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My greatest was finishing Cod 5 on Veteran today, not because it was impossible, but because I lost all my mission progress up to Vendetta and had to start the whole game again. | |
Headshotting 4 guys in CS for the first time with the starting Terrorist pistol. I've never done that again. | |
My first was completing the first level of Mario on the Gameboy. My greatest was completing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 to 100% without using cheats. I loved that game. | |
I remember when I was younger, playing Final Fantasy VII, having no idea how to use the Materia system, I went all the way through to the Boss, Rufus on top of the Midgar Tower, took me ages to actually do it with Cloud not having any healing magic and me not actually knowing that I could buy potions; some how I actually beat him and just as I got into the open world I learnt what the damn Materia system was; I also think that was the first time I ever major facepalmed at how silly I was for not knowing that. | |
Up to Vendetta was OK. I did that without too much bother. But Vendetta itself? That fucking sniper battle was hair-tearingly unfair. I could hide anywhere, even downstairs behind that bar. He sprinted across his window, didn't pause, his hand turned the corner and fired as he skidded to a halt, and insta-killed me. This happened many times, until, one day, I hit him first. I got very angry when I heard Sgt. reznov - "You only grazed him!" No, I bloody didn't, I put a bullet through his lung. That sniper could have won the whole war by himself. | |
Discovering metal gear online. Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday. | |
Oldest and greatest gaming victory: completing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the gameboy when i was 8. Took me bloody ages. Most recent gaming victory: Psyconaughts. That last platforming section made me emotionally breakdown. | |
Beating Cool Spot for Genesis with all the letters of "UNCOLA" and taking a picture of the secret ending screen! I should scan that in to the computer some time if I have a scanner around. (Sadly, the contest was long over by the time I got that, but I was like 10, it was exciting!) | |
Greatest? Marching proudly through Baldur's Gate 1 AND 2 (AND both expansions) with one character. He was magnificent! First? Beating the first, and original, Prince of Persia. CD C:\prince Awesome. | |
I don't know which is my greatest victory, but the first game I ever beat was Strider on the original NES. No, I didn't beat Super Mario Bros. first. For some reason that damn game eluded me until I went back to try it again about 6 years ago. Go figure. | |
My first pc game, Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The second campaign with the U-boats, during your escape your supposed to run to the train waiting on for you with some allied soldiers trying to give you covering fire, but your supposed to run through 30 - 40 meters of open ground with a few boxes for cover and 50 German soldiers trying to stop you. After you make into the train one of the allied soldiers says " I think i wet myself". WIN | |
Well, I got news for ya. I'm 27 and that makes me old enough to be in the Atari age, which I have been. So, first victory would be in dominating a fair few of them simple-but-fun games in my youth. As for my first greatest victory...I have no freaking clue at this point. | |
The first time I got MVP in Hardcore team deathmatch on COD4. Not particularly amazing, but it made me feel good. Greatest? Tanking Karazhan as a frost mage in Warcraft. | |
Yes! My god that was a fantastic game, and back then World War Two games weren't everywhere you looked. And that was my favourite moment of that game. | |
First would have to be completing Alien Trilogy (the first game I ever played to completion) while my greatest would have to be...can't really decide on a greatest achievement to be honest. | |
My most memorable moment in gaming was a LAN not too long ago where I managed to kill the entire opposing team of five guys in a game of CoD4 multiplayer with one, single, well-placed RPG rocket! 8D | |
Hmm, not quite sure what my greatest acheivement would be... Possibly getting gold for my M60E4 on CoD4. Not paticularly amazing I know, but noteworthy. | |
finishing gears of war 2 on hardest difficulty without dying once thank god its over | |
First? Probably beating one of my SNES games with my brother. It was either Goof Troop the game or Spiderman and Venom: Separation Anxiety. Greatest: Well that would be beating Thunder Ripple in Shadow of the Colossus. I know its not exactly hard, but I'm so terrified of underwater creatures that to finally beat him and be over with that section of the game felt better than beating three FPS games in a row. | |
4 player deathmatch Doom. Two of my friends had told me how much better the game is using the mouse, but I adamantly refused to abandon my keyboard-only controls and I destroyed them all utterly. Of course, when it came time to move to Quake, I was repeatedly owned as I adjusted to the Y axis. | |
Getting my parents to buy me a NES :) | |
Agreed. getting it set up is a pain in the ass but once your playing, its second to none. | |
Finishing Painkiller on Singing AND Guitar, second time, with a 3/4. | |
You and me both. Ah... Greatest victory? I suppose it'd be winning colonization. That game is pretty hard. Also, I remember beating all my friends at Civ2, back when it was the height of gaming excellence. Also, my first gaming "victory" was when I performed a successful operation in Life and Death 2. Man, was I happy. And relieved. | |
First: beating DuckTales on NES. That game still ROCKS. I've beaten other games since then, but still - EPIC. WIN.
Don't feel too bad, it took me 21 years to beat that bloody game. Last October I was just on fire, I guess. | |
first: finding the dot in Adventure for the Atari 2600 | |
First unaided? Mew in Pokemon Snap the little bastard Greatest? Doing a Leeroy Jenkins in WoW for the hell of it, though I did tell them before hand and they were fine with it. | |
Greatest Not dying once and winning every match in a two day halo marathon against people who I had accepted to be better than me. Every pistol shot got a ding, every assault rifle burst killed their shield and was quickly followed by a perfectly aimed sticky grenade - every powerup became my bitch; much like my friends who i was wiping the floor with, winning by margins of at least 50% of the kills on the entire map. The pizza was perfect; the coke was just right; my couch was firm but comfortable; my hairstyle was impecable... It was all good. How did my reign end? It didn't :D that's why it's my greatest acheivement, I haven't played multiplayer halo:CE on xBox since, and still retain the title of 'best halo player in the world' in my eyes 'cause i went two days (countless matches) winning every match and not dying once. Note: I said 'in my eyes' so if someone says something like 'err noo, blahblah24 is the best halo player on the earth you noob' then god shalt bitch slap them for being "pants on head retarted" ps. I didn't use any covenant guns
Close but no cigar :P I actually pulled that guy... I can't remember the names... In MC there's a boss that does giant arcane explosions and blinks, then you pull another boss (i think that one was a fire one) to the same place and duke it out - i actually ran to pull the guy without anyone noticing and kited him back while they were still forming the raid.. Best part? I was GM and had been calling out instructions for where to form up the whole time I was kiting. And I didn't give myself any -DKP ... "okay guys, now that we're about halfway done setting up let's take a break and toss a boss around" First | |
Wait. setting it up? What do you mean? | |
Finishing Streets of Rage 2 with my mum when I was about three. | |
greatest: beating two friends at once 2v1 with unlimited funds to choose our armies on rome TW | |
My first AND greatest victory: World Of Warcraft! | |
I can't even beat ONE level in Veteran. Good job. | |
When I beat Captain Skyhawk for the NES with a friend during a sleepover. It was the first game I EVER beat. | |
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I remember when I was a wee child of just 6 or 7 and I had Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. The first boss in that game was some yellow bird thing that chased you round a circular battlefield. However, I was young, and a bit stupid, and didn't realise I had to run from him and wait for him to get tired. Weeks and weeks passed with me dying over and over, as I would just run up to him in the hopes that somehow, for some reason, I'd kick his ass this time around.
Then one fateful day I saw an ad for Croc on the TV, featured in the ad was footage of Croc running away from a boss. I thought to myself "hmmm, I'll try that", so I did, and lo and behold, I finally beat the boss I had been stuck at for almost a month!
Ok, it's no amazing feat or anything, but that was my first real "Gaming Victory", any o' you Escapists remember the glorious time you first beat a difficult challenge? Post your stories here!