Gaming

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

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.

“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.

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

Hollow Knight 112% "Pure Completion"

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

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.

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

Not much of an achievement hunter, but one of the few that I actually thought was fun to do and that I took time to unlock specifically was "Out of the Blue" in the XBox 360 version of Portal.

You have to go through the game entering only orange portals as soon as you have both. Needs a bit more planning and some quick portal flinging but it's a pretty fun challenge.

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

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)

Despite never finishing the game, I felt pretty darn good getting to 98% in Hollow Knight (I think that game goes to 112%? 113%?)

Also, I did beat my brother fair and square at Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 back in the day. He subsequently rage quit and punched me in the face with the controller. Worth it.

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

Beating COD: MW and the remastered campaign on veteran.

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.

In 2013 I played and wrote about a different Steam game every single day for the whole year and it nearly killed me.

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.)

Getting all completion marks on hard mode in The Binding of Isaac with Lost and Tainted Lost legitimately.

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 getting all my characters in FFX upgraded to max with all their ultimate weapons, too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Platinum in all Yakuza games.

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

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.

My platinum in Bloodborne.

Fuck you Defiled Amygdala. Go eat a Winter Lantern.

About a year ago I went through the Tony Hawk games 1-American Wastland and 100% all of them. And not just do one play through with 100% of the goals and stuff. Unlocking characters and everything, which means beating each game over and over with every character.

Got the Kingdom Hearts collection for the PS3 and platinumed 1 and 2

When I got Level 50 Skill Rank in Halo 3. Easily my most favorite console game still to this day. I played so much Halo 3 on my main account I maxed the EXP out so I was a 5 Star General by no time. It was a coveted rank back in the day, wanted by boosters and feared in social lobbies (back when skill ranks were shown in pre-game lobbies right on your gamertag nameplate).

Halo 3 may be gone but I saved the Bungie.net web pages and have my past gameplay recordings. I still destroy lobbies in Halo MCC. Once you reach that level of skill it sticks with you forever translating across other fps's. Once a Halo 3 General always a Halo 3 General.

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.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided non lethal playthrough. That and my position on some audiosurf leaderboards.

Beating halo 1-2-3-reach on legendary

I love figuring out an overly complicated game like Factorio or Oxygen Not Included and KSP. You fail upwards (if your lucky) until you figure the game out. It's a good learning curve with that slim line of frustration and losing is fun.

I also killed 53,594+ zombie in Dead Rising beacuse I had nothing better to do as a kid.

500+ mods on skyrim, no crashes in 50+ hours of playing.

Took me a few months but last year I started speedrunning GTA V. Specifically Trevor%. My goal was to get a top 100 time, and I eventually did get I think 86th, but I've since fallen and not sure I'm even in the top 100 anymore.

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.

Getting the Bloodsail Admiral title in World of Warcraft, BEFORE Wrath of the Lich king.

100% Steam achievements in Binding of Isaac was quite a challenge.

I beat Eve Online

Platinum in Bloodborne. One of the best games I've ever played

Beating Metal Gear Solid 2 on European Extreme. The fight is like 50 bosses that can one shot you. It's a gauntlet.

The speedrun-adjacent achievements in games are always the ones that give me the most pride and enjoyment. Green medal on trackmania, Starcraft II challenge mode on story maps, etc.

"There is No Spoon" on Factorio is probably my highest held one, even if I have done more difficult things in other games. You have to launch a satellite in 8 hours.

Champ 2 in Rocket League I suppose.

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

I would probably say the time I stole the aegis (my first and only real aegis steal, I rarely think the risk is worth it partly because of the characters I play)

This happened a long time ago https://youtu.be/_e4cmiAfXsg

Have you ever seen keeper of the light aka KOTL stealing aegis and living