[ALL] What is your greatest video game accomplishment?

[A Tasty Burgerr]

I was 47th in the world for one of the Batman predator challenges the first couple weeks it came out, which is a big deal for me since I usually suck at games. 497th now

 

[FlawLeSs]

number 1 online in nba 2k8
number 1 online in madden 05 06 and part of 08

 

[Sportsbuck]

On NCAA 06 I played a dynasty with my created Piqua Indians (The HS team from where I used to live in Ohio). This thread actually made me dig out my old notebook on the dynasty. I'm gonna go off on a tangent here... but thats because this dynasty was honestly my favorite video game memory ever. Everything lined up kind of like a fairy tale I guess. I didn't realize this at the time, but holy shit I took some detailed notes for a 13 year old.

Made them a cupcake (weakest team in the game, so shitty its not even funny my running back was 68 speed) and put them in the MAC. Built them up over 20 years and eventually made the move into the Big Ten. I was putting together conference titles but I would always slip up and lose a game or two which would knock me out of national championship contention.

I remember 2 teams vividly, hell I still have them both written down in a notebook, they were teams in consecutive years. The first year, I had an all senior starting lineup outside of my junior center, and I had a 99 ovr QB, 99 ovr RB, and my WR core went 98, 96, and 91 ovr with my TE being 99 with 91 speed. My defense was pretty young, but we blew everyone out of the water, just absolutely dominating them (I played on Heisman FWIW). Then came the Orange Bowl (at the time was the NC because it was the year before the NCG was established). Played Oklahoma. And my team just self destructed... tossed 2 pick-6's in the first quarter, and got down 28-0 at the half. Started to settle down and battle back, eventually narrowed it to 28-14, when I tossed another pick-6 and after that it was all over. I lost 45-17. Honestly the most dissapointed I've ever been after a video game.

So the next year, my offense revolved around my 92 ovr QB (he got an insane training boost) while my defense was playing lights out. We won the first 3 games easily, but then playing #2 Ohio State(I was ranked #6 at the time) my starter started off eratic and we got down 21-0 at the half. First play of the second half he got a broken ankle, out for 10 weeks. My backup was an 82 overall 5th year senior... pretty sure he was a 2* recruit I signed to fill up all my recruiting needs. He comes in and some stout defense along with a good running game leads us back... we won 27-24 on a FG as time expired. I played close games all year long, coming from down 10-0 with 39 seconds left to win 13-10 on the final play @ #6 Michigan. I still remember that shit... I was going insane and my mom was freaking out at all of the yelling.

Somehow we made it to the national championship against Oklahoma. First play from scrimmage... 80 yard touchdown pass for them. Oh shit, just like last year I'm thinking. But I put together a scoring drive, and then got down to business. Back and forth the game went, they would think they got the knockout punch but we kept staggering back and tying it up. Then, they were up 28-24 with a little over a minute to go and trying to run the clock out. I hit sticked them and forced a fumble, recovered it, and took it all the way back for a TD to take the lead. They tried to score but couldn't.... and we won it all.

Best video game experience ever. What it really makes me remember is how long its been since EA had a football game worth playing like that one. I stopped playing it after that, mostly because NCAA 07 came out, but also because that was the perfect way to end it.

 

[Twigg4075]

That reminds me of a similar situation. When we were kids my three best friends and I had a "league" in RBI Baseball 2 on the NES. That was before stat tracking so we used to keep all of the stas in a notebook as well. I think I ran with the O's back then and my one buddy used the Reds with Griffey (senior, not Junior, LOL). We had some epic games.
That same buddy and I met in the World Series. In one of the games I was up by one in the ninth inning and Pops (that's what he called Griffey Sr.) steps up with a man on second. He belts one and my biddy starts jumping up and down celebrating. Our two other friends are hotting and hollering as well. The ball ands up hitting off the top of the wall. The runner score but he had to settle for a single. I got out of the inning and won in extras.
I think the series went all seven and I came out the victor. Good times.

 

[riley420]

Back about 10-15 years or so, I had the original World Series of Poker game for my computer. In order to get into the tournament, you had to turn your $500 into the $10,000 buy-in. The game was so realistic and had real life difficulty without any frills...

It took me almost 3 years, and probably 100-150 tries, but I finally beat it. The actual tournament had 1000 entrants, and you had to last for about 5 days of play. It was fucking crazy. I haven't touched it since then.

My other major accomplishment is getting every secret bonus objective for TIE Fighter and being in the Emperor's inner circle, with that bitchin tattoo on my arm. I played that game to death.

 

[inthecards21]

modern warfare 1 i beat mile high club it took me like 3 hours but the level no fighting in the war room was much more difficult in my opinion and took at least 4 on veteran if i remember correctly

 

[Pitty]

As for Red Dead. The game is amazing, but the single player story doesn't even come close to top 20 in gaming. The whole concept was amazing, just the story wasn't.

:joker:

Did we play the same game?

 

[Twigg4075]

:joker:

Did we play the same game?

I think he played a differnet game that other several million of us.

 

[flyersfan9319]

3 days ago i was in the top 30 in the world for the blur demo(29)

 

[Buzzman]

:joker:

Did we play the same game?

 

Why the fuck didn't the Marshall's just kill Marston right after Dutch died? Why wait 2 months? Why kill him in the 1st place? Why the hell did we have to play as his kid? Lame. Many other dumb choices just for the sake of appearing to have an epic moment.

Don't get me wrong though, I gave the game a 10 in my review. Game's fucking awesome, but if you just looked at the MAIN story, it wasn't that great.

 

[stevsta]

number 1 online in nba 2k8
number 1 online in madden 05 06 and part of 08

u cheese bra

 

[BrntO4Life]

3 days ago i was in the top 30 in the world for the blur demo(29)

Didn't the actual game come out in May? Are you only competing against 29 other people?

 

[stevsta]

Beating Minesweeper on beginner... No, that isn't my 'greatest' feat, but I did enjoy that moment.

lol you know it took me forever to finally get to know how to play that game when i first opened it I thought it was all about luck later on while messing around I finally found out how to play

 

[Juggernaut]

Haha, I found out how to play last year

Got addicted to it for a while afterwards

 

[1ke]

None?

Modern Warfare Mile High achievement on the hardest level?.... Ionno

 

[Minne]

being ranked #1 online on ncaa march madness 2004. and i always played with detroit. they were terrible in the game but I always seemed to rip it up with them

 

[dave]

Beating DNA's Green Bay Packers in an MM tournament five years ago or so.
It was an epic game with appropriate MM build-up.
First game I ever got scouting reports from his other opponents.

 

[Shwayzed]

Beating all Tony Hawk games up until Tony Hawk's Proving Ground 100% on SICK difficulty (highest).

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

I don't count Down Hill Jam.. its a spinoff type thing.
Looks like I might have to pick up Ride sometime in the future.

Tony Hawk's Underground (THUG) was my favorite of the series though, and might also rank as my favorite game of all time because of my experience with it. Loved the career mode, and it was the first Tony Hawk game to provide character creation.

Online was my favorite part. I was in a small, tight-knit "clan" of 3 people (me and two others), and we won basically every game we played.. I wonder what ever happened to them. I actually legit miss playing it now, and when I wake up tomorrow I'm popping it in the dusty ol' ps2.

 

[Hitman]

Beating the original Ninja Gaiden for NES... i was 8 so this is a huge accomplishment...

Returning two kickoffs for TDs against that bum Izzy and crushing his spirit..

Going 22/22 passing against Humble in a shutout win against his Skins...

PS2 Madden was awesome.... .ahhhh memories..

 

[Bear Pand]

Playing a full 82 game season as the trailblazers on NBA 2K. It was the year Roy was a rookie. Started off slow but made some trade for Gerald Wallace midway through the season. Got into the playoffs as like a 6 seed and lost in either game 6/7 on a buzzer beating 3 from Tracy McGrady. Lol at McGrady ever hitting a game winner to get his team out of the 1st round.

Was the greatest accomplishment to me because I usually don't like NBA games. The season is just way to long to play a legit franchise mode.

There was also a college hoops game where I created myself as a HS freshman, played all the summer camps and managed to eventually get him on my LSU squad. This was before games had modes like "Road to Glory" where they try to pass create a player off as a new game feature. Then I took him to the NBA and had him on the Clippers..