Proudest gaming achievement

Akrasia

I'm not talking about these artificial 'achievements' that most games now have to boost your 'gamerscore'

I'm talking about things you set out to do in a game that were hard and when you finally managed to do it, you felt an enormous sense of achievement

Simple things like winning the championship in WipEout 2097 in phantom class, or beating all the extreme tracks in Trials Evolution, or taking a division 3 team to win the Champions league in Championship manager (without cheating)

For me, recently, my biggest sense of achievement in a game has come from Kerbal Space Program. There have been a few 'Oh Yeah!' moments but the best has to be my first rescue mission to recover one of my guys who had gotten stranded on the mun (Moon)

If you've never played KSP before, it's a sandbox space simulation game where you design your own rockets and then fly them to explore a fictional solar system. It has a steep learning curve and back then, it had no in game tutorials worth speaking of so it was a case of learn by trying, exploding, trying again, failing and trying again.

One of the early targets when you start playing is to successfully land on 'the Mun' and return back home safely. This is easier said than done, especially when you're only learning the game.

My first 'successful' 'landing' on 'The mun' ended with the lander toppling over and breaking, leaving poor Jebediah Kerman stranded.

I decided there and then, that I had to go back and get him, It was a nerve racking journey because I didn't know about the quicksave/quickload function back then, but somehow, I managed to land near(ish) to where Jebediah was stranded and he could walk to the rescue ship. I strapped him to a chair bolted onto the outside of the command module and we took off for home..

It's an awesome feeling to splash down safely on Kerbin knowing that the Kerbal Space Agency leaves no man behind.

rizzla

Hmm, I don't really have specifics more re-occurring instances that really get the heart pounding.

In Killer Instinct, your opponent is on a nearly full life bar and your in the danger zone. Yet you manage to win and the fecker doesn't rage quit.

Going from the back of the pack in a racing game and making it into first on the last lap.

But probably the greatest would be my daughter picking up the controller and wanting to play with me when she could barely crawl. Damn proud!

Mr E

Smile achievement on Geometry Wars 2.

CastorTroy

Probably completing the Water temple without the Blue Tunic in Ocarina 3D

Stone Deaf 4evr

My reply to this question still hasn't changed. - From Gears of War 3

my top gaming memory of all time was being the last man standing in the final round of Insane mode horde against a lambent berzerker on the map "academy", I was cornered at the top of the steps area and managed to get the kill with the last shot left in my torque bow. the cheering through my headset was deafening. we actually got a top 10 in the world score for that game, which was quickly knocked way down the ranks as the Insane Horde group from the epic games forum started tackling it regularly.

otherwise, I'd been playing through dark souls and was dreading the much talked about fight with Smough and Ornstien.
In an amazing bit of luck - and probably because I was a little Over levelled by the time I got to them, I managed to defeat them on my first try, without summoning.
I will concede that I had seen a youtube video of them being beaten before, but thats a bit like saying that I saw a guy playing a guitar solo, so I should find it easy.
Actually, completing Dark Souls full stop, gives me a bit of pride. A truly magnificent game.

Skerries

not putting my controller through the telly when playing Dark Souls

Mickeroo

I was late getting the Artorias DLC for Dark Souls so I played it for the first time on NG++ which meant some of the bosses were insanely difficult. Taking down Kalameet with another boardsie and a random german guy we summoned a few times after about ten tries was my most epic memory of any souls game. Manus was extremely difficult too.

Tar.Aldarion

I suppose qualifying for a professional league in CSS. Also winning a game of dota 1 by a millisecond, our base had 1hp when we won...and it was at a LAN final.
Both teams stood up cheering as we both thought we won, we had to go look at the replay and could see one base was destroyed right before the other, the attack that would destroy my base was midair when we won. Have a screenshot somewhere.

Digital Solitude

Becoming a Onebro in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, I'm on the way in Bloodborne and Demon Souls

Kiith

Clearing the water dungeon in Ocarina of Time (N64)...without the water tunic. That was a bitch, and even worse when i got the tunic later that day.

Or the final of a CS Source tournament in college, after killing half my team with a badly thrown grenade, i went on and killed the rest of their team, and the last guy with a single pistol shot to the head in Office. Was a brilliant moment for me, as he was way better than i was, and got the jump on me. I just got stupidly lucky.

Cunning Alias

Tetris Level 9 High 5. 10 year old me was well chuffed.

120 stars in Mario 64 before internet guides ruined everything.

jamo2oo9

Getting a 25 killsteak to get a nuke in MW2. I waited for that moment for so long that when I got it, I cried.


Was the biggest achievement for me really since I'm horribly shít at FPS game

Sephiroth_dude

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Becoming a Onebro in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, I'm on the way in Bloodborne and Demon Souls

What's a onebro?

5star02707

Ps1 my very first game and gaining disc 1 lionheart on FF8 :P

had to farm all the ingredients for that sword ^_^

Digital Solitude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

What's a onebro?

Beat the game at Level 1

Sephiroth_dude

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Beat the game at Level 1

Wow how did you manage that ?

My greatest achievement would probably be when I beat melfice from grandia 2, he was some ****er to beat.

Also grinding for materials for zidanes ultimate sword in ff9 , took me ages to do and also beating the final boss in one go :cool:

Raging_Ninja

When I was young, getting the invincibility cheat I'm GoldenEye.

Just the other day, in Eve Online killing a cloaky, nullified tengu <3000m from a gate, and realising that the guy flying it had dropped 17 billion isk worth of loot. We were shocked, 5hen laughter, then fear as we got the loot to a trade hub. Made a billion is each.

will post others when I have the time.

Digital Solitude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Wow how did you manage that ?

Near Zen levels of focus and control.

My Ghost-Clean Hands (Don't get seen, don't kill anyone) run on the hardest difficulty in Dishonoured is up there too

Stone Deaf 4evr

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Near Zen levels of focus and control.

My Ghost-Clean Hands (Don't get seen, don't kill anyone) run on the hardest difficulty in Dishonoured is up there too

some serious patience there dude, fair play to you. I've often tried for achievements like that but often got shafted by enemy AI seeing me through walls or some such nonsense.

Lu Tze

Managing to keep the Dodo airborne for more than a minute in GTA3.

J. Marston

Getting the Big Boss emblem on MGS4.

The criteria for getting it are....

- Complete on The Boss extreme difficulty.
- Use no continues.
- Use no health items
- Kill no enemies, including bosses.
- No alert phases.
- No special items (stealth, bandana)
- Complete the game in less than 5 hours.

The motorbike sequence may have done some lasting psychological damage....

YouSavedMyLife

Hard to think of one of the top of my head, but clearing all raid content in World of Warcraft:WotLK shortly after hitting level 80. There was 3 raids and we even did the "hard" version of the Obsidian Sanctum by keeping 3 lesser bosses alive while you kill the main boss, wowowowowwww

Quit the game shortly after since i had nothing to do :rolleyes:

Same situation with the Star Wars MMO. A new raid was released in a patch and we cleared it on the highest difficulty within 1 or 2 weeks of release. Then i quit :rolleyes: I suppose its more of a team effort than my own personal achievement, but **** it. I was the highest DPS, constantly in my WoW guild, and the main tank in my SWTOR guild so you're damn right it was all me!

Cravez

Getting passed the Under Water level Teenage Mutant Ninja on the C64.

Completing Dark Souls for the first time and then completing it as an SL1.

Completing XCOM Enemy Unknown on Classic Ironman.

Zero-Cool

Would have to be when I got to play EA Sports UFC in front of about 4000 people in the O2 arena for the UFC Dublin event last Summer, thanks to Boards and EA. Andy Friedlander (Octagon Announcer for Europe) introduced myself and fellow Boardsie Mr. Blobby up on stage as "2 of Irelands best gamers.." :pac: and we had to play a fight between McGregor & Bruce Lee on a huge screen right in front of some UFC legends in the front row.

Then EA gave us tickets to the fight the following night, 10 rows from the Octagon. Epic seeing as I couldn't get any tix when they went on sale (sold out in minutes).

One of the best weekends of my life and it was all thanks to my love of Gaming.

PS. Dav, if you happen to be reading this and need someone to head over to Vegas for the title fight in July, I spose I could make myself available :pac:

Generic Dreadhead

Sheehy's wrecked the thread with his "real life" sh!t€ :pac:

pedatron

J. Marston wrote: »

Getting the Big Boss emblem on MGS4.

The criteria for getting it are....

- Complete on The Boss extreme difficulty.
- Use no continues.
- Use no health items
- Kill no enemies, including bosses.
- No alert phases.
- No special items (stealth, bandana)
- Complete the game in less than 5 hours.

The motorbike sequence may have done some lasting psychological damage....

Never a dark souls or demon souls guy but that MGS achievement is incredible!

Shiminay

Playing a Quake World Clan Arena against Clan Giblets at Quakapalooza in 1998 and single handedly bringing my team from 4-0 down to 4 all and missing out the win by a single rocket hit

Icaras

Mickeroo wrote: »

I was late getting the Artorias DLC for Dark Souls so I played it for the first time on NG++ which meant some of the bosses were insanely difficult. Taking down Kalameet with another boardsie and a random german guy we summoned a few times after about ten tries was my most epic memory of any souls game. Manus was extremely difficult too.

I'm pretty sure that was me that helped you! A lazy day turned into battle Saturday. Very satisfying kill.

cherryghost

Competing at WCG. Man I had such a lock of hair back then.

That and organizing LANs. Lot of work involved and feels good when you have a room full of 100's of like-minded people enjoying what they love.

Generic Dreadhead

The 1st time killing Atheon and killing Crota in Destiny

*runs away*

limitedIQ

Cunning Alias wrote: »

Tetris Level 9 High 5. 10 year old me was well chuffed.

Getting a score of 9999993 in the arcade version of tetris. If you when over 9999999 your score reset to 0 so you had to survice long enough and then try to die at the right time. I was chuffed until someone got 9999997 which was never beat as long at the arcade was there. Ah what wasted youth

Myrddin

I only did it once I think, but I cleared Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting on the Snes on level 7 (the hardest setting) without losing a round. You get a special ending for doing so, which is, to be frank, simply not worth it!

Oh, & the obligatory getting all 96 exits in Super Mario World is up there too!

callaway92

J. Marston wrote: »

Getting the Big Boss emblem on MGS4.

The criteria for getting it are....

- Complete on The Boss extreme difficulty.
- Use no continues.
- Use no health items
- Kill no enemies, including bosses.
- No alert phases.
- No special items (stealth, bandana)
- Complete the game in less than 5 hours.

The motorbike sequence may have done some lasting psychological damage....

ya I don't understand how you got through the motorbike scene without needing any health items. That's insane. Well played!

I think I avoided killing any bosses the time I played it too.

Well played

Mickeroo

Icaras wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that was me that helped you! A lazy day turned into battle Saturday. Very satisfying kill.

Ah so it was, I couldn't for the life of me remember who it was when I posted earlier.

degrassinoel

Raidleading the first ragnaros kill for our guild in molten core (WoW) about ten years or so ago (back when it was top tier content) - pep talk and strategy took about 20 minutes, spent weeks before that trying to kill him and months trying to get to him

By Fire be PURGED!

Pretty proud of that achievement

Overheal

Getting the Salty title in World of Warcraft - part of which requires you to win the fishing tournament, which means if my recollection is right, only 12 people on a server per year even had a hope of getting the achievement, and that's before you account for people winning multiple tournaments. You also had to catch seasonal fish, which means it takes you a year of play to earn the title in addition to having to win a tournament.

I was happy to be known in raids as Salty Cheesebread. Not long after that my WoW life was basically complete and I decided to log off.

Inventive User Name

Felt like an amazing achievement winning the pokemon league on gameboy colour.
I'd have to think about, but the first one that came into my head was fighting Doctor Octopus at his fusion reactor in the warehouse, in Spiderman 2 on PS2. I'm not even sure if that's recognised as being a difficult level or game, but it took me ages!!

Azza

Beating Temco Wold Cup 90 "Euro League" in my local arcade Hot Shots. Fell off the stool in celebration! A very fond memory

Joining the JG 77 Squadron in IL2 Sturmovik, they had various induction's for new members into the squadron. The final induction was one on one dogfight with the squadrons top ace Jean-Pierre(JP) the so called JP test. It was squads equivalent to the Kobayashi Maru. On one ever passed. I picked the ME 109 G6/AS which had a better rate of climb, he went for the Yak-3 which was more maneuverable, both planes where roughly even in speed. It was boom n' zoom vs turn n' burn. I had developed a not very realistic bait and stall tactic where after a head to head confrontation I would go into a climb rather than turn after my opponent, allowing my opponent get behind me, my pursuer would then follow me into a completely vertical climb at range, I counted on both planes stalling at roughly the same time, then opening the flaps, inducing a dive, then hammer the throttle to recover, coming down on top of my opponent who often wasn't out of his own stall yet. A risky strategy as it did give my opponents a reasonable chance of landing a few rounds during the climb. JP wasn't as easily baited and would end his climb just before he would stall and when I came down after him he was too agile to hit.
We both had several modest chances to shoot each other down, JP scoring a few hits with his light machine gun, but they did no damage. In the end I ran out of fuel after an hour long dogfight (my plane had a smaller fuel tank than his). Keeping with the online game etiquette JP let me land unmolested. Afterwards he was highly complementary of my flying skills as where the spectating squad members. Very satisfying.

Beating "Mexico" number three ranked American faction player in Company of Heroes, he pulled out his internet connection to prevent the loss to a relatively low ranked player affecting his high rank. It worked for him and the next day he made it to number one. However the game auto records every match so I posted up a replay of the match on gamesreplay.org exposing the drop hack for all the world to see, despite his feeble attempts at an excuse he got dogs load of abuse thrown at him on the forums and in game chat rooms as a result, some COH fan site even did an article on it!

Taking one game of four off Ryan Heart in Super Street Fighter 4 AE 2012, when I was drunk in Cannes last year!

Beating X-Com Enemy Within on classic ironman, something according to the Steam achievement stats state that only 1.7% of players managed to achieve.

Dave_The_Sheep

Finishing the training course level 8 in X-Wing as a young lad. That was rough, seriously intense.

SeantheMan

Getting the S-Licence on Gran Turismo 3 back in the day....and then doing it all again for my mate who had the game....gave me his memory card for me to save it on for him.

Not anything especially difficult, but one I enjoyed and we were both happy with...was doing the Rock Band 1 endless setlist.
Basically had to play all 58 songs without stopping.
His missus was away for the weekend, so we started at 9pm ...bottle of vodka and some beers, and powered our way through until the early hours of the morning

The Domonator

Earning a platinum trophy for Socom Confrontation on the PS3, took me 2 years.

moc moc a moc

Beating Riven after about a feckin' year, back in the days before gamefaqs etc. I even kept a little notebook in which I scribbled notes and clues as I went, which is probably still in a box somewhere in my parents' attic.

entropi

Not quite sure tbh. On console, whether it was managing to beat the White Angel driver in Ridge Racer Revolution, beating Yiazmat in FFXII (over 50 million hp, took over 2 hours for that one fight), clearing everything on Phantom Mode in Wipeout 2097 (as mentioned by the OP) or at one time setting a world record in Gran Turismo 2 (fastest speed obtained on test track)...hard to judge.

In an MMO (both of these being in Dark Age of Camelot): being amongst the first core group of players to raid a revamped zone that had some new and really tough types of dragon in there, and beating it all (a U.S. server), or on a Euro server years ago (with no command groups & chat available at that time, only zone broadcast and a patchy Roger Wilco to utilise), leading a PvP raid of 150+ people from Hibernia and taking every keep and tower in Albion in a couple of hours (led to a successful relic raid too, so a very successful night overall ).

CiDeRmAn

I cleared Wipeout on the PS in one during, while hammered at a very early Playstation party hosted by Gamesworld, later GameStop.
I played a lot of the game but typically I player with a Negcon allowing analogue control of the player craft making the game a lot better, but on this night I only had the standard digital PS controller.
Nevertheless, I went from the opening race through the championship leagues and cleared the whole thing, with more alcohol in my system thank I care to admit.
Worse thing was no one watched me
But I knew I had achieved it, no memory card though to record the feat and I never really returned to the game after that, with the much better Wipeout 2097 being released the following year.

bugs

In keeping with the wipeout theme. Having the top worldwide multiplayer race time in chenghou project, vineta k and ubermall in wipeout HD on ps3. Played a disturbing amount of that at the time.

RedXIV

At 14 going into gamesworld in waterford where they had Tekken 2 set up on a stand, beating the current champion (as we all dutifully lined up) and getting a 42 win streak before my mother pulled me out of the store. Great times.

Or when I was 13 and finally beat FF7 after almost 2 years of playing it on off and having no idea what I was doing for most of it.

Charlie19

Ps2. scoring an albatros in tiger Woods 08
ps3. Getting a moab in mw3.
ps4. Nothing worth getting excited about.

CiDeRmAn

bugs wrote: »

In keeping with the wipeout theme. Having the top worldwide multiplayer race time in chenghou project, vineta k and ubermall in wipeout HD on ps3. Played a disturbing amount of that at the time.

If you don't already, pick up Wipeout for the Vita and get the HD tracks and Fury tracks free if you have them on the PS3, very cool indeed
And to complete my Wipeout love in contribution, I'm currently listening to PETROL by Orbital, from tge it album In Sides, and from the Wipeout soundtrack.

bugs

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

If you don't already, pick up Wipeout for the Vita and get the HD tracks and Fury tracks free if you have them on the PS3, very cool indeed
And to complete my Wipeout love in contribution, I'm currently listening to PETROL by Orbital, from tge it album In Sides, and from the Wipeout soundtrack.

Had hoped to play it on ps-tv, only to find it incompatible. To date the only wipeout I have yet to let consume my game time.

Pac1Man

Erm...I threw a perfect game on Wii bowling.

moonlighting

After playing counter-strike for a number of years i got really good at it. Every online server i joined i usually had the highest score. I became so good at it I had to quit because people kept complaining that I was cheating/hacking.