left 4 Dead 2,
I have 53,000 kills in Left 4 Dead, and there's an achievement for 53,595 (take that, Dead Rising!), but I'm not playing for a little while. I want to get the achievement for surviving a campaign on Expert difficulty in the same playthrough as the achievement for 53,595 kills.
I have yet to make a Grand Pearl in Hexic HD, one day I hope to do so. I also want to get to level 280 in Bejewled 2 Endless mode, that's more a patience thing though. Only 100 levels to go.
Dead Rising or any Zombie game without my friends around mainly because Zombies are freaking SCARY!I Conquered L4D and Dead Rising shall fall by my hand!
Gears of War 1 (and to a lesser extent 2) on insane difficulty. I had built up so much rage trying to beat Raam, after the umpteenth attempt I almost snapped my controller out of said rage.
Also Ninja Gaiden 2, just trying to beat the next stage or some of the bosses is rage-inducing.
Another example, not rage-inducing but just a ***** to do, was beating SoulSilver with the three starter Pokémon and a couple of HM slaves, which were put in the PC before every gym battle and the Elite 4. Also in all Pokémon games I set myself a challenge of catching every legendary in a Poké Ball, I find it funny how you statistically have more chance of catching a Dialga than a Chatot. (If Bulbapedia is to be believed)
Also Ninja Gaiden 2, just trying to beat the next stage or some of the bosses is rage-inducing.
Another example, not rage-inducing but just a ***** to do, was beating SoulSilver with the three starter Pokémon and a couple of HM slaves, which were put in the PC before every gym battle and the Elite 4. Also in all Pokémon games I set myself a challenge of catching every legendary in a Poké Ball, I find it funny how you statistically have more chance of catching a Dialga than a Chatot. (If Bulbapedia is to be believed)
Are you saying you can't get to Rivet City or that you can't figure out where stuff is on the ship?zombays said:
If the former, there are two good ways to get there:
1) Go south from Super-Duper Mart past Wilhelm's Wharf and the Anchorage War Memorial, making a left onto the bridge just shy of the Citadel. Follow the river southward (watch out for the many Super Mutants) and go past the Jefferson Memorial (stop by the Memorial Rotunda if you don't mind a little sequence breaking on the main quest, otherwise continue to Rivet City). Hang a left after the metal walkway in front of the Memorial---you can't miss it.
2) Starting at Galaxy News Radio, go out the back door like you're headed to the Museum of Technology, but when you get to the Metro station just keep going south through the tunnels to Anacostia Crossing. You'll pop out of the tunnel right at Rivet City (watch out; if you saved Megaton, you'll probably get a random encounter with Talon Company mercs when you pop out of the tunnel.) If you pop out at Seward Square, go back into the Metro station and go straight across the Raider-infested platform to the exit on the other side. It'll say "Exit to Anacostia Station".
Well, I can get to the level 4 boss without dying once.MetaKnight19 said:
Then shit gets real.
mw2's spec ops missions. you have noooo idea how many times I have tried some of those missions on veteran. I actually gave up on 2, with one having 2 stars, and "High explosive" has 1 star. I'm also a serious perfectionist in Just Cause 2
Earth Defense Force 2017, Inferno difficulty. Words cannot express how ludicrously difficult it is.
Allow me to explain. EDF is a mission based shooter with a twist: Sometimes, when you kill an enemy, they will drop a piece of armour. Every piece of armour you collect increases your health by one point, permanently (as in, it carries over into other missions). I started with 200 health, and I know go into every mission with 12,000+. I've spent over a hundred hours just grinding my character's health so that I can take down the final difficulty. Even with with co-op, I expect to have to put in another hundred hours.
So, yes, EDF 2017 Inferno difficulty is my 'White Whale'. I'll get it if it kills me.
Allow me to explain. EDF is a mission based shooter with a twist: Sometimes, when you kill an enemy, they will drop a piece of armour. Every piece of armour you collect increases your health by one point, permanently (as in, it carries over into other missions). I started with 200 health, and I know go into every mission with 12,000+. I've spent over a hundred hours just grinding my character's health so that I can take down the final difficulty. Even with with co-op, I expect to have to put in another hundred hours.
So, yes, EDF 2017 Inferno difficulty is my 'White Whale'. I'll get it if it kills me.
Whatever Contra game that's available on the Virtual Console. I've made it to area 7, and discovered that going "chigga-chigga-chigga" with your characters gun helps you get into it. Because you can't think. If you think, you're already dead.
But someday...
But someday...
Gives you enough gold to go and max out all the skills you need, which in turn makes the game easier pretty hard to die when you have enough armor rating to make Daggoth Ur's attacks negligible, and you're alchemy is so high that just one of you're healing potions takes you back to full healthGreatVladmir said: