What's the longest time it took you to beat a game?

[Paratech]

I 'finally' beat Tekken Tag tonight! *PS2*, granted I had to use 1 continue on the boss, so I still have the goal of beating it on one credit, but it took a long time to finally beat the final boss.

I purchased my PS2 back in March 2005, but I haven't played Tekken Tag that often, perhaps a few times a month. I'm not going to trade it in, I still intend to play it, even after I beat it on one credit, I'll try different characters.

It was just a thrill to finally beat the game, I haven't been so happy since I beat Capcom vs SNK in the arcade on one credit, or Capcom vs SNK 2 on the XBOX on one credit, including a difficult fight with Geese!

I was just curious if any other gamers here had a game for over a year before they beat it, and if they kept the game after beating it?

[jonc2006]

i usually take much longer than the average gamer to beat something since i have the bad habit of playing too many games at once. ill start one, suddenly stop and play something else, start playing it again, take a stupidly long amount of time trying to remember what i was doing or what i had done before i stopped, and finally take even longer to beat it after i remember.

[BigIg]

I barely ever even complete games. I find them boring after a couple hours usually. Multiplayer FTW.

Xbox Live<3.

[Proto]

I think it was F-15 Strike Eagle, a flight simulator by Micropose for the NES. I bought it back in the 1989 (one of the first games I had) but because it was insanely difficult to meet all the requirements to finished the game, coupled with intuitive but difficult to master controls (and the fact that I was 5 years old back when my parents bough it) it wasn't till 1997 or so that I finished it.

So that's a whole 8 years. yay.

[Condor San]

Took me 1 week to finish Jade Empire SD, other week for RE4. Those are the few games that motivated me to finish it with nice storyline. The rest I just never have time to finish it.

Its more like couple of play and got bored : (

[Condor San]

Took me 1 week to finish Jade Empire SD, other week for RE4. Those are the few games that motivated me to finish it with nice storyline. The rest I just never have time to finish it.

Its more like couple of play and got bored : (

[Hiei-YYH]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

i usually take much longer than the average gamer to beat something since i have the bad habit of playing too many games at once. ill start one, suddenly stop and play something else, start playing it again, take a stupidly long amount of time trying to remember what i was doing or what i had done before i stopped, and finally take even longer to beat it after i remember.

lol me too

anyway, FFX International > 148 hours ( i don't remember how many weeks XD )

[emwearz]

Super Mario Bros. I use to play it when I was younger maybe 5 or 6, I didn't finish it until I picked up a copy of it 11 years later and finished it in my second sitting.

It usually takes me a few months to finish a RPG as I play too many games on the side.

[Densetsu]

Monster Rancher, Monster Rancher 2, Digimon, Digimon 2, Digimon 3. Ditto, but i've always liked games where you could raise your own little monster to be the strongest there is. I clocked more than 99 hours into this games.

[ChankastRules]

Wizardry 8 on hardest setting..... it took me years to finish. I wanted to try ironman mode... but after playing for some months.. and get killed by a bunch of bloody UNICORNS.. gameover... I just gave up beating it on ironmen ( if you die.. your screwed )

I also tried beating it with a single fairy.... but it was just too hard for me!

[minime_samilin]

I beat FFX clocked at 240+ hours to make a better Sphere Grid for max stats only to learn in the end that Yu Yevon is the easiest final boss even without godly stats. I can't believed I wasted my time on that just to beat the game lol.

[deamonhunter]

Doom 3, i have a save from mid 2003 and one in the late 2004 it took me over a year .a friend of mine finished it in six days .
but hey i was scared every time i played it so i dont know if that counts

any way oblivion took me 93 hours
final fantasy games usually take 68 -75 hours to complete

[Project Epsilon]

its been several years since i started Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS, never beat it. I mentioned before about how it felt like i was doing everything wrong, even when I was taking everything into account. So I just quit playing it. Someday soon i'm gonna pick it up and just play it. Not gonna over think anything, just play for fun and see how far i get.

[Thanakil]

SSBM, unlocking everything I could, played for a hella long time.

But the one game on which I think I invested the more time, or at least, the game that made me felt like I truly had to work for the achievements I got, I think it would be F-Zero GX, I didnt play it for a LOOONNNGG time, but I completed devoted myself to it for days on end, even tho I would usually give up for a few hours on a game when I would hit a wall, I simply would keep on trying with Fzero GX, no matter how unfair I tought it was sometime how the pc would rape me.

Now if only I could be like that with something that actually matter...

[galson]

Hmm, I started Oblivion on May 1st, still playing it :>

[Cid Highwind]

Baldr Force Exe.

I know I put 90+ hours in FF7, but with Baldr Force Exe (Dreamcast) I put in over 40 hours and I still have two or three storylines to play. After that, there's some unlockable bonus modes. It's easily the longest game I have, though unfortunately I haven't played it in ages.

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by Project Epsilon

its been several years since i started Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS, never beat it. I mentioned before about how it felt like i was doing everything wrong, even when I was taking everything into account. So I just quit playing it. Someday soon i'm gonna pick it up and just play it. Not gonna over think anything, just play for fun and see how far i get.

that game takes a while to get good at, at least in some parts. first time i played it i kept setting the thing to do the auto battle mode because i didnt really understand how to do the battles, but i caught on pretty well afterwards. the game is fun as hell though.

[skoreanime]

Do MMORPGs count ?

Jk .

I'm still playing Halo 2, Oblivion, Tales of the Abyss and many other games...WoW has taken over my gaming time lately...

[makotech222]

disgaea clocked a bunch of hours for me. i forget how many though.

[cloudsBro]

Around 60 hours playing Final Fantasy 9 on my first go without having any knowledge of how the ability or stat system worked!