Blogs What's your greatest gaming achievement?

I'm a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate series and i replay it often too. In terms of achievement, I say getting a gold medal on all except one medal of Rogue squadron is my biggest game achievement.

 

That should have said "all except one level".

 

Oh yeah. Try installing Tutu or EasyTutu. It allows you to play Baldur's Gate with the BG2 engine. This means you aren't restricted to low screen resolutions, plus you can reach higher levels.

 

being first on two UT99 1v1 sniper ladders simultaneously was quite cool and rewarding

my greatest gaming achievement was my overall domination of many UT99 communities about 5 years ago. The game was already old so there were lots of very experienced and extremely skilled players so the challenge was always amazingly tough

I was not the ultimate player (except maybe in sniper lowg non-zp) but I was always the go-to guy that the team was counting on. Those gaming days were freaking amazing. this game alone is responsible for my love of PC Gaming and my hate of consoles

 

Joe, if you're going to be doing a Baldur's Gate marathon, I recommend installing the widescreen mod for BGII at least. Get it from gibberlings3:

http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

It lets you play BG & BGII in high resolutions. BGII, in particular, looks great in 1080P. Then, that opens the whole modding can of worms - whether to play through with mods, or just install the patches that were officially released for the games.

Anyway, playing both games in succession, along with the expansions should be interesting. You should get a good sense of the whole storyline expanding, and a sense of the history & people of Baldur's Gate.

 

Um, I'm not doing this all in one sitting, just so we're clear. That would be impossible. I am aiming for total completion though. I want to put this game to bed.

And to answer earlier questions, there may well be regular posts on my adventures in BG. Mark has said he'll be doing the same as me too, so there could be some fun comparisons.

I am using EasyTutu and the widescreen mod too. I'm still debating whether or not to add on things like The Darkest Day mod.

 

Me playing through the Half Lifes seems rather paltry now.
Best experience gaming was teaching a deaf friend of mine to snare at-ats on shadows of the empire. After he took one down ( after a very long time ) he started screaming at the screen and flipping off the empire. Great memory.

 

Anyone ever consider beating a Korean Guy @ Starcraft an acheivement?

 

UT was my entry into PC gaming too (though I moved on to 2k3/2k4), never looked back. I was never such a sharpshooter that I gained any competitive achievements in it, but it was still fantastic playing ctf etc.

My proudest has to be my mates and I making a L4D clan for the first Australasian online tourney. Over a month of playing every night we did not lose a single game, then we choked a little on the final against the aussies haha. That still left us the best in NZ but we disbanded once uni started back up. It turns out the team we were up against were made up of guys who had actually played CSS at WCG. I don't and will never have the talent to flick headshot hunters out of the air, which is why I'm so proud. None of us were exceptional players, we just happened to work together perfectly and it took us much further than I ever expected.

 

When it comes to single player games, I'd wager most people's greatest achievements are from the impossibly difficuly, no-saving games of yor.

My proudest memories of these kind are certainly from my old Megadrive. Completing Rocket Knight Adventures so many times in a row (no saves, remember), I ended up on "Stupidly Hard Difficulty" was one, only finishing because my mother (quite rightly) insisted eight hours in one go was too much for a 12 year old. 100%ing Sonic 3/Sonic and Knuckles (every chaos emerald, and the master emerald, and Hyper Sonic) was another.

One thing I've never done, but am going to one day, is speed run Doom and Doom 2 on Nightmare with no saves. I personally think I'm up to it, plus it can (theoretically) be done in 10 minutes, lol.

Modern achievements I bet mostly stem from multiplayer. My two proudest moments are probably finishing off the last 5 members of the opposition on CSS alone, armed with only the AWP and doing it from the hip, and secondly coming top of the leaderboard in a school wide Q2 deathmatch tournament. Hand greandes for the win!

I'm surprised one of Joe's proudest moment isn't finally beating me at a straight one on one deathmatch in D3. What was it, 10 kills to 1?

 

Getting to an acceptable level playing ArmA.

Everything else pales in comparison.

 

That would have been an achievement, had I considered you a challenge.

I remember I once got 50+ kills without dying in UT2004 using only the assault rifle against the hardest bots.

 

I suppose my best gaming achievement was when I was an obsessive CS:S player.

I was the last person on my team vs 12 of the enemy team on office. They all came at me in dribbles and every single one got pwnd. It took about half a dozen weapons and moving through half the map, but I managed it. It was totally awesome. All the players on my team were enforced speccing me too.

After that it's probably either finishing CoD4 on Veteran or completing all 4 L4D campaigns on expert... Not really big achievements, but I don't play enough to get really good at games anymore.

 

Contra sounds like a good one on the SNES, complete that without dying.

or complete Mushihimesama futari (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nscP9QpXoFM), not on the PC unfortunately

 

Beating FFVIII before I turned eight was pretty cool.

If I manage a complete Nethack playthrough before I die, that'll be the one.

 

probably for me.. when beat alternate reality the dungeon.. think I was 9 or 10 on a atari 800xl- man I was so addicted to that game- I hex edited the save to make my characters stats out of control.. it had a simple check to validate the save file I remember- figured out it was adding up all the ascii values of all characters in the file and storing them as a 2 byte (lsb, msb) value into a specific location within the file.. saved and compared different saves to find it

was my first real crack.. this was back in the early 80's =] I had just learned basic and binary reading ian chadwicks book mapping the atari- but I had trouble grasping 16 bit binary values at that age.. still had trouble until I was around 11 then it hit me like a load of bricks.. but that was my first real rpg.. 300 baud was the norm you could watch the data stream in off a bbs.. programming in 64k was simple and straitforward.. once you learned all the registers and what they did- then 128k came along and you had to bank memory back and forth to use all of it

remember even made a game about my uncle jerry who was this big fatass hehe.. he used to throw his keys at us cousins cause he couldn't catch us.. I put my grandpa in the game as a ninja lol so I had jerry boning his dog cleo and grandpa would come out and do a flying karate kick on his neck XD oh well.. showed my dad the game one time and he got mad- but my cousins liked it

 

Its trite, but I think America's Army 2.4 gave me my proudest achievement in gaming. The first time I cleared a level solo after the rest of my squad was 'nade spammed into oblivion. 6 op-for kills. I was so damn nervous playing because you have no way of knowing how many are left until the game tells you you won. Every corner was death, every whisper behind me was death, holes in ceiling, well, death. I was so stoked when I won I could have run a marathon on pure adrenalin.

 

My greatest gaming achievement was uninstalling Daikatana about 5 minutes after i installed it.

 

Seems like I can consider getting past first episode of daikatana as one of my greatest gaming achievement then . It's definitely one of the worst gameplay experiences ever but 2nd and 3rd episode are worth it.

 

Completing Chuckie Egg 2 on the Spectrum sticks in my memory. I still don't know how I did it - that game was nails.

I've had some pretty epic Counter-Strike moments too, though those days are behind me I fear.

Biggest fail - spending a stupid amount of time looking for the Thargoid ship in Frontier: Elite II. I even looked through the game code for a mention of it. Clearly had too much time on my hands back then