Your greatest personal RPG failure and big win.

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coltyhuxx

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Simple question. I'm going to say for my failure :cry:Might & Magic I - my god that game was hard to level up in. I played it forever and never leveled my characters anywhere near a respectable level.

As for success ;), Phantasy Star ][. Owch, though. I remember, faintly an Island maze that was just so obscenely difficult. One wrong turn and you're taking a long, long hike through brutal monster encounters. I DID beat it though! Great ending. (Something that only an 11 year old who just spent $80 (in the 80's mind you!) on a video game could perservere through.)
 
Failure: For all the hours I've sunk into Ultima Underworld, I still don't know how to cast a spell.

Success(!): Didn't smash "Arc the Lad: Twilight of Spirits" into a thousand itty-bitty pieces.
 
RPG Win: Being the two-time Pokémon champion amongst my 7 high school friends back when Red & Blue first came out (5-hour game time limit per week - played until beating the game)

RPG Failures: Not finishing Valkyrie Profile, Persona 3, Xenosaga Trilogy, and a few others due to lack of interest and/or time.
 
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Failure: I've been stuck on the guy with the big axe and Vegeta's voice in the human ranch in Tales of Symphonia for at least three years. I'm pretty sure I skipped an area somehow or something and am woefully under leveled with almost no items. I go back to it once a year and give it a few tries.

Success: Dude, you have no fucking idea how pumped my little-kid-self was when I beat Pokemon Blue.
 
Failure: I played the bonus dungeon in Lufia 2 a handful of times, gathering blue chests and great equipment. One night a decade ago I decided to go all out and slaughter the thing. I ripped through every single enemy up to Floor 94, at which point I had to sprint and dodge baddies. I was on top of my game. I was going to make it, for certain! I hit the very top, I fight the slime boss, and I beat him into next week. There was just one problem...

...even though I beat him, he didn't drop the key I needed to actually "win."

Yes, he runs away after three rounds if you don't do enough damage and you're screwed, but I took him out in the middle of the second. And the key? Nada! Nothing! So I had the moral victory after some 8 hours of playing but not an actual one.

God, I still love that game, though.


Success: Depends on wackiness. My favorite one was beating the everlasting shit out of Kain in Fabul back in FF2. After the 11th runthrough I decided to keep leveling up Cecil and hoarding Cure 2's to see if it was possible to hold on long enough to beat Kain. I hit 45 or so after a while (note: Cecil's stats increase fantastically but those numbers are not really reflected in his HP, speed, attack, etc.) and went all-out. Popped him in the back row, drank potions when necessary, and 45 minutes later...Kain kicked the bucket. The crystal is safe!!

OK, not really. The game carries on like normal, but you just feel so much better!

You can do the same on FF4 in FF Chronicles, but Kain was modified in FF4 Advance so he will beat you into next week no matter what. A bit of a shame, really, since that could have been a cute point for a slight branching path. ;)
 
Success: DQVIII beat the Dragovian Trials (will never play a DQ game again, so burned out...)

Failure: Got to that part in Chrono Trigger where you have to collect all the upgraded weapons from all the different places and just lost interest. Not beaten to this day.
 
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Success: Dude, you have no fucking idea how pumped my little-kid-self was when I beat Pokemon Blue.[/quote]

Alternate success: Breeding the Gold Chocobo in one sitting, without any throw-aways.

Failure: Rigging FF8 to play itself to farm items. Overheated and broke the PS1 somewhere around 40 hours.
 
Failure: FFX. Fought Yunalesca while having regen rings equiped to all my characters (she hits your party with zombie status). I managed to defeat her, but it took a whole lot of reviving as my characters were essentially killing themselves.

Success: Finally came to my senses and realized that Summoner 2 sucks; stopped playing a few hours into it. Much happier as a result. ;)
 
Success: After days of frustration i finally beat the water temple in ocarina of time!

Failure. The side effect was that due to the insane difficulty of that dungeon I lost interest in the rest of the game, and future 3d zelda games.
 
Success:
Beat smt Nocturne to get the true demon ending after more than a year of playing it.

Failure:
gave up at or near the end of numerous games - shadow hearts from the new world, star ocean 3, etc.
 
success: collected all 150 first generation pokemon twice; once in gameboy original and a second in firered remake.

failure: never owned a mew. technically, 150 pokemon is all of them, but I really wanted to have a full pokedex. But I couldnt make the events :(
 
Success: Managed to snag a really hot redhead off of the internet due to a mutual interest in FF games.

Failure: So many games that I have quit due to waning interest. This includes all of the Nippon Ichi games on the PS2. I probably put at least 100 hours into both Disgaeas and Phantom Brave with nothing more than a damn nice flower pot to use as a weapon amongst all of them.
 
Success: Finishing Persona 2: Eternal Punishment and absolutely annihilating the final boss. Actually, just finishing all the good SMT games released in the US should count.

Failure: I was at the last boss of Grandia III and barely motivated to keep going because the game was so goddamn boring. I died after fighting the final boss for like 30+ minutes, so yeah... never played that shit again. Awful.
 
[quote name='StinkyCheese']success: collected all 150 first generation pokemon twice; once in gameboy original and a second in firered remake.

failure: never owned a mew. technically, 150 pokemon is all of them, but I really wanted to have a full pokedex. But I couldnt make the events :([/quote]

You don't have to do the events. You can get a Mew in game. I think there's like two spots in the game you can do it. Gamefaqs has a faq on it IIRC.

Success: Everything I did in Tales of Symphonia. For such a generic game, I felt so great when playing it.

Failure: Didn't get all the Al-Bhed alphabet letters in FFX. ;_____;
 
Success: Beating Pokemon Red twice, Getting Mew, and beating my friend fives times in a row in one day in a battle back in elementary school. I felt very accomplished back in the day :dunce:.

Failure: Never beating FFX. I got stuck somewhere, got pissed off, gave up, and never played the game again.
 
Success: Collected all 151 Pokemon in Pokemon Blue. I'm typically not much of an RPG completist but I put hundreds of hours into that game.

Failure: I am completely and totally stuck at the Vanessa fight in Luminous Arc. I've tried it like 20 times and keep getting massacred. Done some moderate grinding which has not helped, and I'm not willing to spend hours grinding for one fight when I have like 50 other RPGs in the backlog.
 
FAILURE: I've started Knights of the Old Republic three separate times, and quit at the twenty-five hour mark every time. I just can't do it, for some reason.

Success: Uh... maybe the part of FFX where you dodge lightning strikes. You're rewarded at 100 dodges, but I kept going just to see how far I could get it. I quit trying at 385.
 
Success: Getting 99 Warp Spheres in FF X.

Failure: Resetting the game without saving for some silly reason. I thought the 99 Warp Sphere chests were easy to do, little did I know...
 
[quote name='DarkSageRK']You don't have to do the events. You can get a Mew in game. I think there's like two spots in the game you can do it. Gamefaqs has a faq on it IIRC.

Success: Everything I did in Tales of Symphonia. For such a generic game, I felt so great when playing it.

Failure: Didn't get all the Al-Bhed alphabet letters in FFX. ;_____;[/quote]

Forogt about those. I've never tried them actually, because two people I know messed up thier saves with that glitch
 
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