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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Lorric on September 01, 2013, 10:21:11 am
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Can you think of any great victories in gaming that stick in your mind?
Off the top of my head:
Winning a best of 9 Mario Kart 64 battle after losing the first 4 rounds.
Winning an hour-long duel on Warcraft 3 after spending the vast majority of the battle on the verge of defeat. The fact my opponent had told me to leave on multiple occasions made it all the sweeter. At the end he was wanting me to join his clan.
Defeating Qatar with New Zealand in a playoff on 2010 FIFA World Cup 6-1 after extra time in the 2nd leg after losing the first leg 3-0. What makes this extra special is I'd failed to win the intercontinental playoff on 4 previous occasions against various Asian opposition, and this was my first win. I just wasn't going to lose again! I also got the aggregate to 3-3 with an injury time goal. I don't think I've ever played a better match than that one, I was absolutely determined not to lose again and have to go back to the tedium of beating the Oceania island nations yet again.
Winning a battle on Dynasty Warriors 3 (He Fei Castle) with a load of house rules, one of which being no saving, beating the 90min time limit by 14 seconds.
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Killing the man with the golden gun with a klobb.
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Greatest victory would be me finishing diakatana - that was an exercise in frustation
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Beating three AI Expert opponents, teamed against me in HW2.
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Going 1v7 on Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Survival and completely destroying the other team
Learning to use the Annihilator as an effective killing machine (guns, not blades) in GTA IV.
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More.
Beating Ultimecia in Final Fantasy VIII. That might not sound like much to some, but the battle lasts (at least for me) several hours, and with repeated failures she ripped my heart out of my chest a couple of times and put me off the game for periods of several months.
Beating Perfect Dark's single player challenges. Took me years to clear those! Die, Perfectsims and Darksims!
For very early life, probably clearing all 6 levels on Operation Wolf for the C-64 when I was very young. It was my favourite game at the time and I played it to death, and that took me years. Even just beating the first level would count as a victory, as I died on that countless times, that will have taken months for 4 year old me to clear. My Mother doesn't like computer games at all now, but for some reason she was into it in those very early days, and we took turns to play, and she'd never managed a victory on that first level either. I can still remember her there with me, excitedly urging me on to victory that very first time. She wanted to see what was next as much as I did.
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Beating Perfect Dark's single player challenges. Took me years to clear those! Die, Perfectsims and Darksims!
I just did the glitch to make my custom games replace the challenges
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Killing the Scourge of Wallbones (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=83281.msg1691508#msg1691508). Seriously, **** that thing.
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A real game of chess in my early days when I logged in in a paltry 1700 elo. 2 hours for each one in their clock, my opponent with an elo of 1900+. It was a team game for a local championship, and their team was stronger so everyone had to pull off more than they were supposed to. So you can imagine my facepalm when I blundered right off in the opening moving one piece when I should have moved another (I had to move both, but I blundered in the order of the moves) to defend my not-so-good position. Once I made the move I immediately saw what I had done. If he had brains he would sacrifice a knight and utterly shatter my pawn structure... then I saw that it really could shatter the entire structure of my game.
Damn. I was absolutely lost. He made the move and then I thought to myself
This is toast. I'm done. What can I do? Then it hit me to think just **** it. I'll use this time to learn chess.
And then I spent a ****ing 50 minutes just calculating how the hell could I hope to come up with something that resembled a defense. The calculated tree was maddening. The various attacking vectors he had were all easy victories for him. I then concluded that his best move was to go for one of my rooks and, with a lot of piece exchanges and so on, he would end up with one full rook more than myself. Note that in chess, just being one pawn up is pretty much winning and a rook is worth 4 pawns (sort of).
He was 1900+, he saw it as well. I thought "Bummer, I have nothing against this. Ok. Where should I look now? WTF should I do?"
I remembered to wonder what I would be inclined to do in his place. Hell. My position was wide open. A ****ing mess. I would go for the jugular, to the kingside, open the pawn structure there too and try to get a mate as fast as I could, badass style. So I calculated that one too, had nothing to lose.
And then I saw it. A ****ing hail mary pass twelve moves far ahead, with a ****ing knight move protected by a forgotten bishop, barring the Queen when she would decide to check my then totally opened king. This *could* work, so I calculated it more to be sure. It did appear too ****ing good to be true. If I managed this, I would be with a piece advantage of a whole knight! This was because the sequence required more sacrifices of him. But it was a very sharp sequence that was too badass for him to pass up.
And Lo and Behold, he did just ****ing that! When I moved the knight to protect my King, his head moved backwards. I couldn't believe it! Suddenly, I was on top of the game!
And oh man, I wasn't to let go of this ****. I played my endgame ****ing perfectly and won the match. Unlike all the other players who somewhat discussed the game afterwards, this guy just went away from the board and didn't say a word about it. No wonder!!
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Beating Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1 on Level 80 :nod:
One of the hardest bosses i have ever encountered...
Completion of Lemmings...
because it takes 20 years before i had enough motivation not to give up in the middle of the game, because i needed a hell lot of restarts...
I hope i can tell in 2030 that i have completed Oh No! More Lemmings and in 2050 the same with Lemmings 2 :D
And two (three) FIFA 13 Online Matches.
In the first one, i was 0-2 behind in a FIFA 13 Online Cup-Match after 90 minutes and was still able to reach the Extra time with two late goals in stoppage time and the 2-2 was one of my very few goals by free-kick. In the additional 30 minutes i was able to score two goals for the 4-2 result and reached the semi-finals... in which i lost 0-4. :blah:
The second and third were with the same person, so we decide to make a return game.
In the first, i had an away game and lost it with 3-0. And my home game does not start very well, because i was 0-1 behind after 10 minutes. I was able to score two goals until half-time. But i need 3 other to "win" it. I was able to score two additional goals to minute 70. But with a 4-1 i would still lose because of Away goals. In Minute 88 i was able to score the important 5-1, but the real victory followed in stoppage time, because i parried a penalty there :).
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In chronological order. Stated years of achievement are approximate.
- Raptor: Call of the Shadows: Completed Bravo Sector Wave 1 on first playthrough (1998)
- Raptor: Call of the Shadows: Completed Outer Regions Final Wave on first attempt (1999)
- Pokemon Yellow: Defeated Blue and became Champion (2004)
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: "Mastered" block brake usage (2007)
- FreeSpace 2: Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius: Completed Forced Entry on third attempt (2008)
- FreeSpace 2: Silent Threat: Reborn: Second person on the planet to complete Phoenix ARG (2008)
- Frogatto & Friends: Defeated Milgram (2009)
- Need For Madness? TooOo!?: Completed Stage 16 - Four Dimensional Vertigo (2010)
- FreeSpace 2: Blue Planet: War in Heaven: Completed One Future on fourth attempt (2010)
- Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver: Defeated CQMS in a full battle after 4 weeks of defeat (2012)
- Mario Kart DS: Reached 1-star rank (2013)
- MapleStory: Defeated Ephenia (2013)
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In 2011 I won against the number 1 chess player in Portugal (a grandmaster at that) in a team competition for the Portuguese Cup. As Black. In the Exchange French.
Unfortunately, the rest of the team lost afterwards.
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I suppose there was that time in Shogun II multi where my balanced army build got caught out in a forest map by a full cavalry build. Most of my forces were butchered and my opponent decided to show great sportsmanship by gloating over the chat about what a noob I was. Then my two veteran naginata samurai units carved up all of his horsemen like cake and I won the match.
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In 2011 I won against the number 1 chess player in Portugal (a grandmaster at that) in a team competition for the Portuguese Cup. As Black. In the Exchange French.
Unfortunately, the rest of the team lost afterwards.
Really? I'm out of the chess scene in Portugal, I was absolutely unaware there was a pt grandmaster already.... so apparently Luis Galego reached the title!
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Taking Japan for the Shimazu was a real accomplishment. AI made me fight for it too on the last battle, which I was expecting to steamroll.
Beating Letho (before all the nerfing patches) at the end of Act 1 of Witcher. Holy crapballs that was hard
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Beating Zeromus (final boss) of Final Fantasy IV the first time after wiping multiple times was a huge accomplishment for me, since I was still a kid.
And successfully completing Mile High Club - the bonus mission of CoD4 - on Veteran difficulty. I stayed up until about 6 in the morning one night working on it before I forced myself to go to bed, and finally beat it the following afternoon.
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Oh, I remember something inexplicable.
My friend brought Star Wars Rogue Squadron for N64 round. I'd played it a bit, but was still inexperienced. Still struggling with early levels, I think I was unable to beat stage 3 at the time. He wanted to show me the final level and proceeded to fail at it several times. Just for funnies and to break up the monotony, he decided to let me have a try.
And I won! :eek2:
Even more weird, eventually I would lend his machine (before I came to own my N64) and all his games for a while, in exchange for my PS1 and all my games. I made my own save and eventually worked my way up to that final level. And it took me many, many attempts to defeat it again. How the hell did I win it that time, level 3 was kicking my ass! Level 3 was a piece of cake by the time I started trying again!
EDIT: Let's throw in defeating level 29 on G-Police, that took FOREVER!
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In 2011 I won against the number 1 chess player in Portugal (a grandmaster at that) in a team competition for the Portuguese Cup. As Black. In the Exchange French.
Unfortunately, the rest of the team lost afterwards.
Really? I'm out of the chess scene in Portugal, I was absolutely unaware there was a pt grandmaster already.... so apparently Luis Galego reached the title!
You must be out of the scene for a really long time, because António Antunes became the first portuguese GM almost twenty years ago. :p
There are three portuguese GMs, the referred one being retired from active play.
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Hm. When I played there were no portuguese GMs at the time. I stopped playing circa 2007.
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Luís Galego became a GM in 2002 and António Fernandes in 2003 IIRC.
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Well that's a big derp I was involved back then them! Or alternatively, my memory is playing tricks with me.
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Getting the Technological Victory just as Egypt's army was barreling down onto my capital (Civilization V). I like to imagine the last citizens got aboard the ship and flipped off the earth.
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Getting the Technological Victory just as Egypt's army was barreling down onto my capital (Civilization V). I like to imagine the last citizens got aboard the ship and flipped off the earth.
and it was an Orion Nuclear Pulse Rocket :drevil:
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Playing Lone wolf survival in the original Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (back when tactical shooters were actually ****ing tactical) against 11 opponents in one match of 9mm pistols only, taking 17 bullets in various portions of my body armour and/or extremities, and still single-handedly taking down 8 opponents and winning the match.
It was unbelievable.
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I just knocked out five planes in ten seconds in War Thunder. Everyone dogfighting around the base at low altitude, they all line up just so...
Cockpit shot as soon as I open fire. Cockpit shot as soon as I open fire. Oh hey this one's wing came off after a one-second burst. Cockpit shot as soon as I open fire. Last guy tried to evade but he rolled up on his port wing when he had less than a meter of ground clearance, and crashed. (I swear I'm one of the few people with a proper sense of where the ground is in the game.)
The balance on the Mark I Hurricane is sketchy as hell (a statement that could be made about the whole game), but I'll just enjoy it for now.
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Playing Lone wolf survival in the original Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (back when tactical shooters were actually ****ing tactical) against 11 opponents in one match of 9mm pistols only, taking 17 bullets in various portions of my body armour and/or extremities, and still single-handedly taking down 8 opponents and winning the match.
It was unbelievable.
aahh..I fondly remeber some multiplayer matches in FPS'es.