Longest Game Completion Time For You?

**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

I also had Gran Turismo 4, it was one of the first games I had for PS2. And yeah, fuck completion on that game. I played it a LOT (it was probably the only driving game I was ever decent at). But trying to get those licenses was endlessly annoying.

Anyway, I used to consider a game "complete" (not just beat) by collecting all of the coins and extra stuff. Playing DKC2 with my husband, you can bet your ass we'd go back and die to retrive any KONG letters or bananas or coins or whatever. I'm sure if we just played through it to beat it we could do it well enough (or maybe not). But by this definition I've only ever totally completed a mere handful of games: DKC3, DK64, Ocarina of Time, Jak & Daxter (1 & 2) and Banjo Kazooie, (not Banjo Tooie because FUCK that last jiggy in Cloud Cuckoo Land!!!).

These days I consider a game done when I've gotten all the achievements, like skinnywhitecomic. By that definition I've only completed maybe 10-15 games on 360/PS3, and they are almost all rhythm games. Rhythm games are a weird mixture though. On the one hand, I FGFC'd Beatles on vocals and got almost all of the achievements, but there's no way I'll ever FC Helter Skelter on drums or get another human to sing the triple harmonies. But that game is complete as far as I'm concerned. :P

I think the craziest part about all this is how achievements have changed they way I play games and view games. I've put so many hours into Fallout New Vegas, for example, I've beat it 3 or 4 times at this point, but don't even have half of the achievements so I'm nowhere near done. In fact the idea of playing a game without achievements diminishes my interest in completing it entirely - which is actually kind of sad (Exceptions being visual novel/mystery/suspense types of games for the DS or PC, like Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick, 999 or Amnesia).
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**Davers** · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:28 pm Post subject:

To "beat" a game, whether it be Super Mario Bros 3 and you use warp whistles to get to World 8, or you play DKC2 and just beat King K. Rool, you've beaten the game. To "complete" a game, I consider getting all the secrets. As someone else mentioned, RPGs are a little different though. Some might not consider completing an RPG until you max all your characters out. But in a game like FFIII (SNES), that would take literally forever and a day since you have like 9 characters and some are just worthless and not worth the time.

Some might consider completing an RPG by not only beating the game, but also getting every item and spell but not maxing your character out. This is a whole lot easier but, again, can be a problem because games like Breath of Fire I on the SNES, some of the items that you can get can only be achieved at certain levels at the "trading post". They are items/weapons that you DON'T need to progress in the game. They just give the game more character and make it that much more fun. But if you pass a certain level without going back to the trading post, you missed out on certain items. So yeah, definitely a personal preference of completion when it comes to RPGs.

I did fully complete Chrono Trigger for the SNES though. I maxed out all my characters to level 99 and achieved every possible item including items you steal from bosses DURING battles. Even the last boss had a certain item you could steal from them even though you would never be able to use it because it was the end of the game.

Also, I'm 99.9% of the way done with Super Mario RPG. Maxed out all the characters, beat the game, and achieved every item - except that stupid Super Suit you get from 100 jumps

Getting 30 jumps was hard enough, let alone having to do another 70 on top of all of that. Not sure if I'll ever actually obtain the suit, but I guess I'll keep trying *sigh*

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**Qarx** · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:10 am Post subject:

Some of my SNES games, which I got around the time they came out, probably took me at least 10 years, since I didn't beat them until I was around 17 or 18. Two that come to mind are the Lion King and Jungle Book adaptations; both gave me quite a lot of grief trying to finish. Lion King because there was a stage late in the game that I didn't understand how to beat and would often just give up when I got to that point, and Jungle Book... well, let's just say a combination of a difficult boss "King Louie" and an auto-scrolling stage right before him caused many a game over >_>.

Jurassic Park Part II: The Chaos Continues is one that I haven't beaten legitimately, but the only cheat I used (the only one that I'm aware of) just gives you infinite continues. Not sure if I could beat it without it, especially since there's no save/password function, and there's no indicator of how many continues you have left or if you can get more >_>.

A game I have yet to beat legitimately is Toy Story on SNES, and let's just say that I probably will NEVER beat it legit. Why? Well, the final stage is essentially a high-speed auto-scrolling stage, with objects constantly getting in your way >_>. I actually couldn't even get THAT far without cheating because of another similar one a few stages before it. All I have to say is, whoever designed the Sid's House stages: FUCK YOU.
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**Carltheshredder** · Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Posts: 1041 Location: Texas

Metal Arms was a game I first played back around 2004-05 and just because of the fact that it has 42 missions and my lack of motivation has kept me from finishing it.
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**skinnywhitecomic** · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA

I also just remembered; I NEVER use cheats to beat a game the first time. I have to beat the game first to prove I can do it cheat free before I can putz around and have infinite lives or a giant indestructible tank.

Also, another game I don't think I ever beat all the way through, because it has like 70 levels:

Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

I may have made it past the giant baby ONCE. Even having cheats to get to the last level, I don't think I ever beat it.
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