Hard toss up between Mega Man Legends and Dragon Quest 3...unless we can count how many times one can restart Skyrim lol.
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What single player game have you beaten the most?
- Thread starter Angst
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Final Fantasy IX
Shadow Hearts
Broken Sword 1 & 2
I'm typically a "one and done" kind of guy. The above games are very important to me, having grown up with them, so are pretty much the only single player games I've ever replayed. I usually play them in 5-7 year intervals out of nostalgia. I'm 31, so my replays are rare!
Shadow Hearts
Broken Sword 1 & 2
I'm typically a "one and done" kind of guy. The above games are very important to me, having grown up with them, so are pretty much the only single player games I've ever replayed. I usually play them in 5-7 year intervals out of nostalgia. I'm 31, so my replays are rare!
Replaying games I enjoyed is not a rarity at all for me, and in fact some sort of habit.
Especially some sort of PC games that are basically MADE to be replayed over and over (i.e. UFO, Jagged Alliance 2, Civilization, Mount & Blade, Master of Magic, Heroes of Might & Magic, ecc).
That said, in recent years it HAS to be XCOM 2.
According to my save file tracker I played something like 19 campaigns with the game and most of them were from start to finish, too.
I don't think any other single player comes close in terms of hours invested on it.
Especially some sort of PC games that are basically MADE to be replayed over and over (i.e. UFO, Jagged Alliance 2, Civilization, Mount & Blade, Master of Magic, Heroes of Might & Magic, ecc).
That said, in recent years it HAS to be XCOM 2.
According to my save file tracker I played something like 19 campaigns with the game and most of them were from start to finish, too.
I don't think any other single player comes close in terms of hours invested on it.
Bayonetta 1.
Have fully replayed it at least 10-15 times, and then replayed individual missions even more.
Have fully replayed it at least 10-15 times, and then replayed individual missions even more.
It's actually a pretty interesting question. Because if i'd think about the games i came back to most often, it were either games that were not about "beating" (like the Civilization series) or games that i don't care for beating because of how cool the gameplay is (like the TES or Souls series which i come back too most often, but hardly ever finish).
But to finish the game all the way through just to come back to it and get all the way to the end again some time later? I think the one game which ending i've seen the most would be Fallout 2? Mostly for how comfortable the nostalgia makes me feel when going through the motions in this game while at the same time it gives me enough replayability through different approaches that i don't get bored. Fallout: NV would be a close second there too.
I'd include Final Fantasy VI there as well, were it not for Kefka's Tower, which is such a slog and i never can be arsed to get trhough it all.
But to finish the game all the way through just to come back to it and get all the way to the end again some time later? I think the one game which ending i've seen the most would be Fallout 2? Mostly for how comfortable the nostalgia makes me feel when going through the motions in this game while at the same time it gives me enough replayability through different approaches that i don't get bored. Fallout: NV would be a close second there too.
I'd include Final Fantasy VI there as well, were it not for Kefka's Tower, which is such a slog and i never can be arsed to get trhough it all.
Probably Sonic 1, if you're counting how many actual finished playthroughs I've had, and not replays of games where I've got a game over part way through.
Pokemon Red, I beat it probably 2-3 times a year for about 15 years, still got my original cart from my 10th Birthday but my GameBoy broke years ago now.
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Bloodborne, The Last of Us, Journey, Silent Hill 2, and the original Resident Evil 2. Each at least three times. It's no wonder all of them are among my all-time top 10.
TLOU, Dragon Age: Origins, Resistance 1, 2, & 3, Spec Ops: The Line. Beat all those at least 3 times
Crash Bandicoot 1, probably. I've played it through a few times a year for as long as I remember, plus the remaster. Probably a good 30+ completions.
If we're talking longer narrative games, then I've done The Last of Us at least 6 times, maybe 7.
If we're talking longer narrative games, then I've done The Last of Us at least 6 times, maybe 7.
It must be Tales of Symphonia on the gamecube but together with my siblings when we were kids and had all the time but only one game. We must have beaten it 17 times. Unskippable cutscenes didn't bother me back then.
I've put probably 1200 hours into Pokémon Red and Blue, catching them all over and over again. I remember counting playthroughs of the original Halo, and stopping around 84 or so Legendary runs. I think Halo CE was the best I've ever been at a game. My brother and I were stupidly good. I bet we could have played professionally if that was more of a thing 18 years ago. After that it's probably A Link to the Past, a good dozen or so times.
