Most difficult challenge you have set yourself in a video game?

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martyrdrebel27

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a short list:

1. The Orange Box-Little Rocket Man Achievement. The vehicle segment was so damn frustrating.
2. Beating Call of Duty 2, Modern Warfare 1 and 2 on Veteran, including...
3. The Mile High Achievement (and the one for beating the time on the training mission) in MW.
4. Mirror's Edge- Test of Faith (beat the game without ever firing a gun)
5. 100% on GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, LCS, VCS, GTA 4 and TLaD. still haven't 100%'d TBoGT.
6. (read it above and forgot the hardship of...) The Orange Box- The One Free Bullet
 

LiquidGrape

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Complete Alpha Protocol without a single use of lethal force.

Seeing the "kills" staple at zero when I actually finished it was one of the most satisfying things I've ever experienced in a game.
 

MisterDyslexo

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C95J said:
Completing Cod: WaW on Veteran difficulty,so many grenades...
You deserve a medal, sir. That truly is a torturous experience. Solitary confinement in prison ain't got shit on that.

Bravo 21 said:
Completing an entire level of Hunter for Splinter Cell Conviction without either firing a shot, or ever being seen. For the achievements, they do not need to be completed at the same time, but I tried to do so, and it was really hard, and i have still not succeeded
Really? I'm not saying you're bad, but I've done this more than once. Then again, I used equipment, and would go back to restock when needed. It would be soooo much easier if you could whistle or throw objects-you know, not as barebones.

As for myself, I've tried to set moral standards in my gaming. One recent example is in Fallout 3, not doing something I'd consider immoral in real life. That sounds simple, but when you break things down a bit simpler, that means no stealing (lets admit it, we're all kleptos in that game), no graverobbing, no putting others unnecessarily at risk, no doing that little trick where you load up a body with 2000lbs of equipment and drag it for two miles to civilization, putting myself in front of the line of fire for an NPC-stuff like that. Over time, became easier, so I'd like to try that on hardcore for when I get New Vegas, especially when factions become a role as well.
 

hotacidbath

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Not that hard, but getting the one free bullet achievement for Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and the no guns in Ravenholm achievement in Half-Life 2. Both of them were a blast to do though. I usually just play for fun and to relax, so if it becomes too aggravating it's not fun for me anymore and I need to tone it back a little bit.
 

Jake0fTrades

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Reach the top prestige level in Call of Duty: World at War, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.

I'm 14th prestige level 49 in Black Ops right now with a Golden Dragunov.

Yeah, yeah, I know. No life.
 

Jake0fTrades

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The Spartan E1337 said:
Beating Macgruder at the end of Gun. It took me 20 or 30 tries before I figured out that guns don't hurt him and dynamite gets rid of maybe one twentieth of his health. Then I figured out why I kept getting instakilled while standing over the gold heat vents. Thank goodness for dynamite bows.
I love that game. Did you know the guy who voices Reed also voices Chucky, the horror movie character?
 

Ladette

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Pacifist Runs through the Thief games was/is a lot of fun.

Soloing raid bosses on my Druid and Death Knight in WoW is another challenge I like to make time for.

The hardest challenge I ever did was playing through Fire Emblem 7 without losing a single unit or reseting once. If a character died, even on a bullshit lucky crit, i'd start over from Chapter 1. Lyn's story is cake, and after the first 3 missions Lyn could solo the entire opposing army by herself. When I got to Hector's story things got a bit more difficult. I probably restarted a dozen or so times, usually wiping out 10+ hours of gameplay each time, but eventually I did succeed.
 

ElectrifiedSorcerer

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This is going to seem obvious, considering it's a game explicitly designed to be 'tough as nails'
Getting A+ on the Hell and Cotton Alley levels of Meatboy
 

thedevilscousin

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God of war 3 in chaos mode, my hand will never be the same.

Also Sephiroth comes to mind, but i was 7 when i beat him first.
 

Nightrunex

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Beating the Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Ages without using GameFAQs or anything else.
The reason I put this in? Because I have been stuck for 3 years at the very very very last boss (you know which one it is), and I can not for the life of me figure out the puzzle to get to the final chamber. To this day I still don't know how to do it, but I'll be damned if I give up now.
 

brinvixen

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Complete God of War 1 in under 5 hours. There's a trophy for getting it done on the PS3 and it's the only trophy for that game that I haven't unlocked yet. My fastest time so far is 8 hours, and that's with me just running through the game, skipping over enemies and chests and saves i.e. it's no easy feat =/
 

Kargathia

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Effectively leading a 25m hc raiding guild in WoW for about a year. I didn't do too badly, and learned a shitload about human management, but it sure explained why my RL in vanilla used to be so cranky.
 

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Drive safely(stop at red lights, etc..) in GTA 4, it lasted 3 minutes. And i tried to kill a raid solo by logging 5 accounts at the same time on the same PC, it took me 2 hours and my friends weren't very pleased about all that missing XP the next day.
 

Krion_Vark

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Last level of LoS hardest difficulty while simultaneously completing the challenge which pretty much means do not get hit. Took me almost 2 hours.
 

Fusioncode9

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MGS4 on Big Boss Hard without killing anyone, getting any alerts, using any rations, or saving.
 

babinro

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Easily my proudest personal achievement in gaming was beating Diablo 2 solo with each class on Hell difficulty. This took me years to finally accomplish.

However, I did allow for some limited cheating rules:
1) I could dupe any item I found (including gems and runes, but not a gem or rune I've yet to achieve properly).
2) I could exchange equipment between the classes as need be.
I figure I could beat the game despite these rules, but it would have likely taken 100's of hours longer due to the heavy need to grind to get as close to ideal gear as possible. I highly doubt I'll achieve anything close to this with any other game in my life.