Favorite Achievement milestones in gaming moments
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Dead seriously, finding the hidden upper realms in Super Mario Bros.
Edit: And figuring out how to get all the lives by bouncing the Koopa on the step near the end of level 2?
Edit: And figuring out how to get all the lives by bouncing the Koopa on the step near the end of level 2?
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Beating NES ninja gaiden.
Beating Ocarina of Time without any guides. I was stuck in the underwater dungeon for a while and almost gave up (was gonna get a guide) but then figured it out. I was supposed to go to a house party and was like nope.. I am fucking beating this dungeon. Fuck that bullshit.
Most enjoyable was beating Breath of the Wild. I make it a point to never use guides with Zelda games but I might have been stuck on the flying dragon. I wanna say I figured it out but I can’t be completely sure. But the sheer amount of exploration that game possessed was amazing to me at the time. If you saw something in the horizon you could reach it and there was usually a secret there.
Beating Ocarina of Time without any guides. I was stuck in the underwater dungeon for a while and almost gave up (was gonna get a guide) but then figured it out. I was supposed to go to a house party and was like nope.. I am fucking beating this dungeon. Fuck that bullshit.
Most enjoyable was beating Breath of the Wild. I make it a point to never use guides with Zelda games but I might have been stuck on the flying dragon. I wanna say I figured it out but I can’t be completely sure. But the sheer amount of exploration that game possessed was amazing to me at the time. If you saw something in the horizon you could reach it and there was usually a secret there.
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GinoMachino doing all bosses/no hit in Elden Ring. Super funny that he left tutorial boss "Soldier Of Godrick" for last and he nearly ruined the run.
For personal achievements i'd say beating Fatalis solo in Monster Hunter World.
For personal achievements i'd say beating Fatalis solo in Monster Hunter World.
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Beating Tyson that first time was exhilarating. Even knowing his tells/moveset, you had to be in the zone.
I never beat Ninja Gaiden, but I never owned it. That game was damn hard! The hours I spent to beat Castlevania, Punch out and Ghosts and Goblins are what I remember most. Rygar was another cool one, but I don't think it was as difficult.
When I was a kid, there were still lots of arcades. At the one I often went to, I was one of the few to ever beat Dragonslayer on the machine. After blowing allowance after allowance, when I finally beat it, I had a crowd around me. Back pats and firm handshakes were abundant, I was on top of the world. I remember telling my dad and he looked disgusted lol. He always hated seeing me playing video games so much, forever regretting the day he brought home a colecovision.
The only thing that comes close to those early years was finally beating Dark Souls, especially getting to Anor Londo after that trials level. I started and stopped that game dozens of times before it clicked.
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I beat Castlevania and Punch-out as well but I couldn't beat Ghost and Goblins. Hell the furthest I ever got was the 2nd stage. Granted I never owned the NES version so it was always borrowed but playing it in the arcade was super intimidating to me.
Maybe it's the the fact that GnG is 1-2 hit to die? But I beat Contra without losing any life so I dunno. I feel like the enemies in GnG are harder and more varied.
That's a good and funny story about Dragonslayer!
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Shoutout to @Nova44 for bagging what I consider one of the hardest all-time trophies: Mein Leben for Wolfenstein II.
I think it the only trophy that killed my Platinum goal for the game. Hard AF. And they had the absolute stones to make it a measly bronze, bah. Evil. I bet without even looking it up that the completion rate for it orbits still a 0.1% after all these years.
I think it the only trophy that killed my Platinum goal for the game. Hard AF. And they had the absolute stones to make it a measly bronze, bah. Evil. I bet without even looking it up that the completion rate for it orbits still a 0.1% after all these years.
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GnG was def difficult. Like Castlevania, I loved the art style though, especially the arcade version for GnG, so they were worlds I wanted to stay in.
What made clearing GnG special was learning after you beat the final level, you had to do it twice, and with more difficult enemies. I think there was a different end boss too for the true ending.
Having that past always ate at me regarding Dark Souls, as I also loved the world the games are set in. As hard as it can be, it's got nothing on those older titles, so walking away from it numerous times always made me feel like a quitter.
Beating Dark Souls became personal, and it all started with getting by Iudex in DS3. I could justify quitting DS1 and Demon's Souls, as the framerates were terrible, and timing is everything. I had no excuse for DS3, was smooth as butter. I died to ludex 20-ish times before refunding on Steam in rage, but he haunted me lol. When I picked it up again, and finally beat him, then going back to play all the Soulsborne games, I felt like that little kid beating Dragonslsayer and those tough NES games for the first time.
It always made laugh how some cancerous EA exec tried to compare lootboxes/paywalls for Star Wars battlefront 2 with the sense of "accomplishment" we'd get from games like the aforementioned.
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Fuck the adult-Link Water Temple.
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Beating Ghosts 'n Goblins on the NES.
Also beating Jurassic Park on the SNES. I loved that game for the first couple hours of playing it and then began to hate it. I became convinced the game hated me too.
Looking back, still not sure
Also beating Jurassic Park on the SNES. I loved that game for the first couple hours of playing it and then began to hate it. I became convinced the game hated me too.
Looking back, still not sure
