The Escapist Forum Roundtable #1 - CHAT WITH THE STAFF!

[neostronghold]

Heh, mine is probably managing to beat the end of one shot one kill in COD4 on Veteran by hiding under a desk until the chopper arrived . Unfortunately i'm still one and a half levels off beating the whole campaign on Veteran :S.

Also 100%ing Assassin's Creed. I really enjoyed that one.

Am also planning on 100%ing Bioshock (just need the hard mode and no vita-chambers achievies) and Prince of Persia (just need speed run, be gentle with her and combo King achievies)

Not an achievement as such, but winning almost every TD we've ever played on COD4 and 5 with me and up to 4 of my friends.

I dunno, i'm sure ive done other things i'm proud of but i can't remember lol. Not too many things atm though cos i'm starting to play more FPS' which i never used to do so im in the process of learning atm, but i'm getting better thanks to the non-campers on COD giving me a run for my money

 

[PersianLlama]

All perfect 300 pt S rankings on Advance Wars 2 Hard Mode.

 

[Jim-a-Lim]

Gaming achievement? hmmm waking up the entire house with a Condemned scream at 3 am was pretty impressive, but maybe completing everything with my mate Whitey in Tales if Symphonia. That game was addictive on an illegal scale.

 

[Knight Templar]

Finishing Baldur's Gate 2, I never truly understood the rules or how to play and the game was hard without such handicaps. It was the first time I played a game and used true strategy.
But man did I have fun.

Next to that would most likely be my two Oblivion games, together making over 400 hours of playing.


Funny thing about this question is I'm going to think of something better, like finishing all of Halo with my brother on legendary, but then I'll think of something better again and go round and round. Its hard to pick one moment.

Making it through the elite 4 in Pokemon blue with one pokemon strong enough to fight them, and no revives or potions

Everyone could do that, you just needed a Kadabra with Fire punch, a rare Candy and the MissingNo cheat.

no, I was using a lvl 60 Blastoise, and no cheating.

You lie. No-one has the patience to get a pokemon up to level 60 without cheating. Thats just superhuman.

I once had a lvl 80 Blastoise without cheating. But there was four of us playing the one game so that could be called cheating.

 

[Bofus Teefus]

Just had one that trumped the two which I mentioned before. Beat my first L4D expert setting. It took 3 and 1/2 hours and had 8 restarts. I'm sure there are people who can do this in their sleep, but it felt like I'd just irrigated the Sahara Desert or something on that order. There was no "good game" exchange at the end either, it was more like "look, if you ever need a liver or a kidney, hit me up." Note- none of us had beaten an expert level before.

 

[Fraught]

The only one I can recently imagine was getting a rank on TWEWY.
I got those, like, maybe 2 during the whole game (on my first playthrough)

 

[Theo Samaritan]

Having a heart attack while attempting Pandemonium in an arcade on Heavy.

Same song different locale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rcy4bu6jw]

Want to know why its an achievement and not a fail? The arcade gave me free games for life

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Having a heart attack while attempting Pandemonium in an arcade on Heavy.

Same song different locale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rcy4bu6jw]

Want to know why its an achievement and not a fail? The arcade gave me free games for life

I wonder if that works on Best Buy.

No single gaming experiance sticks out at "the most awesome", but something I remember vividly from my younger days was playing Megaman: Legends (3d dungeon crawling action megaman game with customizable gear- ZOMG!) and fighting the final boss, Juno. I slipped into "The Zone" and got a flawless victory, constantly dodging attacks without even seeing them. It even impressed my brother. First and last time he's ever been impressed with me.

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[aussiesniper]

Getting a 48 point streak as sniper in TF2. 39 kills, 19 headshots in one life.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

umm let's see beating the original nes version of ninja gaiden, legend of zelda, mega man 2&3 and the original final fantasy, almost completed battle toads but not sure why i didn't

also beat both d&d games for the intellivision

tho getting all 3 sets of special armour in saga of ryzom, as it was rather hard to do that and we were the only ones in north america to do so

there's way too much that i've done to really consider one thing above the other

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I think my most significant gaming achievement amounted to finding all 120 stars in Super Mario 64.

...That's about it.

Oh, and I also beat every single race and every single challenge in Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Even the Black Edition Challenge which, admittedly, wasn't very hard.

Is that the Burger King Challenge? Cause that was hard, especially since you had to drive the BMW which I hated.

Mine would probably be, playing Golden Sun. I just love that game so much. It was really hard and usually you had no idea where you were going, but it was is still awesome.

Finishing Baldur's Gate 2, I never truly understood the rules or how to play and the game was hard without such handicaps. It was the first time I played a game and used true strategy.
But man did I have fun.

Next to that would most likely be my two Oblivion games, together making over 400 hours of playing.


Funny thing about this question is I'm going to think of something better, like finishing all of Halo with my brother on legendary, but then I'll think of something better again and go round and round. Its hard to pick one moment.

Making it through the elite 4 in Pokemon blue with one pokemon strong enough to fight them, and no revives or potions

Everyone could do that, you just needed a Kadabra with Fire punch, a rare Candy and the MissingNo cheat.

no, I was using a lvl 60 Blastoise, and no cheating.

You lie. No-one has the patience to get a pokemon up to level 60 without cheating. Thats just superhuman.

I once had a lvl 80 Blastoise without cheating. But there was four of us playing the one game so that could be called cheating.

I had a lvl 100 Feraligator (I think I spelt it right) in Crystal version. No cheats and only one rare candy which I saved for the whole game so that I could use it when it was lvl 99.

 

[nathan-dts]

Smash TV: No deaths

God of War: Each game on Titan/God (Very hard)

Call of Duty: Each game on Veteran

Metal Gear Solid 1,3 and 4: Big Boss emblem (Never could get it on Sons of liberty)

 

[spuddyt]

probably poor I know, but beating 2 friends 2v1 on rome total war when all 3 had the same army was pretty damn gratifying

 

[nathan-dts]

Having a heart attack while attempting Pandemonium in an arcade on Heavy.

Same song different locale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rcy4bu6jw]

Want to know why its an achievement and not a fail? The arcade gave me free games for life

Was there a PlayStation 1 version of Pandemonium? I distinctly remember a game called that when I was a little kid.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

Having a heart attack while attempting Pandemonium in an arcade on Heavy.

Same song different locale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rcy4bu6jw]

Want to know why its an achievement and not a fail? The arcade gave me free games for life

Was there a PlayStation 1 version of Pandemonium? I distinctly remember a game called that when I was a little kid.

Pandemonium is a song on the dance game In The Groove. There were PC and PS2 versions of the released arcade game. Eventually the company had to close its doors after a Konami lawsuit (justified - the original release of ITG was in the form of a conversion kit for DDR cabinets) and most of the team went to work on Pump It Up Pro.

Incidentally, the publishers of ITG was Red Octane, a label more known for its awesome home metal DDR pads and other dodads to do with the scene (at the time). About two years later they published a little game called Guitar Hero...

 

[nathan-dts]

Having a heart attack while attempting Pandemonium in an arcade on Heavy.

Same song different locale [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rcy4bu6jw]

Want to know why its an achievement and not a fail? The arcade gave me free games for life

Was there a PlayStation 1 version of Pandemonium? I distinctly remember a game called that when I was a little kid.

Pandemonium is a song on the dance game In The Groove. There were PC and PS2 versions of the released arcade game. Eventually the company had to close its doors after a Konami lawsuit (justified - the original release of ITG was in the form of a conversion kit for DDR cabinets) and most of the team went to work on Pump It Up Pro.

Incidentally, the publishers of ITG was Red Octane, a label more known for its awesome home metal DDR pads and other dodads to do with the scene (at the time). About two years later they published a little game called Guitar Hero...

Found the one I was talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemonium_(video_game)

It also had a sequel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemonium_2

 

[LGC Pominator]

probably being promoted to the position of team leader in LGC, an international XBox live gaming community, now I am in command of the british division, a group I have named the crimsonhawks.

 

[wordsmith]

Gotta be finishing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Gameboy Pocket. First game I ever finished

 

[Klagermeister]

5-starring all GH3 career songs on expert.
As you can suspect, Raining Blood was the toughest.
It's a big accomplishment because it symbolizes my entrance into the Guitar Hero Elite.

 

[tendo82]

Gotta be finishing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Gameboy Pocket. First game I ever finished

A classic accomplishment for a classic game.