"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
03/10/2018 at 01:49 • Filed to: None
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"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
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Finally beating a mission in a video game that your younger self couldn’t.
With my PS2, I got myself a copy of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. While I love this game in general, there was always one mission that annoyed me to no end: the UK vs. US shootout at Desert Heat between the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish and Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R. Me being the Bond fan I am, I always picked the Vanquish.
However, due to the Desert Heat circuit’s challenging semi-open-world map full of boulders and shortcuts out of nowhere, I could never quite beat that map for some reason. I would always end up losing and had to ask friends or relatives to do it for me just for the sake of proceeding. For a long, long time I vowed many a curse on that track.
Not tonight. Tonight I beat that fucker.
And I did it in a Tungsten Silver Vanquish. My prize was a Z8 as well.
Bless up, Daddy Pierce.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 01:59 |
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As a kid I could never get to the boss of the second dungeon in Ocarina of Time. A few years later I pulled the N64 out of storage (had moved on to a PS2 by then) and tried it again and it was easy and I was cursing my 8yo self for having such a hard time with it. At the same time I was kinda grateful I rage-quit for a few years because the game got sooo much better and my younger self wouldn’t have appreciated it as much.
FSI
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 02:21 |
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I’m just a tiny bit better at Gran Turismo 4 than my 9 year old self.
C62030
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 03:26 |
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That game on the GameCube was the first game I ever bought myself. Sooooo many awesome memories.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 10:00 |
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I remember that I struggled for days on something in The Phantom Hourglass. Unfortunately, I lost the card a long time ago.
SmugAardvark
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 10:27 |
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I was 9 when the game came out. Back in the old days, you either had to buy the Brady Games guide or hope Nintendo Power had maps and tips. I loved Super Metroid, but never fully beat the game.
Years later, while I was in college, I had GameFAQs to help me out. Turned out, I had gotten super close as a kid. Mother Brain never knew what hit her.
JDMatt
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
03/10/2018 at 13:50 |
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A few years ago I beat Need For Speed most wanted. Being older and smarter made it possible for me to finish the hardest pursuits. Plus back then I was playing need for speed on an underpowered PC, and the second time around I used an xbox 360