your greatest moment in gaming

2smiggy

mine was in pro evo 4 , playing as Brazil, down 4-0 to my friend who was playing as china with all his team up to max attributes , and came back to beat him 5-4

StupidLikeAFox

Got my COD killstreak, which was languishing at 3 for a good while, up as far as 5 there last week.

You may laugh but the emotion i felt was probably something similar to how a father feels when their child is born

Kells...

To the above please say your joking

Sean Quagmire

By pure fluke I got a 45 kill streak on COD4. And that was most by knifing people. I'd never be able to do it again. probably because I don't play that much.

Retr0gamer

1 crediting Ghouls n' Ghosts with a huge crowd behind me not believing that a 10 year old was able to do it. Screw your kill streaks, that's real gaming skill right there.

Penn

3 - GTA: Vice City. Vigilante missions. Got to Level 182. Took 5 hours. Got about $97m for it (in game obviously). Was awesome. For some reason some of the levels were skipped because the bad guys would spawn in a lake and die instantly, but most I hunted down (yes, in the Hunter helicopter, but it still counts) and killed.

2 - Finishing Devil May Cry 1 in Dante Must Die mode. And I thought finishing it on Hard would be my greatest achievement

And in first place:
1 - Metal Gear Solid 3. The sniper battle against The End. Possibly the greatest hour of gaming I've ever had.

StupidLikeAFox

TroutFisher wrote: »

To the above please say your joking

I only have the game 2 weeks but still

Noob for life brother

Chrizfitz

Mine isnt an amazing feat or personal score.

First time I used the temple of time in OOT. as a 12 year old who made his jump to n64 from the master system II this was a new world for me and no game took over my life like OOT.

Think it was GTA 3 - I had been chasing after someone for ages on foot and then they finally jumped in to a convertible car and sped away. In my annoyance I fired off one shot in his direction, which killed him. Still have no idea how I managed to do it.

WarZoneBrother

Mine was the week I got kill zone 2 I was so close to fully ranked I ended up keeping playing untill I was fully ranked just before school.. I stayed up till it was school time and until I hot fully ranked... Yes I was pretty darn exhausted in school but that games insane

demixed

Retr0gamer wrote: »

1 crediting Ghouls n' Ghosts with a huge crowd behind me not believing that a 10 year old was able to do it. Screw your kill streaks, that's real gaming skill right there.

This post isn't getting the love it should be, fair play that is a proper achievement!

eddhorse

Played and finished the Doom collection in a weekend using a visor instead of the TV. This was about 10 years ago.

Something like this :


My friends brother was a dentist and he owned it for some reason.

I could not sleep for a week after it !!
Probably not my best gaming moment but memorable.

krudler

going 30-0 on a Free For All game on Modern Warfare 2, at 4am, when pissed after a night out. I've done perfect games before but being drunk made it all the better :pac:

youcancallmeal

Pulling off my first fatality in Mortal Kombat, everything changed after that!

Call of Duty 2 Normandy beach invasion. Really showed off how immersive and intense first person shooters could be!

Aeris getting killed by Sephiroth in FF7, didnt see it coming at all! Another moment from the same game was spending hours training and racing chocobos so I could get the the best summon in the game, Knights of the Round. I remember being absolutely blown away the first time I got to use it :eek:

tonydude

Cod 4 search and destroy, was playing against 5 others so 5v1 and i got a 16 killstreak lol and won the game in the end, plus winning a poker game in red dead last night with all the blinds at max, i knocked out the other five players

krudler

Retr0gamer wrote: »

1 crediting Ghouls n' Ghosts with a huge crowd behind me not believing that a 10 year old was able to do it. Screw your kill streaks, that's real gaming skill right there.

one crediting arcade games was an awesome feeling back in the day, finishing Street Fighter 2 without losing a round is up there as well.

2smiggy

possibly my favorite game is wonder boy in monster land, passing that on one credit was very satisfying

quarryman

Halo 3 Legendary Solo.

It felt good to me ok?!

seanybiker

Clearing flimbos quest on the c64. Some of them levels where really annoying for young seanybiker.

dreamers75

1,250,000 or thereabouts on SF2 i the arcade, have to get 2 perfects on everyone and lose one round per person (more points ). I was quite good at that game

Cuddlesworth

CSS, dust2. 5v1 in a ranked clan match, first ever game. Jumped around the corner, nailed a quadruple headshot with the p90 blinded, picked up a awp on landing and jumping no-scoped the sniper about to pop me.

What I never told anybody was that it was a insane combination of nerves, luck and fright.

The flashbang made me jump in my chair, I hit fire, forward and jump because my fingers were hovering over the keyboard as well as jerking the mouse and keyboard away from me. Didn't realize what I had done(still blinded on screen) and was trying to pick up my keyboard. I mashed a loud of buttons in the process(picked up awp).

Then I got screamed at by three of the players on the team, did the same thing again. No scoped the last person.

Never had anything go so well for me again in games. Including the rest of the rounds of that match.

Retr0gamer

demixed wrote: »

This post isn't getting the love it should be, fair play that is a proper achievement!

I'm proud of it but it was back in the day when I was young and had so much free time that I could practice loads on the megadrive version which was pretty much arcade perfect in hard mode. Only other game I can 1 credit that wasn't a fighter was Carrier Airwing and I kind of fluked that. Just don't have the time anymore and have too many games to beat. Now it's beat it and move on to the next one

Zero-Cool

There are probably more but the most recent 'greatest moment' I had was getting the platinum trophy in Batman Arkham Asylum. Was a pure and utter joy to get every one of those trophies, even if it did mean I was practicing combos for the extreme combat levels in my sleep!

Roll on platinum for Arkham City!

Duggy747

• I completed Time Crisis 2 on 1 credit and with 2 health bars left on a boat over to England.
  Nobody was around to see it
  
  
• Hada 25 winning streak on Mortal Kombat 3 at a house party and retired undefeated............I was banned from the SNES for the rest of the night :pac:

Walked into a nite-club in Sligo where they had an Xbox hooked up to a TV. Some smarmy git had a 30-odd winning streak on Street Fighter 2 and had that shìt-eating grin on his face.

I picked up the controller, he gave me a cocky look and put the controller behind his back...............I kicked the shìt out of him in the first round so he puts the controller in front of him again, meaning business...............I get a perfect on the 2nd round, cue crowd cheering, I laugh at the not-so-cocky shìt now, give the controller to a randomer beside me and go back to my drink :pac: I had ended his reign of terror.

richymcdermott

1.Beating demons souls final boss with a broken sword : i was all alone fighting the false king then bout half way through my sword broke and it was my only sword , so this boss battle went on for 30 to 40 mins and i was afraid i would have to answer the door to let my sisters in from school also i was worried i would die so thats 2 things to think bout while dodging and fighting the boss , and when i did i was so happy one of my proudest moments in gaming i tearred up abit :P

2. Shadow of the colossus

Beating the boss where your at the place where the water is shooting up
Died 20 odd times trying to find his weak spot and was just about to look up on how to beat him but i found a way and beat him , if i had a third hand i would of spatted myself on the back

3.Sonic the hedgehog 2

me and my dad beating dr eggman with only having 1 ring
i must been bout 4 at the time but i still remember it to this day my most fond memory of my childhood aswell

J. Marston

Getting the Big Boss rank on MGS4, on one save file.
I felt like crying when I finished it!

Mr E

The "smile" achievement on Geometry Wars 2.

Twilightning

Hmm.. trying to remember..

Beating Time Crisis 3 with one coin. Damn that took a lot of practice but it was worth it.

Beating every difficulty on an arcade version of The Fist of the North Star which consisted of hitting 6 pads with your fist in correct timing as they came out at you. I attracted lots of crowds playing that game when I was around 13/14, really wish I could play it again for the lulz.

Beating Metal Gear Solid 2 on extreme not long after it came out. Now that I think of it MGS2 came out in 2001 and it's 2011 now, and I'm just about to turn 20. Jaysus.

Playing through BulletWitch on 3 different difficulties just to try and 1000 it. I'm surprised I even did that. Such an awful game.

More will probably come to me in time!

ironictoaster

Getting to represent Ireland in the xbox cup in Germany during the World Cup in 2006. Free tickets to Argentina v Germany, right behind the goal for the penatly shootout, free xbox and games and a load of adidas gear.

I am brutal at FIFA...:cool:

cherryghost

Finishing all the Super Meat Boy worlds without dying once. That would tahe unholy time and godlikeskill.

I've only managed the first 2 worlds

CORaven

Pulling off an insane win in Search and Destroy on Wasteland in MW2. I took a few shots at a few guys. Got a kill but retreated while under fire. Later I managed to the jump on a few guy and kill them with a pistol as they were moving to plant the bomb. Won the tie-breaking game.

The realisation that I had enslaved every possible person in Fallout 3.

In Age of Empires 2, in a multiplayer game I managed to build two wonders, on opposite sides of the map, at the same time. Unfortunately it was a Free for All and two player co-ordinated an attack on both and they fell simultaneously with 2yrs to go. I still felt great though.

Last night myself and a friend played L4D2's scavenge mode and got two perfect rounds which were won only by time comparisons.

Jazzy

super metroid with 100% of the items in under 3 hours was a big one for me. winning a few big lans in a row in UT2K4 was also really cool. in one it was a 1/4 final against a mate, chosen, and it was a 3 mapper that went into overtime on the last. we were sitting beside each other and this was the guy that had knocked me out of the previous 2 tournaments. unbenownst to me there was some crowd formed watching it and the overtime had lasted a good 5 minutes. then i hit a beautiful shock combo (a successfull full hit of one of these is still one of the most gratifying experiences in online shooters, just like air rockets in quake) and won the map. went on to win the whole tournament but it was that game that counted for me. also, winning a map off the invincible kRoNic in a final was brilliant

Azza

Beating the player named "Mexico" in ranked game of Company of Heroes. He was the 3rd ranked allied player at the time and a day later he was No.1.
I wasn't particualry high ranked so he would of stood to loose alot of points and it would of taken him a good few games to get them back. So as the win screen came up he pulled out his internet connection to prevent him loosing points or me gaining them. Posted the replay up of it on gamesreplay and he got a torrent of abuse for it.

Another great moment was when I was playing the flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik when I one shoted a Yak-3 from extreme range. Was little more than a spec in the aiming rectical. Took his wing off with a single MK 108 round fired from my Me 109 G6/AS. Got messaged back claiming I was cheating. Was a rather lucky shot.

Random gernade that killed 5 enemies and 1 friendly in Day of Defeat Source was fun too.

Betraying Dark Onion in Civ 5 via nuking his city was also pretty good. Right Onion?

Agricola

Couldnt definitively say what the greatest is but for some reason this one sticks out. Playing ISS Pro Evolution Master League COOP with a friend. We started with the default players and were really struggling to string together even a couple of scoreless draws. Then after scraping enough credits together we bought Patrick M'boma and put him up front in a 4-5-1. The first game with him was the usual backs to the wall affair, defending deep for the whole match. Then with 2 minutes left on the clock, my friend broke free on the wing and whipped in a ball to the box. I had control of M'Boma but just as the ball came to me, I was swarmed by defenders. I tried a trick which never worked with the other players as they were too poor. Mboma did alittle shimmy, somehow found afew inches to fire a toe poke shot at the goal and it trickled into the net with the keeper wrong footed! 1-0 win. We actually roared with joy and lept off the sofa as if were watching a real match!

2smiggy

also playing cod4 hcSND with the normal irish lads i play with against these american load mouths at 4am , deciding game ended with me vs 5 of them, managed to win it somehow , felt great

RolandIRL

finally beating Murai on normal difficulty in Ninja Gaiden Black...took me fecking ages, but was so relieved afterwards.

Helix

my favourite 2:

83 kill killstreak in the first modern warfare - particularly amazing coz im awful (though less amazing since it was a case of getting the chopper in shipment and then not getting shot)

having time to kill one day when i was younger but only 20p in my pocket, so i sat down to play puzzle bobble in the arcade, and cleared it all in one go

Jazzy

cod 4+ shouldnt be counted because the game is pretty much this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTLiQtVOGp8

stupid, overweight, trying to be something its not and most importantly - generic. there is nothing in those games aside from "mass appeal" and that comes in the form of bull**** choppers, nades & other bonus's. its just a silly mess and so so so much below its forfathers its the equivalent to Steps Vs. Pink Floyd. just stop buying the games and funding a bull**** racket. id love to say there is something better in the genre but for that you have to look 3+ years ago

yawnstretch

17.1 second lap, wipeout 2097 ps1

Had some "freaky" moments though over the years. One time I was playing a sega saturn for a virtua fighter competition in Smyths toys Tallaght. I'd been practicing in a local arcade and got all the way to the final match. (The prize was a sega biker jacket). We were both playing as Lei (as per the rules of the competition) and we'd both one won round each, so we were on the final round.

I had my opponent just about beaten when I accidentally stepped off the edge. As anyone who plays virtua fighter knows - this means you lose. Weird thing happened though. I realised during the step back or fall animation (can't remember which the character was doing) and knew that I'd lost before the animation completed. I freaked out and just spammed the buttons - bringing up a cheat menu.

It was like a developers option screen to turn off certain details etc. Anyway, no one else realized exactly what had happened and because the Saturn was a brand new console at the time, they figured it was a glitch (which it was) and reset the console.

I won the competition (eventually donated the jacket to a homeless person because it was really rugged and I never wore it).

tallaghtmick

theres 3 that stick in my mind

1.goldeneye unlocking the invisibility cheat from the archive level it took forever to get it

2.battlefield 2 getting some crazy top score on a bridge too far and receiving voice mail from the guys i played against was a pretty good moment.

3.champ manager 01/02 winning the world cup and the european cup with ireland mostly from players i had trained with celtic with who i had also won everything i could was the best for moment for me fcuk yeh!

Creamy Goodness

making money playing 1.6

Dave_The_Sheep

Pro Evo 6, pc, came back from 4-1 down against AC Milan as Liverpool with 10 minutes to go. Won 5-4 with two goals in injury time. That was a nice moment.

Also nice was when I beat my two mates for the first time in a to-25 Halo multiplayer game. I'm **** at Halo, and they were quite good - I was there as fodder. They were too busy worrying about each other that they didn't notice I was tearing up the leaderboard. Won by two kills. Sweet.

My greatest moment though was in Shogun: Total War. In a sneak attack, the Takeda were poised to raid my capital region where I produced monks and I only had a makeshift army to stop him. Up against a numerically superior army lead by Takeda Shingen (so all his troops got the +3 honour bonus). Troops wise, he had a slight advantage in two units of those red-trouser-two-handed-sword-bastards. We were both kicking lumps out of each other, both of us routing units of the other. Came down to the last big melee, 3 or 4 units each milling into each other - and I was going to lose (see sword bastards above). Cue two units of reinforcements coming through for me and mincing the enemy from behind. What were they? Two units of Yari Ashigaru, the crappy peasants that I hold in such disdain that I never build them and often just disband. Never again shall I look down upon you.

The tension of the battle, coupled with the sheer sense of "**** you, you backstabbing bastard" after winning against all odds... great feeling.

deathrider

Hmmm, not can't remember many over the top great moments at the moment, but I'm sure there are a few of them from over the years. The only ones that immediately spring to mind is winning a Duke Match with 20 kills and no deaths in LA Rumble on one of my first time ever playing multiplayer in Duke Nukem 3D on Xbox Live.

Another is about a year ago, one of my local pubs was holding a gamers night. This consisted of a Tekken tournament, and a Mortal Kombat tournament. I hadn't played Tekken since about Tekken 3 (I think it was the 5th one they were playing that night), but managed to win the tournament anyways. Then came the MK tournament, in which they were playing MKII (my all time favourite), and I managed to win that one too. Two tournaments, one night, I think that was probably my favourite moment.

Canis Lupus

Winning one of the early Gamecon Lans mostly through my then obsession with CoD. I even had the game crash, had to restart and still came second in one particular round :P I think it was one of those meetings as well that I did a very very long range twitch fire sniper shot and took someones head off as they ran between a gap in a building wall. Of course no one saw

krudler

first time I got in a tank in GTA III and just ran rampant through the city, 5 stars, cop cars everywhere, choppers, utter mayhem and laughing my ass off as I did it , glorious

Gunmonkey

Because Next is meant to be out around March, two Planetside moments.

1) - 5 minutes after starting, hopped into an APC with 4 others and off we go....until a jet fighter starts strafing us so we take shelter in a nearby tower. So while the others stand inside hiding I think "F**K IT", load a clip of armour piercing rounds and run out. Snap off a few bursts at the fighter as it tries to blow the crap out of me in the doorway and am rewarded with a kill and see it plummet into the ground.

2) - Since I couldnt hog the phone line back in the day (****ing dial-up) I usually played after 11pm, when most players had logged off for the night. Cue me and one other NC player playing a gigantic game of cat and mouse with 3 Vanu's across a whole bloody CONTINENT as we tried to capture each others bases and the inevitable 10 minutes from the start to end of the cap as you await a player sneaking in to prevent you. Or tearing down a road in our buggy only to drive past the Vanu going the other way: cue screech of brakes as everyone bails out to murder each other.

Good times.

Pyr0

Medieval Total War 2: Playing as Spain, a patch or two after release. Can't remember exactly. Anyway, I had launced a crusade through africa towards Jerusalem, captured each region on the way. Managed to reach Jerusalem but then the Tirumids decide to show up (For anyone who's played Vanilla, you'd know this is a major pain in the hole). I had a total of three stacks against 6+ which included f*cking Elephant Artillery. Stack after stack came against me and I kept winning but taking a lot of losses, down to my last quarter stack, mostly elites kept alive against a full stack. Somehow managed to rout the enemy using constant heavy cav rear attacks.

Ended up with only 60+ troops left including my general. Stacked up on mercs and took Jerusalem.

F*ck yeah.

zero19

Getting to number 11 in the world in the Drifting leaderboards using the mini cooper in the forza 3 demo

jester77

Completing Mario's 1-3 as a kid, still my favourite moment when I look back

Kinetic^

Meeting Jazzy in real life.

ibFoxer

Winning the European Cup or whatever the equivelant was in Championship Manager 01/02 with Shels

Also in a random slayer match in Reach, "team-mates" all quit when the score was 11-1 to them, coming back to win on my own 14-13. To me that was pretty epic (scores might not be accurate, was something like that though)

Haven't done anything lately. Must play more games :pac: