When I got most of my characters stats on FF7 maxed and then the game glitched and I got stuck. That is a highlight, but a bad one.
Ill never forget that...Grr..
Ill never forget that...Grr..
The hightlight of your gaming career?
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I have several:
getting all the gamerscore on Crackdown
an epic match between me and a great tekken player in our school common room (when i used to be in school, at uni now)
in a gears of war 1 match, some friends were mucking about and went running off somewhere. The other team all came at me at once and I managed to roll,shotgun,roll,shotgun,roll,shotgun,roll and shotgun and all four were dead. It was more impressive to see imo.
winning a duel between a resto druid (me) and a resto shammy on WoW. You don't want to know how long that lasted
getting all the gamerscore on Crackdown
an epic match between me and a great tekken player in our school common room (when i used to be in school, at uni now)
in a gears of war 1 match, some friends were mucking about and went running off somewhere. The other team all came at me at once and I managed to roll,shotgun,roll,shotgun,roll,shotgun,roll and shotgun and all four were dead. It was more impressive to see imo.
winning a duel between a resto druid (me) and a resto shammy on WoW. You don't want to know how long that lasted
Finally getting through a complete arcade game of SF4 with Ryu on "Easiest" difficulty! Woo Hoo!
Off the top of my head? Beating the dark underwater level on Sonic. It was my first videogame, and I've never felt that much elation after a virtual accomplishment again.
Maybe all my gaming since then has been a futile attempt to recapture that fleeting moment of childhood happiness. OH GOD MY WHOLE HOBBY IS A LIE it's the same thing with my comic book collection OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Maybe all my gaming since then has been a futile attempt to recapture that fleeting moment of childhood happiness. OH GOD MY WHOLE HOBBY IS A LIE it's the same thing with my comic book collection OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
best one i can think of is beating mile high club on veteran. or maybe beating the last three cod games on veteran (cod 4 was the hardest by far). the final highlight is me rushing thorught an entire versus match on l4d (without my team) just running and i made it every time.
I've already told the Contra story about three dozen times in other threads so I won't belabor the point here...that said:
I lived in a group home as a teenager (long story involving a dead father and abusive mom), and there was an SNES in the house rec room. I was a big fan of strategy gaming even then, and Aerobiz Supersonic was my game of choice. It was a bit of a tough sell to the other residents, most of whom were tough kids from the wrong side of somewhere's tracks in Greater Boston, all of them (myself included) troubled teens.
Eventually I got my friend Mike into it, and he got Anthony, then the staff joined in...you get the idea. With a total of 16 people willing to play a 4-player game, we had weekly matches, winner gets to go to the final round.
Anyway, final round came about and it came down to Mike (based in London) and me (based in New York) playing the best game, and we'd divided up about half of the world. I held the Americas and Oceania without much of a challenge, he held Europe, Africa, and the MidEast in a tight grip. Staff member John, based in Tokyo, had a death grip on SE Asia that Mike and I would have to break in order to get the 4th region required for victory, but we were both stuck up against the 40-route limit imposed by the game. We agreed to not engage in destructive competition outside of SE Asia so we were able to strip-mine the less profitable parts of the world to free up routes. Finally the balance tilted: John didn't have enough capital to keep his company running and so lost his airline and dropped from the game - the race was on, and a flight added by me at -50% fare (slash 'n burn at its best) from Hong Kong to Tokyo tilted the balance, gave me the 4th region, and won me the game and the tournament. I may not have been the best athlete or known a gangsta rapper from a gum wrapper, but I got some respect from an unlikely crowd.
I lived in a group home as a teenager (long story involving a dead father and abusive mom), and there was an SNES in the house rec room. I was a big fan of strategy gaming even then, and Aerobiz Supersonic was my game of choice. It was a bit of a tough sell to the other residents, most of whom were tough kids from the wrong side of somewhere's tracks in Greater Boston, all of them (myself included) troubled teens.
Eventually I got my friend Mike into it, and he got Anthony, then the staff joined in...you get the idea. With a total of 16 people willing to play a 4-player game, we had weekly matches, winner gets to go to the final round.
Anyway, final round came about and it came down to Mike (based in London) and me (based in New York) playing the best game, and we'd divided up about half of the world. I held the Americas and Oceania without much of a challenge, he held Europe, Africa, and the MidEast in a tight grip. Staff member John, based in Tokyo, had a death grip on SE Asia that Mike and I would have to break in order to get the 4th region required for victory, but we were both stuck up against the 40-route limit imposed by the game. We agreed to not engage in destructive competition outside of SE Asia so we were able to strip-mine the less profitable parts of the world to free up routes. Finally the balance tilted: John didn't have enough capital to keep his company running and so lost his airline and dropped from the game - the race was on, and a flight added by me at -50% fare (slash 'n burn at its best) from Hong Kong to Tokyo tilted the balance, gave me the 4th region, and won me the game and the tournament. I may not have been the best athlete or known a gangsta rapper from a gum wrapper, but I got some respect from an unlikely crowd.
Lots, a few examples are:
Every time I complete a game of Jagged Alliance 2.First time I completed it was in the spring of the last year of GCSEs. I had lots of work to do, so instead of doing work, I stayed in my room and played JA2 all day and all night. I lied to my mum and told her I was doing Media Studies GCSE coursework. Surprisingly I managed to get an A in that coursework, I have no idea how that happened, but I do remember my entire coursework as about JA2. And yes, I think my mum still thinks I worked really really hard for GCSE coursework
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LAN party on a Monday night, because that was the only time all 7 of us were back in town and free that summer. We played 'till the sun came up, slept a couple of hours, then another guy and I had to go to work... while it was the summer holidays for the lucky students...
Another gaming related, but not video game related one. For about a week last summer, we watched football all afternoon and played cards all night, sleeping in the mornings. Otaku? yes; but that was by far the best week ever!
Every time I complete a game of Jagged Alliance 2.First time I completed it was in the spring of the last year of GCSEs. I had lots of work to do, so instead of doing work, I stayed in my room and played JA2 all day and all night. I lied to my mum and told her I was doing Media Studies GCSE coursework. Surprisingly I managed to get an A in that coursework, I have no idea how that happened, but I do remember my entire coursework as about JA2. And yes, I think my mum still thinks I worked really really hard for GCSE coursework
.LAN party on a Monday night, because that was the only time all 7 of us were back in town and free that summer. We played 'till the sun came up, slept a couple of hours, then another guy and I had to go to work... while it was the summer holidays for the lucky students...
Another gaming related, but not video game related one. For about a week last summer, we watched football all afternoon and played cards all night, sleeping in the mornings. Otaku? yes; but that was by far the best week ever!
Top off my head,
Finishing all the challenges in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and Most Wanted....yes ALL of them.
Playing Pro Evolution Soccer's Master League for 2 years reaching 2060 season...then I realised I need to go out so gave up and haven't loaded the save game again
Beating Max Payne's all difficulties in a week.
And got all but one tarot card in Painkiller....fuck People Can Fly
Finishing all the challenges in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and Most Wanted....yes ALL of them.
Playing Pro Evolution Soccer's Master League for 2 years reaching 2060 season...then I realised I need to go out so gave up and haven't loaded the save game again
Beating Max Payne's all difficulties in a week.
And got all but one tarot card in Painkiller....fuck People Can Fly
Getting up to the hardest levels in Lemmings by myself - I think I was like 5 at the time, but I remember being soooo proud of myself =) Since then, I haven't really kept track. Maybe working out how to get through TR4 without using a single medpack?
