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Is there something to do with gaming you're ashamed of? A really crappy game that you loved? A popular series you've never beat? A game that somehow embarassingly found its way into your collection? What is your gaming shame?

My gaming shame is that I've never beaten a single traditional mario game. I can do the kart games but in regards to platformers or even RPGs I haven't beaten a single one.

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Elena Indurain

Currently Playing: Suikoden II

Don't feel bad, my gaming shame is that I still own some of the oldest Mario games and I either gave up or the game just got out of style. Also, I've beaten the RPG's, but like the simple ones I would get stuck alot, and I would sometimes race my friends to beat those and I would never win.

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Hailey, Final Fantasy Fan ♥♥

"There an't no stoppin' this train we're on!" -Barret Wallace

I feel ashamed every time I use the speed-up button on my emulator, but I guess that's not so bad.



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OSonic Rave
/ \Last Arcanum
[ ]Strike Raid
XRagnarok

I've never beaten a Sonic game

I've only beaten SM 1 & 3

I think the oddest 'shame' that I have is that I made up lyrics to Doctor Mario (NES) tunes.

The most note worthy one has to be...

~We do not fart 'cuz we're state of the art~
~We do not fart 'cuz we're staaaaaaaaaaaate~

Did I mention that I did this when the game first came out? (so it wasn't like I was uhh.. in my 20s or something.... )

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

I really like Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest.

I can't beat any of the NES Mario Bros. games. They're way too hard for me.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

I would say not beating FFI, II, or X. The FF games I got that I haven't beat. If it it counts as a gaming shame, I would say spending a lot of times at arcades and losing to almost everybody at fighting games and never getting the top score at others. The Final Fight games and X-Men Co-op were ones that I got my highest scores and win/loss records.

This post has been edited by FabulousFreebird on 19th March 2006 12:47

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

... I've enjoyed beating up harmless pedestrians in the grand theft auto series.

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Oh sure, I don't have to get kicked in the junk to activate it, but I like it anyway. -- Thief commenting on the difference between Throw and Blue Magic.

I've never actually finished a Mario game either. My sisters always did the last bit, and I haven't played a Mario game for more than an hour or so in years aside from Mario Kart for the DS (which remains unfinished, still).

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

My absolute biggest shame is actually purchasing FF X-2. It still gives me nightmares *Shudder*

I really enjoyed Fahrenheit.

I thought FFX-2 was immaculately produced and found it hard to hate.

I've never completed Link to the Past.

I still play Bushido Blade, it's the only good sword fighting game out there.


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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

http://slightly-bitter.blog.co.uk

YOU DIDNT BEAT LINK TO THE PAST!? HOW COULD YOU-

Er, I mean, uh, yes...focus...

I'm ashamed that I still, to this day, am in love with Digimon World (the original). It's a great game, and I don't even like Digimon anymore...

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"Dance, water, dance!"
-Demyx, Kingdom Hearts II

"I met my love before I was born..."
-AFI, 'Love Like Winter' from 'Decemberunderground'

Currently Playing: Guitar Hero, Shadow of the Colossus

I beat FF8. Twice.

Also, I played that god-aweful Heroes of the Lance game for NES. My god, they weren't kidding were they? :x

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"Judge not a man by his thoughts and words, but by
the quality and quantity of liquor in his possession
and the likelyhood of him sharing."

I own pokemon snap (came with my N64)
I have never beaten a sonic game
I played through FF8

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

gaming geek-shames:

I can recite the weakness tables for Mega Man 1-8 and Mega Man X1-X8 (not including X6 or X7) perfectly from memory. I also can tell you from memory where any of the heart tanks, sub tanks, or upgrade capsules in any of the non-X6&7 MMX games can be found.

I once self-recorded an entirely beatboxed rendition of the FF VII Turks theme, but I lost the recording. Even more shameful: I want to rerecord it using seven seperate parts instead of four.

Once, for a gamefaqs forum debate, I wrote a six-page essay in Word as to why Eirika is the best character in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (and I don't even think she is).

general gaming shames:

I needed a walkthrough to beat Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

I don't think I've ever won a single race of F-Zero GX, Burnout 3, or against my friends - I'm just laughably bad at really fast-paced driving games.

I once spent a hundred fifty dollars on games in a single day: check it out

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this is a blog mostly about comics and videogames
END SPOILER

I run a Final Fantasy site.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

In FF6...

Possible spoilers: highlight to view

On the Floating Continent, when you beat all the Naughtys and Nerapas and what now, and you have to go onto the edge of the cliff? I didn't know what to do. And, I didn't know until months, or even a year later. I just used to replay again and again up until that point.

Oh and... I used to take pride in having the same hair as Selphie from FF8. It still goes like that when I don't cut it for ages. I don't even style it like that. It just does that naturally.

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'Bastards, we may be, but clever are we.'
Thorn, FFIX

Quote (Rangers51 @ 18th March 2006 15:17)

I run a Final Fantasy site.

ROFL

As for my shame...

- I pulled an all-nighter in order to beat Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance.
- I pulled an all-nighter while playing Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance.
- I pulled an all-nighter in order to beat Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.
- I pulled an all-nighter in order to beat Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Strangely, I don't recall pulling an all-nighter to beat Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, which is my favorite among the GBA Castlevania games.

On the other hand, my being able to tell you the musical keys of every single Mega Man series Robot Master/Maverick stage theme for MM1-7+X1-X3+II is not something I'm ashamed of, but proud of. Really. Same goes for things like micromanaging my FFTA clan, enjoying playing as Julius in CvAoS because I can manipulate his character very smoothly (Richter is cheap but Julius has 1337 sk1llz), being able to name the types and evolution patterns of all the first 151 Pokémon, and being generally knowledgeable of the FF series. I'm proud of being weirdly leet.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 18th March 2006 20:58

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

I traded Super Mario RPG toward getting my PSX and some games. I don't regret getting the items that I got, but I do kind of miss the item I lost **sigh**.

I pulled an all-nighter once to beat FFVII as, like an idiot, I put the save point rather close to the beginning of that crater and I was unwilling to start over from there. Furthermore, I think two hours of that time was spent just sitting there listening to One-Winged Angel (never heard it before, so...wow!)

Ah, but at least I accomplished something there. I pulled many all-nighters playing Diablo II, often having accomplished nothing more than gaining a few levels and grabbing a few pieces of crappy equipment...

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Console RPG Cliches

Quote (BASSsic @ 18th March 2006 12:45)

I thought FFX-2 was immaculately produced and found it hard to hate.

That is incredibly shameful. Perhaps you never got really into the first one? That's pretty much the only thing that could save you. Let's hope for your sake.

Quote (laszlow @ 18th March 2006 12:06)

I once self-recorded an entirely beatboxed rendition of the FF VII Turks theme, but I lost the recording. Even more shameful: I want to rerecord it using seven seperate parts instead of four.

Once, for a gamefaqs forum debate, I wrote a six-page essay in Word as to why Eirika is the best character in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (and I don't even think she is).

If and when you decide to actually record the Turks theme. I'd definitely like to hear it.

As for the six-page essay. That's insane (If you had actually felt that Erika was the best character, then I would support you, but what you did is a bit crazy)

Quote (Silverlance @ 18th March 2006 14:19)

I beat FF8. Twice.

Well I've done worse:
Not only have I beaten FFVIII twice, but I started a new game recently (1 year and half ago) and I was able to play the game until the time to enter Ifrit's Cavern. Which makes about 30-60minutes of playing!

I was never able to go through the 100 levels in Dark Cloud's last dunjon but I was in FFX-2. What a shame, on both game I wasted an unbelievable amount of time, and I don't even like them!

This post has been edited by Zodiac on 19th March 2006 15:37

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Sayonara

Quote (Rangers51 @ 18th March 2006 15:17)

I run a Final Fantasy site.

I frequent a Final Fantasy site.

Also, I actually pay money on a monthly basis for an MMORPG. Honestly, who buys games anymore?

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

When the first Civiliization came out, I was so addicted to it, I once broke into a friend's house to play it when no one was there.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

I got all of my characters to lvl 99 in FFVIII. I got everyone's final weapon except for Quistis'.

Quote (ArcnightDelita @ 18th March 2006 20:32)

Quote (BASSsic @ 18th March 2006 12:45)

I thought FFX-2 was immaculately produced and found it hard to hate.

That is incredibly shameful. Perhaps you never got really into the first one? That's pretty much the only thing that could save you. Let's hope for your sake.

I brought X on launch and had 100%-ed before playing X-2....





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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

http://slightly-bitter.blog.co.uk

Oh God! I knew this would happen... I... I... I... enjoied playing FIREMEN and... Oh this is the hardest thing... *tears, tears* I... I... never beat bowser in Super Mario 3... : (
Oh why don't you just kill me?
*tears tears*

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I'm the shadow in the night, I'm the wind that blows in your back, I'm the darkness... More dark than the night, more blak than the darkness, more red tha the blood that flows in the river of chaos and time... I'm the fabulous As15

Guess getting hooked on Pokemon Yellow, damn it how could I, have to admit it was quite addicting, thank god the PS2 came around that time, I said good bye Yellow, hello TAG Tournament.

My other shame is actualy buying "The Bouncer" for $55 when it came out, nice graphics, horrible game, finished in half an hour.

This post has been edited by SaffireWeapon on 19th March 2006 19:48

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PS3 tag: TipoDLuffy

"...quite possibly the greatest game ever made"

I still haven't beaten FFV or VI, even though I said I would like two years ago. Never beat Legend of Dragoon either, even though I've replayed it seven or eight times.

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

Here's another shame. I buy games and don't play them. I have 38 PS2/Gamecube games and I have only beaten like 3 of them and not even attempted like 5 of them. Countless times I have played a game for about a week and then something happens and I fall off the bandwagon and by the time I get back to it I can't remember what was going on so I have to start over. Let me also mention that doens't even county my plethora of PSX games and GBA games.

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Elena Indurain

Currently Playing: Suikoden II