Video Game Accomplishments Thread 2

[Aya Reiko]

Skullgirls:
All Achievements get!

Skyrim:
Killed 5 guards before Slow Time wore off while storming Dragonsreach.  First 3 by sword, switched over to crossbow and took out the next 2. (Would've killed all 6 of them if I noticed him.)  Balgruuf probably crapped himself then and there after seeing 5 of his guards die in what was probably 3 seconds.  It was like I was a friggin' Jedi.
Maxed out Slow Time + Overleveled Character + Loads of enemies = FUN!

[Mr. Sacchi]

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Blazing Heart has just been released in KEls, just got her, this is an achievement because of sheer perseverance - one of the three drops is currently bugged and only drops a tenth of the time it's supposed to drop, which is a pretty low chance already, and the enemies it drops from aren't exactly common, either. And KOG - being KOG - refuses to fix this until next week.

Double Drop weekend, Return of Heroes double drop buff and full party drop buff, and it still took me forever.

I also like how they give us zero incentive to pick up her locked stuff, Inextinguishable Flame scales really poorly and it competes with Stigma of Fire, which adds a new burst of damage to combos with no additional KD, silences (it's literally the only thing in the entire game that silences besides a 200MP nuke) and even decreases foes's defense. Likewise, Wall of Prominence is just a fancier Heat Rune with less damage, and, competing with something so awesome and versatile as Scaldic Sword, and you can see that the choice becomes pretty obvious.

//rant

[KingofBaka]

Yesterday, I played Yoshi's Story for the first time. I managed to get through the whole game on my first time playing only losing one Yoshi the whole game.
 I had to go through Lots o Jellyfish and Mecha Castle to finish off the game.
I was getting so nervous throughout these two levels.
Especially, Mecha Castle with those spikes and crushers.   

[OkashiiKisei]

Phew, at last. In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros I've managed to get all the collectables. All the Pi'illos, all Beans, all Photo Blocks, all Attacks, and yes, even all the Expert Challenges. Particularly the last one brought me a lot of frustration, and I often had to reload my save file when I flunked yet another challenge. Avoiding ten attacks in a row is a lot more difficult than it sounds, particularly in the later areas. I also reached Rainbow Rank, and got pretty much all the gear I want for both Mario and Luigi.
The only things missing (aside from the final battle(s), which I'm about to go to) are the Bros and Luiginary Mad Skillathon challenges, and the Boss Arena. While I might attempt the Boss Arena for fun, there's no way I'm doing the Mad Skillathons. They drove me insane in Bowser's Inside Story, and they seem even more ludicrous this time around. Looking up the prizes, they're just not worth it either. DX Beans can be gotten infinitely from Golden Beanies, and all the gear you get from it has better alternatives.

Now, my stats before the finale:
Mario - lvl 41 - Rainbow Rank
Bonuses:
- Gear Slot + 1
- Gear Slot + 1
- Casual Bros
- Jump Man
- Hammerhead
Gear:
- Star Boots
- Star Hammer
- Boost Wear
- Pow Gloves DX
- Angel Bangle
- Expert Badge
Stats (with equipment on):
- HP = 182/182
- BP = 109/109
- POW = 274 (364 for Jumps, 364 for Hammer)
- DEF = 187
- SPEED = 152
- STACHE = 45

Luigi - lvl 41 - Rainbow Rank
Bonuses:
- Gear Slot +1
- Gear Slot +1
- Big Lucky
- Quick Healer
- Iron Body
Gear:
- Star Boots
- Star Hammer
- King Wear
- Bottomless Gloves
- Duplex Crown
- Miracle Badge
Stats (with equipment on):
- HP = 269/269
- BP = 85/85
- POW = 169 (259 for Jumps, 259 for Hammer)
- DEF = 256
- SPEED = 81
- STACHE = 111

Kind of a broken set-up, but I worked hard to get to this point. It'd be a waste to not use it after all that effort. So on to the finale!

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Unlocked the Ultimate Battler achievement in Star Ocean 4 for 100% battle trophies.

Now I need to do a run for all quests and item creation.

[Aya Reiko]

More Skyrim fun--

Killed Elenwen.
Not much of an accomplishment, but by the nine I wanted her dead.

On to gaining another 17 more levels to reach lvl 78.  It's going to be painful, but I will decorate my hall with a Legendary Dragon's head.

[Jq1790]

Uh...I beat Shadow of the Colossus last night?  I'm starting to work on my backlog so I can make room for more stuff when Christmas rolls around, and I'd already had 12 colossi defeated when I stopped last, so I decided to finish it up.

Out of the 4, I believe only the boar thing and the final boss actually killed me, (boar cheapshotted me to death a couple of times once it landed a single hit, never giving me enough time to get up), though there were two deaths along the way TO the final boss where I messed up the collapsing bridge segment(once by thinking I could just run across the platforms). 

All in all not an especially HARD game, but it was really quite fun.  I wouldn't mind playing something in a similar vein eventually if more such games exist.  I'd like the story to get more focus though.

[I have no name]

Went pretty crazy on Crabby Beach in Ape Escape.

After 3 hours of attempts, 19.74.  This beats SSBMstuff's prior time of 23.90 by a whopping 4.16 seconds.  My time before today?  32 flat.  This time attack is HARD to do well.

[Shio Yamote]

I finally managed to beat Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 without using guard and with the kingdom key. God that was insane.

[KingofBaka]

I just managed to beat Land of the Livid dead in Rayman Origins.
I had a couple of trouble spots like the part in the first room where you had to jump on the coffins or part in the third room where you have to walljump off two rising coffins while this black tentacle was chasing you.
Surprisingly, the boss was much easier then the actual level. I guess because the boss is basically memorization.
 

[Jq1790]

Did this seriously happen? I was picking up Elite Beat Agents again after remembering I had it and had yet to beat it, and the last song(Jumpin' Jack Flash) was kicking the crap out of me...then I go and full combo it. What the heck?

Sure I'm only on Cruisin, so it's not THAT impressive, but still.  How does one go from failing to instantly full comboing it...?

[Raekuul]

I finally managed to beat Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 without using guard and with the kingdom key. God that was insane.

Train me in your ways, Sensei.

On a lighter note, I'm getting to Olmec regularly in Spelunky now (got a couple of full-except-Olmec runs under my belt now). It's only a matter of time before I can get him dead without getting dead myself.

[Shio Yamote]

Train me in your ways, Sensei.

Well, for KH 1 I just spam Strike Raid and get hit by purpose to recover some MP to spam it again. Lots and lots of luck involved too. For KH 2 I got the final mix version so I leveled up the Limit Form to use the Dodge Roll ability. Took me exactly 168 tries.  :colonveeplusalpha:

I want to beat Terra in KH2 Final Mix the same way but without using guard I don't think its possible. Maybe if you pray for 3 hours and have a lot of luck. Something that I don't have.

[I have no name]

Ok, where to begin...first, I dodged the 200 lightning bolts in FFX to power up the Onion Knight.  Pretty hellish, but I got it first time I went for it so it was less bad than it could have been.
Second, I started an NSG run of FFX, and, well, won the storyline Blitzball game.  Pretty amazing match, definitely the finals of the century right here.
Third, well, I've been working on my Ape Escape time attacks.  A lot.  Managed to gain 5 more WRs, though I lost Coral Cave since (5.33, got beat by a 3.52 but I can get it back, just haven't tried yet).  The ones I now have are:
Dark Ruins in 2.18, did this one today, took me a few hours to not screw up anywhere in the route.  It's a really hard time attack and definitely worth the watch!
Dexter's Island in 14.72, as of last night I think it was.  Took about 20-30 minutes, still improvable.  Going to revisit it before too long I think.  Notable in that it gave me 10/19 records-more than half.
Snowy Mammoth in 19.67, also done today but earlier in the day.  My time was awful, so I went and improved it.  It was still bad, so I improved it more.  That was WR, but still awful, so I kept going until I got this.  I can get 16.xx, and will probably go for it later.  Took maybe 40 minutes, tops, including messing with a slower route.
Hot Springs in 5.77, down from SSBMstuff's 19.xx and my old 28.xx!  Took me an hour or so, including route design.  I completely threw out the old one and this one is definitely worth checking out-though 3.xx is possible, I'd settle for a low to mid 4.xx when I revisit this one.

[Imyourtarget]

Well, I beat Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 without changing Keyblades, and I beat RE: COM without taking a health upgrade. (Took I think 1 or 2 on Riku only because you'd have to get extremely lucky to unlock DP before getting to a level where the HP-up is the only option.)

Also, I just beat Agrabah on a level 1 run in KH1.5.  Taking a break for a while since I had just beaten 1.5 for the first time before starting that run.
Also beat all the Doom games on Nightmare.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Beat the first part of Lightning's DLC in FFXIII-2 at Level zero.

I naturally got slaughtered ten seconds into the second part, but that's still an achievement regardless.

[Shio Yamote]

Also beat all the Doom games on Nightmare.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who still plays Doom. Holy hell nightmare is just... BS for me. Knee Deep in The Dead was the only episode I managed to beat on Nightmare.

[Mr. Sacchi]

So, some of you might remember me raging before on not being able to get the Speed Holic medal on Korean Elsword, and the reason for this is because, essentially, anybody who isn't korean can't realistically get it, because latency with the server makes whatever time you get in each mission be +40 seconds, which means that instead of finishing 5-2, 5-3, 5-4 and 5-5 in 3:30/3:50/4:10/4:30, respectively, you had to do it in 2:50/3:10/3:30/3:50.

Fortunately, that isn't a problem in the Brazillian Server

Still took some good amount of min-maxing damage and a lot of really good, really well placed map cleaners, but I got it.

Now on to never use this medal as soon as Seal of Hamel is out because it's just so much better than this and infinitely easier to get.

[Jq1790]

Beat Kirby Mass Attack yesterday.  Of course, I also got all the medals and played each subgame at least once.  I don't have it in me to go through with completing the Checklist since I don't feel like dealing with Gold Star-ing everything and the like(4-9...*shudders*), so this will satisfy me.  DeDeDe was the hardest boss for me, if only for the fact of me deciding to do the One-on-One Victor task.  Having almost any mistake punished by instant death was kinda tricky to work around, but I eventually got it.  Saddened by the lack of super amazing music for the final battle, but I guess it's ok.  Also it was far too easy a battle, even IF I did end up getting my team crushed to death and  vaporized at least once each through my own stupidity and poor stylus handling.

Was a fun little side game, but I'm definitely itching for some oldschool Kirby action.  Here's hoping I get Return to Dreamland for Christmas~!

[I have no name]

Rogue Legacy is pretty fun, I'm going through NG+ right now and, well, one of my characters just managed to full-clear 2 areas, and almost managed to full clear The Maya too.  It happened in spectacular fashion, however.

Sir Hirshey V, the Barbarian King with Gigantism found and defeated Alexander and Ponce de Leon.  While exploring The Maya for treasure after this, he died to a fireball...but the 1.5% chance of Death Defy kicked in.  Not wanting to screw this up, I returned to Castle Hamson and encountered an OOB skeleton while refilling HP via chickens and Vampirism (7).  From there, I entered the Forest, full-clearing it (including a blob room with 9 of them-loads of HP!  However, I eventually died while clearing The Maya.
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Went pretty well, killing 2 bosses and loads of mooks.  I netted 94,000 gold that run too, well worth it!

[KingofBaka]

A couple of days ago, I finally completed Confessions of the Creator in Final Fantasy: Duodecium. The only hard part was both Feral Chaos fights. The first one because he had an accessory that boosts his attack and defence up by 90% and I did not have good gear going into the fight. The second one was hard because he has over 100,000 Health. But, the second one was also easy because he had Level 1 and Level 30 Equipment on so I was able to do a lot of Bravery damage.

[Rei Scarlette]

A couple of days ago, I finally completed Confessions of the Creator in Final Fantasy: Duodecium. The only hard part was both Feral Chaos fights. The first one because he had an accessory that boosts his attack and defence up by 90% and I did not have good gear going into the fight. The second one was hard because he has over 100,000 Health. But, the second one was also easy because he had Level 1 and Level 30 Equipment on so I was able to do a lot of Bravery damage.

Yeah, the 2nd fight is more of an Endurance Match of sorts, compared to the first one. The first fight is really ridiculous if you take too long and his booster accessories activate, which ends up making him pretty much overpowered attack-wise and nearly invincible to BRV damage with what equipment the player is likely to have at that point.

Good job. What characters do you play as, if I may ask?

[KingofBaka]

Yeah, the 2nd fight is more of an Endurance Match of sorts, compared to the first one. The first fight is really ridiculous if you take too long and his booster accessories activate, which ends up making him pretty much overpowered attack-wise and nearly invincible to BRV damage with what equipment the player is likely to have at that point.

Good job. What characters do you play as, if I may ask?

I used Cecil, Cloud( His Level 100 Exclusive helps ), Onion Knight, Tidus, and Warrior of Light. All of them were at Level 100 ( Although Tidus became Level 100 during the Fight) and all of them had either Lufenian gear, level 60 gear, or their Exclusive with Lufenian Gear.   

[Adol Christin]

I just beat Tales of Symphonia for the first time. It wad pretty great. Hmm... I think for my next playthrough I'll choose a different main party.

[Rei Scarlette]

Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (specifically, this post is about FFIV, not TAY or Interlude)

Tonight I finished doing "everything" except getting Adamant Armor for everyone (or anyone at all). I got all of the optional summons, everyone is Lv99, everyone has their ultimate weapons, Bestiary is 100% completed, everyone has a Hero's Shield from Brachioraidos (the game's superboss), everyone's Lunar Trial is completed, I opened every treasure chest there is. Save file has 49:55 logged on it, not bad.

It's funny, Brachioraidos is so damn weak. The very first time I fought him, Kain wasn't with me because I was finishing everyone's trials, so there was no silly Abel's Lance kill. However, even without the Hero's Shield to absorb his massive elemental damage (it only comes from him anyways, and just one copy per fight) he was still pretty easy. Basically just meleed/flared him to death, bouncing more flares off of myself when he decides to throw up Reflect. He likes to kill people repeatedly, but that's all he's good at. He doesn't like to do "a lot of damage" he mostly kills you outright (unless you absorb it) which ironically simplifies things very very much. Revive the dead and do not bother healing or buffing, problem solved!

Every fight after the first was an absolute joke because the Abel's Lance that Kain was wielding would always activate and kill him instantly. Sometimes with that being the very first action in the fight. Some superboss, eh? ...now I suppose I need to get an Adamant Armor for everyone then I can say I really did do everything. Drop rate on Pink Tails is absolutely horrible. I expect my play time to at least triple before I get five. (edit: 50:11, just got my first one. Perhaps it won't take as long as I imagined.)

Oh yeah. My party of choice, whenever possible, is Cecil/Kain/Edward/Palom/Porom. Best party, no exceptions whatsoever.

[I have no name]

Well, yesterday I improved my Ape Escape time attacks by upwards of 20 seconds across all of them...
First was a random play of Sushi Temple where I improved my 20.47 to 20.28.  Nothing to write home about.  After that I improved my Fossil Field from 11.92 to 8.47 (I think it was 8.47, it was somewhere around that).  Not a record, but got it pretty close.  Then I randomly in 5 minutes improved Molten Lava, taking my own 17.70 down to 10.78, which beat SSBMstuff's old record of 12.05.  It was a bad run and I wasn't recording, since I definitely didn't expect to get the record!

From there, zorasknight, playing on emulator, got a 3.16 opening to City Park.  I didn't believe it was possible and suspected the emulator was doing something wrong.  A while later he finished a 3.20 run and I improved my 3.23 to a 3.21...but something still felt off.  How was 3.16 possible?  The only difference was emulator, and I'd known lag was emulated wrong in other places...maybe the game was lagging imperceptibly during the opening?  I wondered how I could possibly test it, and then I remember what Surreal does in various parts of AE3.  Using a claw grip to hold up on the dpad angling the camera downwards, I tried it.  My first attempt was a 3.16.  I kept going for another 5 minutes and ended up knocking off 0.13 from the old record, with a 3.10.  With this new discovery of lag reduction, I went on to Crumbling Castle, figuring it could be improved with the new technique.  5 minutes later, 1.74 had been replaced with a 1.70 run.  Probably still improvable, but it was an improvement.  From there, I suspected that Thick Jungle was still improvable, saw and choked a 2.69, got a 2.70 (improved from 2.72), kept going for 2.69, managed an incredibly badly played 2.65 within 15 minutes.  I then spent the next 2 hours trying to get a better played 2.65, culminating in a much better played run.  The time of this run?  2.63.  That frame of improvement was totally worth it.

From there, I knew I could improve my time on Molten Lava and began focusing on that.  I managed a 9.08 before long, with a missed second.  Likewise with an 8.89 and 8.75.  Finally, I managed to get a run without any missed seconds...but the ending could still be improved.  Regardless, I pulled off a 7.50 run, and Molten Lava quickly became one of my favorite time attacks to play.  I wasn't done for the night.  It might have been 7 in the morning and I might have been grinding these since 11 or 12 or night, but I had one level left to go.  I had to improve Fossil Field.  Within 10 minutes I had taken the record from SSBMstuff with a 7.84...but I had done it by a single frame, as his time was 7.85.  My run was improvable, though, and 20 minutes later I had this 7.57 completed.  As a result of this night my personal total dropped to 2:35.xx and the WR total dropped to 2:22.71.  I think I can push it to sub 2:15, but getting past 2:20 is going to be really hard...

[KingofBaka]

Warning! :wikipedia:
Last night, my club held a Super smash bros. Brawl tournament. They had it along with a Fifa 14 tournament. Me and my friend entered and we got 3rd and 2nd. The character I used was Ganondorf and my friend used Lucas.
Quick Summery of matches
Match 1-  I fought against someone who played as Mr. Game and Watch. It was a standard match. There was nothing that stood out about it. My friend fought someone who used Kirby. My friend almost lost because near the end he got hit by stone twice because he tried to do an up-smash.
Match 2- I fought against the President of the club. He used Zero Suit Samus and tried to keep me away with the stun gun. The interesting moment came when he was trying to recover and Zero Suit Samus was on her last life. I jumped off and got a perfect hit with Ganondorf's Meteor Smash which ended the match. My friend fought someone who used Ness. There was nothing really exciting about that match.
Match 3- My friend gets a free pass into the finals because there was only there people in the semifinals. When he got a free pass, I was like . This match was 5 stock. I fight against someone who used Snake extremely well. I couldn't deal with Snakes dash attack to up smash so I lost.
Final Match- This match was 7 stock. My friend faces off against the same guy who uses Luigi instead. He tried his best, but he eventually lost to a close range Super High Jump Punch. My friend got 2nd and the guy got 1st. 

[I have no name]

http://www.twitch.tv/ihavenonamesda/c/3404516
Ape Escape 100% WR.  2:05:57. GG (goal: 2:02:xx)

[Rei Scarlette]

So, after about this long after doing that

bla bla FFIV :wikipedia: too long, scroll up

(I started about that night, maybe one night later)
I've completed a Cecil solo file on the same game. At the end, he became Lv99 shortly before fighting the final boss. Killed all of the optional bosses available up to this point. There were a few annoyances among those...

White Dragon: Required farming a Lunar Curtain. While it isn't tough enough to normally kill me, it's counter special (casting Slow) builds up on repeated casts, and after a point I'd become too slow to heal myself after Maelstrom/Tornado (whichever one it uses) and it would punch me for ~50 damage and I'd die.

Plague Horror: Doom at the start of the fight is so fun :V This required farming another Lunar Curtain, after which he spent the entire fight unsuccessfully casting Doom on me. On a related note, I ran from every single encounter with standard Ahrimans, because they also cast Doom near the start, just with less total HP.

Dark Bahamut: Starts off with an incredibly weak version of Mega-Flare, then spends the entire fight bouncing Flares off of himself with reflect. Flare normally pierces some large amount of magic defense so this was a problem that the Blood Sword alone wouldn't deal with. I ended up actually removing my good equipment, so that I'd actually be able to be inflicted with Berserk status, then using a Berserk item. This made me take nearly 2000 damage per flare, but my Blood Sword damage jumped up from ~1450 all the way to 2200+. Afterwards, extremely long autobattle. (he heals for 6000 every few turns)

Zeromus himself was a joke, completely able to be killed with autobattle using a Blood Sword. To speed it up though, I swapped out for the Ragnarok I got earlier whenever I was about full on HP again. I guess it's time to tackle the Lunar Ruins and see how the fight with Brachioraidos goes.


Well, with all that done, I'd say it was a very fun and enjoyable challenge. I'd probably recommend it to anyone who has the game, if they're looking for something to do after completing the main game.

[Ionasal kkll Solciel]

It's probably the easiest song set to do it with, but seriously, fuck yeah.