What is your greatest gaming achievement?

[Sparky]

I'm sure we have all had that one magical day. The one day where the stars aligned and the heavens sang. The one accomplishment in a game that you thought nigh impossible but somehow through blood sweat and tears you managed to accomplish.

My perfect storm happened back in June 1988. I was 12 years old and obsessed with Space Harrier for the Sega Master System. I loved that game and i played it religiously (i still play the game...all different versions) It is a damned hard game that will test the reflexes, memory and mettle of any gamer. I had finished the game before with continues. I could usually get to level 14 or 15 (18 levels total) before having to continue and then i would end up using a continue or 2 to beat the game. This one gaming session started out no different than the others, i was over at my friends place and we were just playing some games. I threw in Space Harrier and just started playing. It started out like every other game and i just kept playing until my friend commented that i had made it to level 15 without dying. I suddenly found myself quite aware that i had not died yet but i found myself in the zone. I was dodging everything and just finding the patterns without thinking. I made it it to the last level and a showdown with all the previous level bosses. I made it past them and then it was the ultimate throwdown with Haya-Oh..a boss that was exclusive to the Master System version of the game. This sucker was hard. He always killed me at least once, i had never beaten hiim without dying at least once. He was fast...so fast that there was no way to predict him. We were on the edge of our seats....this was the ultimate boss. Somehow i managed to dodge his attacks with my friend screaming and me reacting out of instinct. It seemed like foever but i defeated him. It is honestly a moment that i won't forget. I just beat Space Harrier without dying. Without dying once....for those who have played Space Harrier i'm sure you can appreciate that.


It was my glory and i will always smile when i think of it. Do any of you have similar accomplishments that you hold dear?

 

[Hermiod]

I completed GRAW on Hard before even trying Normal.

I won the Premier League and the Champions League with Bolton Wanderers on Football Manager, and won the Premier League with Fulham on Championship Manager 4.

 

[Rii]

I finished F-Zero GX on Master difficulty. It's not much I guess, but given that nearly every review one can find of the game comments on its difficulty, it has to count for something.

 

[firehawk12]

A couple of multiplayer achievements come to mind.

In Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (on the 360 anyway), there's an achievement for winning 3 rounds in a row... if you lose, you'd have to start over again.
It was a close match and our team was losing, but somehow in the last 10 seconds I managed to score the winning point - I was never so happy to see the achievement bubble pop up in my entire life. I felt like I actually earned that achievement.

The other one was for the GTA4 co-op achievement. Anyone who has tried this knows that it's one of the most difficult things to do - especially if your team is uncoordinated. It was more of a grind than anything else, but I was really happy when I was finally able to do it. It made the 50 dollars a year or whatever I pay to MS to play online seem worth it in that instant.

 

[FPAlpha]

Not throwing my controller through the TV while playing Ninja Gaiden!

 

[captcalhoun]

managing to kill Xaero more than once on Quake III on 'Nightmare'.

that or a double rail-shot where i fragged a guy behind the guy i shot.

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like that.

 

[TheGodBen]

Beating Vice City 100% and getting Tommy to wear the "I completed Vice City and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt.

It took about two weeks of working through a checklist and I only had one final activity to achieve; the 15-lap race in the stadium. It's not normally that hard, but I must have had performance anxiety because I failed it about 15 times in a row, either I would keep on losing the race or my car would explode from all the crashing. I finally managed to win it, but my car was on fire for the last quarter lap and I exploded right after crossing the finish line.

I woke up outside a hospital with the message that I completed the game. Best death I ever had.

 

[TEH BABA]

Temblor bomb run on Kilrah.

 

[barnaclelapse]

There's a few, but beating the original Strider when I was about seven years old.

To this day, I still don't know how I did that.

 

[Sephiroth]

one good one was when I was playing Halo2, on the beaver creek map, I throw a frag grenade at a guy coming at me from the other side of the base (at the back with the teleporter) and a member of the other team comes out of the teleporter, the grenade hits HIM in the head, flies up, and lands just as the rest of the other team has come through the teleporter and i get an overkill with a single grenade

 

[Mistral]

I entered a contest sponsored by KDKB radio station and Starship Fantasy arcade in 82. I was playing Asteroids. 13 hours-and I pulled the plug with a full row of extra ships across the top of the screen. Over 7 million points. Got a wonderful 2.5 ft trophy.

On NBA Live series my buddies and I used to pick our own custom teams to play against each other. We'd strip the regular rosters in a rotational lottery. In the Live '96 we had discovered that there were certain "hidden" characters you could unlock by typing in the correct names. People like Jordan, Barkley and Dr. J. I was a little older than my friends and more of a fanatic so while I was waiting for them to come over I dug out an almanac and began putting in names...they defaulted to various team rosters as bench players. We picked teams and I fielded an interesting one. Even though players like Drexler, Bird and Jordan had been snapped up, I put up-

C George Mikan
PF Dave Cowens
SF Rick Barry
SG Jerry West
PG Bob Cousy

with John Havlichek on the bench along with Nate "Tiny" Archibald, Bob Mcadoo and Nate Thurmond, George Gervin and Walt Frazier. I later dumped Mcadoo for Pistol Pete, which completely fried the anti-3 defense they tried to put up against me.

I averaged 60 pts from 3ptLand the entire evening(only Mikan and Thurmond struggled behind the line) Ordinarily my friends tore me up but that night I was golden.

 

[Davros]

A win at Diplomacy as Italy when I controlled land from Liverpool to Ankara

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Completely beating Grand Turismo 2. First place in every race. Don't even ask me about Grand Turismo 3. What a beat down.

Also got the highly coveted triple kill playing Golden Eye on the Nintendo 64. Not long after that, my friends stopped playing against me.

 

[Sephiroth]

I've done it...I have run out of things to do in Fallout 3

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I'm sure we have all had that one magical day. The one day where the stars aligned and the heavens sang. The one accomplishment in a game that you thought nigh impossible but somehow through blood sweat and tears you managed to accomplish.

My perfect storm happened back in June 1988. I was 12 years old and obsessed with Space Harrier for the Sega Master System. I loved that game and i played it religiously (i still play the game...all different versions) It is a damned hard game that will test the reflexes, memory and mettle of any gamer. I had finished the game before with continues. I could usually get to level 14 or 15 (18 levels total) before having to continue and then i would end up using a continue or 2 to beat the game. This one gaming session started out no different than the others, i was over at my friends place and we were just playing some games. I threw in Space Harrier and just started playing. It started out like every other game and i just kept playing until my friend commented that i had made it to level 15 without dying. I suddenly found myself quite aware that i had not died yet but i found myself in the zone. I was dodging everything and just finding the patterns without thinking. I made it it to the last level and a showdown with all the previous level bosses. I made it past them and then it was the ultimate throwdown with Haya-Oh..a boss that was exclusive to the Master System version of the game. This sucker was hard. He always killed me at least once, i had never beaten hiim without dying at least once. He was fast...so fast that there was no way to predict him. We were on the edge of our seats....this was the ultimate boss. Somehow i managed to dodge his attacks with my friend screaming and me reacting out of instinct. It seemed like foever but i defeated him. It is honestly a moment that i won't forget. I just beat Space Harrier without dying. Without dying once....for those who have played Space Harrier i'm sure you can appreciate that.


It was my glory and i will always smile when i think of it. Do any of you have similar accomplishments that you hold dear?

SMS is my favorite system and i completed that game so we can share the same thrill and experience. I also felt that way getting to the last level of maze hunter 3-D

 

[Trubinator]

Probably a tie between beating a former friend at UT 2004 (150+ kills against him to his one lousy kill against me) and beating three insane Orc AIs in Dawn of War with a friend.

 

[Jax]

In Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (on the 360 anyway), there's an achievement for winning 3 rounds in a row... if you lose, you'd have to start over again.
It was a close match and our team was losing, but somehow in the last 10 seconds I managed to score the winning point - I was never so happy to see the achievement bubble pop up in my entire life. I felt like I actually earned that achievement.

I was at a m8's house using system link up (one on tv & one on pc monitor) I was 10 seconds away from winning 3 in a row and I got dead mans click and my m8 who was on the other team shot me with a shotgun 10 FRACKING SECONDS, I've never bothered with that achievement since.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Well I always have to respond to these type of threads with the disclaimer that I suck, so a gaming achievement to me is probably "meh" to the rest of you. With that being said, there were a time while playing COD Modern Warfare online in Team Deathmatch, where I was actually starting to get good at it (relative to my normal suckage that is). There was a period of a couple of weeks, maybe a month, where it was pretty common for me to be the lead score on my team, and occaisonally the lead score in the room. But it was like a bell curve effect for me. I started out awful, got better, went through this "good period" for awhile, then IIRC, they patched the game and something about that change, whatever it was, screwed me up, and went back on the downhill slide into suckdom.

 

[backstept]

winning races in Forza (against ai)
I just wish I had friends that were good at it . . . it sucks having to drive badly just to give them a chance

 

[Canadave]

I'm a big fan of the Europa Universalis series (a grand-scale historical strategy game covering the 15th century to the early 19th century, simulating hundreds of different nations, all of which are playable). Anyone who's familiar with this game knows that if you play a European nation, war with France is practically inevitable, and unless you're well-prepared, often disasterous as the French can field huge, skilled armies.

Now, in my first major game in Europa Universalis III, I was playing as Milan, a minor power on the European stage, but a major player in Italy, at the least. After about twenty-five years (game time, obviously) of play, I had conquered Switzerland to my north, and taken on a few of my neighbors as satellite states, namely Savoie and Mantua, as I recall. This left me with several neighbors outside my sphere of influence. Venice, to the east, whom I was on good terms with at the time, Austria and Germanic states to the north, who had no real interest in me, and France and Burgundy to the west, whom I saw as threats. This was all around 1500 or so, so France was still divided into a number of smaller powers, but France herself was still strong and could easily overpower me.

So I bided my time. Then I saw my chance: France was embroiled in a large scale war with Burgundy and her allies. I didn't have a causi bella (reason to declare war) with France, but aggressively I went ahead and did so anyway, causing internal strife in my kingdom. I got Burgundy to grant my troops access to their land, and my armies swept across and invaded southern France, occupying several of their provinces. After a time, I sent troops north from my Swiss holdings to attack the area around Paris to give my leverage at the bargaining table.

In the end, I claimed three French provinces in a peace treaty. Doesn't seem like much, but I really broke France's back... Burgundy also won their war thanks to my distracting efforts, and I was able to beat the French back time and again in future wars. I also ended up turning my back on Burgundy and wrestling away some of their land to connect my French holdings to my Italian homeland.

And it's this sort of epic gameplay that leaves EU3 as one of my all-time favourite games.