Games you beat the first time through without dying

[Alex Graves]

Hmm...i can think of...four i believe (five if i counted oblivion...but it was mind numbingly easy so no). .hack//mutation,outbreak granted i played the infection just prior so i was ready for mutation by having my skills/attack combos memorized and all my main chars fully lvl'd and gear'd to load in to the next...still haven't got to play quarantine but it would most likely be the same as the others where i played them straight through so i would have an unfair advantage. Devil may cry 2...same as the other two though i had just finished dmc 1 when i started i had bought the collector set and was playing through them in order to prep for the dmc 4 which was about to come out...one of the few games i got the day it came out.The forth is apparently the most odd, i have been told many times that the first dragon age was nearly impossible to not die if you played a mage or rouge on anything other then easy/normal granted i only playd on hard since i didn't feel up to nightmare yet (since the troll in the tower pub stombed me on the rouge) but on my mage play through i went through without dying and the only thing that was off about the play through was my fight with flemeth who i had beat by what was apparently a range bug when the fight started my whole team rushed her and i was able to stand at her house and just pelt her my team died about halfway through and she just stood their and let me kill her off...but other then that it was enjoyable and i didn't have too much trouble avoiding death though i did abuse the hell out of the ally scripting mechanic and had one person sset to focus on nothing but healing.

 

[Eomega123]

I never got a scar in Fable 2.
Never died in Bioshock either, but then again, I was playing on easy.
I've never been totally eliminated from CIV V, though I don't neccesarily win.
That's all I can think of, there might be more.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I've only done that on two games:

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Even on Hard Mode, this game is criminally easy unless you try to zip up to higher leveled areas at a low level.

Tales of Graces f - This is probably one of the easier Tales games I've played so far. Its battle system is quite well done. Simplistic, easy to understand, very powerful.

 

[aguspal]

I dont think I have played any game where I havent died even once- There were, however, A LOT of games where I only died because of my very own curiosity (such as seeing if theres some special animation for dying or a cutscene. Or just because I am bored xD). The most easy to say would be fable... Its pretty hardcore to actually die in that game without doing it on purpose XD

I would also like to say Beyond good and evil, but noooo, no because of those damn turret that 1 hit kill you when you get spotted (It only got me 1 time but it still counts). Anyone who played that game knows what I am talking about. BTW funny how every other attack in the game hurts for a max of 2 hearts (Where the max is around 12...) and this is an instant kill. Freaking turret laser... thingy I supect it would have been easier if I just used stealth, but the game was easy enough already and I wanted to kill everyone

 

[Pebkio]

I Wanna Be the Guy.
True story! >.>
I died in the first ten seconds...

Bioshock (talking about not even needing to use the chambers)
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lotis (I didn't even lose anybody)
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (although, I did transfer from ages)
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (they're easy at this point in my life)
Pikmin 2 (didn't lose all of my health in any given day)

I would've had the first Mass Effect too, but the very first time I ever saw a Thresher Maw was when it had surfaced right through my Mako, killing me instantly.

I would've had Zelda: Twilight Princess except a glitch in the dungeon that flipped upside-down caused me to fall into the sky and die.

 

[axlryder]

It matters a little bit how you define "die." I mean, if I lose a life playing Super Mario World, technically I've died, but I certainly haven't got a game over. Or if my main character dies in an RPG but the rest of my party's alive, does that mean I've died there as well?

Assuming you mean "Games you beat the first time through without getting a game over (or getting kicked back to the last save point, in games where you never technically get a game over)", I can pretty much say that this didn't happen at any time during the NES or SNES era, with the possible exception of Gemfire. I don't remember my first playthrough, except that I'm sure I picked the Blanche family, and probably the Gemfire scenario, which is pretty darn easy. So there's a reasonable chance I beat that game the first time I played.

Moving on to the PS1/2 era, I can't remember any titles in particular, but I know I played at least a few pretty easy RPGs in my time. In Final Fantasy IX, for instance, if you don't count taking the wrong path in an early cave and ending up on a plateau with a bunch of overpowered dragons on it (and then spending the next three hours or so figuring out how to kill said overpowered dragons, just to see what kind of crazy loot they'd give...not much, as it turned out), I think I might have played through that game without dying. Eiko's Pheonix ability is just that powerful, and coupled with the Chakra ability and a copious supply of pheonix downs, it means that an opponent has to be killing, on average, more than two party members each turn. That just never happened. It probably helps that I tend to rack a little more than strictly necessary in most RPGs I play.

In terms of what I had in mind for the OP, losing a life counts as dying. Anything that involves you having to start back somewhere counts as dying (save point, checkpoint, beginning of the level, beginning of the game, etc.) Though, getting through many nes/snes era games without cheats and not getting a game over is still impressive. Battletoads and Contra spring to mind. Though getting through some of the tougher rpg/srpgs without losing a non-scripted battle is no small feat either.

 

[axlryder]

Journey is the only one I can think of right now.

Unless you're purposefully trying to be boneheaded, it's pretty hard to die. Then again, the game is not about challenge.

Also, I didn't die once playing Gears of War 3 the first time, but that doesn't really count since I played it immediately after playing through the first two games (on higher difficulties at that), so I was prepared in a way.

You can die in Journey? I never realized. Also, Gears of War 3 still counts. I'll start making a plaque for you.

 

[Olas]

Cooking Mama: I never died once.

I beat Mario 3D Land with over a hundred lives amassed. I can't say I've never died at all but I never even came close to running out of lives and getting a game over which is the only thing that matters in Mario games.

 

[pilouuuu]

Well, yes. Most Lucasarts classic adventure games. Except Monkey Island... And Curse of Monkey Island. You can die in a very funny and not permanent form there...

 

[lacktheknack]

Myst, Riven, Exile, Myst IV.

I managed to get the good ending the first time in all of them.

Uru is unfailable, so that one doesn't count, and I got a bad ending with Myst V because I couldn't keep my paws off the obvious trap.

Also, Syberia isn't failable, but it's dang hard, and I beat it on my first try without a guide!

OK, I'll stop copping out now.

I beat my first game of Civilization V.

...

That's it. I feel sad, now.

EDIT: WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT Uplink. I quickly figured out a couple ways to cut off passive traces, and somehow survived the whole game. I even managed to avoid the epic schmuck bait.

You can't imagine the total panic I felt at the end when the internet began to end.

EDIT EDIT: Also Psychonauts, if we're giving leeway to lives systems. I never died IRL or got kicked out of anyone's brain.

 

[Squilookle]

Myst, Riven, Exile, Myst IV.

Damn, I thought I'd be so clever and say Myst, and you beat me to it

I suppose Mount and Blade counts in a bizarre way. Not because I never lose (hell it happened all the time at the start!) But because I don't think you ever actually die- just get knocked unconscious.

 

[hazabaza1]

Gonna echo people saying Fable 1. Don't think I ever died in that in all my years playing it.
Otherwise... I dunno. I tend to play things on hard difficulties so not dying is sometimes a rarity.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I don't think I've ever not died the first time through. When I get far enough into a game and notice that I've not died yet, I tend to let myself die to see if it's even possible. That way I can establish whether I've survived this long because I'm actually good or if I've survived because it's just really hard to die.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The one I can think of at the moment is Solatorobo: Red The Hunter which was a bad thing. That game was too easy and lack any real challange in the game.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Well, yes. Most Lucasarts classic adventure games. Except Monkey Island... And Curse of Monkey Island. You can die in a very funny and not permanent form there...

Yeah Lucasarts games very rarely had death in them, unlike the Sierra adventures of the time. SO many ways to die in them, or make the game unwinnable by not picking up an object on the 2nd screen you need hours later

 

[Magnatek]

Now that I think about it, the amount of games that I've beaten without dying really is few and far between. I never beat any of the games on my Steam list without going down at least once, except for maybe Beyond Good and Evil. I can only remember beating Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VIII without wiping otherwise.