Favorite Gaming Accomplishments

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:40 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:Beating F-Zero GX on its hardest difficulty without losing my mind.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:55 pm

when i 1000/1000 my 360 games

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:28 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:
Davey wrote:Beating Battletoads for NES.
I can´t imagine the emotional dents this must have caused. I´ve read a story of someone beating this game as a kid, and getting a Game Genie for christmas two days later, and he threw a shitfit when he discovered inifite lives codes for that game

Never_Scurred wrote:Beating F-Zero GX on its hardest difficulty without losing my mind.
This reminds me of the early AVGN in his Karate Kid (NES) review, and that really stuck in my head:

"I hate this game. But why am I playing it? Well, that´s a question everyone has asked themselves and they all have the same reason: Because you´re angry and you wanna win. You wanna beat the Nintendo. But the cold fact is that nobody cares but you."

I remember F-Zero GX as "motion-sickness rocket to the groin simulation game". Very cool, but when it came to deciding whether I want to keep playing even when it stopped being fun just for the sake of it or just giving up, I chose the latter, which goes for most of my gaming nowadays.

Also: Gametime played is NOT an achievement.

I agree with what you're saying, but F-Zero GX NEVER really stops being fun. My gf doesn't understand how I could possibly be having fun playing a game that makes me turn beet red (and i'm a black guy) and curse, kick and scream like a bitch. But thats the whole point, though. I love being pushed to my breaking point whether its in a game or school or whatever it may be. The fun for me comes from the challenge and the victory. I worries me that gaming nowadays is becoming more and more passive as it becomes more and more antisocial.

TLDragoon · Post by **TLDragoon** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:52 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:I agree with what you're saying, but F-Zero GX NEVER really stops being fun. My gf doesn't understand how I could possibly be having fun playing a game that makes me turn beet red (and i'm a black guy) and curse, kick and scream like a bitch. But thats the whole point, though. I love being pushed to my breaking point whether its in a game or school or whatever it may be. The fun for me comes from the challenge and the victory. I worries me that gaming nowadays is becoming more and more passive as it becomes more and more antisocial.

That reminds me of some of my misadventures with Street Fighter II on the SNES. Boy did I ever have my raging moments with that game (to the point of damaging one of my controllers). But I did eventually manage to beat it on the highest difficulty with Ryu losing only 1 round--sweet victory...but at what cost to my sanity

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:51 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:
Davey wrote:Beating Battletoads for NES.
I can´t imagine the emotional dents this must have caused. I´ve read a story of someone beating this game as a kid, and getting a Game Genie for christmas two days later, and he threw a shitfit when he discovered inifite lives codes for that game

An infinite lives code wouldn't help as much as you might think:

1.) You can get a boatload of 1ups in the second level by juggling birds.
2.) Most of the game has checkpoints, so you have to learn how to do most of it without dying anyway.

Besides, where's the gratification in beating a game with help from a Game Genie?

I had the idiotic idea of trying to 1LC it. I gave up on that pretty quickly. I've probably beaten every level without dying at some point (except 12), but doing it in one run would be crazy hard.

SockPuppetHyren · Post by **SockPuppetHyren** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:33 pm

1CC'ing Eden's Edge...before I checked the frame rate and found out that the game was running at half speed. I was a newb then, but it still stings when I think about it.

Beating Killer 7: It's the only plot driven console game I have beaten, as I tend to stop playing longer games half way through.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:04 pm

SockPuppetHyren wrote:1CC'ing Eden's Edge...before I checked the frame rate and found out that the game was running at half speed.

I had the opposite problem when I started playing BWR (at 75 Hz). You can fix it in the config file, but it's a stupid default IMHO.

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:34 pm

Davey wrote:
SockPuppetHyren wrote:1CC'ing Eden's Edge...before I checked the frame rate and found out that the game was running at half speed.
I had the opposite problem when I started playing BWR (at 75 Hz). You can fix it in the config file, but it's a stupid default IMHO.

Me too, except mine was running at 120hz

I thought it was supposed to, and I shunned it off immediately as a shitty impossible game that only japanese people could play

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:20 am

Davey wrote: Besides, where's the gratification in beating a game with help from a Game Genie?

I guess that you don´t have the same attitude to gaming like an adult as a kid. I remember not being able to reflect on the act of gaming as I do now - and since back then nobody had emulators or internet, cheat codes where more like secret magical superweapons rather than codes that break the games challenge (and therefore the whole point). I guess that´s mainly because as a kid I always expected that pot of gold sitting at the games end, rather than seeing the game itself as an enjoyable process.

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:37 am

Ahh cheat codes.
I remember going to the grocery store just to rip the cheat code pages out the magazines.

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:39 am

I had a game genie as a kid, but I never used any cheats that really aided the player. I just liked the stuff that messed with game physics, etc.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:34 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:Ahh cheat codes.
I remember going to the grocery store just to rip the cheat code pages out the magazines.

me 3

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:52 pm

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP wrote:
Never_Scurred wrote:Ahh cheat codes.
I remember going to the grocery store just to rip the cheat code pages out the magazines.

me 3

I used to not rip them out but i would take the magazine to the photocopier and scan the page i want lol.

I recall in high shcool I got the school library shop to get in mortal kombat 3 moves guide and I used to sell the moves scans to people lol

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:55 am

I reached level 35 on Seiken Densetsu 2. Before the first boss.
Played for months just the first section of the game with rabites which only give 1 exp.
I killed millions of these. Some day i decided to move along and play the game.
The game is quite easy when you start with a level which you are supposed to have in the second half of the game ^^

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:47 am

Current Gen:

COD4: Mile High Club

COD4: 40-6, Countdown...with an M14. I've since done that in HCTDM, but this was TDM. Hell, just now I went 29-3 on Creek with my baby.

EDF 2017: Inferno clear with 3449 stamina.

Classics:

Undeadlines: Clearing them...and I think the first on these boards to do the Genny and X68K revs...could be wrong, however.

Kingdom Grandprix/Shippu Mahou: Breaking 1 million. A slightly hollow victory, since it was with Miyamoto.

Enclave: Beating the damn thing. Both sides.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:46 pm

Beating F-Zero GX's Emerald Cup on Master.

tviks · Post by **tviks** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:27 pm

Getting the best rank (Big Boss or Foxhound) in all MGS and MG games with perfect stats and without a single save. MGS2 on European Extreme is definitely the most memorable and satisfying. Still working on MGS4 though.

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:49 am

Gunbird 1CC

This gave me the most pleasure. I'm not a hugely skilled shmupper and it took me around 1-2 years of on-off gameplay to finish it with one credit. I found sections of stage 6 unbelievably tough. I had considered taking on the second loop until I actually tried it.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:59 am

Heh, I just got a whole bunch of achievements in TF2.

Even Got A Light? apparently by persuading an enemy spy to taunt me during the beginning of a round on one of the payload maps :D

CSBrokaw · Post by **CSBrokaw** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:46 am

Uh...AAA'ing Gambol 7 on IIDX last year.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:50 am

I got Shogi Meijin for MSX and on my third ever game of Shogi I defeated the computer. I think it must be harder to create a good Shogi-playing program than a good Chess-playing program. I have a really old (as in CGA/EGA) chess game for PC, and I have also played one included with a Linux distro. Both seem to be far beyond my skill level. (But I don't care as long as I can still win against my brother sometimes

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:56 am

ED-057 wrote:I think it must be harder to create a good Shogi-playing program than a good Chess-playing program.

I believe I've read as much somewhere.

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:54 am

Earthworm Jim. For genesis.

Gerbil tunnels. Glass ship that shatters in like three hits.

With a time limit.

And the last stage you have to heli down a hole in - if you bump the spikes, you're lucky to live. I know I've put up with and blocked out more bullshit than that, but Earthworm Jim just seems the most petty. Just like Ghosts and/or Goblins, the final boss was a joke compared to the game. It really kind of feels like an insult. Cut Man was more fierce, crying out loud...

Diablo. I first played that game on my old 486. It took about 5 minutes to load a level. To clear the game once in singleplayer, it took me over 100 hours. Due to the very slow speed the computer ran it at. I beat it once with each class. Just like Starcraft, the game suddenly feels a little more tactical on slower settings, when you have some time on your hands..

I know nowadays we have lasers that transform monsters into dust and acid pits that liquefy monsters into green goo and infernos that shoot out bats... but back in those days, Diablo was epic as hell.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:29 pm

Beating EDF2017 on Inferno was definitely one.

Finally getting to lvl 5 in Border Down with 1 credit.

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:45 pm

CSBrokaw wrote:Uh...AAA'ing Gambol 7 on IIDX last year.

Nice

I never did do that. Fuck that song

Sturmvogel Prime · Post by **Sturmvogel Prime** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:37 pm

Beat Super Metroid with 100% in 2:12
Unlocking everything in Thunder Force V
Unlocking "Lucia II" in Neo Contra
Unlocking the ADF-01 FALKEN in Ace Combat Zero

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:01 pm

Beating Rygar (Argus No Senshi) with 4589890 pts. It's my all time favourite game (although the more I play ESPGALUDA I feel that could change).

Emph

Leandro · Post by **Leandro** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:37 am

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs in one credit... Always loved the game and wanted to single coin it, finally did it this year

BryanM wrote:Earthworm Jim. For genesis.

Gerbil tunnels. Glass ship that shatters in like three hits.

With a time limit.

congrats, this is the point where most players give up, including me back then

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:59 am

SockPuppetHyren wrote:Beating Killer 7: It's the only plot driven console game I have beaten, as I tend to stop playing longer games half way through.

For some reason I want to go back and beat Killer8 mode now (and there's yet another mode past that).

Hmm - the amusement park has a spot where you're fucked in Killer8 mode if you lose the kid, I believe. A path to a doorway, I believe, with a t-junction in the navigable path, and one or two of those enemy spawning monsters as well

chempop · Post by **chempop** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:39 am

Being the first person in my area to use Akuma in SSF2T, and all the crazy people I met after raging demon victory in round 2. I was much younger then the typical fighting game crowd, cool years of my life.

Going to Tokyo and playing Ikaruga till the very end for the first time ever. Meeting all sorts of awesome Sega peeps (mostly UGA) and personally thanking them for the game Rez.