Author Topic: Video Game Accomplishments Thread 2 (Read 48318 times)

Fonzi · « **Reply #60 on:** July 16, 2013, 12:36:37 PM »

Let's see...

Lef 4 Dead 2 - all single player campaigns cleared on Advanced
Unreal Tournament GOTY edition - cleared on all difficulties. (this achievement is several years old. Now I'd suck at the game if I played it again.)
Silent Hill 2 - All difficulties cleared
Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped - 100% cleared
Crash Team Racing - ditto
Soul Blade - all weapons collected in Edge Master Mode
Resident Evil 4 - All difficulties clear + the mini game
Dino Crisis 2 - all difficulties clear
The Witch's House - all endings lol
Commander Keen 4, 5, 6 - hard clears (you can save at any time so yeah... not much of an achievement)
Dune 2 - cleared with all 3 houses
One Must Fall 2097 - Tournament Mode cleared on all difficulties with all robots
Worms World Party - all training missions completed
The Game - lost it every time

I have no name · « **Reply #61 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:14:11 PM »

Quote from: Fonzi on July 16, 2013, 12:36:37 PM

Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped - 100% cleared
Crash Team Racing - ditto

105% and 101% I'm assuming? (all gold relics gives more%, all platinums is nothing but bragging rights. Which I have :V )

I did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnM3wTYp9I
It's a new record!

Fonzi · « **Reply #62 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:34:44 PM »

Quote from: I have no name on July 16, 2013, 07:14:11 PM

105% and 101% I'm assuming? (all gold relics gives more%, all platinums is nothing but bragging rights. Which I have :V )

I suppose I do too. It was a very long time ago anyway.
And I forgot to add Mortal Kombat (the first one) cleared with all characters.

I have no name · « **Reply #63 on:** July 25, 2013, 10:34:06 PM »

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First try when I actually knew where everything was...uhh yeah that's pretty damn good

Space Station 1 was very very derpy, as you can see from 7 deaths in Trench Warfare.
The Lab was decent I guess, a few silly deaths but 1st try Bernoulli Principle and 2nd try I'm Sorry.
The Tower was awful. 6 costly costly deaths.
Intermission 1 was also pretty bad, I died in Do Try to Keep Up about 5 times, but got first try Not As I Do!
Space Station 2 had a mix of bad (5 deaths in Clarion Call lol), good (4th try Veni Vidi Vici!) and decent (4th and 6th tries for the frame perfect flips in Gordian Knot). I'm alarmed at my overall consistency at this area O_O
3 death Gravitron!!!!! (15 seconds, 15 seconds, 5 seconds)
Warp Zone had only 4 deaths, not counting the deathwarp after Edge Games, and they were all in I Love You and That's Why I Have to Kill You.
Final Level had something like 5 deaths, including 2 at the end of The Final Challenge, after the hard part

Wriggle · « **Reply #64 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:14:01 AM »

Quote from: I have no name on July 25, 2013, 10:34:06 PM

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First try when I actually knew where everything was...uhh yeah that's pretty damn good

Space Station 1 was very very derpy, as you can see from 7 deaths in Trench Warfare.
The Lab was decent I guess, a few silly deaths but 1st try Bernoulli Principle and 2nd try I'm Sorry.
The Tower was awful. 6 costly costly deaths.
Intermission 1 was also pretty bad, I died in Do Try to Keep Up about 5 times, but got first try Not As I Do!
Space Station 2 had a mix of bad (5 deaths in Clarion Call lol), good (4th try Veni Vidi Vici!) and decent (4th and 6th tries for the frame perfect flips in Gordian Knot). I'm alarmed at my overall consistency at this area O_O
3 death Gravitron!!!!! (15 seconds, 15 seconds, 5 seconds)
Warp Zone had only 4 deaths, not counting the deathwarp after Edge Games, and they were all in I Love You and That's Why I Have to Kill You.
Final Level had something like 5 deaths, including 2 at the end of The Final Challenge, after the hard part

Go play IWBTG now. :V

Kaze_Senshi · « **Reply #65 on:** July 30, 2013, 08:02:01 PM »

Quote from: I have no name on July 25, 2013, 10:34:06 PM

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First try when I actually knew where everything was...uhh yeah that's pretty damn good

Space Station 1 was very very derpy, as you can see from 7 deaths in Trench Warfare.
The Lab was decent I guess, a few silly deaths but 1st try Bernoulli Principle and 2nd try I'm Sorry.
The Tower was awful. 6 costly costly deaths.
Intermission 1 was also pretty bad, I died in Do Try to Keep Up about 5 times, but got first try Not As I Do!
Space Station 2 had a mix of bad (5 deaths in Clarion Call lol), good (4th try Veni Vidi Vici!) and decent (4th and 6th tries for the frame perfect flips in Gordian Knot). I'm alarmed at my overall consistency at this area O_O
3 death Gravitron!!!!! (15 seconds, 15 seconds, 5 seconds)
Warp Zone had only 4 deaths, not counting the deathwarp after Edge Games, and they were all in I Love You and That's Why I Have to Kill You.
Final Level had something like 5 deaths, including 2 at the end of The Final Challenge, after the hard part

I beat this game these days with +-1500 deaths. Clearing the Veni Vidi Vici in 4 tries is a nice job

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #66 on:** August 09, 2013, 03:07:30 PM »

Playing Kirby's Dream Land II on a classic vacation-with-no-internet, I completed the game 100% without using a walkthrough once. I feel quite proud of myself figuring out every rainbow shard, even though I used the 3DS' savestate feature. I can't imagine how frustrating it must have been to do this without one and have to go to two separate levels to get the resources you need just to try again. x_x

Mew seeker · « **Reply #67 on:** August 09, 2013, 10:28:28 PM »

Quote from: nintendonut888 on July 12, 2013, 07:50:42 PM

I just defeated Satan in Digital Devil Saga 2. For those that aren't aware, Shin Megami Tensei bonus bosses are notorious for their difficulty and the complicated strategies needed to defeat them. For this fight, I had to come up with a solid plan, memorize his elemental affinities (which rotate every turn), constantly buff myself so he dispells them instead of hitting me with a total party kill attack, keep track of how much health he has, remember what turn it is so I can counter one of his special attacks that he adds later in the fight, and hope he doesn't throw one of his screw you attacks into the mix that screws up my attack pattern. The fight lasts about 20 minutes, and I've been trying for the past three days to beat him. Oh man oh man that was SO good when he finally shrieked in agony and exploded. Just in time for Shin Megami Tensei IV.

I remember that fight. Satan gets nastier and nastier as his HPs get lowers. On top of that, if you don't finish him off when he's almost dead, he fully heals himself. X D
He's easier if you played Digital Devil Saga first as you have access to Gale's super fire spell.
That being said...

Anyway, as for me, I managed to get the first title in La Pucelle Tactic which you get by defeating a level 509 of higher boss in the 10th floor of the Dark World.
Luckily for me, the boss was only a Haniwa. X D
The title will allow me to Purify demons and re...
What do you mean I can't recruit demons in the Dark World?!
I guess I'll have to finish chapter one and go the the Cave of Trial. X D

Makedounia · « **Reply #68 on:** August 10, 2013, 12:00:57 PM »

I beat Abyssal God in Etrian Odyssey 3. it took me about 15 tries until I finally figured out a good strategy. That was without a doubt the hardest RPG boss I've ever faced.

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #69 on:** August 11, 2013, 11:15:15 PM »

Just finished a Monk Solo Single Class Challenge on Final Fantasy V. Surprisingly the amount of time the run took was around the same as my Knight, at least in terms of game time that I didn't lose from game overs/resetting, probably a little more. I was also level 69 while my Knight was level 59. And I was going to go to 70 or 75 since Sulla's report mentioned going to 75, but I decided to try Exdeath at 69 and ended up not seeing any of his potential instakills outside of Grand Cross of which i got silenced and had nothing happen on the 2 I saw. My luck with Grand Cross in solos is pretty good so far though. First try final Exdeath on a solo class that can't nullify any of the instant death crap outside of Delta Attack(Magic Lamp Odin) is a huge surprise.

So now I've done FFV SSCCs with Knight, Monk, Blue Mage, and the Necromancer(GBA class) jobs. I'll probably redo those last 2 sometime for various reasons.

Now I need to finish my current FJF run before I start any more SCC/SSCC on FFV. I know there's a few bosses that really suck solo, but I find more fun in playing the single class challenges solo than with a team. Of course for some of them, I'd probably go with the team because solo probably would not be as fun.

trancehime · « **Reply #70 on:** August 12, 2013, 09:20:58 AM »

Are we talking about hard bosses?

About 5 years ago I encountered a Japan-only game called Wizardry Dimguil, released for the Playstation back around 2000. It is hailed in Japan as the game to have one of the strongest boss in all of RPG history, yes, arguably even harder than Hitoshura in Digital Devil Saga (or at least as difficult as he is). This boss, however, is completely optional - it is the Diamond Drake, who sits in the back row protected by 3 Diamond Knights in the front row. The Diamond Drake has

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, has the

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and it, along with the Knights, both have the ability to attack with a 16 Level Drain strike. The Knights have significantly less HP at

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and have

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. Both of them have the ability to: instantly kill you on normal hit, the ability to paralyze, confuse, petrify, sleep you at the same time on hit. They also regenerate 100 HP per turn.

This is a problem because of how Wizardry scaling works - your characters tend to deal low numbers and most bosses usually have HP values in the low thousands - these two fuckers have HP well over 10000, and have well over -50 AC, so it's really require an insane amount of level prep and such also to make allowance for the 16 level drain. There are a couple of strats available, usually involving the buffing of your party in order to stop the enemies from being able to hit you at all, while slowly raising the AC of the targets, before wailing at them with physicals, since they all have at least 80% magic resistance (the Drake has complete immunity to most things IIRC).

I was able to defeat them after a couple of tries, most of my wipes were due to the beheading connecting (which is urghhh).

www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17694902 <-- video

Andrew · « **Reply #71 on:** August 14, 2013, 07:03:59 AM »

Just beat the Hyper Hexagon stage in Super Hexagon with a time of 68.02, when my previous record on that level was barely over 30 seconds. Progress so far:

Hexagon: 108.11
Hexagoner: 63.08
Hexagonest: 14.13
Hyper Hexagon: 68.02
Hyper Hexagoner: 20.30
Time played (according to Steam): 5.5h

This game has me addicted. I think I'll hold off on DDC until more stuff gets translated.

Chocola · « **Reply #72 on:** August 15, 2013, 01:01:44 PM »

I'm a big Paper Mario fan. I always had trouble with the boss, Lava Piranha, from
the Nintendo 64 game. It's the type of boss that you think you win at first, but
then it just respawns again. It's pretty rewarding, beating it.

Watching Chuggaaconroy is helpful when it comes to this boss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhd7Pz_xEQ

Ibaraki · « **Reply #73 on:** August 16, 2013, 07:39:04 PM »

Close to defeat the Ultimate Adversary of Persona 3, like, real close. Well, 'it' still cooked me good in the end due to my lack of High Counter skill.
There is no way I can defeat 'it' without patience, which I've been lacking for all the years of my life.

Quote from: Fonzi on July 16, 2013, 12:36:37 PM

Silent Hill 2 - All difficulties cleared

Splendid choice.
Did you get all the endings as you made the playthroughs?

Jmyster · « **Reply #74 on:** August 16, 2013, 09:06:26 PM »

Europa Universalis IV: Two province minor to small country (7) to current Holy Roman Emperor and expanding. Just need to survive the Reformation...

Paradox games steal all my free time.

I have no name · « **Reply #75 on:** August 18, 2013, 03:50:13 AM »

Got V rank on all the time trials in VVVVVV. That means for each area (SS1, Lab, SS2, Tower, Warp Zone and Final Level) I completed it without dying, with all the trinkets, within a par time. Here's my impression of the difficulty of each and where it came from, in order of easiest area to hardest.

Space Station 1: the tutorial area is completely trivial, outside of Trench Warfare. It was a matter of trying until I didn't die getting the trinket, and got out of the room successfully. The first trinket killed me a couple times, but it wasn't too hard.
The Tower: it's autoscrolling. Another matter of getting the trinkets and not dying, so nothing too bad. The second trinket comes sooner than Trench Warfare did, but there's more after to choke on. Slightly tougher, due to length.
Warp Zone: the first minute is trivial, then there's Edge Games. It's not too tough, but it's precise enough that about half my tries died there. After that, there's still the double whammy of I Love You and That's Why I Have To Kill You to survive. Beyond that, it's nothing too hard.
Those are the easy three, incidentally in the order I got them. Now for the hard ones.
The Lab: Young Man, It's Worth the Challenge is easy to screw up, as is The Bernoulli Principle. Vibrating String Problem can be dealt with by flipping off at the last frame of the previous room, leading into the only hard part: I'm Sorry. You have to make a very precise bounce, twice in a row. Well, first try getting there deathless, I got it. I was a nervous wreck after, but I didn't choke on the 3 easy rooms. This one could be tougher...but I got it quickly as my final V rank.
Space Station 2: this area has the hardest trinket in the game. Not Veni Vidi Vici. Gordian Knot. I won first try getting through Veni Vidi Vici anyway, since there's not much threatening in this three minute long area. For more details I made a blog post on this one. Definitely intense, but I got down Veni Vidi Vici pretty quick. This one was 5th.
The Final Level: despite no out of the way trinkets, the last level was the hardest for me, taking well over an hour of attempts. The problem wasn't the first half, but a series of rooms near the end of the level. Upstairs Downstairs ended countless runs until I nailed down a strategy for it. Timeslip ended most of the surviving runs due to how hard it is. Dial M for Murder murdered half of my surviving runs, ever. Beyond that, The Villi People ended one, where in shock I just started over. Cosmic Creepers felled one, to the same result. The Final Challenge was choked on once, but my second try really thing the room carried me to victory as my 4th V rank and first of the hard set.

Now to go practice The Gravitron until I can no death it reliably enough to beat no death mode!

Andrew · « **Reply #76 on:** September 02, 2013, 07:39:09 PM »

Played some more Super Hexagon, and beat Hyper Hexagoner and normal Hexagonest. Also got a whopping 165:23 on normal Hexagon. Current progress:

Hexagon: 165:23
Hexagoner: 76:04
Hexagonest: 61:41
Hyper Hexagon: 75:33
Hyper Hexagoner: 62:38
Hyper Hexagonest: 11:13
Time played (according to Steam): 10 hours

I still got a long way to go if I want to beat Hyper Hexagonest. I'm struggling to even reach 10 seconds at the moment.

Rei Scarlette · « **Reply #77 on:** September 04, 2013, 10:55:38 PM »

Recently, I've been working hard to do this thing legitimately:

And finally, I've done it. Final Fantasy VIII, by the way. yes I did timestamp and sign it, it goes in my accomplishments folder. and yes I admit I have no better camera than my PS Vita.

Short story: Back when I was young I used to use cheat codes (WHY) and I never ended up beating Omega fairly. I did at several points over the years go back and beat the main game normally, but it still didn't feel right that I had cheated to beat Omega back then. These days I would never even consider using cheats anymore, so I thought it was about time I actually did this. Started a new file and had everyone's ultimate weapons by the end of disc 3 (Lionheart during disc 2) and... he still killed me (as in game over, not single chara death) like 8 times before I got my strategy going properly :V My favorite death was the first, when I forgot he opens the fight with Lv5 Death and I didn't have death resistance set, so... Lv100 Party means instant wipe.

Well, there's my silly accomplishment of the day, in an old game that maybe only I care about anymore.

PX · « **Reply #78 on:** September 07, 2013, 06:41:24 AM »

On Monday, I finally beat Ocarina of Time for the first time. I did it in about an hour

I have no name · « **Reply #79 on:** September 09, 2013, 08:54:53 AM »

I improved the City Park time attack record in Ape Escape today.
From 3.26 to 3.23. That's a pretty big deal because it's 2 frames on something previously believed to have been maxed :V

Then I stole Cryptic Relics, improving my 13.01 beyond SSBMstuff's 12.18 with 12.89, 12.59, 11.69. Then I got an 11.00, he got a 10.69, I got a 10.59, he got a 9.97 and I'm currently leading with 9.82 (he's still trying to improve to a 7.xx [!] as I type). From there, with 7/19 WRs in tow, I moved on to Specter's Factory.

40 minutes later, I pulled a 3.06 to improve my old 3.90, with 2.97 being possible (I saw it happen, once). It's tough because there's about 25 seconds of technical stuff then luck, then easy movement then more luck: all on a tight timer of the timestop chain.

edit: I managed a 4th WR today with 1.75 (from 1.77) on Crumbling Castle, and SSBMstuff got a 6.70 [!!!!!] Cryptic Relics. Total of all WRs: 3:06.36, when it started the day at 3:13.xx

I have no name · « **Reply #80 on:** September 13, 2013, 06:24:37 AM »

Double posting on the same topic like a boss :V

Finally broke the 53 curse with a 50:19 Ape Escape any% run, moving on up from my old 4th place time of 53:12 up to 2nd place. This run was soooo goooood, both in terms of play and luck.

Oh also 2.99 Specter's Factory time attack sub 3 get :3

PX · « **Reply #81 on:** September 13, 2013, 06:39:33 AM »

Damn, you and Saboom have been doing work.

Aya Reiko · « **Reply #82 on:** September 13, 2013, 07:22:30 AM »

Europa Universalis IV--

Became Holy Roman Emperor...

... As France
... While at war with the current/previous emperor (Bohemia)
... Not having any Imperial Provinces
... And by accident.

Paperblade · « **Reply #83 on:** September 14, 2013, 10:33:31 PM »

blind run of FE12 Lunatic

I have no name · « **Reply #84 on:** September 18, 2013, 06:20:08 PM »

Cut the 1 in Ape Escape...without using the infinite jump glitch.

This run...was something. For one, something like 3 years ago I jokingly said "I was to get under an hour in Ape Escape". Jokingly. Because the infinite jump wasn't discovered yet, so I didn't think it was possible. There was no community for the game, it was just me doing a run every once in a while. Then about...a year and a half ago (?) the infinite jump was discovered, and a community sprung up. I met some really cool people (<3 saboom), but at the back of my mind, sub 1 was always nagging. Even when I smashed the 1 hour mark with a 57:18 over a year ago, it still occurred to me that I hadn't truly subbed 1 just yet. We did a few no IJ races, I tried to get there a few times a few months ago, but stopped at a high 1:03. Well, after the 50:19 any% I pulled...this had to be next. I had to complete this goal that I already knew was possible from my earlier attempts, even less a slim PS2. I had to. and that's what I tried to do yesterday...but fell short with a 1:00:20. It was far from a bad run, but it just wasn't good enough. I kept trying for another 4 hours that day, but never managed to top it. This morning, I tried again. And failed. And failed some more. I failed Specter's Factory jumps/route, I failed Snowy Mammoth movement (kills the run if you fall down), I failed Hot Springs ice bridges (likewise), I failed at everything you could come up with.

But then, another average run began. It surpassed average with a catch of UFOless, and survived through Dark Ruins. I evaded the death in Cryptic Relics with a gold split (a gold split is the BEST you've ever had, across all runs), then matched it in Crabby Beach with some amazing movement. The run faded back to mediocrity after the monkey went for a swim in Coral Cave, and there was some time loss in Dexter's Island to RNG. I lost a further second and a half in Snowy Mammoth (hey, it's hard!) by playing it safe, and fell to +0.46 (behind) after Frosty Retreat went...badly. Something changed then. I wanted that sub so badly. I wanted to bring closure to that far-flung dream of sub 1. The fact that I was -right there- with splits that could do it with just better RNG in the final 2 stages gave me hope, gave me that drive.

Hot Springs went flawlessly, gold split. Sushi Temple followed it up saving 3 seconds, another gold. Wabi Sabi Wall went incredibly well, a 3rd consecutive gold split. I didn't mess up any of the complex movement within Crumbling Castle for a 4th gold in a row. Then City Park was again exactly according to plan-though I still have another 5 or seconds there. Doesn't matter, 5 gold splits in a row, -1:34. -1:34! That's on pace for sub 59 right there! And with the time I had to save in the final 2 levels, this could be sub 58 pace! Of course, all good things must come to an end, and I lost 12 seconds in Specter's Factory. It's a tough level, there's 2 brutally difficult jumps in it that my 1:00:20 got first try. Then, disaster struck. I went for a timesaving strategy on the TV Tower boss involving stalling the last hit...and missed by having the pellet go through the boss. Through the giant flying ship. I lost 37 seconds there...was the run over? Nah, I still had a forty something second lead, and a bit of time to save. Monkey madness, my movement was amazing (the people in my chat were going crazy) and I had time to save going into the final boss, which is all RNG. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!!! I got trolled. Hard.

In the end, I barely subbed 1, but I did, and I'm glad I did. I just wish that that was 'teh urn (TM)' and not just random PB #27. It still means something pretty significant to me, though I know that the true target for this category is still a couple minutes lower.

Here's my splits for the end of the run, with the rise and fall of it all... link Oh, and I like writing up walls of text for significant events. And what could be more significant than meeting a previously unrealistic goal set 3 years ago, in front of ~60 people?

Quote from: PX on September 13, 2013, 06:39:33 AM

Damn, you and Saboom have been doing work.

You bet we have

Zengar Zombolt · « **Reply #85 on:** September 30, 2013, 01:46:03 PM »

EO4 last boss clear! Misaki the Imperial/Runemaster MVP with dealing 7k damage finisher while 10 levels below the rest of the party.

O4rfish · « **Reply #86 on:** September 30, 2013, 02:00:32 PM »

Ape Escape ... is this Flandre's monkey catching game?

I have no name · « **Reply #87 on:** September 30, 2013, 05:06:08 PM »

Quote from: O4rfish on September 30, 2013, 02:00:32 PM

Ape Escape ... is this Flandre's monkey catching game?

...
,,,
...Yes. It definitely is.

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #88 on:** October 04, 2013, 07:30:24 PM »

So I was playing some YsF on PSP earlier. This ended up with me clearing Inferno Boss Rush. The time wasn't anywhere near decent(over 2 hours due to dying too much), but at least I cleared it. Maybe I'll try to improve on it someday.

KingofBaka · « **Reply #89 on:** October 09, 2013, 01:49:51 AM »

I just cleared Advanced and Advanced extra in Super Monkey Ball DX.

I managed to beat ~~Philosophy of a Hated Level~~ Arthropod using an exact timing trick.

I got to extra and everything went well until Polar Large where I lost a continue.
I got confused on where to go in Dodge maze which cost me a continue.
Domes is my new hated level right next to Arthropod. This thing ate up the rest of my continues.
Amida Lot gave me some trouble but nothing I couldn't handle.
I had 3 lives left and three stages to go, I got past Long Slider and Grid Bridge without using a life.
I finally got to the final stage which was Teapot.
I lost 2 lives for trying to bounce into the cage with the goal.
For my final life, I just went to where I thought the cage lands. I said to myself," Please land on me"
It landed on me and I was able to beat it with 1 life and no continues remaining.