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Title: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Sarafan on April 07, 2007, 01:33:01 pm
What was the game(s) that you finished the fatest? I mean, fast enough that when you got to the ending you said ''what? that's it?''. :P A couple of mine would be Mechcommander, Republic Commando, Ace Combat 4 and a lot others but I dont remember the names, some I've even finished in 2-3 days :D (as soon as I remember I'll post them). What are yours?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: CP5670 on April 07, 2007, 01:37:48 pm
If you're talking about commercially sold games, Time Commando. It can be finished in less than two hours on the default difficulty, but it's nonetheless awesome the whole way through.

Among all games, Mac vs. IBM. You're a Mac and you shoot an IBM at the top, space invaders style, once to end the game. It's black and white, has no sound and lasts for about five seconds.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Sarafan on April 07, 2007, 02:16:38 pm
If you're talking about commercially sold games,

Yeah, those.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Blaise Russel on April 07, 2007, 02:17:36 pm
Did Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy in a day.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Turey on April 07, 2007, 04:43:44 pm
Minesweeper, 3 Sec. :p

Seriously, ummmm... I don't know about the fastest, but Jedi Starfighter took me maybe a day.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Sarafan on April 07, 2007, 06:05:16 pm
Minesweeper, 3 Sec. :p

Seriously, ummmm... I don't know about the fastest, but Jedi Starfighter took me maybe a day.

Jedi Starfighter? Is it good?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 07, 2007, 08:26:28 pm
Ground Control II. 48 hour marathon session of nothing but the North Star Alliance and Virons kicking ass and taking names. I broke for about six of those hours to eat, or read when I grew too frustrated.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Desert Tyrant on April 07, 2007, 08:34:48 pm
FEAR. 12hr marthons FTW :D
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Nuke on April 09, 2007, 01:40:24 am
i used to be able to beat a game in anywhere between 20 hours and 2 days. but lately they tend to last me at least 3 weeks before i beat em. i dont remember any games from back then though.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Singh on April 09, 2007, 01:55:19 am
Halo 2. Ten or twelve hours straight (cant remember which) of playing it and finished. Second would come Fear XP, which was also 11 hours. I just finished STALKER as well, in 3 days.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Turnsky on April 09, 2007, 02:10:46 am
Pariah, Prey, Perfect Dark Zero, Gears of War.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Mefustae on April 09, 2007, 04:08:14 am
Max Payne 2. First time I ever played it, it took a few days. Next diffuculty level took 5+ hours. "Hardest" difficulty level took under two hours. Damned fun game, that. Also managed to finish Majora's Mask in under three days cold.

On the flip side, i've had Oblivion for 11 months and i've still not finished the main storyline. :p
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: diceman111 on April 09, 2007, 07:01:10 am
The new Sam & Max episodes each has taken about 3 hours or so to complete

but still they are hilarius

"I dont care if we smack it into her or out of her aslong as there is smacking involved" - Max


/Dice
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Ulala on April 09, 2007, 07:42:07 pm
GoW
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Huggybaby on April 10, 2007, 09:12:48 pm
Midnight Resistance and Sunset Riders.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Fury on April 11, 2007, 04:16:53 am
On the flip side, i've had Oblivion for 11 months and i've still not finished the main storyline. :p
It has a story? :eek:
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Polpolion on April 11, 2007, 10:22:00 am
Seriously, I just beat Serious Sam: the Second Encounter in like a day. I'm serious.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Overlord_pt on April 11, 2007, 11:11:41 am
Rebel assault 2 in 1,5 hours!
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Ulala on April 11, 2007, 09:48:50 pm
ohh man Rebel Assault 2, those were the days.. wish I knew where my old copy was. :(
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: KappaWing on April 11, 2007, 10:31:08 pm
Minesweeper, 3 Sec. :p

Seriously, ummmm... I don't know about the fastest, but Jedi Starfighter took me maybe a day.

Minesweeper, 1 Second  ;)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/KappaWing/minesweep.jpg)

Seriously, I beat Star Wars Battlefront in only a couple hours.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Mobius on April 12, 2007, 02:50:00 pm
Ace Combat Zero....a matter of hours....highest level of difficulty available ;) <---it matters!

I would have done the same with AC04, but I wanted to play a mission per day. I resisted 2 days before starting a gaming spree.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Zenzic on April 15, 2007, 07:22:07 pm
Unreal 2 comes to mind 8-10hrs,
Jade Empire (on Xbox) 2 days,
FEAR 6-8hrs

Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on April 19, 2007, 05:49:42 pm
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force - one of the first awesome and fun star trek games it's an fps. Great single player story with good gameplay and neato weapons. However, it was sort of short, i think like 6 or so hours to beat on difficult, probably less time if you rush through the game. But it was a very satisfying game, i replayed that thing a whole bunch. It had normal gameplay where your hunting klingons and borg, but then it quickly switched to you being the only guy being swarmed by a ton of hive aliens. It was a good game for it's day and still fun to play (uses the q3 engine). While the single player was short, it did come with a q3 type of game where it was all deathmatch, and oddly enough that was fun too, but the multiplayer was where that game had it. The multiplayer on that game was awesome.

Then of course came the last game on earth to have the q3 engine. Star trek elite force 2, much longer game, great job with maxing out the q3 engine, the weapons were a lot more tactical(that's what you get as opposed to being stuck in the delta quadrant) and i'm sure the multiplayer was great as well, but i never tried it :(
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Agent_Koopa on April 19, 2007, 07:58:21 pm
WarioWare: Twisted. A couple of hours. Short game, but collecting and beating every minigame takes much longer.

I'm actually not sure which I went through faster, Twisted or Touched, but I definitely had a much better time doing Twisted.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: TopAce on April 21, 2007, 05:06:17 am
Half Life: Blue Shift. I don't know how much time it took, but it wasn't more than 4-5 hours.

I was also disappointed in the length of KotOR II, I had been hearing it would take twice as much time as KotOR I to beat, but I actually finished II sooner.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: achtung on April 21, 2007, 08:53:56 am
F.E.A.R was too short.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on April 21, 2007, 10:55:14 pm
I don't understand how fear was too short. I didn't have too much time to play the game, it was a good deal lengthy, but not as long as half life 1 per say. Also i played fear on max difficulty, that game is pretty ****ing realistic except the slowmo thing, so i just played on max difficulty, very fun. Besides in real life when you get sprayed with bullet, you are usually going to go down and not keep standing. Also max difficulty really made you have to go out be very careful.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Deepstar on April 22, 2007, 01:20:10 pm
All times includes cutscenes.

Call of Duty - 3 Hours & ~15 Minutes

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2 - 5 Hours & ~30 Minutes

Wing Commander - 1 Hour & 15 Minutes

Wing Commander Prophecy - 3 Hours & ~30 Minutes

Full Throttle - ~2 Hours

Star Trek - Elite Force - ~3 Hours
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Sarafan on April 22, 2007, 01:41:24 pm

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2 - 5 Hours & ~30 Minutes


With both sides?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Snail on April 22, 2007, 02:20:18 pm
DBZ: Legacy of Goku... 45 minutes or something. Seriously.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Hades on April 22, 2007, 02:28:35 pm
Don't Shoot me for saying .....  :snipe:  :nervous: :shaking:


Fs1-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

fs2-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

Kirby Squeak Squad-1 hour. :lol:

Soinic heroes -4-5 hours.

Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Snail on April 22, 2007, 02:35:55 pm
FS1 and FS2 were short... I finished FS2 in two weekends over the holidays, but not 2-4 hours.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Desert Tyrant on April 22, 2007, 02:37:55 pm
I don't understand how fear was too short. I didn't have too much time to play the game, it was a good deal lengthy, but not as long as half life 1 per say. Also i played fear on max difficulty, that game is pretty ****ing realistic except the slowmo thing, so i just played on max difficulty, very fun. Besides in real life when you get sprayed with bullet, you are usually going to go down and not keep standing. Also max difficulty really made you have to go out be very careful.
You win the thread.
Don't Shoot me for saying .....  :snipe:  :nervous: :shaking:


Fs1-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

fs2-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

Kirby Squeak Squad-1 hour. :lol:

Soinic heroes -4-5 hours.


It took you more time to beat Sonic HEROES!?!?!? than any of the FS games?  Wow...
Also, while ST: Elite force was rather short, it was a ****ing good game, one of Star Treks best, which, given Treks record of games, aint saying much :nod:
FS1 and FS2 were short... I finished FS2 in two weekends over the holidays, but not 2-4 hours.
I always thought FS was decently lengthed, not overly long, but not overly short, a great balance IMO.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Hades on April 22, 2007, 02:43:31 pm
Don't Shoot me for saying .....  :snipe:  :nervous: :shaking:


Fs1-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

fs2-About 2-4 hours. :doubt:

Kirby Squeak Squad-1 hour. :lol:

Soinic heroes -4-5 hours.


It took you more time to beat Sonic HEROES!?!?!? than any of the FS games?  Wow...
Also, while ST: Elite force was rather short, it was a ****ing good game, one of Star Treks best, which, given Treks record of games, aint saying much :nod:

The reason it took me so long was that was the first time i ever played a 3D Sonic Game ever. :P ;)
and the 2D ones are harder...... :lol: :nod:
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Desert Tyrant on April 22, 2007, 02:49:59 pm
Between both of us, the 2d Sonic games were amoung the best games ever, and yet the 3d Sonics really arent that great...
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Triple Ace on April 22, 2007, 06:25:04 pm
Half Life 2 Episode 1 - 3 and a half hours.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on April 22, 2007, 07:35:18 pm
The one thing i didn't like so much about the 3d sonics is that they changed the gameplay too much. For sega dreamcast that sonic game was pretty much the dreamcasts version of mario64 where you have to go out and like collect stars and **** and get other items. That really downed sonic for me. Besides the sonic racing games which are fun, the 3d sonic games sort did away with the blast through the long levels as fast as you can(he's sonic he can do that), just doing nothing but collecting rings, killing some robots in your way, getting past the tiny obstacles, to get to the end of the level where the sonic sign spins as if it were the finish line tape being ripped...or getting to a boss. I wonder if the new sonic games are different, many ****ing levels too.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on April 22, 2007, 09:07:52 pm
Half Life 2 Episode 1 - 3 and a half hours.

Finished that in about 1 and a half hours.

A close second would have to be Budokai Tenkaichi, took me under 24 hours.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Triple Ace on April 22, 2007, 09:17:09 pm
On hard or normal? I had it on hard and it was my first time playing, I was also playing on a system that barely meet the requirements.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on April 22, 2007, 09:24:44 pm
Normal, actually. Hard was a real *****, especially when you fight Striders.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: TopAce on April 24, 2007, 03:21:46 pm
Half Life 2 Episode 1 - 3 and a half hours.

I don't have Half-Life 2, but is the HL2 that was released only Episode 1?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on April 24, 2007, 03:49:06 pm
No, Half Life 2: Episode 1 is part of a three-episode continuation of Half Life 2's ending.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Rand al Thor on April 24, 2007, 09:13:38 pm
Kung Fu on the Gameboy in about 30 minutes. It was my Christmas present. MAN was I pissed.

On the PC... can't think of any really except SW: Rogue Squadron. MAN was I pissed.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Vretsu on April 24, 2007, 10:37:54 pm
What, some people beat Ep.1 in an hour?! Did you bunny-hop through the entire game? Slow down and enjoy. :p

Half-Life 2: Episode 1 ---> 5.5 hours

Hitting the Day of Defeat: Source skill ceiling ---> 1 hour

Call of Duty 2 ---> 4 hours

Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Deepstar on April 25, 2007, 10:18:29 am

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2 - 5 Hours & ~30 Minutes


With both sides?

When i remember correct, yes.

I finished the Allied Campaign within ~3 Hours. So two and a half for the soviet. Should be right, because the soviet side is shorter.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: TopAce on April 25, 2007, 11:36:00 am
To me, it looked the contrary: I finished the Allied campaign rather quickly, while I suffered a little bit with the Soviet one. Maybe it's because you are better with the Russians than I am. (I preferred the Allied side in even Red Alert 1)
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on April 25, 2007, 11:53:29 am
What, some people beat Ep.1 in an hour?! Did you bunny-hop through the entire game? Slow down and enjoy. :p

Didn't bunny hop, I just beat the living **** out of all the combine forces easily. :P
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Dark RevenantX on May 04, 2007, 11:23:01 pm
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Fifteen minutes was the time required to score at the top of the high-score list.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Chimp on May 11, 2007, 12:31:48 pm
Well first i'm going to say, if your finishing games (eg FS1 and FS2) in 2-4 hours, then you should really make sure you set the difficulty right up on the game otherwise your waisting the game imo.

Talking about elite force, i completely agree, absolutely loved the game then felt a bit empty when it was over so fast.

I tend to be quite methodical when i play most games. Especially the likes of the total war games where i really spend a long time over each turn.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 11, 2007, 01:02:00 pm
hmm, let me think... ... i remember now.

the quickest game i have ever completed was Freelancer. 58 minutes.

the second quickest was Freespace 2. 1 hour and 14 minutes.

the third quickest Thief 3. 2 hours and 9 minutes.

the longest running game ever is currently F1 Manager 2000. 206 days and still counting.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on May 11, 2007, 04:41:27 pm
the quickest game i have ever completed was Freelancer. 58 minutes.

Bull****. Freelancer is a light form of an RPG game.

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the second quickest was Freespace 2. 1 hour and 14 minutes.

Again, bull****. Unless you cranked up the time compression when you had to wait (or cheated, or set it to very easy), there is no way you could finish over 20 missions in one hour. They all average at LEAST 10-15 minutes.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on May 11, 2007, 04:47:01 pm
hmm, let me think... ... i remember now.

the quickest game i have ever completed was Freelancer. 58 minutes.

the second quickest was Freespace 2. 1 hour and 14 minutes.

the third quickest Thief 3. 2 hours and 9 minutes.

the longest running game ever is currently F1 Manager 2000. 206 days and still counting.

Someone really doesn't get the objectivity of games here...
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: StarSlayer on May 11, 2007, 04:52:45 pm
Full Spectrum Warrior I wrapped it up in a Friday night.  Is it just me or do the older games have more content?  God i remember Hexen II Beyond Heretic, TIE Fighter, Journey Man Project or Duke Nukem 3D being long games to play, relative to today's games.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 11, 2007, 06:12:09 pm
you guys must be newbies then. enough said on that point.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on May 11, 2007, 06:21:43 pm
you guys must be newbies then. enough said on that point.

What the hell are you talking about? Just because we don't cheat we're newbies? :wtf:
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 11, 2007, 06:30:27 pm
hehe, well there is a difference. if you are implying that you can cheat on both fs2 and fl then your mistaken, for starters, FL that i know of has absoutly no cheats. meanwhile fs2... even if you imput them you got a problem, you cannot complete the campaign because the cheats will not let you.

the difference here is what the hell are you talking about?!!  :p
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on May 11, 2007, 06:39:08 pm
Are you stupid? You CAN cheat in FS2 and move on. Otherwise you got a really ****ed up copy. I'm pretty sure that you decided to cheat OR moved a distance away and cranked up the time compression. FS2 is upwards of a four hour game.

You can't ****ing complete Freelancer in ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES because you have to travel to different star systems, kill ships, scavenge for loot to sell, sell loot, buy ships, buy weapons, go on side quests, and so on. It's. Not. Possible.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on May 11, 2007, 06:49:12 pm
Speaking of duke3d. The new source code executable and new model pack for the game with improved textures and models has been released. Also the game is now in opengl
Get the duke3d hi res pack here (http://www.duke4.net/news.php?item.134)
Also duke3d has a multiplayer client as well. To get the duke3d hrp working you'll have to grab the duke3d full version grp file. Easy to find.
Anyway centrixo go suck on some duke3d for a while, not saying it'll take you a long time, but it's another game to purely enjoy and is cooler than serious sam in what i think of it. Also enhanced textures and all of the sprites in the game now being 3d models makes the game up to date and a lot cooler. Some people can spit through the game really fast, but if you do, you don't enjoy it.

Have fun lying about you game times centrixo ;)
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Dark Hunter on May 11, 2007, 06:54:47 pm
I beat New Super Mario Bros. (a Nintendo DS game) in five hours. I was expecting a good Mario platformer... boy was I ever disappointed.  :blah:
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Ulala on May 11, 2007, 08:15:19 pm
Also duke3d has a multiplayer client as well.

A friend and I have been trying to get this to work for weeks now but have had no luck. Any suggestions?

I beat New Super Mario Bros. (a Nintendo DS game) in five hours. I was expecting a good Mario platformer... boy was I ever disappointed.  :blah:

I, too, bought this expecting something really great, all the reviews proclaimed its name, but I beat it and got all the special coins or whatever in only a couple of days, probably total time around 5-7 hours. And even getting the special coins wasn't that special.. at least there are fun mini-games that are multiplayer.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: karajorma on May 12, 2007, 02:12:44 am
Are you stupid?


Tone down the name calling.

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You can't ****ing complete Freelancer in ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES because you have to travel to different star systems, kill ships, scavenge for loot to sell, sell loot, buy ships, buy weapons, go on side quests, and so on. It's. Not. Possible.

I've got to say that I agree with you here. While I have no trouble believing you could do the arc missions in that time you have to include the time taken for you to do that stupid levelling crap and I find it hard to believe that you could make all the money you need for the entire game in an hour let alone play the actual game itself in that time. (BTW Centrixo claimed to have completed the game in 58 minutes).
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Mefustae on May 12, 2007, 05:07:18 am
Also duke3d has a multiplayer client as well.
Man, I remember playing that on the original, years ago on a dail-up connection. That secret apartment room in the LA streets level saved my ass more than once. Thanks for the heads up on the upgrade project, i'll be sure to check it out.

You can't ****ing complete Freelancer in ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES because you have to travel to different star systems, kill ships, scavenge for loot to sell, sell loot, buy ships, buy weapons, go on side quests, and so on. It's. Not. Possible.
Seconded. Even with a myriad of mods and other unfair advantages engaged, the best time i've ever clocked on the single player was probably around the 2-2.5 hour mark. It's just not possible to get through vanilla Freelancer in under several hours.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 12, 2007, 05:40:09 am
Are you stupid? You CAN cheat in FS2 and move on. Otherwise you got a really ****ed up copy. I'm pretty sure that you decided to cheat OR moved a distance away and cranked up the time compression. FS2 is upwards of a four hour game.

You can't ****ing complete Freelancer in ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES because you have to travel to different star systems, kill ships, scavenge for loot to sell, sell loot, buy ships, buy weapons, go on side quests, and so on. It's. Not. Possible.

You just made me feel more at home here :). I wanted to see what reaction i could pull off with a lie.

The fastest game i completed was cosmos cosmic adventure in 2 hours 13 minutes, the second fastest would be freespace 1, 3 hours and 56 minutes.
There my fastest.

EDIT: freelancer: 4 hours

Frespace 2: 4 hours and 36 minutes.

There my real timings
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Chimp on May 12, 2007, 07:14:03 am
Again, really trying to complete games in this sort of minimum time possible as someone said, misses the point.

I remeber for some of the old rainbow six games, people were complaining that it was too short. But then you found out that they had completed it, using the default waypoints, and only had about 3 reserve soldiers left who could still play.

Games are what you make of them, racing through them is a waste.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on May 12, 2007, 08:49:14 am
Yeah don't race games. I never understood how fear was too short in my others regards either. It was a plenty long game. Very fun on max difficulty. I died many times, and played on my off time in life.

Yeah duke3d is a fun game. The game with the most dangerous explosives. The splash damage on the explosives in that game is huge. Whenever playing i have to be really careful using the rpg and pipe bombs, even the devastator. But, what's kickass is when you whip out the rpg is when duke spits out so many of his cool one liners such as: "*****in' ", "Your ass, your face, what's the difference?", "See you in hell!", "Let god sort'em out". It's so cool because that's exactly the way you feel when you clear out so many enemies with the rpg. That game has so many elements to it too, one of them is the one liners of course, the other **** is the humor, making fun of other video games, movies, tv shows, and bad guys that take ****s on the floor, one obvious one is making fun of the OJ Simpson trial back in the day. It's cool to actually step on some **** in that game too, duke says "**** happens". And my favorite is "K.T.I.T., k-tit, where we play the breast, uuuh, the best for you".

Other elements of the game is the very diversified weapons you can use which are actually very useful and you switch through them all the time depending on the occasion, enemies, getting around an obstacle, to finding the most efficient ways to cleaning out an area. Yes there's many times in the game where an area with a ton of enemies screams pipebomb, and other times when you're fighting battlelords that it screams shrink ray. Hell the game even boasts the first form of geomod i guess you can call it, it's primitive, but in many parts of the game you have to use pipebombs to blast open walls and stuff wherever you see a crack or something (i wouldn't really call it geomod), how many other fps's out there let you blast open walls and stuff regardless of whether or not it's redfaction. Also the level design is really cool, very fun levels to play. Of course my favorite thing to do in the game is get overwhelmed with octobrains and take them out only with the pistol. It's like being cruel to the local alien widlife pumping it full of clips of bullets just to make it die instead of a humane shotgun blast or pipebomb. That game makes you want to make the bad guys suffer :nod:

Man, that game has so much stuff in it. I can understand the parental lock on it :lol: Pretty much the parental lock is stupid. It takes too much away from the game. My parents didn't care anyway, i was playing it when i was 11, and that was the greatest game ever. So good to warrant the buying of a second copy of which was the n64 version.
Guess what i'm going to play now :pimp:
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Unknown Target on May 12, 2007, 09:20:43 am
Are you stupid? You CAN cheat in FS2 and move on. Otherwise you got a really ****ed up copy. I'm pretty sure that you decided to cheat OR moved a distance away and cranked up the time compression. FS2 is upwards of a four hour game.

You can't ****ing complete Freelancer in ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES because you have to travel to different star systems, kill ships, scavenge for loot to sell, sell loot, buy ships, buy weapons, go on side quests, and so on. It's. Not. Possible.

Calm down.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 12, 2007, 09:29:15 am
i will agree with you on many points that duke 3d is a good game, but i find it... somewhat limiting. i would of complained it lacked real graphics, but for it's time i guess it must of been the real deal.

i liked so many parts of the game though. you can stand on a stage and the duke would sing. you could give the women some money for some exposure, and the minigun; the three barreled super fast firing gun. that game reminds me of an even older game that is identical in the graphics department and the movement, anyone heard of a game called Eradicator?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: asyikarea51 on May 12, 2007, 10:03:24 am
Not sure about this topic. I think my fastest is either Half-Life 2 or NFS Carbon, about one day or less. Admittedly for HL2 I wasn't playing on fair ground - I don't know. These days I somehow end up playing games in a way so that I'll finish them quickly (or exit the game in the process of doing so).

Somehow modern games lack the glued-to-your-seat substance of old...

I have finished games within 30 minutes (and one round of one particular game in under eight minutes including menu screens), but these are arcade games, which usually don't last very long between credits.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: TrashMan on May 12, 2007, 10:31:28 am
HEhe...I played BG2 for MONTHS....  now THAT's a good long gmae.. Took my sweet time and enjoyed every second of it... Passed it 14 times to boot :D

HASTE MAKES WASTE.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: karajorma on May 12, 2007, 02:04:29 pm
HEhe...I played BG2 for MONTHS....  now THAT's a good long gmae.. Took my sweet time and enjoyed every second of it... Passed it 14 times to boot :D

Baldur's Gate?

Couldn't stand that game. I simply couldn't get over the massive amounts of Deus ex machina in it. BG1 was much better.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: TopAce on May 12, 2007, 02:57:38 pm
...Admittedly for HL2 I wasn't playing on fair ground - I don't know.

Don't worry about that. Most games are terribly hard for the first time around. Testers who play a given level/mission thirty-two times a day cannot catch the difficulty of a first-time player.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 12, 2007, 03:06:42 pm
I still remember the first game on my way to becoming a veteran shooter.
System shock 2 was the first game, and i myself remember the first time, i pulled off some incredible shots back then which are now as seconardary nature as sneezing is. and being scared that the ship will rip itself apart and the worm of the many will eat the ship up. luckily enough i left it for a few months and came back to it, but my shooting accuracy was terrible. Now as good as shooting an enemy on bf2 in the head with a sniper rifle, while they run.

Anyhow, if you consider arcade games, then 14 minutes for pinball cadet on windows games; a score of 6.8 million. Done when i was 13 years old. i still cannot beat that score.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: KappaWing on May 12, 2007, 09:37:40 pm
HASTE MAKES WASTE.

Is that from Brave New World?
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Polpolion on May 12, 2007, 10:00:56 pm
orgy-porgy!
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: KappaWing on May 13, 2007, 01:29:33 pm
In the name of Ford, someone get this back on track! :p
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: S-99 on May 13, 2007, 06:43:51 pm
orgy-porgy!

Hodge-podge!
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 13, 2007, 07:13:21 pm
another spam thread...
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Cobra on May 13, 2007, 10:25:53 pm
Three posts and you call it a spam thread.

Spam threads are threads that never had a purpose, FYI.
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: asyikarea51 on May 13, 2007, 11:53:49 pm
Don't worry about that. Most games are terribly hard for the first time around. Testers who play a given level/mission thirty-two times a day cannot catch the difficulty of a first-time player.

Well, that's probably true, but what I mean is, in my wanton want to just clear the dang career/campaign/whatever and see the secrets and the like, I end up cheating. No, not to disrupt fair play or stuff like that - I just wanna finish the game!!! That kind of thinking... :sigh:

Why can't games keep me to my seat like the old days... perhaps it's the "modder's mind" kicking in. That, or I have too many things to worry about.

Or maybe it's because of this arcade racer that I used to play, where you had to go through a really long single-player mode, before you could even have a proper car to start battling other human opponents with... :(
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Roanoke on May 14, 2007, 05:12:19 am
Buggered if I can be arsed to play a game for 4 hourse at a time........
Title: Re: Fastest game you ever finished?
Post by: Centrixo on May 14, 2007, 03:47:59 pm
f1 manager, i have literally sit at the computer for 2 days playing that game. 4 hours is a breeze...