Beating Shadow of the Colossus in 24 hours, without dying (or coming close)....
...with one hand.
...with one hand.
When were you a gaming Badass?
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It was a game called inMomentum. After getting the world record for the normal difficulty time trial on a level called NightSky (a record which I still own [http://steamcommunity.com/stats/inMomentum/leaderboards/65872]), I decided to aim a bit higher. After some decision-making, I settled on the level OrangeFlow as the next level I was going to declare my supreme reign over. I practiced for over a week, shaving off seconds that slowly turned to milliseconds as the days went by. It finally came down to one fateful night, where had a straight gaming session for over three hours attempting to dethrone the then-champion. I decided to end at 8:02 PM EST, where I flung myself towards the goal in the last attempt I would make at taking the throne.
Long story short: I got the world record [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=34966731].
...And then six months later someone else dethroned myself [http://steamcommunity.com/stats/inMomentum/leaderboards/65876] by a small 0.4 seconds. But man, those six months were something special.
Long story short: I got the world record [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=34966731].
...And then six months later someone else dethroned myself [http://steamcommunity.com/stats/inMomentum/leaderboards/65876] by a small 0.4 seconds. But man, those six months were something special.
I felt pretty awesome during one game of slayer on Halo: Reach. My teammates were terriable and one left at the very beginning making it a 3v4. The other two (was some guy with his guest) managed to collectively string together 8 kills, before leaving at the last 2 minutes of the game with about 10 kills left to win. The enemy team ended up with about 25-30 kills. The game was out of 50. I died 3 three times and I pulled off the other 42 kills. Yeah, my heart was pounding near the end when my teammates left, which is where I died two of the three times. I felt glorious after that, unsure if the other team was just bad or I just got lucky, or I was actually good at the game. (I had the shotgun once or twice, so assume about 15 kills were from that)
I have had several other games that came close to that, but nothing has matched or surpassed it (in multiplayer). That goes for other titles as well.
If we don't include multiplayer, then there was one time in Halo Wars where I was playing on a map (don't recall the name) where there was a building you could capture that increased your population limit. So I sent my Spartans (they don't take up population for some reason, not that I complain) to capture it. Then I used the rest of the population to build Vultures, while also exploiting the glitch where if you select a unit to build very quickly, you can have units take up more population than the limit (however, it only works for one unit past the limit). I got the mega barrage upgrade (allows twice the number of rockets to be launched from a Vulture) and rallied my terror force to an enemy base. From there, I waited until they were all in range of the base and gave the order to release thekraken missle barrage. The game lagged into the single digit frame rate (playing on 360 for reference) and I watched the missles pour onto the base like a tidal wave of metal and fire. It was terrifying to watch and the base was destroyed before half of the missled could even reach it.
I have had several other games that came close to that, but nothing has matched or surpassed it (in multiplayer). That goes for other titles as well.
If we don't include multiplayer, then there was one time in Halo Wars where I was playing on a map (don't recall the name) where there was a building you could capture that increased your population limit. So I sent my Spartans (they don't take up population for some reason, not that I complain) to capture it. Then I used the rest of the population to build Vultures, while also exploiting the glitch where if you select a unit to build very quickly, you can have units take up more population than the limit (however, it only works for one unit past the limit). I got the mega barrage upgrade (allows twice the number of rockets to be launched from a Vulture) and rallied my terror force to an enemy base. From there, I waited until they were all in range of the base and gave the order to release the
a few years ago I was playing star wars battle front 2 on ps2 I was the last storm trooper on Endor it was 62:1. I was camping on a command post so it wouldn't be taken by those damned Ewoks but they can't stop spawning so I left to systematically take every command post instead I killed every last rebel. Hail to the Empire.
Played TF2 a few years ago. Was Heavy at the time.
Entire team dead except for me. Everyone in the other team was still alive.
Got them all of walked out victorious.
Also felt pretty badass whenever I've finished a God of War game on the hardest difficulty. Got them all except the first one, iirc. Cheated on GoW III however because I grew so damn frustrated during the Hades fight.
Entire team dead except for me. Everyone in the other team was still alive.
Got them all of walked out victorious.
Also felt pretty badass whenever I've finished a God of War game on the hardest difficulty. Got them all except the first one, iirc. Cheated on GoW III however because I grew so damn frustrated during the Hades fight.
1 game that I had never herd of tell I played it back in for off days of 2006; Battlefield 2142. Having never played a BF game before, but having played FPSs I quickly became very good at the game. Give me a battlewalker and someone to give me ammo, when I ran out, and I could usually get 30+ kills and at best 2 death per round (usually dying because enemy team would ram me with dropship 
). Those were good times.
). Those were good times.
FYI. ADHD does not go away, you just learn to cope (sometimes through the use of meds).Zack Alklazaris said:
OT: Finishing Super Mario Bros around age 10 (which was in the early 90's, yes I'm old
)100%-ing Kirby's Adventure without having teh interwebs.
Finishing every frickin little thing in FF VII (and still having no clue on what half those items were good for)
Where is that on game replays?Gethsemani said:
OT: I take the small victories I suppose, because getting rank whatever on whatever game doesn't matter to me. TF2 I got a 13 Kill streak with a medic and his trusty syringe gun and solemn vow as my weapons of choice.
Here [http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes/replays.php?game=25&show=details&id=29563]. Be advised though that it runs on an old patch-version (2.42 or something) which means that you most likely won't be able to see the replay with an up-to-date patched version of CoH.Scorpid said:
Towards the end of the CoD4 lifespan, I'd dedicated way too much time to it, and decided to challenge myself using the knife only. First round I tried it, got 19-7. Stuck with it from then. Imagine my delight when in MW2 they added perks and a throwing knife to aid me! My best ever run, I got me a 39-4 on the map Invasion.
A few years back, I decided to ironman SMT 3:Nocturne on Hard Mode, curious to see how far I'd make it without dying. Getting the True Demon ending has never been so satisfying.
Black Mesa.
Forget About Freeman.
The tank fight.
Hard difficulty.
ONE TRY.
One HECU Squad enters. One Free Man leaves.
Also, there was the time when, in TF2, I got a twelve-kill run as Soldier without using any cheap tactics. I haven't even come close to that since.
Forget About Freeman.
The tank fight.
Hard difficulty.
ONE TRY.
One HECU Squad enters. One Free Man leaves.
Also, there was the time when, in TF2, I got a twelve-kill run as Soldier without using any cheap tactics. I haven't even come close to that since.
Mine's similar for Halo; I went 25-1 (23 kill streak then 2 more kills) in Halo 3.KissmahArceus said:
If you don't know WHY this is impressive it's understandable, but Halo 3 as an Aussie was notoriously laggy, and when i watched the replay I was utterly bewildered that I was killing all these people in headon engagements with 300ms ping working against me.
Then there was the big team battle game my brother went 65-5 (out of 100 kills) without a vehicle (but with sniper/rockets), AND STILL lost.
My best was 58-2 and I often went above 50 in a gauss warthog as I missed one out of every ten shots no matter the distance, it is just such an easy vehicle that has a high skill ceiling, usually we would win on sandtrap. Usually.
As for any other 'records', I never play a single game enough to achieve any, but if you versed me in a decathlon of games you can bet I'd probably kick your arse due to your unfamiliarity with many genres.
Went around to my mates house 10 years ago...someone pulled out street fighter ex plus alpha 3 and 3 guys were obsessed streetfighter players.
I've always been more of a mortal kombat tekken player but had only played street fighter in their house before.
So I went first....winner carries on. 30 game win streak...those 3 guys were so annoyed...my other mates found it funny.
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Going to the nintendo pokemon tour. After getting 5 wins against normal players you get to fight a nintendo magazine guy and he gives you a mew-win or lose.
If you beat him then you get to play the current world champion. This was in 2001..on pokemon yellow i think.
It was a one on one. All these experts used the double team tactic followed by ice beams with a mewtwo. I got my arse kicked.
I got annoyed ..sneaked back into the queue...then pulled out my snorlax against his mewtwo.
My body slams were hitting through his double teams...until finally he was paralysed...then I used hyper beam to finish him off. It was awesome.....I jumped up in joy.
It wasn't official...it was only a one on one ..but I beat the world champion so I figured I must be alright!
I've always been more of a mortal kombat tekken player but had only played street fighter in their house before.
So I went first....winner carries on. 30 game win streak...those 3 guys were so annoyed...my other mates found it funny.
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Going to the nintendo pokemon tour. After getting 5 wins against normal players you get to fight a nintendo magazine guy and he gives you a mew-win or lose.
If you beat him then you get to play the current world champion. This was in 2001..on pokemon yellow i think.
It was a one on one. All these experts used the double team tactic followed by ice beams with a mewtwo. I got my arse kicked.
I got annoyed ..sneaked back into the queue...then pulled out my snorlax against his mewtwo.
My body slams were hitting through his double teams...until finally he was paralysed...then I used hyper beam to finish him off. It was awesome.....I jumped up in joy.
It wasn't official...it was only a one on one ..but I beat the world champion so I figured I must be alright!
My most memorable match in Counter Strike had me as the only CT survivor against a full team of terrorists, they already planted the bomb and it was pretty much game over for me....
...Or so I thought. With nothing to lose I decided to make a beeline for the bombsite and, in a moment that would make even a pro Call of Duty player blush, managed to take out the whole team while completely maintaining my sprint to the bomb. By then my time was running low and I had no kit with me, those last few seconds as I desperately tried to defuse the bomb lasted forever, and when the final one ticked over...
The freaking bomb exploded. It sucked but hey, killing the whole team felt pretty boss, it was also at a LAN party so the swift exchange of middle fingers and comments and laughing topped things off nicely.
...Or so I thought. With nothing to lose I decided to make a beeline for the bombsite and, in a moment that would make even a pro Call of Duty player blush, managed to take out the whole team while completely maintaining my sprint to the bomb. By then my time was running low and I had no kit with me, those last few seconds as I desperately tried to defuse the bomb lasted forever, and when the final one ticked over...
The freaking bomb exploded. It sucked but hey, killing the whole team felt pretty boss, it was also at a LAN party so the swift exchange of middle fingers and comments and laughing topped things off nicely.
My friend and I making our pure potting alchemist way back in the day on Ragnarok Online.
Background: In RO, making potions was a big deal for guild vs. guild castle warfare, the ultimate endgame activity. Pots could be spammed freely in that game, and needed to be, as castles were defended by laying tons of AoE damage on the entrance (precasting.) Attackers needed to disrupt the defense and establish a foothold while spamming hundreds of potions. How many pots you could carry was limited by their weight. But alchemists could make condensed potions, which weighed about a fifth of normal potions. Making a certain number in a row also gave you ranking points, and potions made by the top ten chemists ranked by points healed 50% more. The rankings were very competitive. Because points were awarded for streaks, your average points per x number of pots went up exponentially as your success rate went up linearly. Ie, once your success rate is near the top, every tenth of a percent more has a huge impact. Every point of dex, luk, or int increased your success rate by a certain amount.
My friend and I spent a couple weeks on and off researching all the random, obscure items in the game to maximize our stats. Some of these things were almost impossible to get because no one used them, so no one hunted them, but we ended up getting everything. Also, our guild had an item called Mjolnir, one of only 2-3 on the server at the time, that was ridic powerful for this sort of thing. We leeched (put the character in a shared exp party, since it had no damage stats, and thus couldn't level itself) the character to level 90 on a map that literally no one used because they thought spawn nerfs had ruined it--but we had it to ourselves, so it was great. Then we took the character to get 99 in Bio3, a map where traditionally, 10-12-man parties would camp out in corners, dragging and killing powerful monsters. We did something similar... except we only got 2-3 other people. She and I played 3 or 4 characters apiece, simultaneously, on a map that was considered to be the most dangerous one in the game at that time. With the reaction times needed, alt-tabbing to the wrong client by mistake could potentially get the whole party wiped. But we did it.
With the chemist at max level with the best gear and perfectly optimized stats, we... weren't ready yet. First we had to 99 another character, a very specialized support character that had to be built specifically around the alchemist's build to get the most out of it (MC gypsy, for those who've played RO.) So we did that too.
Then we started making potions. The rankings had existed for a year, and points were never wiped, so we needed to accrue more points than the #10 had since then for our pots to be worth anything. We were pretty rich, but the initial investment drained everything we had, and it took over a week of potting all day, every day. But she and I did it. Finally on the list, we sold our potions at cost to our alliance, bought more mats, and shot up to #2. No one could touch us... except #1, the potter for the enemy alliance.
But as it turned out in a huge scandal a couple years later, the only reason they could maintain that spot was because their guild leader's girlfriend was a GM who used her powers to secretly create items for the guild, including an endless supply of potion mats. A disgruntled member of that guild posted proof of all this, and all the top figures were permabanned. Our guild had been founded years before by someone who'd been backstabbed by that guild leader with the express goal of defeating them until they disbanded. When that actually happened, we all half-joked we'd beaten the game. The alchemist, iMacro, was my proudest gaming achievement, and we did our part to win the day.
Background: In RO, making potions was a big deal for guild vs. guild castle warfare, the ultimate endgame activity. Pots could be spammed freely in that game, and needed to be, as castles were defended by laying tons of AoE damage on the entrance (precasting.) Attackers needed to disrupt the defense and establish a foothold while spamming hundreds of potions. How many pots you could carry was limited by their weight. But alchemists could make condensed potions, which weighed about a fifth of normal potions. Making a certain number in a row also gave you ranking points, and potions made by the top ten chemists ranked by points healed 50% more. The rankings were very competitive. Because points were awarded for streaks, your average points per x number of pots went up exponentially as your success rate went up linearly. Ie, once your success rate is near the top, every tenth of a percent more has a huge impact. Every point of dex, luk, or int increased your success rate by a certain amount.
My friend and I spent a couple weeks on and off researching all the random, obscure items in the game to maximize our stats. Some of these things were almost impossible to get because no one used them, so no one hunted them, but we ended up getting everything. Also, our guild had an item called Mjolnir, one of only 2-3 on the server at the time, that was ridic powerful for this sort of thing. We leeched (put the character in a shared exp party, since it had no damage stats, and thus couldn't level itself) the character to level 90 on a map that literally no one used because they thought spawn nerfs had ruined it--but we had it to ourselves, so it was great. Then we took the character to get 99 in Bio3, a map where traditionally, 10-12-man parties would camp out in corners, dragging and killing powerful monsters. We did something similar... except we only got 2-3 other people. She and I played 3 or 4 characters apiece, simultaneously, on a map that was considered to be the most dangerous one in the game at that time. With the reaction times needed, alt-tabbing to the wrong client by mistake could potentially get the whole party wiped. But we did it.
With the chemist at max level with the best gear and perfectly optimized stats, we... weren't ready yet. First we had to 99 another character, a very specialized support character that had to be built specifically around the alchemist's build to get the most out of it (MC gypsy, for those who've played RO.) So we did that too.
Then we started making potions. The rankings had existed for a year, and points were never wiped, so we needed to accrue more points than the #10 had since then for our pots to be worth anything. We were pretty rich, but the initial investment drained everything we had, and it took over a week of potting all day, every day. But she and I did it. Finally on the list, we sold our potions at cost to our alliance, bought more mats, and shot up to #2. No one could touch us... except #1, the potter for the enemy alliance.
But as it turned out in a huge scandal a couple years later, the only reason they could maintain that spot was because their guild leader's girlfriend was a GM who used her powers to secretly create items for the guild, including an endless supply of potion mats. A disgruntled member of that guild posted proof of all this, and all the top figures were permabanned. Our guild had been founded years before by someone who'd been backstabbed by that guild leader with the express goal of defeating them until they disbanded. When that actually happened, we all half-joked we'd beaten the game. The alchemist, iMacro, was my proudest gaming achievement, and we did our part to win the day.