Your gaming "white whale"?

[SimuLord]

If you don't get that reference, then go kick your English teacher's dog.

Anyway, has a difficult task in gaming (either in the game itself or self-imposed) ever driven you to such madness that your friends start thinking you're Captain Ahab? I mention this because after four failures, a couple of which were on twenty-plus-hour saves, I'm making one final, "if I don't do it this time, I ain't gonna" hardcore run at Fallout 3, trying to add it to the list of games I've beaten without losing a life (or, in this case, even so much as reloading a save---I save solely to prevent lost progress due to crashes and bugs).

I've got some pretty vicious games on that list---Contra, Mega Man 2 and 3, Super Mario Bros., Morrowind, Oblivion (well, OK, Oblivion's so easy it's like a Fisher-Price toy, but still.) I want the head of that mutated, irradiated whale, gods damn it all!

How 'bout you guys? Gaming obsessions, anyone?

 

[Cherry Cola]

Zombie Ninja Pro-Am.

Such a bad game... So horrible... Yet I must destroy it!

 

[Woodsey]

Sorry but...

I don't understand anything that you're saying in the OP. Like, at all. What's the question?

 

[Irridium]

Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. On Expert.
Only use pistols.
Why do I punish myself?

 

[hamster mk 4]

I tend to give up when I realize I am not having fun at an activity I am not being paid for. That being said, I did blow a few evenings playing "I Wana be the Guy" before I realized it was not worth it.

 

[Irridium]

Sorry but...

I don't understand anything that you're saying in the OP. Like, at all. What's the question?

I think he's asking if you set any near-impossible goals for yourself, or what game challenge caused you to rage so hard you quit the game for a while.

 

[Raikov]

That would be surviving Left 4 Dead 1 on our very special custom difficulty, just under where the game engine itself cannot take the stress of all the zombies on screen and just lags monkeyballs.

And I personally play waaay too much Minesweeper.

Oh, and I don't get the reference! =P

 

[SimuLord]

Sorry but...

I don't understand anything that you're saying in the OP. Like, at all. What's the question?

A gaming task that becomes more of an all-consuming obsession the more you fail at it. My example is trying to complete Fallout 3 without dying even once (and as most people are aware, there are far too many places in that game where even a strong character can slip and get blown up by something.)

 

[Skerke]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootdesigncontestentries/skiboyjake/scariest_monster_ever-8lhv8z-d.jpg
this guy.... nuff said.

 

[Psychophante]

Trying to do God Of War 3 on titan difficulty without saving or dying once. Damn it's hard!

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I guess I don't really have any. I am sort of on this insane quest to get the Seriously 2.0 achievement in Gears of War 2 though.

Oh, and I don't get the reference! =P

Moby Dick

 

[hazabaza1]

Mass Effect 2 insanity. If anyone can beat that with no deaths, I salute them.
I mean, I still let myself die, but I'll salute any no death insanitiy-ers.

 

[Raikov]

I guess I don't really have any. I am sort of on this insane quest to get the Seriously 2.0 achievement in Gears of War 2 though.

Oh, and I don't get the reference! =P

Moby Dick

Never read it, but thanks anyways!

 

[TheLefty]

I'd love to kick my English teacher's dog! Now I have an excuse.

Anyway, it took me a year to beat the first level of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

 

[Aptspire]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootdesigncontestentries/skiboyjake/scariest_monster_ever-8lhv8z-d.jpg
this guy.... nuff said.

You fool! It's mathematically impossible!
ITT: I'm trying to get on the top 100 on the Ace Combat 6 soach board, and top rank in BF43
...
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!

 

[Woodsey]

Sorry but...

I don't understand anything that you're saying in the OP. Like, at all. What's the question?

A gaming task that becomes more of an all-consuming obsession the more you fail at it. My example is trying to complete Fallout 3 without dying even once (and as most people are aware, there are far too many places in that game where even a strong character can slip and get blown up by something.)

OT: Ah, OK.

Well, I did set myself the goal of clearing every single white marker on the map in The Saboteur.

I failed.

 

[-Seraph-]

Finishing SOCOM: Tactical Strike on hardest difficulty, A rank across the board and not deaths or man downs. That game is a mean son of a ***** that demands merciless tactical precision else face brutal death. I have came close on a few occasions but that damn Oil Refinery level and the "Diplomacy" level are always the hardest and most unforgiving segments once you reach their final half. I Will have my S rank! I will not let escorts or squad mates fall!! I will stomp hardcore difficulty into the damn ground!!!

That and finishing all the challenges in Guilty Gear XXAC+, fuck some of those are brutal. I've spent close to an hour just completing one! Fuck you Gold Johnny!!

 

[EeveeElectro]

My friend had one of these with the new Pokemon game, only going to Pokemon centre's, fighting with the first 5 Pokemon he found... something like that.

I've never heard the white whale saying, but our GCSE English was appalling, we weren't taught basic English techniques.

 

[bakonslayer]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It sits there on my bookshelf. I've rented it and purchased it, but I can't get the guts to play past what I've already played.

It's not exactly the same idea as others' "white wales" but my goal is to play it again and actually play long enough to beat it... Or at least get past the first level.

Luckily, I got over Dragonforce on expert. Didn't beat it, but got close enough to where I felt peace.

 

[Skerke]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootdesigncontestentries/skiboyjake/scariest_monster_ever-8lhv8z-d.jpg
this guy.... nuff said.

You fool! It's mathematically impossible!
ITT: I'm trying to get on the top 100 on the Ace Combat 6 soach board, and top rank in BF43
...
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!

ITS NOT! i can do it! i know i can!