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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: kashell on January 07, 2015, 04:21:28 pm
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In this topic, post your proudest moments in gaming that make you smile with pride and make you want to shout from the rooftops. It can be something miniscule or something even the most seasoned gamer would bow down to; as long you feel fulfilled, it's an accomplishment. This is my first topic, so what better way to kick it (and the New Year) off than with getting to know each other some more and learning about everyone's special gaming moments. I'll mention a few of mine.
*Earning the platinum trophy in Star Ocean: The Last Hope -International- for the PlayStation 3. The amount of time and energy it took to earn this could have been used for other games, but I stuck to it and have one of the most rare trophies ever on the PSN. Luckily, I (usually) had fun going for this.
*Getting a perfect score on one of my favorite songs in Dance Dance Revolution is another one of my proudest moments. The song, B4U by Naoki, is a classic that I was determined to master. My feet were killing me by the end of the number, but I was super proud of the results.
*In Record of Agarest War, I got to the true ending without the use of a guide. That's something grand for an Idea Factory/Compile Heart game.
*Finishing the hardest song on the hardest mode of Elite Beat Agents. I barely passed, but a passing grade is a passing grade!
Post your proudest gaming accomplishments! I am super excited to read them.
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Beating Super Mario Bros.: Lost Levels without warping. That game is seriously hard.
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Good timing indeed, for this topic to come along ;D
Up until last week - I'd have said (and, have been saying for the last year or two) that getting the platinum for the PS3 RPG Cross Edge would be it.
btw - I defy *anyone* to get THAT True End w/o using a guide...I say that it can't be done!
Now, however - my new answer would have to be getting the (21st NA!) platinum trophy for the PS3 SRPG Tears to Tiara 2: Heir of the Overlord 8)
Seriously.
Goddam!
Playing through, completing, & beating the 50-floor Bonus Dungeon was more time-consuming & difficult than *entire* games (Like Last Rebellion) to platinum :-\
As usually is the case, though - the more frustration, challenge, and learning from your mistakes & defeats (as amusingly humiliating as they can, may, and will be:) and in overcoming & beating seemingly impossible tasks & boss fights...equals the more pleasant & rewarding the victory and sense or feeling of accomplishment if/when you finally do it :)
I dunno, kash - does weeks/months of wooing & luring you away from G*FAQs to get your ass here count?! :o
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Winning day 1 of NWC 1990. If only I had won on day 2 as well ....
Another one I have is some of the augment tasks that I did on Everquest solo. A lot of them were absolutely not meant to be done by 1 person and should have required a group of 6 people but the devs never considered what a super skilled bard could get away with. 8)
Completing my NA SMS CIB set. This may not actually be a game playing accomplishment but it is definitely something Im proud of.
Im sure there are plenty of other moments out there but these are a few that stand out to me.
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Getting 100% completion in Super Mario Sunshine without any guides.
Completing all the levels in Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2.( includes world 10 story mode levels for SMB2).
Getting a 1cc in Metal Slug 1, 2, and 5.
Getting a 1cc in Armored Warriors.
Getting a 1cc in DoDonPachi.
Getting through the cube rush in Gradius III.
The fourth and fifth ones on the list took about a year to complete, probably since they're considered to be some of the more difficult arcade games in that genre. DDP was the easier of the two, thanks to chaining+ score extends, but AW's default settings give no extends so you have little room to screw up. But they're both great games that I can come back to even just for playing for fun.
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Beating a level of TimeSplitters past the easy difficulty...That game is so hard! Maybe it's just because I suck at FPS games.
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I guess mine would be beating Metal Gear Rising on Revengence difficulty. (You have to beat the game with out getting hit once and the enemies have like 10x more health!)
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Hmm
maybe something like...
100% Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on XLBA
Being one of the 1st 20 or so folks to 100% Guardian Heroes on XBLA
100% Castlevania Lords of Shadow and DLC... Playing a game I loathe the amount of time I had to is quite the accomplishment.
Being in the top 300 of Resogun's leaderboards at one time (before EU PS4 was released)
Beating Mega Man 2 w/o cheats as a kid.
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I was most accomplished when I beat dungeons of dredmor on steam on the hardest difficulty with permadeath on. Its one of the only rougelike games I ever played and I was stoked to actually beat it without dying. I had gotten to the final boss twice prior to that play through but couldn't figure out how to beat him til the third time I did it, but I beat him and wanna find some more to beat eventually, but the time I put in makes it unmotivating to start another from all the trial and error that goes into it.
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Before I post mine, would using GameFAQs.com, strategy guides, or in-game exploits count against the achievement?
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Beating a level of TimeSplitters past the easy difficulty...That game is so hard! Maybe it's just because I suck at FPS games.
I love that game so much.
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Before I post mine, would using GameFAQs.com, strategy guides, or in-game exploits count against the achievement?
nope
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Before I post mine, would using GameFAQs.com, strategy guides, or in-game exploits count against the achievement?
nope
What he said. As long as you're proud of what you did, then it applies. I've been getting a kick out of reading some of these accomplishments. Some of them are really impressive.
I thought of another one: finishing 3D Dot Game Heroes on Spelunker Mode. As the name implies, you play as Spelunker who, in his own game, would die by doing just about anything. The same rules apply in 3D Dot Game Heroes. You were basically playing the game with OHKOs on. Actually, a lot of things in that game were challenging such as earning all of the swords, small blocks and completing the Bestiary.
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Getting all of the achievements for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. These achievements are insane. "Get 500,000 points on Columns." "Beat Dr. Robotniks Machine" "Get 1,500,000 points in Super Thunder Blade." Nevertheless I 100% That is 1 achievement to sure be proud of.
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Getting all of the achievements for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. These achievements are insane. "Get 500,000 points on Columns." "Beat Dr. Robotniks Machine" "Get 1,500,000 points in Super Thunder Blade." Nevertheless I 100% That is 1 achievement to sure be proud of.
Anyone know if that games PS' trophies & MS' achievements are identical?
If so...learn something new every day, I suppose - I'd heard & been under the impression that the GEN Collection was one of the easiest games to plat.
Can't speak from personal experience, though - having never booted it up myself yet.
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Right now is my proudest moment. As it stands I'm 30 titles away from owning every game I ever wanted as a kid.
Childhood me would think me a God.
Being able to experience games like Night Trap on the 3DO, Bonks Adventure on the TG16, and Ducktales 2 on the NES are all things I never would have believed I could do even just 5 years ago.
In some cases I've even customized and repaired my hardware myself to restore functionality to consoles and carts written off as dead by their previous owners.
Of course I could easily do it all via emulators but it just wouldn't be the same.
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•Beating Mega Man & Bass with both characters. I don't know why, but this was the hardest game I've ever beaten and I've played some hard games before. This game was difficult not because it's legitimately challenging, but simply because it has tons of cheap, do or die and trial and error moments. I can't tell you how many different times I felt like chucking my Game Boy Advance across the room, but when I finally beat it, I felt like a king! If you had an easy time with this game, I tip my hat to you.
•Beating the haunted house level in TimeSplitters for PS2 cooperatively on the hardest difficulty with my brother and our friend. It took all night, but when we finally beat it at around 4:30 in the morning we jumped for joy and yelled and celebrated, no doubt waking up the rest of the household. I remember we took a good scolding but it was totally worth it.
Some of these are nothing compared to what others have accomplished but these are just two moments that I reflect on when playing a challenging game.
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Getting all of the achievements for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. These achievements are insane. "Get 500,000 points on Columns." "Beat Dr. Robotniks Machine" "Get 1,500,000 points in Super Thunder Blade." Nevertheless I 100% That is 1 achievement to sure be proud of.
Anyone know if that games PS' trophies & MS' achievements are identical?
If so...learn something new every day, I suppose - I'd heard & been under the impression that the GEN Collection was one of the easiest games to plat.
Can't speak from personal experience, though - having never booted it up myself yet.
I thought that too but Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine is harder than it looks. All of the other Achievements/Trophies are do-able.
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i know one is 100% Hot wheels Turbo Racing, doesn't sound like much but I swear you had to do everything perfect in order to beat that twin mill challenge and even then that wasn't going to guarantee victory.
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I have the Explorer title in World of Warcraft. I don't play any more, but that thing required going to every area and doing almost every quest your faction could take. I got it after Cataclysm came out, so there were a lot of areas to cover. It also means I've got a pretty good knowledge base of Alliance lore, since I also liked to read the quest text.
I almost sorta had the world high score in Pepper II for the ColecoVision. I saw the score on the Twin Galaxies website, knew I could beat it, had a party with friends to film it to submit, and contacted the guy who did verification. Between the time I spotted the low high score and filmed my own, he'd been contacted by someone else who had beaten me by a fairly slim margin. I was so distraught I never tried again, but now I'm wondering if I should.
I'm sure I'll think of more, but these two came to mind pretty quickly.
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The best I can think of would have to be my platinum in Ni No Kuni. Its on my top 5 games of all time but it took me over 130 hours to complete the damn thing!
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The best I can think of would have to be my platinum in Ni No Kuni. Its on my top 5 games of all time but it took me over 130 hours to complete the damn thing!
130 hours? Damn. Did you have bad luck in getting the items needed for alchemy? That was my biggest issue with earning the platinum. Luckily, it took me about 60 hours to get 100%. Maybe the gamer gods were on my side.
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The best I can think of would have to be my platinum in Ni No Kuni. Its on my top 5 games of all time but it took me over 130 hours to complete the damn thing!
I am 1 trophy away from 100%. I gave up on trying to farm those gold honkers.
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The best I can think of would have to be my platinum in Ni No Kuni. Its on my top 5 games of all time but it took me over 130 hours to complete the damn thing!
I am 1 trophy away from 100%. I gave up on trying to farm those gold honkers.
Thats what took so long!! Getting all of those alchemy items took me forever!
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First Platinum Trophy: Dragon Age: Origins.
First play-through of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was on Hard Difficulty.
Finished Suikoden with all 108 Stars Of Destiny alive.
Finished Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic.
Finished Secret Of Mana, although I used the Level 9 Sword exploit.
Pretty sure I completed Wild Arms with all gear & Runes collected, Golems/secret bosses found & defeated. At the very least, finished with most of it.
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The best I can think of would have to be my platinum in Ni No Kuni. Its on my top 5 games of all time but it took me over 130 hours to complete the damn thing!
I am 1 trophy away from 100%. I gave up on trying to farm those gold honkers.
Thats what took so long!! Getting all of those alchemy items took me forever!
@soera:It's been a long time since I played NNK, but I think there's a trick to making more Gold Honkers show up in that ghost area. If you enter a small hallway and then exit back-and-forth, one should materialize right in front of you. I'll need to look it up. If you're one trophy away from platinum, you shouldn't let this stop you. You're almost there!
Either way, that part didn't take me the longest. My last trophy before the platinum was getting enough familiars in my library. That was a real pain. I'm so glad I'm done with that game. @_@
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I guess I was wrong on my NNK trophy. Im at 71% (I dont know how. I did every single thing in that game I could find) but this is what Im missing : Globetrotter, Overfamiliar, Pedigree breeder, Raising the stakes, and 4 hiddens.
Ive never really messed with trophies but these are the ones that are closest to plat. Skylander giants 90%, Saw 94%, Diablo III 93%, Amalur 93%, Costume quest 100%, Child of Light 100%.
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Winning my friend's tekken tournament whilst dressed as a monkey.
Getting in the top 100 on star wars battle front 2.
Getting a 100m time of less than 8 seconds on track and field.
Beating final fantasy 7 for the first-ever time.
Turning my wife and daughter into gamers and collectors.
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I guess I was wrong on my NNK trophy. Im at 71% (I dont know how. I did every single thing in that game I could find) but this is what Im missing : Globetrotter, Overfamiliar, Pedigree breeder, Raising the stakes, and 4 hiddens.
Ive never really messed with trophies but these are the ones that are closest to plat. Skylander giants 90%, Saw 94%, Diablo III 93%, Amalur 93%, Costume quest 100%, Child of Light 100%.
Did you learn all of the spells for each character? Did you do everything in the casino? Those might be the ones that are missing along with the alchemy related trophies and the monster collection trophies.
EDIT: I thought of another small, yet fulfilling, accomplishment. In Guilty Gear, there is nothing better than landing a massive combo. However, to be able to do it in practice mode is very different from an actual match. I was able to win a versus match by using a combo I had been practicing. It felt great to win, but even better knowing that practice sometimes does make perfect.
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Winning my friend's tekken tournament whilst dressed as a monkey.
Getting in the top 100 on star wars battle front 2.
Getting a 100m time of less than 8 seconds on track and field.
Beating final fantasy 7 for the first-ever time.
Turning my wife and daughter into gamers and collectors.
Beating Ruby. :)
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Winning my friend's tekken tournament whilst dressed as a monkey.
Getting in the top 100 on star wars battle front 2.
Getting a 100m time of less than 8 seconds on track and field.
Beating final fantasy 7 for the first-ever time.
Turning my wife and daughter into gamers and collectors.
Beating Ruby. :)
I think ruby is the only one I didn't beat.
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Winning my friend's tekken tournament whilst dressed as a monkey.
Getting in the top 100 on star wars battle front 2.
Getting a 100m time of less than 8 seconds on track and field.
Beating final fantasy 7 for the first-ever time.
Turning my wife and daughter into gamers and collectors.
Beating Ruby. :)
I think ruby is the only one I didn't beat.
Emerald and the other one were easy. Ruby was a *&@#_. In order to stand a chance you need to kill off two of your party members before even going into the fight.
Don't revive them until he buries his hands in the sand.
Be sure everyone has their ultimate weapons, the ribbon, combo, and mime materias.
I spammed him with Bahamut Zero combos w summoned with Bahamut Zero and mimed it. Whatever you do... DO NOT USE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND. Every time I did he just immediately kicked my ass.
I had my characters at level 80 and it still took 2 hours to beat him. Meaning one fight itself beginning to end took 2 hours.
80% of that time was sitting through the Bahamut Zero summon sequence.
Afterwards I fought Sephiroth's final form and beat him in about 10 minutes. It was kind of anti-climactic.
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It was before I had internet so I had no idea. Buying gaming magazines hoping they would tell me. But nothing.
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I play game music on guitar. I love Zelda music, but I could never figure out what the third chord was in the bridge of the Dark World theme in A Link to the Past. After downloading the .spc and doing some research I figured out that it's an F# minor major 7th flat 5th. I feel like that step was an accomplishment in applying my love for game music to practical knowledge. ;D
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I play game music on guitar. I love Zelda music, but I could never figure out what the third chord was in the bridge of the Dark World theme in A Link to the Past. After downloading the .spc and doing some research I figured out that it's an F# minor major 7th flat 5th. I feel like that step was an accomplishment in applying my love for game music to practical knowledge. ;D
Sounds pretty cool. I convert vg music to piano, and I'd like to hear any of you works sometime.
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I play game music on guitar. I love Zelda music, but I could never figure out what the third chord was in the bridge of the Dark World theme in A Link to the Past. After downloading the .spc and doing some research I figured out that it's an F# minor major 7th flat 5th. I feel like that step was an accomplishment in applying my love for game music to practical knowledge. ;D
Sounds pretty cool. I convert vg music to piano, and I'd like to hear any of you works sometime.
give a listen to "Via Infinito" (from FFX-2) on youtube!
beautiful (and from what I've been told) not the easiest piece on a piano.