Convinced my friend that the Jesus bus in GTA 1 could drive on water.

I beat Factorio without using belts.

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No, I’m not a masochist, why do you ask?

Getting all Dark Souls 1 achievements.

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.

The first that came to mind is 100%ing the OG Crash Bandicoot on PS1.

Back when you could only get a level's gem if you didn't use a checkpoint.

Beat the original Mega Man in one straight shot.

That game was unforgiving when you got to Dr. Wily's base.

when I was about 16 during an online match of Medal of Honor Allied Assault, I was so dialed-in with the bolt-action rifle that I got kicked for cheating.

NB: this was before

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.

Hollow Knight 112% completion is what I'm most proud of. It was hard!

My raidteam managed to get a server first boss kill while raiding Mythic Tomb of Sargeras in World of Warcraft:Legion. I was so proud of our teams achievement, I actually got a tattoo of the Mark of the Kirin Tor, a symbol for my mage character, in commemoration of the achievement.

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.

Probably ascending in Nethack. With a wizard orc! (Not a good combo, but I'm stubborn.) I even #chatted with Famine for shits and giggles.

I see people talking about Disco Elysium and particularly the communist quest line online all the time. I have an achievement for completing the quest line that like 1% of people have. I should play Disco again.

I beat Mario Lost Levels once. On the SNES with saves, but I beat it.

Got all achievements in The Binding of Isaac (flash version).

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.

I did a Dishonored run with zero kills and never being spotted, took forever but felt so satisfying.

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.

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.

I beat Halo 2 on legendary. I also refuse to attempt that again and haven't bothered playing legendary at all on any Halo in over a decade. Pretty sure my thumbs will not do that anymore.

Successfully dodged WoW back in the days, got a degree instead. The only winning move is not to play.

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

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.

Beat every Pikmin game 100%

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

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.

I'm the King of Dragon Pass. Without using a guide...

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.)

99 woodcutting!

Collected all helmets on Master level difficulty without dying at Titanfall 2.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.