Your best video game achievement?

[Misty]

I just finished Double Dragon, and earned an achievement I thought I'd never get--"Untouchable". To earn it, you have to get past the first level of the game without getting hit once. After many frustrating tries, I finally discovered an easy way to get the achievement--almost painless, and something I should have found out sooner. I kept using the back-elbow smash attack the whole time, keeping distance from enemies (especially Abobo--he's got big arms.) The elbow smash is like Guile's Sonic Boom in Street Fighter 2. It hits enemies from a fairly safe distance with little or no recovery periods.

I can breathe a sigh of relief. I thought it was going to be difficult, but the elbow did the trick. It might even help me with other achievements in the game, too.

With that being said, what are some of your best gaming accomplishments? I don't just speak to XBox 360 people--I speak to all gamers here. Like....beating a difficult boss after many attempts? Getting a good record in a racing game? Scoring high in puzzle games? Beating a game in a set amount of time? You might have had to overcome many difficulties in earning the achievement, or you might have found the Achille's Heel to make certain tasks easier. In other words--perseverence or just being clever.....like MacGyver.

Feel free to think about it and discuss them if you wish.

[hitogoroshi]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

I'd say beating level three on Yanya Cabalista, but that's just cause I find that game absurdly hard.
[EDIT: And get five kills on a single flag run without ever dropping it in Call of Duty 3.]

[Jamos]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Beat Lucifer, got all the demons, and got every ending in SMT Nocturne.

[Denmo]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Deciding that I didn't want to get 100% completion on KH2.

Edit: Nah, my best acheivement is getting the title "Roc Star" in FFXI and acquiring this.

[Vandal KING]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Ah.....

It'd have to be when i was playing Phantom Dust. My partner died in a spot I couldn't reach him because our opponents were above me on his body. I take out the ceiling and they both fall with my partners body. Opponent 1 is killed by the fall and rubble that soon consumed him and at the same time I sliced his partner while he was falling for a fatal blow that killed him and I picked up my partner before the match ended.

I had such a clue after that.

[Goufunaki]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

For a 360 achievement, definitely getting all 1000 points for Dead Rising. So much fun. 5 and 7 day survivor achievements were the most boring. Had to survive in the game by finding food and staying in a safe spot (your health constantly went down, so it was possible to starve to death). But 1 game day is 2 hours real life, so I spent a good weekend trying to get those two. In the end the 5 day achievement gave me a laser sword to kill bosses more easily, and 7 day gave me Arthur's Boxers.

Another thing I was proud of was beating Udan's Dungeon in Tobal No.1. Pretty hard and takes a while.

[Funk]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Realizing that FF8 wasn't worth the effort and allowing it to eternally collect dust. I'd get rid of it, but it's still a Final Fantasy game and I need it for the collection.

[DK]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

My RE2 speedrun, which I will be attempting again soon.

Beating Eddie exclusively with the Great Knife in SH2 is up there, too.

[gray]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

i beat a friend of mine so bad in street fighter 2 he killed himself two weeks later.

[Nixon]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Picking up Altered Beast (for the master system) over 10 years later and beating it on my first playthrough.

*bows*

[Vandal KING]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Realizing that FF8 wasn't worth the effort and allowing it to eternally collect dust. I'd get rid of it, but it's still a Final Fantasy game and I need it for the collection.

I beat the hell outta that game. My mom was having trouble beat Omega cuz he'd keep killing her over and over again. And on my first try, he killed Irving and Zell but left Squall and I spammed Lionheart 'til he died. That was awesome

Another achievement is when I beat the best Tetris Attack player in our family (my mom) and I totally flushed her. I put a garbage block that was undestroyable on her screen. Haha, that was years ago but I still remember it like it was yesterday.

[RPGD]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

While I have little trouble doing it now, maxing out my Suezo in Monster Rancher was probably my greatest achievement.

Having restarted MR1, I'm raising an Orion for the Monster Rancher Metropolis Mayor's Cup Anniversary Tourney in honor of the game's 10th anniversary. It's taking place in November.

[Ryner]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

When I was 8 or 9 and beat a teenager at Street Fighter 2 even though his friend kept trying to pull me away from the machine.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Rappin' Cool on every stage in Parappa.

Also, getting left in 8th place several times on Rainbow Road in Mariokart 64, and then blasting all the way to first place during the final lap, all while blowing the **** out of everyone in my way, as well as sending Luigi careening off of the side just before he could secure first place.

[Chad]

Re: Your best video game achievement?

Either KOTOR in one sitting or beating everything in Chrome Hounds with the piles only.