I managed a cyber cafe many years ago. Mostly filled with regulars that I knew on a first name basis and would usually sit in for a CS match if it was slow.
I wouldn’t call myself great but I could take down middle schoolers. That’s not what this post is about though.
A girl walks in, has some sweats on from the big university that’s not too close but still in the area.
She wipes all those kids out repeatedly. They start yelling, asking me to help them out so I do. I’m effectively going 50% with this person.
Before she leaves she reveals that’s she’s visiting her parents for the weekend and that she was on a team that was ranked or otherwise played professionally.
I asked her if I was good enough to play competitively.
She said no, she hadn’t played at all for a few months because of school and she was going easy.
Felt pretty proud that I was able to keep up with an out-of-shape pro.
Mine? Not much... I obtained all the achievements in WWE 2k14. That included some online only achievements that required certain ranking position. Not much I know.
Also obtained all achievements in the mass effect trilogy (which isn't that hard tbh) just time consuming.
Hollow Knight 112% completion is what I'm most proud of. It was hard!
The one that felt most impressive at the time was a successful Mun mission in Kerbal Space Program.
First time I beat subnautica was on permadeath mode, that took a damned long time.
When I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, you only owned a few games if you had an NES or SNES (or Sega equivalent) even if you rented/played a lot of them. So, I got insanely good at the few games I owned. After I beat Street Fighter II with every character on the highest difficulty, I decided to beat the game using only one button (plus the D pad, obviously). Finally did it with Chun Li and X button.
With Super Mario World, the hardest personal challenge I did was beating every level except the switch blocks. There’s a bunch of secret exits where switch blocks are supposed to be the way. It took a lot of cape+blue Yoshi shenanigans to get that one done.
Now that I’m old (or least older) and games are way longer, my biggest accomplishment is actually finding time to play a game all the way through, much less do side quests. I made time for BoTW, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier: Automata, and Hades. But if I stop playing a game for awhile, I forget all the controls and that’s the end of that game.
Thousands of hours in Skyrim and I've yet to kill a bunny once. To be clear, this is intentional. I wish no ill on the bunnies. Just happy that I've somehow managed to not kill one accidentally.
Got all achievements in The Binding of Isaac (flash version).
I beat Mario Lost Levels once. On the SNES with saves, but I beat it.
Long time ago, I would play Transport Tycoon (Deluxe?) all the time. I had this just about fully built map, I was forced to optimize everything because the game didn't allow any more railway stations or depots to be built.
One day, the news pops up that my company will go bankrupt if performance doesn't improve, I find myself in a balance of some number starting with -2.147... I couldn't find a way to the positives to save my company so I reloaded last save, I purchased the max amount of trains and carriages to sell when the apocalypse happens, I would build a significant amount of the map in railway that I could get refunded. No way I could achieve over 2 billion in one year.
Eventually I learn that the max value a 32 bit processor can have is 2,147,483,647, until it flips over to -2,147,483,647. I had become so successful that the hardware in my PC couldn't handle it! I take plenty of pride in this achievement. I actually beat an endless game.
In my first play through of Dark Souls, I killed Ornstein last and therefore got his armor. Maybe not terribly hard, but by far my favorite achievement.
It’s easier to kill Smough last but his armor isn’t as cool as Ornstein’s.
Beat every Pikmin game 100%
I beat that stupid track in Star Wars Racer where you are muuuuch too slow if you fall onto a lower track. Without any upgrades so that I had enough credits to max out everything.
Successfully dodged WoW back in the days, got a degree instead. The only winning move is not to play.
6 solo wins in a row on Fortnite. Decided thst i couldn't stop playing until I lost after the second win.
Got stuck in a glitch Fortnite game with NO STORM. Took over an hour to find everyone and get the win. Had to just fly around in a helicopter until the last dude shot at me.
Completing everything in Goldeneye (finished all levels on 00 agent, all cheat challenges completed, etc)
Got my name published in Nintendo Power for beating Ocarina of Time with only 3 hearts and no deaths
Completing FF7 in one 19 hour sitting (not a crazy fast time, but I also completed a decent amount of side quests for their useful rewards)
Being a top raiding mage in WoW, and maxing out gold on multiple characters and guild banks
Anytime I finish a game is a pretty big achievement. Lots of games I play and just either get bored of or forget about. Stray, Cyberpunk, Subnautica, Outer Wilds, etc… I just can’t seem to finish games. I’m now trying to play RDR2, so hopefully I can complete it. Hogwarts Legacy is the latest game I’ve fully completed (last year), but I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter, so I feel like that helped.
Facebook used to (or still does?) have games on it. When Tetris was added, I climbed to the #1 rank in the world in one of the modes, I forget which. Didn't last long though
Going the whole distance in QWOP
Back in the day, I could finish Fatal Frame 2(Wii edition) in under 3 hours. I had played it a lot so my camera was is "festival" mode and full upgraded, so I could pretty much kill a ghost on sight which sped things up.
Professional Halo player. Signed a contract to play, but never got the chance to play the following season.
100% achievements in Celeste.
I'm in the top ten in The Stanley Parable
I have 2 and they both relate to FarCry 2.
Playing a game of team death-match in FarCry 2 at a LAN party. first team to 100 kills win. When it got down to the last 10 kills someone looks at the scoreboard and realises that I had more than 50 kills. The next closest player was 27 kills on the other team. After that match, I was no longer permitted to use the sniper class.
At a completely separate LAN party playing FarCry 2 before I was banned from snipering I was playing my usual strat of hiding and sniping. After about 20 min of gameplay the son of the LANs organizer , who was about 5 at the time, shouted out "Who is PedoBear?" those who heard it started laughing their asses off including the kids dad. We had to pause the match while we settled down. Yes, my display name was Pedobear.
Collected all helmets on Master level difficulty without dying at Titanfall 2.
I used to be a (semi)pro gamer! Basically the college football of gaming... But like... It was Team Fortress 2 so it's more like the college mens Volleyball of gaming...
Anyway!
RGL Advanced Highlander Season 5 - Grand Finals.
lay civ 5 vs I Hate Mondays
Neither team was favored to win the season but after multiple upsets during playoffs, they both ended up there.
It was EXTREMELY close!
The first round on Ashville went to I Hate Mondays with every round being almost dead even.
The second round, on vigil, went to a tie breaker within the round as lay civ 5 and I Hate Mondays trade blows. Eventually lay civ 5 got the points.
With a score of 1-1 the game went to a tie breaker on swiftwater...
Round 1 went to I Hate Mondays by about 30 seconds.
Round 2 was incredibly close. Both teams had better scores but ultimately lay civ 5 won with literally 0 seconds left on the clock.
The final round... The tie breaker of the tie breaker...
Lay civ 5 starts and gets a solid time. About the same as round 1...
And just like round 1, I Hate Mondays manages to sneak away with an extremely close victory. Making them the unlikely champions of Season 5 Advanced!
Despite division dysphoria having an undefeated score and even Home Depot Esports having more wins than both of the teams in grands... I Hate Mondays took home the gold and I firmly take the credit for it!
Of course... I was playing for lay civ 5... But I promise you... I was the reason that I Hate Mondays won.
99 woodcutting!
I was in the Battle of B-r5rb under the Halloween Coalition (and won, cue the wrath of former N3 Coalitionaires and Pandemic Legionaires). This actually technically makes me a war veteran.
Being a top ranked (PvE) enhancement Shaman during BC. Those were the totem twisting days and managing a rotation was about as nuts as it ever was when I was still playing.
Then life got in the way.
Then I came back and played fire warlock. (It was the most selfish spec in the game at the time. 0 synergy with any other class and gave no buffs, but hell did it put out the numbers.)
Out of game, my complaint to one of the heads of the game that the game didn't have steam saves, so they added that, so that was cool?
In Starmourn, I have a number of honors for being votes for during the yearly player awards. I also have a number of designs I enjoy inflicting on people.
I'm the King of Dragon Pass. Without using a guide...
Top 150 ranked in world on Company of Heroes 1v1 a long time ago lol. Got to play against some of the #1's - one of them left to join the South Korean military I heard. Got stomped but was fun.
I was pretty damn good at C&C Generals: Zero Hour back in the day. Damn I wish they remastered that game.
Was ranked on global leaderboards in Dota for a brief moment, too. Top 1%, but never close to the 0.1%.
My favorite moment in gaming was playing a sniper in Red Orchestra in a large 64 player game. Huge map. All game I'm sniping people left and right. Not dying once. Meanwhile throughout the game, like 30 minutes, the enemy sniper is equally decimating my team's ranks. I was hunting for him the entire game to no avail. Then, while prone I crest this ridgeline to scout a valley below and as I pan my scope to look all the way down toward the other side of my ridgeline, I see the other sniper lock with me at Exactly. The Same. Time.
We both fire.
And since Red Orchestra actually tries to simulate ballistics, we both hit each other and die.
I beat Dot Hack Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine in order back when they were first releasing on the PS2 in the US. And importing my memory card save every time.
My friend witnessed me defeat the final boss in Quarantine. It was such a long and crazy fight. And the whole thing was just mindblowing.
Sadly I don't have any pictures or videos of it. And I traded in my PS2 a long time ago.
I have been considering revisiting the game but it's a big game with ALOT of content. I don't know when I'll get around to it.
Good times and Good memories.
Platinumed Destiny and Destiny 2.
I took an Oxygen Not Included (pre Spaced Out) colony to 5000 cycles with almost no time warp. It was still going strong too, I just wanted to switch to the new (at the time) DLC.
A couple years ago I won 2048
Finished Doom eternal ultra nightmare I guess?
In crawl stone soup I had a win with every species and every background. They added more and I haven't kept up, but it was a pretty big deal.
It's a good rogue like. Recommend checking it out if you like the genre.
After way too many hours I finally got to Immortal rank in Dota 2. Now I feel kind of done with it haha
I realize that this is only an achievement to me, but when I got the Poeples Hero achievement for Skyrim. I was playing through as myself, trying to help everyone I could. I just wiped out the Dark Botherhood and it popped up. I was honestly touched, as I really cared about those stupid digital poeple I was saving. It made me feel like I was really making a difference.
beat my uncle on red alert :)
I've platinumed every version of every FROM Soulsborne game on every platform that has trophies/achievements.
Making myself known on the Dreamcastic Channel on YouTube by playing Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 with none other than Pcwzrd.
He was either ‘Teal’c’ or ‘Afro Thunder’ on there.
This was before I started over when I got another working copy of PSO after the other one broke.
I think, probably....spending many hours over a few weeks helping people experience and love Journey after I got my White Robe. Twirling around on the sand dunes, exploring strange places, avoiding danger, and finally seeing them pass through that mountain.
For me every time someone stuck it out added to the memories and I hope each of them remembers that chirpy white robed player who made the game just a little more fun.
I maxed out the buzz lighter shooter ride in Disney... 9s all across. I have a picture of it somewhere
I’m the largest collector of Anivia merch on earth, and her biggest fan. I’ve had communications with all the famous Anivia related people, am the best Anivia player in my country, and probably close to the world; but I defs am the biggest fan and follower of her :>
I was rank 34 warlock serverwide in wow before I abandoned it. I already have a job don't want another.
Staged a coup in my Archage guild, we managed to get away with basically all of the guild assets.
Joined guild, made friends with one of the officers and his small in-group of pvpers. Was a reliable asset and helped us get a couple of merchant ships and a galleon, plus had farms just full of high value trade packs.
Problem was the GM and I didn't get along very well. She wanted to dictate how we named the ships in a way that I felt was cringe as hell and generally wasn't open to input or criticism at all. One day I logged in at like 2 or 3 am when no one else in the guild was online and I just left the guild. Next day I logged in and sent messages to the people I'd made friends with and told them the GM kicked me, since it was well known she didn't like me.
Stoked the flames for an hour or so and convinced most of the in-group to quit after we took all the assets we could. Drew a giant dick with barley plants on the front lawn of the GM's player house and then they all g-quit.
She raged for months, shouting in global chat that we were a bunch of pirates anytime she saw us, and tried to gank us multiple times, poorly. It was glorious, but I never told any of them what really happened.
We also invented boatnado. The bouancy physics had a fun glitch where you could make a merchant ship spin on its end at an ever increasing rate and the mast would just fire any ships that got too close off into the horizon. Never fully managed to weaponize this discovery, but we had a ton of fun with it.
Beating Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja.
Completing the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight, and beating the true final boss of Enter the Gungeon both come to mind.
I was ranked #1 in the world for a good while in Pistol Whip. On both PC and PS4, before they separated out all the leaderboards based on modifiers.
I had quite a few top 100 or top 50 in the world damage parses in different points in WoW.
In wow, I was a death knight gnome in a raid (dungeon finder so it was easy mode). I think it was one of the early warlords of dreanor raids. Anyways 95% of group wiped, but me and the other tank (a paladin) plus a healer (revived with gnomish army knife - which has a huge chance of failure) managed to survive for what felt like 5 minutes. Really upset the dead folks who just wanted us to wipe and start again.
Unfortuanlty we didn't have enough DPS and hit the beserk timer and that was the end of that.
I also loved using the multi-target death grip skill, normally it sucks every mob to your target, great for CC.
I read you can set your self as target with a macro, so I'd run into the middle of a room and yank everything to me in one go. Super handy when mobs came in from behind and targeted the healer - I just sucked them all in into the stabbing party.
I raided at world top 50 level for a little while in wow (many moons ago). Dropped the game after that lol.
Was the first one dropping the Cloak of Defiance when it was released, in Path of Exile.
Partaking in a giant "MergerSmash" in Planetside2. 336vs336 of pure madness.I was in the Top 20 leaderboards in Fight Night Champion at one point. Then people figured out how to hack scores and I was bumped off.
100%'d blast corps back in the day, caught the hylian loach before there were any guides about it in ocarina of time.
And more (but not terribly) recently, I completed an 'all bosses' challenge run in terraria in which I made all naturally spawning blocks indestructible.
Managed to reach a rank of 2450 in World of Warcraft 2v2 arena. It took an incredible amount of much time and effort, and I have accepted that I will never be as good at anything ever again.
Probably completing The Shattered Throne dungeon solo. This is in Destiny 2, by the way.
It doesn't compare to the insane stuff other people are soloing, but it was still darn difficult.
100% both RDR2 and breath of the wild.
I am in the top 100s on some tracks in Art of Rally.
finished punch out (famicom emu), terranigma and kirby.
Being attracted to minors.
Ohh wait we are talking about achievements in games?
/s just to be sure
Me and all members of my clan (9 players) in the top20 players in battlefield 1942 desert combat mod. We were from a stupid small village, lived and breathe that game.
And for cs:source i was number one scout player for a while. Always top 5.
