Longest Game Completion Time For You?

**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

I've still never beat Donkey Kong Country 2... that has to be a good 12 years at this point, though I haven't really tried recently (a few years ago we re-bought it for Wii, and even on co-op we gave up trying to beat it for the time being). Not that it's the hardest game ever, but it's not easy and unfortunately being a kid was the peak of my non-music video game ability.

I'm also in the same boat with thecap'n and Alice: Madness Returns. My husband bought that game because it comes with the original Alice game. I played it for like 2 hours shortly after it came out and never again. The game isn't bad, I just never played it again. I intend to go back to it eventually just because I'm an achievement whore.
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**Cabanon** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 6462 Location: Quebec, Canada

**skinnywhitecomic** · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA

When Gran Turismo 4 came out around 2005, I beat everything except getting gold on all licenses. Only one lap around the Nurburgring and I could not go fast enough. I finally sat down sometime last year and started from scratch and finally bear it after a good 4 or 5 years.

**Parama** · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 5870

I've had GH3 for over 4 and a half years and I will not consider it complete until I FC every song in the game, which will never happen.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure it was at least 5 years between when I first played S3&K and when I first beat S3&K, but I was like 6 when I first played it so :V
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**Silly** · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:11 pm Post subject:

I first played Wiz 'n' Liz on the Mega Drive when I was 3 years old. I completed it on the final hidden difficulty two years ago at 20. 17 years is quite a long time for a relatively short game, but it's a challenging one all the same even by today's standards :P
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**Cabanon** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 6462 Location: Quebec, Canada

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**psxfreak101** · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:20 am Post subject:

I don't recall having THAT much difficulty with finding all the bonus stages and DK coins in DKC2 (granted, the couple in Web Woods were pretty damn sneaky although there were arrows made of bananas that hinted at them). Most of them you could've honestly worked out over time. Mind you, my first 102% time was all of 14:15 and I was pretty damn proud of myself at the time, so I probably did have troubles with some of them, although I'm sure most of my time was actually chewed up trying to get through the brambles section in Animal Antics. The whole game is now a breeze having plowed through it a trillion times now, and in fact I almost feel like playing it right now and see if I can still manage a sub-2 hour 102% run >_>

The only game in the DKC trilogy that I literally was stuck on in terms of finding all the bonuses was actually the first game, and it wasn't the bonus stage within a bonus stage in Oil Drum Alley. In the 6th World, first stage, I had NO idea where the bonus was there that I was missing for years. Ended up having my friend's little brother show me what I'd been missing for years. He and I both had a good laugh at the thought of a... I think 7 year old at the time... show me what had me stumped for years haha.
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**billsfan444** · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 687 Location: PEI, canada

Zelda 2 for NES took me around 15 years to beat. I played it a lot when I was a kid, had no idea what I was doing, then many years later I finished it (with the help from the internet!)

It took me the around the same time to beat Punch-out and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES too.

**Anthony8** · Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 633 Location: Limbo

I haven't completed Crash Bandicoot: Warped yet. I think it's been about ten years since I got to the sixth warp room and never got everything, and that includes the gold relics (I don't remember if platinum relics exist in that game, lol).

**ShadoWolf** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 2034 Location: Slough, England

Fascinating stuff, guys! Some of those results are almost longer than I've been alive!

An interesting side topic I've noticed: When do you consider a game complete? Story Mode complete? 100%? Story Mode+ & 101%? It's an interesting measure of how much you guys put into your games that enables people to answer this question so differently.
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**skinnywhitecomic** · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA