I was in the Top 20 leaderboards in Fight Night Champion at one point. Then people figured out how to hack scores and I was bumped off.
Successfully dodged WoW back in the days, got a degree instead. The only winning move is not to play.
Completing the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight, and beating the true final boss of Enter the Gungeon both come to mind.
Convinced my friend that the Jesus bus in GTA 1 could drive on water.
Nice. I once got a buddy in WoW to check out the Blood of Heroes in Eastern Plague Lands.
Getting all Dark Souls 1 achievements.
That Knights Honor one was pretty tough
Yes, getting Channeler’s Trident was a real pain.
I beat Factorio without using belts.
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No, I’m not a masochist, why do you ask?
Relatively new to the game, have launched two rockets. That seems… very tedious.
I’m guessing you rushed robots and then did it end game that way?
I was jazzed to not use lasers and only steam power on my second play through.
Basically, also trains, so many trains.
So train lines instead of belts, and inserters directly linking assemblers to each other? Wow, that base must be huge.
I have done some basics with trains, and a bit with circuits, but multi resource trains always jammed up on me and became unbalanced so I’ve basically kept them to single item type each. Plus, playing on console without keyboard means naming things like stations is a slow pain in the ass.
After seeing my husband play for hours, I didn’t even know it was possible to play without belts!
It’s not supposed to be played without belts, I’ll tell you that much.
I managed a cyber cafe many years ago. Mostly filled with regulars that I knew on a first name basis and would usually sit in for a CS match if it was slow.
I wouldn’t call myself great but I could take down middle schoolers. That’s not what this post is about though.
A girl walks in, has some sweats on from the big university that’s not too close but still in the area.
She wipes all those kids out repeatedly. They start yelling, asking me to help them out so I do. I’m effectively going 50% with this person.
Before she leaves she reveals that’s she’s visiting her parents for the weekend and that she was on a team that was ranked or otherwise played professionally.
I asked her if I was good enough to play competitively.
She said no, she hadn’t played at all for a few months because of school and she was going easy.
Felt pretty proud that I was able to keep up with an out-of-shape pro.
Anytime I finish a game is a pretty big achievement. Lots of games I play and just either get bored of or forget about. Stray, Cyberpunk, Subnautica, Outer Wilds, etc… I just can’t seem to finish games. I’m now trying to play RDR2, so hopefully I can complete it. Hogwarts Legacy is the latest game I’ve fully completed (last year), but I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter, so I feel like that helped.
lol jesus christ red dead 2 is outstanding but so long… you picked a doozy
I’ve completed GTA 5 a handful of times, so I’m hoping that because it’s a rockstar game, I’ll be able to finish it… But only time will tell.
Long time ago, I would play Transport Tycoon (Deluxe?) all the time. I had this just about fully built map, I was forced to optimize everything because the game didn’t allow any more railway stations or depots to be built.
One day, the news pops up that my company will go bankrupt if performance doesn’t improve, I find myself in a balance of some number starting with -2.147… I couldn’t find a way to the positives to save my company so I reloaded last save, I purchased the max amount of trains and carriages to sell when the apocalypse happens, I would build a significant amount of the map in railway that I could get refunded. No way I could achieve over 2 billion in one year.
Eventually I learn that the max value a 32 bit processor can have is 2,147,483,647, until it flips over to -2,147,483,647. I had become so successful that the hardware in my PC couldn’t handle it! I take plenty of pride in this achievement. I actually beat an endless game.
I think, probably…spending many hours over a few weeks helping people experience and love Journey after I got my White Robe. Twirling around on the sand dunes, exploring strange places, avoiding danger, and finally seeing them pass through that mountain.
For me every time someone stuck it out added to the memories and I hope each of them remembers that chirpy white robed player who made the game just a little more fun.
I have two:
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I was the main tank of a raiding guild in WoW during the Burning Crusade era. Our guild was the best on the server, but nothing too notable outside of that community. However, when a new quick raid encounter came out (Magtheridon’s Lair), we unintentionally completed the encounter in a novel way. I know that because the next week when we went to clear it, a developer whispered me and asked me if he and a few others could watch us because they noticed through some automated log to prevent cheating that we completed the encounter last week without engaging with a major mechanic of the fight. They let us know they were there, but you couldn’t see anyone and when you looked up the character name it wouldn’t show up if you searched the name. We showed them how we did it, they congratulated us for our ingenuity then told us they were changing the encounter for next week. It was really cool.
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A few years ago I got into Enter the Gungeon. For those unaware it’s a bullet hell, rogue-like, dungeon crawler with a steep learning curve but great graphics and snappy controls so it is a great time. The first time I beat the game I posted a screenshot on Reddit and the entire community was convinced that it was fake because of my build and the lack of max health I had. At first I was annoyed then I realized that if they didn’t believe me then it meant I did something, literally, incredible.
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There’s 3 that come to mind. I’ve beat Dark Souls 3 and all it’s DLC at level 1. I’ve beat Pantheon 5 in the Godhome DLC for Hollow Knight. And I’ve beaten all ascension levels for all characters in Slay the Spire.
I’ve beat Pantheon 5 in the Godhome DLC for Hollow Knight.
That’s really impressive. I can’t even beat Pantheon 3. That fucking Zote just keeps fucking me up. Even when I do beat him, I usually get too anxious, make many stupid mistakes, and die to Hornet. I can’t even practice on Sly yet.
I can’t wait for Silksong. That will fill my day when it comes out.
Thanks. Keep at it! The P5 grind was one of the most fun gaming challanges I have done. There’s also only one boss that I have not beaten on Radiant difficulty (Markoth is pure cancer).
I’ve long given up hope on Silksong. It won’t ever come out. My personal theory is that one of Team Cherry had a major life event and production will never resume.
I don’t want to get your hopes up. I didn’t find out about Hollow Knight untill after all the dlc came out. I haven’t been waiting that long, just a couple years, so I’m probably not as jaded as the rest of the community.
It looks like that it will come out by the end of the year. I forgot what I read exactly, but some paperwork getting processed. Of course I will gladly put on my clown make-up when December comes and goes with no word from Team Cherry. 🤡
Making myself known on the Dreamcastic Channel on YouTube by playing Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 with none other than Pcwzrd.
He was either ‘Teal’c’ or ‘Afro Thunder’ on there.
This was before I started over when I got another working copy of PSO after the other one broke.
Hollow Knight 112% completion is what I’m most proud of. It was hard!
The first that came to mind is 100%ing the OG Crash Bandicoot on PS1.
Back when you could only get a level’s gem if you didn’t use a checkpoint.
Getting a gem was also the only way to save. Crash Bandicoot may be the only game series where each new game is easier than the one before it, and Crash 3 was still one of the most challenging games on the system.
Minor correction: some levels had bonus areas where you could save, but you could only do so once. Still a ballache.
I worked a night shift job for a couple of years and three of us would grab a case of beer, twist up some smoke, and jam on OG Playstation after work was done at 6 in the morning.
Tekken, Crash, and Metal Gear were the major mainstays of our play sessions. Man, that brings back some memories lol
