Games I have extracted every morsel of enjoyment from
These are the games I have played way past the point of completion or, indeed, sanity. Usually that means S-ranking, exploring every nook and/or cranny, finding glitches, modding, or map making.
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I beat this game over and over again. And then a few more times.
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Remember how if you killed Ouromov in the missile silo quickly enough, he'd drop a briefcase with a key card inside? I must have spent hours trying to find a use for that.
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I started a clan that included one other person, I did speed runs and made maps. For me, this was the height of PC gaming.
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See, the first thing you do is make a map with a elaborate, magical workshop to act as a testing ground for other maps and custom stuff.
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Another game for which I manually kept leaderboards, on paper, for me and my roommate at the time.
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I tried very hard to master the constant sparking down straights. I never posted times higher than "intermediate," but I practiced constantly anyway.
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I know its status as a game is arguable and its update schedule and bugginess frustrate the hell out of me, but, damn, I have sunk so many evenings into this already with no signs of slowing down.
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I had an extremely fancy spreadsheet to keep track of my scores and scores I had found on the web. I tried to use a Gameshark to export my photos and scores into a website. I long for a sequel to this more than any other game.
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My friends and I made exquisitely detailed versions of ourselves and staged tournaments that took days. I made wrestlers to test exploits. I bought a Gameshark specifically to hack in custom moves and to be able to play the Japanese equivalent, Virtual Pro Wrestling 2, which I imported.
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This is a controversial add, since although I played this to a rare 1000/1000 gamerscore, I never touched it again afterwards. It didn't have that kind of long tail enjoyment that the other games on this list did... jury's still out if this will stay.
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