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Which game has given you the most satisfaction upon it's completion?
Any game that you've committed tens of hours to a week, desperate to reach the conclusion, or to see what's around the next corner?
I recently (okay it was sometime last year) got hold of a Sega Master System emulator.
I downloaded the ROM of the one SMS game that had gotten the better of me, all those years ago. Phantasy Star.
I never owned Phantasy Star, but used to play it round a friends house. Unfortunately we fell out just as I'd reached almost the end of the game. We hadn't really played to the rules either. Rather than finding the mirror shield to defeat Medusa, we just build our party up to such a level that they could defeat her within a few hits, before she could turn them all to stone.
I didn't consider this to be cheating. We'd outsmarted the game.
Only second time around, I got to do it properly. I played through the quest from the very beginning, struggling to remember just what I'd done all those years earlier. After a couple of weeks play, I'd made it back to the spot at which I'd left the game around a decade earlier.
Days later, I completed the game.
Damn that felt good.
Any game that you've committed tens of hours to a week, desperate to reach the conclusion, or to see what's around the next corner?
I recently (okay it was sometime last year) got hold of a Sega Master System emulator.
I downloaded the ROM of the one SMS game that had gotten the better of me, all those years ago. Phantasy Star.
I never owned Phantasy Star, but used to play it round a friends house. Unfortunately we fell out just as I'd reached almost the end of the game. We hadn't really played to the rules either. Rather than finding the mirror shield to defeat Medusa, we just build our party up to such a level that they could defeat her within a few hits, before she could turn them all to stone.
I didn't consider this to be cheating. We'd outsmarted the game.
Only second time around, I got to do it properly. I played through the quest from the very beginning, struggling to remember just what I'd done all those years earlier. After a couple of weeks play, I'd made it back to the spot at which I'd left the game around a decade earlier.
Days later, I completed the game.
Damn that felt good.
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Which game has given you the most satisfaction upon it's completion?
Any game that you've committed tens of hours to a week, desperate to reach the conclusion, or to see what's around the next corner?
I recently (okay it was sometime last year) got hold of a Sega Master System emulator.
I downloaded the ROM of the one SMS game that had gotten the better of me, all those years ago. Phantasy Star.
I never owned Phantasy Star, but used to play it round a friends house. Unfortunately we fell out just as I'd reached almost the end of the game. We hadn't really played to the rules either. Rather than finding the mirror shield to defeat Medusa, we just build our party up to such a level that they could defeat her within a few hits, before she could turn them all to stone.
I didn't consider this to be cheating. We'd outsmarted the game.
Only second time around, I got to do it properly. I played through the quest from the very beginning, struggling to remember just what I'd done all those years earlier. After a couple of weeks play, I'd made it back to the spot at which I'd left the game around a decade earlier.
Days later, I completed the game.
Damn that felt good.
Any game that you've committed tens of hours to a week, desperate to reach the conclusion, or to see what's around the next corner?
I recently (okay it was sometime last year) got hold of a Sega Master System emulator.
I downloaded the ROM of the one SMS game that had gotten the better of me, all those years ago. Phantasy Star.
I never owned Phantasy Star, but used to play it round a friends house. Unfortunately we fell out just as I'd reached almost the end of the game. We hadn't really played to the rules either. Rather than finding the mirror shield to defeat Medusa, we just build our party up to such a level that they could defeat her within a few hits, before she could turn them all to stone.
I didn't consider this to be cheating. We'd outsmarted the game.
Only second time around, I got to do it properly. I played through the quest from the very beginning, struggling to remember just what I'd done all those years earlier. After a couple of weeks play, I'd made it back to the spot at which I'd left the game around a decade earlier.
Days later, I completed the game.
Damn that felt good.