- Beating El Oscuro in Rise of the Triad
- First time I won at Impossible Mission on the C64
- Finishing Ultima V without manual or walkthrough
- Trapping the ball in Krakout (an Arkanoid style game) for theoretically infinite points.
Yeah...I tend to find achievements in old games more satisfying than the new. Maybe because if I hit a problem now, I can find the solution on the Internet too easily.
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I'm a kleptomaniac, but don't worry, I'm taking something.
"games people play - dice, cards...what are they but quick methods of wasting a man's money, and sending him straight off to become a thief?"
Getting over 1000ft with every character in the home run contest of SSB: Melee was cool for me. I also walloped the bag into the endless pit after 4,500 ft or so in my older copy of the game with Gannon. THAT is hilarious to see. It's a shame that you have to reset after that.
I also beat Super Metroid in... I think it was under two hours of play time... can't really remember.
Getting a legitimate 15+ combo in Tetris Attack was pretty hot too.
And then, Faxanadu, for the NES: my mother (yes, really) was crazy into this game, and although:
The Dwarf King, Grieve, swallowed his magical sword before he was transformed, hiding it in his own body to prevent The Evil One from acquiring it. It is only with this sword that The Evil One can be destroyed.
We made it to the end of the game without the item we were supposed to have that makes the boss fight fair. We couldn't beat the end boss, though we tried. Finally, my mother goes on a berserker rampage, and, disregarding all tactics, runs up to the thing and stands at its feet, stabbing it while taking damage from touching it. Due to hit-recovery times, she killed it with her last bit of life left. Don't come between soccer moms and victory at NES games.
Highroller, did you get all platinum medals in Blast Corps? That is a real good feeling =) such a great game.
Endurance runs on Rouge Squadron: Rouge Leader....so many ties....
3 heart Run of Ocarina of Time
2 hour run of Resident Evil 2
There are more but I cannot think of any that are epic or anything. Basically beating any rpg gives me a great feeling, and then I go to 100% the game. I played so much FFX that I had everyone go through the sphere grid and learn everything they could.
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Attaining a headshot against the hyper-talented DM players in the original Unreal pretty much makes my day. That game requires riddiculous skill, skill that I will never possess, so offing one of these godlike players is satisfying for me.
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Originally Posted by Green Arrow Yes I did, I wouldn't fully disagree with chronoplasam. Perhaps I do deserve toture. But who amongst us besides myself has what it takes to toture me?
Originally Posted by Highroller
Compared to what? I think compared to chocolate ice cream, women, unicorns, and kung fu, the state pretty much sucks.
Getting over 1000ft with every character in the home run contest of SSB: Melee was cool for me. I also walloped the bag into the endless pit after 4,500 ft or so in my older copy of the game with Gannon. THAT is hilarious to see. It's a shame that you have to reset after that.
I also beat Super Metroid in... I think it was under two hours of play time... can't really remember.
Getting a legitimate 15+ combo in Tetris Attack was pretty hot too.
And then, Faxanadu, for the NES: my mother (yes, really) was crazy into this game, and although:We made it to the end of the game without the item we were supposed to have that makes the boss fight fair. We couldn't beat the end boss, though we tried. Finally, my mother goes on a berserker rampage, and, disregarding all tactics, runs up to the thing and stands at its feet, stabbing it while taking damage from touching it. Due to hit-recovery times, she killed it with her last bit of life left. Don't come between soccer moms and victory at NES games.
Enchanting a short sword to +21 in an old version of Nethack.
To illustrate how difficult this is:
1) It takes about a day or so of playing to get an enchant weapon scroll. Each scroll increases the bonus of a weapon by 1.
2) When you enchant a weapon in nethack, there is an exponential chance of the weapon being destroyed. Enchanting a weapon to +1 has a 1 in 2 chance of succeeding. +2, 1 in 4. +3, 1 in 8. +4, 1 in 16... +21, 1 in 1.04 million.
3) There is no "reload" option in nethack. If the weapon explodes, you've lost the scrolls and the weapon, and you have to restart the process all over again.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Enchanting a short sword to +21 in an old version of Nethack.
To illustrate how difficult this is:
1) It takes about a day or so of playing to get an enchant weapon scroll. Each scroll increases the bonus of a weapon by 1.
2) When you enchant a weapon in nethack, there is an exponential chance of the weapon being destroyed. Enchanting a weapon to +1 has a 1 in 2 chance of succeeding. +2, 1 in 4. +3, 1 in 8. +4, 1 in 16... +21, 1 in 1.04 million.
3) There is no "reload" option in nethack. If the weapon explodes, you've lost the scrolls and the weapon, and you have to restart the process all over again.
4) After having grinded the item to +18, it's still vulnerable to rust monsters / some creature disarming it, picking it up and teleporting away or just breaking it.
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The Sage is occupied with the unspoken
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
YOU... ARE... GOD!!!!!
Darn it, where is the 'bow down' smily? Rats.
I tried that for SO LONG...
The funniest thing is, I got further on him than I ever got on that other guy, the Ice Giant...
Seph is sick hard.
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- Beating original Wolfenstein without picking up a single heath pack
- Beating Portal without dying
- Getting the 'Brass Balls' Achivement in BioShock
- Finishing Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 on Realistic (these games are really hard)
- 100% completion on Lost Odyssey
- Beating the Simpsons arcade game on just one quarter
- Beating original Time Crisis on just two quarters (costs 2 to play)
I played so much FFX that I had everyone go through the sphere grid and learn everything they could.
Hey, congrats for real. Here's the challenge I'm currently working on regarding that game. Maybe you could give it a go:
Buy a bunch of Clear Spheres and erase all everything that's not +4. Then beat the corrosponding monsters and really max out the grid. This is how I got Tidus and company to over 70,000 HP. Still not done either!! Give it a shot if your interested.
@budget player cadet: Think I got me a quotable quote. Thanks! As for the Ice Titan. He's actually very very easy. All you have to do is stand back and when ever he chucks ice at you press the defend button and it will fling it back at him. With a little of practice, you should have no trouble beating him up.
I had thought of another one: Beating Metal Gear Solid 2 on Very Easy, Easy, Normal, and Hard. I've beet Extreme on the Tanker episode and I'm almost done with it on the Plant episode, but man it's ****ing hard! Taking me forever to get past that stupid jet!!! (And I still have to swim...bleh!!)
*Making Astroids in Pascal in comp science as a response to the clueless teacher handing out data base after database assignment. I didn't have to do anymore work in CS that year.
beating sephiroth in KH1 was tough. I was abusive enough to do it on hard...big mistake playing that game on hard first time through...
-beating Demon's Crest on the SNES all the way through. The secret boss you kill with ultimate crest was just stupid...took me months.
-getting to play on the moon in Blast Corps.
@Selvaxri: You don't have to be so rude. I never insulted your taste in games or called you annoying. Please just keep those comments to yourself. Thankyou
- Friz
and how am i being rude?
i am quite proud of the fact that i enjoy other games outside the FF series, without being completely dependant on the FF series.
answer me this, friz, have you ever played Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture? probably not. Do your self a favor- go out and get a copy of Persona 3: FES (only $30.)
as for beating Stuperoth in both KH games, look around you. people are bragging about it. i still stand by my statement: BIG FRIGGIN' WHOOP.
I beat Stuperoth in both games, and found him highly annoying with his uber-attacks.
still, KH were hack'n'slash games... there wasn't alot of strategy involved in beating him.
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Ah, but how far are you in the emperor's secret order? That is the true question.
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Logical Reasoning is dead; Long Live Stupidity
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I love Joboman, Poggy, Niv, and Vezok, because, while they may not be the best players, they still try to win. Having fun is the most important thing to a game, but I've learned that if you don't try to win, then you're ruining everyone else's fun.
I beat Sephiroth in both Kingdom Hearts games without bragging because I didn't think it was all that much. I mean, it took a few hours for the first, but once I learned his moves, I could beat him without using items every time. And I beat Sephiroth in the second one the first time I tried him.
I was very happy when I beat TIE-Fighter. One of those missions took weeks. The same with beating Super Mario Bros., which I have trouble repeating despite having most of the levels memorized.
With any luck, I'll have completed the Ocarina of Time über challenge sometime in the next year or so.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
In no order:
- Having Micaiah from FE: RD Top 5 for most kills (not easy)
- Having Soren from FE: RD and FE: PoR completely max all stats
- Scoring a perfect 160 score on Mario Kart: DD, mirror mode all tour cup
- Getting 100% on the card game from FF 8
- Getting Knights of the Round in FF7
- Suffering through FFX-2 three times to get a perfect 100% that was not worth it
- Winning 379 Blitzball games straight and counting in FFX
- Scoring over 650 hours of game play on FFX -- and counting
- Having everyone but Khimari over 30,000 HP (and counting)
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I don't have any hard numbers on this, but I'm targeted more often than a black guy driving a beat-up sedan with a broken tail-light and no license plate, and Cy's well aware of that.
I was very happy when I beat TIE-Fighter. One of those missions took weeks.
Any chance you remember the mission? For me, the muurian transport one was godawful the first time around. But afterwards i got better. Still, it's not nice giving you the cheapest ship ever (Missile boat) and then going, hey, now that you're used to being overpowered, here's not the 2nd most powerful craft, but the 3rd most powerful...ugh.
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Logical Reasoning is dead; Long Live Stupidity
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I love Joboman, Poggy, Niv, and Vezok, because, while they may not be the best players, they still try to win. Having fun is the most important thing to a game, but I've learned that if you don't try to win, then you're ruining everyone else's fun.
and how am i being rude?
answer me this, friz, have you ever played Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture? probably not. Do your self a favor- go out and get a copy of Persona 3: FES (only $30.)
Sorry probably just the way I read it...*shrugs*
I'll see if I can find those games. I am a huge Final Fantasy fan and take pride in the fact that I completely obliterate every one. I'm also quite addicted to the Chrono games, Suikoden, and Kingdom Hearts. Different strokes I guess.
Thing is, I play every game like an RPG. I have to get every secret and max out every stat to feel as though I actually beat it. And I know alot of people beat Sephiroth, but it still made me feel proud. It seems as though most people here feel the same way.
I like to break games. I know most people feel that after a certain point, they just get boring that way, but not me. If my characters are so powerfull that nothing can present a challenge, I feel as if I've accomplished something. It's the reason I leveled Aerith up to 99 before the end of the first disk. It's the reason why I'm not content with a FF game until I start seeing stats at 255. It's just the way I am. Same goes for getting every package / horseshoe / seashell / graffiti in the GTA games. I'm like a Phyrexian. I need to feel "complete".
- First time I won at Impossible Mission on the C64
- Finishing Ultima V without manual or walkthrough
- Trapping the ball in Krakout (an Arkanoid style game) for theoretically infinite points.
Yeah...I tend to find achievements in old games more satisfying than the new. Maybe because if I hit a problem now, I can find the solution on the Internet too easily.
"games people play - dice, cards...what are they but quick methods of wasting a man's money, and sending him straight off to become a thief?"
- Thomas More, Utopia
I also beat Super Metroid in... I think it was under two hours of play time... can't really remember.
Getting a legitimate 15+ combo in Tetris Attack was pretty hot too.
And then, Faxanadu, for the NES: my mother (yes, really) was crazy into this game, and although: We made it to the end of the game without the item we were supposed to have that makes the boss fight fair. We couldn't beat the end boss, though we tried. Finally, my mother goes on a berserker rampage, and, disregarding all tactics, runs up to the thing and stands at its feet, stabbing it while taking damage from touching it. Due to hit-recovery times, she killed it with her last bit of life left. Don't come between soccer moms and victory at NES games.
Endurance runs on Rouge Squadron: Rouge Leader....so many ties....
3 heart Run of Ocarina of Time
2 hour run of Resident Evil 2
There are more but I cannot think of any that are epic or anything. Basically beating any rpg gives me a great feeling, and then I go to 100% the game. I played so much FFX that I had everyone go through the sphere grid and learn everything they could.
now begins the thousand years of REIGN OF BLOOD!
Tetris reminded me;
My highest level score in tetris - Level 20.
*shudder*
That game was so bad at points....
To illustrate how difficult this is:
1) It takes about a day or so of playing to get an enchant weapon scroll. Each scroll increases the bonus of a weapon by 1.
2) When you enchant a weapon in nethack, there is an exponential chance of the weapon being destroyed. Enchanting a weapon to +1 has a 1 in 2 chance of succeeding. +2, 1 in 4. +3, 1 in 8. +4, 1 in 16... +21, 1 in 1.04 million.
3) There is no "reload" option in nethack. If the weapon explodes, you've lost the scrolls and the weapon, and you have to restart the process all over again.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
4) After having grinded the item to +18, it's still vulnerable to rust monsters / some creature disarming it, picking it up and teleporting away or just breaking it.
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
YOU... ARE... GOD!!!!!
Darn it, where is the 'bow down' smily? Rats.
I tried that for SO LONG...
The funniest thing is, I got further on him than I ever got on that other guy, the Ice Giant...
Seph is sick hard.
Added bonus: we're holding a songwriting contest in march with a registry drive going on right now! Check it out, plus the opportunity to earn $50!
- Beating Portal without dying
- Getting the 'Brass Balls' Achivement in BioShock
- Finishing Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 on Realistic (these games are really hard)
- 100% completion on Lost Odyssey
- Beating the Simpsons arcade game on just one quarter
- Beating original Time Crisis on just two quarters (costs 2 to play)
Hey, congrats for real. Here's the challenge I'm currently working on regarding that game. Maybe you could give it a go:
Buy a bunch of Clear Spheres and erase all everything that's not +4. Then beat the corrosponding monsters and really max out the grid. This is how I got Tidus and company to over 70,000 HP. Still not done either!! Give it a shot if your interested.
@budget player cadet: Think I got me a quotable quote. Thanks! As for the Ice Titan. He's actually very very easy. All you have to do is stand back and when ever he chucks ice at you press the defend button and it will fling it back at him. With a little of practice, you should have no trouble beating him up.
I had thought of another one: Beating Metal Gear Solid 2 on Very Easy, Easy, Normal, and Hard. I've beet Extreme on the Tanker episode and I'm almost done with it on the Plant episode, but man it's ****ing hard! Taking me forever to get past that stupid jet!!! (And I still have to swim...bleh!!)
- Friz
*Making Street Fighter on an Atari computer.
-beating Demon's Crest on the SNES all the way through. The secret boss you kill with ultimate crest was just stupid...took me months.
-getting to play on the moon in Blast Corps.
can't think of more right now.
and how am i being rude?
i am quite proud of the fact that i enjoy other games outside the FF series, without being completely dependant on the FF series.
answer me this, friz, have you ever played Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture? probably not. Do your self a favor- go out and get a copy of Persona 3: FES (only $30.)
as for beating Stuperoth in both KH games, look around you. people are bragging about it. i still stand by my statement: BIG FRIGGIN' WHOOP.
I beat Stuperoth in both games, and found him highly annoying with his uber-attacks.
still, KH were hack'n'slash games... there wasn't alot of strategy involved in beating him.
King of Misfortune & Master of Rocket Launchers
"Do ya feel lucky? Because you'd better start runnin' while you still can."
375 Misfortune {+3 signed AP's} & 104 Rocket Launcher (41 AQ/ 63 Rev)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, forgotten legend of the word.
Ah, but how far are you in the emperor's secret order? That is the true question.
Logical Reasoning is dead; Long Live Stupidity
I was very happy when I beat TIE-Fighter. One of those missions took weeks. The same with beating Super Mario Bros., which I have trouble repeating despite having most of the levels memorized.
With any luck, I'll have completed the Ocarina of Time über challenge sometime in the next year or so.
- Having Micaiah from FE: RD Top 5 for most kills (not easy)
- Having Soren from FE: RD and FE: PoR completely max all stats
- Scoring a perfect 160 score on Mario Kart: DD, mirror mode all tour cup
- Getting 100% on the card game from FF 8
- Getting Knights of the Round in FF7
- Suffering through FFX-2 three times to get a perfect 100% that was not worth it
- Winning 379 Blitzball games straight and counting in FFX
- Scoring over 650 hours of game play on FFX -- and counting
- Having everyone but Khimari over 30,000 HP (and counting)
UUU Azami, Lady of Scrolls
RRR Diaochan, Artful Beauty
UR(U/R) Tibor, Lumia, & Melek (WIP)
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Indeed he would. How
nobleevil of youAny chance you remember the mission? For me, the muurian transport one was godawful the first time around. But afterwards i got better. Still, it's not nice giving you the cheapest ship ever (Missile boat) and then going, hey, now that you're used to being overpowered, here's not the 2nd most powerful craft, but the 3rd most powerful...ugh.
Logical Reasoning is dead; Long Live Stupidity
Sorry probably just the way I read it...*shrugs*
I'll see if I can find those games. I am a huge Final Fantasy fan and take pride in the fact that I completely obliterate every one. I'm also quite addicted to the Chrono games, Suikoden, and Kingdom Hearts. Different strokes I guess.
Thing is, I play every game like an RPG. I have to get every secret and max out every stat to feel as though I actually beat it. And I know alot of people beat Sephiroth, but it still made me feel proud. It seems as though most people here feel the same way.
I like to break games. I know most people feel that after a certain point, they just get boring that way, but not me. If my characters are so powerfull that nothing can present a challenge, I feel as if I've accomplished something. It's the reason I leveled Aerith up to 99 before the end of the first disk. It's the reason why I'm not content with a FF game until I start seeing stats at 255. It's just the way I am. Same goes for getting every package / horseshoe / seashell / graffiti in the GTA games. I'm like a Phyrexian. I need to feel "complete".
- Friz
Beating a bunch of people in the Arcade in Street Fighter using Blanka. and the only move I knew was HP and throw. This was back in elementary.
Seph on KH but he was kinda easy, especially with "last chance" (? forget the name).
Beating the Streets of Rage games with one life.