I have finally beaten Resident Evil. The strange thing is that I started this game almost five years ago. And I don’t mean “I started playing Resident Evil five years ago” I mean my save sat around for more than a year at several points before I returned to it. I kept picking up the game and saying “This time I’m going to muscle through it,” but it’s such a terrible game that I wound up walking away before I made much more progress.
So it took me close to five years to finish one game with a total play time of just a hair over nine hours. What’s your record for longest time from start to finish on a single playthrough?
I’ll let you know when I finally finish Far Cry 2.
I plugged through about 4 hours, put it down and try to start again every couple of months only to give up after 10 minutes of driving and clearing out the same guard posts over and over again.
Civ2 for sure. Many months, but certainly not years.
I’ve got a slow game of Empire:Total War going that I was sure was sooooo old, but I checked and its only been two months. It’s near halfway done, and I have auto-resolved many small encounters, plus every naval fight, so it might get to be 6 months old before it’s finished. Might be a personal record if it works out. They’ll be whistlin’ Dixie in Moscow and Bombay by then. A campaign could easily last a year or more by fighting every battle.
It just occurred to me that the last two campaigns I spent so much time on ended in bugs. Stupid game. That’s why I play so infrequently.
I spent 8 years on a game of Civilization 1 for the SNES. I slowly terraformed the Earth map so that every single square was being used by a city, with railroads covering everything else. It literally looked like the Borg had assimilated the planet.
I just kept Tokyo bottled up with battleships and about 50 mech infantry until the very end so that I had an enemy left alive. It was epic.
I’ve got all of you guys beaten. When I was five(1987) , I played Super Mario Brothers at my cousin’s house. I couldn’t ever actually get past the level (7-1?) with the long jump that required ‘skipping’ over an empty spot in order to get up to speed.
Two years ago (2007), I found my old NES in my parents’ attic. Dusted it off, and beat the game after about three or four attempts.
I bought Final Fantasy 7 right after it came out in the US, and before too long made it to the Northern Crater (last area of the game, where you fight Sephiroth). But my friend was playing it at the time too, and I was at his house watching him play when he ended up beating the game. So I watched the ending there and for some reason never finished it myself. I think I still have the save game on a PS1 memory card somewhere, so maybe one of these days I’ll dig it out and give it a shot…
I was a tester for Imperial Glory - basically, Empire: Total War done two or three years sooner. One of the other testers decided to see how high he could run up the years. He did the same thing you did: beat all the other nations, then surrounded the one remaining province. Then he set up a macro to keep clicking “End Turn” and left it running on his desktop while he worked on other projects.
IIRC, he got the year up to five digits before he got sick of it and quit the game.
I never finished Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Genesis. I’d get all the way up to the end, survive the airship, beat the evil robot Sonic, then get to the final Dr. Roboto. And I couldn’t touch him. Ever. Even one single touch and I’d die.
I’ve looked up how to beat him since, and I’m certain I tried that, but nope. Instant death. I think my game was flawed. I’d play until I got there, then turn it off because I’d always die. I guess I considered the game beaten, but I never officially did so.
Boozahol Squid, P.I. has me beat but I used to play Paradroid on by Commodore back in the 1980s and could never beat it. I’d always get down to the last few levels and wind up losing it.
In the early 2000’s, I downloaded a C=64 emulator, found Paradroid and, after a few days, beat it. Cleared out the whole ship.
It basically said “You won” and started over. :dubious:
I started Blaster Master back in the NES days (call it 1989, maybe? I was late getting one), but never got further than just a little past the sliding-blocks boss. A few years ago, I picked it up again on emulation, and finally beat it. Man, that was a great game, but it desperately needed a save-game or password feature: I don’t think it was possible to play it through in one sitting.
In high school 25 years ago or so, my friend and I took over his parent’s two-car garage and set up most all of the maps and counters for the wargame Europa. France, Britain, North Africa, the Balkans, we had just about everything except Finland IIRC.
We made it all through the setup and 1 1/2 turns of gameplay (4 days total) until the dog got loose and bounded across our map sending counter-stacks flying.
I still vow to this day that that game will be restarted and finished
I started a game before the internet was common, and it took four years to finish a game because I couldn’t get past a point. It was a bug that was solved by a patch I downloaded on the internet four years later. I always thought that game companies should have been required to ship game patches to distributors for faulty games they sold consumers.
I played it through in one sitting. It’s a hard game, but it only takes about 2 hours if you know what you’re doing. I also picked it up when I was a kid and didn’t actually beat it until I was in college.
My longest is the original Zelda. I purchased it shortly after it was released, at the age of 5 (I had been saving my pennies since I could remember). I played it for many many hours as a child, but never quite beat it. After winter break during the freshman year of college, I brought all my NES games to school, since there was a thriving retro-gaming trend with my friends, and, still on my original saved game, I beat it in about 30 minutes. I never realized how close I was to finishing it.
So, that’s 15 years on a single original saved game.
It’s really annoying, you have to jump from pretty much exactly the right angle. I think that Death Egg Zone in 2 probably qualifies as the most bullshit Sonic level ever.
