Games you feel a sense of pride having finished

[Rigel]

Would you believe I've never finished FFIII (VI)? I've gotten to the final dungeon a couple of times, but never felt like grinding to the point where I could finish it.

[Queeaqueg]

I always do that. I play an RPG and really enjoy it but when I get to the final dungeon and can never be bothered to go all the way through it and fight the final boss. Of course in the end I do go and complete the game but usually wait ages and then go back to it.

[kevinswatch]

I do that sometimes. I've still never finished Xenogears, even though I'm at the last level. (Although the last level of Xenogears is a pain the the ass...)

But FF6??? Unforgivable!-jay

[Fullmetal660]

I'm gonna say getting 100% completion on just cause. Made me feel good because it took me eons to do.

[stonemaybe]

This one:
www.icemark.com/gate/
The FULL victory too- killing the ice-bitch AND rescuing yer man AND bringing all characters back to the Gate of Varenorn. Boy was I proud! Took me about seven days of summer holiday, iirc.

[AjK]

Managed to finish:

Dark Castle (Mac)
Zork (PC)
Super Mario Brothers (NES I think)
Rastan (Arcade)
Doom, Doom II, Quake (PC)

The only comics I was in to as a youth was Conan the Barbarian so I loved Rastan since it was an obvious unacknowledged rip-off (or tribute depending on how you look at it. ) In fact I still play Rastan, Berzerk, Frenzy and Donkey Kong on the PC using MAME, LOL.

[Holsety]

OOh. Mario bros. That reminds me: when I was a kid I could never beat Mario Brothers 3, even though I watched my brother and his friend play through it numerous times. Years later (I think I was 11 or 12 because I had moved on the PS1 by that point) I hooked the NES up and beat it all the way through on my first run without a single game over.

Definitely my most powerful "coming of age" story.

Tim Rogers had a similar experience, for which reason he classifies Super Mario Bros. 3 as the best game ever. I would reverse the dichotomy, preferring the best game every on objective grounds (probably Earthbound) over a game which I love mostly for my personal experience with it.
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[Cagliostro]

OOh. Mario bros. That reminds me: when I was a kid I could never beat Mario Brothers 3, even though I watched my brother and his friend play through it numerous times. Years later (I think I was 11 or 12 because I had moved on the PS1 by that point) I hooked the NES up and beat it all the way through on my first run without a single game over.

Definitely my most powerful "coming of age" story.

Tim Rogers had a similar experience, for which reason he classifies Super Mario Bros. 3 as the best game ever. I would reverse the dichotomy, preferring the best game every on objective grounds (probably Earthbound) over a game which I love mostly for my personal experience with it.
www.insertcredit.com/features/lifenonwarp/index.html

Wow, I might have sold this guy his Super Mario 3.

[Kevin164]

X-Wing: When I finally made it to the Death Star and fought my way through never ending waves of Tie-Fighters that spewed out four bases. Actually making it down the shaft and blowing it up... felt pretty good.


Descent: If any of you have ever played Descent you'll know what I mean by the sheer chest pounding for where I finally got that son******* Boss Robot at the end of the game. Hooting which went on for ten minutes after the final cut scene followed then by the middle finger wave of doom at my computer for another six minutes. I hated that level!

[Worm of Despite]

I remember when I was six beating Super Mario World at a neighbor's house. Both of us were in utter awe that we just beat Bowser. It was one of those things where the final boss makes your hands shake and the controller sweaty. I think we both ran out into the hall and started screaming to his parents that we did it, and then we rushed back to his room to watch the credits. Mmmm.

I later went to another neighbor's house and beat Bowser for him, just to show off.

Also a lot of a feelings when I watched the ending of Ocarina of Time. Not just pride but Zelda nostalgia and gratitude at having played one of the best games ever. The finale's cinematics and music really helped press that fact home.

[Cagliostro]

I just figured out how to get my Wii online finally, and I went to the store and saw that they have Ocarina of Time. I could probably find an emulator, but I might just pick it up. I've played it briefly when I borrowed a friend's system way back when, but I knew it would be a huge time suck, and I still have the Wii Zelda to finish.