What's your greatest gaming achievement?

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » August 3rd, 2009, 11:00

What's your greatest gaming achievement?
It seems strange but some of my proudest moments are ones that I've lived through virtually. Some of the best things I've done are things that I've never really done - though I don't mean that in the fantastical "I've saved planets and won wars" way that projects in-game experiences as being real.

Yes, I've made millions trading star dust and I've stormed castles and heroically held the line...but those aren't the moments I'm proud of, not really. Instead, my greatest achievements in gaming recognise games as something I've actually done, not a virtual experience. My mental list of great achievements doesn't include the time that I saved the world from an evil Vizier, but it does have space for the time that I fought through the climactic elevator battle in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time without dying.

I'm being careful here not to fall into the all-too-familiar trap of getting carried away with my own story by the way and I can still draw a distinction between my greatest gaming achievement and my greatest actual achievement. The time that I made it all the way to SinTower in a HardCorps run (i.e. all in one go) in SiN Episodes is a highlight, but it pales next to the first time I got published. There's a Everything2 quote that comes to mind on this topic - "the most you ever dream of is not better than the least you ever accomplish."

Even so though, I'm at the moment readying myself to embark on something that could be a great achievement for me both in terms of gaming performance and personally. I've been building up to it for a fortnight.

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Post by **FatherJack** » August 3rd, 2009, 14:45

400 hours in a game isn't that long for an MMO and a whole series of RPGs probably equate to that.

Post by **Dog Pants** » August 3rd, 2009, 15:32

Getting the Little Rocket Man achievement in Half Life 2 Ep 2 was a good one. No 'killing shit for long enough to get something from the RNG' like in MMONGs, this was all me.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » August 3rd, 2009, 20:14

FatherJack wrote:400 hours in a game isn't that long for an MMO and a whole series of RPGs probably equate to that.

I took over 100 hours just on FFVII. Hell, I'm close if not over 300 days in FFXI.

Post by **deject** » August 4th, 2009, 2:51

Making Lt. Gen. in BF2142, that felt good (even though I lost it after not playing for a week).

Post by **Joose** » August 4th, 2009, 6:37

I think my greatest gaming achievement has to be finally quitting EVE. That took some doing.

Post by **fabyak** » August 4th, 2009, 8:52

hahaha, with you on that one Joose!

Also playing an F1 racing game on the Amiga (early polygon jobber, damn good game!) and somehow managing to powerslide around the outside of someone doing 180 and still doing it at the exit of the corner

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 4th, 2009, 9:02

I'm not sure it's great but 150 hours in AoC in one week. I built the village too, was pretty chuffed about that.

The first time you rail gun multiple people in quake 3. That's good.

Getting invited to play the StK and ogre clans in halo 2 and not losing badly.

Completing urban strike on the megadrive, it was fucking nails.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 4th, 2009, 12:24

Getting a Congressional Medal of Honor in Gunship! was one of my earliest memories of a great achievement in a game.

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » August 4th, 2009, 15:02

Beating Super Mario Brothers 2 way back in the day. I dare say that's the first game I went through and completed on my own. I remembered how excited I was when I did it. I was jumping up and down screaming "I beat it! I beat it!"

I did something similar when I hit puberty, but that's a completely different story...

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » August 5th, 2009, 16:47

friznit wrote:Getting a Congressional Medal of Honor in Gunship! was one of my earliest memories of a great achievement in a game.

... not killing one of the most feared rapid pirate ships (Interdictor) piloted by a really quite good (although we'd never tell him that to his pod) pilot (Chongus) in EVE with one welshman and 2 haulers?

I'd be dining off that for life, if I'd been involved of course....

I quite enjoyed breaking the 20 second barrier in the ship storming practice thing in COD4. Or maybe I was just releived. Took fekking ages. God knows how the PC set record of 15.1 was set. Prolly some YooToob of a 12 year old doing it in 13 somewhere. effin kids

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 6th, 2009, 23:05

Killing Chongus was pretty cool, but most people here wouldn't have a fucking clue what I was babbling on about so I didn't mention it. But since we're on spreadsheets in space, hitting the 0.25 trillion isk mark the other day was a nice achievment too

Oh yeah, and The Firm got Glory of the Ulduar Raider the other day, for which I helped with about two thirds of the kills before getting f'ing bored with grinding Ulduar and quit playing.