I’m curious, what do you consider to be the greatest thing you ever did in a game? Could be a high score, or beating a tough boss at low level… Something that, when you remember, gives that warm fuzzy feeling in the blackened pit that we call a gamer’s heart. I’m not interested in rampant dick-waving, mind you, so I’m not looking for “oh, I did this, it was too easy.” This is stuff that involved sweat and tears and probably a lot of jumping around and cheering when you managed it.
I think one of my shining moments was when I managed to get a double flawless on Goro on the original Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis. I still don’t know how I did it, but I had two eyewitnesses who still think the game must have been bugged.
Good idea for a thread. I love reminiscing. It’s like one of those moments where it really clicks on you that video games are AWESOME!
I have 2. One is the time I figured out how to get the good ending of Myst. I remembered back of all the hours I spent agonizing everything that was going on, needing every scratch of a hint to be able to figure it out on my own(This was long before I even USED the internet). I just felt like I really acomplished something I can take with me for the rest of my life.
Some people will say that they remember exactly where they were when JFK was shot. Others will remember what they were doing when they first heard about the 9-11 attacks, or when an entired major city was virtually lifted from the map(Hurricane Katrina). I remember the moment so vividly, that it matches up with with major global events like those.
Does that makes sense to any of you?
The other point is much more recent. It is when the controls to guitar hero really clicked and it felt like my hand was moving by itself. I could close my eyes and still play the game without missing just by flowing with the music.
This may not seem like much, and it really wasn’t. It was more due to the setting. I had an ass of an unreasonable, spoiled brat friend during a confused time of my teenage years. She would desolve into tears or rage at the slightest hint that people didn’t agree with her, unless they presented undeniable proof for their points in which case she would just sulk and shut up.
She was playing Sword of Vermillion and was stuck on a two-headed boss for weeks because she couldn’t get past the fireballs he threw at the hero.
Eventually I asked humble permission to play, and she allowed it, though saying that I had to know that it was REAL DIFFICULT OMG.
“Mmh,” said I, for that was the only way to deal with her and any sort of discussion.
Then I destroyed the first fireball with a timely sword-swing, ducked the second (something she had not even considered) and so on and on until I reached the boss. He still killed me the first time because I messed up once I got close enough to slice at him, but at the second try I got him beaten.
I have a bunch of these, but off the top of my head rigth now… I still can’t believe I beat Indalecio with the limiter off on Star Ocean II. Those of you familiar with the game know this requires completing the 13-level, no-saving-points optional dungeon, ANd defeating the Boss there. (An Optional Boss that Makes the final Boss harder? What a stupid Idea… but I went for it anyway. I’m like that.) I don’t even remember how I did it now, but believe me There Was Much Rejoicing when I realized I HAD won!
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(PS: in order to finish that dungeon, I had to leave the playstation on for a whole weekend… all the time hoping a power surge or something like that wouldn’t erase all my hard gaming!)
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It doesn’t take the optional dungeon to get his limiter off, just a series of PAs in various towns, and having saved at the last save point prior to the final boss.
Edit: Not that I’m trying to take away from the accomplishments, cause no-limiter jerk is so amazingly hard, and beating him is very impressive.
I really would have tried that myself, buy I got stuck in this one town where I had to fight one of my companions, and it jsut happened to be the healer guy who healed EVERYTHING I FUCKING THREW AT HIM. Not that I’m bitter. cough.
Anyway, another one that I remember with such warm fuzzy feelings is when I was playing a game of melee agaisnt some of my frends, and they explicitly BANNED me from playing Kirby with them ever again because I was too good with him. And no, I never once used the kirby kamikaze, I jsut loved the little guy.
I’m sitting down with FF Tactics now, and especially in the first two chapters, practically every second story battle gives me a sense of accomplishment when I beat it. Some of them took me eight or ten tries. -_- Beating Midlight Deep in FF12RW was quite nice as well considering I didn’t spend time leveling up (I beat every melee battle exactly once, that was the extent of it).
Nowadays I have more of a tendency to give up rather than go for ridiculously hard optional battles or those that require insane leveling up or boredom (see: Yiazmat).
180 thousand points in a single drift, when coming down a humongous slope by the hills of Need For Speed Unferground 2.
Downloaded the space shuttle for Flight Simulator 2k4 and landed it in an airport.
In Civilization III, in a Regent difficulty game on a standard sized, continental world: in a single round, I threw one nuke on every city in the map which was not mine. Never felt so powerful in any other strategy game.
I have too many spurts of insane awesomeness while gaming to name one best moment, but I’d say one of my best consistent streaks of complete domination would be the first couple weeks of the third arena season in WoW. I went 36-1 in 2s and like 28-1 in 3s with my good buddy SHORTSTALK.
DDR: No-bar heavy/challenge A’s on every Max song except Fascination Max. AA on Max 300. A on Healing d-Vision (in Supernova).
ITG: No-bar expert A’s on every 11-foot song.
Guild Wars: 51-win streak in the arena, at which point the group decided to disband. Beating a 20-something ranked guild in the Hall of Heroes, with an unranked friend and four CPU henchmen.
Tetris: 486,000.
FF5: Beating Shinryuu with only one level 34 character. The rest didn’t have coral rings and died immediately.
