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- Dec 13, 2016
I was so good at "Wizards and Warriors" I never had to throw my weapon in boss battles, I just leap strategically at them. Wish it would've been on Rare Replay.
Personal Video Game Achievements... - or deciding what is awesome for you.
- Thread starter Wraith
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- Jun 18, 2017
The first time I ever beat FF7, it was with Cloud and Cid as nearly-dead frogs and Vincent as Chaos. That was a good day. Adding on to that, I beat it before my fiancee did, and she's been playing that game longer than I have.
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- Jun 11, 2014
I once did all eight landings in the 1988 Taito arcade airline flight simulator Top Landing, the second game in the series that eventually became Jet de Go on Japanese consoles (annoyingly never released in the west). It was the only time I've ever attracted a crowd of spectators in an arcade.
Here's a video of the game that seems to have been recorded from an actual arcade cabinet, still pretty much the only way to play this game properly. It's been MAME'd but it's still missing a lot of textures. It had a few unique chipsets that MAME can't emulate.
Bonus video: in-cockpit video of an actual night landing with Top Landing music and sound effects mixed in.
Here's a video of the game that seems to have been recorded from an actual arcade cabinet, still pretty much the only way to play this game properly. It's been MAME'd but it's still missing a lot of textures. It had a few unique chipsets that MAME can't emulate.
Bonus video: in-cockpit video of an actual night landing with Top Landing music and sound effects mixed in.
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- Jun 8, 2015
-Managed to get a 200,000(and still growing) gold bounty on my head in TES3: Morrowind, going from town to town, killing any NPC I see(My char's name is Sam Hyde)
-100% everything in Wolfenstein: TNO.
-100% everything in Wolfenstein: TNO.
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- Dec 13, 2016
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- May 25, 2013
I've gotten as far as looping Famicom Contra three times without dying before I had to go home from work.
I got to World 9 on Lost Levels when you could get the patch for doing it, I still have the patch.
I could do most 9 foot songs in DDR through 6th or so.
I beat Goenitz in KoF 96 on hardest difficulty with Athena.
I got to World 9 on Lost Levels when you could get the patch for doing it, I still have the patch.
I could do most 9 foot songs in DDR through 6th or so.
I beat Goenitz in KoF 96 on hardest difficulty with Athena.
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- May 31, 2016
When I played through Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Door in a single night as a teenager. It was my first run.
The pain in my neck that morning after was dreadful - it felt like I was dying.
The pain in my neck that morning after was dreadful - it felt like I was dying.
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- Dec 13, 2016
I finished all the cheevos for the latest Rocket League update. I woulda done it sooner but the cutie in my life wanted to play Just Dance.
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- Sep 19, 2013
Got the gold chocobo, Knights of the Round materia, and everyone's level 4 Limit Breaks in Final Fantasy VII, and then lost it all when my shitty generic memory card died.
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- Apr 5, 2017
Okay it's been a while, so why not add something for the old thread?
One of my favorite pew-pew space ship games is Star Wars X-Wing Alliance. This was before I got tired of the franchise because reasons. Anyone knows that the Empire has those massive near-mile long Star Destroyer warships. one my first run I made it my business to see if I could destroy every single one in the game. I accomplished this every time except for one mission where doing this broke the mission parameters! The game didn't know how to continue and I had to kind of skip my run to go on.
It was a supreme delight to attack a Star destroyer with what I call the "slipper ship," the little tiny A-Wing fighters that are the dogfighters of dogfighters in the game and fiction. They are blindingly fast, but have piss poor shields and weapons systems. I, on more than one occasion, killed a SD with a flying slipper. That was a good time.
One of my favorite pew-pew space ship games is Star Wars X-Wing Alliance. This was before I got tired of the franchise because reasons. Anyone knows that the Empire has those massive near-mile long Star Destroyer warships. one my first run I made it my business to see if I could destroy every single one in the game. I accomplished this every time except for one mission where doing this broke the mission parameters! The game didn't know how to continue and I had to kind of skip my run to go on.
It was a supreme delight to attack a Star destroyer with what I call the "slipper ship," the little tiny A-Wing fighters that are the dogfighters of dogfighters in the game and fiction. They are blindingly fast, but have piss poor shields and weapons systems. I, on more than one occasion, killed a SD with a flying slipper. That was a good time.
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2015
Not very impressive but the day I finally got my Netherdrake in WoW remains probably my fondest memory of when I played
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- May 23, 2017
I managed to beat Persona 4 without ever "re-rolling" a Persona's skills. (It's kind of an achievement in ignorance, since I never knew you could do it in the first place...) Also, past Yukiko's Castle, I used nothing but Temperance Personas.
Dr. Tremolo
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- Feb 26, 2014
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- Apr 6, 2015
the game: payday 2
the heist: Ukrainian job
the difficulty: one down
team of me (XXV-100) and three noobs (i like to help noobs)
i mostly watch, noobs stealth it. we got the tiara but some pedestrian who i couldn't reach calls the cops, luckily we were able to just leave
unfortunately, we still had to do an extra escape part (which means we're actually playing loud against the best and hardest police units in the game)
you better believe i found some force deep within myself and i carried my team to the end.. we weren't losing today
i made it with one other noob
best team of noobs ever
the heist: Ukrainian job
the difficulty: one down
team of me (XXV-100) and three noobs (i like to help noobs)
i mostly watch, noobs stealth it. we got the tiara but some pedestrian who i couldn't reach calls the cops, luckily we were able to just leave
unfortunately, we still had to do an extra escape part (which means we're actually playing loud against the best and hardest police units in the game)
you better believe i found some force deep within myself and i carried my team to the end.. we weren't losing today
i made it with one other noob
best team of noobs ever
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- Jun 27, 2014
All right, faggots. We're travelling far back, now.
So recently I was cleaning my apartment when I came upon a dusty shoebox in one of my packing crates. Most of these I tend to ignore as they have worthless shit from when I was going to and from my old home and getting settled in my new one.
But in this box, I found a bunch of old shit. Amidst nostalgic shit and myriad side-project crap, I found a few goodies: a bag of dice, a few bottles of "Health Potion" energy drink, and a curious unmarked CD. So I shoved it in my PC and decided to see what was so important that I left it in a jewel case marked "FUCKING IMPORTANT!"
Apparently, that was an old copy of Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty.
"Oh fuck," I thought to myself. "There's a moldy oldie from my childhood I'm all nostalgic over."
For the uninitiated, Dune 2 was the first decent Real-Time Strategy game. It was made by Westwood Studios (who later made Command & Conquer) and it features many of the same elements. You choose one of three houses: The Atriedes (Blue, Good Guys), Harkonnen (Red, Cartoonishly Evil), or Ordos (Green, Neutral Cartel of Assholes) and fight to be the last one standing as the Emperor tries to play all three factions off one another to ensure he remains the king of fuck. The game got a fucking awesome remake in 2000 (Dune 2000) that is basically the same premise but with a really good modern spin and fantastic graphics. But that's almost a decade off so fuck that we're going in dry.
One big problem this game has is that this existed before proper HUDs, proper unit selection methodologies, and only had basic hotkeys. You can't select groups of units - just one at a time. This is exactly as tedious as it seems. If you can look past it though you have a fucking great game here.
So I booted the game up, debugged the shit out of Dosbox, figured out how to change the language settings from French to English, and proceeded onwards. I've always been an Ordos player, but this is the path of the diehard - the other factions are way easier for a number of reasons but nothing makes it clear like stage five, or as I call it, the Map from Hell.
See, the Green Faction in the game focuses more on sabotage and subversion rather than full-on force, and one downside to this is that they don't get the game's artillery unit, the Missile Tank, until a full map later when you can just order the things via the Starport (this building is critical for the Ordos and so-so for everyone else). So on this one map, while the comp has Missile Tanks and will use them with reckless efficiency, you have no such luck. These things will wreck most unfortified structures in like three hits and can punch gaping wounds in most medium armor - like the stuff you have available to you now, really.
But that's not stopping some old asshole like me.
So what I did was flood the base with my dead. You can only have so many units at a time, so I maxed the supply limit on Combat Tanks and sent them in giant groups to their twisted mangled deaths to rampage over the Harkonnens (Red). And those are supposed to be the bad guys.
In an hour-long siege, the forces of Green ultimately managed to overwhelm and destroy the Red team after about 4 waves of 20+ Combat Tanks.
Results speak for themselves. At this point, my Mentat, Ammon, chimes in to remind me of why I play this faction:
So recently I was cleaning my apartment when I came upon a dusty shoebox in one of my packing crates. Most of these I tend to ignore as they have worthless shit from when I was going to and from my old home and getting settled in my new one.
But in this box, I found a bunch of old shit. Amidst nostalgic shit and myriad side-project crap, I found a few goodies: a bag of dice, a few bottles of "Health Potion" energy drink, and a curious unmarked CD. So I shoved it in my PC and decided to see what was so important that I left it in a jewel case marked "FUCKING IMPORTANT!"
Apparently, that was an old copy of Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty.
"Oh fuck," I thought to myself. "There's a moldy oldie from my childhood I'm all nostalgic over."
For the uninitiated, Dune 2 was the first decent Real-Time Strategy game. It was made by Westwood Studios (who later made Command & Conquer) and it features many of the same elements. You choose one of three houses: The Atriedes (Blue, Good Guys), Harkonnen (Red, Cartoonishly Evil), or Ordos (Green, Neutral Cartel of Assholes) and fight to be the last one standing as the Emperor tries to play all three factions off one another to ensure he remains the king of fuck. The game got a fucking awesome remake in 2000 (Dune 2000) that is basically the same premise but with a really good modern spin and fantastic graphics. But that's almost a decade off so fuck that we're going in dry.
One big problem this game has is that this existed before proper HUDs, proper unit selection methodologies, and only had basic hotkeys. You can't select groups of units - just one at a time. This is exactly as tedious as it seems. If you can look past it though you have a fucking great game here.
So I booted the game up, debugged the shit out of Dosbox, figured out how to change the language settings from French to English, and proceeded onwards. I've always been an Ordos player, but this is the path of the diehard - the other factions are way easier for a number of reasons but nothing makes it clear like stage five, or as I call it, the Map from Hell.
See, the Green Faction in the game focuses more on sabotage and subversion rather than full-on force, and one downside to this is that they don't get the game's artillery unit, the Missile Tank, until a full map later when you can just order the things via the Starport (this building is critical for the Ordos and so-so for everyone else). So on this one map, while the comp has Missile Tanks and will use them with reckless efficiency, you have no such luck. These things will wreck most unfortified structures in like three hits and can punch gaping wounds in most medium armor - like the stuff you have available to you now, really.
But that's not stopping some old asshole like me.
So what I did was flood the base with my dead. You can only have so many units at a time, so I maxed the supply limit on Combat Tanks and sent them in giant groups to their twisted mangled deaths to rampage over the Harkonnens (Red). And those are supposed to be the bad guys.
In an hour-long siege, the forces of Green ultimately managed to overwhelm and destroy the Red team after about 4 waves of 20+ Combat Tanks.
Results speak for themselves. At this point, my Mentat, Ammon, chimes in to remind me of why I play this faction:
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- Jan 2, 2017
i've ascended a monk in the nethack variant SLASH'EM, and achieved an Ultra Ending as a wizard in ADOM. it took me 2 weeks to play that one character to completion and during the fight with this fucker he melee'd me down to less than 10 hp and i've never taken longer to make a single turn's decision in a videogame
took me 30 minutes of pacing and i swear it took off several years of my life with the stress just to make a decision to get away properly
i also got champion rank rewards in rocket league this season, which is apparently top 1% of the playerbase & feels pretty nice
took me 30 minutes of pacing and i swear it took off several years of my life with the stress just to make a decision to get away properly
i also got champion rank rewards in rocket league this season, which is apparently top 1% of the playerbase & feels pretty nice
jewelry investor
kiwifarms.net
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- Dec 16, 2017
At a young age I would try too 100% every Zelda game I had, never beating the game. I never got why Nintendo wouldn’t make a different ending for 100%ing
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- Dec 15, 2017
Over the past few months I've tried challenging myself to beat some of the more difficult NES titles. Castlevania, TMNT, The Adventures of Bayou Billy and Megaman 2. Still working on Ninja Gaiden.
- Joined
- May 23, 2017
I maxed all the Confidants in Persona 5 on my first run, and fused Lucifer (the highest-level Persona in the game if you aren't on New Game +) in time for the final boss. For reference, you need to be level 93 or above to fuse him. I fucking love that six-winged SOB--half MP cost for spells? Yes, please.