Games you're proudest of finishing

corblimey

Related to that other thread I started, what's the game you're most proud to have finished?

I would have to choose between Day of the Tentacle (it took me about 6 years start to finish, with a break of 70 months in between to give me head peace) or God of War on God mode. Both very different achievements for me, both equally satisfying when I was finally able to put down the controller.

kaimera

Hidden & Dangerous 1 given the majority of folk think it was too bug ridden

Silent Hill 1, because it freaked the s*** out of me.

Gizzle

The first God of War on God mode. A great example on how to do very hard without infuriating. Unlike GoWar 2...

sinjin_smythe

commandos, now that was a true patiance game, but really good too

spank_inferno

From a few years back: "Operation Flashpoint"
Best FPS of its time, hard as hell with only 1 save game per mission.

Crucifix

Link's Awakening. I dunno if it'd be as tough playing it now, but I remember it being my Everest back in the day.

Retr0gamer

Final Fantasy Tactics. The PS1 game not the smelly GBA one. Probably the toughest game I've ever finished. It required lots of levelling up and unlike many SRPGs it required a hell of a lot of tactics. Once you got about 4/5 of the way through and had Cid on your team it became very easy (he is an absolute monster) but before that there are some really tough battles. The battle at the gallows took me two weeks to get through as well as one of the boss fights.

The only problems I had with the game were two very bad design choices. The first boss is practically unbeatable if you don't have the right equipment and there is a save point before him that doesn't allow you to get back to the shop that sells the item. The next one was the fight against the 3 ninjas were you had to protect an NPC. It was impossible unless you had the right equipment to raise your speed to silly levels since they took their go before any of your characters so you would fail before you even took your go. Thanks to a walkthrough I found you could do it by taking all your equipment off your main character to change the computer AI.

Other than that it was a great game despite being a bollix to beat.

That and Devil May Cry 1 and 3 and Ghouls n' Ghosts, Mercs and Carrier Airwing with 1 credit.

Kinetic^

Kotor1

Zapp Brannigan

Ninja Gaiden Black.

And soon it will be Ninja Gaiden Sigma.

Rhyme

Finishing Metal Gear Solid on Hard in 'game over when spotted' mode... tough as Hell.

senordingdong

Rhyme wrote:

Finishing Metal Gear Solid on Hard in 'game over when spotted' mode... tough as Hell.

Ditto for me...except it was Snake Eater, just because it is so difficult but the most satisfying was FFVII.

Dont be at yourself

Tony Hawk 2, some of the challenges took an absolute age, but it was worth it!

Pugsley

Battle Toads on the snes and the nes (cant remember their names), and 'Super Ghouls and Ghosts'.

Pyr0

Quake 3 on Nightmare when I was 11/12, very proud there !

melekalikimaka

halo 2 on legendary, vampire - the masqurade bloodlines, and for some reason sonic 1

Mark Hamill

Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Was really hard to figure out where to hit Robitniks robot at the end without getting hit by all those feckin spikes coming out of it. (the main reason I'm so proud of it was that I could Metal Sonic in less that 25secs, i figured out evrytime you could get a hit in)

Ruu_Old

Flashback on the Megadrive, sore thumbs later, it was game over.

madrab

final fantasy 7, took my owning the game twice, & a ps1 & a ps2 to finish the game

MGS on every difficulty level collecting all the dog tags (i finally unlocked everything but i wasnt arsed playing it anymore)

unlocking the devil car in the first riiiiiiiiiiiiidge racer

johnny_ultimate

Ninja Gaiden Black had an unrivalled sense of achievement mainly because my friend kept on telling me I wouldnt get past those annoying flying zombie fish.

I showed him.

And nearly broke my TV / controller / brother in half as a result.

Cravez

FF7 - it took me a good long while to finish it and took me a few game restarts also. When i finished it even my da came into me and congratulated me on finishing it . Was kinda sad it was over though as i really enjoyed playing it.

Resident Evil 1(ps1) - when i first started playing this back in 97 i was so scared i could barely even make it into other rooms without turning off the console when i heard a zombie moan in the distance. When i finally finished it i was really relieved.

Devil May Cry 3 - It was really fun playing DMC3 and loved every second of it so when i completed it i was naturally chuffed with meself. Still trying to get past the second level on Dante must die mode.....

Half Life 1 - Another Game that took me a long while and some restarts to finish. Excellent

Spike in Transelvania (Commodore 64) - Years ago when we had this on the C64 it was almost impossible to finish. Since my brain was alot more developed mentally so to speak i whipped down the C64 a year ago and completed it

Thats all i can think of for now.

Call Me Jimmy

Pyr0 wrote:

Quake 3 on Nightmare when I was 11/12, very proud there !

Wow. Impressive snake.

FranchisePlayer

Halo on co-op legendary:took ages to do the final bit when you are riding the warthog through the pillar of autumn worth it for the secret ending:D
Half Life 2:My save file got deleted when I was half way though the game took me around three months to pluck up the courage to start over again
Resi 4:I just really enjoyed the game throughout and was completly suprised to how good it was I thought it was going to be rubbish because the amount of hype surrounding it
KOTOR1:Thought the ending was a bit rubbish but went back and played it again and did all the sidequests I loved the one where you are part of a secret organisation and you have to go around assanating people
Devil May cry: Jaysus after trying to beat some of the bosses in this I was nearly crying especially that bird who just would not die
The final boss battle was good but a bit Dragon ball Z ish

killyoutodeath

twilight priness!! lol it was easy but it was quite a long game

tman

killyoutodeath wrote:

twilight priness!! lol it was easy but it was quite a long game

Ditto, it took me 3 months to find the time to complete the damn thing. (the TV in this house is pretty much always in use, I have to sneak in a quick game whenever I can)
I meant to post this in the other thread, that moment when you

plunge the sword into Ganon's chest

has to be one of the most satisfying videogame moments ever:)

Flashback is another one as Ruu has already mentioned, even if it only took me a week to complete (I seem to remember limiting myself to only completing one level every day:P)
Very few games have given me that "who's the man!!!" feeling when you finally clear the last level and get to sit back and enjoy the ending.

gizmo

Deus Ex, only took me about 8 years.

DarkJager

The original Splinter Cell, simply because I got stuck on that CIA level for nearly a month.

Add to that Ninja Gaiden, GRAW, Rainbow Six Vegas on Realistic difficulty, Operation Flashpoint and Oblivion.

stagolee

Shadowrun on the SNES. Cool game.

Sarky

The first game I ever finished was Ikari Warriors on the Amiga. Oh, but didn't I feel like the bee's knees at the age of 12(ish).

Alien v Predator was so very damned hard you couldn't help but be proud of finishing it.

Half Life series has always been satisfying to finish too.

LivingDeadGirl

Call Me Jimmy wrote:

Wow. Impressive snake.

It was p1ss easy until Zero at the end, 50 tries to get him. I screamed a lot that day !

Pyr0

Call Me Jimmy wrote:

Wow. Impressive snake.

It was p1ss easy until Zero at the end, 50 tries to get him. I screamed a lot that day !

StewieGriffin07

Futurama on the xbox, Cause everyone said it was too hard, And Mafia, just because it was a brilliant game.

Holsten

Erm.. The Metal Gear Soild's on not being seen once mode.

Final Fantasy 7, getting all the cool items, etc...

GTA 3 since I was the only one to finish it out of all my mates for ages.

Jim

Zelda : OOT
Beating Goldeneye on 007 mode and passing all the time trials etc... to get all the cheats.

johnny_ultimate

killyoutodeath wrote:

twilight priness!! lol it was easy but it was quite a long game

Indeed. I was proud of myself because I decided to attempt to complete it in a week. It took upwards of 6 hours gaming a day, but when on the final day I got to stick it to Ganon, I was quite proud.

And then out I went and got some fresh air.

evad_lhorg

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Zelda : OOT
Beating Goldeneye on 007 mode and passing all the time trials etc... to get all the cheats.

I just couldnt do the Control level on double agent in ten minutes without that bitch Natalia getting shot hacking the computer

Setun

Yeah I completed all the SHs except that fourth one. :mad:

Was a good feeling completing the first one though because I went back to it after I had played the others and finally got the whole through it. Was a fair old slog alright, particularly that feckin hospital.

Zapp Brannigan

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Ninja Gaiden Black had an unrivalled sense of achievement mainly because my friend kept on telling me I wouldnt get past those annoying flying zombie fish.

I showed him.

And nearly broke my TV / controller / brother in half as a result.

Zombiefish were very annoying but what got me were the brown ninjas with exploding shurikens. Had me rolling and jumping all about the place! Nearly smashed everything in my immediate vicinity.

MooseJam

Space Hawks took me a good while to beat, very proud of it, i think I have the highest every score on that game

Senshu

Hmm.. it has to be Battletoads and Double Dragon on NES, it was so hard...
Other than that Vagrant Story on psx is worth mentioning, I had some hard times there as without decent weapon, and what is more - good chain abilities finnishing the game is pretty close to impossible. I find FFT as someone mentioned lot easier (but still hard) as VS because you can level up on almost every occasion and get your characters new classes to learn them new stuff.

PS Hi to everyone I'm new to these boards, and new to Ireland as well. Finally I found a msg board that reunites gamers from this country, I hope to get to know to some oldshool gamers and Japanese culture fans if they are here ~.~

a5y

Probably Vagrant Story, that game was something else.

In hindsight I am surprised how far I managed to get without really figuring out the game dynamics. It wasn't until I came across a fire elemental that I suddenly hit the wall and needed to starting thinking.

Magnificent game.

Retr0gamer

Senshu wrote:

Other than that Vagrant Story on psx is worth mentioning, I had some hard times there as without decent weapon, and what is more - good chain abilities finnishing the game is pretty close to impossible. I find FFT as someone mentioned lot easier (but still hard) as VS because you can level up on almost every occasion and get your characters new classes to learn them new stuff.

But the levelling up was so boring! Found Vagrant Story a bit tough as well. I was really good at chaining so could easily chain 30+ hits together so was capable of great damage. However i never realised how important risk was and kept running my risk to ridiculous figures. Didn't understand the mechanics of that game either until near the end

as for the zombie fish in ninja gaiden, that was easy, just equip the nunchuks and take it slowly, even if you get hit you more than likely get your health back.

Raskolnikov

Another World on the SNES.

Infuriating at times but not so much that it wasn't fun to play.

a5y

Retr0gamer wrote:

as for the zombie fish in ninja gaiden, that was easy, just equip the nunchuks and take it slowly, even if you get hit you more than likely get your health back.

I've long known that NG was hard as coffin nails, but I didn't know it had zombie fish...

Brow

I remember I got to the last part of Final Fantasy 8 when it first came out and just couldnt crack the last boss (the way theres about four battles in a row, I couldnt get past the first one!). Left it for ages...

Final Fantasy 9 comes out and some lads started giving me stick I couldnt play 9 til I beat 8 so bought the game, took it home and put it on the shelf. Whipped out 8 and set to work on that last boss.

Finished it on my first try. the adrenaline and joy was unbelievable.

Then 9 wasnt great...

Retr0gamer

Remember the last boss of FFVIII well because the first time I got to him I was very underpowered. Had to give myself a load of decent status effects and triple meteor him until he died. Was a total pain because the meteor spell had such a long animation. Took the best part of 2 hours to beat.

Thought FFVIII was a bit **** and FFIX was brilliant.

AlmightyCushion

Quite proud of finishing final fantasy viii, ix and x. i have vii for the pc and started it last year and still haven't finished it yet. I've out it on the back boiler for a while but some day.

SeantheMan

I enjoyed finishing 7 ...i remember going mental trying to kill Emeral and Ruby Weapons though ....spent a good extra 15 hours levelling up the correct materia and stuff

But 8 was easy for me as i had figured outa great way to lvl up and at the end every character was on Lvl100 and you could trade in your rare Triple Triad Cards for 100 Heroes etc, so the last battle lasted about 10 mins:p

Dunno how yous have the will and patience to replay a game on God mode ...must been hella tough

Brow

I prefer 9 to 8 anyway. 8 was depressing of what I remember of it. I plan on playing them again this summer after years to refresh my memory of them.

Tar.Aldarion

Final Fantasy 1 of course!
9 is my favourite.

Trode

There are tonnes I'd say I got satisfaction from finishing, but I don't think most of them made me proud as such. A few that did were

Freddy Hardest(c64) - Obscure budget game, notable only for being the first game I ever finished.
Rainbow Islands(c64) - Normal and special endings, excellent game, just kept coming back to it.
Turrican(c64) - Especially after that fourth world, the confusing Geiger-rip-off one
Probotector(NES) - Finished it in two player, but still hard going.
Secret of Mana(SNES) - Not really that difficult, but the first really epically long RPG that I finished(70+ hours the first time through)
R-Type 3(SNES) - Well, I got past the last level, but it went back to level one again, and I didn't have enough lives to finish it twice. Still felt proud of mtself though.
Mario64(N64) - Not so much finishing it as getting all the stars.
Duke Nukem3D(PC) - Highly enjoyable final battle really made finishing it seem like an achievement.
Fire Emblem(GBA) - The lack of mid-battle saves and any means of reviving dead caracters made this incredibly frustrating, especially when you're trying for no fatalities, but by God did it feel great when you won.