Gaming

“Elden Ring” achievement in Elden Ring (obtain all achievements.) I am a very casual gamer and I played very little of dark souls 3 but I couldn’t get past the tutorial boss so I gave up. I heard many great thing about Elden Ring so I decided to give a FromSoft game another try. The freedom of that game made it really easy for a casual player like myself to go my own pace and get used to the i-frames. I fell in love with the game and my first play through I used as many summons as I could but my other play throughs I hardly used any. It turned me into a gamer that dodged and used parries which I never did before. Very good game and I’m excited to play the dlc.

Now this is luck and not skill, but I traded Pokémon in Pokémon GO with a friend. When you do this, the Pokémon you send to your friend rerolls its IVs. The Duskull I sent him rerolled its IVs, the Buneary he sent me rerolled its IVs, and we both ended up with perfect-IV Pokémon.

(I’m a 100-IV aka perfect-IV hunter in Pokémon GO. In the mainline games, I tend not to care as much.)

Hollow Knight 112% "Pure Completion"

One of my favorite games, but it's so hard.

Being (briefly) 9th in the world at Unreal Tournament. :)

Platinum in all Yakuza games.

There's two actually and both are pretty niche but I'm proud to have accomplished.

1. I love to surf in CSGO/CSS/Momentum Mod and at the time of writing I'm top 1.4% of a large server on CSGO of people who surf which isn't amazing by any means but feelsgoodman.

2. I managed to finish a 16 star "run" on Super Mario 64 (wasn't fast but was super fun and the child in me was in amazement)

I got hooked on a game in college called Sveerz. It was one of those Wild Tangent games that came preinstalled on my laptop. I loved that game and played way too much during class. I managed to get the #1 worldwide rank by about double the next highest score, and I was crowned with an icon that called me "The One."

Funny thing was, I didn't realize I was anywhere near the high score. I was just having fun.

For me its between my first FFXIV Twintania or WoW Arthas 10 Man hard first kill.

I don’t know what it is about first kills with a group of players in an MMO, but weeks of work and collecting gear for a hard fight and then beating it is super rewarding

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided non lethal playthrough

Beating COD: MW and the remastered campaign on veteran.

Either platinuming sekiro or beating devil may cry 5 on dante must die difficulty, I'm not sure which is better. Platinum sounds more impressive, but according to steam achievement stats dmc5 dmd is rarer so I guess I'll pick that one

Back in the days I was one of the first to get the Loremaster achievement on out server in WoW. It basically meant doing every quest in the game.

Another one is not so much a coded ingame achievement, but I can do The Secret of Monkey Island from beginning to end without hesitating at any point. Most of Monkey Island 2 too, but som parts still gets me.

I don't achievement hunt but getting one that 0.5% of players achieve feels good. One in particular is "Humble Pie" in Stellaris.

Humiliate an Empire that is in the Supremacy Diplomatic Stance, forcing them out of it

In the original FF7 I beat Emerald and Ruby Weapon without doing the chocobo breeding minigame to get Knights of the Round. Yuffie, her ultimate weapon Conformer, and a really excessive number of counterattack materia does wonders.

I platinumed Final fantasy XIII. Not that incredibly difficult I guess, but it took so freaking long to get all the weapons, and some are missable IIRC so I had to meticulously catalog each one and make sure I didn’t miss an opportunity to get one.

It's not all that uncommon, but I'm pleased with my platinum trophy for Beat Saber. That was for the PS4 version -- I'm still working on it for PS5 and dealing with the different controllers, being out of practice, and just getting older/less coordinated.

My rarest platinum trophy is for Sports Champions, back on the PS3. Sony claims 0.1% for getting that one -- even PSNProfiles tracks it to 0.51%.

Nethack, ascending a Caveman, Wishless, polyselfless, Genoless:

https://i.imgur.com/tgEXJh5.jpg

My first was a Valkyrie, and I've gotten a couple of wizards to the bar, but Caveman was a challenge

Recently, getting S-Rank on every mission in Metal Gear Solid V :)

An older achievement is probably when I blasted through the Borderlands 2 campaign in one sitting in like 4 hours lol

I'd say Hyper Light Drifter's 800-dash challenge. It was dumb and daft but boy am I still proud I got it done.

Mare Nostrum in Europa Universalis IV. Restoring the Roman Empire was the first big achievement I got in the game.

Champ 2 in Rocket League I suppose.

My platinum in Bloodborne.

Fuck you Defiled Amygdala. Go eat a Winter Lantern.

Getting over it with Bennett Foddy(sp?) - completing the game 50 times. Once you've done it three times the other 47 are a breeze, just pop a podcast on. It's the most fun achievement to show other people; they always think you're a bit mad for doing it due to the game's reputation.

After years of grinding, I've reached a solid foundation in 2d fighting games.

Clutching my team in a 1v4 with a ghost pistol gun in Valorant. My entire team was cheering me on in the chat. It was very memorable

All the Slay the Spire achievements and did Ascension 20 until I could win most of them and get some streaks of like 5 or so at each character. I‘ve long since stopped and would lose a lot more now, but it was probably the most serious I‘ve ever gotten with a game.

100% God of War on GMGOW difficulty. Went in completely blind. Took almost an hour on the first encounter as I learned the controls and the final Valkyrie was rough (although it brought everything you learned from the previous ones together quite well).

I really hated Niflheim though… so tedious.

SL1 Dark Souls run. Should specify any%, I definitely skipped a good few bosses, and just abused pyromancy, but I did get to the credits with SL1.

Gaming for 30 years straight and never picking up any completionist disease, enjoying games up until the content is dense enough fro me to have fun and moving on after finishing it, as in, killing the last boss, winning the tournament, exploding the base, not as in picking up the .jpgs of spiderman hiding under the barrels.

I beat Eve Online

Either getting 120 stars in Mario 64 or all the heart containers in A Link to the Past, in the pre-Internet age of video gaming.

H/M to getting all my characters equipped with Moon armor in Chrono Trigger.

Completing the Vidmaster challenges in Halo 3 and ODST to earn Recon armor is probably up there for me. They sure didn’t make it easy and it feels good to have earned Recon. For example this achievement:

Vidmaster Challenge: Endure: In Firefight, on any mission, pass the 4th set on 4-player Heroic LIVE co-op.

This one alone takes nearly 3 hours of continuous playtime per attempt and I remember the frustration if you failed a wave and had to start over.