Your Proudest Video Game Moments!

[Silverbeard]

The day I finished Soulbringer was my finest gaming moment. Not because the game had an awe-inspiring story or an epic final boss battle, no- rather because the game was so terribly broken, so full of heinous putrescence that conquering it made me feel like a champion. I felt as though I'd run a marathon with two broken toes on each foot. The sweet, sweet scent of victory was a reward greater than any that I've never received since.
Two days later I lost the CD. Never had I been happier in my life.

Anyone else here played that travesty?

 

[Timmaaaah]

I don't have proud moments anymore, but when I was younger...
The first time I beat RA95 was my first really proud moment, then there was when I beat the first Halo on legendary, then getting 100% on Abe's Oddysee and Exodus, then when I beat COD4 on Veteran followed by the Mile High Club on veteran (which was just ridiculous at the time for me). Getting 100% on a game doesn't feel as good as it used to, just a little satisfied tingle.

These days I don't feel proud... It's like the equivalent of feeling proud for seeing a movie now because you don't really get stuck at parts in games anymore, it just takes a bit longer to finish them.

OH YEA and the Little Rocket Man achievement in HL 2 EP2 and the One Free Bullet achievement from EP 1 both done on hard. Those made me proud as fuck.

 

[Timmaaaah]

OH and finally beating Super Meat Boy. Not so much a big acheivement, but just that relief of beating every single (normal world) level and beating Dr. Fetus was just so gratifying that I could have just passed out if I wanted to.

 

[RandydaDarkSoul]

I'd have to say; the day I got the Platinum trophy on Dark Souls. As soon as it happened I called my wife at work to tell her. Then I called all my friends, I'm pretty sure I called my mom to tell her as well. I'm such a fanboy...

 

[jamail77]

Well, the first one that comes to mind is when I got from 1st to 2nd place, eventually dropping to 3rd (depending on challenge map,) on the Batman Arkham City Predator Challenge map leaderboards. Evidence [http://steamcommunity.com/id/jaassbri/screenshots/?appid=57400&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall]. To be perfectly fair, I had actually copied YouTube video strategies to the respective maps and done on a different platform and so, a different leaderboard, slightly altering the method on only one occasion. I was so surprised when I managed to execute it though that it didn't matter how I did it in the first place. Even getting eventually knocked down in the ranks on the maps didn't matter. And with Games for Windows Live stripped from the game the way it deserved to be stripped the leaderboards are gone On the other hand, now it's like my ranking is cemented: It will never be surpassed because there is no existing leaderboard on the Steam version of the game

My other cases are much more minor. I just installed and beat No Time to Explain; that game is insane in more ways than one, not necessarily difficulty. I've been playing Fairy Bloom Freesia rather successfully on Cruel difficulty. I'm always proud when I improve against my much better friends in multiplayer games. Since you mentioned Halo I loved pulling off an airborne Banshee steal while piloting my own Banshee; that felt oh so good.

 

[Casual Shinji]

When I bought the God of War HD Collection I hadn't played the original game in years. Yet in the following initial playthrough I made it up the Hades Columns with zero hits. I was never able to replicate that action from then on.

 

[Apl_J]

Beating Super Mario Bros.- The Lost Levels back when my uncle had All-Stars for the snez.

He told me not to play that one, I told him I would beat it. Sure enough, my 8 year old self beat it.

 

[Foolery]

I find it hard to have pride in digital actions that mean nothing. So, I dunno. Hours and hours of Pokemon, I guess. I'm not proud or anything, I just enjoy it. Almost 200 hours in Y so far.

 

[Mersadeon]

Oh I know the one. It was a Starwars Battlefront 2 battle. I got onto a server - the match seemed hopeless. It was a Space Battle, and my team had essentially given up. They simply all went into the enemy hangar, hoping to wreak at least a bit of havoc, while the enemy was dominating the space battle outside - they had a few really good pilots, and no one seemed to dare go up against them. So me and another guy who just joined got into our seats and persistently took out about 6 enemy pilots while bombing the systems of the enemy ship. We won that day, and it was because we didn't just sit in a hangar and took it. We weren't afraid that our oh so precious "kill/death ratio" might be suboptimal.

Ah, Star Wars Battlefront. What a beautiful game.

(EDIT: Although, as justification: I was using a bomber, while my enemies seemingly hadn't figured out yet how overpowered those were)

 

[KazeAizen]

I find it hard to have pride in digital actions that mean nothing. So, I dunno. Hours and hours of Pokemon, I guess. I'm not proud or anything, I just enjoy it. Almost 200 hours in Y so far.

You've never had a jump up and cheer "I just did that!" moment ever? When you were a kid or now? Nothing?

 

[Not Gabe Newell]

This was quite recently, actually.


I've been modding Skyrim to hell and back, and one of my favorite mods was Dragon Combat Overhaul. It alters the AI of dragons to make them smarter and tougher.

Anyway, I was headed up to Northwind Summit to learn the shout from the word wall up there, when I was (unsuprisingly) attacked by the dragon guarding it. It was a standard dragon, not to difficult to fight. Except this one was different. It took me a good six attempts to beat it.


First Attempt - The dragon caught me by surprise, landed on me, and sent me tumbling down the mountain. Game over.

Second Attempt - I got it down to half health, but didn't realize I ran out of health potions. He eventually outlasted me and roasted me to oblivion. Game over.

Third Attempt - I'm frustrated and impatient at this point, so I charge in head on. Bad move. The dragon used its triple threat tail attack to ragdoll me to the ground. It spewed fire at me at close range, and since I forgot you could use potions while ragdolled, I died. Game over.

Fourth Attempt - I finally lower the difficulty to Novice out of sheer spite for this scaly beast, but that didn't do much. One triple threat tail attack and I'm sent ragdolling over the edge of the mountain to my death. Game over.

Fifth Attempt - I'm fuming, and I'm starting to have thoughts of uninstalling DCO just to have a chance at this beast. I got it down to half health again, but I ran out of health potions...again. He outlasts me and kills me yet again. Game over.

Sixth Attempt - After a quick break to calm my nerves, I got back into the game, ready to finally kill this thing. Somehow I did. Through sheer luck and brilliant tactics involving a bow and arrow, Dragonrend, and escape tactics, I finally bring the dragon down. I'm rewarded with the Alduin death animation.

I was so proud of myself, I decided to take a screenshot of me finally killing it.

 

[Artina89]

Probably when I managed to get to level 100 in Psychonauts and 100% the game. I love that game a lot, and it took me a lot of time and effort to get to that point. It's probably not much of an achievement, but I was proud of myself at the time.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

1: 100% completion in Goldeneye. I'm not usually a completionist, but the rumours I'd heard about the Egyptian level were just too tantalizing to resist. So around age 14 or so I knuckled down, bit the bullet and after a lot of practise managed to beat Control and Aztec on 00 Agent... and Egyptian turned out to be easy by comparison even on 00. Not as cool as my imagination painted it either, but still interesting.

2: More straightforwardly and most recent, beating Beelzebub in SMT4 on Master difficulty. I cheered. Still working to access the 'Neutral Ending' path and avoiding spoilers for it (so don't give me any please), but even if Lucifer and Merkabah fuse together to destroy me in that ending they still could not possibly be as brutal as that guy.

3: <----Defeating this guy in the seventh game, another goal that I gave up on for a long time as a child only to come back to it years down the line, much more skilled and prepared to bring down that teleporting machine of death. If he put that amount of effort into building his robot masters, the games would be impossible.

 

[search_rip]

Hmmm... in top of my head: recently I was on my X playthrough of Resident Evil: Revelations when I ran out of bullets on Hell difficulty, had to face a Scagdead in the casino and I managed to kill him with the knife (just running in circles and stabbing in the stairway) Aaaah, happy moments ^_^

 

[Nooners]

Battlefield Bad Company 2: An enemy squad had us pretty pinned down from their perch in a two-story building pretty well, reviving everyone we manage to pick off almost instantly. I spawn in as a Recon, and convince some squadmates to pop some smoke grenades down to cover me. I charge in, manage to barely gun down their guard downstairs (gotta hand it to how well they were co-ordinated), C4 the ceiling of the building, and blow the charges just in time to do the classic "walk away from explosion" trope as the entire building collapses around them. My teammates deserve just as many props as I do on that one, and that felt awesome.

There was also the time a fellow engineer and I kept a single tank alive for way longer that should be reasonable, halting an enemy advance singly-tankedly and even swatting a chopper out of the sky with a well-placed shot one time. Also an awesome several minutes.

 

[aceman67]

Mine would have to be a World of Warcraft WotLK raid attempt for Trial of the Crusader normal (when it first came out). We were on Lord Jaraxxus and everything was going well, we got him down to 8-10% health when the warrior tank went down, followed shortly there after by the 2 rogues, death knight, huntard and the 2 mages. The last of the dps to go down was a crafty Pally.

I was a resto-druid and was the main tank healer and I had a Disc priest doing raid heals. The priest was on the other side of the arena avoiding fire and quickly threw a shield on me before getting melted by an infernal eruption that spawned under her. That crafty pally I was talking about bubbled me before being curb stomped by Jaraxxus.

The next little bit happened quickly in a matter of 10 seconds. The shield and bubble lasted just long enough for my Natures swiftness CD to end and Hit my rebirth macro.

This got a few laughs on the vent chat as I had it macro'd to say "You don't want to know where this acorn is going..."

Because of a mis-target, I rezed the mage. Vent chat was full of "oh, what the f---"'s.

But surprisingly, me and the glass cannon got him down. I was able to keep him healed for about 5-8 seconds, while he spell-stealed Jaraxxus' 5 stacks of nether power, and that mage must have had a lucky charm up his ass, because his crits were huge, and that Gnome Kicking monster fell.

WoW sometimes has weird lucky moments like that, and I had loads of fun that night.

 

[Truehare]

Mine has to be beating Super C without any kind of cheat and using only one credit. That was only recently, I had never done that in the NES days. I'm still working on doing it without dying, though...

Also, beating Sunset Riders on one credit and Black Tiger (hardest setting) on one life were pretty satisfying experiences. But I still can't get past Stage 5 of Black Dragon (the Japanese version of Black Tiger) in one credit, and that's on the Medium setting. The difference between the hard-as-nails Japanese original and the walk-in-the-park American version is amazing!

 

[SirDerpy]

I have this odd thing for shooting people in the head with a scoped .44 in Fallout 3 without VATS, since VATS is easymode and nobody who's any good should ever use it. So I was doing the Paradise Falls quest (saving the little kiddies, not slaving them), and I walk into the bar area. I don't know why, I seemed to like the slave bartender there for some reason, but he was scripted to be killed by a slaver. So, just before the slaver bashed in the bartender's head, I pulled out the .44, zoomed in, and shot the guy in the head. Obviously, this turned the entire slaver compound into enemies. The entire following play was literally me running around, dodging bullets and headshotting slavers. I didn't miss a single shot, nor did I take any damage. The sheer luck of the rampage was incredible.

I would try the same thing later in Fallout NV casinos, but I never got that same perfect streak.

 

[StormDragonZ]

- Beating Mega Man X on the SNES with only the Leg Boot Armor upgrade, no special weapons ever used.
- Beating Mega Man X6 on Xtreme Mode.
- Beating Mega Man X7 100%.
- Beating Super Metroid 100% in under 7 hours game time.

 

[Silvanus]

In BF2142, I was piloting one of the personnel carrier airships, which have no defensive abilities for the pilot seat. A gunship started tailing me, firing rockets, almost certain to take me down. I switched into one of the side-seats from where you can fire your own personal weapons. With no pilot, the carrier started going down.... I fired off two rounds of my weapon, the engineer's highly unreliable AA gun, successfully took down the gunship, and then switched back into the pilot seat before the carrier hit the ground. Felt like a boss.

I also managed to take down a gunship from the ground with an EMP grenade once, but I can't remember whether I was credited for the kill (as the EMP grenade does no damage; it was the crash that destroyed it).

In GW2, in the Skyhammer map, I assaulted a control point guarded by three enemies. I was alone. The Skyhammer map features glass floor sections that break after a short while of standing on them, and using the flamethrower's airblast and the rifle's overcharged shot which sends enemies flying, I managed to send all three enemies plummeting to their deaths through the glass floor sections.