Probably GTA IV. The original GTA trilogy, MGS 1-3, and NES era SMB games have to be up there though.
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What single player game have you beaten the most?
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I'm guessing it would be Bruce Lee on C64. It's short, replayable, and I have had it for decades.
Probably a toss-up between Fire Emblem (GBA) or Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. I think I've played through them about 20 times each.
Metal Gear 1,2,3.... Once a year I replay them and beat them. Oh Super Mario 2 aka Super Mario USA.
Probably the original Donkey Kong on NES or Super Mario Bros just because both can be done within minutes and I grew up with them.
Probably the game boy super mario land that time. Civ today as i only play single player and the ki is good enough for my low skills.
Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Resident Evil 4 are all definitely over 10 times. Probably Super Mario 64, too.
Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Uncharted 1-3, are probably in the 3-5 times range.
Then there's a bunch of Nintendo games where I've probably beaten them once or twice but played the first half countless times.
Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Uncharted 1-3, are probably in the 3-5 times range.
Then there's a bunch of Nintendo games where I've probably beaten them once or twice but played the first half countless times.
I don't know the exact number of times but it would be a close race between all of the following:
I will give a special mention to Tales of Symphonia, which is a game I've beaten 3 times, but spent ~80 hours in each playthrough. I have never completed more than one playthrough of any RPG except for Symphonia, so I felt I had to mention it.
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
I will give a special mention to Tales of Symphonia, which is a game I've beaten 3 times, but spent ~80 hours in each playthrough. I have never completed more than one playthrough of any RPG except for Symphonia, so I felt I had to mention it.
Zone of the Enders 2. Probably beaten it around 12 times.
I really need to get that re-release.
I really need to get that re-release.
Fable the Lost Chapters and All of Splinter Cell(yes, the whole series), played each at least 8 times through.
I don't replay single player games too often but over the years, I have played through Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past probably 10+ times. That game never gets old.
Star Fox 64.
Playing through the hardest route was a daily routine during a certain part of my life.
Playing through the hardest route was a daily routine during a certain part of my life.
Came to say this (thoguh its Lylat Wars in my region)... i played and completed this so many times, its first by quite a margin
I play to the end every time I play it, sometimes more than once in one sitting. There's really no competition.
Probably Portal. It's short enough to finish in an evening so that helps, probably played it through a dozen or so times.
For longer games, maybe Mass Effect? I'd estimate five times for that. Or Max Payne, I played that game a lot.
For longer games, maybe Mass Effect? I'd estimate five times for that. Or Max Payne, I played that game a lot.
Maybe Mass Effect 1? Possibly MGS 1-4 - probably played those all 3 times each or so. Possibly Skyrim - mods can make me play it again when I check what new stuff there is. Persona 4 (including Golden) would be 4 I think? Don't think I've played a game more than 4 times. As I say maybe ME1. Or if you count Civ 6 - so many games. Or runs in Binding of Isaac Afterbirth. Both of those are over 1000 hours but I feel they don't fit the topic.
It's a toss up between a lot of different games.
I was obsessed with Sonic 3 & Knuckles as a kid, and played it so much while hunting for secrets that I became burnt out on it. Just in that first two-week winter break in 1994/1995, I think I beat the game 11 or 12 times? And I've replayed it every year or two since release, so we're talking, like, 30+ times I've beaten the game, start to finish.
Speaking of games I've played yearly, that's Donkey Kong Country 1 for me. I personally think DKC2 is still a better game, but it's also a lot longer and more complicated. I can finish DKC1 in just under two hours, and I usually get the urge to do so around Christmas (when I originally got the game, so it's a nostalgia thing). If you figure I've beaten this game every Christmas since 1995, that's a good 20+ times.
When I got my Saturn, NiGHTS: Into Dreams was short enough that I'd come home from school and beat the entire game in a single sitting, every day. If you play it right, you can finish NiGHTS with all A-ranks in under an hour. I don't know how many that actually adds up to, but it probably comes out to 30-40 times when you add in other times I've finished the game since then.
The same goes for Parappa the Rapper. By its very nature, that's a game that's about 45 minutes long, and when I moved off of NiGHTS, I'd instead come home from school and play all the way through Parappa, every single day. So, again, we're talking 30-40 times.
But the king is probably Sonic Adventure. When I first got that game for Dreamcast, all I had was a third-party memory card, and something about it caused Sonic Adventure to corrupt its save data pretty often. It seemed like every other time I'd boot the game up, my save file would be missing (and since it only effected Sonic Adventure, I never narrowed it down to being a problem with the VMU). What this meant was that any time I'd get the urge to replay Sonic Adventure (and you should know by now that I replay my games a lot), I'd have to start over from the beginning of the game.
This meant I probably had to restart Sonic Adventure around 10-20 times per year. And even after buying it on a platform that doesn't corrupt my save data every three days, I've replayed the game probably close to a dozen times or more since then. So I've probably finished Sonic Adventure somewhere in the realm of 65-100 times in my life.
I was obsessed with Sonic 3 & Knuckles as a kid, and played it so much while hunting for secrets that I became burnt out on it. Just in that first two-week winter break in 1994/1995, I think I beat the game 11 or 12 times? And I've replayed it every year or two since release, so we're talking, like, 30+ times I've beaten the game, start to finish.
Speaking of games I've played yearly, that's Donkey Kong Country 1 for me. I personally think DKC2 is still a better game, but it's also a lot longer and more complicated. I can finish DKC1 in just under two hours, and I usually get the urge to do so around Christmas (when I originally got the game, so it's a nostalgia thing). If you figure I've beaten this game every Christmas since 1995, that's a good 20+ times.
When I got my Saturn, NiGHTS: Into Dreams was short enough that I'd come home from school and beat the entire game in a single sitting, every day. If you play it right, you can finish NiGHTS with all A-ranks in under an hour. I don't know how many that actually adds up to, but it probably comes out to 30-40 times when you add in other times I've finished the game since then.
The same goes for Parappa the Rapper. By its very nature, that's a game that's about 45 minutes long, and when I moved off of NiGHTS, I'd instead come home from school and play all the way through Parappa, every single day. So, again, we're talking 30-40 times.
But the king is probably Sonic Adventure. When I first got that game for Dreamcast, all I had was a third-party memory card, and something about it caused Sonic Adventure to corrupt its save data pretty often. It seemed like every other time I'd boot the game up, my save file would be missing (and since it only effected Sonic Adventure, I never narrowed it down to being a problem with the VMU). What this meant was that any time I'd get the urge to replay Sonic Adventure (and you should know by now that I replay my games a lot), I'd have to start over from the beginning of the game.
This meant I probably had to restart Sonic Adventure around 10-20 times per year. And even after buying it on a platform that doesn't corrupt my save data every three days, I've replayed the game probably close to a dozen times or more since then. So I've probably finished Sonic Adventure somewhere in the realm of 65-100 times in my life.
Besides the super quick Mario games, I would say Zelda 1 and especially Ocarina of Time.
As a bit of an aside, I'm kinda bummed that there aren't ways to quickly beat many modern games (e.g. through warps or through knowledge obtained in an initial playthrough). But one of the things I love about both Mario Odyssey and BotW is that you can actually beat both of them super quickly if you so choose because they give you the opportunity to pick up quick moons or great weapons. I actually beat Odyssey a couple more times after my initial playthrough.
As a bit of an aside, I'm kinda bummed that there aren't ways to quickly beat many modern games (e.g. through warps or through knowledge obtained in an initial playthrough). But one of the things I love about both Mario Odyssey and BotW is that you can actually beat both of them super quickly if you so choose because they give you the opportunity to pick up quick moons or great weapons. I actually beat Odyssey a couple more times after my initial playthrough.
Ocarina of Time or maybe Halo: CE. I played OoT incessantly as a kid, and beat it at least a dozen times. For Halo, my friend and I would just replay the campaign over and over again whenever we got together.
Probably Halo CE. I would do legendary runs all the time when I was on summer break from high school
Castlevania Symphony of the Night, probably around 20-30x. PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, Emulator on PC, raspberry pi, android phone. Only version I haven't played is the recent Castlevania Collection.
