The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega

yeah, i pretty much started this topic just so i could be proud of this:

for those who've never been there, stage 16 looks like this.
_________________

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I recently 1 lifed Lords of Thunder!
_________________
“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

ApM · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:16 am Post subject:

I beat all three Gobliiins games without ever resorting to a walkthrough.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:23 am Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

TheRumblefish · . Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida

I have very few moments I am truly proud of in my video gaming history. However, I was able to consistently one credit RayCrisis and Einhander on at least normal mode without much trouble. Today, it is not the same case. The last thing I can remember being happy about is gaining the reflexes of Hotsuma himself and showing PS2's Shinobi who is boss. Eventually the game became easy to me, and I broke records and grades constantly. That was about a year ago. That's all for my gaming acomplishments though.
_________________

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I just finished playing through the entirety of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade graphic adventure without saving once, or dying, for that matter, while escaping Castle Brunwald with Henry, without getting captured and talking my way through the blockades towards the end, something I never really tried in the past because I usually had the pass.
_________________
"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

The second two were in one day. I know it's an easy game, but I managed to knock my (100%) playtime down to about four hours. Nowhere near the record, but it's enough to impress people who suck.

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

The glowing effect on that photo is pretty great.
_________________
| Little bird fighting against a bat sect game |

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

it's the light of courage.
_________________

Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

In DROD, you can upload the number of moves it takes to beat a room and be included in a ranking system. I haven't played for a while, so I've fallen out of the top 40, but I still have 18 high scores. Here are the two I'm most proud of:

King Dugan's Dungeon 2.0: 19L 2S

Pelcho's Puzzles: 1L 1S2E:

My statistics.
_________________
It's the saw of the table!

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:11 am Post subject:

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

I still have yet to buy rooted hold Sad

I enjoyed the hell out of the demo. I'm worried that later on the puzzles will turn into the super-elaborate precision-required 1000-step hell that so many puzzle games of this type turn into. Those puzzles simply aren't fun to solve for me. I like exploring and experimentation; the story and character interaction aspects are also a plus.

Dessgeega and Tablesaw: tell me more? Please?

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

B coma · . Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279

Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

I'm willing to accept that I'll get stuck. I like challenges; it's fun to think over things in my head. I just like having some leeway with gameplay. I think the designers acknowledged that; the slayer's wisp can be shaken from time to time, there's undos and restarts, save points and your nephew.

It's just something that the users haven't really acknowledged as much. So, downloading some of the user holds, I'm kind of.... not feeling it. Everyone wants to create a super-hard puzzle with to-the-move precision.

I'm down to the bomb puzzles on Great Uncle Yurgess's hold, and that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

But hearing that the commercial holds are different in that respect is certainly an encouraging thought.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:46 am Post subject:

clearing story mode of advance guardian heroes is an accomplishment that i am proud of.
_________________

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

I can't think of anything I've done in games that I'm particuarly proud of.

I can one-life Metal Slug 2 up to the subway section of level 5. I guess that is reasonably impressive, but just doesn't feel like an accomplishment... I mean, after that, I still crumble to pieces like the next player.

Everything I've done in games has already been done much better by a whole load of other people, and I know this, so I don't think of it as being very special. I once held the record (on some rankings website or other) for the Advance Wars normal campaign mode score, at about 980 points, but the guys I displaced from the top just got 999s and took their places back within a month or two. And that was just some small website somewhere, nothing "official".

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:47 am Post subject:

official schmofficial! anything score-related that you can do can be outdone by a bunch of other people. it's an accomplishment when you're proud that you can do it.
_________________

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:53 am Post subject:

i was pretty proud the first time i got the elephant through the ice cave successfully.

Alc · . Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 109 Location: UK

Me and friends did THPS2, I can't remember whether we ever got all the gaps or not but we were damn close.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Persona-sama · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

I beat Cave Story's Hell run for the first time last week. I think my time was something like 12 minutes using only the Snake and the (one gun that weakens considerably after leveling up, you get it from Mr. Little).

I was pretty proud considering I'd never finished it before and, on top of that, beating it with a keyboard on a Mac! It made me happy the rest of the day.
_________________

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Shit, I just found this out:

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

so i just one-lifed the first stage of the speed rumbler (aka rush 'n crash) for the first time (i think). not a very exciting accomplishment, but i'm proud of it. the awesomeness of that game isn't spoken of enough.
_________________

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

I one-lifed the arcade version Mercs one time. I've also one-credited KoF: Maximum Impact on normal without looking at the screen and I can get through about half of Aero Fighters 3 in one credit (I'll do the whole thing in one credit eventually).

A friend of mine and I played through Katamari Damacy for the first time and beat it in four days. We would've played without breaks but we had to go to school.

Persona-sama · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:46 am Post subject:

I used to be able to beat Bust-A-Move (the rhythm and dance game) without seeing the commands. Against people too.

I could sort of do it in the sequel too.
_________________

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I won the Bundesliga 5 years in a row (2012-2017) plus 3 Champion's League titles with Fortuna Dusseldorf, as well as winning the European Cup in 2016 as the coach of Germany in Football Manager 2005.

Which is pretty good considering that Dusseldorf starts out in the German 3rd Division.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Mr. Apol · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:43 am Post subject:

I once took the time to go all the way through Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels no warp, going through the secret levels and everything. That was a pretty big accomplishment for me as a kid.
_________________

LJ -- Profile

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:55 am Post subject:

Mr. Apol · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:01 am Post subject:

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

I used to have one of those Tetris Attack hats that Blockbuster was giving away back in the day. I should find that.

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

i 1cced twinkle star sprites three times tonight, two on la petite princesse and one on the neo geo version. then i one-lifed to stage 4 of elevator action returns, which i might have done before? well, now it's official. then i played mizubaku adventure and felt upset about how much the pc-engine version costs.
_________________

squidlarkin · . Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 100

I was totally going to mention my 34,137,037 score on Gunroar (twin stick mode) which was for quite a while the highest recorded score in the english-speaking world. But now it looks like someone's more than doubled it. Hmph.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Most of my videogame glory was long ago.

I used to be able to play Defender, Zaxxon, Commando, Donkey Kong, and Gyruss indefinitely on Colecovision. (C64 for Commando)

Montezuma's Revenge was the pinnacle of memorized-twitch madness.
I could endlessly run through the game in pitch black.

Actually, back in the day I had a LOT of games memorized so I could "robo" them.

Now I just play "game the system" with rpgs.

(Well, I play CS:S but I'm permanently at the leetnoob level.)

Time for something new.
(Still haven't got started with DF)
_________________
I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

ShaperMC's Metal Slug 1 accomplishments are mine exactly. 3 Credits! I was pleased! It's the only game of its type that I've really put the time into. Mame32 says I have started the game up 84 times which seems like a ridiculous amount.

I was quite pleased to get

in Starfox 64, but I seem to have reached a plateau with that game now.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Writing an original Atari 2600 game. (In Assembly, now that Basic is Kind of an option)

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Sushi d · Moderator Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 239

i managed to beat 'ouendan''s final level after one year's worth of attempts 2 days ago..

that was quite an accomplishment.

here is someone else's super play of it as a demonstration..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe3yMV5iLc

its murder on the arms! especially those spinning parts!

one thing i've noticed though is that the rest of the game seems to have become slower. kind of like if everything went all bullet time on me.

i can no longer enjoy elite beat agents because of that.

[edit]

higher quality one

and some fun
_________________
X_X

chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

I just beat the original Panzer Dragoon the other day on hard. I've had that game for years without ever beating it. It felt good n proud.

Also finished Zwei with the Solo Wing, getting the "true" ending. (which for some reason is not as cool as the normal one)

Getting all of the 2nd Quest items (TA!) in SotC is an accomplishment that felt pretty solid...as well as all of the glitches I've found in the game.

I can one-life the NES version of Paperboy. This isn't really that hard, still most everyone I know in "real" "life" can't do it.

Always feels good getting the good ending in Bubble Bobble (arcade and NES).

Lockeownzj00 · . Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 214

Getting Silent Assassin on Hitman levels (especially on Professional, where you get approximately 0 help) is extremely satisfying, and extremely difficult. I got it for most of the levels in Contracts (unfortunately, not all).

Otherwise, I just don't think I play too many games which lend themselves to highscores and points like that Mad

. Methinks it's time to visit my local arcade a wee bit more.

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I was thinking that I've kind of been milking that joustpong thing to death... in terms of my history as a gameplayer, I think once I made it to the top of Spike's Peak for the 2600, a devilishly hard game... great condor noise though.... then years later I made it all the way through the original Mega Man, way before they had passwords.... I was so convinced that game was going to kick my as but I just buckled down and beat it. I may have used the pause trick with the elecbeam, not sore where I learned about that, but still....

ApM · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

Yesterday I failed Bark at the Moon on Expert with literally one note left to play. I finally beat it today. Woo!

I think it helped that my wrists have finally recovered. My old playing style gave me a repetitive strain injury. It could have been really bad if I hadn't laid off for a while.

Can this also be the I am ashamed of a videogame non-accomplishment thread? Because I am ashamed that I have never finished Cave Story.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject:

try setting smaller goals you can work up to! like, say, on monday you finish glasses, on tuesday you finish ikachan, and on wednesday you finish cave story!
_________________

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

Last night at 3:00 in the morning, after my friends went home and my family went to sleep I finally beat Silent Debuggers. In the last level you are locked in a tiny area surrounded by invisible monsters. I'm not sure if I imagined it. The end sequence was long and strange, introduced new characters, and set the story up for a sequel. It was really special to revisit something from my childhood and uncover more than I even knew was there. I appreciate the game a lot more than I did.
_________________
| Little bird fighting against a bat sect game |

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Reading up on it, Silent Debuggers sounds pretty brilliant. A shame there doesn't seem to be any functional TurboGrafX-16 emulators.
_________________
"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"