Your Accomplishments Belittled

[Belated]

If you're reading this, you most likely play video games. And you've probably played a few video games that were really hard, but you managed to beat them anyway and felt pretty good about yourself. Maybe you set the game on hard mode on purpose, or maybe it's a difficult game even on easy. Or maybe there's just one part in the game that's really hard. Whatever it was, you felt great about yourself when you finally beat it...

...until "that guy" came around and told you "that part was easy!" You know what guy I'm talking about. He's probably one of your best friends. But when you bring up a major accomplishment that took all of your willpower and focus and tested your patience to its limits, your friend goes and tells you he did it easily. And it pisses you off, because you thought he would ask "How did you do that?" But instead, he's saying "This is the best you can do?" And now you feel like you're not good enough.

(If you thought this topic was called "Your Accomplishments Belated", let me just assure you that the word is indeed "Belittled", and I am not the narcissist you probably thought I was when you misread the thread title.)

So I ask you, what accomplishments have your friends belittled? What game were you playing, what was the hard thing you barely managed to pull off, and what was your friend's response that made it seem so insignificant?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I actually don't talk video games with my friends, since we are largely table-top nerds.

And anything you achieve in a table-top is more luck than skill.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

 

[Drakmeire]

I was angry when my friend told me how easy the Secret boss is in The World Ends With You, since he killed me about a half dozen times before I won.
I later found out it was because he was playing on normal and I was playing on ultimate... I then felt good about myself.

 

[The Lesbian Flower]

I finally beat the nineth colossus in Shadow of the Colossus and it was really hard for me. My brother then waltzed over and told me that that colossus was "so damn easy, I can't believe it took you THAT long!"

 

[TheIronRuler]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

You call startling scary?
Yeah, it scared the shit out of me - when I was startled. It lasts for a few seconds and then it goes away. But you can't use this card repedatly because it ruins the experience.

 

[Sonicron]

I don't care about people belittling my gaming accomplishments.
What really busts my chops is when some of my friends belittle my academic accomplishments because I'm studying towards a bachelor/master degree (no other option anymore) instead of one of the old, traditional university studies which apparently entitle you to give other folks crap about stuff they have no influence over. God damn, it's infuriating when you bust your ass on a huge paper and get a great result, and then someone comes along and says, "Feh, it's not like that's worth anything". >=(

 

[blue heartless]

I was that guy once. I remember my friend trying frantically to unlock the last Overdrive Form (or whatever it's called now) for Sora in Kingdom Hearts 2, that he had actually called me in the middle of the night to go over and do it. I had beaten the game long before he had so he had figured that I would know how to, and to tell him.

Well, I did go over. Some small talk with his folks on why I was there and how I wouldn't be long (and no, I wouldn't mind a cup of tea since you're up) picked up the game controller and in shorter time than his mom could put out the kettle obtained it. Literally TWO FREAKING MINUTES*. My friend? Completely flabbergasted! Speechless! Eyeballed me for a bit with that look one has when suspecting another for being a wizard (witches get different looks). He was mad at me for some time after but when he came to his senses I told him why he couldn't get it and saw his 'Of course! Why didn't I think of that?' moment and ended up sleeping over.

It was a great night.

*+/- a few load screens

 

[NotAwesomeAtAll]

When I was ten, in Lord of the Rings: The Two towers for Game Cube, I beat a boss without getting hit once, in under two minutes, while in the weird glowing mode so I got a perfect kill on the after mission kill count for it. Then my brothers made fun of me for playing as Gimli( the dwarf), and said I still sucked at gaming,

 

[Dr.Panties]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

Maybe every time YOU talk about a hard part in a game. That never happens to ME. Whimp!

 

[pezwitch]

I was playing DA:O on nightmare as a warrior and the only companion I took was the dog and it took me forever to finally beat the Broodmother. I wanted to show my husband how hard it was and found the fight on youtube and of course the person was on easy with a healer and a tank and beat her in a couple of minutes. My husband looked at me and said, "It took you how long to beat this? You must really suck at this game."

 

[Chaos James]

I can't think of any examples of this happening to me (except maybe in FPS games, cause I suck at about all of them unless I can use a Melee Weapon (so TF2 and Halo, lol)).

Anyways, I have been this guy before, the guy that can be a douchebag about it. It doesn't even cross my mind, I mean, when they bring up whatever boss or level in whatever game (if I've played it) I just say how I got through it and how it was easy.

At times it can be because they missed a simple switch around the corner, other times it may very well be because I'm better at the game (like the time me and my buddy two-playered Mario Bros. on SM All-stars and I was waaay ahead, or the time he spent a few days playing LttP (I was giving him a hand when he asked, which got me wanting to play) so when he was done playing for the night I picked it up and beat it by morning).

Overall, I can be a real arse about it, but a lot of the times I don't mean to, I just don't really think about it as belittling and more of comparing how each of us got through the same game.

 

[Uber Evil]

I was playing DA:O on nightmare as a warrior and the only companion I took was the dog and it took me forever to finally beat the Broodmother. I wanted to show my husband how hard it was and found the fight on youtube and of course the person was on easy with a healer and a tank and beat her in a couple of minutes. My husband looked at me and said, "It took you how long to beat this? You must really suck at this game."

Tell him to do it himself in the way you were playing. That should shut him up.
OT: Never has this happened to me.

 

[Ghengis John]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

You think you've figured out a phenomenon. Hah! I figured that phenomenon out ages ago!

 

[Leole]

Yeah, I know "that guy", but he's just a mayor idiot in everything.

He found Crysis boring, and stopped playing half way in, because "He had better things to do" and "wasn't his style" (Not to imply he HAS to like Crysis). Ok, fine, play Oblivion/Mass Effect, that's your style, "No, I don't feel like it". Then shut up.

Then he rants of how little games Mac has, and it's obviously the Developers fault. Then he proclaims himself as a "gamer" yet the only game he has played beyond Zelda: Wind Waker and Half Life 2 are stupid little iPod games. Note, I'm not saying he "isn't" a gamer or "he needs to play the games that I play so he can be known as a gamer", but he shouldn't bash on other games without any experience about them, and that pisses me off.

It's like I've read Moby Dick and Hannibal, and go off like "Oh, the Harry Potter books are SOO boring!" yet I haven't even read them.

I swear to god, he wouldn't know a good game even if it bite him on the nose!

To the point, I've told probably every hard earned achievement I've gotten, and he's like "Meh". Ok, Completing Prototype on Hard without dying IS NOT "MEH", Beating God of War (All three) and Mass Effect 2 on the hardest difficulty IS NOT "MEH". FUCK YOU.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

Except when those people then proceed to back up their claims.
OP: I have a friend who is "that guy". I thought I was doing decently at Arcana Heart 3 until he comes along and asks why I still can't do most of the combos. He had never played it before. I called him out on it. He proceeded to execute and master the high level combos of the character I was using within minutes. Yeah. >.>

 

[Riddle78]

TF2. Gold Rush. Zone 2. Defense. With a medic buddy,as a pyro,I locked down the bridge before the first cap. AND kept spies off of the engie's nest overlooking the bridge. And I was ambushing with the BB.

You know what one person had the nerve to say? "Now try it again without being cheap" I think he was just sour about me dominating three of his teamies,and I torched him for the umpteenth time...

 

[Grayjack]

Every time you talk about a hard part in a game on this forum someone jumps in with 'derp you suck it was easy for me'

It's a phenomenon not dissimilar to the 'you found Dead Space scary? that game wasn't scary at all' syndrome - i.e. people gloating because of some self supposed superiority over a video game.

Except when those people then proceed to back up their claims.
OP: I have a friend who is "that guy". I thought I was doing decently at Arcana Heart 3 until he comes along and asks why I still can't do most of the combos. He had never played it before. I called him out on it. He proceeded to execute and master the high level combos of the character I was using within minutes. Yeah. >.>

My friends make me feel pathetic when we play fighting games.

OT: I haven't run into anyone who's belittled my accomplishments. I'm the person who plays the most games out of all my real life friends.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I know a bunch of 'those guys'. Good people otherwise, but when it comes to games, I'll admit it; I'm not as quick to catch on or sometimes I just don't do as well as they do. Sometimes, it takes me awhile to do. A lot of determination. A few tries perhaps. Each time, "That was so easy, I did it on the hardest level..in like 3 minutes." It's really the only time I want to punch them in the balls, because they continue with, "Well, how did you do it?" So they can go through everything, not to give me advice and tell me what I could have done differently, but just to tell me how wrong I was.

 

[Tretara]

I wasn't really "that guy" (I guess it needs to be said in apostrophes) but I had a friend get pissed at me when we had a 2p all night super mario land game. It was me and him and everytime it came to my turn I steamrolled through a level that he had spent two lives on already. I didn't mean to put him out but he got mad at me most of the night because it wasn't just a one time thing. He felt better though when he got to Bowser's castle first.